From the song Weak Fantasy by Nightwish:
"Shoveling trash of the upper caste
Kiss the ring, praise and sing
He loves you dwelling in fear and sin
Fear is a choice you embrace"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN23...
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Writer on Medium, divorced, in my 50s, into politics, philosophy, Tarot, history... a bisexual semi-feminist, and generally just all over the place (Asperger's) ... And a devoted fan of the band Nightwish.
From the song Weak Fantasy by Nightwish:
"Shoveling trash of the upper caste
Kiss the ring, praise and sing
He loves you dwelling in fear and sin
Fear is a choice you embrace"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN23...
LOL.  Ah, Mike Johnson's guy arrested for DUI, eh?  Gotta love those upstanding Christian morals... was the guy drunk on water that had been turned to wine? Just wonderin'.  (Sorry for the snarkiness, but holier-than-thou people like Mike Johnson bug me to no end.)
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"None of the employees with security clearances for nuclear secrets were properly debriefed, the current DOE source said... 
"Those employees could be targeted by foreign adversaries for nuclear espionage...
"They have lost their source of income..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fir...
Here is what I wrote on Medium.com about Democrats at Trump's speech.  It is entitled "Pink Clothes and Ping-Pong Paddles? Pathetic, Pointless Poppycock!"
medium.com/bouncin-and-...
I've just found a new hero.  Rep Al Green, the only Democrat in Congress who is making good trouble and understands what is needed: Take a damn public stand and mean it.  Not with pink clothes or stupid signs. Say it like you mean it, Dems!  Thank you Al Green. 
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Thank you Rep Al Green.  He was the only Democrat tonight who did the right thing.  More of them should have followed his lead, made noise, and been escorted out, one by one. He is a far better leader than "Sit Quiet" Hakeem Jeffries will ever be. 
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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
26.02.2025 05:11 β π 46082 π 14425 π¬ 9291 π 6947Is it just me or does this dude really remind ya of Elon Musk? No, really, watch it!  π€£π€£π€£
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaTR...
"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"
12.02.2025 01:50 β π 48214 π 9759 π¬ 2275 π 637And now, as we all need positivity and beauty and joy in our lives... another wonderful reaction video to the fabulous vocalist Floor Jansen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtVV...
Hitler-loving white nationalist Nick Fuentes on Elon Musk's salute: "That was a straight up like 'Sieg Heil',' like loving Hitler energy."
21.01.2025 21:06 β π 2159 π 761 π¬ 138 π 186This sworn evidence needs to be weighed  carefully against the nomineeβs qualifications, such as his β¦ um  β¦ the fact that he, uh β¦ {trying hard to think of something} β¦  
Can I phone a friend?
From me to MAGA
Nightwish-"Yours Is An Empty Hope"
"Tear me to bits, enjoy the scene
Of screen name verbal vanity
Churning the words, imbued in filth
Your tongue, oily water under my bridge
I can't make you want the truth 'cause
It's up to you
Yours is an empty hope" 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuwY...
Was it a Nazi salute or a Mussolini salute... sort of like six of one or half dozen of another.  And don't give me the excuse that "that is just Elon who has autism expressing his feelings."   I have autism and I know what that salute means. My feelings: π€¬
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hey Lawrence! I'm new to BlueSky too... and just as new as you to this whole social media stuff (I'm 57 years old and avoided it as much as I could). Saw you on Rachel's handoff to your show and loved you admitting your, umm, struggles to figure things out. Me too!
22.01.2025 03:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"A lust for never-ending doom porn
A man-shaped evil walks among us"--"The Day Of..." by Nightwish
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLTi...
"I'm not a nazi"
 - a guy who lets white supremacy run wild on his "free speech" site (where he bans people for calling him transphobic) and is literally supporting a literal nazi right now... in Germany!
#Muskputin
21.12.2024 01:54 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, βOnly the AfD can save Germany.β
The AfD is Germanyβs neo-Nazi party.
Europeans should treat Musk like a rogue state. From @theguardian.com 
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Metal, plus orchestra, plus operatic singing by two Goddesses, deep lyrics = Greatest song ever.
A song that speaks to my soul:
"And you will not find me,
(I am safe in here)
I'm where I want to be..."
"Sancta Terra" performed by Epica, with guest Floor Jansen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx22...
My favorite things:
The band Nightwish
Composer Tuomas Holopainen 
Singer Floor Jansen 
Books
Hanna Gadsby
More books
Rachel Maddow
Chocolate (itself and the movie by that name)
Tarot cards
Books about Tarot cards
Rachel Pollack
Politics and history
And, of course, books about politics and history
"Be who you want to be... Sing it back to me" -- Moloko
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z06g...
Do you think they got the message?
13.12.2024 21:14 β π 30505 π 5482 π¬ 2892 π 530My addiction:  Watching reactions to Nightwish performances.  Love watching people be "floored" by Floor Jansen, the Goddess/Valkyrie/Viking/Wonder Woman of singing.
Opera singer Nick Higgs does great reactions/analyses:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQg...
We used to have one president at a time. President-elects took great care to wait until their inauguration before presuming to do anything that might risk appearing otherwise.
07.12.2024 19:32 β π 387 π 61 π¬ 68 π 9Regimes seem solid until they are not. Every resistance act matters because often regimes are crumbling from within from corruption and yet good at hiding that fact. cc: Russia
07.12.2024 21:21 β π 6438 π 1847 π¬ 130 π 112How many questions has the legacy media asked Republicans about why they are trying to disenfranchise 60,000 North Carolina voters and steal a State Supreme Court seat?
06.12.2024 21:31 β π 13738 π 3739 π¬ 329 π 110