Have you noticed that the stupid things leftists do today just aren’t quite resonating as hard as they used to? We’ve got a lot of stupid things going on. Right now, society is a giant festival of stupidity, and yet the kind of indignant extreme stupidity by professional pinkos in culture, government, and academia that used to drive us to distraction lately just inspires yawns. The nonsense is not changing us. It’s not altering us. It’s just identifying its purveyors as freaking weirdos.
This means we are winning.
For instance, Vice, which is apparently still a thing despite bankruptcy, just put out an article titled “100 Ways White People Can Make Life Less Frustrating For People of Color” This screed is one of those provocative things woke people say that we’re supposed to care about, but we can’t even start caring about it anymore. This stuff has gone from unexpected and edgy to merely tiresome. I am speaking as someone who continually frustrates people of color – just ask my Latinx wife – and there actually probably about 1000 things I could do to make life less frustrating for people of the whole rainbow of colors. But I’m not going to do any of them. And I’m not going to get outraged that a bunch of weirdo race hustlers demand that I do. The point is not even that Vice contends that the job of every person of power pallor is to somehow cater to the whims of sophomore malcontents. It’s that no one cares if there’s an article about it anymore. You can’t provoke someone you have put to sleep.
We’ve been there. We’ve done that. And it’s boring.
Another example is the current idiocy in Britain over Elagabalus. Elagabalus was a weirdo Roman emperor who tried to pretend he was a girl and also a boy and who pretty much had sex with anything that moved, so he was generally a pretty moderate San Francisco Democrat in a toga. Now some museum in Britain is insisting that Elagabalus, who has been dead even longer than Joe Biden has been alive, if that’s possible, should be referred to as trans and with female pronouns. At the threshold, I think it’s good that we’re referring to Roman emperors at all because thinking about Rome is cool, and it’s the mark of a normal male. But the idea that we should somehow refer to a dead dude as a chick a couple thousand years later is pretty transparently stupid and once would have spun us up into a tizzy. But instead, this would-be imbroglio is just stupid and we’re just going to ignore it, and literally no one other than a few weirdo pseudo-historians and some bad teeth backwater of England are going to lose sleep over his pronouns.
Speaking of Britain, which we shouldn’t bother doing because it’s becoming a completely ridiculous little fascist state, another historian just came out with the notion that the black plague primarily affected women of color. Of course, the color palette in Britain a few centuries ago ranged from butt-white to Romney Family Reunion. Whatever. This is another idiocy designed to spark our outrage, but it doesn’t work anymore. It only reaffirms our convictions regarding the absolute stupidity of the left.
Welcome to Yawnsville. Population: Them.
Look at other things are going on. The bizarre campaign to mutilate vulnerable children in the name of gender identity is losing support. We’re not shocked anymore that some dude pretends to be a lady and conquers. We’re fed up with it. The same is true of the book banning nonsense of the left. No one’s outraged that the left is lying about us wanting to ban books because we all know they are just distracting from their desire to serve pornography to kids. Instead, we are going to school board meetings, which makes us worse than Hamas.
We have gotten used to this kind of crap and instead of being wrapped up in outrage we’re taking steps to fight back. We are beyond being shocked. We are beyond being scandalized. We are tired of this, and that fact deprives them of one of their greatest weapons – the ability to rile us up. It is essential for them to be transgressive, to forcefully blast through our social conventions and blow our bourgeois minds. That’s what the edgy left has been trying to do for centuries. But it can’t anymore. We have outrage fatigue.
We’re not going to argue with them. We are not going to rend our garments about society going to hell – it’s already there. We’re just going to stop them. And we’re going to stop them at the ballot box. That’s one of the great things that’s happening now. Normal people of all races and genders and religions and ethnicities are coming together with a common realization that these Marxist nimrods are a bunch of freaks, and that we need to quit getting fixated on their antics and start fixating on breaking them so we can take back our country. And take it back we will. Give us time. We’re going to win, in large part, because these people are stupid and boring.
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