Enjoy a holiday that really matters. You know, kids playing dress up, meeting the neighbors, and binging on free candy. Push aside all the noise in your life, along with any Jehovah's Witnesses trying to pee in your Cheerios, and just enjoy the moment. Watch the kids having fun, and learn from them. That is all.
I am an intelligent, talented SJW who is kind and considerate. But those Repugs all need their houses and businesses burned to the ground. Fucking nazis. Moon Child, Trust Fund Baby
Like, I forgot and stuff. Who's running for president again? Madison, High School Senior
Can anyone recommend an electric fence? My Trump sign was stolen again. Homer, 93 year old Retiree
They still sell beer on election day, right? Otis Inman, Town Sot
Who cares about any of this election crap, does anything EVER change? You know, meet the new boss, same as the old boss? Eva Sangria, Hot Water Aficionado
The Moose Droppings is going to go out on a limb and say that 99.99999% of Americans live in an echo chamber, and put in zero original thought to anything they do, say or believe. If you are reading this, then yes we mean you. Don’t feel bad, the staff at the Moose Droppings is probably equally as guilty. After all, we all have our biases, and it is human nature to want to believe we are corect.
What do we mean by an echo chamber? We mean that as people we actively search out others who will support our beliefs, values and prejudices, and avoid those who will disagree with us. We want to know that we are smarter than everyone who has a different point of view. Therefore we seek out people and information that cheers us on, and devalues any other point of view and debases anyone who holds those points of view.
The Far-Left naturally seek out CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher. The Far-Right live and breathe Fox, Tucker Carlson, The Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh and Dennis Miller. Neither group will listen to anything the other’s pundits will say, unless it comes from a sound bite from their pundits that is used to show what morons the other side is. Psychologists call this confirmation bias, and it wouldn’t be so bad except for the severity of the rhetoric and the level of nastiness being displayed towards our fellow man.
Do you use derogatory terms to alter the names of politicians who disagree with you? You know, Orangeman, The Mocha Messiah, Nazi Pelosi? Bitch McConnell? Then you are guilty of living in the echo chamber, as well as being a disrespectful boor. Ever stated that Obummer or the Drumpf is not your president? Then you have a poor understanding of how a democracy and a republic work, as well as being a sore loser.
The Moose Droppings would like to respectfully request that all of you citizens of this great experiment called America put in some original thought to this election. Wipe your minds clean of your biases, the TV ads and social media sales pitches, and actually do some research on your candidates. See what they stand for, what their party’s stand for, what their voting records have been, and then put some thought into whether or not any of it makes any sense or is actually viable.
When someone promises you the moon, the Garden of Eden, and free anything at no cost to you, fire up your BS detectors and ask how that is remotely possible. Stop having your views and opinions sold to you by the mass media. If Google and Amazon can stick ads for products in front of you based on your browsing history, do you really believe that CNN, Fox, and Youtube aren’t doing the same? For a fun experiment, watch CNN and Fox, side by side, cover a story. If you think only one of those is obviously biased, you need to leave the echo chamber and get some fresh air.
Quit listen to your friends and family. They were sold the same bill of goods that they are now parroting to you. Try voting with logic, instead of emotion and feelings, Quite simply, step out of the echo chamber, and put in some original thought into who you are, and what is important in life. Here’s a little hint, it isn’t free stuff, or the people who promise to give you more free stuff.
Here’s another little hint. Vilifying people for having a different perspective or priorities doesn’t make a person right, it just makes them an intolerant ass. Using or threatening to use force to try and change other’s views doesn’t make for a moral plan for change, it just makes the aggressor an evil bastard. The last western country that seriously ramped up rhetoric, divisiveness, and that had an echo chamber problem was Yugoslavia. Do a little research and see how well that worked out for Slavs. Peace, Out.
7B WIRE - A local candidate was detained and arrested last week on charges of possession of cocaine, sexual exploitation of a minor, and illegally parking in a fire zone. Police officials reported that they approached a vehicle with two suspicious occupants outside of the Walmart in Ponderay. Upon reaching the vehicle, they discovered a middle school-aged girl on her hands and knees, with her dress hiked up, and an older man with a powdery substance on his nose and upper lip, who was staring at a baked dessert and was heard to be saying “cocaine pie”.
Sensing that this might be a Russian / Ukranian plot to influence the Northern Idaho way of life and undermine our upcoming elections, officers drew their weapons and detained the vehicle’s occupants. After checking ID’s it was discovered that the male was in fact a candidate for public office. Assuming that their fears of foreign election collusion were correct, officers promptly tased the male suspect, and groped the assumed teenage prostitute while helping her out of the car.
The suspects were taken to a law enforcement rendition facility, where detectives determined that the officers’ initial report of a political candidate snorting cocaine off of an underaged hooker’s ass were false. It was discovered that the underaged girl had gotten a splinter on the back of her leg from the plywood bench seat in the man’s farm truck. The man had run into Walmart to get tweezers and antiseptic to remove the splinter. While in the Walmart, the man had also purchased a dozen powdered donuts and a marionberry pie, and had eaten all of the donuts while removing the splinter, thus getting some of the powder on his face. It was further determined that the young girl was also the man’s granddaughter, and that the man was making a joke about Marion Barry.
The two arrestee’s were promptly released, after signing forms stating that they were treated fairly by officers and that no harm was done to them. Police have agreed to not release the names of the arrestees, so as to not unduly affect the upcoming election, or be associated with the Russians and Iranians. The Bonner County Elections Board is still actively monitoring the Chinese for any signs of election tampering, and has petitioned Franz bakery to make their donut powder less clingy to human noses to avoid future misunderstandings, and to change the name of their pie.
We’re full. Homer, 93 year old Retiree
Our mall sucks and stuff. Like, there’s no cool place to hang out. Madison, High School Senior
Sandpoint is so affordable! I just bought a new tiny house and it was only $500 a square foot. Moon Child, California Trust Fund Baby
Sandpoint is really embracing diversity. I had a colored guy come through my line just this last week. Susie, Safeway cashier
This is the seventh article in an eight part series that is intended to help our readership understand and engage in modern logic and debate techniques
Still relying on logic and reason to make your points, enhance your debates, and for letters to the editor? The Moose droppings would like to introduce you to Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals. Rules seven to nine are:
* RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
* RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
* RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
If you are a liberal who can’t stand Trump, and cannot possibly fathom why anyone would ever vote for him, let me fill you in. It’s not that we love Donald Trump so much. It’s that we can’t stand you. And we will do whatever it takes — even if that means electing a rude, obnoxious, unpredictable, narcissist (your words not ours) to the office of President of the United States — because the thing we find more dangerous to this nation than Donald Trump is YOU.
How is that possible you might ask? Well, you have done everything in your power to destroy our country. From tearing down the police, to tearing down our history, to tearing down our borders. From systematically destroying our schools and brainwashing our kids into believing socialism is the answer to anything (despite being an unmitigated failure everywhere), while demonizing religion and faith, and glorifying abortion, violence, and thug culture.
From calling us racists every time we expect everyone of any skin color to follow our laws equally to gaslighting us about 52 genders, polyamory, grown men in dresses sharing public locker rooms with little girls, and normalizing the sexualization of young children. You simultaneously ridicule us for having the audacity to wish someone a “Merry Christmas” or hang a flag on the 4th of July, stand for the national anthem, or (horror of horrors) don a MAGA hat in public. So much for your “tolerance.” (See why we think you are just hypocrites??)
We’re also not interested in the fact that you think you can unilaterally decide that 250 years of the right-to-bear-arms against a tyrannical or ineffective government should be abolished because you can’t get the violence in the cities you manage under control. That free-speech should be tossed out the window, and that those who disagree with your opinions are fair game for public harassment or doxing. That spoiled children with nose-rings and tats who still live off their parent’s dime should be allowed to destroy cities and people's livelihoods without repercussions. That chaos, and lawlessness, and disrespect for authority should be the norm. This is your agenda. And you wonder why we find you more dangerous than Donald Trump?
Your narrative is a constant drone of oppressor/oppressed race-baiting intended to divide the country in as many ways as you possibly can. You love to sell “victim-hood” to people of color every chance you get because it’s such an easy sell, compared to actually teaching people to stand on their own two feet and take personal responsibility for their own lives and their own communities and their own futures. But you won’t do that, you will never do that, because then you will lose control over people of color. They might actually start thinking for themselves, God forbid!
This is why we will vote for Donald Trump. Not because he is the most charming character on the block. Not because he is the most polite politician to have ever graced the oval office. Not because he is the most palatable choice, or because we love his moral character or because the man never lies, but because we are sick to death of you and all of the destructive crap you are doing to this once beautiful and relatively safe country. Your ineffective and completely dysfunctional liberal “leadership”(?) has literally destroyed our most beautiful cities, our public education system, and done it’s damndest to rip faith out of people’s lives.
However bad Donald Trump may be, and he is far from perfect, every day we look at you and feel that no matter what Donald Trump says or does there is no possible way he could be any worse for our country than you people are. We are sick to death of your stupid, destructive, ignorant, and intolerant behavior and beliefs — parading as “wokeness.” We are beyond sick of your hypocrisy and B.S.
We are fed up with your disrespectful divisiveness and constant unrelenting harping and whining and complaining (while you live in the most privileged nation in the world), while making literally zero contributions of anything positive to our society. Your entire focus is on ripping things down, never ever building anything up. Think about that as there is something fundamentally very wrong in the psychology of people who choose destruction as their primary modus operandi.
When Donald J Trump is reelected, don’t blame us, look in the mirror and blame yourselves. Because you are the ones that are responsible for the rise of Donald Trump. You are the ones who have created this "monster" that you so despise, by your very actions. By your refusal to respect your fellow Americans, and the things that are important to us.
You have made fun of the “fly-over states,” the people who “cling to their guns and religion,” the middle class factory workers and coal miners and underprivileged rural populations that you dismissively call “yahoos” and “deplorables.” You have mocked our faith and our religion. You have mocked our values and our patriotism. You have trampled our flag and insulted our veterans and treated our first responders with contempt and hatred.
You have made environmentalism your religion, while trashing every city you have taken responsibility for. You scream from the rooftops about “global warming” and a “green new deal” while allowing tens of thousands of homeless people to cover your streets in literal sh!t and garbage and needles and plastic waste without doing a single thing to help them or solve the environmental crisis your failed social policies are creating. But we’re supposed to put YOU in charge of the environment while gutting our entire economy to institute this plan when you can’t even clean up a single city?
You complain — endlessly — yet have failed to solve a single social problem anywhere. In fact, all you have done is create more of them. We’ve had enough. We are tired of quietly sitting by and being the “silent” majority. So don’t be surprised when the day comes when we finally respond. And trust me it’s coming, sooner than you might think. And also trust me when I say it won’t be pretty. Get ready.
When Donald Trump is reelected it will be because you and your “comrades” have chosen to trash the police, harass law-abiding citizens, and go on rampages destroying public property that we have all paid for and you have zero respect for. When Donald Trump is reelected it will be because we are sick of your complete and utter nonsense and destruction. How does it feel to know that half of this country finds you FAR more despicable than Donald J. Trump, the man you consider to be the anti-Christ? Let that sink in.
We consider you to be more despicable, more dangerous, more stupid, and more narcissistic than Donald Trump. Maybe allow yourself a few seconds of self-reflection to let that sink in. This election isn’t about Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden. This is about Donald Trump vs YOU.
So if on the morning of November 4 (or more likely January 19, by the time the Supreme Court will weigh in on the mail-in ballot fiasco that we are headed towards), and Donald J. Trump is reelected? The only people you have to blame is the left-wing, main-stream media drones and yourselves. You did this. Yep you.
May you be blessed with family and friends, the people who love you and those that you love. All the rest is bullshit.
