Hobo Themed Wedding

Okay, confession time. I follow Regretsy. Don't judge me. I feel you judging me. Sometimes, in this crazy, messed up world, it's just nice to laugh. And no, the site isn't PC, and sometimes it's NSFW. But then there's April's Army, because if you can use your popularity for good, why not? Anyway, it's amusing, most of the time, but if you get easily offended, perhaps don't stray too far into the site.

Okay, that was all the preface to something Regretsy posted earlier - a link to the Etsy blog that featured a hobo-themed wedding. No, I'm not kidding. I like to tell my friends that 'Regretsy means never having to say you're kidding' and that definitely rings true here as well.

But even without Regretsy, I'd have found this offensive. Just the title of the post got that yucky feeling starting gnawing its way from my stomach. Then it got worse. As we prepared to make everything for our wedding, we collected feed sack dresses and old work boots, antique hand-stitched quilts and jug band instruments. And then I could actual taste vomit. The attire was hobo casual! They destroyed antique quilts! They had garbage can fires!

I know I don't need to remind people that we have an incredibly fragile economy right now, the unemployment rate is way too ridiculously high, the underemployment rate is even higher, people are losing their homes left and right, and we have a Congress that took us to the brink of disaster for shits and giggles. Even without that - even if our economy was robust and unemployment was ridiculously low - invoking a time and period in our history when things weren't just bad, they were about as low as one could go is just sick. Because this had nothing to do with fashions of the times. No, this was entirely about the culture of the times. Sick sick sick.

Not to mention, it took a while for the comments to turn, and that, that is why I'm writing about this, and my utter contempt for humanity. It takes until user kaytaa for the tide to start turning and people to stop heaping praise over spending $15 grand to dress up like poor people. Seriously, scroll up. It's sickening.

I just have no faith in anyone or anything right now. It's not a good idea, it's not creative, it's not chic, and if you're thinking of saying it is, you need to examine your privilege. And then you need to stay the hell away from me.

call it what you want, it's an elite super congress, and it's wrong

If my Representative isn't in this elite group of 6 House reps, then what use is he? If all he can do is vote yes/no on these recommendations OR vote yes/no on BBA, then why bother having him there at all? If he can't advocate for me, for the people of his district, in the shaping of these huge, sweeping cuts that will affect his district, then how is he doing the job for which he was elected?

How are the other 429 Reps? This country is about to be represented by 12 people instead of 535.

And that's beyond sick.

And if those other 429 Reps reject that only 6 of them have any power, their fallback is BBA.

What the hell is this country?