PK htiw klaw eriF

Many people are saying it's the perfect size and any bigger would be too much.

I don't think so, not in the sense that Trump will not sacrifice Noem, but in the sense that he'd back down. This is what Magats want, to see "blue" cities and states conquered by Trump's paramilitary (****, you can scratch off the para) and occupied to bring them in line. The killings of "antifa supersoldier domestic terrorists" is an intrinsic part of this, not an unfortunate accident, and if you look at what the magats are saying to each other they do view this as part of "taking the country back". Trump and the Republicans are almost certain to get bulldozed in the midterms, but you have to keep in mind that Trump is a dementia-addled omegaboomer who consumes almost exclusively Fox News and Truth Social posts so he probably thinks this is the most popular thing in the history of our country. To boot, whoever is in the room at any given time is effectively the president and that seems to mostly be Stephen Miller.

While going after Bill now is certainly not motivated by a desire to see justice done, I personally don't care if he does get caught up over that because he sure as well was/is very good friends with a lot of the other Epstein guys and probably did do that ****. While he's there he can tell them about another guy him and Jeff hung out with in the aughts.

Honestly, the vast majority of series would probably be improved by swapping out the ending for playing Come Sweet Death while humanity is merged into a collective being. Unironically, Omedetou out of nowhere is better than 90% of what actually happens. But at the very least in this case, it would show exactly what Vecna was trying to do. The Mindflayer is already capable of manifesting irl, or at least was until they retconned it into a D-tier Godzilla enemy, so his plan had to have been more than just bridging the gap between worlds to invade it from Mexico The Abyss. I'm struggling to articulate this well, but my thoughts on the final season is that it is at the same time too long and too short (ie bloated runtime without doing anything real) as well as that it feels like it was made to end an alternative series where evil Sarah Connor was a threat from the start or the supernatural hell dimension was always just a bridge. Like my memory is not the best but the Abyss just came out of nowhere and just contradicts the feel of every existing monster.

JD Vance is a sniveling pig man who doesn't even have the spine to defend his wife and children.

For me I think abolishing ICE is the bare minimum at this point, and we've still got 3 years of more in store for us. Democrats really need to hammer home how horrible it is instead of capitulation to Trump on immigration. I think there is more than enough corruption to purge the US government of all Trump appointees, everything from the Supreme Court to a dog catcher. Not sure how feasible it is or if the political will is there, but the precedent has been set. Frankly, I think if Democrats win the presidency in 2028 it will just be Biden again where they just try to forget about it in the name of normalcy.

I guess we've reached the stage of occupation forces murdering people in broad daylight in Trump 2.0. Someone from Minnesota, like @Bartimaeus I believe, may correct me on it, but this is apparently a 15 walk from where George Floyd was suffocated. Really ****ed up, ICE needs to be abolished and Nuremberg 2 should happen for ICE specifically but probably the whole US government. It was.

Elon Musk already has taken his wife.

The End of Stranger Things The final season is more forgettable than anything else. I don't want to rehash too much of what's already been said about it, but honestly I remember maybe 15 minutes worth of stuff out of a 2 hour movie.

Man, Trump is really trying everything to bury the Epstein stuff. So the policy of the Trump regime is that the US can't hold the US president accountable for crimes, but they can kidnap presidents of other countries and put them on trial in the US? Seems pretty insane, but the whole operating procedure of the Trump regime is to act like a cartoonishly evil government from the movies so I guess this tracks. Would be kinda funny if arresting Maduro and putting him on a show trial for the trumped up nonsense of being a fentanyl kingpin fails spectacularly.

OH MY GOD!

Cronos (1992) - Remastered I think you can sort of file this in the same category as the Midnight Mass miniseries as a world where vampire fiction doesn't exist. Also it takes place during Christmas and New Year's, so I guess it's a holiday thing just like Midnight Mass. Anyways, I enjoyed it quite a lot. The scenes of the Chronos device remind me quite a lot of Lynch's Eraserhead sequences, and you can hear Lynch's influence throughout the film. It's very much a Del Torro film throughout, and you can see clearly how this is the guy who would go on to make Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy.

I liked Uncle from Another World as a pisstake (and DIO) but for the most part the only entertainment I get from Isekai is from the ridiculous names, like "I'm the villainess so I'm taming the final boss".

The democrats' ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory is truly amazing. What the hell was the point of extending the shutdown if you were just going to cave anyways? Even if there is, they just threw out what leverage they had so it's doubtful it would pass. I swear, these clowns would lose a game of chess to a dog.

Honestly that sounds fairly sane given the state of the world.

That's rough on a good day. Between that and the gluten intolerance I guess broth or maybe unsweetened plant/nut milk is the things you can have until the gums heal?

I had mine pulled before covid, honestly can't remember when. It was not a great time, hopefully you can still eat dairy or something filling in the meantime @Bartimaeus

The bots are convincing me the Luddites were right.

I think beyond aesthetics, Trump and his orbit view the military as a tool to conquer their domestic opponents and part of his and Kegseth's rambling pep rally is to try to prep for this. Obviously it's worth nothing that what Trump wants and what Trump will actually be able do are not the same thing, but it's credulous to pretend that Trump isn't a reactionary authoritarian trying to grab power and dominate his perceived enemies.

I made a cognac sour with amaretto because I ran out of cointreau for sidecars and it works out well enough, I imagine an inverted version of Morganthaler's Amaretto sour would hot better though.

I didn't realize that was the season finale. Ah well, show is still great

I think the thing that strikes me the most about the beatiification of Kirk (apologies to @Malcador for stealing it, but it fits too well) is how little of it outside of the anti-reality bubble of fascists and adjacents (who think Kirk being a propagandist is based and good) actually features Kirk's own words. Kirk is probably one of the most recorded men in history but there many are columns from "respectable" liberals and centrists that somehow manage to not include a single word of his when eulogizing him. It's insane to me how suddenly we have to pretend a guy who had been showing us just who he is for a decade is someone completely different. Obviously I don't think he should have been killed (hello Kash). It's a decent explanation of how most reactionary media works, but the people who need it most extend the benefit of the doubt to people in the orbit Kirk was a part of out of ideological motivations rather than logical. The right generally and Trumpworld specifically have made particular podcasts their go-to media engagements. It'd be a surprise if he wasn't.

I think it may not even last a month. Yeah, the kid is almost certainly a Groyper who hated Kirk for being a different kind of reactionary. If you look into it, left-wing extremist acts typically involve more property damage while right-wing goes for body count. I understand that it'll upset some people, but I could give a **** about broken windows or red paint when compared to people dying.

As I see it there are three possibilities.