the debate

 the photo above is not only a bucket of dung but moreover and specifically - two buckets of dung.

in the history and the hierarchy of the most monumentally dumb things I have ever done in my life, there is a new number one.

I watched the United States presidential debate yesterday

I don't know how my outlook has evolved to this; so many examples of nonsense from so many idiots of various political stripes, but over the past few years I have become apolitical. Don't confuse my contempt for bias based on any affiliation, or stating my contempt somehow demeans any inherent bias or affiliation. I am an equal opportunity in this regard and I don't care. Whoever they are; if someone acts like a serial fuckwit and barks like a serial fuckwit, well then they must be a serial fuckwit. Especially when you just know they are lying.

but one moment sealed the deal for me yesterday; affirmed and clarified my outlook. Paradoxically, this one moment happened briefly and in the form of a statement by each candidate. Really, all the rest was petulant bickering and interruptions. If I knew then what I know now, all I had to do was watch this moment and resign myself to the fact that this codifies the whole thing as a complete disaster, instead of screaming, "I cannot believe I am watching this pile of shit!!" twenty minutes into the broadcast.

Trump.

"Proud Boys. Stand back and stand by"

Biden

"Antifa is an idea, not an organisation"

now I have no desire to expand upon or to explain my view of these two statements. I am having a hard enough time coming to terms in the "what the hell are you talking about?" department.

but the whole thing was bad hyperbole merged with gossip as philosophy.

and exhausting.