So Many Grievances For Festivus 2022
I’m going to skip past the aluminum pole and feats of strength and just delve into the airing of grievances because there are just so many.
There always are.
Cognitive Dissonance Voters: I’m convinced much of America is already doing the Orwellian Double-Think thing. It’s the only logical explanation I can muster where polling data showed mass dissatisfaction while the election results essentially preserved the status quo. It’s the equivalent of someone being kicked by the person behind them while blaming the assault on someone down the block. Maybe millions of voters can’t bring themselves to admit the Biden Administration they elected is a disaster for the sake of their own pride and vanity.
To Live, Drive, and Die in New Orleans: Every time I approach I-10 in New Orleans I feel like one of those Rebel pilots flying through the Death Star trench, constantly looking all around for a shooter literally riding shotgun. Crime is out of control and the criminals are becoming increasingly brazen. In one instance a woman filmed herself randomly firing a handgun from a car window on I-10 by the Superdome and posted it on social media.
Unsecure and Expensive New Orleans Parking Facilities: There’s also legalized theft. Not willing to play “smash & grab” Russian roulette with my vehicle on the streets, I recently parked my truck at a pay lot for the Saints’ game last weekend. However upon learning the prices after I pulled inside the garage (few downtown lots and garages post their rates at the entrance) I quickly turned around as I was in the market for a parking space and not a bedroom suite for my truck. In another lot you had to park and walk up to the pay machine and enter your license plate information just to learn the rate, which was outrageous. Furthermore the multistory parking garage was neither attended nor had a gate so ne’er do wells were able to blaze in and out completely unimpeded. Of course many of these lots are under the ownership of a single entity so they can inflate their prices as they control the market.
Drew Brees: I really didn’t need to hear the former quarterback prattle how he almost retired a year early and thus the team could’ve landed Tom Brady and been ahead of the curve on focusing on a new long-term quarterback. He would’ve been better keeping this to himself in light of the way he left the franchise that gave him a second chance at NFL life and a first ballot ticket to Canton. And his lightning advertising stunt for a sports gambling website was in poor taste, intended to scare his fans under the guise of viral marketing. With this kind of judgment, I can see how #9 got fleeced on that shady jewelry investment con from a few years ago.
The New Orleans Saints: The Dennis Allen experiment in New Orleans is working out as well here as it did in Oakland. The question is, if Airline Drive already knew how things played out there then why did they even bother here? At least the Pels are doing well.
The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball on Pete Rose: I’m convinced that Roger Goodell sleeps well at night with the assurance that a far more inept and contemptuous man…scratch that… individual is running Major League Baseball. The very entity that came down on one of the legends of the game over gambling is now partners with online gaming. You can literally bet on a baseball game in the same stadium where the contest is being played. And I don’t want to hear the nuance between what Rose did and what MLB is doing. Sports gambling is highly addictive and there should be no moralizing about the differences in the two situations. Yet Charlie Hustle, one of the most revered figures in all of baseball, continues to be treated like a war criminal. It’s time to.end the hypocrisy and induct Pete before it’s pettily done posthumously.
The 16 Members of the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee:. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for Fred McGriff but how has Dale Murphy not been voted into Cooperstown already? The two-time MVP was a great player on a bad team and is one of the best ambassadors of the sport. Nice guys apparently do finish last, or rather, never. Fix this next year.
The National Republican Party: Imagine being on a sail boat and the wind and the waves are all in your favor yet somehow your boat ends up defying the laws of physics and goes backwards. Yet that’s precisely what happened in the November mid-terms. And when the inconceivable does occur you don’t give the captain another term at the wheel; you invite her to take a long walk off a short plank. Yet here we are with Ronna McDaniel set to return as RNC chair after her third run on the shoals and Mitch McConnell already back as leader of a smaller Senate minority than where he started. Accountability doesn’t seem to be a strong suit for our party and the Democrats are grateful for it.
The LAGOP Throws the Wrong Kind of Party: Why would an organization charged with helping people get elected to office schedule an all day Christmas Party fundraiser in a locale far removed from any election of consequence on the day of a statewide runoff? Do they not have calendars over there?
Yahoo News Pushing anti-Christmas Articles: Tis the season for crapping on all things Christmas and the folks at Yahoo News served up two turkeys. The first centered around a Muslim mother who is part-Karen and part-Grinch struggling to isolate her kid from the omnipresence of Christmas celebrations (including popular and hardly religious aspects such as Santa Claus, non-Nativity related Christmas season songs, etc.) complaining that such overt exposure to these symbols are disconcerting. Nevermind that in the predominantly Muslim countries I’ve visited these same Christmas visuals and sounds you see in America can also be found there. And then there was another article featuring a gaggle of Karens lecturing how parents shouldn’t bring their kids to sit on Santa’s lap and that causing a small child to cry is traumatizing. I was unaware those are the only instances toddlers cried. Who knew?
Journalists Who Cage Their Birds: it’s one thing for Alyssa Milano to lock her Twitter account from engagement by those not in her circle of agreement even when she’s using that medium to attack.others because nobody takes this faded star turned “look at me activist wearing my latest cause printed on an undersized t-shirt” seriously. But when you’re a professional journalist whose articles, that’s really advocacy agitprop, are published on major news sites then you should have the spine to receive and process feedback. But that’s not how the left plays, especially the fragile smug fourth estate. Alexandra Frost, who penned the anti-Santa visit screed and has written for the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and other publications of standing has a Fort Knox Twitter account where you need to be approved to convey your thoughts on her writings. Elon Musk would be doing society and journalism a real service by not allowing journalists to hide behind their Twitter wall. If they think their absurd positions are worthy enough for transmission and compensation then they should not be spared the Vox Populi.