RAIN WATER IS NOT FREE? Facebook sucks

I unload on why Facebook drives me crazy, especially after my podcast page gets suspended with no clear explanation while I still rely on Messenger to stay connected in the Philippines. I also catch you up on family life, then swing into politics, media trust, and the way social media and smartphones can make people easier to steer. 

• Why Facebook feels unavoidable in the Philippines because Messenger is where everyone is 
• Getting flagged for memes and political posts then trying to “use Facebook normally” again 
• My podcast page suspension and the frustration of vague community standards 
• Easter mass, beach tradition, and dropping the sugary holiday habits 
• My son’s tennis tournament trip, warm-up issues, and pickle ball versus tennis 
• Raising athletic kids, middle child clashes, and how personalities collide 
• Trump, Iran threats, and why I think influencers chase fear and clicks 
• CNN distrust, Fox being “less bad,” and media narratives that stick 
• Epstein file talk, voter ID, and my hot take on voters having basic knowledge 
• Oregon rainwater arrest story and my worry about government reach 
• Immigration enforcement, citizenship, and media talking points 
• Smartphones, social media, and how dependence dulls basic skills 

    Let me know what you think. 

Transcript

Cold Open And Facebook Hate

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You're listening to the objective jerk, and I am said jerk. How's everybody doing? I hate Facebook. I really do. You know, sometimes I wish I was some big podcaster so I can just be like, everybody quit using Facebook and talk a bunch of shit and have them. I don't know. It's just annoying. Like, so I never I never was big on Facebook when it came out. I had an account, but I never got on. I got on like once a year, twice a year, I'd get on and kind of catch up with people. Oh, cool. Like some stuff, comment, whatever, share a couple things, and then thinking I was gonna get on again, I never would. And I miss those days really. But I think I got my stuff turned up too loud. And I remember people would comment and be like, oh, whatever, dude, you're just not gonna you're gonna make a comment. And you know, they knew my sh my shtick, I would just bounce and then never get on again for six months or something. And I didn't start getting on Facebook regularly until I moved here to the Philippines because it's you know it's the best way to kind of stay in touch, even though you're not staying in touch, you know, you just seeing what your friends are doing or family, and then you like it or whatever, and you know, so you kind of know what's going on, you know. It's it's it's catching up with somebody without having to actually talk to them. Which is actually kind of nice for me, because I'm you know, I'm not always I'm not a talkative person. Gosh, I kind of sound like I think I am getting a cold. I can hear myself and just sound a little different, but so yeah, so that's that's kind of about it. And then I, you know, during I moved here, so I was on there a lot more. I'm seeing all the stuff. That's when I really started getting exposed to memes and everything. That's what I learned what a meme was. So I was late to the game, you know. I didn't, and so I started sharing like you know memes against Biden or whatever, and then I would get these warnings like, oh, this is this could be potentially, and I'm like, what are you talking about? Like it was just the whole like trying to silence the people on the right, it was real, you know, they're trying to not let your voice be heard and and it it pissed me off. So I was like, you know what? I'm not gonna use Facebook what it's for. So I got rid of everything personal, and I just posted every day. Biden sucks, Biden sucks, you know, just to kind of it's the only way I can think of to like stick it to him, you know, even though they don't care. Mark, what's his face, Zuckerberg, you know, sleeping on his mattress of gold. Don't care. But so it's just whatever, it was annoying, and then so I've slowly kind of tried to go back to just using Facebook what it's for, being nice and and sharing you know personal stuff and this and that. But I have another page, which is for the podcast, because that's that's how it started. I got rid of my Facebook a couple years ago, and then I started another one for the podcast, and that was my only one, and so I was getting friends, it was kind of confusing, so I was like, okay, I'm gonna make my Facebook me, and then I'll just do a page for you know the podcast. And all I do, yeah, I'll share some memes occasionally, I think. I don't get on there that much either. And it's not like it's a big I don't think I have it's not like it's detrimental to my podcast, not that my podcast is detrimental at all, but it, you know, all I did was share my episodes on Buzz Sprout and the videos, and and that's pretty much it. Well, it got suspended because it violated various whatever, and I'm like, what what did it violate? And then so I I contested it and I'm like, I I didn't it didn't do anything wrong, whatever, blah blah blah. And they're like, nope, it's done. So they totally deleted it, and I'm like, what the fuck, man? So it's not really a huge deal. I wasn't really getting that much traffic or interaction through it, so it's not like I'm like, oh my god, you know what I mean? But it's just like the principle of it. It really kind of pissed me off. So I quit getting on Facebook, and well, I I this is what happened. So I I detested it, or not detested, that's the wrong word. I art or I contested it, and then I just didn't get on for a while. So I just got on just a little bit ago, and so I was kind of like checking on some stuff, whatever, and then I got on, you know, and I'm like, well, the page is still there, what's going on? Why maybe it was maybe it's fine. So I went to share something and it's like, nope, you can't do that. And then this page, if I looked at it, yeah, so they basically, you know, agreed to basically delete the account. I can still see it, but and it's still there. So I'm just like, what the hell was it like? Why can't they just say exactly what it was? Not oh, you violated some of our community. It's like you're it's it's such a broad generalization. They could, you know, that's like the whole thing with like hate speech. Oh, we're gonna make hate speech laws, dude. That is a dangerous path right there, because you could just anything could be hate speech, and you know, and that's how you get into the BS. So I mean, I just wanted to know what it was exactly. And if, you know, see, that's the kind of thing that makes me think that I didn't actually violate anything. It's just somebody that didn't like it reported it. It's the only thing I can think of. But I was thinking about it, and and I had that one episode that said if you something and it retarded was in the title. You know, if you think voter ID is bad, you're retarded, or something like that. So I'm kind of thinking maybe it was that, I guess. I don't know. But it was just I shared that episode. I don't know. So I'm thinking about sharing. I don't know. See, I just like it doesn't do anything. You know what I mean? What am I who I'm not sticking it to anybody but myself, you know, but it's just so frustrating and annoying. So I was like, I was thinking like maybe I'll share the podcast on my personal one, but then then that might get, and then so I don't have messenger, which I do use quite often. I know there's some other stuff, but it's like my whole family, everybody here in the Philippines uses Messenger and Facebook. So like if I was gonna be like, fuck Facebook and Messenger, I'm gonna use whatever the WhatsApp or something. I don't know. But I'm not gonna be able to talk to anybody, you know what I mean? So it's just I'm just shooting myself in the foot, basically. So I don't know. But it's again, it's not like a big deal. It doesn't, it's not like that was my main, it's not hurting my bottom line or my what I don't know, you know, but it's it's just the principle of it. It's just so fucking annoying, man. I hate Facebook, I really do. I hate Facebook. I want that to be the title. Facebook sucks, and why you should drop it. Yeah, because here in the Philippines, dude, everything's Facebook, everything is run through Facebook. If you have a business, if you want to get a phone number, you want to read whatever, it's all Facebook. It sucks. I hate it. But yeah, what are you gonna do? Anyway. Alright, that's enough of me venting, I guess. Let's see, so some stuff has been going on. When was my last what was my last podcast? When and what? Let me see. Hold on. I'm kinda c oh some loud noise. Is that my kids or is that my cats destroying crap? Okay, oh, I did the fake 9-11 9-11 9-1-1 ambush. That was my and before that it was a good Friday. So since then, we've had Easter and went to the beach. That's kind of the annual thing that they do here. So this was the third year. I don't think we yeah. Because we when we first got here, we were kind of doing a little bit of American tradition, you know, baskets, candy, and eggs and all that kind of crap. But you can't put chocolate and eggs and hide it here because it melts. It's so damn hot. So we did that a couple times, but like I think I talked about my last podcast, is like I kind of like getting rid of that stupid rabbit chocolate crap and focus more, you know, on Jesus being resurrected and all that stuff. So we went to mass in the early morning, went to the beach, hung out, had a good time, came home, and then chilled, and then so that was Sunday, so Monday, just a normal day, and then Tuesday, my son went to like a state kind of championship kind of program for tennis through his school, so he went and played. So we drove to another city, got a hotel, and he played one game, lost, and that was it. Like it was just you only had one chance. And I don't know, it kind of I should I don't know. So he likes playing pickleball more, he plays pickleball as well, and he was playing pickleball right before he went to go play this, and I think that kind of threw him off his game a little bit, and he didn't go down there with everybody else because they went down there on Easter, and I'm like, no, we're he's not going down there on Easter. So then we drove him up, you know, the day of his tournament. But we left early in the morning, we got there, and then an hour or two later he played, and I think that's what kind of hurt him. He didn't get to really warm up, he didn't get to really practice. The last anything he did was pickleball. So when he first was playing, it was like, oh my gosh, dude. He's I mean, like, I could play better than that, I think, and I suck. But towards the end, he was starting to kind of okay, getting into his rhythm, but it was too late. So, yeah, that kind of sucked. But he doesn't really like tennis. I mean, he does, but not as much as he'd rather play pickleball, but they don't have pickleball for this kind of thing. So I told him, I was like, dude, just stick with tennis. You can still play pickleball. And then if you're school in the R1AA, which I don't remember what stands for, I was like, if pickleball becomes a thing, then you can switch and just play only pickleball if you want. My other son, he loves playing everything. He's very athletic, he's pretty good at sports, just you know, like he's naturally gifted, I guess, with sports. He can, you know, he just he's really good at basketball, tennis, pickleball. I remember when he was like three, four or something, and my oldest son was doing a football tryout, and my son that I'm talking about, who's a gifted one, he he wanted to do it so bad. He wanted to do the thing, and it was really cute and stuff. You know, he was running around, his hair was really long, so he's having to hold his hair out of his face as he does, you know, like so. He's always really been into that kind of stuff. He's a pain in the ass, though. He's the middle child, and we butt heads all the time. He is like a clone physically of my dad, his grandpa, and so I don't know. We just we've always butted heads. Like, I don't know. I don't know why, but we just always have. But anyway, so that's kind of what's been going on, and then while we were gone during this thing, you know, I kind of kept tabs on what's, you know, and of course, you know, Trump, he gave like an ultimatum and taking out their bridges and their power plants, you know, if they don't come to the table and this and that and whatever. And of course, everybody's just like freaking out. Oh my god, he's gonna just nuke 90 million people. It's like, who said anything about nukes? What the what are you talking about, you know? And then a lot of the people I've noticed that were not that long ago all sucking the dick of Trump, are now like, oh, Trump is horrible. Like you kind of have like conservatives, conservative, but like they're all they're all nothing, they're not conservative, they're not lit, they're what they're whatever that's gonna get them clicks and views, you know? So that and and I'm kind of glad I don't watch any of them. Like I just I think I have a pretty good bullshit meter. I've always said that, I've always felt that. I never really I'm trying to think of the names of these people, but like the female, Megan Kelly, right? She was all but now she's all hating on Trump. And then the guy that he was on InfoWars, Alex something, right? There was him, the Hodge twins, for some reason. I used to watch kind of them, but I quit I quit kind of following them. Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex, what the hell is his name? But there's a couple of them, right? And they all just turned on Trump like the same day. And it's just like, what the hell? What's going on? You know what I mean? So it just seems a little weird. And then, you know, everybody's just going nuts, and it's like, they're they're fear mongers, though. They're trying to get the clicks and all this kind of crap. I wasn't worried about it, you know what I mean? I was like, I mean, a part of me, you know, the the the asshole soldier in me was like, I hope they don't come to the table, man. Destroy those bridges, get rid of those power plants, right? And then, of course, Iran has a bunch of civilians hanging around the power plants because that's what they do. And was that reported on CNN? Probably not. And speaking of CNN, CNN uh reported a completely fake news about some 10-point plan Trump they got from, and it was complete bullshit. And they I think they retracted it, but they didn't say, like, oh, our bad. They haven't said nothing. But see, again, that's just dude, CNN for you, dude. CNN is complete trash. Like 100%, 110%. They suck. We were in the my wife's dad had it be admitted. He's he's okay, but just to make sure. So he got in his room and she turned on some news and it was CNN. I'm like, what are you doing? Why you got CNN on? She's like, well, I don't know. And so I put it on Fox. I'm like, it's not much better, but it is better. Yeah, see, I mean, and that's who a lot of people a lot of people don't realize some of the crap, so they're not gonna know. But with with Paramount Buying Warner Brothers, which CNN is a part of, CNN's gonna be completely dismantled and re and purged or whatever, or it's just gonna be completely removed and they're gonna just start something new from it or something. I don't know. I mean, because the name is just like horrible, so it's like can they build it back? I kind of think they should just delete CNN and figure out a new, you know, UNN, I don't know, you know, something just because they're just horrible, dude. But most people don't even know it and catch it, and it's just kind of annoying. You know, it's like I already talked about that. Yeah, see, 80, 90 million, but then Trump wins, dude. I mean, and I guess it hasn't been completely smooth sailing, but the the one de view, blah blah blah, whatever the thing is, the the to pass through for the ships, I forget what it's called, is it's open. It kind of had a rough opening, but it did open. Things are calming down, gas prices are starting to go down. It went down two pesos here. Woo! You know, and things are things are better because I'm sorry, but Trump is badass. He knows what he's doing. You have all these, I mean, yeah, there are some people that just like he he touches women's pussies, you know, they're just psycho-mental. And then you have the people who are just trying to get clicks and shit like that, which I discussed earlier. It's just kind of annoying. But I was sitting here thinking about it though, I was like, Because Venezuela, right? That happened what two months ago? That was so badass, but it did kind of come out of nowhere, but it was it was it was needed, you know. I mean, that dude was a crappy dictator, although, you know, left people were like, oh my god, why would they do that? Trump is such a dictator. But so they removed him, and okay, and then people were like, well, it didn't really do anything. What's going on? Blah, blah, blah. And then now we've all kind of forgotten. But I'm kind of thinking that it was part of because they knew Trump and the administration knew that the Iran thing was coming. And they needed a little bit of ammo to bring to the table when they when they do negotiating. So they do that, they do a couple that what was the oh that you know, I mean, they already fucking took out Iran's nuclear, and then they they kidnap what's his face in his sleep, you know, in his pajamas. And then, so when Trump, and they knew that, that so when Trump's like, hey, by this date and time, we're gonna blow up all your bridges and your power plants, you know, Iran's like shit. He's not joking. Because, you know, you look at the history, man, you know, they know he's not fucking around. He's gonna do it. So dude, Trump is unless they get video of Trump actually molesting some kid on Epstein Island, Trump is gonna be the best president of all time. At least in the last hundred years. You know what I mean? The shit he's been able to accomplish and do and fix and everything. Yeah, it's you know, because I mean they're trying to do everything with like the Epstein files or whatever. That's such oh my god, I'm so tired of hearing that crap. Like, people like, oh, he's mentioned on there too many times. Yes, he's one of the most famous rich Americans, you know. So yeah, they're gonna talk about him. They're all trying to get, you know, man, we gotta get Trump. We gotta get Trump somehow. We gotta get Trump. We need him so we can, you know, blackmail him or whatever. Of course they're gonna talk about him. The thing is, there's nothing there. There's nothing there. If something was there, they would have released it. So that immediately it's like, he's not even on there. There's nothing on there. So shut up. You know, nobody said nothing about the Epstein files when Biden was in office. You know? And then suddenly it's just it's all bullshit, and it's just so annoying. And then you see the stupid people on the street that just oh my god, yeah, why do you hate Trump? He's just so he's so horrible. He's on the list. It's like the ten-point plan. They believe everything, man. I seriously think you need to get a voter ID card. And before you take before you're able to vote, you have to take a little pop quiz. Little, you know, quiz about American history, kind of what's going on, whatever this and that. Just like five questions. And if you can't pass it, you don't get the vote. You know what I mean? I mean, they could use that to really manipulate the voting, but it's like, gosh, man, you just have the dumbest people voting when they don't know jack shit. Oh, and a lot of them are women. 15th Amendment. Sorry, but it's true, man. Gosh. Alright, let's see. What else is going on? Oh, I'm trying to scrying to scroll on my phone with the mouse. Not working. Alright, so did you guys get this story? Did you guys hear this? A guy in Oregon, he, you know, bought a bunch of giant plastic water containers, like the septic kind of containers or whatever. And he's been catching rain water, and he uses that basically to live off of, not using the water. And the state basically arrested him because he didn't take it down, because it's theft of public property. Huh? You're catching rain. Rain is public pop property? He's doing he's paying you know, he's not what? See, this is the liberal mindset, man. And believe me, Oregon is liberal as hell. Yeah, there's some conservatives out on the east in the woods and stuff like that, kind of, but and it was probably this guy right here. He was probably one of them, and then of course the liberal government, you know, they don't want people to get the idea. Oh man, don't be catching rainwater. You know, because then people are gonna, you know, this guy does it, and then pretty soon. I don't know, it's just and people want more government. It's like you're stupid. Let's see. Oh man, I already talked about that, didn't I? I keep trying to scroll my phone. So I guess that's kind of yeah, I went over everything already. Alright. Yeah, so just more crap in the headlines, more more government trying to control. More liberals wanting to vote for that control. You know what I mean? They want to be controlled, they don't want their fair share, they just want a share. I don't know. They want everybody to live in the same exact penthouse and but it just it doesn't work. It doesn't work. People have free will. People want to be douchebags, people are evil. So you can't have this utopia of, you know, it's never gonna work. These people that believe it. It's like they just they think them like, you know, they're probably a good person and they have a good heart. They wouldn't do anything, but that doesn't mean that everyone else won't. It's just retarded. I'm so tired of these stupid left liberal garbage people. I don't know. I just Again. You cannot like Trump. You can you know not like Republicans really, and maybe you don't like Trump and some of the stuff. Well you can't you you gotta give him what he gets, though. You know what I mean? And the fact that they don't don't oh man, he did he did that pretty good, or it just shows you that they're they have T they can't I don't know. It's just speaking of like the immigration, what's going on with that? They're still getting rid of people, right? ICE is still doing their thing. I haven't seen anything about the the airports and or just ice, maybe now they're doing it in peace. I don't know. Liberals got tired of like ice out. Although there was this doctor who she was at the airport and she pretended to say, Oh, thank you for for being such racist assholes, you know, and then she's got all kind of backlash and everything. And again, all her talking points are all the fake things that the media tries to tell you all the stuff she said was been proven false. You know, oh they're getting separating families, they're s you know, actual citizens, and then it's like, you know what? If you were not, if you came here, or came here, I'm in the Philippines. If you came to America and you got your citizenship, and then you're a fucking douchebag and breaking laws, and you're like, oh, down with America or whatever, you should lose your citizenship and get deported. You know what I mean? It's just I don't know. People are just so just in the end, it doesn't matter, it really doesn't, but it's just how can people be so dumb? I just don't get it. What is it? Is it so it's gotta be social media? It is smartphones and social media. People can't spell because their phone spells it for them. I mean, and I'm guilty of it. Well, I was just trying to think of pneumonia. I was trying to spell pneumonia, and I was like asking my son, I was like, how do you spell pneumonia? I know it starts with a P. And it was like P and brings it up. Oh, right there. Don't know how to don't need to know how to spell. I got my smartphone. And yeah, it's convenient, but it's also just kind of annoying. I don't know. Anyway, let me know what you think. Facebook sucks. I hope it goes down. And Trump's awesome. All you liberals are a bunch of crybaby douchebags. And thanks for hanging out. I'll see you next time. God bless, even though I'm an asshole. God bless. All right, bye.