This is a post about posts on social media… yes it’s going to snow. No no one really has a damn clue how much because the forecast keeps changing.
Yes they keep sending alerts.
No I don’t know how crowded Wegmans, Aldi, ACME, Shop Rite, Giant, or the WaWa is.
I also don’t know what PennDOT is doing. I do know that if it’s a state road tomorrow, it’s their jurisdiction, so if there’s a hotline within your own municipality, that’s great but all they will do is pass along the state road stuff to the state agency, which is PennDOT. Someone told me I was being mean and obnoxious today because I mentioned that. Don’t ever let facts get in the way, right ?
Of course, then I think it was yesterday that I was clueless because I didn’t agree with what somebody else said on another post.
Social media has devolved into part land of the lost, part land of the deliberately ignorant, and of course it’s like a giant circular file of conspiracy theories and fake news as in actual fake news.
And then the other thing you keep seeing are all of the people who support President-elect Trump like he’s Jim Jones. It’s like they can’t be happy that they have gotten what they want and he is being sworn in as president in a couple of days. Instead, they have to be completely nasty about the outgoing president, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, and whoever else raises their ire.
The election is over and I didn’t see any Democrats storming the capital this January 6 did you? Oh and the election? It was certified. However, the election deniers from 2020 are still large and loud and why? It’s not like their guy could have a third term if he had been elected last time, right?
And above all else, if you are so happy that your candidate of choice is the incoming president of the United States why can’t you celebrate that instead of tearing down people in an outgoing administration when you don’t even understand the first thing about government or politics, anyway? And the key thing is they are done, so why keep yammering about them?
I’ve kept my mouth shut to the bullshit since the new year, but it’s time to tell people to get a clue. 
We’re all just living our lives at the end of the day, right? Yes I comment on politics sometimes, but I’m finding more and more that I am more disappointed in human nature in the modern era than the bullshit predictability of politics?
Among other things, we are a country without mental health resources, and the medical resources we need in general from area to area and state to state.
People want to sit on Facebook and tear everyone they disagree with apart, yet they don’t want to do anything in their actual community…. that isn’t creepy. Or if they’re doing things in their community that is positive, it’s only when it’s self-serving and the optics are just right.
Once again at the end of the week, the newspaper headlines were about essentially a grifter. A man who took advantage of others and used their money as his own. These things keep happening. A more transient society of people who don’t actually have the institutional knowledge of where they live and who also don’t care about any of the history. And then local print media has all been but destroyed, anyway. Not many read the physical papers and more have moved online, and it’s all locked down behind paywalls.
The future of journalism is bleak, but that’s a post in and of itself.
In Philadelphia, basically a lot of power brokers and city government put Chinatown through hell and then said “Oh oops, sorry we’ve terrified you for how long about putting the 76ers smack dab in the center of where they wouldn’t fit and just forget we said anything.” (Only was this a ploy all along to get what they really wanted at the expense of regular people and neighborhoods? I think so.)
And then, no matter what state you are in, all you see going up are crap apartments and townhouse communities that look like the same formula from one area to the next or warehouses. We were in Delaware today and an area that used to be loaded with farmers fields is growing warehouses.
We can’t seem to get anything done with any form of government and it’s sad. You look at areas around here that are supposed to have historic import and they’re treated like yesterday’s garbage. And so are a lot of the residents.
Going along 202 today before we hit the intersection of 926, I noticed on the edge of those fields that belong to Crebilly, big steel girders. There was too much traffic to take a photo even though I was a passenger in the car, so what are they for?
 And then further down on the other side not even sure what county we were in were townhouses right on the edge of what would be 202 North. Like I said, I’m not quite sure where we were and maybe it was the edge of Delaware and not even Pennsylvania. But who in the right mind wants a townhouse where the windows look right out on 202? 
And then there is that old historic house along 202 North in Westtown. There is a dilapidated garage falling down slightly behind it but the house which I saw on a historic inventory for Westtown, just rots on the side of 202.
That house is or was fabulous. I got a photo of it stuck in traffic in 2012. It’s amazing how much it has deteriorated.
Another rotting house is emblematic of life today, isn’t it? The politics of extremism has torn this country apart and this area, just like I said it would. And I am hardly a psychic. Duh people, we are all being manipulated. By national political parties. They have even turned our local politics into political minefields.
People need to actually put politics aside and get back to the business of living. They need to be active in their communities and pay attention.
But back to social media. It has brought so many of us together, yet what it brings out of the woodwork? Yikes some days.
And this post is not full of secret messages. It is just a ramble. If you don’t like what I write about, make a New Year’s resolution to just move along. Find your own comfort level instead of presuming others should create it for you.
Byeeee
