You know, I heard a theory once that I had dismissed at the time, and thought it was just nonsense and all of this was just an odd, brief coincidence, and that eventually these muck-ups would calm down, but the longer we carry into this the more I start to think that maybe that theory wasn't as crackpot as it sounded. I still think that it's
far-fetched, and that a good portion of the stupidity we're seeing is just
legitimate stupidity, but it's definitely shaped up to be a pretty interesting idea the more I've thought about it, and the more we've watched these people repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot.
Isn't it curious how all of these far-left pundits and media outlets and politicians have such a knack for doing
exactly the wrong thing at
exactly the wrong time? It's not even in the realm of being generally ill-timed either, they always do whatever they shouldn't be doing
exactly when they should not be doing it, and then it immediately blows up in their face, and they wind up stumbling back another step. It's like they're
completely incapable of taking a single step forwards without planting their entire asses on a landmine.
There's a couple of things I need to lay out before I get to the theory, though.
- A very significant number of Americans are in support of Trump, his policies, and the members of the Republican party that aren't just pants-shittingly useless. There's no way for a company to completely purge all of these people, even Google hasn't been able to do it, even CNN still has right-wing employees, but in all cases they stay quiet; they're part of the Silent Majority because they don't have a choice. To voice a dissenting political opinion in these places is career suicide, but you can't purge someone's politics just by being a dick to them. If anything, that just makes their political beliefs stronger.
- Trump has been in show-business and the media spotlight for a very long time, longer than most people on this forum have even been alive. You don't deal with the media for that long without making a lot of friends and a lot of contacts, and even if they won't come out in support of him in public, statistically speaking quite a few of them are likely to also belong to Group 1.
- These industries are cut-throat, and these pundits and personalities have very, very likely given the people "underneath" them more than ample opportunity to want to watch them burn, either for their own, personal advancement in the company, or just because it's funny watching Anderson Cooper look like a paste-eating slow kid.
Essentially what the theory was positing was that one of these groups, all of them, or some
combination of them were working as a crowd of
Judas Goats, and intentionally feeding all of these people
God-awful advice at
just the right time to make them look like absolute idiots, much more-so than they would normally. It's been no secret that people like Pelosi, Schumer, Waters, and
any of these media personalities have all had more than their fair share of stupid moments in the past, but these aren't just a
few stupid moments anymore.
It's non-stop; I mean just think of all the fuck-ups we've seen
just this week.
Every day now, almost
by the hour, it's prat-fall after prat-fall, like someone's goading them on and encouraging them to run full-steam ahead, and then they just
smash into the brick wall every single time. A year ago this sounded bonkers to me, but now that we're halfway through 2018 and these people are making complete asses of themselves
several times a day, every single day, it's starting to sound a whole lot less wacky, and I'm starting to wonder if maybe there isn't some truth to that idea after all.