Basically NO ONE uses broad geographic terms to identify and anyone that imposes that identity on someone is picking fights for no reason. It’d be like saying Canadians are American because they are on the continent of N. America. The name of the Island is irrelevant with identity. This is pedantry

THIS IS FUCKING CONTEMPT. Dear GOD the fucking contempt this man has for democracy, for this nation, for the people of this country has no BOTTOM. Absolutely deranged and evil.

Trump likes autocrats because Trump wants to see leaders as avatars of their nations. He sees himself as the literal embodiment of the United States, able to do as he wishes with us as he does with his own body. It simplifies matters for him. If he is friends with Xi, the USA is friends with China

In the Clone Wars, all Confederates were separatists, but not all separatists were Confederates.

Finding non hufflepuff badger stuff is a struggle, but worth it

We used to be a country

Oman just over there bein’ all “Wow, I didn't do jack and I still get money?” Good for them.

I hate that this may be a factor but today is 4/7. 4/7. 47 This insane regimes obsession with numerology, symbolism and other batshit imposed significance like this world is just a bad novel tells me I should worry they want to make this day in particular one to remember.

I got a thing

He looks like a damn fifth grader standing for a picture for his mom

“American Caligula“ would be a great book title for this entire period.

This all tracks. Foreign and domestic policy as an episodic sitcom. Never stick to one storyline for too long or it gets stale, always keep focus on the main character who must always win. This may actually be the best way to present this presidency in the future, as a documentary sitcom.

I KNEW THAT MOTHERFUCKER WANTED A FUCKING ISLAND.

A reminder to Catholics, that the ‘P’ in WASP stands for PROTESTANT. After these ghouls wipe out the heathens and the impure they will come for you. After all, Catholics are Mary worshipping slaves to the Pope, who can never be loyal Americans. Being the dessert does not mean you aren't on the menu

I wonder if he means the city of Hormuz on Hormuz Island, the Island of Hormuz or the Island of Qeshm. Qeshm is the largest island in the strait while Hormuz island is rather small. Trump is a geographic illiterate so it could be either one. Of course he could just be babbling.

They don’t know what they are doing. There isn’t a masterplan, there aren’t grand machinations. They are the dumbest, most pathetic people alive, who can only perform actions for actions sake. They can’t stop, they can’t run, they just have to keep ripping shit up and hope the system breaks.

This may genuinely end with them dropping a nuke to try and trigger the fucking end of the fucking world

Jesus Christ. His remaining supporters (some 1/5-1/3 of the pop) are just going to scream “Harder Daddy!“ as the boot smashes their faces. This is Hell. We are in Hell. They‘d line their daughters up like cattle for his appraisal and shove a gun into the hands of their sons to die for his wealth.

Are the Republicans the American equivalent of the Janissaries? Like “Yeah, the country is declining while we gorge ourselves on it’s corpse, but losing power isn’t really an option. Sooooo…collapse”

Da boy

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

I wonder if this could bring down Lizzy II’s legacy. If she covered for Andrew then her memory could be totally tarnished.

I guess my brain wants to shit on Sparta today. I‘m game. Sparta sucked. Proto-fascist shit hole of abused slaves and ruled by mentally broken warriors. The (proto)fascist obsession with that hellhole goes back centuries and I believe is rooted with guys thinking real countries have pecs and abs.

Alright, let’s buckle up.

Every time I hear Lutnick’s name I feel compelled to say “Nut Lick”

I am hated because I told them the truth.

Damn, Erika Kirk really did not give a fuuuuu

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Its genuinely maddening.

It is hard to remind myself that some people are looking for fights online because its the most release they can get. Even if the people they are hitting are likely more on their side than they can to accept in the moment because in the moment they need those people to embody those they can’t hit.

Recently been relistening (Jim Dale) to the series and, being honest, it’s entirely adequate. The books were good at taking things kids were familiar with and making them exciting, school most of all. There are “oh god, what?” moments, but the series on the whole is ok. Rowling is trash though.

In other words “Comply or Die”

There were no good orcs because orcs don’t exist. What they are meant to embody does exist. Cruelty. Sadism. Compliance to brutal authority. Wanton destruction. Hatred of the powerless. Cowardice in the face of bravery. The debate is over. There are no good orcs.

“Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!“ - The Great Dictator

He doesn’t even know what an inflation IS.

Keep wanting to address an article that has me incensed. But reminding myself that arguing and shitting online is not a productive use of my time or life. But taking a smug “Oh to be Cassandra of Troy” attitude while basically reciting the Borg line “resistance is futile“ gets me mad.

Its also what dementia patients do. They babble on and on and on.

Ya know, Angmar is interestin. we know basically nothing about it except it had a fortress, the Witch King had some kind of power in winter and it destroyed Arnor. The Angmar wars went on for hundreds of years to the point it would have just been normal, but we hardly know diddly about it.

The king cannot be wrong, only misled by wicked advisors.

I think if the Supreme Court takes tariffs away from Trump he might literally stroke out from sheer rage.

Okay, long shot. Get me into the White House, dress me up as a general and I will play RISK with Trump all day, every day. When he takes a territory I‘ll clap and say he’s a military genius. Alternatively, we put a Vic2 game on autoplay for him and tell him its a simulation that he needs to study

“They are lesser sons, of greater sires” Hate that I have to quote Saruman to sum up my disdain for the Democratic Party, but here we are

Shoulder and Back day accomplished. Now for choccy milk and protein powder. I must force the whimsy, or succumb to the dark.

The US is best conceived as a revolutionary state for multiracial liberal democracy beset constantly by a powerful anti-revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow it from within. Will gets this and sits solidly on the side of the revolution.

The daily struggle not to become Denethor. Using a device that is LITERALLY under the sway of the enemy to show images of defeat and doom while I try to stay informed. To not become cynical and hopeless. Not to see resistance as vainglorious or naïve. To stay sane waiting for the hammer to fall.

Shit…guys…you think I should start over?

this is the funniest thing i’ve ever read. isaac chotiner interviews a resident of the town from the lottery. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

No politics or geopolitical dread. Just ink work on a Middle Earth map. Don’t totally love my letters but I’ll persevere.

It could happen tonight. Or tomorrow. In a week…or a month…two months…or six. A year. Two? But it will happen.