The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Serious question: Has a good majority of this country completely blocked COVID out of their memories?  I ask this, because during election season, Donald Trump and other Republican politicians kept asking, "Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?"  When I first heard this, my immediate thought was, "Of course we're better off! Do you think we're f*cking stupid?!? We were going through the worst pandemic in a century 4 years ago!" Well, sadly, in answer to my question, we are f*cking stupid - that or we've completely blocked out the traumatic event which was COVID. The years 2020 and 2021 were quite the surreal experience. Since I doubt any of us were alive during the Spanish flu, COVID was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Perhaps that's part of it. People think this kind of thing only happens once in a century and they won't have to worry about it again, so why think about it more than is required? How can we forget, though? I remember 4 y...

The Top Ten Donald Trump Word Salads (He actually said these things…) 10. “By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6th. You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, you know they, do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people. Soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want. They turned it down.” 9. “We have a man who is totally corrupt and the worst president in the history of our country, who is cognitively impaired, in no condition to lead, and is now in charge of dealing with Russia and possible nuclear war. Just think of it. We would be in World War Two very quickly if we’re going to be relying on this man, and far more devastating than any war. There will never be a war if that happens— there will never be a war like this. It will obliterate everything there is, everybody, it will ...

I just received this comment on an old writing of mine, titled "Horror film characters are ridiculously stupid": - "Haha! 😂 That's perfect!" The writing can be found here. - https://thekind-heartedsmartaleck.blogspot.com/2013/07/horror-film-characters-are-ridiculously.html

Podcast: I Feel Snitty Episode 88: The Stupidest Post in the World Premiere Date: 11/13/20 Length: 16:38 (2,929 words) Link: https://ifeelsnitty.podbean.com/e/the-stupidest-post-in-the-world/ Transcript:  Welcome to I Feel Snitty , episode 88, entitled, “The Stupidest Post in the World.” I’m your host, Craig Rozniecki.   If you’ve had a Facebook account for more than 15 seconds, chances are you’ve run into a post which has come across as so ridiculous, you checked the individual’s photo just to make sure a tinfoil hat didn’t write it. Well, I’m here to tell you I’ve stumbled upon one even more asinine than that. It was apparently written just after Joe Biden was announced as the 46 th President of the United States. Here it is, the stupidest post in the world.   “I believe every word. Sad for future generations...   This is what happened with the Election Now you understand why there was never any action against the Clintons or Obama, how they destroye...