Here's two names you don't often see in the same sentence.
George Carlin. Ted Nugent.
Connectivity forthcoming.
Wednesday night, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent and Kid Rock visited with Trump at the White House. Details of the meeting were not immediately made known, though Nugent posted an article on his Deer & Deer Hunting blog about the encounter. The musician wrote, “We discussed various quality of life issues and how entrenched status quo political correctness has wrecked everything it has touched and how his administration is focused and dedicated to get back to the US Constitutional basics of government of, by and for the people.”
Images posted on social media of the meeting show the group taking photos in the Oval Office and mockingly standing front of Hillary Clinton’s portrait.
First of all, let's spare ourselves any wasted debate over the lack of courtesy, grace, class or style exhibited by this white trash trio edition of The Three Amigos.
If the ridiculously childish and self embarrassing compulsion to pose with derision in front of the Hillary portrait like three middle schoolers who snuck a selfie in front of the school trophy case, middle fingers extended, arguably in-bred grins firmly in place, isn't enough, we are afforded the extra bonus cheap and tacky of the Kid and the Nooge not finding a way to honor their invitation to visit "America's house" without keeping their "can't seem to accept middle age gracefully" arrested development headwear firmly on their heads, let alone, God forbid, they should visit hat in hand, either literally or metaphorically.
And debate is wasted for the same reason that most all discussion and debate about anything even remotely connect to Trump these days is wasted. If you don't find the lack of courtesy, grace, class or style obvious and irrefutable, then fill in this blank, you're not part of the solution, you're ___________.
But, enough about you. Let's talk about Ted.
Erudite, enlightened, inspirational, motivational and, as always, as articulate as fuck.
Here's, verbatim, the caption to a picture taken of the Ted and the Trump shaking hands at the desk in the very same office where people like Roosevelt and Eisenhower and Kennedy and Johnson and Reagan and Bush have led the nation through our history.
So today is the 242nd anniversary of The Shot Heard Round The World is it! Well well well looky looky here boogie chillin', I got your Shot Heard Round The World right here in big ol greazyass Washington DC where your 1 & only MotorCity Madman WhackMaster StrapAssasin1 dined with President Donald J Trump at the WhiteHouse to Make America Great Again! Got that? Glowing all American over the top WE THE PEOPLE gory details coming ASAP!! BRACE!
Again, we'll skip the debate course and move right on to the entree'.
Ted Nugent is an idiot. And a racist. And a misogynist. And, one can easily suspect, a big fan of sugar, given that it helps the meds go down / in a most delightful way.
But, that's okay. Everybody knows that Ted Nugent is an idiot. Even the people who like him. It's part of his charm, his joie de vivre, his schtick. It's what makes Ted Ted.
Just like the penis makes Bruce......what?....oh....wait.....that's right....sorry.
Just like the vagina makes Caitlyn Caitlyn.
And, props to the Motor City Madman, boogie chillin, very few people can make Sarah Palin almost look like a reasonable, mature, dare we say, normal person. So, kudos to you, there, Cat Scratch boy.
Let's keep in mind, of course, that I said "almost look like".
But here's where Bob Segar's brain damaged fellow hometown hero steps in his own bullshit. It's that tricky little three worder that he just couldn't resist throwing into the mangled mix of meandering that his mind processes as worthwhile contribution to the national discourse.
We the people.
See, the problem with people like Ted who use that iconic, one can only assume trademarked, phrase is that they do so at the peril of being made to look like liars, hypocrites, fools or idiots.
Even those who we are all pretty much agreed are already idiots in the first place.
Because you don't have to be a Rhodes Scholar or, from the complete opposite end of the IQ spectrum, possessed of a brain on the level with, say, Ted Nugent to know that the "we" that Ted refers to in his use of the term is as far from being an inclusive use as is humanly possible.
Pretty sure when the founders coined the phrase "we, the people" they were talking about all of the people, all of the time. You know, the ones Lincoln said you can't fool.
Everybody. You. And me. All of us. All of us who call America our home and who feel, even in our most difficult moments, like one nation, under God, indivisible....
yada. yada. yada.
At the same time, also pretty sure that when Ted says "we, the people", he's talking about the people who think it's cool to pose like socially maladjusted eighth graders in front of the school trophy case, middle fingers extended; visit America's house with their doofus faux fedoras, lame Little Jimmy Dickens knock off cowboy hats and zipper skirt, open toed fuck me pumps the best they can manage as a fashion statement; those who passionately believe that the most articulate response one might offer in rebuttal to a point of order in the political process conceptualized by someone of a more liberal position or perspective is "...uh....yeah?.....well.......you're a libtard.......you know......you hear me, snowflake...?"
Eloquence of a caliber never before seen in our nation's history.
You see, Teddy, you say "we, the people" but what you really mean is "you and me, boogie chillun".
That said, it's really about perception, isn't it?
Like George Carlin told us a long time ago....
"....did you ever notice how your stuff is stuff....and other people's stuff is shit?"
Same thing goes for opinions, positions and political loyalties, turns out.
And whether or not it's courteous, gracious, classy or stylish to walk around America's house wearing a lame Little Jimmy Dickens knock off cowboy hat.
Pretty sure "we" the people think... not so much.
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