The Tragedy of Being Blue-Haired in a Trump World!

Wired Magazine, a periodical that has become tired, Leftist, and boring, has a story - really, a Heart-Rending Plight of a young woman, bored during the epidemic, who decides to revitalize her life during the mandatory Portland, OR shutdown by coloring her hair a Bright Blue.

As, who has NOT contemplated that?

Alas, she lives, not in the Vibrant Central Portland, but along the fringes, where the closed factories, auto dealerships, and Trump-supporting Haters also co-exist. If co-exist could be considered the right correct word for such an uneasy living situation.

It was a COMPLETE surprise that making such a public statement with her bizarre hair color choice might trigger the Truly Horrifying Episode of the driver of a Trump-emblazoned vehicle hurling the Explosive and Threatening Assault Comment at her:

I was walking along a busy road in southeast Portland, Oregon, when a pickup truck pulled alongside me. It had a flagpole mounted to either side of the bed, flying Trump 2020 on one side and the Thin Blue Line flag on the other. The driver—a florid-faced white man in a ball cap and dad sunglasses—leaned out the window as the truck coughed by. “Nice ass, commie bitch!” he called. I didn’t have time to do much more than flip him off and hope he caught it in his rearview.

Oh, the Humanity! True, the end of the Assault Comment attempted compliment was more than a bit crude (if somewhat truthful), but it is hard to envision this as The Worst Thing EVER.

Let's ask a few questions:

• In a time when volunteer opportunities abound, from assembling food donations for distribution to the money-challenged masses, to checking on home-bound neighbors, to organizing a neighborhood grocery pickup (which would minimize the need for multiple people to interact in public), to helping out online students with tutoring, why the hell would you decide that the only thing that would relieve your boredom would be to spend money painting your locks with not-found-in-nature color?
• Was that the REAL story of their interaction? Not one, but TWO offensive (to her) flags - Trump 2020 AND the Thin Blue Line? "Florid-faced"? Why don't you just drop the euphemism, and call him a Redneck? Pick-up Truck? Ball Cap and dad sunglasses? Is there a stereotype that she FAILED to put in there?
• I'm not surprised that the guy yelled, "Nice a$$". Sadly, that is the high point of many men's ability to come up with a compliment. But, the "Commie Bitch" part strikes me as phony. Not a phrase beloved by the Rednecks, or common since the 1960s. Gonna call B$ on that, too.
• She had NO idea that the Blue Hair would trigger a response - none, whatsoever! Really? When just mentioning a red ball cap (even without the 4 Letters of Fear) is sufficient to place one's affinities in plain sight, would it be surprising that Blue Hair MIGHT be associated with Progressive/Leftist/AntiFa?

So, yeah, I'm going to assume that the REAL reason for the hair is specifically to provoke a response. Which, she got.

End of story.