I have been feted

With liberal bullshit.

Again.

It is a beautiful gentle summer night, the setting upscale and elegant and generous. I'm having beef tenderloin prepared for me on a Big Green Egg grill, a dinner in honor of my having survived another year. Another whole year on earth, and that really is something to celebrate.

The host wanted to do for me what I had already done for them. The idea is not new at all. A nice big hunk of the most tender beef possible, but without much flavor, cooked briefly on a particularly smokey grill.

With imaginative sides that take a bit of thought and time assembling.

I gave him the grill. To get rid of it. He still cannot get over that. "I don't deserve this. Why don't you put that on Craigslist? Why don't you sell it? Why don't you give it to someone closer to you? Why not your own family? Why not to someone you love?"

"Because I want it to be placed well. That's all that I care about."

"What?"

"I don't want to give it to someone who's dying. To someone who'll be dead in a few years."

"Holy shit."

"I don't want to give it to someone who doesn't understand what it is."

"I can see that."

"I don't want to give it to someone who isn't going to use it."

"That makes sense."

"I don't want to give it to anyone who can't  be inspired."

"What? But still, why not sell it?"

"Because I care about it being placed well more than I care about cash. Because I think it makes an excellent gift. For the right person. You."

It's generosity he does not comprehend because it doesn't make sense to his fundamentally conservative values. The more he talks about common sense economics the more conservative he sounds.

I am not that.

The gift doesn't fit anything.

He's got a bug up his ass about Trump eliminating contributions tax deductibles that eat away at his colon with the other bug about Trump eliminating home mortgages interest.  He's brought it up the last three times I've seen him. Given enough time, say, thirty minutes, and these bugs make their appearance.

Out of his butt.

"So if you make some kind of contribution, do you deduct that amount from your taxes, or do you deduct that amount from your taxable income? That is, do these contributions of yours put you into a higher tax bracket?"

"No. Not that. It's about itemizing. We pay our taxes then start itemizing deductions, the itemizing reduces the amount that we pay."

"When you make a contribution, then deduct that from your taxes, doesn't that make you the decider of where government puts its contribution, not your contribution? I posit, if government kickback is part of your decision about contributions, then you're really not all that generous after all."

Why is government part of your contribution decisions? Why is government part of your home-owning decision making experience? Government used to allow all interest deductions. Until it was realized that encourages running up high interest and running up debt. That same artificial meddling distortion applies to homes. It causes investors to buy homes they don't actually live in, driving up the cost of homes out of reach of first time buyers.

"Still, it remains, that a lot of organizations that rely on contributions are going to be seriously hurt by Trump's new tax law. I am not going to make as many contributions because of it. And neither will a lot of other people like me."

"Those individuals making those contribution decisions about where government money goes, are spending public money on their private concerns. Say, I'm against contributing to Planned Parenthood, then citizens out there can use my portion of public money to fund them."

"Well, the home mortgage interest rate write off will hurt a lot of people. "

"I saw a bumper sticker that said, 'Elect a clown, expect a circus.'"  

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. 

[Elect a hag, expect witch soup. Elect a criminal, expect high crimes to be excused through multi-tiered justice, and corrupted government departments. Elect a dynasty and expect to elect their offspring. Elect a socialist idiot, expect Idiocracy.]

"That wright off too, intended to help homeowners specifically, has already hurt more people than it helped, by causing incentive to buy homes even when homes are not needed. It created its own new market, an economy within an economy, that drives up the cost of homeownership putting homes way out of reach, and ridiculously so,  for a whole lot of people."

"But that's the system that we've had forever. It's what we've come to rely on."

[Fallacy: appeal to tradition.]

"You're playing the system because that's the system you found when you entered. It's what you've learned. And now that's the system that new players find because it's the system you're playing. In both cases, you are insisting on perpetuating tax systems that discriminate against non-married people, non-home owners, and people who disagree with you using their public money to support your political contributions. Further, you dismiss it as meddling by a clown for the simplistic expediency of simplifying tax returns. Even as you admit you'll be richer for paying less taxes, all that so you can entertain animosity against a Republican president."


"Trump hates Mexicans. Trump hates gays. Trump hates immigrants."

"I'm sitting at the end of three patio tables pushed together literally surrounded by surface liberals. Their remarks sound like the comment section of Washington Post.

"Where do you people get your information?"

"From the news."

"Well then. That does explain it. You're actually informed by zombie retards. I must now pray. *looks skyward piously* 'Lord, I pray thee, look at me and see if I can stand this one more fucking second.' Look, [all of] you really do need better sources of information."

[Don't bother asking which ones, just find them.]

I'm not even going to argue with them. Why argue with resolute political retards who are otherwise lovely human beings who love me?

It is an excellent dinner. These people adore me. That much is clear. While it is still not possible to have anything nice without also having full doses of moronic liberal horseshit come with it. From everyone. And it is not possible to challenge full on indoctrination across all media accumulated through entire lifetimes, with small doses of counterargument. But it is possible to leave impressions through genuine generosity that blows people's minds by its incomprehensibility. The Big Green Egg looks great on their patio. It's a large heavy anomalous monolith representing genuine generosity. And it's fun! And finally it's actually being used to its fullest.