How I Set a Trap on Notes and Somebody Fell Right In

It's a sad state of affairs when you denounce traitors and criminals and everyone knows exactly who you're talking about

Hello Friends!

Well, you can always rely on the internet to be the internet. I admit that there are days when I don’t have patience for it. On those days, I wake up in the morning, and by noon my index finger is cramped from blocking people.

On better days, my finger cramps because of all the people I’ve had to mute.

But on the best days, I wake up with the energy to set obvious traps and then I sit and giggle as I watch the combined forces of evil trip over themselves on the way to falling right in.

Folks, this is the way to survive the hostility of the modern world. You have to give your opponents enough rope to hang themselves. Violence is not our way, but when you live by the sword you die by the sword.

So, instead of wasting our breath on futile lectures, let’s spend our time handing out swords.

Sometimes they die by the sword because they trip and fall on their way to battle and end up impaling themselves.

It’s okay to laugh when that happens. Remember, they were on their way to stab you. Also, they’re the ones that insist any and all medical attention must cost a minimum of eight hundred gazillion billion infinity dollars (elevated to the power of infinity).

Here’s a newsflash for all the wannabe keyboard warrior autocrats out there, “Everybody’s still going to hate you even if you have a billion dollars (and that includes yourself). But the joke is on you because you’re never going to get it.”

Lately I’ve been making what should be common sense statements that are secretly designed to provoke a reaction.

“Personally, I don’t think traitors should be elected to political office.”

Then people become enraged. They start naming names and telling me why so-and-so isn’t a traitor.

I let them go for a while before hitting the pause button and clarifying, “Oh, I didn’t say any names. I was just making a general statement that traitors don’t make good leaders. However, it’s interesting that when I said the word ‘traitor’ you instantly assumed I was talking about the guy you voted for. We should unpack that.”

In case you were wondering, these conversations don’t go anywhere. They’re just a petty amusement.

The note featured in the above image is another example:

It’s a sad commentary that when you write something like that, the malicious forces of the internet instantly crawl out of the fiber optic cables to contradict you.

“How dare you talk about my country that way!”

“Excuse me, I didn’t mention your country. What makes you think that I did? Guilty conscience?”

It’s a pretty sad commentary on modern times when you’re no longer allowed to denounce foul concepts.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could still teach our children about the importance of respect, decency, and humility? But that’s out of fashion because all of those are considered “woke” values.

At this point, we’re not supposed to talk about any of that, we’re not supposed to use pronouns, and we’re not allowed to denounce any form of evil.

I guess pretty soon our conversations will be limited to, “It’s weather outside.”

Notice the complete lack of value judgment.

Seriously though, if I denounce racism, or treason, or white supremacy, or dishonesty, and you instantly get defensive because you think I’m talking about you… maybe it’s time to rethink your life.

But that’s common sense, and that’s been against the law since the dawn of time.

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