Yes, I Said It….

Ok. It’s been a while since I got political. Haven’t wanted to go down the negative, political road. However, today is the day I do. This is the episode I get back in to politics. And I do it fully. I don’t mix my words. 
I discuss many things. Nazis, Jews, using words correctly. I also discuss liberals, racism, ignorance, and being retarted. Yes, retarted. That’s what I said. 
I jump right back in to offending people and countries. I discuss Iran, Palestine and Venezuela. And the morons that stand for terrorism. 
I will piss off a lot of you. Those that don’t get pissed, congratulations! You are an adult! 

Transcript

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Hello and welcome to another episode of The Ramblings of an Insomniac. I am Courtney. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Hello, hello to everybody. Thank you and welcome. I appreciate every single person that has been checking out my silly, silly podcast, my crazy, completely unprofessional trailer trash of a podcast. But hey, people are listening. So thank you. I appreciate it more than I can even possibly tell you. Thank you to everybody that's been listening from the beginning, and everybody that's just tuning in and all in between. It honestly means the world to me. Hello, hello. Welcome. Okay. What has been keeping me up? What has been preventing me from counting sheep? Oh my gosh. First of all, I want to share a story that is completely making me look like an ass. It's embarrassing. It's super embarrassing. And I'm going to tell you this story at the expense of my own dignity and pride. Because honestly, at this point, do I have either? I have pride. I don't know about dignity. I guess I have both, but I'm going to share this story with you at the expense of both my dignity and pride. Because if you're having a bad day and you think that maybe things are going bad, this might cheer you up. You might go, okay, well, at least that didn't happen to me this morning. Okay, so I went out and I am dog sitting, and I decided to go take the dog that I'm looking after on a nice walk this morning. And I'm I had been walking at this point for a good half an hour, and I had kind of noticed that there was a car, like I was on the sidewalk, and there was a car that seemed to be going a little slow, kind of following me, but I didn't really think anything of it because you know we're in a neighborhood, and I just figured they're trying to um go slow. But it seemed like they were following me, but I'm like, I think you're just being paranoid, Courtney. What a weirdo. And then all of a sudden, this lady does pull up to me and she's like, ma'am, ma'am, and she's trying to get my attention and she finally did, and I was like, Yes, can I help you? And she was being really quiet. I think she was trying to be discreet, so she was being quiet, but I couldn't hear her. And I kept saying, I'm really sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing you. Again, I'm kind of in the city, there's a lot of background noise, and I could tell she was trying to be discreet and not like shout it, but I couldn't hear her. And I'm like, I'm really sorry, I can't hear you. And finally, she says, Um, I just wanted you to know that I've been following you for a little bit because I was trying to decipher what I was seeing, and I finally realized it was toilet paper. And I was like, What? She goes, Um, you have what looks like a tail coming out of the back of your shorts, and I couldn't tell if it was just part of your shirt, and then I finally realized it wasn't part of your shirt, it was toilet paper. You have like a tail, what looks like a tail of toilet paper hanging out the back of your shorts. Yeah. So I'd been walking around for a good half an hour in a neighborhood that has a lot of people. Thankfully, though, that morning, this morning, I actually hadn't run into anybody other than her. She's the only person that I saw on the street beside me. So thankfully, I don't think anybody even noticed. But I had just been walking around with toilet paper, just hanging out the back of my shorts, because you know, that kind of sums up my life right there. That pretty much right there is the epitome. There's a meme. There's a meme that I was like, oh my god, that meme sums up my life. It's this little boy, like three years old, that is coming out of an uh not an outhouse, but a um porta potty, and he's got his pants down to like his needs, his pants around his legs, and he's chasing after a roll of toilet paper that's going downhill. So it's this roll of toilet paper that's going downhill that he's chasing with his pants down his leg, down to his knees, like wrapped around his legs. And I'm like, yep, that's that's my life right there. And now instead of that, it's me walking around with a toilet paper tail. So you know, if you're having a bad day, there you go. Um, at the expense of my own pride, I'm sharing that story. Gosh. It's okay. It's fine, it really is. I've decided to entertain myself. I spent way too much time um videotaping the squ these squirrels that love nothing more than to antagonize the dog that I'm sitting for. And this poor dog has is obsessed with these squirrels because they are literally little thugs, and they are genuinely trying to mess with the dog that I'm watching. But I gotta tell you, it's pretty funny. I sent a video to the owner because I thought it was pretty hysterical. But these squirrels are hilarious, and I'm sorry, but who needs TV? The person that I'm that I'm sitting for doesn't have TV, and in fact, this is the last three people that I have dog sit for do not have TVs, which is good for them. That's amazing. I really only have TV on for background noise. I rarely ever watch TV, but um, who needs it if you have squirrels like this that are freaking hysterical in your backyard? I mean, I'm sorry, I could watch these guys all freaking day. It's sad. But also cool that I can have a job in which I can go on walks and you know, sit in a backyard with a dog and play with a dog and also watch squirrels or have really beautiful views. A lot of my customers have amazing homes with amazing views. And the ones that live in a city, um, I was dog sitting for a couple that lives in a city, a pretty crowded city, and yet they still had a view, a really beautiful view. And I was like, wow, perspective, right? Sometimes looking at a city at night is kind of cool. Sometimes looking at the silhouette of a mountain, but through like a cityscape is kind of a cool view. Sometimes people watching on the streets can be pretty entertaining. I'm not a city person. I talked about this on a podcast, like it's all about what you want personally. If you want to be around, you know, a lot of restaurants and a lot of social stuff, so that you have a lot of social things you can be involved in and you want to get to places quick and you want to have the options of different restaurants and options of different clothing stores and you know, bars and things like that, then I get why people live in the city. If you're a social person and you like being around people and you like all the action and you like the hustle and bustle, I get how people can be attracted to it. I like it once in a while. I'm not attracted to it at all, but I can I can do a city for a couple of days and then I'm well depending on the city. I've been to Kat Mandu and uh that's that is sensory overload. That's like a city on steroids. That's a lot of people in a very small area, and everyone has somewhere to go, and that's hard. I was not a fan of Cat Mandu. But um I get why people like cities. They have their attractiveness. Is that a word? Yeah, they've got they have their attraction. I get it. I get how people can be attracted to the hustle and bustle. God, I don't like doing my podcast though out in the city. I'm sitting on a deck and they have neighbors, and there's neighbors out in their yard right now, and they can hear everything I'm saying, and it's weird. So I'm going inside where there's all kinds of noises, um, because I don't feel comfortable doing my podcast with a bunch of people, like the neighbors sitting there listening. It's kind of weird. Um anyway, I am noticing more and more people checking my podcast out from countries that I haven't even heard of. That was not a uh gas, by the way. I did not just pass gas. That was a squeaking, the squeak of some floorboards. Um but I am uh so excited to see all the countries that have been checking me out. I it's exciting. I love being able to see new people. I love when I have even one more episode that someone has downloaded in a day. Even if it's one episode, I'm like, yay, thank you. I wish I could hug every one of you. I wish I could thank you all in person. Um, but since I can't, I'm saying thank you, thank you, thank you. I appreciate you guys. Um, it does mean the world to me. And I know you're having to listen to squeaky floorboats right now, but I swear if I go outside, it's just kind of weird. So I've been taking a break, as you know, from politics. But I got curious. I was like, what is going on in the world? Have I been missing out? If so, what am I missing out on? And I haven't. It's all the same thing, it's still the same people complaining about the same shit, doing absolutely nothing whatsoever to change policy, to get bills changed, to get laws passed, to they don't probably go to their city council meetings. They don't probably work, and if they do, they probably use the system like crazy and then complain about that same system and complain how it's not enough. And God, it's just more entitled people doing more entitled stuff, saying the exact same stuff, my God, over 10 years, 10 years people, of using the same recycled, regurgitated lines about the same recycled, regurgitated thing, using the same recycled, regurgitated words. Stop using the word racist incorrectly. Stop. Stop using the word racist incorrectly, stop just throwing it out like it's the word the. Oh my god, anti-Seminists. Anti-Semitic? Oh my god, talk about using words incorrectly. You guys are the ones that can't stand the Jewish community. You hate the Jewish community so much, so much, that you supported, promoted, and encouraged October 7th. Hamas used GoPros and videotaped out of pride and joy that they beheaded children with a garden hoe. They beheaded innocent babies, little tiny babies and children. They beheaded them. And you and liberals supported this. They were like, yay, go Palestine, free Palestine, and then the gays supporting Palestine. What a bunch of ignoramuses. Could you be more ridiculous? I don't think you can. You can't. Why on earth would you say that Republicans are Nazis when you guys are pro-Palestine, pro-Iranian regime, and you wanted to free Nicholas Maduro? You wanted to free a dictator when the Iranian people were like, hey, no, no, we don't want him, we don't want him. We wanted Trump to start this war. We asked for Trump to start this war. We're okay with Trump starting this war. We do not want the dictator back. We don't want him to lead our country. And then the Iranian regime, you uh liberals were also in support of. And there's groups of people that promote that and then say Trump is a dictator. Those same people call Republicans Nazis and they are against Israel, hate Israel, hate Jewish people, pro-Palestine, did not watch the GoPro videos of Hamas beheading babies and thousands and thousands of innocent people. They don't know, they think that history only goes to 1967. Idiot! If you think that the beef between Iran and Israel, between Palestine, Iran, and Israel goes back to 1967 and that's it, you're an uneducated person. You should not be opening up your gigantic yappy yapper. You should be closing your yapper, you should be closing it unless you need to open it to breathe or eat. I said it, I meant it. Don't go around spreading lies if you think that 1967 was some magic year in which something happened between Israel and Palestine. My God, how young do you think Israel and Iran and Palestine are? How recent do you think this beef is? 1967? Are you kidding? Please, for the love of God, stop listening to CNN. There are things called Grok and Gemini and Chat GPT that you can get on and look up non-biased actual facts. And you have to say in there, please provide me with non-biased, you know, something that does not have to do with Republican Democrat, something unbiased. And you can look up the information. So nothing has changed. People are still out there being uneducated idiots, flapping their gums about shit they know nothing about and shit they're not gonna do anything about, and somehow they think going around burning things saves the world. Somehow breaking windows, stealing things, spray painting and graffitiing things and burning the flag somehow saves the people in Palestine and Iran and somehow saves the LGBTQ community. I'm not sure what you're trying to save the LGBTQ community from. But in your eyes, you think I'm gonna go around stealing because that'll show Iran, that'll help them, that'll help change some laws, that'll help children and women. If I steal, if I bully, if I beat up, if I set fire to and break windows and destroy and burn things, that will help children, that will help illegal immigrants come to this country, it'll help them be a citizen of this country. God forbid I try to help them fill out the paperwork or pay the fees to become a citizen. God forbid I help them speak English and learn English and get a job and become a citizen the legal way. No, fuck that. I'm not gonna help. I'm just gonna be part of the problem and then pretend that I'm helping. So nothing has changed. Still a bunch of uneducated, grown-ass adults going around bullying and forcing everything on everybody while claiming to be victims and martyrs. God, fucking loser idiots. And I am talking to you. If I don't care if you listen to my podcast or not. That's the difference between me and other people. I didn't start this podcast to become some moneymaker, to gain followers, to gain people to think I'm cool. I started this podcast as a journal to discuss how disgusted I was with Kate Brown, Oregon's governor, back during COVID, and to discuss Biden and the Democrat policies for COVID and wearing masks and forcing vaccinations illegally and making them mandatory. And then talking about Obamacare and forcing Obamacare and making it mandatory, and then fining people that don't have Obamacare. That's what's hysterical. What a bunch of fucking idiot morons. If you sit there and go, no kings, no kings, when there's not a single thing that Trump is forcing. And when you ask a liberal to give an example of that, they can't. They'll call you a name instead. Because education's not their cup of tea, nor are facts or stats or evidence. Those things are not their forte. It's just accusations and regurgitating the same misused words and sentences for 10 years. Ten years of temper tantrums, 10 years of burning and destroying, 10 years of throwing fits, 10 years of calling people names that they don't have the definition of. Just like what is a woman? They can't define woman, they can't define Nazi. They can't define racist. They can't define homophobe. They just keep using them incorrectly and thinking that the more they say it, that somehow it's going to become true. But it's not like Betelgeuse. You can't say Betelgeuse three times and then have Betelgeuse pop up. You don't get to call people the wrong names and misuse words and use words incorrectly for 10 years and then have that definition suddenly be what you want it to be. Because again, the sun and the moon do not revolve around you and your wants, you big fucking narcissist. Sorry, I haven't done a podcast about politics in a long time, and this is why I get too fired up. I piss off a lot of people, and then nobody wants to listen to my podcast. Which again, I'm okay with because I didn't start this so that I could be some um massive influencer that makes a boatload of money. If that happens, I would love it. I'm not going to deny that. I'm not going to try to stop it. I mean, gosh, of course, I encourage the popularity of my podcast. I encourage people to tell a friend, tell a neighbor, tell a coworker, tell a spouse about my podcast and listen to it. But I didn't start this with any hopes or aspirations of doing anything other than bring awareness to how terribly the Democrats handled COVID and how they forced vaccinations and forced masks and forced people to stay away from their dying loved ones. And then Obama forced Obamacare and for people to get rid of their really good insurance. And then they go around saying no kings and talk about Trump when they don't have a single bit of evidence, and they never will, because what they're saying is not true. Again, just because you say the same nonsense for 10 years doesn't suddenly make it true. Because when you ask those same people to provide evidence for 10 years now, I've been waiting for people to give me evidence of the things they're claiming, and they can't. That's when they call you a bunch of names because they know that you're right and they're embarrassed. And they're like, oh, I'm fucking retarded. Oh, I'm an idiot moron that's super uneducated, and I am just trying to get attention because my mom and dad didn't give me enough. Or maybe your mom and dad gave you too much attention. And now you think that you're the shit, and they've told you how great you are and how special you are, and they have made you entitled. So maybe you do want the attention because you've had so much of it that you're used to the attention and you want it to continue. Maybe you didn't get enough of it, and now you desperately are seeking attention. I'm not sure what it is, but that's your only reason for getting on social media without fact-checking. Because fact-checking doesn't mean that you look at your own, like people are like, Oh, did you get that from Fox? I rarely, rarely watch Fox News. I don't watch any news stations. None. But there's only one conservative, and then you have Blaze TV and you have um, oh my gosh, Glenn Beck. All of a sudden I forgot, but you have Gwen Beck and you have Ben Shapiro and you have Fox News. That's about all you have. Democrats have a million outlets of woke stuff. But no, I actually use Chat GPT or Gemini or Grok. I don't even use Google because Google is biased. And I specifically tell Chat GPT to give unbiased facts. So that's actually how I get my information. I don't get it from news media because I don't trust news media. Um, so I love it when people are like, ow, where'd you get that? Fox News. No, actually, I got it from Chat GPT and Grock and Gemini, and I specifically tell them to give me unbiased facts. But a lot of people don't like the facts because of course it makes them look stupid. It's like assuming things, it makes an ass out of you, not me, but just you. Take the me out of it. It doesn't make an ass out of me when you misquote when you're ignorant and don't do your research. I love it when people get on social media and make videos in which they do no research whatsoever. They've just listened to people in their own groups. You're in a bubble. You're in a little bubble, and you love your little bubble, and you think that your little bubble is perfect. And something I say on this podcast almost every podcast, I feel like I say this on every single podcast, I keep saying podcast, on every episode. On every episode of this podcast, I mention that people are not perfect. Nobody is perfect, including me. I don't think that Trump is perfect. I think that Trump says and does a lot of stupid things. That's the other thing. People think that if you're a supporter of someone, that you think they're perfect. I'm a supporter of my family. Love my family. I'm a supporter of my friends. I'm a supporter of myself. But I don't think myself or my friends or my family are perfect. I don't think a single human is perfect. I don't think Republicans and conservatives and Trump are perfect. I don't think that Republicans and Trump say and do everything perfectly. I'm aware that there are shady, corrupt, fraudulent Republicans. I've been saying that forever. I'm not under any delusion that a single human in the world is perfect because no one is. But that's the difference usually between Republicans and Democrats is I can handle facts, I can handle truth. I'm not the one that needed safe rooms. Republicans didn't need safe rooms. Gen X, Gen X does not need a fucking safe room, okay? Nothing you're gonna say to us, especially for 10 years. By the way, calling someone the same exact three names, Nazi, racist, homophobe, for 10 years loses its luster. No one gives a shit. No one cares. You can use those names all you want. Nobody gives a rat's ass. Because again, you use them incorrectly and you don't know the definition, and you've been using the same regurgitated words for 10 years because apparently you're not educated enough to use correct ones or different ones. So since you don't know your vocabulary, since you're not an educated person and you uh clearly don't know words, you're not familiar with words, please buy yourself a dictionary, buy yourself a thesaurus, educate yourself and learn the definition of words and then use them correctly. Because no one cares when you call them a name that they know they're not, especially again when you've been doing it for 10 years. Just to throw that out there. And you're wasting your breath, time, and energy if you want to come at me. I, honest to God more than anyone in the world, do not give a shit what some stranger has to say about me, especially some stranger that I don't respect and don't agree with. So you can call me a cryptkeeper and you can call me all these names, but it's hilarious to me. I'll just point and laugh at you and I'll find it funny, and I won't be bothered. I that's not what I lose sleep over. That's not what gives me insomnia. Strangers' opinions mean literally nothing. Like sub-nothing, below nothing, less than nothing, nothing. What does happen is I point and laugh and I show everybody the dumb things that people say, and I'm like, look at this retard. Look at this. Yes, I said retard a whole bunch, and I don't know. People are like, oh, guess what? I'm tired of people going, my so-and-so is handicapped. Great. My kids' aunt has Down syndrome. I don't think she's retarded. Many disabled people, I don't think are retarded. Handicapped people with mental disorders, most of them I don't think are retarded. I think people that are uneducated and go on national TV and social media and in public and make statements that are false, unjustified, and ignorant, that have no proof, and that have been proven actually wrong are retarded. I think when you use words incorrectly for 10 years, you're retarded. And I think if you're offended by me saying retarded, you're retarded, and you probably shouldn't listen to my podcast. So this is a good exit for you right now because it isn't gonna get any better. I'm kind of like Daniel Tosh and Matt Reif. Um, this podcast is not gonna be for the faint-hearted, for those that need safe rooms. This isn't for you. Whether you're a Republican or a Christian or a white person or a straight person, I'm going to probably offend you as well because I'm an equal opportunity person. If I think you're wrong, whether you are a Republican and white and straight or whatever, I'm gonna call you out. I'm gonna call you out no matter who you are or what you are. Now, that might also mean that you're black or Asian or Native American or Hispanic. It might mean that you're short, it might mean that you're fat, it might mean that you're Canadian or French or Australian or English. It might mean that you're a liberal or a Democrat and really woke. It might mean you're conservative, it might mean you're the Pope. I really don't care who you are. If I have a problem with you, I'm gonna call you out on it. So again, this podcast isn't for you if you have a weak stomach and you can't handle life. But I don't talk about politics that often. Really, I think I talk about life far more than I do politics. I think if you got all of my episodes together, I would say 40% of my podcast, or 40% of my episodes are um politically related, but 60% are not. I would say 60% of my podcasts have to do with relationships and love and mankind and animals and you know things that have nothing to do with politics. And like I said, I pick on everybody. I pick on America, I pick on Trump, I pick on Trump supporters, but I'm also gonna pick on Biden and Obama and Canada and the UK and France. I pick on them a lot because right now what's going on in their country is, say it with me, retarded. And the proof is in the pudding. I love how people are like, oh, how dare you? How dare I? Really? Have you looked at what's going on in France? Have you seen what's going on in the UK? That's not me being anything but intelligent and making a keen observation at something that's factually happened. And what's factually happening is those particular countries are being overran by Muslim people and their countries are going to shit. That's a fact. And if you live in France and you're gonna try to pretend that you live in Paris and nothing is going on, that makes you say it with me. A retard. Okay? You're fucking retarded if you live in Paris and you think everything's hunky dory, then you're living in a bubble with your head up your own ass or up someone else's ass, but you certainly aren't looking around. Same with the UK and Canada. I don't know why you think that you're so great, because my God, I've ran into probably eight people when I was in Vegas that are from Canada, and every one of them hated their own country and said that they would love to live in America. That it is so crazy expensive to live in Canada and not to mention the weather is horrendous. It's a beautiful country. I think Canada looks gorgeous. Um, Canadians seem very nice. America isn't perfect. I don't think America's perfect. I don't think Republicans are perfect, I don't think Trump is perfect. Again, I don't think humans are perfect. I think that humans need a lot of work. And conservatives and Christians and Republicans, Democrat, I mean uh Trump supporters are also um flawed. I'm flawed. But if you think that Canada is ran better than America, I mean, okay, that's your opinion, and that's fine. I'm sure there are things that Canada does that's great. I know there are. There are things that Canada does that's awesome, but people also forget that America's a gigantic country, and what works in things like, you know, Sweden or Norway or Germany or whatever is not going to work in the United States because I don't think people understand until they've been here how large of a country we are. Texas is bigger than most fucking countries in Europe. You can drive from country to country to country. You can't easily drive just to get from one end of Oregon to the other, to go north and south, eight hours. If you go eight hours in Europe, you've gone through like fucking four countries. You've gone through like three or four countries in eight hours. You can't even get to the end of one state in America. Okay? You can get through Rhode Island, you can get through Delaware. Sure, we have some small states, but our country is gigantic, and to get from east to west, it's 3,000 miles, okay? 3,000 miles, people. What's gonna work in your rinky dinky little countries isn't gonna work in a massive country like the United States. And I love that the FIFA Cup was here because I love that people are like, oh my god, now that I'm here, I can see why you guys are fat. We have good food. Yeah, we have good food. We don't have shitty food like they do in England. We don't have warm, tepid water. We say hello and please and thank you, and we ask how you are, and we give a shit. We make eye contact. And I'm so glad that people have come from different countries. They could see with their own eyes that America is amazing, and that's why everybody wants to at least visit here. Maybe not everybody wants to live here, but everybody wants to visit. Why? Because it's fucking awesome. I am incredibly, incredibly, incredibly privileged to be an American. If you're homeless in America, you're more privileged than living in India. Sorry, but you are. Not everybody. There are people in India that are very successful and wealthy. There are wealthy people in third world countries. I'm just saying, if you're homeless in a third world country, if you're homeless in India, it's a hell of a lot different than being homeless in America. Homeless in America has shelters. We have food banks, we have fountains where you can get water to drink out of. So why do I have to stick up for your country that you don't even like? Canada, acting like you're awesome. You are beautiful, Canada. And the people in Canada, again, I'm never talking about the people. I want to make that clear. I'm not talking about the people that live in these countries. I'm talking about the government, the agencies that run these countries. I'm talking about France and Canada's government. I'm talking about England's government. I am not talking about the people that live in those countries. Now, granted, there are people that are assholes in every single country. There are assholes everywhere, including America. But I'm just getting tired of people talking about stuff that they've never experienced and they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Shut up. Shut up. People need to shut up a lot more. People need to get some decency, some humility, and some grace and some respect and gratitude. Fucking be grateful. Shut your goddamn mouth. Shut your fucking mouth, and just be happy for once. Stop trying to drag everybody else down in your fucking misery pity party. Sorry you're miserable. Sorry your life sucks. Guess what? So does mine. My life has been absolutely difficult and hard, and I have things thrown at me that 80% of the shit thrown at me, not my fault. Not my fault. It was not consequences of my bad actions and my bad my poor decisions. No. 80% of the shit that's happened in my life had nothing to do with decisions that I've made. Now, the 20% of the shit life that has happened to me that did have to do with consequences because of choices I made, I take accountability for. I take accountability for my bad choices, for my poor decisions. That's my fault. I don't use those as excuses to be a holy terror. I don't use my terrible life as an excuse to be an asshole and treat others unfairly and act entitled. It's not everybody else's fault that I made bad choices, and it's not everybody else's fault if my life sucks, even when it's not my fault, it's not their fault either. Why do people get off on being a victim and a martyr? Why do people want to compete for having a shit life? No, no, no, I've had the shittiest life. Okay, well, now do something about it. Make a good life. Try. Stop trying to bring everybody else down with you. Stop acting like your bad life means that you get to treat everybody else horrible and make everybody else's life bad. I do the opposite. I use it as motivation to get fired up and go, fuck you, you can't keep me down. I'm a stubborn, prideful, obstinate person that never, ever, ever allows other people to fucking tell me what to do and how to feel and dictate my life. Of course, I respect authority, I respect my bosses, but I'm talking about in life. Don't fucking tell me how to think and feel. Don't try to bully me into submission. Don't ever fucking try to bully me into submission. That will not happen. If you want to talk to me, if you want to have a conversation with me, we can do that. I am capable and willing and open to adult conversations. We can disagree. We can have totally different points of view. Like I said, I welcome people that are Democrats, that are woke, that are from all sexual backgrounds, all political backgrounds, all religious backgrounds. I welcome you. I accept you. I'm not judging you, but I am going to lose my mind and I will say something and I will defend myself, and I'm not just gonna sit back and take it if you come at me. I will try to be calm at first, I will try to be an adult at first, and I won't immediately attack you if you attack me. I won't immediately lash out if you attack me. I will first try to be calm. I will try to be cool, calm, and collected. I will try to be mature and have a mature conversation. But if you keep coming at me, I'm going to come at you back. You're not, if your goal is to get me to back down or sit down or curb my beliefs around you or shut up, I'm gonna get louder and I'm gonna keep walking toward you. I'm gonna walk toward you. I'm not gonna take a step back. I'm not gonna sit down. I'm gonna stand up. I'm gonna stand up tall. I'm gonna stand up proud, and I'm gonna keep taking steps toward you. And you can either get the fuck out of my way or you can stand there and we can play chicken and we can see who's gonna back down. And it ain't gonna be me. Now that's not always mature. Sometimes you just need to back down because it's not worth it. I'm not here to change opinions. That's the difference. I'm not trying to get someone to believe what I believe. That's what pisses me off. I'm not trying to get someone to change their beliefs and change their religion. I'm trying to defend my beliefs. I'm trying to get people to leave my beliefs and my opinions alone and stop attacking me. I don't attack other people's shit. I don't come at other people. But if you come at me, be prepared to either get your ass knocked on the ground or be prepared for me not to back down. Be prepared for me to speak my mind. I'm not going to back down. That's just not what I'm gonna do. Now, I do want to have an adult conversation that isn't full of animosity. I don't want to scream and yell. I don't want to convince you to believe in what I believe. That's never my goal. But don't come at me. That's just that's just stupid. I just don't know what's gotten into people nowadays. Weak minded people. Weak, ignorant, insecure. People try to attack others for disagreeing. That's what you are. You are either insecure, or you are weak, or you are ignorant, or you are uneducated, or all of the above. Or you're a bully. When you try to force someone else into submission. And I don't do bullies. I never have. That's why I've never been bullied. I mean, two different people have tried to bully me, and that didn't go well. So sorry, you're having to hear the floorboards creak because I pace. This is why I don't do um videos of me. I've told people this when they listen to my podcast. I'm talking into my phone. For those of you that don't know, for those of you who already know, you've heard this a million times, and I apologize. But those of you that don't know, I do my podcast talking into my iPhone. I literally am just talking into my iPhone, and I do that because I do shit like this where I pace. I pace and I pace and I walk around and walk around. I don't stay still. So if I was attached to a laptop and a computer, I wouldn't be able to pace. I wouldn't be able to walk around. And I cannot sit in one spot and do a podcast. I just can't. That is, I back in the day when phones were attached to the wall and we had landlines and we had those, you know, 29 feet of cord. I would walk around and get the cord wrapped around everything because I would pace and pace and pace and walk around. I can't sit still when I'm talking. Drives me crazy. Anyway, those are some things on my mind. I didn't want to get political because this is what happens when I get political. I get fired up, I offend people, I piss people off, I trigger people, all of which I find hysterical, by the way. So I'm not gonna lie. If you're any of those things, it just makes me laugh. I'm like, how sad for you. That's very sad for you that you are that weak of a person that you can't handle somebody else having another opinion without being triggered. Get a life. You really must not have anything to deal with. Your life must be so boring. If you get triggered by other people having a conversation or disagreeing, then you must be bored as hell. And I would love to have your life because my life is not boring, so I don't get triggered by these things because I have bigger fish to fry, I have other shit on my mind, and I don't care what a stranger thinks of me enough to be triggered. On that note, though, it's really funny because my old coworkers they are so bored. So bored. And clearly, it's weird to me because in all the years that that business has been open, they've never had room on the 4th of July. They've always had a huge wait list like three weeks before the 4th of July. There's like a long wait list. In all the years the place has been open, there has always been a lengthy wait list, like three weeks before the 4th of July. And this year, though, was the very, very first year ever. The year that I wasn't there, the year that I was gone, and the first year ever that they did not have a wait list. I know that because a friend of mine called to get her dog in, and they were like, Well, we have you would be first on the wait list. They told her that she would be first on the wait list, and then they ended up calling her and telling her that they had room for her. This was on the 3rd of July, the day before the 4th of July. Well, the reason I'm bringing it up is these same people are the people that also vowed that they would be number one without me. They'd be number one without me. No, they were number three. No, they were number three when I was there, but that was because we've never ever tried or even tried to get on the list, and you can nominate yourself. So they nominated themselves, and then we didn't even try to get people to vote. We didn't promote it, we didn't talk about it. We I thought it was really tacky to be like it was it's one thing to be like, hey, vote for us. That's kind of all I would say is hey, you know, we're up for nomination to be one of the best businesses. Um, would you mind voting? Unfortunately, none of us did that. And so uh we got third. Well, what's funny is this year, this year, there were two in-home places that are brand new. Brand new in-home places that beat out a place that had been there for 33 years, and up until these people took over, up until the new owners took over, uh, they'd always been busy. And when I was there, we were getting rave reviews. Now they're still getting rave reviews, but just not by people that have been going there forever. They're by new customers because the people that have been going there forever have comparisons. They can compare. They can compare what it was like when I was there and the old owner, in comparison to when I'm gone and the new manager and the new owners. Now, the new owners did a lot of updating, which is what it needed desperately. They did do that, and for that, I appreciate them. They updated shit that needed to be updated, but they look at customers as customers, not as friends and family. They were friends and family and still are friends and family to me. I mean, I go hiking with these people, I go to dinner at their houses, I stay at their houses currently. I we talk to each other on a daily basis to see how we are. So they're more than customers to me, they're family and they're dogs. I knew everything about these people. They told me about their lives. My point to bringing this all up is you have groups of people who don't place any value whatsoever in loyalty or in trust or in pride. Sure, they like to talk about pride, like pride, pride parades in which they're wearing gagballs and assless chaps and they're wearing um, you know, bondage gear. How is that prideful? What does that have to do with your partnership with your spouse? Being proud has nothing to do with sex and showing your genitalia. How does being proud have to do with treating customers like they're just customers and not treating them like they're family members and treating them as if you're just using them? And then people will dispose of hard workers because they want friendships, they want to be friends, they don't want to actually have standards or have class or dignity. People don't want pride anymore, they're not proud. They like to say that they're proud, they like to say that they're proud, but then they go out and dress as babies. There's baby fetishes. And they're like, I'm proud to have a pacifier and wear a diaper and act like a baby as an adult. I'm proud to have a gagball in my mouth and wear bondage clothing and have my penis or my genitals or my boobs hanging out in public in front of children, because somehow that has to do with gay pride. Please tell me how showing your genitalia and having a gagball in your mouth and assless chaps has anything whatsoever to do with being proud of being gay and your relationship with your partner and gay rights. Because if I go out in public like that, I get slapped with indecent exposure. It's indecent exposure. So I would like to know people's definition of pride now is interesting. Entitlement now is pride. Mooching off of our government is pride. Being friends with when you're a boss and you choose really bad decisions because you want to be cool, you want to be part of the cool kids, and um you own a business that you know nothing about, and that you don't even try to get to know anything about. That's not pride. I think it's okay to be proud of who you are. You should be proud of who you are, but that's another definition that's thrown around really loosely, like racism, racist and Nazi and hobophobe. Pride is being thrown around in a very loose way, and we all really need to understand what the definition of pride is. And it's okay to be proud, even when you're straight, even when you're white. And how dare people tell a little child, a little straight boy and a straight white girl, that they have to hate themselves. What a disgusting, disgusting thing to say. What a weird concept to tell a child, to even hint or put out in the universe that a child should not be proud of themselves because they're white or straight. How disgusting and disturbing. And you're supposedly on the right side of things? Hmm, no. No, you're not, Boo. No, you're a disgusting, putrid excuse of a subhuman garbage. And if anyone tries to tell my grandson that he should not be proud of being white or proud of being who he is, they can talk to me personally and we'll see how well that goes. Okay, boo boo. Yeah. I know I'm being real snarky today. I know I'm being real snarky and real sarcastic, but I've kind of this is why I don't get on social media because people are just shitty. I mean, there's like I said, I've done a million podcasts. I think actually most people are good. I think like 85% of the population is great. But man, those of you that aren't do a real, real, real good job at just being raging morons. And why do raging morons horrible people get rewarded? Why are good people dying? Why are good people suffering? I'm real fucking tired of that. I have a lot of battles with God about that because I think it's fucking bullshit and I think he's wrong. Sorry, I said it to his face. I think he's fucking wrong and I think it's real bullshit that he rewards assholes. And so far, all I've seen are people that don't commit crimes go to jail. People that do commit crimes don't go to jail. Shitty people live forever and get lots of money and get lots of luck. Good people don't live, they die horrendous ways, and they're usually struggling their whole fucking life. So over it. So sorry, this podcast is not positive like all the rest of them, but I have not done a negative podcast in a very long time. It's been a really long time since I've done a negative podcast. And this is it. But like I said, I do a podcast on what's keeping me up, and this is keeping me up. Shitty people being rewarded, shitty people thinking they can be proud, shitty people telling everybody else not to be proud, people that hate our country, mooching off this country, living in this country, people using words incorrectly all the time. Stupid. You know what's not stupid? Tuning into my podcast. Listening to my podcast. I would not consider that stupid at all. In fact, I could consider that awesome, enlightened. You should. It's pretty great. Tell a friend, tell a neighbor, tell a coworker, tell a partner, tell your family, tell shout it from the rooftops. Ramblings of an insomniac is the podcast that you should be listening to because I'm not usually this negative. I do a million podcasts that have nothing to do with politics. I talk about relationships, dogs, family, all kinds of stuff. And most of the time I don't talk politics. Like I said, I'd say 60% of the time it's not political. And not every time I'm political do I call people names. Sometimes I'm political and I'm perfectly lovey, lovely, and I don't say anything disrespectful. I'm an adult. I'm capable of being an adult. I'm just not being one right now. Anyway, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for tuning in. You guys rock my socks. You mean the world to me. Um, if I've offended you, I would say I'm sorry, but I'm not. Instead, I'm gonna say, uh, listen to my other podcasts. I mean, listen to my other, I keep saying podcasts. I don't mean that. Listen to my other, I only have this podcast, Rambling Summon and Sunday. Listen to my other episodes. They're not all political. The rest may not offend you. But if you don't want to, I say bye-bye. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. If you don't want to listen to my podcast, don't. If you do, I would love it. I would appreciate it. But I'm not gonna try to convince you to listen to it if it's not your cup of tea. So thank you, thank you so much. Until next time.