GrouchyGrouse [he/him]

I just think they’re neat

Probably the most impactful and prescient film I witnessed in my life.

We could save a lot of money if we paid the rat to bite her instead of Gil Scott-Heron’s sister.

I finally understand why they called it DreamWorks

Being ruled over by the people from the TV sucks and is extremely fitting for the times we live in.

Someone once told me that time is a flat circle.

I think my favorite ones are when I can’t tell if it’s some actual complaining about us or one of us mocking their complaints

True, which explains why the liberals bought into the narrative of Russiagate and the theater of Mueller Reports and all that bullshit, which was a farcical mirror of the Clinton (both of them) hearings about Libya and blowjobs. They really thought it might work but the whole Nixon debacle proved it was toothless spectacle, even when they tried going after some domestic side crime instead of the massive criminal actions taken by default as a president of empire.

The “success” of Watergate was actually huge poison pill. It got Nixon to resign and appeared to work. But the subsequent pardon and the vector (some domestic skullduggery, to borrow your word) ensured that the business as usual of killing countless innocents abroad would forever remain beyond reproach.

Marg bar, you know, the thing.

The Republicans stole a presidential election and the Democrat’s response was to LET IT HAPPEN because fighting it would be too divisive. From there we get the Global War on Terror and the Patriot Act, and that is the high water mark. Those policies were never reversed. Nobody responsible suffered personal consequences, let alone political or criminal consequences.

This right here. Anybody who tries to downplay the tectonic significance of these events is either stupid or lying.

Seeing the current reality requires viewing history not as a series of discreet disconnected events but a continuum with each new event born from the previous. On some level the democrats understand that holding the republicans accountable would necessitate holding themselves complicit.

And by marketing their desire to “let bygones be bygones” as some gesture toward institutional stability and legitimacy (while actually deflecting from their own collaboration) they have done more harm to institutional legitimacy than the republicans ever could manage alone.

Look I hate Trump’s policies, I think he’s an existential threat to democracy, the rule of law, due process, and my cheap treats. I think he’s profaning the sacred. But he is the president, by golly, and I am a proud American.

Also he invoked the “I’m da baby, gotta love me” defense from the 90’s sitcom Dinosaurs

Ten months later:

“you are under arrest and found guilty by the court of me, a deputized Christian nationalist”

“this is exactly like a USSR-CPC gulag archipelago animal farm”

The answer is Oklahoma. They made a big blob around where Oklahoma is now, called it “Indian Territory” and forced the natives to go live in an inhospitable shithole alongside other groups they might have hated. We will never know exactly how many died. We will never know the true cultural loss and impact. They didn’t care to write it down. What they did care about was continuing to shrink the territory via expansion for decades until they found oil and other shit and voila it became a state.

Okay found the energy for snark: you don’t do it in your own country but then later you annex it to make it your country.

Because

Whoever taught them the word “incel” is first into the pit

You can probably glue it back on with some super glue. Just a little on the edges of the rubbery cover should do it.

If you want something less permanent just slap some clear packing tape over it. You’ll still have enough “give” in the tape to push the buttons and since it’s clear you can read what’s under the tape. Then if you want to try a bigger fix later you can remove the tape.

I cast Spicy Chili at the Roidgoblin

Roll for damage

Regardless of the order, whoever is standing on Alex Jones is standing on his roid gut, not his shoulders.