After My Tweet Made CNN, I Have To Wonder If Blogging About Politics Is In My Future
I don’t want to upset my good friend Cousin “Riggs” or become Donovan McClem and steal a blogger’s beat, but I’m pretty sure I could be the next great political writer of our time. I don’t tweet about politics much because I think all politicians are as crooked as the numbers in Matt Harvey’s ERA from last year. I also don’t want to be called a cuck, a snowflake, a libtard, and whatever other mean names political nutjobs call each other on Twitter.
But one of my very few political tweets did make CNN, which is like a .300 batting average. Not to brag, but that pretty much makes me a Hall of Famer in the political tweet game. Granted that tweet was like a B- tweet, more than a year old, has about as much retweets as Riggs’ sunscreen tweet did in its first minute of life, and CNN is apparently fake news (which is a term I will have to learn more about if I ever want to become a political writer).
I’ve always been very happy covering snacks, my New York sports teams, video games, the Empire State Building being a big ol’ bitch, and other random shit for Barstool. But I wouldn’t make dipping my toe into the political waters a little bit since it is a goddamn goldmine for content right now. The only thing that gives me pause is getting involved in political discussions may be literally my least favorite thing in the world. Political talk has almost ruined Twitter and I imagine percentage-wise, politics have destroyed more Thanksgiving dinners around the country over the years than the Lions have in Detroit. People are so fucking mean when they are talking politics and I don’t know if I want any part of my mentions and comments to be pure, unfiltered poison.
So while you aren’t on the Hot Seat now Riggs, you aren’t on the Cool Throne either. I got my eye on that BNN anchor seat. Especially after you took my New York sports fan beat a few months ago.