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I think that Trump would have happened without Trump, so to speak, but it is pretty funny that the guy who seized the growing nationalistic reaction to NeoCons and Neoliberalism is a New York real estate weirdo rather than someone like Meatball Ron or Lying Ted or one of the other GOP "up and comers" from the early-mid 2010s. But it does make sense, the in-house Republican (future) leaders hadn't really broken with the quasi-libertarianism and interventionism that had been party doctrine for decades so someone outside the party machine was needed to break in and realign things to where the base was going.

Well I'm not looking forward to Israel setting off the Third Impact but I guess that's on the menu.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised but Israel is just comically evil at this point. Detonating pagers in grocery stores is like something you'd see a terrorist do in an Indian ripoff of Die Hard.

"I can use it too — far better than they can — but I don’t." Lmao

That snow looks refreshing tbh. Here the weather is a normal 95F/35C after getting a bit colder due to all the rain the last few weeks. Of course Houston is swampland and extremely humid, so the "feels like" temp is closer to 110 F/42C. Which is probably the second hottest summer in my lifetime, only beaten by 2023 and likely only because 2023 was a drought. Completely normal, God's in his heaven all is right with the world. Anyways I've been working way too damn hard and am utterly exhausted.

Ok so after having missed most of the debate while it was going on, I have to say it went largely how I expected. Trump was totally incoherent while Kamala was a mayo sandwich. I don't think that this will really change anyone's mind and wish Kamala would have broken differently than she did, but she's clearly attempting to hold a big tent together. I do very much think that this is going to be a very close race and would not be surprised if Trump wins because the dems lost Muslims, which sounds ****ing insane after the Muslim Ban **** but you gotta admit the dems sure do know how to grab defeat from the jaws of victory. I think the biggest surprise was honestly Trump's appearance, he's clearly doing work to not seem as old and the result was uncanny in a very bad way. Between the obvious dye job and whatever drug ****tail they pumped into him before getting on stage it made him look and act much weirder than he would as just an almost octogenarian, and not just because of the nonsense. We can and should laugh at the nonsense like "they're eating the dogs" or "transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison" but I found it very sad. If he wasn't a gigantic piece of **** I'd honestly feel very sad for Trump, his children and other clingers are letting him embarass himself because they know without him they're completely irrelevant. I can see it in a few cases, like weighing whether they can pull the lever for Kamala despite being disgusted with the dems or are still hoping for the Human Instrumentality Project to happen. But I don't see how someone could be on the fence about Trump, it's been a decade and everyone knows who he is by now, everyone I know either LOVES or HATES him, there is no in-between. Dr Pepper? I didn't know you were from Texas. Anyways, I think that Israel really doesn't want peace and that it would be political suicide for any political figure there to campaign on it. Israel is getting very nationalistic because those settlements are pretty much the perfect incubator to turn people into fascists and settlements are growing rapidly because they're much cheaper than paying rent in Tel Aviv. They may be forced into peace, not because of Donald Trump scaring Hamas or Kamala's weird auntie laugh, but because the IDF is getting worn out at doing actual fighting and Israel's military may not be able to stand even with tons of US support.

Transgender surgeries on illegal aliens in prison.

1. Trump could publicly play video of himself sexually abusing children with Epstein and it would not impact the 40-something % that buys into the cult. 2. Not only that, but I really think that she's blowing what boost she got from Biden by not being hard on Israel generally and Netanyahu specifically. An American citizen was recently shot by an IDF sniper and so far it's been crickets from all of the dems, which is certainly not helping with the perceptions that dems do not have much compassion for Muslims. The dems NEED the Muslim vote to win and they're absolutely failing to really do some pretty easy things that show they give two ****s about Muslims. Right now it would not surprise me if Trump wins because Kamala lost by the hair that is Muslim voters. 3. I'm probably not going to watch it lmao. Look, if you've seen one Trump debate you've seen them all. He's going to spew tons of horse**** which is going to be sanitized by the media to not make him look completely unhinged. I do not think Kamala is going to say anything noteworthy, if she does I'll be pleasantly surprised browsing tonight or tomorrow. 4. I think that Kamala really needs to hit him on abortion and labor, where he is extremely vulnerable. To boot, the dems need to come out against the car dealerships, that's THE Republican base and they're almost universally reviled by anyone who has to interact with them. It's time to go after the Republican base in the same way Republicans go after unions. 5.

Neon Genesis Evangelion and End of Evangelion - I have the Third Impact song stuck in my head. Does this hold up? Absolutely, no question. There's something disturbing about seeing the classic animation before CGI was an option, and honestly it's ****ing terrifying. There's just something so raw about it...I can honestly emphasize with Gendo now in a way I couldn't before and that's ****ing me up. Not afraid to admit I cried at the omenitau sequence and by god I think that's a near perfect ending. Anyways I guess I'll see how I take the rebuilds whenever I get to them again.

An American Werewolf In London (1981) A componently made horror flick that has no poetry in it's soul. Perhaps as a viewer I am tainted with the knowledge Landis is a piece of **** (sorry to insult excrement by comparing it to Landis) but I found the film to be hollow. It's pretty but I find it lacking, I think it just lacks substance to make it anything more than 20 minutes of Werewolf with over an hour of an unlikeable **** floating through Jolly Olde England. Mulholland Drive (2001) - KP rewatch I don't know how many times I've seen this film, but I think this time made me think of my father a lot. If Naomi Watts had only made this film she would deserve to be remembered as an actress of a generation, the shift between bright-eyed up and coming starlet to a battered and tired woman bitter about having been abandoned by everything brings echoes of Ergo Proxy's examination of raison d'etre. Glued together by Lynch's trademarked surrealism, this dream reminds us of the hell of waking up. Not as iconic for me as Lost Highway, but still one of the best films ever made.

Actually I think Trump is a good model here, make Twitter a containment like whatever Trump's Twitter fork is called and let them spiral in their own containment box. Let them spend hours posting instead of bothering others.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) I enjoyed it. I think that I would have preferred it if it was more like other Mad Max films taking place during a single conflict instead of an origin story, but preferences aside the film was solid enough. The cgi means that visually it can be lacking but for me at least it wasn't as grating as superhero trash. I hope if they do another Mad Max there's a big twist reveal that the rest of the world is still normal but only Australia has descended into chaos. Drive-Away Dolls (2024) Not gonna lie, serious contender for movie of the year. Ethan Cohen still has the Fargo juice and really pumped it to make this.

I had a roach fly at me the other day, for an animal that you can kill pretty easily it's funny how people instinctively tend to scream or fall into a fighting game stance when they see one (I did both). But they look creepy and feel worse if you happen to rub against one with bare skin, so **** em. I also have to say that I'm surprised majestic would go with that. Maybe he's healing from the Rebuilds and NuTrek and can finally laugh at them. Or maybe Diamond is Unbreakable broke his mind to the point anything seems normal compared to a David Bowie impersonator with a hand fetish being chased by a gang of high school students.

It looks like a worse version of Dragon's Dogma or a more melee centeic Mass Effect. Too slow to be exciting and too fast to be tactical.

But that human element gets in the way of PURE IMAGE AND SOUND! Imagine if instead of developing the characters or polluting cinema with pesky dialogue Ridley Scott gave us 4 hours of concept art with booming scifi music! Now that would be pure cinema.

RFKJR gets on his knees and swallows more than his pride. Watch the 2 min clip of his speech, it's perhaps the most pathetic thing to come out this election cycle and that is really saying something. I guess the worm ate the part of his brain that could remember there is a current military adventurism besides Ukraine Trump is not only behind but wants to escalate, even with Biden backing it to the ridiculous and shameful degree that he is. The **** about cleaning out corporate influence and protecting free speech is slightly less risible, but only slightly.

Lmao

They tried to get me but my brain was too poisoned for them. The one thing that really made me think about RFK is that aside from the vaccine stuff, he's not really got anything to him. I like to think he was chosen as someone Republican donors thought would peel centrist voters but they are so out of touch they thought anti-vaXXX was a selling point.

Given who was funding and working for RFKJR, the big surprise here is that it took this long. I guess Kamala was the big thing that caused it, but as far as I can tell RFKJR was already starting to disappear months before. Kinda funny to humiliate yourself like that to have to beg for a job from a guy known for wanting other men to "get on their knees" for him. Was GD a RFKJR guy? I thought he was a Libertarian Party stalwart?

Picard is both too long and hard to watch, as that is what I was watching with my dad before he passed. So it's the Rebuilds or Twin Peaks, and it's been longer since I've seen the Rebuilds.

Just the original series....for now. EoE and Rebuilds are on the menu soon, but there are a few movies I want to see before I go back to the anti-universe.

It seems a disjointed mess that hastily ties up the previous seasons in a package that doesn't fit. The weight of the sacrifice feels empty and I honestly think ending at s3 would have been a better finale. Moreover, the rest of the season just feels bland, which is a shame because Jean and Gene are hilarious as villains and the show has done crazy fun stuff before. Just not a good time. Funnily enough, I just rewatched NGE. That ending works much better thematically and actually is well done in terms of composition. Certainly better than merging with a cgi blob for plot induced stupidity.

Umbrella Academy s4 - The End of Umbrella Academy It's not very good. Gene and Jean are probably the high points but everything else feels below the standards of previous seasons, which already did feel like generally decline. Not GoT final season bad but very much going out with a whimper. Guess that's better than most Netflix shows tho lmao. It feels like the opposite if NGE in a lot of ways

Well that sucks.