ingratitude

Okay. Please SHUT UP, homeowners in Ramona. Everywhere you looked yesterday, one of you was on TV, bitching about those “idiots” in the police and National Guard not allowing you to go back to your (still-standing!) homes. Dudes, there were downed electrical wires! There was no power! There was no water! How do so many of you not GET that?? Your homes were not safe to inhabit yet and these men you denounce as idiots have been working their asses off — literally for days straight, frequently with no rest — for YOU. To protect your lives. Your homes. And you have the gall to stand in front of a camera and, in an appalling display of ingratitude, blast them as morons. I was gobsmacked. I was ashamed. SHUT UP!! When your community was almost entirely decimated by fire and most of your neighbors lost everything but their lives, how dare you behave this way? I get that you are obviously stressed by what you’ve been through, but others have LOST their homes. Others have LOST their lives. Before you shove your big fleshy face into a camera, can you stop to consider everything you still have thanks, in large part, to the heroic efforts of the people you denounce?

Gratitude, man. Gratitude.