TKO Creations

(Note: I am going to be coarse.  If you can’t handle strong language, don’t continue.)

Boy, do we have a lovely clusterfuck of bullshit here, don’t we?

On one hand, we have a group of teenagers who intentionally dressed themselves up like they were going to a Trump rally, then walked around the nation’s capitol knowing it would irritate, anger, and cause all sorts of trouble.

They got exactly what they were looking for.

On another hand, we have the “Black Israelites,” a group notorious for being intentionally abrasive and hateful, going to the nation’s capitol looking to make a scene.

They also got exactly what they were looking for.

Then finally, we have a Native American military veteran, looking for an opportunity to get his cause in the spotlight.

He got exactly what he was looking for as well.

Then, to top off this wonderful attention whore salad, comes the dressing of a media desperate to be “first” rather than “correct”, managing to piss off everyone, first by missrepresenting damn near everything about the confrontation, then by rolling back on the parts that actually were correct in an effort to appear objective (rather than actually be objective in the first place).

But let’s not fool ourselves, and let the general American public off the hook either.  The parties above do this shit because they know that eyeballs, clicks, purchases, and attention follow.  I’m guilty too.  I bit hard myself.  Not so much that I was wrong about any of the boys (because they were being glorious shitheels no matter how much they want to tell the world they were provoked), but now I’m a shitheel myself because I didn’t wait for the whole story.

It’s become another example of the Divided States of America, and the naked contempt and resentment each side has for the other becomes more stark with each passing day and each event where people rush to be noticed and the country rushes to notice them.

Will we learn our lesson?  I hope so… because I don’t think anyone really wants what will be the result of continuing to escalate the divide.

Provided without any context whatsoever.

1. Initial Infection: The meme expands rapidly, as like minded people quickly try and get on board with showing their ass to the world.
2. Antibody Production: The meme inevitably winds up in the crosshairs of those who feel ridiculed or disagree with the meme, pushback immediately follows as they are determined that the world sees their ass as well.
3. Mutation: Meme has now reached peak saturation, and now everyone insists that everyone else respect their proudly displayed ass.  Irony is also at maximum as it is impossible for anyone to see any other ass… due to their heads being firmly lodged up their own.
4. Dormancy: Eventually either the masses realize how incredibly stupid the meme actually is, or a different meme catches their attention (the latter is far more common than the former).  Meme is mostly forgotten as everybody pulls their pants back up in preparation for the next opportunity to show their ass.
5. Relapse: Some memes reinfect the population, though in most cases they are limited in scope and only to incite groans from an inoculated population.  In rare cases however, the meme takes off again as the masses remember how much fun it was to show everyone their ass.