Posted on 04/01/2026 7:11:25 PM PDT by bitt
Guest Post by Matt Van Swol
I think I know why everything sucks…
…and it’s because everything is fake
We are getting fake college degrees that cost 4 years and six figures that teach you fake education and get you fake jobs.
We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research.
We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take fake, curated vacations to promote brands that make fake products.
We are voting for fake candidates, who run on fake promises, inside a fake system that was never designed to fix anything.
We are raising kids in fake schools that teach fake history, fake science, which quietly produce fake adults who can’t think for themselves.
We are watching fake news, about fake crises, produced by fake journalists, for fake outrage.
We are borrowing fake money that was printed from nothing, to fund a fake economy that would collapse in an afternoon if people stopped pretending it was real.
We are buying fake organic food that’s just a paid label, and drinking fake juice with two percent juice in it, and putting fake cheese on cheeseburgers that’s just “cheese product” on fake burger meat.
We are donating to fake nonprofits where the moeny never makes it to the people and then funding fake foreign aid that buys real weapons to prop up fake governments.
We are going to fake therapy that teaches fake coping skills instead of telling you hard truths.
We are buying fake furniture made of fake wood that’s actually compressed sawdust and glue that looks like wood, ships in fourteen boxes with instructions written in a fake language that isn’t quite any language, requires tools it doesn’t include, takes 4 hours to build, wobbles on day 1, and is totally destroyed in 6 months.
We are downloading fake “free” apps that charge a subscription after three days for AI features that don’t work, hidden behind a paywall we didn’t see, protected by a privacy policy we didn’t read, buried inside Terms of Service written by lawyers specifically so we wouldn’t read them, that we agreed to by tapping a button the size of a thumbnail, that gave a company we’ve never heard of the right to sell our data to companies we’ll never hear of, to build a profile on us we’ll never see, to influence decisions we’ll never know were made.
IT. IS. ALL. FAKE.
And we all yearn for what was once real.
Don’t you remember? Did you forget?
There was a time with a simple handshake between men was a contract.
When bread went stale because… well, that’s what real bread does!
When kids played outside all day until it was dark, and nobody tracked them.
When a family could live off a single income.
When music was made by people who LIVED something real and you could feel it.
When schools was HARD… and that was the point!
When doctors knew your name and your family, they even came to your house,
When you bought something once… and it was yours forever.
When the chair your grandmother bought once lasted 70 years and she passed it onto your dad.
And now nothing is real, and that’s why everything sucks.
Left out fake boobs, fake lips, and fake eyebrows.
Fake ‘politicians’ that make up the uniparty would have been a nice #1 pick.
That premise is perfectly expressed in the song Everything Now by Arcade Fire.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJFS_Yo88H0
Observe what rushes in once God is pushed out.
It sucks pond scum.
If everything sucks for you it’s because you suck. People in the old days were smart enough to know this. This went out when Obamalamadingdong took office.
“ IT. IS. ALL. FAKE.”
I agree 100%.
And, who is responsible for all this fake?
There is an answer to the above question. If you cannot answer the question, we’re doomed to extinction.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Bkmk
My 2006 Tacoma runs sweet but looks like a speckled pup.
..”when schools was hard. “
I like that one
Well, cheap is not always quality. Or even in the same ballpark as quality.
And frankly, Made in USA is not always the best.
But the best quality you can afford. Hopefully it’s in the US. If not, it’s not.
Exactly. It’s hard but it can be done. My son is getting married soon, I assume that when the first kid comes along in a year or two, his wife will become a full-time mom. He makes a very healthy income and moved across the country for the job.
Our daughter will have her first kid this fall. They have a much more modest income but she works as a nanny, so for quite a while she’ll just be adding another kid to the mix. The girl she nannies is looking forward to helping.
We pulled it off on a single and very modest income. Small houses, DIY repairs, always used cars, no debt etc.
ah...the good thing about the old vehicles is that you could fix anything
as long as you put stuff back where you found it
“Todays cars last longer than cars made in the 1950s. Better metalurgy, engines and lubrication.”
OTOH, they are more expensive in real terms and hopelessly complex. We long since reached the point where you are tied to a dealership for the life of the car. You might be able to change brake pads & rotors, but engine maintenance is pretty much off the table. Even after the car is paid off you really don’t “own it” in that sense.
Liberalism + DEI + Quotas = Everything Sucks For A Reason
I remember park rangers gathering all the campers together by the main fire and leading everyone in songs: 'My name is John Johnson, I live in Wisconsin...'
I miss the shared experiences. Now, everyone's nose is buried in a screen.
It’s called corruption. It’s old-testament hell and evil.
The data is corrupted, all of the systems are corrupted. The news you hear and see is so full of errors that data confidence values are so low you’re better off accepting it as a lie.
It might be true, but confidence is so low that no one can trust it.
Everything is broken and nothing short of an utter apocalypse can fix it.
The Bible knew.
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