Last week I discovered people were having too much fun watching the LP debates, hosted on YouTube by John Stossel.  Naturally I grabbed a beer and some headphones but tuned in fairly late around the time Vermin Supreme lit up a joint as his answer to the legalization question.  I was disappointed in the lack of McAfee.

This is my review of The Shop Beer Co. Church Music IPA

Eventually, the LP picked Jo Jorgensen, who on the surface appears to be better than Bill Weld; such is the nature of being the tallest midget.  I will not say they need to have one of those Project Runway style makeovers on her, but they really need to get a better file photo. A brief overview of her can be found at this link (TW:  TOS).

What I thought was a bit humorous was one of her first acts as the LP nominee was to repurpose an old Twitter hashtag.

Which naturally got a certain group of people upset.

Then a thought occurs to me:  did she just troll the left?

I suppose it is possible.

She does hold a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.  This field of study focuses on individual and group behavior in the workplace, and how one might address organizational and performance issues from a psychological standpoint.  In light of this, it stands to reason she might understand trolling on a conceptual level, since anybody spending any amount of time in the internet knows it is a virtual playground populated mostly by spastic ungulates willing to prove the fragility of their psyche the second something threatens their salt lick.

Going by Michael Malice’s definition of trolling she needed to have done it for sake of amusement, but this seems unlikely.  I don’t know enough about her to throw my vote away just yet but in case anyone is interested she did do a podcast with Larry Sharpe, and another on Dave Smith’s podcast.  She’s stuck to standard libertarian dogma up to this point, but if one of the first things she does is steal from Trump’s playbook to piss people off, she might at least be more entertaining than we think.

On a second thought, this could just be a fluke.

 

This is the one I drank during the debate.  This is one of those part fruity, part skunky IPA that everyone either loves or hates.  I am willing to admit I was drawn in by the 1980’s retro graphics on the can, but I am otherwise meh on this one. The Shop Beer Co. Church Music IPA:  2.8/5