A Great American

 If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week.  https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4214013-fetterman-says-hell-wear-a-suit-to-avoid-shutdown/

So spoke a Great American yesterday.  

What did we hippies accomplish?  We like to think we ended the unpopular Asian war, but I think that that is too far a reach.  We had great music, but of course not everybody likes our music, and I guess I am a bit prejudiced because every generation likes the music of their youth.  But we did make it so that many Americans no longer had to put on the uncomfortable, stifling, suit and tie to go to work.  

Suit and tie, the very mention makes my skin crawl.  A waste of money and of time, and oh, that stifling thing too: don't want to wrinkle those creased pants, don't want to get any mustard on that stiff stuffed shirt, don't want to scuff those shined shoes.  Fuck it all, fuck it all, fuck it all.

Maybe it is a stretch to connect suits and ties and lack thereof to hippies but it was a time of freedom and before it almost everybody had to wear suits and ties to go to work, and anymore it is just lawyers and bankers, and hopefully not politicians anymore.

Oh and he called the clown car of the Trumpy house of reps jagoffs. I am sure that that word was a part of all of our lexicons growing up in Chicago.  Jagoff this, jagoff that, just fun to throw around.  But as I grew older I noticed that nobody around me was using it anymore.  People were still saying mother fucker and asshole, but nobody was saying jagoff.  Maybe it was a Chicago thing.

A trip to the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagoff and apparently  it is also a Pittsburgh thing, hence its use by the Great American.  There is some discussion there also about the mixup with the term jack off, but we won't get into that this morning.

And then one has to ask why is this clown car getting so upset by a guy wearing a hoodie and shorts while they are sitting on their hands while Putin is trying to eat Ukraine?  Oh well you know, they have a deep patriotic urge to save us from the national debt (which their idol, Trump, ballooned by spending like a drunken sailor and giving a big fat tax cut to the rich), and they are making their point by shutting down the government (which will cost us dough and increase the national debt).

Buncha jagoffs