#to be honest even if he said some shit like I LOVE JOE BIDEN i doubt anyone would say anything too. he prob thought he was a martyr in that

[morrgbaby]

at a rest stop in ohio and some crusty guy comes in shouting “let’s go brandon” and when no one responds he continues “come on! you know the saying! joe biden is not our president he’s a fool!” like you look like a clown.

#to be honest even if he said some shit like I LOVE JOE BIDEN i doubt anyone would say anything too. he prob thought he was a martyr in that #ohio turnpike rest stop. like dude… tbh? idk anyone who LIKES joe biden like that’s gotta be a really small group of people. #i feel like trump supporters think everyone who doesn’t like trump kneels at the throne of joe biden. let’s be real for a minute. #joe biden is a fool tbh.. he was right abt that but like dude ur being a public nuisance. does your dick feel big in those jean shorts?

[homieswithhades]

you're one of the few i follow who talks about bucky and so here i am once again in your inbox because the whole way the MCU has approached bucky is just not it. you know? they wrote themselves in a hole. they don't know how to respond exactly with his popularity as a character and no homo'd his most important relationship so hard they're two dudes chilling in two different timelines because it's not gay. the whole 'made amends' thing is just wrong and terrible. bucky didn't do anything wrong! hydra did. hydra used him and yet the narrative has placed it on his shoulders. i enjoyed tfatws but i think there were quite a few odd character writing choices.

hiya !! lovely 2 see u in my inbox again <33

(two bros chilling in 2 different timelines cos theyre not gay killed me bdw)

oh 100% bucky has been mishandled by marvel, i wanna say since the very end of cacw. catfa bucky was splendid and amazingly written, super in character, like That's My Bucky.

catws bucky was obviously brainwashed but (even tho the russos had their grimy little hands on this one) again, amazingly written and handled esp thanks to seb.

it starts to go a little awry at the end of cacw. it was fine when bucky said "i dont know if im worth all this steve" nd steve replies "what you did all those years, it wasnt you. you didnt have a choice" bc this. THIS was the perfect way to be handling buckys trauma. and steve was the ONLY person who could do that. im sorry, but not even sam, whos a licenced councellor, could do that for bucky. the first red flag was before bucky went into cryo and NONE of his fears/feelings were dealt w beforehand. he just goes "i cant trust my own mind" and yoink into the freezer he goes! cacw wasnt terrible w handling bucky, but it did waste a lot of potential with discussing and exploring his character and what he went through. probably bc wuhhh a man cant have FEELINGS and GOD FORBID he show and express them in a HEALTHY WAY in a superhero movie !! (that should have been averngers: civil war, bdw. marvel u actually owe us ca:serpent society)

black panther end credits. what the fuck. is all im gonna say. russos overdosed on how can we make this guys "road to recovery" LOOK like its going like pure shit but not explain why, how, when, who and where.

infinity was a sorta a fucking joke iwel. there were some good parts like the steve and bucky reunion eg. "not bad, for the end of the world" (gives me catfa vibes 😭) and "steve?" being the last words bucky said before being dusted, ik bucky wasnt supposed 2 be the focus in this movie but the fact that they made him fight again after he was supposedly "cured" (see: "semi-stable 100 year old man") was cruel and lacked the exploration it needed to justify it.

endgame is self explanatory. shit movie all-round, pain for everybody in the audience!! it was more of a mishandling of steve rather than bucky, but if we're talking abt bucky specifically, he was more neglected than mishandled. not being bothered to do his metal arm? not showing us the convo he supposedly had with steve before he left? not showing us his reaction to steves joe biden cosplay? horrible. terrible, couldn't have gone worse. once again, seb did ALL the heavy lifting. he is 99% of buckys character.

all of this doesn't even take into account steve and buckys relationship. they are the absolute focal points of each other’s characters, and it was all not just swept under the rug, but the floor was then set on fire, the room burnt to a crisp, the house demolished and then launched into oblivion.

and now to adress what u actually asked, tfatws. i also enjoyed it, but that doesnt mean i think PERSONALLY that it was well written (and thats okay). i do understand it was supposed to deal w sam more than bucky, which it did, but if im being brutally honest, tfatws bucky didnt.... feel like bucky..... which isnt to say seb didnt do a good job, bc he carried what was left of buckys character from the writing, but it was like watching the wrong shoe being put on the correct foot, if that makes sense. bucky was treated like the bad guy, stoic and pissy. "guy with a staring problem", comic fucking relief. govt mandated therapy, constant dismissal, and being thrown back into a fights without it being acknowledged why first. i have no issue w characters who want to keep fighting regardless of trauma (see: john watson) but they NEED the verbal acknowledgement AND the right support system for that plot to be acceptable and sustainable. tfatws did none of that. they reduced bucky to Cap's sidekick again (even tho he wasnt steves sidekick, it feels like he is sams imo pls dont kill me 😭). none of what should have been dealt with was dealt with, because marvel tried to solve literally global, macro-scale problems without even acknowledging the ones at home.

as sweet and technically good the ending of tfatws was, it was badly writtten, at least for bucky. marvel will never climb out of the hole, to use your words, they wrote themselves into, because of 1) the thanos storyline, snap and blip (what the fuck marvel, genuinely) 2) timeline bullshit and 3) steve leaving.

its almost like his actual character development was put on hold for tfatws. it'll be forever up in the air, with no real closure, unless everything and more that i talked about is mentioned. he'll never have the ending he actually deserves.

please do remember, characters are supposed to have arcs, not 90 degree descents into the fucking ground.

#shit #long post #my bad 😭😭😭 #this is the stuff that actually shifts my brain into overdrive but i like talking abt it so thank u for this ask !!!! #buckybarnesss #i could genuinely write a dissertation on this and it would fucking bang #anyway i hope at least some of this makes sense #meta #marvel meta #bucky meta #hades' asks

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

More justice, more freedom

Michael John Tallon

"I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from political news. After the Progressive Caucus successfully killed the shit-heal efforts of renegade conservative Dems to separate the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill from the Build Back Better Bill (and thereby forced actual negotiations), I figured it was safe to turn away for a hot minute. Once that happened, once it drove the two sides - the renegade conservatives, very reluctantly - to the bargaining table, the only honest commentary would be that the blender blades were in motion, and no one outside the room could possibly have any idea what's actually going on. 

Now, apparently, we’re near a resolution. That means a few things are almost undeniably true. First, lots of important work will be jettisoned from the final bill, and that will rightly enrage many, many Progressives, some of whom will argue that we must “stand our ground” and tank the whole package. The second thing that will be equally true is that that inclination, while understandable, must be resisted. No matter how unpleasant and imperfect a package, my sense is that we’re gonna have to swallow hard against the reflex to retch and swallow. That is because, even if Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are total assholes, they aren’t a proximate existential threat to our future or our freedom. That’s the other guys – the real-life fascists of Capitol Hill. Moreover, given the genuinely screwed-up media market we live under, any failure to pass the Biden Agenda would NOT engender the beginning of welling support for the Progressive cause. Rather, it would be trumpeted endlessly and on all channels as a “Disaster for the Democrats” It would be a nuclear torpedo in our side come the midterms. 

To sweeten that deeply unpleasant reality, I’d only offer the observation that EVERY Progressive effort in the history of history has resolved with an admonition to our warriors in the field that “the work must go on.” Emma Goldman never got up in front of a crowd and said, “That’s it, guys! We won!” There was never a fireside chat from FDR suggesting to Democrats the time was upon them to rest. Dr. King never gave a speech in which he said, “the moral arc of the universe is now sufficiently bent," and he never, ever would. The very nature of our political movement is to be righteously dissatisfied with the state of the world. We work for “progress,” and “progress” is an action, not a definable place. So, when it comes to these twin bills, we've simply got to take what the pols negotiated and then head back into the endless battle for a better world.No matter how watered down the reconciliation bill might be, my sense is that we're going to have to support it. Then we turn to the next fight – one that will involve figuring out how to “Make Manchin Meaningless” in 2022 by electing more Democrats to the upper house so that we might finally kill the filibuster. Then, after that, we'll turn to 2024 and our efforts to eject Senator Sinema from her seat so fast that she'll look like a few frames from a Roadrunner cartoon. All that can be done, but not just yet.  

For years now, I’ve not understood why Progressives would want it to be any other way - but that wasn't always the case. I used to get a lot angrier about stuff. It was probably my health issues back in 2015 that finally made me realize one truly freeing political truth that - literally - eased my heart, and it's this: No matter when I die, I will die politically dissatisfied.Some folks might find that to be chilling. For some folks, that realization might turn them away from the effort it takes to constantly engage this fight. But the opposite happened to me. Back when I was really sick, it dawned on me that if I was fated to die with my ethical aspirations unquenched, then I’d better find something new to fuel myself beside hope for a faraway peace. Rather,  it seemed, that if I was never going to see the world I hope to build, that perhaps I'd be wiser to love the battle itself, to love the feeling of the swinging blade. Maybe that's not for everyone, but I'll tell you, the martial freedom of it really helps to keep me both joyful and sane. Maybe someday – a long, long, long, long, long time from now – some distant generation will see the first light of a Star Trekian new day wherein the battles for a better world are just a memory, but that ain’t gonna happen for a single one of us. 

All of us – All. Of. Us. – will die wanting more justice, more freedom, more action on climate change, more inclusion of our marginalized brothers and sisters. So, if you feel like taking my always questionable advice, embrace the wins where you can get them and celebrate what victories you can. Then, after a quick breather to recharge your enemies, storm back into the maelstrom and swing that hopeful blade. Love to you all.

Michael John Tallon

#political friends #build back better #progressives #legislation #Michael John Tallon

[dickshardblog]

For Russia With Love: The Tara Reade Story?

There are three women I know of now whose name is pronounced Tar-uh Reed. Tara Reid is an actress who starred in the Sharknado franchise. Tara Reed is an artist and designer. She designed my favorite coffee mug.  And now I've learned that there is a Tara Reade, who used to work for Joe Biden.

When I heard about the allegation that Tara Reade made against Joe Biden, I was deeply disturbed. Were Biden's hands on shoulders, close-ear talking, hair petting, and hugs something more than just an overly-affectionate guy with boundary issues and a lack of understanding of personal space? It had always looked uncomfortable, but innocent, to me. And, if it's innocent, I find it strangely endearing, despite the fact that I don't personally like to be touched by strangers.

He's not just overly familiar with females. For every picture of Joe Biden petting a little girl's hair, there's another of him with his arms around a man, gazing into his eyes, or practically kissing his ear. I could do a Google image search and come up with some pretty compelling visual evidence that Joe Biden is in love with several men. He's not. At least, I don't believe so. Some people are huggers. And Joe Biden is a hugger extraordinaire.

I think the world no longer tolerates that, but I also think it is both innocent and changeable behavior. Unlike Trump, Biden does have some sense of self-awareness, can listen to criticism, and make changes.

I'll be honest:  I really don't want the allegations to be true. I do have that bias, and I will freely admit it. I always have that bias. No matter who it is. Like any regular person, I don't want sexual assault to happen. I would hope we all have that bias. I hope that none of us would wish a woman had been sexually assaulted so we could have some ammunition against a political opponent. But I know better. There are plenty of people who really hope Biden did exactly what Reade says he did. And we all know it does happen, of course.

Tara Reade's story, when I first heard it, sounded credible. In a public, yet deserted hallway, Biden pinned her to a wall, groped her, kissed on her, and asked if she wanted to go somewhere else. When she reacted negatively, he said, "Come on, Man, I heard you liked me." Shit. That sounds like Joe Biden, I can hear him saying that. So, it sounds bad. I agree that we should listen to women. We should take them seriously. We should look into their allegations and dig until we find the truth. I let other people do the investigative journalism. I found their articles, checked their sources and compiled a pretty decent collection of truths that form a pretty cohesive picture.

Here's the truth that I have found:

In 2009, Reade wrote an article commending Biden's work on the Violence Against Women act. The same year, she wrote another article claiming that she'd left DC because her husband had received a job offer to manage a Congressman's campaign in the Midwest, and she'd moved with him.

From late 2016 to early 2017, she had a Twitter account using her newly married name, Tara McCabe.  She used this platform to praise Biden on multiple occasions.  She retweeted him saying, "My old boss speaks truth. Listen." This Twitter account also featured a lot of anti-Russia, anti-Putin sentiment.

Then, in 2018, she writes in an Op Ed for Medium which praises Russia and Putin, that she left Washington because she "saw the reckless imperialism of America and the pain it caused through out the world," and because she loved Russia with all her heart. In this article she describes Putin as a "compassionate, caring, visionary leader."

She wrote several pro-Russia, pro-Putin articles during this time, gushing over him, saying, "President Putin has an alluring combination of strength with gentleness. His sensuous image projects his love for life, the embodiment of grace while facing adversity. It is evident that he loves his country, his people and his job … President Putin’s obvious reverence for women, children and animals, and his ability with sports is intoxicating to American women … And like most women across the world, I like President Putin… a lot, his shirt on or shirt off.”

Then in 2019, she's all in for Bernie Sanders. She wrote another article, with yet a different reason for leaving, this one with the harassment allegation attached. "Then, I went to Senate personnel for help. No one helped me. I resigned or I would say, I was forced to resign."  The report she says she filed doesn't seem to exist.

When she started attacking Biden publicly, she also resumed denouncing Putin. Putin was bad again. When the media dug up her old articles praising Putin, she deleted them. Too late, of course. They can no longer be found where they were originally published, but copies were made. She now claims they were part of a novel she was writing that was set in Russia. They were clearly op-eds, not notes for a novel. No novelist I know of publishes their novel notes as op-eds while they're working on the book.

There are a whole lot of other inconsistencies, people she says she told about the incident denying any knowledge, her brother pointedly changing his story, an old neighbor of hers coming forward to say she wouldn't trust a word Reade says, and countless other glowing red flags.  But this blog is already so very long, and I haven't even gotten to the meat of what I want to talk about yet. This has all just been background, the evidence I followed to form my theory of what is going on with this. And I want to get it down before I read it somewhere else.

I've got a theory! It could be Russia!

Okay, hear me out. Here's what I think might have happened:

Sometime in late 2017 or early 2018, Reade somehow becomes involved in communications with Russia, a political operative, maybe even someone in the government. Hell, perhaps even Putin himself, a highly unlikely prospect, of course. But not outside the realm of possibility. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Putin maintains a stash of burner phones and carries on flirtatiously with American Women in his spare time. It's the stuff of spy novels, sure. Yeah, it's far-fetched, but allow me my fantastic imaginings. I am a fiction writer, after all.

But a Russian political operative of some kind becomes romantically involved long-distance with Reade. Of course it's not a real relationship, not on the Russian side. They are just using American citizens as sleeper agents they can prompt to stir up shit when it would cause the most damage.

Reade is manipulated to turn against Joe Biden and encouraged to back Bernie Sanders. Now, an aside at this point. I like Bernie. I would vote for Bernie, I'd love to see him as President. I don't believe that Bernie Sanders or his campaign are involved in any collusion with the Russian government in any way, and both he and his campaign openly discourage Russian meddling. None-the-less, there still exists evidence that Russia has interfered in ways favorable to Sanders and his campaign. Russia doesn't want Bernie Sanders as President, but some of Sanders more rabid supporters are very easily influenced by carefully placed fake news stories and are extremely useful at stirring up political infighting on the left. Alright, back to my theory.

At this time, she's also advised to stop praising Russia, so as not to raise any suspicion. And, finally, to drop that allegation bomb on Joe Biden right when it would do the most damage. Hopefully to allow Bernie Sanders to overtake Biden for the nomination, but, failing that, at least send Joe limping into the General.

Yes. In a nutshell, I think the Tara Reade allegation is simply more Russian meddling of the same sort that has been going on all along. I think, in some form or another, she is a Russian agent. Maybe there is no spy novel romance going on. Perhaps she's just being paid. But this whole thing stinks of Russia, and Russia's fingerprints are all over it.

But, hey, what do I know? I'm just a fiction author with a good imagination

#tara reade #joe biden #allegation #metoo #putin #bernie sanders #Russia #russian meddling

[arcticdementor]

Recently, a lot of you who told me I was insane when I said that Winnie the flu was all theater and though it existed and was a flu and would probably take “severe flu, no vaccine numbers” it was and is stupid to lock the sick and the healthy in, destroy the economy and make everyone wear a mask, have come back and ask how I knew. And apologized.

Well, attention in the isles, my friends on the right: you are falling for the same king of bullshit diversion. You are being spun like a top. And you’re falling for it and falling in line.

I blame you and I don’t. You didn’t grow up with the constant-pretend-reality of communist psi-ops, and you haven’t learned to smell it.

Over and over again, you condemn Trump and the “rioters.”

NO ONE RIOTED. Not compared to this summer. THERE WERE NO RIOTS. And the protesters were treated with an iron fist and live ammo, btw.

There are videos. I don’t know which ones are still live. They keep removing them. There was no riot. There was a protest. You know, those things that are vital for public health?

Did they go into the Capitol? Yes they did. You know what? It’s a public building. WE PAY FOR THE F*CKING CAPITOL’S UPKEEP.

But, but but…. the congress critters ran. They were scared!

Were they now? WHY? No, seriously, why were they scared, if the people they work for want to watch the deliberations. They’re in our presence all the time. You know the worst thing we do — or used to do — we called them traitors. That was it.

But they vandalized Nancy Pelosi’s office! Oh, my stars and garters? Evil people. Was that before or after she vandalized our constitution and sank a knife in the heart of the republic? Is the evil bitch dangling from a lamppost this morning? No? They were civilized beyond all hope.

But Sarah, you’ll say, this will give them the excuse to avenge themselves on us.

Dear idiots, you’re like the wife with her arm in a sling and both eyes blackened telling her husband “Please don’t say anything to Joe. He’ll be mad.”

In other words, are you out of your ever loving little minds? These people STOLE two elections — it’s now absolutely obvious the nominal right is fine with this. They hope for crumbs from their masters’ tables. The left is more likely to kill them, but never mind — in a row, in full view, and refused to let us have our day in court to show the evidence. Because the American people are now peons with NO STANDING and can be disenfranchised with no punishment. But you’re afraid that largely (truly) peaceful protesters “made them mad?”

Withdrawing the objection to the fraudulent votes due to the riot? That only makes sense in the mind of an abuser. “I stole your thing, and I was going to maybe give it back, but you cried, so now you don’t get it back.” Are you all actually out of your ever loving minds to blame the protesters and Trump for this?

These people are saying “You peasants dared to show up in our presence. We’re now going to take away even the illusion of franchise.” And…. you’re cool with this? It’s the protesters fault?

Get up off the floor. Wipe the blood from your lip. KNOW WHO YOUR ABUSER IS.

And BTW it’s not Trump. Trump thought maybe if congress saw how ad people were, they would play straight. I said before that’s all the protest was about, and that’s all it was. He told people to go home when it was obvious it had failed.

And I hope to G-d someone with access to him reads this and tells him it’s time. Take the family NOW and go to an undisclosed location. As much as it hurts me to say this, because I want him to continue harassing the left, he has to realize this is no longer the sweet land of liberty. This is now a tyrannical third world shithole. Or will be within months from the way our occupiers are behaving. They will find a way to kill him and his whole family, or kill him and turn his family against him. Go Mr. President. G-d bless. You’ve done all that you could. If the so called right in this country will pearl clutch and blame even people who engage in a very mild protest, they deserve what’s to come.

He now promises an orderly transition. I will tell all of you that DEAD is the most orderly of all states. And right now the Republic is effectively dead. There might be a hope for CPR, but I’m not sure there’s the will to apply it. Pence has joined the rats fleeing to the lefty rotten ship. because he hopes that will save his life. Spoiler, it won’t. The left will kill all the right who turns their coat. Because they can’t trust them. Good. They deserve it. I shall eat popcorn.

Do we ever get the republic back? I don’t know. I think the most likely thing is that we fall apart into separate states while around us the world falls into chaos, famine and misery. We’ve been feeding the world for a century. The world had better look to itself now.

What do those of us who’ve sworn an oath to the constitution do? I don’t know. Most are still busily doing a Peter in Pontius Pilates Yard “I was never with him.”

Oh, and there’s talks of rounding up Trump supporters. Of denying them flights and hotels and the ability to engage in commerce.

I suppose that’s the “protesters” fault too? Except that that, like the paper to withdraw objections because of the “protest” were already written. They would have found an excuse.

I don’t want war. But I liked having a homeland. To everyone who, like me, came here as the last place of refuge: I’m sorry. I don’t even know what to tell you. We need to fight this, but even if we do, unless the natural-born citizens see what they’re losing, it’s unlikely we’ll ever get our country back.

This morning, in DC, the police are beating down what remains of protesters. A young woman was murdered in cold blood yesterday.

And our side is pearl clutching and tut tuting, and hoping the abuser won’t get mad. Oh, and talking about 2022, because seeing two elections frauded RIGHT BEFORE THEIR EYES and courts refusing to let anyone see evidence of it is not enough. They need to be stomped on some more before they believe they’ve lost the franchise.

Me? I’ve seen what happens when your votes don’t matter. Elections will continue as a form, possibly for fifty years, if we let this bullshit go on that long. Your next president after Commie laWhorish is Michelle Obama, because the ignorant bitch hasn’t shit on us enough. She felt stupid and inferior at Harvard, and by gum, she’s going to make you grovel to pay for your sins.

But your real masters are now Winnie the Pooh and his merry band of fascists. And we know what they do and how.

I can’t get the order, but we’re about to see: social credit; the banning of conservatives from the internet; branding us as terrorists, just as they’re doing to innocent protesters; show trials; people disappearing; our money confiscated; our houses confiscated; more lock downs, to prevent revolt; more masks to promote alienation; more lies.

When people die in the famine to come, it will be Covid-19 and Trump’s fault and you’ll be required to repeat it publicly.

It wont’ last. These commies are industrial-level STUPID. It won’t last. I give them ten years, maybe, before most of the country is starving, and they have no clue what to do about it. And then it all falls apart, because unlike Venezuelans, we have no one to help and no place to run to.

Or, you know, we can stop pearl clutching and say “Hell no.” and “Molon labe” and stop repeating the lies the left wants written into history.

To lefty idiots: yes, the election was stolen. Because if it had NOT been, the left would have joined the right in demanding the courts take the case, and that it be shown to all as an honest election. Also, to lefty idiots, what the protesters — and all of us at home — want? ANOTHER ELECTION with minimum accountability. I mean, we can’t even clean the roles. There wouldn’t be enough time. We just wanted to make sure each person voted only once, and the votes were counted with full supervision.

Instead, you’re handing off the country to China, via their bought and paid for man, Biden. Yes, I know you heard good things about China. You’ll find out, along with the craven right that the leftist press makes Pravda seem honest. Enjoy the ride.

As for you and me, my friends. We’re going to eat the bread that the devil baked. Save what you can from the ruin. It won’t be much. And don’t let them into your head. NEVER let them into your head. They’re invaders. They’re oppressors. They’re thieves. Treat them as what they are. Do not comply unless you have to, and then engage in malicious compliance.

Keep the republic in your heart. Maybe there are enough of us left that it will rise again. But in the meantime, this is going to hurt and hurt badly. And the longer the restoration of law takes, the higher the butcher’s bill.

Most of you have no idea how bad it will get. Imagine your worst nightmares. Then double them. Prepare for that as best you can. You won’t be able to do much. If you’re lucky they’ll leave you your conscience.

Your country was invaded (even if the invaders were born here, their masters aren’t) and is about to be raped. The least you can do is not cooperate.

#sarah hoyt

[praphit]

Happy New Year! (hopefully, cuz... whew!)

Ugh! Let's get this year over with; what do you say?? I don't even want to rehash the year like I normally would around this time of year.

Pre-COVID seems like so long ago: We were out at bars, games, concerts, and parties of strangers. We were dancing all up on each other, we were passing the bottle around, we were grabbing all kinds of doorknobs with no concerns. Kids were planning to soon graduate and step into their hopeful, bright futures. Adults were planning vacations around the world to escape a once hopeful present.

Times were good! Look at this groundhog eating pizza. 

Not a care in the world.

And then, Thanos snapped his fingers, the world turned into shit, and we all realized how much we cared about Tom Hanks.

Can you imagine if that were literal? I think someone should get another gauntlet and turn planets into literal piles of crap. A new villain - "Poopfingers"

Ew... I know. I'm sorry.

Like I said, I don't want to talk about that stuff. I'd rather focus on entertainment instead. Join me for a few awards that I like to call "The Praphies"

MOVIE OF THE YEAR -

"WAP"

I know what you're thinking - "That's not a movie." Meh, it's movie-ish.

It's got two protagonists, whom are trapped in a mansion. It kinda reminds me of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, but instead of chocolate being manufactured, we'd got... pleasure. Who doesn't want more pleasure after the year we've had??

There's a lot of weird things happening in the mansion, so that’s good for the plot. Plus, these ladies are all about... empowerment? - I guess?

Sure.

Kylie Jenner shows up for some reason, so I'm sure she's up to something; maybe she's the villain. And according to the lyrics "there's some whores in this house". Will they get rid of the "whores"? Will they embrace the whores? Perhaps this word will be taken back, and used as a term of endearment.

As mama looks at her daughter, walking bravely back into schools some day "That's my lil whore." Maybe we're all whores - what a twist.

It's a good picture. One of Scorsese's best. He did direct it right? I think so.

BEST ACTOR -

This one was a close race for me:

Jeanise Jones (Borat 2 - on the right) 

This woman, who was not in on the joke, deserves a medal. She's the star.

Joe Exotic (The Tiger King)

Anyone standing behind Trump during those Rona briefings, who can hold a straight face.

Technically, Joe and Jeanise aren't actors, and Trump's people are... you know, TRUMP'S people, so I give the award to Mario Lopez for his role as Sexy Colonel Sanders.

Did y'all watch "A Recipe for Seduction?" It's entertaining. It was my runner-up for MOY.

SHOW OF THE YEAR -

Easy - "The Tiger King" for keeping us all together in the beginning of this 2020 corona mess.

Which leads me to MY person of the year (cuz let's be honest, Uncle Joe and Kamala... no)

The POY is -

Carole Baskin - 

We all know that she murdered her husband, and yet she took over Joe's zoo property, continues her animal rights activism while being openly weird as hell, and was last seen being applauded on "Dancing with the Stars".

Only in America.

Animated action of the year - “Soul” for bringing us this negro, 

played by Tina Fey :)

I’m just joking ( I love Tina Fey)... well, she does play him, but it’s not like that; still makes me laugh though. At least she didn’t have to worry about blackface.

I like my action flicks. They all can't be tear-jerkers like "WAP".

Which leads us to ACTION HERO OF THE YEAR --- Kiera Allen

If you saw the movie "Run" then you know this actress. She is the acrobatic, wheelchair-bound star of the movie. She is in a wheelchair in real life. In this movie she breaks through one window, climbs across a rooftop, breaks through another window, all with water in her mouth for a special finishing trick to end the scene. And she throws herself down a couple of flights of stairs. Let's see Liam Neeson try to do that!

I'm serious when I say - I expect to see her in the next "Fast & Furious" film.

Award for LEAST FUX GIVEN - Ricky Gervais, for lighting Hollywood on fire.

Athlete - TEAM JLo and Shakira

 --- sidelined me (I attempted to dance like Shakira at work) and sent souls to hell 

(that's some powerful booty shaking... and or just another example of white people being mad at brown people for existing)

SONG OF THE YEAR - 

Vin Diesel’s "Feels like I do" - not up for debate. 

Name another action star in 2020 with a single.

Album of the Year - "The Lion King: The Gift / Black is King" - by Beyonce

We didn't feel much like royalty, but at least we were being heard... well, for a lil bit; a lot more than I ever remember us being heard.

Remember when white people in Hollywood felt so much shame that they did this?

We had corporations like the NFL tryna pretend to be woke. Aunt Jemima and that Native American woman on the butter were freed

 (though they did keep the land).

White people were afraid, and thought that perhaps this album was going to spark the second coming of Black Jesus.

It's interesting -  black people protested (mostly peacefully); wanting justice, and white people got anxious.   People started rioting and looting because of injustices rooted to this country's original sin, and white people, who's ancestors committed this sin, shook their heads at us in shame. Black people and anyone (of any color) standing with them were treated as hostiles, while white people with guns, shooting at black people were hailed as heroes.

What a time. 

I wish Black Jesus really did come back to these Beyonce tunes.

Oh, and this stuff happened too

Toobin (Ha! This guy )

ASSHOLE OF THE YEAR (4 years straight)- 

Trump

It's not even close. I was going to suggest that the dude from "The Vow" being a strong runner up, but even that would be disrespectful to Trump's assholery.

The world was on fire (metaphorically and literally), and Trump as our leader, threw gasoline on it. "BLM" came along to be heard and get justice for George Floyd, and Trump convinced his worshippers that BLM is a terrorist group. He shot away protesters, so he could pose awkwardly with a bible (doing God's work - this “work” included telling us to do the opposite of what physicians around the world plead with us to do during a pandemic, pushing drugs on us that these same physicians say no to, and telling us to inject ourselves with bleach. Hallelujah!). He accused Biden of corruption (pot calling kettle black). He loses to Biden, but fights the results with zero evidence, and at the sore loser rallies, there were stabbings and arrests, to which Trump praises their efforts.

A round of applause for the Michael Jordan of Assholes.

Donald J. Trump!

RESPECT!

Lastly, The Praphie (most coveted of awards)

The nominees are -

Kaylen Ward - raised over one million dollars for the Australia fires relief, by passing out nude photos of herself... yep. Seriously, look it up. Well, maybe don’t do that:)

Michael Jordan -  "The Last Dance" was the only sports content for a sports addict like myself. MJ was the drug we needed.

Dr. Fauci - Really for putting up with us. 

Dave Chappelle - a hell of a year for him. Plus, he was dropping N-Bombs and smoking on SNL

The Fly on Mike Pence's head. 

Kamala Harris

Cardi B - just because

The winner is - Dave Chappelle

Not only for his great year in comedy (in this bleeped up year), but he has evolved into a modern day prophet. Who would have thought that the guy who made "Half Baked"

would be the one we'd seek out when racial tensions got to the highest levels this year??

Kaylen Ward would have won it, if she had continued her efforts. She could have raised some funds for Greta Thunberg. She could have used her nudity along-side protesters, or even joined doctors around the world, raising money for a vaccine. Smh. That's a shame.

In thinking about Chappelle's evolution, I'm reminded that we're all processing and changing as a result of this year. Some will change for the better, and others for the worse. Some will go to the depths only to rise up again. Regardless, of how you handle it, it's important to know who your true peeps are. Who loves you? Who’s got your back? Who do you love?  We're all going to need true peeps to help us endure. Which leads me to my slogan for next year.

"If you love something let it go, if it doesn't return to you. Hunt it down and kill it." Idk about you, but that touches my heart.

Enjoy yourselves as much as you can tonight, and by that I mean safely :) Some of you might want to consider going to bed early, just to end this year faster.

Happy New Year, everyone!

#Happy New Year #john praphit #praphitproductions.com #2020 #2021 #movies #music #animation #tv #dave chappelle #trump #kaylen ward #tina fey #soul #jlo #shakira #praphit #thanos #covid19 #wap #a recipe for seduction

[translucent-at-best]

Scatter-brained...

It’s over. Joe and Kamala won. Thank God. Now I need Instagram to get these damn election popups off this app.

The way my granddad would be calling up every single person he knows if he’d gotten to see a Black woman be elected into the second-highest office in America...

If something happens to Biden in the next four years and we get a Black woman as president? I... I can’t even imagine, to be honest, but I would really like to be able to.

I updated my resume today after nearly four years. I have done a lot of shit in that time. It feels good hearing it from others and I rarely say it to myself, but... I’m proud of me.

Just one more exam to pass and then there won’t be any paperwork in the way of me being somebody’s school counselor. That makes me simultaneously happy and very anxious.

Must remember to fill out these applications and tackle these job interviews with the confidence of a mediocre white man.

I’ve made it 29 years, 10-ish jobs, 3 internships, and 1 major project without knowing how to navigate Microsoft Excel, but I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able to get away with faking the funk. 

Whoever said people go to therapy to deal with the people in their lives who won’t go to therapy wasn’t lying at all. Lord knows I love my mama, but gaaahhhhhtdamnnnn.

The other day my cousin told me that when she thinks about what a marriage should look like, my parents come to mind. I agree, I just was surprised an outside party saw/thought the same thing.

They’ve been married over 30 years and every now and then I’ll hear them talking (muffled voices, mainly) well into the night and wee hours of the morning. That’s always amazed me. Like damn... still? Y’all are still finding shit to talk about? 

At this point, they’ve been together longer than they were single. I wonder if I have it in me to be with someone that long and through all the life stages and changes that come with knowing someone that many years.

I ain’t perfect. He’s not gonna be perfect. And yet we gotta keep waking up day after day, staring at each other night after night, deciding and making conscious efforts to choose each other. Damn.

The nerve of these niggas I like, showing up uninvited in my dreams and not fucking me. How dare y'all?

Rest in peace, Alex Trebek. I knew it had to come at some point, but the news was still shocking.

#scatter #scatter-brained

[omfgtrump]

Tale of Two Viruses: Part 27

  So the lines are drawn in the sand. In a battle for the ages the Republicans made it clear how they plan to reelect The Don. Let’s call it the “Great American Mind Fuck.”

I got to hand it to them. Turning over the production of the convention to the creators of the “Apprentice” was clever.

Producer: So what do you people have in mind for the show?

Campaign consultant: Well on a macro scale, we want you to create a character like you did on “The Apprentice.”

Producer: You mean turn a failed businessman, and a huckster, into the pillar of success and an American icon?

Campaign: Nailed it! So what we need,is a two pronged approach: a sort of high road, low road.

Producer: There’s a high road?

Campaign: A pretend one. Like in the Wizard of Oz – the yellow brick road juxtaposed with the witch and the flying monkeys. You in?

Producer: Am I in? This is brilliant. This will be my greatest creative endeavor yet.

Campaign: The flying monkey part will be easy, but it’s selling the president as a man for all people, a man of empathy, a benevolent protector, a father figure who will protect his American family.

Producer: Agreed. The flying monkey part I can do in my sleep. Protecting America from hoodlums and socialists; protecting white suburban women from the menace of undesirables who will destroy the sanctity of their cozy lives. Who do we have on board to spread the word?

Campaign: We’ve got those gun toting McCloskey’s from St. Louis who have become American heroes.

Producer: Great! We will script them to say:

“Democrats no longer view the government’s job as protecting honest citizens from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens.”

“These radicals are not content with marching in the streets. They want to walk the hall of Congress, they want to take over, they want power. This is Joe Biden’s party. These are the people who will be in charge of your future and the future of your children.”

Campaign: Fabulous stuff. We also have mad-dog House member Matt Gaetz of Florida is ready to say that the democrats want to “disarm you, empty the prisons, lock you in your home, and invite MS-13 to live next door.”

Producer: Now we’re cooking.

Campaign: Can I tell you something off the record, a little secret? The president is having his campaign people go to the demonstrations, and to use John Lewis’ words, make “good trouble.”

Producer: Brilliant strategy.

Campaign: Totally! When the president first suggested paying people to agitate and provoke violence we were like, isn’t that going too far? He just smiled and said: this is war and you ain’t seen nothing yet.  To quote him: When I get through spreading terror and fear, people will be begging me to come save them.

Producer: That’s some dark stuff.

Campaign: Usually I would say it’s just political warfare, but in the president’s case, this is the 2nd coming of the civil war.

Producer: That’s chilling, but America loves that kind of stuff. Vigilantism, maligning of the other, stoking racial animus. Makes for a good story.

Campaign: You got it. A good story. America is built on that shit, and we intend to exploit it.

Producer: Now that we have the flying monkey down, let’s talk about the golden child.

Campaign: Golden child! I just love, love, love it.

Producer: What’s with the love, love, love stuff. Can’t anybody in your camp just say that word one time?

Campaign: It’s an osmosis thing.

Producer: Right, an osmosis thing.

Campaign: So about the golden child. How do we turn the flying monkey in to a teddy bear? You know, turning the cheat, deadbeat, con artist into America’s greatest businessman?

Producer:  How do you reveal that behind the flying monkey is a teddy bear? How do you get enough black people to believe he isn’t a racist? How do you get enough white women to believe he is not a misogynist and a sexual predator? Enough Latinas to forget the fact that he put people in cages and separated children from his families? Convince people that the man has done a great job with the pandemic, despite the contrary? How to get people to not see him as a mean-spirited bully who cruelly makes fun of people?

Campaign: Yeah, how do you do that?

Producer: You pay Melania a lot of money to say:

“I urge people to come together in a civil manner, so we can work and live up to our standard American ideals. I also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done in the name of justice and never make assumptions based on the color of a person’s skin.”

“We all know Donald Trump makes no secrets about how he feels about things.’’ Total honesty is what we as citizens deserve from our president. Whether you like it or not, you always know what he’s thinking.’’ And that is because he’s an authentic person.

Campaign: Wow, you think she can do that with a straight face?

Producer: She hides her cards well. Just make her an offer she can’t refuse.

Campaign: Are you saying we should off her if she refuses?

Producer: Ha! No, no, no. This isn’t the “The Godfather,” it’s more like “Let’s Make a Deal.”

Campaign: Phew, you had me worried there. Though who knows what he would do if she defied him. So what’s next?

Producer: You get black people to extol his virtues. Anyone come to mind?.

Campaign: Yeah, Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboy’s Herschel Walker just loves the president.

Producer: Perfect. You get Herschel to say:

“It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald,” he said. “The worst one is ‘racist’.”

Producer: Now we need the empathy card. Who do we have on board for this?

Campaign:  Dan Scavino, his longest-serving White House aide. Ja’Ron, the most senior black official in the White House

Producer; How about Dan says:

“I wish you could be at his side with me to see his endless kindness to everyone he meets.

And Ja’Ron that’s a good catch. You get the black issue and empathy from the same person. He says:

“I just wish everyone could see the deep empathy he shows the families whose loved ones were killed due to senseless violence.”

Campaign: That’s awesome. What else you have in mind?

Producer: How about a live naturalization ceremony. Black, Latina, even a Muslim woman in a hijab, one-by-one granted citizenship. The catch is you don’t tell them they will be part of the convention, as they might not want to do that given the president’s comments about Muslims and ‘shit-hole countries’.

“What, we are at the republican convention? They never told us that! I hate Republicans!”

Campaign: Fucking genius! Last thing: How do we handle the pandemic?

Producer: You mostly ignore it and when you do mention it you talk about how it is something in the past.

Campaign: That’s a tricky one.

Producer. Agreed. But if you have the president give his acceptance speech in front with the White House as a back- drop with a thousand people all sitting close together without masks. Show America everything is back to normal.

Campaign: But people could die.

Producer: That’s the price of messaging when you are in a war. Always going to be casualties.

Campaign: That’s pretty dark.

Producer: He’s your president.

Campaign. My president? Aren’t you going to vote for him?

Producer: Are out of your mind? The man is a menace and dismantling democracy.

Campaign: So why are you doing this?

Producer: For the same reason Melania will say those words. And I think I will finally win my first Emmy.

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[theliterateape]

There Are FOUR Lights, Douchebag!

By Don Hall

For those who love Star Trek: The Next Generation, the two episodes during the sixth season that puts Gul Madred (David Warner) and Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a battle of wills is notable.

"Chain of Command" has Madred use sensory deprivation, sensory bombardment, forced nakedness, stress positions, dehydration, starvation, physical pain, and cultural humiliation to try to gain knowledge of the Federation's plans for Minos Korva. Picard resists. Madred attempts another tactic to break Picard's will: he shows his captive four bright lights, and demands that Picard answer that there are five, inflicting intense pain on Picard if he does not agree.

Listening to Trump's recorded phone solicitation to the Georgia Secretary of State reminded me of those episodes.

TRUMP: The other thing, dead people. So dead people voted, and I think the number is close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number, and a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.

RAFFENSPERGER: Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. We talked to the congressmen, and they were surprised.

But they — I guess there was a person named Mr. Braynard that came to these meetings and presented data, and he said that there was dead people, I believe it was upward of 5,000. The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. And so that’s wrong. That was two.

TRUMP: So Brad, there can be no justification for that. And I, you know, I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. But that was — and Brad, why did they put the votes in three times? You know, they put ’em in three times.

RAFFENSEBERGER: Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that, and we proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times.

TRUMP: Do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery.

Do you know anything about that? Because that’s illegal.

GERMANY: This is Ryan Germany. No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton County.

TRUMP: But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts?

GERMANY: No.

TRUMP: Are you sure, Ryan?

GERMANY: I’m sure. I’m sure, Mr. President.

Like Madred, Trump simply keeps repeating his completely unfounded conclusions as fact over and over. I wonder if Rattensperger at some point in the conversation started to believe that maybe there were five lights. I wonder how tempting it would be to cave in just to get the man to stop talking.

Trump, with the help of a slew of GOP operatives and legislators, has managed to convince 68 percent of Republicans that he actually won the race. No evidence of fraud. No proof of the allegation. Thrown out of court over fifty times. Simply repeat the lie over and over until people agree that there are five lights.

The results were seen yesterday as a couple thousand dipshits literally stormed the Capitol. I’d be alarmed rather than disgusted except that instead of the staunch seriousness of revolutionaries with a cause they stopped to pilfer items and take selfies in Nancy Pelosi’s office. These idiots, like the Antifa in Oregon, are merely bored, unemployed assholes who see the burning down of the government as a great way to spend a weekend. Given the photos, it looks more like Animal House than Les Miserables.

Through it all, Trump continued hammering home the Big Lies he’s been spewing forth since November 3rd and the red meat was just too enticing for several thousand wannabe revolutionaries to ignore. If they’d been black, they’d be dead but they were white and managed to storm the Capitol for the first time in over 200 years. Those Big Lies have power.

On a sidenote, did you really expect the police, after being castigated for nearly a year for being fascist, racists monsters, would really step up to stop these buffoons? Are you kidding? And be honest — you are either in favor of violent protest or you are not. I’m not in favor of violent protest without regard to ideological bent.

Expanding out, it seems that Trump is not the only one using this bizarre brainwashing technique to convince people of factless realities devoid of substance but filled with emotional heft. While Trump's version of this game is almost cartoonish (and I'm not one to lightly compare the man to Der Führer) the playbook was written over half a century ago:

All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X

Like Picard, we are bound and subjected to this constant refrain of Big Lies and like Rattensperger we need to hold the line. There are four, not five, lights.

The presidential election was not stolen. There was no voter fraud. You cannot lose a substantial amount of weight in seven minutes a day. What holds you back in America is not your race or sex but your economic class. The customer is not always right. The scientific method is not biased. Merit is a better metric for success than identity. Equality is more important than equity.

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

Another sidetone. After watching yesterday’s ridiculous melodrama unfold, I decided to drink rye whiskey and beer and watch the arguments of the Senate to confirm Joe Biden’s electoral victory. And while there were a few I reacted with a simple “Oh. Go fuck yourself you partisan piece of shit.” I also found myself openly weeping at the words of so many of our elected legislators and their love for and belief in this country’s ideals.

God bless America, man. Four fucking lights.

Can we now impeach this motherfucker this week?

#Trump #Hitler #Star Trek: TNG #Four Lights

[mjtheterrible]

President and Vice President Elect Invite "MJ The Terrible" To Meet and Greet To Say Thank You

Malia: Do you know what today is baby?

MJ: My Grandmother's birthday.

Malia: Happy 91st Birthday Grandmother! I have a video call scheduled with your mom to sing Happy Birthday to Grandmother when she blows out her candles. Do you know what my favorite memory with your Grandmother is? 

MJ: When she said you were the best Granddaughter in law she could ever ask for?

Malia: No, but that memory with her made my happy cry tears.

MJ: When she held Cash Michael Johnson for the first time, and she cried? 

Malia: That is my favorite moment with Grandmother, because you said that was the first time you ever saw her cry.

MJ: I remember my love. It was a powerful moment.

Malia: Do you know what else today is baby? 

MJ: Lay it on me baby. What else is today?

Malia: A woman became the 1st vice president elected in history! Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, will be the country's first "second gentleman".

MJ: That is 2 firsts.

Malia: I can imagine VP Harris now- "I had a stressful day helping Joe run the country. I need some stress relief. Come serve your country, by servicing your wife."

MJ: They seem like a loving passionate couple. Do you think she wants a "second gentleman" in the street, but a "second freak" in the bed? 

Malia: Last week I think it was, when I told you I didn't like what you had to do, but I knew you had to do it. I change my mind. You did a good thing baby. You did what had to be done for the good of the country in 2016, and you did what had to be done for the good of the country in 2020. 

MJ: I love you. 

Malia: Baby, I am a black woman, and we have black daughters. Do you know what you have done for women? Do you know what this election means for women and people of color? 

MJ: Did our new bed get delivered yet? 

Malia: Baby, you did a good thing. I am not going to let you lose sleep over this. You helped to change the world again. The President and Vice President Elect had a personalized handwritten invitation to meet  with them after they address the nation tonight, delivered to the house today. I hugged the secret service girl who delivered the invitation. We both cried. Today is historic. I love you so much. I know sometimes the things you have to do torture you mentally and emotionally. This should not be one of them. You turned a loss for me and our black children, into a historic win for us. I am overwhelmed with joy for what you did. You did the right thing. You did. Please don't torture yourself over this. You think I don't know what you did, but I do. You made sure every vote was counted. Please acknowledge the good you have done. 

MJ: I love you and I love our kids. That said, I do not want to talk about the election. The result is the result, regardless of how the result became the result. Did our new bed come in? 

Malia: Do you want to go meet with the President and Vice President elect tonight? 

MJ: Let's let them have their night. Did our new bed come in or not? 

Malia: Yes baby. Our new bed is here and fully installed. I look forward to breaking it in with you. I need to rsvp for tonight's meet and greet with President Elect Biden and one of my new hero's, Kamala Harris. They want to thank you. This is a giant honor. 

MJ: I don't feel like I deserve to be thanked or honored. Please politely decline the invitation. 

Malia: I can't believe this! Only you would decline an invitation from the people who are about to become the most powerful 2 people in the world.

MJ: Malia! I can't do it! 

Malia: Yes you can! I will lay your clothes out for you. I will have a quickie with you in our new bed before we go. Can we please go? 

MJ: I have to work. I'll be home late tonight. I'm sorry babe. 

Malia: I want to go. I do, but I want more than anything for you to get the recognition you deserve. I won't even go if you don't want me to go. You can go. You have to deal with more unfair, unnecessary crap than anyone I have ever known. Please go to this baby. 

MJ: You go. Let them thank and honor you. You derve it as much as I do, because you are always right there by my side taking all of the hits right along with me. 

Malia: Michael David Johnson, you are the hero of the day. You deserve to be honored tonight. 

MJ: I am not going. I'll be home late tonight. I love you Malia. I just can't do this. 

Malia: Baby, come on. 

Malia: Baby? 

Dubs: Hey Malia. It's Brittany. MJ is being MJ at the moment. He is brilliant with computer hacking shit, but digital brilliance does not always equal real world life skills. 

Malia: Oh God! Can I help? 

Dubs: I took his car keys and he is throwing a fit over it. I am trying to protect his ass!

Malia: He is such a hero. Why doesn't he want any of the praise when he does the things that no one else can do? 

Dubs: It's hard to say. People who can do the things no one else can do, aren't always the most balanced people. 

Malia: Please keep him out of trouble. Is there any chance he will be able to go tonight? 

Dubs: Doubt it. MJ's fits usually go on for about day and then fade away. 

Malia: I spoke to Jen O'Malley Dillon. She is Biden's campaign chairman. She said President Elect Biden and VP elect Harris will come here if we want. Has MJ calmed down at all? 

Dubs: Cancel the meet and greet. MJ is not at his best right now. 

Malia: Thank you Brittany. He is such a good, honest, loving man. Why does he get like this sometimes?

Dubs: He has been through 11 or 12 years of hell. It can warp a person. I think MJ is a hero. The way I show him I respect and appreciate the heroic acts he has done, is by protecting him from himself when he gets like this. 

Dubs: Post the entire series of texts between you and MJ, and me and you. This is not to embarrass him. I want Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris to understand how much MJ has been through. I am sure any request to have a meet and greet with President Biden and Vice President Harris will be granted in the future. 

Malia: Ok. We love you MJ! We understand, but we don't understand, because you are the one who has to face many of the world's worst problems and challenges alone. 

[joefection]

EX TALK

I really regret breaking up with Morgan over stupid shit. I don’t think I’ve ever been that deeply in love with anybody before, and I know nobody’s ever looked at me with that much adoration. I felt like we complimented each other perfectly, and I’ll never find somebody so perfect ever again. She was beautiful, she was smart, she was unintentionally hilarious, and she was so emotionless but I just knew she was happy. 

We went to go see a live nativity one time because she was curious. I didn’t even know those existed but she wanted to see if they had real beards. They didn’t. It was Spartanburg so we weren’t surprised. Pretty sure that was the Christmas Eve we went to her apartment and ate reindeer cookie dough and fell asleep on the living room floor. 

The first time I ever heard her laugh was because she couldn’t believe there was a character named Robert Edward O. Speedwagon. The second time I ever heard her laugh was when I leaned down too far at a water fountain and shot myself in the eye. The third time was either when I asked her to go to a baseball game with me or when I explained the concept of the caramel onion.

I used to have a note from her somewhere but I think I threw it away when I moved. It wasn’t even anything special, it was just something she gave to me when I worked at the hospital and she visited me one day. I don’t even remember what it said anymore. I remember how it smelled, though. I swear she sprayed whatever she used to wear on it because it smelled just like her. 

We went on our first real date on the night of the 2012 Vice President debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden. I remember that shit clear as day because we went to Applebees and it was on a tv. I got riblets, which I also remember clear as day because it’s the only time I’ve ever eaten riblets in my life. Then after we finished eating, she pulled something wrapped in plastic out of her bra and put it on the table between us and asked if I wanted to go halvesies on it. I don’t remember what it was, though. Either a mint or a Swedish Fish. I fell in love with her at that moment. 

We weren’t similar at all but we were just what the other person wanted, I guess. I still can’t believe someone genuinely wanted me. I was heavy into the waifu laifu at the time and she had no interest in anime or games. She liked clothes and crime dramas. But we still took the time to appreciate each other’s interests. She sat with me and played Star Ocean so many nights. She watched Tiger & Bunny with me. The first time I saw her cry was when we watched Kotonoha no Niwa. 

God, her clothes. To be honest I thought she dressed pretty simply but everyone told me she was well-coordinated and had great taste so I just believed that because I have an awful eye for that. I used to (and still do) dress like crap. And she loved my clothes. She borrowed so many of my shirts and she’d give them back to me in exchange for other ones, but she never gave me one of my Lucky Star shirts back. I wonder if she still has it.

The first time we kissed was in the parking lot outside of her apartment after I dropped her off. I don’t even remember what we were talking about or anything but I remember I was in a great mood and we were just standing there against my shitty broken-ass Ford Taurus. I remember laughing about something and then we were just standing there awkwardly so I was like “So, do you wanna kiss?” and she just stared at my car and said “Okay.” I don’t remember how long we had been together. It must have been a month or two. I don’t think I had any physical contact with her before that because I was kind of intimidated by her. 

Her roommate volunteered at a church and I ended up getting friendly with the preacher. It was a Methodist church but he didn’t care that I called him Padre since I was raised Catholic. I remember all of those church cookouts that Morgan and I went to. She smashed a water balloon on my head at one of them as we were filling water balloons for the kids. Just straight smashed it on the top of my head and then just stared at me with those gorgeous eyes that made my heart melt. I felt like crap for showing up to the first one empty-handed but she didn’t bring anything either since she didn’t want to go, and we ended up bringing stuff for the kids to all of the others because the kids thought we were so cool for playing with them. 

I always felt like the court jester trying to entertain the bored princess and I fucking loved it because she appreciated me. I was corny as hell all the time and it looked like she was just tolerating me but I know she loved it. I was willing to do anything for her and she was always there for me when I needed her. 

Then we broke up because I hated dealing with her roommate, who was and still probably is a huge piece of shit. Morgan did nothing wrong. I betrayed her for selfish reasons instead of just sticking it out for the girl of my dreams. I’d be in a very different place today if I had just stuck with her. 

Then she started dating that guy and I HATED him. Not only was he an asshole but he was with my dream girl and I had spent enough time with her to be able to tell that she just wasn’t feeling it without her needing to say anything. It was like watching a flower wilt over time. I should have been with her, not him. We’d probably be married right now if I had stuck with her. Probably living together in some craphole apartment in SC with a couple of cats, both still wage slaving away but respecting each other’s effort. I’d be coming home to her every night. I’d be cooking for her. I’d be laying with her right now. 

I fucked up so bad and I miss her so much. I know she has a tumblr but I don’t know if she checks it, let alone reads my shit. If she does, I want her to message me her phone number so we can talk. She’s the light I need in my life right now.

[theliterateape]

Now Is the Time to Be Gracious and Get to Work Being Honest with Ourselves

by Don Hall

Whew.

We squeaked by with that one despite Biden/Harris winning more votes than any other ticket in history. Donald Trump also won the second most votes than any other candidate in history. In more ways than a few this shit was historic.

As obvious the road is all uphill, I’ll admit to bawling like a child when it hit me that we were rid of Trump and that it was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris taking the reigns. Tears of joy, of relief, of optimism paying off.

Still the Left lost some of the House and might take the Senate but this was not the election we were promised. As I wrote last week, the will of the people has been cast and we are almost 50/50 in worldview here, gang. Bitter as it is to swallow, nearly half the country does not buy the progressive vision. This isn’t just the South. This isn’t just cities vs rural areas.

Trump received the largest percentage of non-white votes of any other conservative candidate — you guessed it — in history. Pretty much debunks the monolithic viewpoint that Trump supporters are all white supremicists, huh?

I’ve heard squawk that Biden won because of black voters. And progressive voters. And young voters. Horseshit. How typical, the jockeying for credit in something historic. The credit goes to a vast multicultural liberal numbers not one demographic category. Forty-five million independent voters (neither affiliated with Blue or Red) voted this year. That’s historic, too. Biden won because of people not in line with either party or ideology. Biden won because so many of us hated Trump.

At this phase, Trump ain’t going quietly. Lots of lawsuits. Recounts. Tantrums. Conspiracy theories. We now get to witness the full madness of our King George, a meltdown so massive it would be good to take serious note of how badly we can get things wrong in our democracy. One fact we need to acknowledge before our nipples get hard and we go running in the streets naked, flogging MAGA hat wearers with our engorged cocks:

If it hadn’t been for a pandemic, he would’ve won.

No. It wasn’t the woke message of the victim classes that sealed this win for us. It wasn’t the democratic socialists dressed in black fighting against fascism. It wasn’t the fat, black lesbian instructing white people that they are all racist that brought out the vote for Blue. It wasn’t the Bernie Bots raging against the one percent. It wasn’t the cultmind of the white fragility hucksters and anti-racism grifters that thwarted the horrible man.

It was a virus that he handled like a demented, angry man who truly believed that only the weak get sick.

We did not defeat Trump. He defeated himself. The man has been accused of multiple rapes, tax fraud, and was impeached by the House of Representatives and skated right on past it all but his inept refusal to humble himself to an act of savage nature was his undoing.

Despite his bumbling incompetence in the face of Coronavirus, seventy million people voted for him. Are you so arrogant and morally vacuous to label seventy million people racists monsters? Are you that stupid?

There will be months of justifying why half the country disagrees with the Left in terms of governance. It wasn’t half. We won by five million votes. It was beyond decisive. There will be thinkpieces in Medium claiming that Hispanics are full of white adjacents and that we should round up all the Trump Enablers and have them shunned and shamed (in between essays about how difficult it is to be black in an Ivy League university and how that guy who ghosted her was actually proliferating a rape of feels). Yes. There will be plenty said and absolutely no self reflection.

We (and I use ‘we’ to signify a collective encompassing all of us who value the ideals of a liberal democracy comprising seventy-five million citizens who voted Blue) fucking blew some serious stuff on this one.

What do we know?

Neither Bernie nor Warren would’ve won (even in the razor thin margins that Biden did).

That the loss in 2016 may have been less about Hillary Clinton or her campaign and more about this fifty/fifty split in worldview.

That Hispanics are not a monolithic voting bloc of similar ideologies. Neither are blacks. Or Asians. Or whites.

That race polarization is far less important than class stratification.

That “Defund the Police” is a shit slogan. And a worse strategy.

That seventy million of our countrymen and women would rather have a piece of shit like Donald Trump in charge than hand things over to the humorless cult members of the Woke.

That calling seventy million people racists didn’t somehow convince them that they were and cause the scales to fall from their eyes.

Most people find some humility when they lose. In 2016, we found none. It was sexism! It was racism! It was that we fucked Bernie out of the nomination! This week we won but we won small. We won because of a natural disaster not because of the strength of our ideas or the compassion for our fellow citizens or for our brilliant communications skills (which is a surprise as so many liberals have degrees in marketing and communication).

We won. And we need some goddamned humility for not beating a hopeless incompetent and morally bereft turd like Donald Trump with a repudiation only seen by the light of damnation and hellfire. We won but just barely given the brazen horror of the man (and, no, you don’t take down a dictator by voting meaning as awful and embarrassing as the man was and is, he was and is definitely not a dictator). In any other reality (except for a Black Mirror episode) we should have beaten him so badly that he, Giuliani, and McConnell changed their names and became dentists in Brazil.

We won but we lost.

I’m thrilled to be rid of Trump although we are not rid of the reality that his stances on immigration, the police, democratic socialism, American isolationism, and the idea that COVID only affects the weak are incredibly popular with just a bit less than half the country. Until the man dies, he will have an undue influence on things.

So what now?

We celebrate in direct contrast to the CDC advisories to avoid crowds. The ‘rona loves this shit and is wholly apolitical. A Trump rally and a Biden celebration look pretty much the same to the virus. Republicans caution us to avoid being sore winners as if the rules change if they lose.

I hope the adults in the national room hear the song being played. I hope that we can listen to but not be bound by the complaints of the fringe. I hope we can reframe our ideas to convince a plurality of Americans that progress is a good thing for everyone not just a select few who hunker down in their guns rights and racial division cults.

We’ve spent at least two decades behaving like Donald Trump — angry, self-involved, namecalling, divisive. It took having that avatar of unselfish-reflective narcissism occupying our highest office for just over half of us to get tired of it but wholly adopt his methods to defeat him. We can be better than that so why not try to be?

#election 2020