...Something Political

       With all the excitement of the upcoming Presidential election, you can bet that both sides of the political campaign have had their stupid moments. From the whole "Big Bird fiasco" to Biden thinking that Vice Presidential debate = Orbit White commercial,  the whole thing's been pretty chaotic. Most of all, I haven't the faintest intuition as to who may or may not win; all I know is that if you think politicians are idiotic, the voters themselves (that's what we're supposed to be) are even worse.


      Yeah, yeah. The point of this blog isn't to give people my political opinions or to attempt to
sway them. But the voters are the people who contribute to deciding how our government is run, so if I want to mock them for being so lax in casting their vote for MY leader, I will do as I please. So the basic point of this post is that too many people vote without even searching for the facts about their choice of President (or worse yet, they don't vote at all. Because everyone knows choosing our leader is a totally irrelevant factor in our everyday lives and won't affect us one way or another. *sarcasm*) As an example, let's take a look at one of my genius acquaintances on Facebook (I can't bear to refer to the people I associate with on this social networking site as my "friends." Not just because I know I have no actual friends, but because I've added enough people that I hate on my FB list to know Facebook is more suited for stalking people you despise, not people you actually like. Otherwise it would be just boring. Thankfully, I'm not alone in this; I'm surprised Facebook hasn't allowed us to categorize people into "arch-nemesis," "friend," "acquaintance," and "I-don't-really-know-who-the-junk-this-is-but-hey-he-helps-me-on-FarmVille-a-lot-he-can't-possibly-be-a-creeper-right?" But I digress; I'm getting ahead of myself, here.)

    Let's take a look at the following status, folks:


    "Watching the Presidential Debate, and I realized something.... Obama has a nicer tie.. He def has my vote.... Js ;P"


     "Watching the Presidential Debate, and I realized something.... Obama has a nicer tie.. He def has my vote.... Js ;P"

    "Watching the Presidential Debate, and I realized something.... Obama has a nicer tie.. He def has my vote.... Js ;P"

   ".... Obama has a nicer tie"


      That's right, folks. Voting now no longer depends on the politician's policies, or his plans to help
the economy. It doesn't matter his religion, race, gender, his stance on abortion, his stance on gay
marriage, or even what country he came from. In the end, all it boils down to is the piece of fabric
protruding from his collar.


     What. The. Junk.


     I can't even begin to describe what's wrong with this. Maybe I'll understand if I take a closer look
at his tie and compare it to Romney's...after all, while I watched the debate, I was so busy paying
attention to the fact that Obama kept nodding in agreement to Romney's statements and I was far too busy yelling, "WHY ARE YOU NODDING YOUR HEAD? HE'S NODDING HIS HEAD LIKE HE AGREES. WHAT THE JUNK? DO YOU GUYS SEE THIS?!" I was later sedated and put to bed for the night by the rest of my family so I wouldn't tear up the TV screen like an untamed savage.  


    *Ahem.* Obama's tie:

   
   
    Romney's tie:

   



     Remarkable. The fact Romney's tie is red and has stripes rather than plain-Jane blue suddenly just made me want to vote for Obama instead. To think I've been undecided this whole time!---


    GOOD LORD. Am I the only one who sees what is wrong with this statement? What's worse is the comment that followed this abomination of a status:


    "Lol I know who would want to vote for Romney?...he wants to get rid of Big Bird. >:O Democrat 2012!"


      Whoa. Now the Presidential election is riding not only on whether or not the candidate has an attractive enough tie, but because of some random fat guy who walks around in a fictional yellow bird's costume, whose show's target demographic consists of children who aren't even old enough to know what the flying fig a President even is. Wait; I take that back. They might know more about it than the voters themselves---which, let's be honest, doesn't take much.


      To make matters worse, Romney never once said he was gonna get rid of Big Bird. He just said
he wanted to "cut government funding for PBS." Apparently to these "voters," however, cutting
funding is the equivalent of Romney hauling up and brutally shooting Big Bird's brains out with a bazooka right in front of every child in America. Yeah, makes total sense.


        My blood pressure has risen enough for one segment. Remember, kids: think before you vote. I don't care who it is, just CHECK THE RELEVANT FACTS FIRST. It could not only save the country from voting in a complete moron to run this country, but could prevent you from making yourself look like a totally uneducated imbecile in the process.