This Isn't The World I'm From

The detritus of the information age condensed for your bewilderment

[neonfeel]

Times Square (1980)

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

The Dangerous Type.

[wilwheaton]

“I hope we see more close calls or more Democratic senators defeated in primaries, though hopefully in cases where the states are blue enough and the challengers strong enough to hold the seats. There are no seats to spare. There’s no margin for losing a couple seats to make a point. But there are also plenty of senators from pure blue states that could be won by almost anyone who’s not truly feral. We just spoke yesterday again about the necessity of Supreme Court reform. And the John Hickenloopers of the Senate are not cut out for that. They won’t get it done. They must either be replaced or convinced by primary close calls to rethink how they approach their jobs. To be clear, Hickenlooper isn’t the worst. I’m sure he’s a nice guy. I’m sure he’s an able leader in other moments. But he’s representative of the get-along-go-along mentality of the Senate Democratic caucus, which is doing the doing the equivalent of debating a new fire alarm system, perhaps even some new fire retardant insulation eve, while the house is literally on fire. You’ll need to end a few of their careers to jolt the remainder into reconsidering their approach.”

— Hick for a Loop - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

Stop making excuses for bad representation. "I'm sure he's a nice guy?" I'm sure he's a corrupt prick.

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[starwarsblr]

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi dir. Richard Marquand | 1983

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

Yawn.

[wilwheaton]

“If you’re wondering why they’re working this hard to keep you from voting, the answer slipped out of Todd Blanche’s mouth this spring. Standing on a stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Dallas, the man who’d been Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer and who now runs the Justice Department as acting Attorney General told the crowd, “[E]verybody’s afraid that the next administration, if we don’t win, we’re going to all be investigated and indicted.” He meant it as a rallying cry. What he actually delivered was a confession: you don’t spend your evenings bracing for an indictment unless some quiet part of you already knows what you’ve done. A reckoning is coming for the people breaking the law for this president, and they can feel it.”

— This confession proves Trump’s terrified cronies know what’s coming for them

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

The thought of actually obeying the laws, rules, norms, and the United States Constitution never cross they minds.

It's not political or election interference to investigate alleged criminal acts. It's how a society protects itself.

[wilwheaton]

“But it gets worse, because that same executive order about mail-in voting also directs the Department of Homeland Security to build its own state-by-state lists of who’s eligible to vote, exactly the kind of national database you’d assemble if your real plan was to pressure states into purging their rolls. If that sounds like paranoia, it’s only because we’ve already forgotten that we lived through it. In 2000, Jeb Bush’s secretary of state, Katherine Harris, who also happened to be co-chair of his brother George’s Florida campaign, hired a private firm to scrub the voter rolls using a list of supposed felons that included eight thousand names shipped in from Texas. The matching was deliberately loose, flagging anyone whose last name was an 80 percent match to a felon’s, and the Brennan Center later found that at least 12,000 eligible voters were wrongly purged, 22 times George W. Bush’s 537-vote margin. Black Floridians were 11 percent of the electorate and 41 percent of the people thrown off the rolls. Bush took the presidency by that sliver, and the Florida Supreme Court-ordered recount that would have caught the theft was shut down by a Supreme Court whose deciding majority included a justice his own father had put on the bench, Clarence Thomas, whose wife was at that very moment collecting résumés for a Bush administration, and Antonin Scalia, whose sons worked for firms representing Bush, neither of whom saw any reason to step aside. That’s the voter merge-and-purge playbook, and they’re dusting it off on a national scale for this November with new, borrowed-from-Putin tweaks. Or at least they’re trying their hardest to.”

— This confession proves Trump’s terrified cronies know what’s coming for them

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

You can't vote from a prison or concentration camp.

[ruknowhere]

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).”

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb[a] (/ˈtɑːləb/; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American New York University professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty

[wilwheaton]

“Whatever the explanation, the bottom line is sobering: The person with the power to sic the Justice Department on perceived political foes; to send masked, heavily armed, and poorly trained troops out among the populace; and to order a nuclear attack is slipping. Maybe fast. And the chance that his Cabinet or his party will do anything about it is zero, which means we’re going to have to survive two and a half more years of this.”

— Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

Not if he dies shortly after his 80th birthday. Then we get to moan and groan through Vance's presidency.

[wilwheaton]

““Fundamentally the problem here with this whole thing is: How is it that you had Karen Bass was in first place, Spencer Pratt was in second place, and then this other woman was in third place. You would expect these mail-in ballots to kind of meet that same basic pattern,” Vance said. “But somehow we find ourselves in a situation where number one—they’re still receiving ballots, not just counting ballots. And number two—the way they’re coming in just so happens to work out such that the Republican is getting kicked out of the final two, so it’s a Democrat-versus-Democrat runoff.”

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JD Vance Isn’t Handling Republicans’ Defeat in Los Angeles Very Well

Hey, stupid, just wanted to remind you that – hey, look at me when I’m talking to you, Jeffrey Dahmer Vance – I just want to remind you that Los Angeles has nearly 3 times more registered Democrats than Republicans, we have not elected a Republican this century, and votes are counted from different precincts, as well as mail-in ballots, starting when the polls close. A lot of stupid people voted for Pratt, sure, but vastly more people who aren’t complete idiot mouth breathers did not, because he is an idiot, just like you. 

You know that, you dumb fuck – I swear to god, Jorts Dingus Vance, take your hand out of your pants, stop staring at that couch, and listen to me – you know that this is how elections have been decided for two centuries in America.

And, yes, the loser in this mayoral contest is the incompetent, unqualified, Republican scumbag who everyone in Los Angeles hates as much as we hate you and that rapist piece of shit you work for. Because he is a loser, and no amount of billionaire money or whining about his loss changes that.

You and your toadies don’t lose elections because they are rigged, Jackhole Dipshit Vance; they lose because voters hate you and your party, and everything you represent.

Run along now, and find some other losers to hang out with while the clock ticks down, ever closer to the moment you are a footnote in a history book, a punchline to a joke that wasn’t ever funny to begin with.

[jackiefour]

They know that this is how elections work. They know it. Jerkoff Dumbass Vance knows it. But he is saying it to cast doubt in the public mind on the process. Because they know that the truth doesn’t actually matter. All that matters is that they repeat the lie often enough that it works it’s way into the collective unconscious enough to lay the seeds of doubt. That’s it. That’s why they tell obvious lies over and over again. And the truly, butt-clenchingly annoying part is that this tactic works. It works. The oft repeated lie will become the thing that people think when the topic comes up, and they will stop questioning it (if they ever did). This is what the Republican party has been doing for decades.

So instead of directing this at the Vice Couch-fucker, look straight into the camera and tell anyone and everyone reading this…

THEY ARE LYING. YOU KNOW THEY’RE LYING. REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE LYING.

Also, we all know the age-old truth that “he who smelt it, dealt it.” The Republican Party is accusing the Democratic Party of cheating because the Republican Party is actively trying to cheat. They are trying to stop people from being able to vote, trying to disqualify as many votes as they can, because it’s their only chance at winning.

Republicans lose when everyone votes. <- REMEMBER THAT.

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

The Big Lie worked for Hitler and Goebbels. Trump's entire playbook is warmed over Nixon and a whole lot of Nazism.

[wilwheaton]

“Omar Abdulkadir Artan, Africa’s 2025 referee of the year, was turned away at Miami International Airport on Saturday due to unspecified vetting concerns despite carrying valid documents and a diplomatic passport. He would have been the first Somali referee at a men’s FIFA World Cup, but FIFA confirmed Monday he’s been removed from the tournament’s 52-referee roster.”

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Ground News - Somali Referee Denied US Entry Before World Cup

He carries a DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT.

Fuck Trump. Fuck ICE. Fuck everything about this. 

But, more than anything else, fuck the people who voted for this.

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

When you give Trump the first ever FIFA Peace Prize you've given him an award for xenophobia and racism. He hates Somalis because of a single Minnesota Congresswoman.

[wilwheaton]

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

You're the Glory Hole in Space.

[blondebrainpowered]

Altered Image: Warhol in Drag, 1981

Photographer: Christopher Makos

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Cupid Stunt-Kenny Everett in drag.

[pink111shit]

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And the shit I drop.

[yodaprod]

1993

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💦

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[wilwheaton]

“Comics Unleashed is not a show you tweet about in the moment, discuss the next morning or DVR with anticipation. It exists one evolutionary rung above a looped fireplace video, the sort of thing Walmart might run silently on a showroom TV wall.”

— Stephen Colbert’s CBS replacement absolutely destroyed in devastating review: ‘Dear God’

[ignorant-and-apathetic]

Has Byron Allen ever had a watchable show? Or a show that wasn't syndicated?

[ruknowhere]

Walt Whitman // “The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment...to put things down without deliberation...without worrying about their style...without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote, wrote, wrote… By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.”