Matt "Captain Danger" Stevens

What?
(I know I keep asking that.)

Kimberly was reading the local police blotter to me, and My God, rich suburbanites can be awful. Particularly when it comes to "calling the cops over trivial shit."

Y'know I'm weirdly sympathetic to Vance. I think it really is an accurate reflection of right-wing Christianity.
The problem is that right-wing Christianity is fucking gross.

Oh, I don't object to it! I'm just confused.

I guess not. :(

Oh, I get it.
THE DEAD WALK THE EARTH AND THEY'RE REALLY PISSED ABOUT POLITICS

@speaksincolor.bsky.social What ... what the heck is this stuff?!?

"All right. Did they yell something like 'Uka yay yay'?"
"Yeah! Matter of fact they did!"
"Okay, sounds like a Scythian raiding party to me. I'll send Hank and the boys to spend the night. The Scyths will be back -- they gotta Zembaya feast coming up -- and we'll be ready for them."

Imagined a Western town next to a time portal. How it would need history experts at the sheriff's office.
"Hey sheriff, guys in chariots stole a couple cows last night."
"Huh. They have caps like these?"
"Somethin like that. It was dark."

While I can't be sure, definitively, I don't think he was a genuine Nazi; he was doing some kind of juvenile edgelord shit.
Not justifying it, just giving my impression.

Plus the centrists never attack for a genuinely principled reason. It's always "gee, I want the same things you do, but it's just toooooo radical"

I'm all for "attacking" (well ... criticizing) allies when they do something genuinely wrong, and Nazi tattoos seem like as good a reason as any.
(I'm not thrilled that it means endorsing a 78 year old who wants to keep the filibuster, but thems the breaks.)

Though I wonder how useful a "Democrat" who attacks his own party really is

It suuuucks like I thought I’d live out my peak earning years as a guy who helps direct solar panel construction in ports or something, not as a Gallic Roman citizen in a city that just got cut off from supply to Mediterranean goods a year ago and can’t get any dried fish or loofahs for sponges.

Luis Bunel would have loved it, though

That Graham Platner shit fuckin stung because as a leftist who works in the trades I know that the right wing has gaslit so many of those dudes into thinking that you can’t be masculine and support even the most common sense leftist causes. I thought maybe this dude could change that but here we are

It means Donald Trump won despite taking far less "moderate", far less popular, issue positions.
You can't predict Presidential voting on policy positions.

Yeah, this test is horrifying.
It shows the futility of trying to win elections with fine-tuned political positioning: Voters don't know policy. They work on brand loyalty and vibes.

I wonder what you'd do at a No Nose Club, aside from endless "how does he smell?" jokes.

Please, Democrats: If Trump runs for a third term, do NOT accept its legitimacy. Refuse debates or any other public appearances with the man. Demand his immediate resignation, no matter the electoral outcome.

Yes. This happened. Too much news to follow, I know. Armed agents of the state, with a proven record of directly breaking the law, tear-gassed a neighborhood Halloween parade.

And of course, if they go around saying "we need to move right on trans issues" (for example), they'll get a backlash from the trans community, which will mean lots of debate on trans issues, leading to the impression that "Democrats are obsessed with trans rights."

This is as good as people say. Radley Balko is a national treasure.

A guy who got rich in the casino industry, now he gets his jollies threatening Muslim American politicians. A real prince.

A rich kid who went to Harvard Business School, then got richer as a casino consultant. Now he threatens Muslims. These are the core of MAGA.

I looked up Randy Fine, the sack-of-shit Florida Congressman pushing this crap.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_F...

To be fair Reagan WOULD say crazy and hateful stuff ... when we went off-script. His speechwriters made sure his official remarks were right-wing but didn't terrify the normies.

Kalash people - Wikipedia

Stumbled upon this fascinating entry on the Kalash people of Pakistan. A minority still practice a polytheistic religion clearly derived from Indo-Iranian roots (pre-Vedic and pre-Avestan).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash_...

Reminds me of Blues Hammer in "Ghost World." The guy with blond tips promising "authentic down-home in the Delta blues!"

Well, that's better