Magical Moments, Every Day!

I'm a Catholic whore who needs to visit my black, Jewish boyfriend who works in a military abortion clinic.

[maureen2musings]

"A few of my favorite moments out under the stars, including the Aoraki/Mount Cook photo (2) for which I won Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2024, so honored!"

txmrae

[disneymikenz]

Holidaying in this region is honestly so good

[freya-ulfsdottir]

happy pride 🌈

[sirfrogsworth]

This parade is one of the most thrown-together low-energy events I've ever seen. Our high school float parade had more enthusiasm.

The best part... Trump is bored out of his skull.

Though every once in a while he stands up and salutes.

It's really weird.

Also, they just paused the presentation to thank a sponsor.

Classy.

[sirfrogsworth]

And now we present...

This slow moving truck!

Brought to you by...

Coinbase!

The President's app of choice to launder money from his dipshit followers.

[sirfrogsworth]

Let's check in with Marco Rubio to see how he is enjoying the parade.

This deep sigh was brought to you by...

[sirfrogsworth]

They started playing some 80s rock music to pep things up. But then I noticed none of the songs have vocals.

They are karaoke tracks!

One of which was Fortunate Son. And it is a good thing they didn't actually play the lyrics because, umm...

This really is the weirdest parade.

The audience is bored, the soldiers are waving to their moms, and Trump keeps saluting.

"I am the most Army-friendly President in history, from the standpoint of saluting."

Oh, brought to you by...

[thefrogman]

I've been liveblogging the parade.

It's like watching our tax money be set on fire.

They just had robot dogs.

Trump did not salute the robot dogs.

Also, Lockheed Martin is the new sponsor.

The US government is their biggest customer. 70% of their income is from the Department of Defense.

"Sure, we'll use some of the money you paid us to help pay for your little parade."

It's like a financial auroboros.

[thefrogman]

This must be the worst energy drink in existence.

The lowest energy crowd I've ever seen.

For one of the final acts, a walking corpse came on stage.

Turns out that corpse was Lee Greenwood, famous singer of "God Bless the USA."

He used up a fresh bottle of Just For Men and doesn't look a day over 112.

He kept trying to get the crowd into his song and he was getting frustrated that they weren't hyped to see an octogenarian sing.

He yelled, "Sing it with me!"

And they cut to Trump and his birthday entourage.

Very lively.

Pete sang along though. He was the only one.

Then Lee yelled, "Light up your cell phones!"

And then, finally, he won the crowd over and everyone swayed in unison—creating a majestic light show.

I'm just kidding.

8 people did it.

The night ended with a very lackluster fireworks show intercut with a military propaganda video.

And then everyone just kinda shuffled away.

I'm pretty sure Trump wanted a North Korea-style spectacle.

And instead he got the world's slowest truck.

He was having trouble hiding his disappointment.

What a waste.

[disneymikenz]

The only song that can sum up my feelings

[giuliadrawsstuff]

You are loved.

Reference here

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[thedaddycomplex]

The second most villainous person in the world gives a pity party for himself. Meanwhile, the world is still all…

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[thedaddycomplex]

Trump’s staff hides negative news from him to keep him happy. Musk was so affected by getting booed at Dave Chappelle's performance he had a mental breakdown. Their egos are horribly weak. This is how we defeat them—unyielding insults and mockery.

This is what we trained for. This is our moment. We need to get a lot louder and way more petty.

I believe in you.

[animentality]

[theparadigmshifts]

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[chrispineofficial]

it’s 2028. trump is dead. elon is dead. zuckerberg is dead bezos is dead they’re all dead

[disneymikenz]

please don't tease me like this i can't take it

[insomniac-arrest]

You can survive almost anything through the right combination of:

Bitching and moaning

Hater-ology

Doing a goofy little bit about it

Having a buddy say "that's so fucked up" at intermittent points (you can also be your own buddy)

Destroying the cursed amulet you carry everywhere, why do you even have that thing

[h4h4n0tfunny]

[madame-helen]

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

[dresshistorynerd]

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[jennybobenny73]

Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

Eternal Heart Sculpture to Honor Choctaw/Ireland Relationship to be Unveiled at Choctaw Nation Capitol - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun