Y’know, back in the day our gun club was a running chit show. Our club execs were at each other’s throats. The reason, I suspect, was that they’d aged out. Past a certain age, some old men (and sometimes women) just get bitter and twisted and they aren’t happy if they aren’t fighting with someone. The guys in our club were running around in Velcro shoes, they didn’t shoot anymore, and their internecine battles with each other started driving the members nuts. They’d see a black rifle on the range and phone the cops, saying that there were machine guns on the line. They’d try to undermine each other’s projects. One of our execs got one of the ranges shut down on a fake safety complaint and dealing with it cost the club thousands and took our main centrefire rifle range out for a month while the lawfare and red tape raged. I think that was the last straw, in the next election every single one of those guys were challenged in the club’s yearly elections, and every single one of them were voated the hell out. Ordinarily I don’t vote but that year I did. No one was happy about it; a lot of those guys had been members in good standing for decades. It was just grumpy old men being grumpy old men, and that shit has no place in a serious organization.
I wonder if Biden’s decision to keep poking the Russian Bear isn’t a similar situation? Like those miserable old bastards at the gun club, a fight like that hurts the youngsters the most, will accomplish nothing, and will hurt us as much as them. With leaders like Joe…we’ll deserve it to, because we voated for him (allegedly, I know…). Starting a conflict in the Kraine didn’t make sense, and escalating with Russia doesn’t either.
I know we’re supposed to respect our elders but when they can’t do the job anymore, you grab some spine, you drag the old horses out to pasture and they just have to seal with it. Most of them actually like it once they’ve been there awhile. If you DON’T deal with them…everyone will end up wishing you had. Old Joe is flirting with nuclear war and either doesn’t know it or doesn’t care. Ditto for all the other problems he’s created.
Oh well. If Joe pushes the button, WL and I will be hunting exotic radioactive monsters in Africa’s glassed Savannah lands.
Maybe the mutant elephants will be hunting us…?
And Joe will be eating ice cream and mush in a deep bunker under a mountain… but…this is just fine!
What’s on TV?
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