retreading the same ground this soon

Nobody asked, but the first movie came out in 2001, which was 25 years ago. The time between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace was 16 years. Indiana Jones 4 was 19 years after The Last Crusade. Gladiator II was 24 years after Gladiator, and people were asking why bother after such a long time. “Oh, but the most recent one came out way later than 2001!” Yep. 2011. 15 years ago. It’s older than Gangnam Style.

I’m not that interested in this new Potter show, but let’s not pretend that the movies just came out a couple years ago. Time is just speeding by. You didn’t have back pain when you first saw quidditch on the big screen, but you do now.

We got beloved octogenarians, now a hated octogenarian and child rapist; almost there. I’d love to open that particular bottle of bourbon in 2026.

Ah okay. Phew. I thought that was part of the ackchyually haha.

Where I come from, 13-16 years old is not yet a grown woman. Those qualify as children. Girls, not women.

Rs are incredibly unpopular right now, which is why an R+30 district might flip blue, like I said. Why are you anticipating a red wave? I think it’s unlikely to get a Fetterman-proof majority in the Senate, but the House is almost certainly flipping blue. Local races are also likely flipping blue. It’s important to temper expectations, but I don’t understand your position or even the point of stating it.

Did you even read the article of this post?

Good thing she’s doing more than that then? I live in the district that she’s running in, and it would be enough to just not be Ben Cline, but she actually has ideas. Read the article if you want to know a couple of them. She’s not the exciting progressive that I want, but she’s somebody who actually has the ability to turn an R+30 district blue right now. It’s absurd that that’s even on the table, but that’s just how badly Rs are fucking up lately.

They are, but it’s because that’s just how that ugly mf looked. Probably a genetic disorder from inbreeding or something.

Nobody is scared of you. People just don’t like you flooding feeds with pointless slop. You’re actively making communities shitty, and I wish you would just lurk instead of poisoning the well.

Dearest Daddy Trump,

We are loving that you did the dumbest shit ever which has allowed us to double the prices of our product overnight. There has barely been a change in consumption because we’ve nested so deeply into everybody’s standard of living. There’s no point in doing anything to resist the rising price; it’s not like you’re eligible for reelection. Just keep our shit flowing and we’ll donate, what, a million to Ivanka’s campaign? If you don’t, then we don’t. What’s it gonna be? Miss out on a million bucks just to maybe win back a few dozen losers? Fuck em. If they’re turning their disloyal backs on you now, they’re liable to do it again over the next bumbling fuck up. You’ll get your monuments either way. Let’s wet our beaks together. It’s our time in the sun, so let’s enjoy it while we can.

Sincerely,
Oil executives

P.S. Wanna swap 12 year olds when we get together at Christmas? We sure do love that raping children makes our tiny peepees look and feel like normal size dicks. <3

I was hoping somebody other than me would remember that!

He’s so far right that he’s popping out on the left like in Kid Icarus. Did you hear about those $5k socialism checks? EVs are getting adopted en masse. Now reducing beef in diets? What’s next, common sense gun control? Fully legalized cannabis? Trust busting?

What is war, but the quest for peace (on my terms)?

No, that’s Shrek. It’s about a brother and sister having to save their parents, who they’ve just learned are ex-spies.

I recognize the possibility of a tin foil hat, but bear with me: what if they don’t want to talk about those 1000 more pressing issues? What if this is just an interesting enough distraction to get to the weekend and then they count on people being busy and then kinda just forgetting shit by Monday? Every question about this is taking the place of what might otherwise be a question about the trump epstein files. Or Iran. Or Chinese dominance. Or the collapsing economy. Or people getting sick. Or thing after thing after thing. There are zero wins, but we can’t help but talk about the FBI being open to hiring horse fuckers or whatever because that’s the hot new story.

Then you pay it, fuckface. Subsidize all gas from your personal billions, you corrupt, greedy, narcissistic, pedophile. That’s all you’d have to do to get approval ratings above 40% again, but you won’t, because your greed outweighs your pride. You actively hurt people because your wrath outweighs your sloth. Don’t think for a second that we haven’t noticed your gluttony, your lust, and your envy. There has never been a greater candidate for the antichrist. I hope there is a hell just for this rotten pile of hate to burn in torment there for eternity. The world truly would have been a better place if Donald John Trump had never been born. The damage is done, so there’s no point in advocating for violence against him now, but it’s notable because there are so few people in history that that can be said about. Humans in totality are worse off for the birth and life lead by a select few real monsters. He is one of them.

I wish fear and sorrow and anguish upon him for every breath he takes so that he may feel some fraction of the pain he has inflicted upon everybody who was forced to share the planet with him. Not for vengeance, but for some semblance of justice that I don’t believe he will ever face. God have as much mercy on his soul as he has had for anybody other than himself.

Yes, massive improvement over youngkin. She’s a letdown occasionally, but overall I’m proud to say she’s my Governor.

Barely over two weeks ago, yes. They were just off for a month, now off for another two months. Suck shit, Mike Johnson. Take the rest of your career off.

Yeah, and they just had a month off. They’ve been back like 2 weeks.

There only so much that the Senate can do without the House. This is dereliction of duty, and Mike Johnson needs to suffer some consequences. Discharge petition, maybe? The House should absolutely not be in recess right now. If anything, this should be the nail in the coffin for their majority.

Dems can just air ads saying “House Republicans decided to take two months off right before this election? Why? Because they care more about campaigning for the job than actually doing the work that the job requires. Costs are up, debt is up, the illegal war is a failure, and people are getting sick; instead of working to find solutions, they’re running home scared.”

Republicans either think that they just need to hide and run out the clock to win a rigged election, or they’re spending two months campaigning their asses off to try to win elections they have no business winning, given the state of things. Either way, it’s disqualifying to subvert democracy in this way.

But if he consistently votes with Rs, then there’s no meaningful majority to speak of. VP is president of the Senate and breaks ties, so including him as a D, Ds would need at least 52-48 in the Senate to do anything at all since the votes could only ever be as high as 51-49; if just one more defects on a vote, it’s 50-50 and Vance breaks the tie.

Unless committees or something like that are influenced by party control by name and not through real votes. That would be dumb as hell, so that’s probably how it works.

Did we ever stop?