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Thermos H. Christ

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  1. Don’t stop. They’ve felt untouchable for so long. They’re not. They need to know that. They need to know we’ve got them surrounded, hundreds of millions of us, and they who have for so long been insulated from the consequences of their actions are starting to feel a little smaller and more human and vulnerable right now. Keep going everybody. Don’t let up. And let useless fucking go-along-to-get-along Democrats hear from you too. How fucking shameful is it that a handful of pissed off people have brought more consequences to bear on Trump and his collaborators than the entire Democratic Party? This has gone far enough. They need to feel the heat. All of them. Every day.
  2. Nobody ever went broke telling older Americans to be terrified of the world beyond their driveway.
  3. Kind of the whole disease we see in our voters/media/political class. Too many think the political process is about something other than the real consequences of policy (and rhetoric) in the real lives of human beings, and it really shows.
  4. As to the Republican party shirt that didn't reference Trump, if I were a restaurant owner I don't see myself telling someone they have to remove it or leave, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it would be unethical. As to whether that would be "out of line," to me it would probably depend on what kind of business we're talking about and who the clientele/employees are. If someone wears a pro-GOP t-shirt and gets turned away by the bouncer at a NYC gay bar then that doesn't seem out of line at all, the t-shirt wearer is the one who is out of line. If it's a gas station in LA and they're telling someone they can't fill up because of their GOP t-shirt (or damn near any t-shirt), I would personally consider that unreasonable. With the family member thing, I was kind of building in the assumption that reasoning with them had previously been tried and failed. And that it would also naturally be a part of whatever discussion there would be about actually you are not invited to Thanksgiving this year. I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say people have some moral/ethical obligation to do that. Biting your tongue while relatives say reprehensible/racist shit is a longstanding Thanksgiving tradition in itself, after all. But I wouldn't blame anyone who did, either.
  5. The truly amazing thing is, I'm still not sure we know. We know it wasn't the pretextual reasons they gave. It was and is blatantly obvious that they were doing everything they could to make a case for something they already wanted to do, meaning they knew that the real reasons they wanted to do it wouldn't persuade the American people or even the meager number of allies we managed to bring in on that. I think the most likely answer is simple imperialism, they thought they could create a friendly client-state that would control extremely valuable resources and deal with us on favorable terms. Potentially also had to do with W having a personal desire to finish something his dad started. Or to bring about the final battle of Armageddon and set the stage for return of Christ - remember that in W's era fundamentalism/evangelicalism was HUGE and very politically prominent. W being on a mission from God and needing to go to war to fulfill prophecies was a small but very real part of the overall conversation in the leadup to that war.
  6. Tweet roundup of folks saying it better and pithier than I would:
  7. I would stop short of businesses refusing service to people just voting R, although I don't know how a business would even know something like that. If it's the sort of thing a random business would be aware of, it's probably enough (e.g. prominent donor or somesuch). Certainly I think a business would be more than justified in telling someone they can't wear a MAGA hat on the premises, much like any other article of clothing that might reasonably be expected to make a meaningful number of patrons/employees feel offended, annoyed, or even threatened. But with mere voters, I think pressure is much more appropriate in the personal arena than the commercial one. Don't date/fuck Trump voters or supporters (already widely adopted in most metro areas, extremely common to see dating profiles saying Trump voters need not apply). Tell family members to, at a bare minimum, keep that shit to themselves or you're not interested in speaking to them. That stuff matters.
  8. Don't forget anti-due process, which is a weird stance for people who apparently believe there is such a thing as a witch hunt
  9. Remember when a comedian specifically brought in to roast members of the Trump administration told a joke referencing the fact that Sarah Huckabee Sanders (a) lies frequently and (b) wears makeup, and people acted like that was going way, way, incredibly too far? What the fuck was that?
  10. I don't condone violence against Trump collaborators. In addition to just being wrong, violence would be counterproductive. This is right out of the Ghandi/MLK playbook. The blueprint for (a) winning hearts and minds and (b) effectively compelling social change is not violence but simply refusing to participate in or go along with something that one believes is wrong, and emboldening others to join in taking that stand. If someone is acting as a force against what is right, you don't buy from them, you don't sell to them, you don't work for them, you don't fuck them, and you stand in their way loud and proud at every opportunity. It's a lot harder than it sounds, but in the big picture it can be extremely effective. So yeah, I absolutely condone shunning, shaming, boycotting, and all-around excommunicating Trump collaborators from the society of decent human beings. They should not be able to get a meal at a nice restaurant or a drink at a nice bar in any major city in America. They should not be able to shop, or go to the movies, or walk down the street in peace without being told very clearly WE SEE YOU, AND YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. They should dread at all times showing their faces in public. They have more than earned it. The idea that they can expect to do everything they do with impunity and everyone's just going to sit there politely waiting for them to tell us when it's OK to respectfully request that they stop... THAT is insanity. It's also insane to think that they face so few consequences for their actions through official channels that not getting to eat at a farm-to-table restaurant is being portrayed as some whole new level of bridge-too-far leftist insanity. It's nothing, and yet it seems to be the closest we've come to actually hitting them where it hurts. It's working, this is really getting to them. It must not stop, it must grow, it must become their day-to-day and hour-to-hour reality.
  11. The National Enquirer was an arm of the Trump campaign? You don't say.
  12. It's genuinely astounding and fairly terrifying the extent to which team Trump has effectively convinced a huge swath of the country that reporting on the doings of the Trump administration is, in itself, a partisan act of opposition politics. And media outlets have internalized that shit. They give Trump and his people a pass on things purely because they do so many shitty things. Because if you call him out too often, too consistently, you obviously can't be considered credible. So it generates this insane false equivalence and ultimately a slant in favor of Trump and the worst parts of his base. Sure, Trump is not even being remotely subtle about promoting his use of immigration and asylum policies as a form of ethnic cleansing while literal Nazis cheer him on, but let's have another handwringing NYT op-ed about how politics have gotten so uncivil, and really if you call people racist just because they are you're part of the problem. Because the lack of civility clearly comes from people who get outraged by racist shit and rampant corruption and toddlers screaming in cages, not Donald Grab Em By The Pussy Shithole Countries Immigrant Infestation Lock Her Up Trump and his vast army of shit flinging fuck-your-feelings monkeys. Or maybe this week we should revisit how college students protesting reactionary shitheads just might be the real threat to liberal values.
  13. It's about to get soooooo much wooooorse
  14. Well of course he does. Why should anybody be allowed to tell Donnie no, to anything, for any reason?
  15. Uh huh. Sure. Just like how all those brainwashed liberals pitch a fit when you go to the open mic night at your neighborhood coffeehouse and play a few lively banjo numbers while wearing some whimsical clown makeup. Black people don't actually look like that, so clearly anyone who looks at that makeup and sees a racist caricature of a black person is revealing their deep-seated racism. Right? Because everything you do and say is in a vacuum. You're just innocently closing your eyes and punching the air, if anyone gets hit that's not on you.
  16. Got my tickets to Camp Cope/Petal at Barracuda on July 12. I went to Red 7 a few times but I don't think I've been since it changed hands. Very pumped, at the moment Camp Cope is probably top 3 on my list of current bands I haven't seen but want to. Don't know why they're not headlining, but Petal's perfectly fine too.
  17. Yeah dude totally the entire idea of "context" is a liberal conspiracy. Nailed it.
  18. That's why I've been throwing some money Beto's way, and would encourage others to do the same. Beto's biggest obstacle to victory right now is that people haven't heard of him. Money is a particularly effective tool for solving that specific problem.
  19. And I mean from practically day one, too. His campaign had just barely begun when he spent multiple entire news cycles railing about how he was going to destroy everyone at NBC for fucking with his off-brand beauty pageant. At the time I foolishly thought that was a sure sign of a candidate totally unable to stay on-message, unable to avoid flashing his glaring personality issues, and utterly doomed to failure on the big stage. I hope and hoped - oh how I hoped, that his whole campaign wouldn't crash and burn before I had the pleasure of watching him attempt to participate in a televised debate. And boy, he was every bit as bad as I had imagined. And he went on to do one thing after another that should have instantly and permanently doomed his political aspirations. But somehow we're in opposite land now, and none of it mattered.
  20. See this is what really brings it home how shitty of a person he is - he's super duper smart. He knows better.
  21. Camp Cope Live at the Wireless Most of it kills. I’m mildly obsessed with the bass in particular - the playing isn’t fast or flashy or technical or anything but it’s always a cool riff anchoring the song. http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/live-at-the-wireless/camp-cope-latw/9714558
  22. Of course Nirvana was punk, especially live Nirvana which is their best output imo. But punk is rock. Most punk probably has more in common with Chuck Berry than bands like Yes or Pink Floyd did.
  23. lol remember when that one guy said Nirvana takes a backseat to Charlie Daniels Band in the rock pantheon
  24. The argument about whether Nirvana is the best is all well and good. I’m still amazed at someone’s hot take that Nirvana isn’t rock. Also: it’s wild that I’m maybe the only one that even mentioned more than one contender from the early aughts indie/garage rock resurgence. I think that’s the latest stuff that has had a chance to stand the test of time, but there’s still great rock music being made. Rock is quietly having a moment right now. Women are getting in on it to a greater extent than before and it’s largely based around a DIY scene/ethos rather than being a commercial juggernaut, but young people are listening to rock music and making rock music for each other, getting inspired by each other just as much as by rockers of yore. Rock is not the defining sound of American culture like it once was, but it’s very much alive and healthier than it’s been in like a decade or more.
  25. Nirvana’s best album came out in 2009
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