Just stop

YouTube…why do you recommend this bullshit (boxed in red)? I never watch videos like this and I don’t give a crap about the hottest athletes at the Olympics. Shocker, those people who work hard on their bodies and don’t think two Big Macs and two McFlurries constitute a balanced meal tend to look good.

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Don’t get me wrong, though. I don’t think there is anything wrong with noticing that anyone — including an athlete — has a nice body. The left’s push to relegate everyone to a monastic, approved-sex only existence is completely doomed*. But the women at the Olympics have so much more to offer the world than how they look in shorts. I mean, obviously. Come on.

Mostly, I just want to tell YouTube to never show me anything like that. Show me Katie Ledecky lounging at the end of the pool with enough time to read War and Peace waiting for the other competitors to finish. Show me Aly Raisman doing a double layout as casually as I fall down the stairs. Show me Simone Biles in her attempt to finally let Isaac Newton know what’s what.

But keep that misogynistic crap away.

*I’ll have more to say later about how the left is just interested in regulating sex and sexuality as the right, but just in different directions.

The similarities

Though the mainstream Democrats criticized vociferously the George W. Bush-era republican proclivity for saying that Bush was someone they’d want to “have a beer with,” the Dems who support both Obama and Clinton have the same cult of personality I’ve noticed about both of them.

For instance, they constantly share photos of Obama (the one called “At least this cool kid”) in particular doing something “cool” or looking suave. Or less commonly but also fairly often it’s snaps of Clinton looking competent, or that otherwise aver her competence in some way.

I don’t want to have a beer with my president. I don’t want them to look cool, suave or even competent. I don’t give a crap how he or she looks.

What I want is that my president not be a granny-starvin’ neoliberal, brown-people-bombing warmongering World War III apocalypse starter.

Dems are a bit better than Republicans. A bit. But that’s just not saying much these days.