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Where conspiracy theories come from:

• Hey Virgil! Why did you join Twitter? There’s no answer to this. I was on for a little while before but they put me in Twitter jail and now I don’t have access to my account. Anywho… Here’s the new one. Follow Virgil on Twitter @lineoffire02 and I promise to try and not get thrown off agian until Elon officially buys it…

• Why do commercials for defense contractors exist? It’s Northrop Grumman… Next time I’m in the market for some Hellfire™ missiles or a nuclear powered submarine, I’ll keep you guys in mind… but I don’t the commercial is going to change my mind.

• Speaking of commercials, did you know that 75% of advertising on television is spent by the pharmaceutical industry? What the hell is that? HEY! If I need the drug, you don’t have to advertise it… Seriously, nobody ever looked at their doctor and was like, “I saw and add for that new cure all the cancer drug. Can I have some of that?”. If that drug existed, I assure you, it would get around.

  Instead its all “Is your restless leg so bad that you’re willing to risk anal leakage and a brain hemorrhage to get it to calm down? Ask your doctor about Doltrexervan™ and you’ll be banging your old fat wife in these weird bathtubs on the beach at sunset in no time!”. Someone has to explain this to me. I mean… I know they want money, but how in the hell does this actually lead to money?

• Why does it seem like they went out of their way to make us not trust them over Covid? I mean, I get it. We all do. We were lied to and we continue to be lied to… but come on! You are the US Government. You can’t lie to me better than that? Fauci actually funded the lab in Wuhan that created the virus… and that was the guy you picked to yell at all of us? That guy? There’s not another doctor bureaucrat anywhere in the country you could put out in front? It had to be the one diminutive little bastard who actually had a real hand in causing all this?

  Also, why did the the press put the CEOs of the vaccine companies on their news channels to tell us to get more vaccines? I agree that there are some dumb people out there with the liberal hive-mind that still think the CEO of Pfizer is a good source of information when it comes to the drug he gets paid to sell, but most of us are smarter than that. Please… let most of us be smarter than that. (Oh… now he says he hopes we can get to a spot where all we need is one shot every year! LOL. Can I roll my eyes any harder without falling out of my chair?)

• Soooo… what do ya’ll think they’re going to do with all those new IRS agents? They are hiring 87,000 new IRS folks. To put that into perspective, check this out:

  

  That’s what 87,000 people look like. 🤷‍♂️

  That is Jordan-Hare Stadium, the place where Auburn University plays football. The capacity of that stadium is about 87,000 people. That is how many more people the IRS are hiring. So, what do you think all those folks are going to do? All of them are going to work on the Jeff Bezos file? What do the 92,000 current employees do? Eh… It’s just for the billionaires. Don’t be so paranoid.

• We just passed the 5 year anniversary of the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas. Remember that? Some weird guy whose dad was on the FBI most wanted list, who had a bunch of money nobody knew how he made, who spent a lot of time overseas, who nobody knows anything about… took a pile of guns into a high floor of the Mandalay Bay and shot 500 people. 60 of them died. It was the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States.

  To this day, we know nothing about the person who committed the crime, his motivations, and very little about what he did leading up to the crime. The government’s story is pretty much “shit happens sometimes”.

  Well, pardon the blue f*ck out of me, but that shit has never happened before or since. We are a country of 400,000,000 people. We are an armed society. Yeah, unprovoked mass shootings do happen sometimes. But they are always committed by a mentally ill teen or 20-something with an obvious motive. Never… before or since… has a 60-something year old married “millionaire” done this. Never.

  Now my questions isn’t whether or not he had a reason… of course he had a reason. My questions are two-fold. 1) what was his reason and 2) why is our government and the same law enforcement people who were happy to spend months looking at cell phone footage from outside the Capitol on Jan 6th, completely uninterested in this???? And why am I the crazy one for asking those two simple questions? Also, someone broke into his house while it was still a crime scene and stole God knows what, and we completely forgot that it happened. I would have linked to a source other than Fox News… but remarkably, I can’t seem to find a readily available link from other news sources on this widely reported on story. Huh…

Culture Questions:

Not Pearl Jam

Disclaimer: If it happened after Pearl Jam, I am likely only aware of it in an ancillary sense. It’s not that I am incapable of understanding modern culture, it’s that in the best case, I deeply don’t care and in the worst case, I hate it like cancer. —V

• Why is there so much bad music? That’s not just me being an old grump… okay, it’s partly me being an old grump, but I’m objectively right about this. All genres, all types… there is some good stuff that I’ve heard, but most of it is just noise… Okay, I’m writing this and realizing it is that I am just an old grump. Enjoy your crappy music, kids… We had some too… But I stand by the argument that our crappy music was less crappy than your crappy music. So there.

• What is it with women who have giant asses? I am not referring to a little “junk in the trunk” here. It’s not my thing, but I can understand a man liking the look of a woman with a full butt and hips and curves. That seems perfectly normal. I am referring to surgically enhanced, cartoonish, giant asses. Does anyone actually find this attractive? Also, why are the young ones always shaking these giant asses at people? Don’t shake your ass at me… It’s not going to convince me to do what you want me to do.

• What in the hell is going on with drag queens? I mean… they were always drug addicts, insane, and somewhat dangerous, but at least they never used to take themselves seriously. Hey! You are a dude in a wig. Drop the drama, stay away from the kids, and do the dollar dance to a Madonna song. I get it… you like attention… hence the fact that you are a 30 year old man who put on a rhinestone dress, a Dolly Parton wig, and tucked your junk, all so you could have a few gay guys throw you $12 and a round of applause… but you aren’t going to be RuPaul. So take a breath and try not to trans the kids… Steve.

• Keeping with the gays, let’s talk about Bros. Bros is a gay movie. It is not the first gay movie. It’s not the first gay rom-com. It’s not the first gay rom-com with stars… It is the first gay movie that some idiot thought they could release on over 3,000 screens and believed straight people were going to pay to see it.

  Good lord, Delilah… Straights don’t want to watch gay movies. I’ve tried to show them gay movies… To Wong Foo, Trick, Sordid Lives, Broken Hearts Club, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and a handful of others. Trust me… The straights don’t get it. They don’t like the camp. They don’t get the humor. They don’t care about the guys… They. Do. Not. Want. To. Watch. It.

  Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing Bros when it comes out on Amazon. Looking at the box office, I’m guessing that will be in about 3 weeks. LOL. BTW… if all you straight folks want to see a real gay movie, check out Broken Hearts Club. It was released in 2000, starring Zach Braff, Dean Cain, John Mahoney, Andrew Keegan… Fun performances by all. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry… (well, you might not cry). The acting is pretty bad. The production values are crap. The story lines are incredibly corny and far more accurate than is okay to admit. I kind of love this movie. So if you are interested in learning a little more about gay culture, check it out. It’s gotta be better than Bros.

Politics:

• So, everyone sees what’s going on with Biden, right? I mean… the man can’t speak anymore. He gets lost trying to get off stage. They have to send his wife in like a racehorse’s donkey so he doesn’t freak out and has a familiar person to follow. Does anyone think he’s actually running anything? Honestly, I’m pretty sure they just keep him locked upstairs until it’s time to pump him full of “pay attention drugs” and they let him give a 3 minute talk, then they put him back upstairs. This can’t be good. Maybe he should resign… except…

• Then we’d have President Kamala Harris and would be treated to such monologues as “We must, together, work together to see where we are, where we are headed, where we are going and our vision for where we should be, but also see it as a moment, yes, to, together, address the challenges.” (That’s a GD word for word quote). Linked here is the 4:00 speech, put out by the White House. Watch it and tell me what the hell that stupid woman is trying to say. Oh yeah, she also wanted to discriminate via race with hurricane relief… So there’s that.

• Hey Virgil! What’s going to happen in November? Answer: GOP outperforms the polls by an average of 4.5 points nationally. Some will be higher, some a little lower. There are a few reasons for this. First, black enthusiasm is pretty low this year and the polls are counting it as higher than in normal. Second, Hispanics are going to break harder for the GOP than in years prior, and this is not accounted for in current polling.

  Third, nationally, support for the Democrats is concentrated in deep blue districts but is extremely sparse in non-urban areas… more so than in cycles past. This will lead to them being underrepresented nationally. I know they are always whining about that (and everything else), but not everyone wants to live in a $4,000 a month, 650 square foot apartment with a cat they treat like a baby… Perhaps the way they think people should live doesn’t translate well in Montana. Don’t blame the GOP for that. Come up with something other people can support.

  I sincerely believe November 8th is going to be a big surprise for the media class. I don’t think they see it coming… and I’m hopeful to have another 2016 evening watching them all melt down.

Non Sequitur

This article was all sort of a non sequitur… so I’ll close it with some Mitch Hedberg jokes:

Happy Thursday all!

—Virgil