Purple Haze

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were Antoinette?

Well boys and girls and the hard to identify, today is a special day in our history. It's a day set aside to reflect on what MAG! A good time to count our blessings and see how far we've come. A day to remember what our 2 greatest presidents wished for all Americans...affordable mattresses🛏, rebates on cars🚗, and discounted winter merchandise🧥.  They wanted this for us so we wouldn't have reason to whine😢. In fact, not only did they give us a country to be proud🇺🇸 of by kicking out the limeys🇬🇧 and their oppressive taxes, insuring individual rights, and reunifying a country torn apart by war, but they also gave us today to drown out any lingering whines we may have by anointing today as National Drink Wine Day🥂. The good news of course is that wine🍷 is very good at reducing the whine of many. It allows us to turn a deaf ear 🙉to the silly, the inane, and the juvenile claptrap of those that make parody like "for realz" bruh. So today is a good day to buy some wine on sale, thanks to G.W. and Abe, and just laugh at the ridiculousness of the Green Day Frosh🤡 who has added an addendum to the new deal...longer recesses, no homework, and optional tests. #AOC. President's/Drink Wine Day is also a good time to look at those who have already thrown their hat or headdress, as it may be, into the powwow to be the next Big Chief. I hear you laughing, but these are serious people folks. People so woke that they identify as vegan feminists with Spartacus tendencies, or so cool that they were cheeching the weed while listening to Tupac and Snoop before they even made any music...now that's high fo shizzle! Even had one hopeful announce her candidacy outside in a blizzard 🌬❄while stressing her fear of global warming🔥. Then of course the "Squaw from Rutgers Law"🛶🙊 and life long public servant millionaire aims to level rich and poor and she's not afraid to use her tomahawk if need be. Of course these are only a few of the 184 donks that have officially announced. We are still waiting to feel the "Bern"🔥, and some are wondering whether or not they're "withher-ed" 🧙‍♀️yet, and who knows but maybe even Uncle Joe...no not Stalin #AOC...he's dead🧟‍♂️ and also unAmerican btw. So that's the stuff wine🍾 can handle. It's comical, largely unthreatening and makes reading the Onion📰 superfluous. However, sometimes...let's just call them the ironies of life, things require something stronger. So I'm going to give it to you straight, no chaser🍸. Since its Black History month it's an appropriate time to consider how fortunate we are that the racial divide has been bridged. We now believe in forgiveness and forgetfulness.🤔 In the old days a couple years ago, if a Virginia governor was linked to anything that may have racist connotations he would have been pilloried by WaPo to the tune of 150 or so articles and deemed ineligible for higher office...unless he was really blue that is.  Today when a Va governor nicknamed "Coonman" dons a KKK costume, blackface and moonwalks he just needs to give convicted felons the vote and embrace post partum abs🙊 for contrition while his white, blackfaced rapper Attorney Gen...just needs to lie low until the 24 hour news cycle expires and the MSM can move on to important issues like how they can convince the public to believe the propaganda they swill while creating bogeymen out of Russians, capitalist, real men and anyone who questions their integrity. But I digress...the good news is that racially motivated crime is way down. In fact, the only way to get an ol fashioned attempted lynching of a gay black man and pin it on fictitious "right wing white assailants" is to hire two black, Nigerian bodybuilders/actors/friends 🏋️‍♂️, pay them a few thou💰, rehearse, call 911🚔 and wait for police to arrive with rope still dangling around your neck and a story that made as much sense as a #greennewdeal🌎. Now that's progress boys and girls. Guess nobody has heard of the boy who cried wolf? Better make my drink a double barkeep! And of course in the age of instant tweet, no thought the outrage of the wannabe victim, sjw, wokes✊ of the world including the current crop of candidates was immediate and inaccurate. Imagine that?🤔 Apparently, when racism is hard to find you have the right to make it up if you feel "blue".🙈 And what's more indicative than that of the progress that we've made dating all the way back to a couple months ago when #believeallwomen was the mantra. Now you can be a Black elected official twice accused of rape without fear in Virginia, and as an accuser disbelieved even if you're blue, if that official is next in line for governor and the MSM can't divert the public's attention that is, yeah #metoo. I bet Cosby wishes he had run for office now. Hmm, maybe it's only black men who have progressed?

I'm sure Kamala will consider this in her next Snoop inspired "haze" because after all... she's Jamaican.🙊 Well at least we don't stereotype anymore K.H. , SMH. A Jamaican not smokin up the ganja must be as rare as a black army vet, left handed rock and roll guitar hero with a funny first name...IDK Jimi, maybe I'm the one in the Purple Haze...

Purple Haze was in my brain,
lately things don't seem the same,
actin' funny but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Purple Haze all around,
don't know if I'm coming up or down.
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me.

Purple Haze was in my eyes,
don't know if it's day or night,
you've got me blowing, blowing my mind
is it tomorrow or just the end of time?