Dans Dans Revolution

If you’re going to watch the vomit-filled bag of orange skin barf lies and personal insults tonight, more power to you. I’ll be watching a bunch of episodes of Press Your Luck I DVRed instead, and catch the highlights later. It’ll be more intellectually stimulating and better for my blood pressure.

The correct answer is Dare to be Stupid.

[P] Young Millennials: White and Nerdy
Middle Millennials: Amish Paradise
Older Millennials: Smells Like Nirvana
Young Gen X: Eat It
Old Gen X: Another One Rides the Bus
True Hardcore Al-Heads of Any Age: Yoda Chant

[looks at self] That tracks.

Keep amplifying that! I feel like I’ve been screaming “DON’T BUY STUFF FROM AMAZON” for years, and no one is listening…

I’ll just stick this in my Rolodex of reasons I’ll never vote for another Republican.

I got pretty fluent in it when Angie and I lived in a community where it was the only language spoken by anyone, and only the street signs were in English. But you probably don’t want to up and move to Monterey County, California.

A tinker’s cuss.
A rat’s ass.
A fuck.

All things I don’t give about the game.

Kai Ryssdal just provided the most succinct summary of every crisis, controversy personnel decision and self-inflicted dumbassery of the last twelve and a half months.

So, first of all, of course it was Trump.

But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

They did manage to keep their main defining feature, though… they still burn the shit out of the roof of your mouth if you don’t let them cool down for 20 minutes.

Thank god for Reddit, without which I wouldn’t have gotten confirmation that Stouffer’s did indeed change their French Bread Pizza formulation a few months ago, and everyone else also thinks they’re shitty now.

For years I’ve maintained that the only thing that will make him lose his base is if he actually, literally shits his pants in a public way. Hopefully this one wasn’t too subdued. Either way, I’m sure there’ll be more.

One of my cousins is a fairly prolific SM poster. Some random semiliterate dickhead left a vulgar reply on one of her posts, and I just got trapped in a timesuck reading his profile and posts. It was both hilarious and tragic; these people should be easy to defeat, but the cancer has metastasized.

One of the problems is the people who could benefit most from a fleeting moment of self-reflection, of asking ‘Is it me? Am I the asshole? Should I be trying something different?’, are probably the least likely to actually do that.

It’s not just that they are murdering people who are peacefully protesting, it’s that they then stand in front of the cameras and slander the victims by telling us that what we see on the videos didn’t happen.

It’s getting really hard to follow my self-imposed rule of not engaging in political talk at work. At least a few of them are *starting* to come around? Maybe? If not joining my tribe, at least starting to see that the leadership of theirs is rotten?

I have a couple coworkers who are so close to getting it… but they always end by saying “still better than Kamala.” I’m going to start asking them “How? What was in K’s agenda that was worse than this?” I know they’re struggling to rationalize their vote in light of what’s going on, but Jesus…

I gave up hope of anyone ever being held accountable years ago. But if this is true, this is damning for the agency. This is the document people looking for a restraining order dream of. This *should* get bipartisan outrage and officials impeached. But I’m keeping my expectations low.

The disease we have in this country right now is that we believe our sense of purpose is to make money.

No. You make money as a reward for doing something with purpose. Like running a hotel, or running a restaurant, or selling products.

You forget what you're in the business to do and you'll fail.

This is absolutely excessive force. In a competent law enforcement agency, this would be internally and criminally investigated, the officer would be fired, prosecuted, go to prison and be sued. This isn’t a training issue; this is internal institutional rot. This agency needs to be eliminated.

Re: this “press conference”… what the fuck even is this?

Note: it’s actually a hoshinsul class, which is a separate martial art from taekwondo, which focuses on self-defense. But since it’s at a taekwondo dojang, they’re both Korean and my kid and wife take taekwondo classes there, I’ll probably just keep referring to it as taekwondo for ease of clarity.

Holy blap… in tonight’s taekwondo class we were using leg muscles I forgot I had. I’m glad Angie still has her walker and cane from her knee surgery; I may need them both tomorrow.

You know what’s worse than not showing up to work when you’re supposed to be there?

Showing up to work not realizing you have the day off.

Ask me how I know.

This may feel futile, but I guarantee you it’s not. Some of these guys are hanging on by a thread, ready to say “fuck this,” and throw that badge in the garbage. More than a few of them are getting ready for work, looking at their gear hanging there, and thinking “I just can’t today.” Keep it up.

This is not only cowardice, it’s so blatantly, so clearly excessive force. State and local cops would get fired, arrested and sued for doing this. I cannot wait for the day when criminal and civil accountability hits these mfers like an unjustified blast of pepper spray to their eyes.

And when you arrest them, you take them for a jail clearance at the hospital, and book them for an actual crime that you had probable cause to make an arrest for. Then you document the incident in a report, with your name on it. You articulate what your arrestee did that justified your use of force.

So… in an actual professional agency, any use of force has to be justified and documented. There’s no scenario where you pepper spray, tase, baton-strike or even just take someone down without weapons and just casually get in the car and drive away. If you use force on someone, you arrest them.