Thomas Pynchon

I haven’t thought about Cabo Verde much in my life tbh, but here I am rooting for them likes it’s life or death

I’m rooting for them because Folarin Balogun has just as much claim to what it means to be American as Donald Trump does

the next step, for those of you who’ve read Totem & Taboo, is less good for the father…

John Roberts out here reffing World Cup games I see

Good to see Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point get some love (it was made 16 years before Baudillard’s America but it’s as if they were made with one another in mind) Out of films I have not seen mentioned, I would say ‘Do the Right Thing”

Balogun said

WAR DAD STRIKES

Only 14th amendment respecters get to celebrate that goal

UT’s Civitas Institute ran an article yesterday saying the main problem is that they should have slow played it so yeah, this is not the end unfortunately www.civitasoutlook.com/research/bir...

I know these people are evil but this proves once again that I still have the capacity to be shocked at how blatantly evil they are these days

Play for Germany

Just found out that Beyoncé is a nepo baby. Apparently, Gustav Mahler is her 8th cousin, four times removed…

A look at how I’ve been choosing who to root for in the World Cup outside of the USA: I was rooting for Algeria to advance but I didn’t know whether to root for a draw or a win because Austria gave us Fritz Lang, while Iran gave us Abbas Kiarostami 🤷‍♂️

Trying to explain the fire at Vesuvio to Artie Bucco:

In before he speaks at the 2028 RNC

I use to say that legacy media would paint Vance as the peace candidate in 2028 (which would also be dishonest) but now I realize that if Trump could run for a third term in 2028, they would do the same for him like they did in 16 and 24

A Freeman scoring on Juneteenth

Real question: Can Stoller read? Susan Rice literally says it was foolhardy to start and pursue this war *Not to mention the American policy of bombing Iran, which is a Trump specific policy or Reagan (not a Dem) if we include Operation Nimble Archer and Praying Mantis

One of the critics mentioned in this article was posting like this in mid-April:

oracle of delphi voice

Good news: Trump’s endorsement for Governor of Georgia lost. Pretty fucking bad news: The guy who said he would have immigrants killed if they didn’t deport won instead.

Fleming also said he was going to “make it impossible for the Left to cheat in our elections”. Vernon may be a crank but Fleming is also all in on voter suppression

5 more months of Rick Jackson commercials… 🫩

Bonhoeffer on the “reasonable ones” who “want to do justice to all sides”:

Well since we’re Bonhoeffer poasting:

First swing back from the IL goes 473!! 🐐

Marianne Moore on a dying state that is ineffectual, except for the harms they inflict on the body politic (a poem just as relevant to our political moment as Yeats’ The Second Coming”):

Good morning, Georgia. Go vote!

Somehow he’s back

San Recto, hometown of Recktall Brown

Spike still got it!

Fox News house style for propaganda has spilled over to its sport’s channel

Just saw a “I love inflation-Donald Trump” billboard in a relatively rural part of Georgia 👍

Julio César Strassera referencing Dante and Oliver Wendell Holmes in his closing argument for the Trial of the Juntas in 1985:

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

Even the Jansenists were like “unless you want to live in a dysfunctional hellscape, virtue signaling is necessary”:

I really do wonder if he’s know how unpopular he is. Does he know and is lying? Does he not know because his handlers are lying to him about his polls?

Ernie mogging Silver

I’m beginning to think that X: The Everything App may have an epistemic bubble problem The media should write a bunch of articles about it, but if they write it and post it on X, the link will be throttled. What is one to do? Plus, “Blueskyism” is so much pithier…

Open your eyes! They’re indoctrination our kids!

I love when these guys try to appear level headed by qualifying their “stolen election” post with “I’m not one to question the results of an election”… Look, it must be tough realizing you are no better than Catturd but come on, you’re losing your mind bc LA doesn’t want a Trump-loving, GOP mayor

I’ve seen some speculate that due to the game at MSG tomorrow being filled with rich people, it may not be that bad, but at the beginning of the year, Trump got booed in Miami in a stadium filled with Miami and Indiana fans so I’m taking the over on the decibel level of boos

MONEY!

Yes, of course, the Dems who are manipulating the vote are getting exactly what they want: Bass in a runoff against Raman, instead of winning outright… oh wait that doesn’t sound right?!?

Favorite Pride-Theme Films 🏳️‍🌈: -A Special Day -Midnight Cowboy -The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant -Desert Hearts -Carol -The Handmaiden -Moonlight -Portrait of a Lady on Fire -I Saw the TV Glow -Queer

As a big fan of Wilder, I haven’t seen Sunset Boulevard for some reason And I haven’t seen most of Spielberg’s filmography (I’ve only watched Jaws, Jurassic Park, Catch Me If You Can, Lincoln, The Post, and Saving Private Ryan)

The UGA/Miss State baseball game is one of the wildest games (on any level) I’ve seen in a long time A big time L for the “baseball is boring” bros

A healthy press would ask him, at the nearest opportunity, whether he believes the allies were a dangerous ideology storming the beach (siding with the Nazis) or whether he believes the Nazis stormed the beach that day (making him historically illiterate)