Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Joe Rogan: Competition Isn’t Cruelty!" video.
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Joe put in the work when we were younger, he is two years older than I am. You don't get where he is now without having some kind of obsession and dedication that results in positive outcomes. You are coming at it from the victim mentality he is talking about. Going and begging for a raise from corporate, thats victim mentality.
My story is similar to Crenshaw, except I was loading USAF cargo planes. Grew up in a world of shit, poor as fuck, beaten constantly, poisoned, stabbed, bludgeoned, run over by my family, enlisted to get a new start and a chance in 1988. Ended up working 7 days a week, 12-14 hours a day from 10 Aug 90 to some time in March 91, doing physical work office types can't imagine. Then I had a machinist job when I was out for a while, saved the corp tens of thousands a year on scrap by improving the system, didn't even get a thanks. Then the factory went to Mexico when Clinton signed NAFTA. Enlisted again, had another war with a massive airlift where I was smack I the center of it and was worked until my body broke.
Throw in how my home state gave my first ex 71% of my gross pay leaving me homeless while I was busting my ass for the country, and living in my 1970 Pontiac or my 92 F150. you want to talk about being sick emotionally and financially, I got ya..
Do I see myself as a victim? nope. I busted my ass for the last 7 years since my second divorce left me homeless again, building a house, a shop to work in, and I am doing that with limited mobility on $36k a year. 50 year old crippled guy builds home because nobody else will do it for him, and he can't afford to pay others to do it. I keep getting set back, and I don't get these stimulus checks, I get things taken from me instead.
You either get busy living or you whine and piss and moan about it like you have a dick for a tongue.
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@TheJake76 Nah man, I get you and where you're coming from. Thing is, you're looking at it the way most urban people do. I'm offering a different perspective, not condemnation. Blame the military for direct and blunt thoughts.
When my jobs were passing me up for promotion and screwing me over, I would go to a different one. I have the skills and abilities they need, I could take them anywhere and get another job. Most people do not have those skills and expertise.
Also started a couple businesses, first ex wife played a large part in killing those. You roll with it and keep moving. I could rant about how the world, my family, and hundreds of people fucked me over during my life, or I can get to rebuilding it.
The only reason I tell people about what I have endured is so they know they can get beyond it, build something better, and change their world.. also, it might keep them from making the same mistakes I made, like getting married. Embrace the suck, and concern yourself with what you can change.
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In this clip, Joe is exactly right. Sure you have a wide range of economic and social systems, but whining about you getting a shitty start compared to someone else does you no good. What does you good is getting to work, improving yourself and your life, being focused and disciplined on what you want to achieve or do.
I started out dirt poor in BFE Nebraska, and I retired at 35 through monumental work that packed more than 50lbs of lean muscle mass on me. The amount of work I have done is staggering to most people, they can't comprehend it. I have a passive income that barely gets me by, so I have to know how to do things myself because I can't pay others to do it for me. I could be living in a two story burrito bag under a bridge, or I can be doing whatever the hell I have to so I can live a good life.
Now I build old muscle cars for fun and enjoyment, its a crazy amount of work required to do that. I could whine about not owning a GTO, or I can go to work, earn the money to get a rusty heap, and learn how to repair everything on it so I can drive it and have a cool as hell old car as my daily driver. Its an analogy for life, nothing of value comes for free without effort. Even breathing takes effort. That is life and that is what Joe is talking about.
Never in my life have I made over $50k a year, but to look at what I have built in spite of the hardships forced on me by others, you'd think I was super wealthy. If you want it, go get it, I have no sympathy for people who are too damn lazy to make shit happen for themselves. Look at my videos, and the shop that is in them I built myself after clearing the land by hand. That is what discipline and effort amount to. Do shoddy work and half ass it, and you get a half assed product.
That aspect of American society and reality will benefit you the most or leave you with nothing. Your choice.
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@maengh82 Its kind of a long story about the first one. Got the oops I'm pregnant, and I assumed my health insurance would cover the birth, but then they didn't so I got married for no reason. She hid her bipolar from me for months, and then she got progressively worse.
Got to the point where if I did anything nice for her, buying a pair of pants, giving her orgasms, taking her out to eat, literally anything and she would start an irrational fight over nothing, which she would then lose, and she could feel like a victim rather than feeling guilty.
As I pulled away from her and stopped engaging, she got more violent and the abuse then went to the kids as well. I stayed as long as I did to protect my kids from he, I knew the state would never allow me to have them, so I stayed.
The cops would be called, I would have deep bruises, cuts, ripped clothing, hair ripped out before I started shaving my head to avoid that, and me being a 230lb ex military type who wrestled, could bench over 400lbs, and had extensive experience defending myself, all they asked was "did he hit you, touch you, push or anything?" They always wrote it up like I was the aggressor. They used that against me in court and threw out all the evidence I had of her abusing me and the kids.
I never hit the bitch, though maybe I should have. Problem is, when I hit people it does extensive damage unless they are big enough to handle it. Her 120lb ass wasn't.
Believe me, I know precisely how horrible a choice it was. Problem is, everyone, especially feminists and the family court, blamed me for all of her violence and irrational bullshit. That and society is all women are wonderful, they can't possibly be the problem, its always the man, so he has to be doing something wrong... and then you blame the guy who was trying to do the right thing for his kids, and let her ass off the hook. You're sucking that feminist tit pretty hard.
She knows she will be alone if she fucks up with her 2nd husband, and he is a spineless wimp who lets her run his life, which is what she wanted. All the benefits with none of the responsibility.
A girl is kinda different at 20 than when she is 25, and they can hide the bipolar and borderline when it suits them. Now I know what to look for, when I was 25, I had no clue what the hell bipolar was, what to look for, or how to deal with it. 25 years later, I am an expert at spotting it in them.
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