C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶

First death of the play through: liberating Fall's End.

Good news: just once.

Christ. I forgot how tough the initial vehicle chase can be on Hard after having gone without playing for a while.

Much to my shame. I am feeling very much like returning to Hope County, Montana. Even if seven years on, I feel like it's "dated as all hell."

If anyone wants me to stream it, by all means, reply or DM me or something. I'll switch on the feed. 🎮🐷

The phrase "controlled opposition" keeps coming to mind over and over.

That's those "tough call" moments.

But, there's always room for some abduction shenanigans later. "Never say never," you know?

The Post-War generation is literally in their twilight years and declaring, "Fascism should have won, actually."

Senator, you're a liar and collaborator. So long as you think you're safely ensconced in a position of authority, you're never going to help anyone but yourself and your Republican colleagues.

With all due respect, Senator, I'm ashamed of you and on behalf of my fellow Americans in New York.

I immediately think of something that's been pretty popular around "the office" of late.

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

The neoliberal do nothings and pissbabies are already throwing their ritual massive tantrums when their leaders prove they are capitulating to Nazis and unwilling to actually do anything to stop Trump. The Democratic party has to die.

Primary them all, not just the ones overtly doing the horrible things. The establishment has completely abandoned the American people. And that happened a long time ago, this is just the latest gross example.

Class solidarity over everything else.

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Early Modern period, thank you.

Better keep practicing penmanship, boiling up some bathwater, and if you're lucky, we'll get the hang of powdered wigs before the year's out.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say... "enough."

Well. After many strange aeons, even Death may die. So, that's just how that goes, I think.

Well, Kev.

I'd tax your ass. You do whatever little things you like to tell yourself is your income. But you're just going to have to make do on less.

You're not the solution, Kev. You were part of the problem all along.

it says a lot about the average politician that this guy seems to expect that zohran mamdani only said what he said to get elected and doesn’t actually believe in anything

Heh. That's why "ideal" is never perfect.

But it feels so very nice.

Good to hear when a character reaches that unknowable "ideal" after a lot of moving around in the dark.

Frankly, he'd probably be pissed about the beard, too. Man wasn't clean-shaven his whole life to have steel wool occupying his post.

What... astounds me... is how he's convinced that this stuff will stay on the walls after he's gone.

Or that his money pit ballroom is going to outlast him. He's either full-blown dementia or pumping suckers right to his last breath.

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

It's kind of funny to watch a mind that is so thoroughly cooked on its own propaganda that it refuses to recognize when people have stopped buying what you're selling.

Except, of course, the true believers.

Soon...

I really enjoy that we came up with a really effective insignia. ✌️🐷

Soon...

a scene from back to the future with the words ronald reagan the actor on the bottom Alt: GIF: Emmett "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd) postures at Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) in Back to the Future (1985). "Ronald Reagan? The actor?!?"

It was a highlight of the hubris of the moment. "Ah... fuckin'... We go this space travel shit down pat. We can send anyone or anything into space, no problem."

There's a reason this happened under the aegis of a Republican president whose big claim to fame was working in Hollywood.

Makes for a nice, densely packed bit of reading without succumbing to purple prose.