We, the people...

They may be imaginary people, these denizens of Topixland but, they reflect the real people that they are in non-internet life. I've always felt safer with some of these people on keyboards rather than on our streets. But, they do both.

I looked in at my old stomping grounds, The Chicago Dregs Thread (NOT it's real name!) and Edogxxx (NOT his real name!) was lamenting that the unemployment office had informed him that, due to sequestration benefits were being cut 16%. The kid was outraged. He blamed Obama...

This is funny on many levels. Edog blames Obama for pretty much everything that happens in this country that is bad. He presents himself as a republican but reads like a tea partier. They absofuckinglutely love to talk about how self reliant they are yet find themselves thwarted by democrats at every turn in life. This having your cake and choking on it too is typical of the reich wing these days. So, it's also funny on the level that this self reliant man is applying for unemployment benefits... like the loser democrats do...

If they have no shame, it's Obama's fault. They had shame until he seized power...

I don't know Edog, of course, so I can't say for sure whether he's an idiot or just someone who likes to say outrageous things to provoke others. I think both. I think his friends in that thread take him too seriously, frequently getting mad at him for the rather obvious ignorant things he says. He strikes me as an idiot little brother that never quite outgrew that role in the family.

Well, that's Topix and that's the internet. Some people check their filters at the door. With yesterday's tornadoes I kinda wanted to make a post like "OKLAHOMA! WHERE THE WIND COMES RUSHING DOWN THE PLAIN!" but, I thought that would be in poor taste. It is and it's only slightly funny in a sadly ironic way, at that. So, except for here, I passed on it.  I have high standards. I just don't attach a lot of hoops to them.

But, then there are real life people like Tom Coburn (R- Oklahoma) will accept Federal aid as long as it is paid for with budget cuts elsewhere.

Unfuckingbelievable. This was consistent with his stance on Federal aid to Hurricane Sandy victims though. You can't just call him an asshole because of this. You have to recognize that he is a fiscally responsible asshole.That's an important distinction.

Maybe Edog will accept unemployment as long as it's paid for by cuts to Meals For Seniors.

There are some on the right who might think Coburn and Edog are pussies. They might think all of us who aren't living in the woods hunting our own food are pussies. Mind you- they are NOT living in the woods hunting their own food themselves. No, they just think that a nation of 315 million people should live that way and could, if only the damn government would get out of the government business. The internet is rife with people who are so self reliant and so self made that 99.99999% of the world pales in comparison to them. These people are known as delusional fucking liars, That's a clinical term, I think.

These people, whether they talk big like Edog or have a position of some power like Tom Coburn, do not represent we the people at all. They just have a voice like we do and seem louder is all. But, we the people are louder when we the people speak in unison. That's because we the people are the ones that live and die in hurricanes and tornadoes and bury the dead and rebuild.

And we do NOT do it by their leave unless we the people let them control us.