To give you an idea of how bad the Californian GOP brand is, all you have to do is realize that during the Newsom recall, the front runner GOP candidate had a well-established intent to take away women's vote. They're still alive in individual districts and locally but statewide they're dead.

The GOP as a brand is dead inside statewide Californian politics. The problem with how utterly defeated the Republicans are. Is that you just pretend to be a Democrat at this point and continue on.

"Absolutely bipedal. Probably."

I'm not exactly a spiritual/religious person but the cracks in Fox Nation developing to an extent that you can't ignore certainly feels like one of those divination omens. I can hope.

Is there a field of divination devoted to "swag bag merch mugs"?

The decomposing corpse of Phyllis Schlafly has entered the chat.

That was different do you know how long it takes to make a proper scotch & tears?

Six total, although I'd give 2 or 3 of them a "do not want" as opposed to a gagging reflex.

Yeah I'm still working on them to convince them that it's not that they became a billionaire and became evil and more that a billion dollars is so much money that you *have* to be ethically a POS to accumulate it all and keep it. I think I'll get there.

It's funny I've been pretty firm in my conviction that there are no ethical billionaires and they shouldn't exist in our society and I've seen family and friends go from "That's extreme isn't it?" to "I'm starting to see your point".

In the immortal words of podcaster Eli Bosnick "Just put silly putty up your butt dude. You don't need to do all this. You'll be happier once you put the silly putty up your butt."

That was in response to the worst claymation movie I've ever seen but I feel like Nick could benefit from it too.

Instead of centering themselves around a life worth living as an end in itself they centered everything they did around spite against women.

I had a friend who fell into it and I had to listen to him a lot and I looked into the scene and it was just more of the same spite and anger.

Yeah they were one of those "so close they are far away" things that pissed me off. Like, yes investing in yourself and becoming a person you like and creating a life you are content with is important and the right thing to do.

But in the end it was all centered around punishing women.

I think I even still have the tshirt they gave you to commemorate it somewhere in a drawer.

Up until about 10 years ago my dad had the glossery page that they handed out for the Lynch release of Dune because the studio was reasonably certain nobody would f*cking know what a Landsraad or Kwisatz Haderach was.

I saw the very first digital projection movie in a theater. Star Wars Episode 1.

Considering I grew up in a projection booth though the number of movies I saw on first run are... most of them in the 80s and 90s.

Buy the dip!

I'm going to go watch "This Is Financial Advice" again for the like 87th time apropos of nothing.

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

My friend this is the Avacado Toast that the builder refused which has now become the cornerstone.

"Fucking millennials and gen z'ers wanting good food and a well lived life. Why the fuck aren't they buying the 400,000 dollar 1 bed 1 bath shacks and running up six figures of credit card debt furnishing it?"

That's a LOT of married women. Which is a feature and not a bug for these people.

Or anybody's real IDs for that matter they've come out and said it doesn't meet their requirements.

So basically a new poll tax/quiz like the old Jim Crow gotcha questions where they'd ask a black person how many bubbles are in a a bar of soap

The joke went so far over his head it left contrails.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

seems almost certain we’ll later find out they were coerced

thehill.com/homenews/med...

I call this the "Elon Musk" effect. There's a meme, I can't find it, where someone posted that he sounded like he knew a lot about rocket science, that he knew a lot about EVs, and that he knew a lot about programming, but the poster was a programmer and knew he was an idiot or something like that.

Agreed, but that's blood in the water. He'll probably die in the Senate but you never know and with all this Epstein crap and ICE being evil it may have GOP senators feeling skittish and wanting to retain some amount of power.

It’s fine that some people support Gavin Newsom…but *they* are the ones being irrational if they believe this is the best we can do.

Judging by his profile he's probably more sparkling Vichy than Nazi.

For fun Google "Eddie Murphy white face"