Yeah, I know there are a few things I can do to help my videos gain traction: Make a custom thumbnail, add hashtags, use chapters… and I do that, but apart from that, I think consistency, authenticity, and patience are the most important qualities in being a content creator.

My best-performing video is a small tutorial for “teaching” YouTube’s algorithm to stop feeding you AI Slop, after all. I think people really want authenticity.

Yup.

It’s a labor of love. I’ve been told I need to start cutting up my videos into shorts, and I may do that at some point, but right now I can’t be bothered. My stuff isn’t really intended for gen z’ers with no attention span anyway.

It could be with good nutrition, regular exercise, and daily stretching.

But I get it. That is unironically a fair bit of work as one ages.

Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that these same people were praising their soldiers for raping captured civilians?

I don’t know about you all, but I didn’t see nothin’.

It’s been interesting watching these massive corpos react in small ways to the fact that American families are too impoverished to buy their shit anymore.

I was at a rental car place yesterday, which I overpaid for because I have a family event I know I can’t miss, and I heard the desk person telling another worker not to come in because they only have seven total reservations and dropoffs. On a Friday. During a spring break. Every American is seeing some version of this scenario in their own lives every single day: elective underconsumption because prices are goddamn insane.

And then Iran happened and obviously an extra dollar or two for gas means no one’s spending any of their discretionary income.

My conclusion is that I wish we could elect people who’ve actually worked a job for a living or had to do their own grocery shopping, or opened a medical bill, or had to actually watch their own fucking kids for a weekend. The disconnect is stark, and it takes people freaking out over the bond market or price gouging so out of control that a CEO’s quarterly report is disappointing for these motherfuckers to get a sense of how big the problem is.

I wish I could get the US government to care about anything as much as it cares about our big, tough president’s tender feelings.

I chose the word ‘stupid’ on purpose.

It is literally stupid for her to be thinking she should run again.

Glad to see her self-esteem has recovered.

Not glad to see she still has this stupid ego.

It really is depressing.

And expect the grift to be supercharged for the next six months. They know their goose is cooked so we’re going to see headlines like this literally every day until November.

Problem is Dems will take Congress but do nothing to roll it all back.

Don’t need it if you use the Brave browser.

Yeah, sex and initiating sex is increasingly an awkward thing for people, so FWB’s are nice to have and people love them until the one comes along.

I say this every time I hear a Democrat whine about voters, but it’s applicable here too.

You don’t get to punch people in the face and then complain when your hand is broken. That’s doubly true when you go it alone in war and, evidently, think you can just order up the outcome like it’s a fucking Big Mac.

Sadly, as much as it’s a joke in this commentary, it is.

We went from Lawrence King and his ring in the 80’s and early 90’s to Epstein in the 90’s and 00’s, and both were publicly and evidently connected to the highest levels of the US government. King’s ring also had mysterious deaths, including the lead investigator and his son being killed in a plane crash.

Man, yeah.

And it is magical. My 20’s and 30’s I was that guy for a few people, and it’s a noble calling.

Totally, man.

Thank you for your commentary. Have a great day!

But the motherfuckers at FB had the time and wherewithal to identify people trying to coordinate for out-of-state abortions of Facebook and then report them to the state and federal authorities, of course, just not human traffickers.

That’s not terribly accurate, but okay, don’t read the article.

A more fair summation would be: “Blue-collar politician wins hearts by answering tough questions, being authentic with people, and explaining his past.”

But there’s no bigger turnoff to the median Democratic partisan than authenticity.

That’s an oversimplification, I think. There are a hundred material differences between the two. Further, if Platner were another Fetterman, he certainly wouldn’t be running as a progressive, because that sets him against both parties even if he is calling himself a Democrat.

As for being a Nazi, I don’t think that’s accurate either. One can’t really know for sure outside Platner’s own mind, but it’s probably more fair to say he was a bit of an edgy douche when he was younger. After all, it’s easier to get elected as a Nazi in America than it is to get elected as a progressive.

Always appreciate the Catholics: quick to moralize on any subject except their own church’s sanctioning of child rape.

He’s not wrong this time though.