{"id":47009,"date":"2020-07-11T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47009"},"modified":"2020-08-14T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:23:27","slug":"this-is-really-the-state-of-america-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47009","title":{"rendered":"This is really the state of America in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"No matter how much I never liked to admit to feeling it, now that the faucet\u2019s been turned, it seems like not a day goes by where the words don\u2019t pass through my lips, and it doesn\u2019t make me feel any better verbalizing it now as it did when I first came to the realization that right now, America sucks<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Talking with a friend about the state of the world, I found myself saying things that I\u2019d never said before in regards to how I felt, mostly because I\u2019ve been isolated, and mythical wife and I try not to talk about things too much because they really are that depressing, but what came out of my fingers in text is that I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever felt so physically possible to feel just how much our country is letting us down, the way America is completely and utterly failing the American people on a daily basis right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

It really is becoming impossible to keep up with all the ways things are fucked up, at least for me, who likes to jot down notes on a daily basis so I can remember the things happening in history for another day, especially in case I feel inspired to write about them at some point.\u00a0 But it\u2019s downright sad and pathetic the things that emerge on a daily basis about the state of America in the state of the world currently, and I realize that it becomes a little more difficult every day to not grow more jaded and nihilistic about how things are, which are definitely things I don\u2019t want to be happening when I\u2019m in a period of my life where I\u2019m trying to enjoy and savor the time of new fatherhood and spending time with my baby.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of not fair that America is in such chaos and forced to hunker, when all I want to do is show my kid the great big world and can\u2019t, because neither of us want to get the coronavirus that\u2019s fucking everywhere and risk our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seriously, there are so many depressing topics and things happening in the news, that it\u2019s really difficult for me to focus and triangulate on just one or a few, and I don\u2019t think I physically have in me to type as much as I want to type, in the time that I have so little of, because my daughter commands so much of it and I\u2019m down to like three hours of free time a day if I\u2019m lucky.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dragon*Con finally had the plug pulled on it.\u00a0 Optics or not, this is actually good news, since we won\u2019t be hearing of any news that 125,000 people in downtown Atlanta have coronavirus after Labor Day weekend.\u00a0 Plus, I know this elicits a huge sigh of relief for all of my nerdy friends who still enjoy the convention, and have one less thing to worry about in this shitty world we\u2019re in now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta Braves has coronavirus<\/a>, and will probably not play in a baseball season that shouldn\u2019t be happening in the first place and if the observations of the virus and their long-term effects are consistent, then there\u2019s no guarantee that Freeman won\u2019t have any permanent physical damage as a result.\u00a0 This is sad because Freddie Freeman is the face of the franchise and is an outstanding human being, and he\u2019s probably the most valuable player of known positive cases in all of MLB, but a season is still going to happen because a bunch of rich greedy motherfuckers want to make money but are trying to hide it in the guise that they\u2019re trying to do the world a favor and provide sport for entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Georgia senator and co-owner of the Atlanta Dream WNBA team, Kelly Loeffler, seems to not want either of her jobs in the future<\/a>, by decrying the current atmosphere of the nation and the talking down the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and basically calling it Marxist bullshit.\u00a0 Like, you realize that as much of a joke the WNBA might be, basketball\u2019s majority audience is still, black right?\u00a0 Furthermore, taking a stance against <\/em>BLM isn\u2019t necessarily a particularly good idea in today\u2019s political climate, and no amount of kissing the baked potato\u2019s ass is going to get you re-elected, especially when the baked potato never wanted you in the first place and publicly denounced her to Georgia governor Yosemite Sam.<\/span><\/p>\n

In light of Georgia surpassing the 100,000 mark of positive coronavirus cases, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms (who is also positive) attempts to put a mandate on the City of Atlanta that masks are required\u2026 fuck it I don\u2019t even want to bother linking to this shit anymore it\u2019s that depressing, but Georgia governor, the aforementioned Yosemite Sam is all like \u201cwhoa whoa whoa, you can\u2019t do that\u201d and the two are in this pointless and nobody-wins turf war, where Bottoms is fighting for common sense while Bubba is doing his best to put black lives at greatest risk, because he\u2019s a fucking racist bigot, but in the end, Georgia looks like the shitshow to the rest of the country that really is kind of hard to refute these days anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

All around the rest of the world, videos are going viral of irate white people in big box stores like Costcos, Targets, Home Depots and gas stations, losing their shit over getting called out for not wearing masks.\u00a0 I\u2019d say I\u2019m astounded by how mask wearing has become so politicized, but that\u2019s apparently the American way these days, and it makes me sad knowing so many people voluntarily and flagrantly defy wearing them, when there\u2019s so much proof out there that if America could just commit to masks for like 3-4 months, all of this would already be over, but due to their arrogance and defiance, we\u2019re long past the point of no return and America is basically in the third world right now.\u00a0 But instead, all we get are memes and viral videos instead of actual results.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of masks, over half a year after initial intel of coronavirus, the baked potato has finally acquiesced and has appeared in public wearing a mask.\u00a0 This says to me that apparently even his pea-sized brain has finally been convinced that yo, this shit is very real, and at the rate in which everyone\u2019s getting sick, you better put a fucking mask on too, no matter how much you don\u2019t want to.\u00a0 And I kind of love it, because he finally put one on, it\u2019s going to make all his worshippers confused and fractured on what they should do between fighting for their freedom<\/em> and following what their god-king is doing like the sheep they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s one other topic that\u2019s been eating at my household as of late, but it truly is going likely warrant its own post, when my brain isn\u2019t so full of angst and depression about the state of the country to where I might be able to articulate it better.\u00a0 For anyone that knows actually knows my wife and I know that this is in reference to schools, and I can make the ensuing post easier by simply saying that it\u2019s completely fucked up too.<\/span><\/p>\n

The situation in America feels like Charlie Wilson\u2019s War, but instead of American-supplied Afghan forces becoming neglected and defiant and forming al Qaeda and hating America, it feels like Americans were given too much freedom but were neglected and not educated, resulting in Americans basically defying logic and common sense, but the result is the same, Americans dying.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the state of America currently feels like America in V for Vendetta<\/em>, where America is fractured by plague and civil unrest, and there\u2019s probably a really amazing story happening in England right now, but they\u2019re most certainly looking down America as much every other nation out there is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, this is probably the most depressing post I\u2019ve made in a long while, but good or bad, that\u2019s what brogging is for, and no matter what, this shit has all happened, and this is where I was at in history when it did.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter how much I never liked to admit to feeling it, now that the faucet\u2019s been turned, it seems like not a day goes by where the words don\u2019t pass through my lips, and it doesn\u2019t make me feel any better verbalizing it now as it did when I first came to the realization … Continue reading This is really the state of America in 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,36,66,79,100,194,104,107,45,191,41,143,165,89,156],"class_list":["post-47009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-angst","tag-braves","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-coronavirus","tag-depression","tag-dragoncon","tag-fail","tag-greed","tag-movies","tag-ohatlanta","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47011,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47009\/revisions\/47011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}