Well, well well… The new year is here and we’re off to a great start by taking everything that we see or hear to the next level. It’s has gotten crazier than last year with politics, republicans and democrats. People are now overly sensitive about every single topic that there is out there.
Let’s start out by saying that in no way I want to offend anybody by this post. However, I’m pretty sure some people will. People need to learn not to take things too seriously. Sometimes we’re just saying a joke, or a metaphor. It all goes back to the elections in 2008 when Obama won and everyone thought he was a muslim-communist-socialist-non-american-extremist-terrorist that eventually turned into the “Anti-Christ” and how he will destroy us all. Seriously people? The Anti-Christ? I think I should redirect you to this link to see all the nice things that Obama has done over the past two years of his term. Click here…if you dare. I haven’t seen total world domination and socialist-communist-terrorist rule in that list.
It moved on to when Sarah Palin began talking about “eliminating” members of the democratic party that were in Congress and something about the bulls-eye on the different people’s head-shots (I’m not going to go on details because is just silly). People then quickly associated the tragic events of the shooting in Tucson with this badly formed metaphor by Palin. Yes, it is true that republicans nor democrats should be talking about “eliminating” anybody especially since both parties “care” so much for this country. They need to understand the powerful meaning of those words and how people will react to them. Especially when you got the crazy people like the guy from the shooting and other domestic terrorists in the past. Maybe instead of trying to “eliminate” the plague, they should work together…no? However, this will never be the case, this is all in my little dream world. I’m still hopeful someday we work together instead of being against each other, but again this happens only in my dream world.. But anyways, that’s not the case in point. One thing that people need to understand is that they are politicians. They tend to do all this crap talk about eliminating and using the “guns of justice“, and removing the plague from congress, etc etc. But these are all metaphors. They don’t mean any of this literally.
What really dropped the ball here was the tweet by Kanye West. I’ll be the first one to tell you how much I hate Kanye West and I think he should stop recording music all together and stop making those “ridoncoulous” comments and stupid drunken appearances, but who are we kidding? only in my dream world. Kanye tweeted the following when the charts revealed Britney’s new single to be #1, followed by his single with Jay-Z:
“Yo Britney, I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you be #1, but me and Jay-Z single is one of the best songs of all time!”
This created a massive battle over twitter with fans who actually took it as a joke and others that took offense because of what happened with Taylor Swift at the VMAs long time ago. Seriously people? You take offense to that? A joke? I’m pretty sure even Taylor Swift found the humor while bathing on her gold plated tub overlooking an amazing view from her huge home in California, or wherever she may be. Don’t ask why she would be bathing. I’m guessing she wanted to be clean? But this is where people are now taking it way to the extreme. It was a stupid JOKE!
Let’s learn something from all this. Politicians speak in metaphors. Kanye West said a Joke. You need to stop over-reacting and enjoy life a bit more. Now. Let the ranting begin.
♥ Dustin Beaver.
