Ray From Cleveland
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Again, perish the thought. Absolutely do not stop. Not on my account.
I'm here because at a certain point with the continuous whining and whining and whining (last time I looked the OP was actually whining about the size of her glasses) --- that eventually one has to look underneath and figure out what in the wide world of fuck is going on. That's when I started counting AOC threads to put a number on it.
Oh, trust me, we aren't going to stop. Whining and laughing are two totally different things.
Thanks for reminding me, that's the other thing ---- the incessant whining is of no more substance than "waah, she's stoopid". Never any deeper than that. Well, except for the size of the glasses, that was cute too. All of which points to a deep emotional investment, rather than a rational one.
And again --- from all over the country everywhere except her own district. Now THAT is obsession. I can't even conceive of sitting on here trawling the internets for what some Congresscritter in Idaho is doing or saying today. What a colossal waste of time.
I find that sort of obsessive mob mentality kind of fascinating. Just to ponder how it works.
It works like this: somebody puts themselves in the public eye, and the public responds. We talk about all kinds of people here from state reps to judges to Senators. That's what a political forum is all about. Imagine how boring it would be if we only talked about our own reps and only those with the same rep participated.
Take a look at the topics on this forum. Notice how many only apply to people that are directly involved. How many topics were started every time Trump made a Tweet? We talk about a state or city where they passed some new gun regulation. Should only those people in that city and state respond? After all, most of us don't live there. Or a policy in California we find ridiculous? Or perhaps a state that legalized pot? We don't live there so discussing it is an obsession?
Howard Stern is an asshole. People who tune in to him, if they do at all, tune in to watch a freak show. The same reason people watch NASCAR. But nobody spends all their time looking up minutiae about Howard Stern just to whine about him on message boards. Difference.
Now you're starting to get it. People tune into Howard Stern to listen to a freak show. Well what's the difference between him and Alexandria Kelly Bundy? Not a thing. It's like a car accident. People slow down to look what happened. It's not an obsession or any of their business. You just look because you can't help yourself.