Big surprise, another rant

Well, we're into December and it's looking increasingly like Trump will have to be dragged out of the White House by the Secret Service. He's in denial about the election and has convinced his cult that his "victory" was stolen. I will give Trump credit in one area: he is a master of manipulation. His followers will believe anything he says. 

Otherwise, Trump is like a shit stain in a pair of underwear.

The worst aspect of this whole election denial is what it says about the current state of our country: One reality doesn't exist anymore. People feel free to create their own "realities" based on their own skewed worldviews. I blame a lot of this on social media and the world wide web. "News sources" are created to cater to whatever political view one has. These "news sources" are of varying degrees of legitimacy, with the majority being illegitimate. This extends to social media, where people live in their own bubbles and shout in their own echo chambers. When there is political discourse (if it can even be called that), it's people SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER IN ALL CAPS, expressing opinions and anger that they'd never do in person. I don't know how we get out if it.

At some point, I will actually write about something else other than politics, but this Trumpian cluster fuck is pretty much constantly on my mind. This motherfucker lost the election and just will not go away. He is a pox on our country, as much of a virus as the coronavirus.

Speaking of coronavirus, people are dropping like flies at a pace more furious than anything seen since the early days of the pandemic and Trump clearly doesn't give a single shit--and he's convinced his cult not to give a single shit either.

I continue to go to work every day, as I have done since June 11. I am fully masked and only remove the mask to eat or drink. In the late summer and fall, when the infection and death numbers were down, I was venturing to record stores (Flat Black & Circular in East Lansing, The Record Lounge in Lansing). But now that cases are spiking higher than ever, I'm taking a break from that. I don't want to get sick and potentially get others sick because I was so desperate to browse through vinyl. I've put the blinders on and am aiming straight forward to 2021, just trying to stay safe until the vaccines come and we can get beyond this shit show.