Hate to See It...

Jake Tapper's book flopped. He's been hawking it, and everyone on CNN has been hawking it, and still...flopped.

Oh hate to see it. What a shame. Pobrecito.

Annnnyway....

Okay, so maybe not anyway. Let's back up. For any of you who might not be aware, Jake Tapper just released a book with the groundbreaking information that Biden is old. That he got older through the four years that he was president and that his age began to show during the last few years. And that somehow this aging was hidden from the American public.

Which is insane for anyone with a memory of last year. There was a constant drumbeat of how old he was, how much he had slipped, especially after the debate where his age really showed. The media coverage of how old he was was constant. Until he dropped out of the presidential race. BECAUSE HE WAS SO OLD. Which we are now supposed to believe none of us knew.

So Tapper and all of CNN has been shilling this book of his for weeks. And surprisingly there just wasn't a market for it. Or not surprisingly if you had any sort of awareness. Which apparently Tapper is lacking.

Completely.

He's been on a media tour just bashing the democratic party as much as possible. And talking about "this is why they lose" and spinning the now all too common heel turn from "I used to be..." to "Now I am..." because of some slight.

His? He talks about how his son wants to be a cop and that when he posted about it someone asked him if his kid was racist. Which was enough for Tapper to grab his pearls and become a Republican. How DARE someone ask if his kid is a racist! Instead of even doing the simplest, "Why would you say that?" moment he decided to ignore the reams and reams of ink spilled about how many police departments have gotten in trouble because of their racist policing policies and maybe that's a conversation to have with his son he decided that he had been slighted and so fuck democrats.

That's such a common thread now. Some sort of slight and you have no alternative but to become a Republican. Or a full MAGAt.

They are all so fucking fragile.

I think their parents must have let them win at games.

I've talked about it before. We never let Katie win at games when we played. If she won, she won fair and square. But I didn't throw a single game of Candy Land or Hi Ho Cherry Oh or Hungry Hungry Hippos. If you were going to play, we played fair and that meant sometimes she lost, and sometimes she won. Parents do such a disservice to their kids by not teaching them how to lose. Or how to take criticism. Now, don't be dick to your kids, but not everything they do is perfection. It's your job to point out where they can improve and do better. Grandparents get to believe they are perfect, parents need to teach them how to be better.

But we have a whole generation that apparently can't take criticism or correction without throwing a fit.

And I get it, it's so much easier to just do whatever the fuck you want and say whatever the fuck you want. But there are always consequences.

It's like Pinocchio. Do you remember the part where the boys were allowed to run wild and do whatever they wanted until they slowly turned into donkeys that were then sold off? That's what is happening with this Magatization. You can say the R word! You are better than everyone else because you are white! And male! And you get to have whatever you want! And they are slowly turning into mindless beasts that can then be used by whoever is holding their reigns.

It's very alluring. To be told you are special. To be told there are no rules. That you can do whatever you want, whenever you want and that anyone who tries to hold you back is somehow a Marxist, communist, socialist, and how dare they. It's so much easier to believe you are always right instead of changing when you are wrong. It's hard to believe that other people are just as valuable as you are. No matter where they were born. No matter their skin color. No matter their gender. To learn that you aren't actually better by accident of birth.

And I am so tired of it. Tired of hearing over and over about how some slight turned people in MAGAts. How they are so fucking fragile that they cannot learn from a mistake. How the world owes them something because one day someone was mean to them.

Because it really is bullshit.

If all you are waiting for is permission to be terrible to people, or an excuse to be terrible, then you were always terrible. You were just hiding it because you were too scared of the repercussions. And as soon as you saw that there weren't any? Then you dropped your pretend empathy and turned full jackass.

It's easier to be an asshole. It just is. And it always will be.

Don't be so soft and fragile that you take the easy way.

Growth is hard. Correction always feels uncomfortable. But that's okay. It's okay to be uncomfortable, it's good to do hard things. Better that than MAGAt.

Fucking fragile babies....