Generationalize

We must achieve a more limited version of the same--convince the median voter--and some extra, just to be safe--that nothing MAGA can offer them is worth the cost it imposes, that they will not be able to enjoy peace, happiness, or safety under MAGA, but can live normally and win under Dems.

Reminds me of the gag in Gilmore Girls where the town is doing The Festival of Living Art - people dressed up in tableaux replicating famous artworks like The Last Supper - and at one transition Taylor announces (without showing anything) “And that was Pablo Picasso‘s ‘Guernica’”

And furthermore…

Apparently the new model tells them to touch grass and they are not digging it

Among my earliest posts here was in response to recent science suggesting exactly that.

(Check what I was responding to for the a science reported.)

But I was a Rare-Earther already, so YMMV.

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I thought I’d used this more but good enough for now:

YouTube video by AdEshack Go (1999) Grocery Dance ("Macarena")

The grocery store bit is all I really think of when the Macarena comes up, anymore.

Each segment is such a complete story that it's easy to get to the end of one and be surprised by the start of a completely different one....and then again....and then when they come back together....and then when they really get tied up....no, really.

At 17 years old (or thereabouts, it's not clear if Ronna's telling the truth about her age), Ronna and Claire are technically Elder Millennials, and makes sense that 1999 is about the last point when people their age would be allowed to an unchaperoned dance party at night, or anything like it.

Put Go on last night and I Have Thoughts.

Including: it doesn't do the "repeating what's happening so you don't need to pay attention."

It GRABS your attention, starting right from the Columbia bumper, which jumps from the standard resolving chord into the X-Mas rave at the center of the action.

Go (1999)

John August’s first script. Doug Liman’s third movie.

Went because Ralph Garman - then
just “Ralph the New Guy“ on KROQ - said it was good. And it is.

In 1996 the wife and I went to the Burbank Bob’s Big Boy for dinner.

The iconic Bob’s Big Boy statue out front was missing.

We asked the hostess.

“He’s off doing a movie.”

Saw Austin Powers and realized: this is the movie!

Honest question: is everyone using the Fantasia 2000 version of The Firebird?

Because I watched that a lot, and even allowing for “yeah it’s a classic there’s lots of performances….” it sure sounds like it to me.

a man with his mouth open and the word burn written on his shirt Alt: Kelso from That 70s Show - a man with his mouth open and the word Burn! (As in, severe unrecoverable insult.)

I know That 70s Show is so old that now theres a show about the characters and their kids at their current ages called That 90s Show but this gif really should be used more In situations like this.

Four years ago I saw reports of Russian military units being moved to Ukraine from all over, and I remember thinking ”Isn’t there a very good reason why this might be a tactical or strategic error?”

This here is NOT the first time that “oh yeah, here’s why you don’t do that” has shown up.

My favorite Vulcan math joke:

This Is The Way.

And here we see the Lamborghini Temerario in its natural habitat

buzz lightyear from toy story says you 're mocking me aren t you Alt: buzz lightyear from toy story says you're mocking me aren t you

Just guessing here but:

a man in a military uniform is saying never start a fight but always finish it Alt: Babylon 5: a man in a military uniform (Captain John Sheridan of Earthforce) is saying “never start a fight but always finish it” - something his dad told him.

Just a Sheridan quote that‘s on my mind…

Thread. And, yes, 100%

Voter ID: Because if ICE has shown us anything, it's shown us that random government officials will absolutely trust and approve official documentation, and definitely will not be biased by things like skin color.

Nice.

Our local theater was one of the few showing it, but didn’t manage to get to it during that weekend.

There is no significant voting by non-citizens. Therefore a new bundle of laws to stop that is dumb. Or worse. It’s voter suppression in a pretty package. IF ID is required, there must be guarantees that support will be provided to those who lack ID. And make Election Day a holiday.

a group of men sitting on a couch with the words " and you try tellin the young people of today that " Alt: a group of men sitting on a couch with the words " and you try tellin the young people of today that and they won't believe you."

"A one hour validation? Luxury!"

More and more every day......

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No, Miss Bondi, I expect you to lie."

Fun fact: searching for "the agony of defeat" brings that guy up as the first entry.

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Great, you're gonna make him the "Jackass" skier. It'll be worse than the "Agony of Defeat" guy.

Also, I'm very disappointed that I can't find any Idiocracy "Ow My Balls" gifs.

a group of men standing next to each other with the words miners not minors written on the bottom Alt: Galaxy Quest: some confusion over definitions. a group of men standing next to each other with the words miners not minors written on the bottom

Maybe he thinks there will be.