The Giant Aquatic Centipede

Or the opening scene featuring old-age Kirk and McCoy in Star Trek V - The Final Frontier.

The Eternal Struggle:

Should I get out of my warm bed at 4am to take a pee, or can I drift off again without having to? 🤔🥹

You too. 👍

All people are vaguely (or seriously) annoying at some point. If I blacklisted every one of them I'd be in an unhealthy echo chamber. I like to think I've developed skills to engage with all but the most intolerable/deceitful people or bots. But very few blockings. A thick skin is essential today

Caving buys a lot of condos in Miami.

Re-hires, back pay and one giant opportunity to be utterly humiliated - again.

Nobody would buy a used car off this guy. Your instincts would scream, "Walk away!". So I'm curious why people believed he would be more reliable in office?

You want to bet your safety at 40,000 feet on "True Patriotism"? Nope. Neither do I.

If Ghislaine Maxwell has sensitive information she can hold over Trump you'd better believe the former chief prosecutor of the Mob in NY has a thousand times more. He was always going to walk.

C'mon. There was NEVER a chance that the former chief prosecutor of the Mob in NY (which, admittedly, he was effective as - despite playing fast and loose with the rules) was going to serve a day of time. Guiliani had more sensitive information he could leverage than anyone. Way more than Maxwell

That episode scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid.

The number one rules of thieves is - nothing is too small to steal.

Rupert Murdoch's first gig working at the behest of the intelligence community.

Trump is all in on Boeing. He's cut Airbus out of the domestic market with tariffs (maybe good for Boeing but not the wider industry). He'll work with them to aggressively defend any claim that a plane suffering a serious mishap will be blamed on the company & he's giving them fat defence contracts

I think that's a true most of the time. But I also think a few discover a manila envelope filled with photographs shoved under their door, or internet search histories on dodgy sites, wire taps, physical threats mostly to family or just a fat stack of cash. There are many ways to skin a cat.

Deals with Trump are like wishing to a Monkey's Paw. You kind of get what you want only for it to all turn horribly south.

She could attach her lips to the plane. That would certainly give it a ton of lift. Of course, they'd have to figure out some system for forward thrust. Maybe a load of bicycles connecting to a central shaft, gearing, sprocket and some flappy, flappy wings. 🤔

"We are sorry to report that a fire broke out in central records last night. We aren't sure how it started but we will be launching a comprehensive and thorough investigation. We will get back to you when the facts are known ..." 🤔

Views of the public? Or views of a manufactured public? 🤔

Meanwhile the golden retriever is sat sleepily off camera thinking, "These fucking guys!" 😂

I'm convinced - this guy is an apparition which only appears when a camera is exposing images. He's like those weird portents which manifest on film in the first Omen movie.

You want to knock at the door of that house on dark and stormy night after your car has broken down? That's a Saw sequel if ever there was one.

C'mon! Just the notion that the former chief Mob prosecutor in NY would go down (and that's before a whole lot of shady business went down thereafter which it's probably not wise to discuss - pure fantasy. Guiliani is protected like the Prince of Darkness.

Guiliani was the biggest certainty of all time. Just the notion that the former chief Mob prosecutor in NY would serve a moment of time - fantasy.

As for the GOP being "visibly responsible". C'mon. Only a very, very small subset of racists, idiots and whackjobs believe the Democrats are responsible for what has taken place during this administration. So they clearly couldn't care less whether it's on them. Trump aint losing a wink of sleep.

When Bannon went on record saying, "I/WE are going to jail if the Democrats win" - danger lights were flashing red. There comes a point in any authoritarian governance when those involved realize power is now their only protection. At that point they either pull back (never happens) or triple down.

Good point. 👍

The Democrats think all they need do is win the next election and everything will go back to the way it once was. Unfortunately, the way it once was is responsible for the way it now is.

Attach the plane to her lips and it at least will go up. Maybe install bicycles attached to a central gearing and sprocket linked to some flappy wings? 🤔