Even after all of these years, it still amazes me the level of intelligence of some people who believe they are never wrong and the rest of us can pound sand.
One such person recently crawled out of his hole and, for the first time in nearly two years, began his senseless name-calling and lunatic ranting.
Of course, like most of the haters, he had no proof, evidence or anything as to why we are “woke.”
As usual, I’m still trying to figure out what that even means. Seriously, what does it mean? I’ve asked before for someone to please give me a real definition but, alas, nothing but crickets.
Putting that aside, when these keyboard cowboy haters wake up from their comas, it sure seems like they are angrier than ever.
Woke. Woke. Woke.
Fake news garbage.
How do you clowns sleep at night?
Quite well, thank you, because, apparently, we’re living rent free in the head of a true clown. The clown car is waiting.
Again, putting aside the woke aspect, which I may never understand, let’s talk about the “fake news.”
The Alliance for Community Transformations.
A district attorney resigns after evidence suggests he was buying illegal drugs.
The high school football team hosts its first playoff game in years.
Community help gets the famed Oakhurst welcome sign back and better than ever.
These are just a few example of some of the stories we have covered over the past few months. There are literally hundreds of others.
So apparently, the players and coaches on the football team are fake, according to our resident moron waiting on a ride in the clown car.
So, too, are the many questions swirling around the Alliance, a group that is supposed to help the downtrodden, the abused and more. Guess those people don’t matter because it’s all fake, according to the our keyboard genius.
And even though he’s the one who has decided to resurrect the hateful emails, there are others who think shouting from the bleachers means something. Not many, mind you, but they are out there as we continue to get that free brain rent.
I certainly understand when people don’t like something we write or a topic we cover. That’s part of being in the news business.
But when they begin exercising their ignorance electronically, it’s just something I may never figure out completely. What is their point? What are they accomplishing? Or better yet, what do they want to accomplish?
That may be the key ingredient.
From my perspective, these people are simple to describe: cowards.
You see, cowards hide behind keyboards and rant and rave without evidence and especially without a brain. They rant to rant and believe everything they say because that’s how they have been programmed.
They also scream about being Christians, though it is clear in religious beliefs that being a coward is a sin right up there with the worst of them. That, however, doesn’t matter to the cowards because they are far from Christian and even if confronted with that concept, they would just yell “woke” or “fake” or something along those lines.
Cowards also try to be bullies. But as we all know, it’s easy to be a bully until you have to confront a group. Then they cower and run away, still screaming endless blather as they retreat back to the keyboard — and probably several cocktails.
Being in this business for many decades, I’ve pretty much seen and done it all. I’ve heard the threats, had property destroyed and on and on and on. All because the truth hurts.
That’s the real key to unlocking the mindset of the cowards. They go off into a feeding frenzy if something they don’t like comes before them. It matters not if it is true; the truth isn’t part of their makeup.
They will say it’s all about the truth and they are the only ones who know the way of the world. This is what they believe after that chip in their brain has been programmed.
But the vast majority of people know this to not be the case. They know the cowards/bullies are just that and aren’t worth the breath it takes to even talk to them.
In fact, the vast majority of people laugh at them from a distance. These cowards are generally isolated fools who have disenfranchised so many people they virtually live alone both literally and figuratively.
I still haven’t figured out what it takes to set them off. Maybe it’s nothing other than their weak minds being triggered by something most of us would not even understand. Maybe the anger gets so pent up it sometimes just has to spew like a volcano.
Maybe it’s all of the above — or none of the above.
Only the demons inside of their heads know the answer and they don’t seem to be talking. Well, maybe inside their heads, and that’s where it begins.
Some might wonder why I waste my keyboarding skills on such drivel. I wonder that, as well. But once in a while, you just have to speak the truth as a human being. You just have to tell the truth, unlike those who spew with no facts, evidence or a prayer of getting any because it doesn’t exist.
You see, those examples I listed, and the hundreds more, are facts. Verified facts, checked and checked with actual quotes from real people who are involved. They tell the stories, whether it be about a questionable organization or about the hometown heroes who make up the football team.
Facts.
And no, alternate facts do not count because they don’t exist. Either the sky is blue or it isn’t. It rained or it didn’t.
Such is the case on how we approach what we do around here. We deal in facts.
Certainly, this column is an opinion piece and it is located on the opinion page. Not a hard concept to fathom.
Otherwise, we are dealing in the raw facts about issues that are important to everyone who lives in this region. You know, where your tax dollars are spent and the like. Actual numbers and fact-checking that informs the taxpayers.
Maybe living rent-free in the heads of dorks is okay. In many ways, I feel sorry for these people. They live in a world of fantasy and don’t care about the realities of the world, of life or anything; especially their fellow human beings.
That’s what should be most important to all of us, but they will never get it.
Can someone please call the clown car.
Greg Little is editor of the Mariposa Gazette and can be reached at greg@mariposagazette.com
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