Throw momma off the train!
We don’t think it’s a parody. A New York Times Magazine feature called “The Ethicist” is an advice column but in place of Dear Aunt Blabby the thing is adjudicated by a philosophy professor with the appropriately diverse, inclusive, and equitable name of Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Seeking the professor’s advice, blessings, or permission, his over-educated, affluent, and guilt-ridden readers are the kind of helicopter parents who read the Times’ 1619 Project to their precocious children before they get tested on it at prep school. Instead of using the wrong spoon at tea, his readers fret that they may have disrespected a heretofore undiscovered category of government-dependent victim. Fearful of losing face in a culture of cancel, Appiah’s supplicants are more obsessive than a Woody Allen soliloquy. (Not that Woody Allen is politically kosher any more.)
Donald Trump’s victory has Woke folk desperate for the Ethicist’s counseling. Sunday’s cry for help (abridged):
With the result of the 2024 election, my wife and her family are directing their understandable fury at my mother. My wife’s sister said, “If she voted for Trump again, I’m completely done with her.” I expect that the next time they interact it will not be pretty. But my mother is … an invaluable caregiver to our children. She’s pleasant and kind in daily life … and she is my mother, after all. I’m torn.
Their fury is “understandable”? It’s “fury,” not disagreement? She’s pleasant and kind in daily life? More than your wife and her coven can say, right? But at least the smug totalitarians vote right. Like Capital Times publisher Paul Fanlund says, “I’m done with these people.” Even if it’s dear old mom.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: She’s your mother and you are TORN! No, your wife’s fury is sick and you, Name Withheld, are a Wuss! The Werkes prescribes some bitch slapping from Don Vito Corleone. “You can act like a man!” You deserve a dose of Trump!
13 responses to “You’re ‘torn’? She’s your mother, dammit!”
“Is the Werkes becoming slap happy?”
Nope; to no one’s surprise, Lefty’s not taking this (the known Universe, and a fact-based Reality not seeing things the way they ought) well.
Don’t get The Gotch wrong; it’s not a dangerous, yet voluntary, immersion into a catatonic, apoplectic, pillow-biting, pants $#!tting, bed wetting, wind-sucking, chest palpitating, vital sign ramping, mouth-breathing, fist-pounding, foot stomping, safe-space seeking, triggering, weenie-whiny, simpering-whimpering, complete metaphysical, emotional, existential, psychological, philosophical, full-throated, freaking out, melting down, spittle-flecked, furiously-frothing, totally collapsing free-fall.
Yet…
But it’s On Deck!
The Gotch
Too many words. Please count and edit your reply.
The Gotch hit your Tip Jar, Blaska; he urges others to do likewise, with but one caveat: Use it toward the purchase of an Imbecile Filter, which will prevent irredeemably moronic, generationally inferior halfwits from posting drunken, off-topic, unfunny, embarrassingly idiotic, STOOPID (sic) slobberings.
The Gotch
Platinum subscriber profit sharing now!
You think these responses write themselves?
There won’t be any platinum subscriber profit sharing, but when you die, on your death-bed, you will receive total consciousness.
You’ll have that going for you…which is nice!
The Gotch
Big hitter the Lama.
No moolah, no One Eye. Starting January 1 you will get One Eye.ai – yes the responses WILL write themselves! 2025 is going to be a spectacular year!
TRUMP STILL SUCKS
“TRUMP STILL SUCKS”
Awww…too soon…tissue…?
Say it with me…President-Elect Donald J. Trump!
The Gotch
Speaking of which did the January 6 hostages just get the gift of a lifetime from Joe Biden?
Yes, they did.
Very good point! There’s precedent for you! Now Hunter is asking “Can I get my laptop back?”
PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD J TRUMP STILL SUCKS. 🎵 😃
But not as bad as the pitiably pathetic, free-falling, coach-less, QB ruining Bi-Polar bares…or their moron fans!
The Gotch
IMMUNITY!!!!! After all of dumps BS you all are trying to take the high ground? After he pardoned both of his kids father-in-law’s he wants to give them ambassadorships. Save the moral outrage for another day.