Bill Maher acknowledges Q and the anons about the child trafficking and the elite. He is hesitant about 'the eating of babies'.
BOEBERT: “I’m not saying they’re eating babies. I’m saying there is talk of consumption, and it ain’t pizza... This is deep, dark, satanic, awful, sacrificial, and this stuff is gross.”
Worth the watch as this is informing the normies 'big time.' 🤔
If you're a fan of Slay the Princess, you might like the newest story I've been working on, titled "The God of Nothing."
A young man with gray skin, horns, and hair made of shadow wakes up in a dark cell. However, he quickly learns that he can slip through shadows into a void of pure darkness. Yet in this darkness, he hears a faint crying sound, and upon reentering the physical world he finds the corpse of a young child. WIth a single touch, the child's body is reanimated...but not quite alive.
That's the least of his problems, as now he's being pursued by a being of pure light, whose presence brings him pure agony by being in proximity. Grabbing the hand of the child, he flees, though the woman made of light is in hot pursuit.
Christofascists will spread conspiracy theories about a global network of cultists performing child sacrifice and then post AI generated pictures of dead children meeting Jesus in Heaven like their deaths are something to celebrate.
Ever wondered why none of the Arab countries that loudly claim to care about Palestinians are willing to take them in, even temporarily? Egypt, their direct neighbor, won't even let Gazans shelter in the Sinai. Instead, it has tightened border security to keep them out.
It's time to name the elephant in the room: Arab hypocrisy and the calculated mistreatment and marginalization of the Palestinians. The truth is uncomfortable but undeniable.
The Islamic world never intended to solve the Palestinian issue. They created it to weaponize it against Israel. Arab regimes have never supported the idea of a sovereign, independent Palestine. Instead, they kept Palestinians stateless and disenfranchised by design. So why is that? Because a bitter, unassimilated refugee population was far more useful as a permanent thorn in Israel's side. The worse the Palestinian condition, the more valuable they became as propaganda tools against Israel and as a bottomless justification for siphoning Western taxpayer money through compromised organizations like UNRWA into the pockets of Hamas and the PLO. It is a sadomasochistic system of perverse incentives.
But the Palestinians aren't just victims of Arab betrayal. They have made their bed again and again. They launched every major war with Israel since 1948. They rejected every peace offer that didn't involve the dismantling of the Jewish state. And they elected Hamas, a genocidal death cult that glorifies child sacrifice. Thus, their perpetual suffering isn't just imposed. It's also chosen through leadership, ideology, and a collective refusal to abandon the delusion of erasing Israel.
For nearly a century, Palestinian leadership has aligned with the wrong side of history, supporting Saddam Hussein, allying with Assad, attempting multiple coups in Jordan, and playing a devastating role in the Lebanese civil war. Every host nation that welcomed them eventually paid the price and learned the hard way that solidarity came with subversion.
The roots of this pathology run deep. Long before Hamas, the PLO under Arafat cultivated a quasi-religious cult of blood; the revolution was treated as a sacrament. Children's deaths were proof of commitment. From the river to the sea was not a metaphor, it was a murderous mandate. In school books, children were taught that Israel is a temporary entity, Jews have no right to exist in the holy Arab land, a claim blatantly refuted by the very mosque they built atop a 3,000-year-old Jewish temple, and that martyrdom is nobler than coexistence.
Hamas took this culture and codified it into state ideology. Civilians are used as human shields, funerals are PR spectacles, and death is a public relations weapon. Their strategy is brutally effective. Provoke Israel into retaliation, engineer civilian casualties, then scream genocide. In this grotesque economy, dead Palestinians are the currency spent for headlines, sympathy, and foreign aid.
The tragedy is not only that Israel is under siege. The deeper tragedy is that an entire generation of Palestinians has been offered up to Moloch, an ancient god of child sacrifice now rebranded as "resistance." They're taught that paradise lies not in building, creating, or reforming, but in dying soaked in Jewish blood.
In this ritual cult of annihilation, progress is treason, compromise is sin, and life itself is subordinated to the ecstasy of violent death. In a world where Islamism forbids pluralism, progress, or joy, martyrdom is the only route to dignity.
Every one of you who supports this morbid cause is complicit in perpetuating the abuse and suffering. You are not helping Palestinians by championing a fabricated nationalist cause engineered to exploit them. You are helping their jailers, theocrats, kleptocrats, and terrorists tighten their grip.
You're not standing with the oppressed, you are kneeling before Moloch.
The entity pauses, turning back to inspect their newest familiar as a low growl of hunger emanates from the child's stomach. The human, no older than ten, looks back to meet their gaze with sheepish embarrassment and the entity sighs internally.
The ancient one searches through their seemingly endless library of memories for somewhere safe to pause and gather sustenance.
Sorry I know you just answered one of these, but I've got another ask about Rocky's Bar. I think it's interesting that Dean is shown to be kinda "retired," but Sam and Cas are still working. Do you have any thoughts on that?
Oooh, I really enjoyed the last one, too. Always up for Nihilism thoughts!
Some thoughts.
I think it's interesting that Dean doesn't seriously consider retirement until pretty late, and it seems to imply that it comes at the cost of Jack's wellbeing, even as early as season 13.
When it comes to balance, most of the characters seesaw with the idea of true retirement. Usually, they waver between running away and throwing themselves into duty rather than seriously considering retirement—Dean included.
I don’t think Dean seriously considers retirement until the end of Season 13, where he starts to feel like Jack can wholly fill his shoes. Uneasily, the scene of Dean crowing about how Jack taking up the family business might allow them to finally retire is importantly juxtaposed with Jack screaming and having night terrors in 13x23 Let the Good Times Roll:
DEAN: If we could...really change things? Well, maybe with Jack, we can.
SAM: Maybe you're right. But then what will we do?
DEAN: Mm. Yeah. This. (Dean holds a beer he has been carrying and Sam looks down at his) A whole lot of this.
But on a beach somewhere, you know? Can you imagine?
You, me, Cas, toes in the sand, couple of them little umbrella drinks. Matching Hawaiian shirts, obviously. Some hula girls.
SAM (scoffing) You talking about retiring? You?
DEAN: If I knew the world was safe? Hell, yeah. And you know why? 'Cause we freaking earned it, man.
SAM (holding up his beer) I'll drink to that.
DEAN: Yeah. Hell, yeah.
(Sam continues down the hallway while Dean turns to another hallway and approaches his bedroom door. He stops as if to listen to something and then continues down the hall, away from his bedroom door. He enters Jack’s room, where Jack is sleeping and talking in his sleep)
JACK: Stop! No!
DEAN (softly): Jack? (Dean touches Jack's shoulder to wake him)
Hey.
(Jack jumps up, anxious and disoriented. Dean holds out his hand towards Jack to calm him)
DEAN: Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy. You're just having a bad dream.
Of note, though Sam’s scoffing at Dean’s retirement is framed as surprise, we can’t help but wonder if that’s not the whole story. Sam has always been portrayed as a bit of a workaholic, and when he’s in a position to delegate the hunting grunt work, he seems to thrive in the Man of Letters role.
Could it be that Sam is internally uneasy with the idea of retiring himself? It’s certainly up for consideration. This adds a layer of complexity to Dean’s assumption that Sam would still be out hunting in the world of Rocky’s Bar.
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Peace or Freedom? Both feet in or both feet out?
Mary puts this dynamic beautifully in Season 12 when she asks, “Why does it have to be one or the other?”—why can’t she hunt and have a family? It's in 12x17 The British Invasion:
KETCH: You had a choice to make... your work or family ties.
MARY: You know what? It's not either/or. I have the same
discussion with my boys. I'm not choosing hunting over them. Why does it have to be one or the other?
KETCH: So you want to have it all?
It’s a super important theme: why are peace and freedom positioned as being on opposite ends of the spectrum? Why this idea of “both feet in or both feet out”?
That tension threads throughout the series, and Dean wrestles with it constantly just as all the other "working" characters do.
Which brings us to Rocky’s Bar....
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This is Dean’s bare minimum, not his happiness.
It’s "contentment," a kind of uneasy truce with himself and the life he’s lived. (Crucially, this is why "happiness/future" figures like Mary and Jack are missing, and there are not a lot of loved ones/people in the bar, mostly enemies.)
Rocky’s Bar represents a fragile compromise that lets Dean stop running but doesn’t grant him the happiness he really deserves.
Dean has always carried the weight of being the stabilizing force, the one who holds everyone together. Now, he’s finally in a place where he can step back—partly because Cas has stepped in to share that burden of protecting Sam.
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Cas: The duty-driven guardian
This constant drive—this unrelenting sense of duty—is why Cas, like Sam, is also seen as a workaholic. His drive to protect, to do the right thing, and to serve a higher cause is so intrinsic to him.
Cas’s perpetual motion isn’t just a reaction to obvious events. In Season 10, even when Heaven is supposedly "quiet," Cas can’t sit still. He’s still compelled to leave, to go off on quests, to find something beyond himself. (Metatron ridicules this with comparisons to "tilting at windmills.")
This dynamic is emphasized when Lucifer’s calls Cas a "pleasureless dullard" in 12x07 Rock Never Dies. Lucifer is lamenting/taunting that, even though Cas has people who love him (like Dean and Sam), he can’t stop to enjoy life or take pleasure in it. Cas is so entrenched in his role as a protector, a "working man," (seen in his motif of always wearing business clothes but almost never street clothes or pajamas) that he can't allow himself to BE, to live in the present moment. A soldier for eons, Cas is stuck in this mode of feeling more comfortable with a mission, with a reason to keep moving. Even Jack is a mission that "allows" him a reason/excuse to stay on the earth in a blended family.
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So. Dean relies on Cas for stability and protection, but he can't truly have him in the way he needs because Cas is always seemingly burdened with his larger duty to Heaven/the world/the safety of the family.
This tension is further demonstrated in 14x15 Peace of Mind, when Cas steps in to mentor Sam so Dean can simply rest.
There's a subtle sadness in knowing that their respective duties sometimes prevent them from fully being present with each other in their shared life. During 14x15 especially, both of them could use a rest together—Cas with his Empty deal and Dean on the heels of his psychological wound of Michael possession... but they're stuck with their duties to spiraling family members instead.
This dynamic reflects a larger theme: Dean is torn between the reliance on Cas for stability and the pain of knowing that, despite their bond, Cas is always “on” and never truly there in the way Dean might want. It’s a cycle where Dean can’t fully grasp peace or happiness because Cas, the person who could give him that, is always just out of reach, consumed by his (their mutual?) never-ending sense of duty.
This dynamic isn’t just a source of tension—it’s part of what makes Dean fall in love with Cas in the first place. Cas's dedication, his unwavering sense of duty, is both an attraction and a barrier. Dean admires Cas's values and sense of trying to do the right thing, because Dean has a lot of the same hang-ups when it comes to hunting.
More often than not, Dean's values tend to win out over his own happiness, too:
DEAN: My peace is helping people. Working cases. (10x13)
Dean struggles to reconcile the tension between desiring rest and the need to protect. :(((
Often, Dean’s big heart wins out, keeping him tethered to the very duty he longs to escape.
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Lee's bar ("Swayze's" Bar") in 15x07 Last Call serves as a bookend to the dream of Rocky's Bar that Dean grapples with in 14x10 Nihilism
In both bars, Dean confronts the idea of peace, and the longing to be semi-retired, but while Rocky's Bar represents a fragile, uneasy contentment, Lee’s bar embodies a false dream built on sacrificing others for personal gain.
Dean's journey toward rejecting the False Promise of Peace unfolds gradually, beginning with his first significant rejection in 14x20 Moriah when he throws away Chuck's gun. Then, he further rejects Chuck's offer: that Chuck'll bring Mary back if Dean kills himself and Jack. This act is the beginning of his resistance to the notion of finding peace through sacrifice/escape, but it’s still a tenuous path.
Lee's bar serves as another point where Dean faces the temptation of abandoning/ignoring his loved ones for a sense of peace, mirroring the earlier desire to escape. ("Family is a weight around your neck," cooed AU Michael in 14x10 Nihilism.) While Lee’s choice to sacrifice others for peace echoes Dean's own struggle, it’s here that Dean begins to recognize the true hollowness of that path. The NIHILISM of it. This marks his second rejection, albeit it's still a shaky path.
Dean’s final, full rejection of sacrificing others (Jack) for peace solidifies in 15x17 Unity and 15x18 Despair, when he refuses to let Jack go, even after failing him so completely. “We’re not giving up on you,” he says, choosing to take on Billie for Jack’s sake, in parallel to taking on Death for Sam in 10x23 Brother's Keeper. This moment marks a pivotal shift, as Dean chooses to protect his loved ones instead of seeking peace at their expense.
His growth comes full circle with this decision: a deeper understanding of peace not as an escape, but for him, as something built through enduring the fight and standing with his loved ones.
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I think this echoes in the song choice for 14x10. We hear the song "Searchin' for a Rainbow" in Nihilism:
I rode into town today, in my mind, I said 'Lord I'd like to stay.
Something in me said boy, move on. Don't know what it is the good lord bred it in my bones.
And I'm searchin for a rainbow, and if the wind ever shows me where to go. You'd be waiting at the end and I know, I'd see the hill with that pot of gold. I'd say to hell with that pot of gold
This song reminds me of the Dean we saw all the way back in season 4--that sure-footed Dean that THIS despairing, broken Dean is struggling to get back to.
DEAN: You know what's real? People, families -- that's real.
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DEAN: 'Cause I'll take the pain and the guilt. I'll even take Sam as is. It's a lot better than being some Stepford bitch in paradise. This is simple, Cas! No more crap about being a good soldier. There is a right and there is a wrong here, and you know it.
(CASTIEL turns away)
DEAN: Look at me!
(DEAN grabs CASTIEL’s shoulder and turns CASTIEL back to face him)
DEAN: You know it! You were gonna help me once, weren't you? You were gonna warn me about all this, before they dragged you back to Bible camp. Help me -- now. Please.
So yeah. To Hell with that pot of gold indeed. All of this is about Dean remembering who he is and what he values, about making peace with being imperfect and loving imperfect people. We're meant to see that his sacrifice of Amara, of Jack, is not normal for him. It's a sign of a devastating breakdown, and it's got claws and roots all the way back running to Rocky's Bar, and of Dean's desperation to be free of AU Michael's and Chuck's violation and voyeurism.
And Dean's family? They take Dean as he is. Even at his "worst." Dean set that precedent.
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EDIT:
Oh, crap. This was supposed to be more about how Dean is a little bit right about Sam and Cas being workaholics. I'm so sorry. Uhmmm.
Dean’s perception of Sam and Cas as workaholics isn’t entirely wrong—they are driven, often unable/unwilling to step away.
BUT! In Rocky’s Bar, even as Dean seeks "peace," the fight finds him—the vampires attack, the business lady pressures. Outside, the storm rages, mirroring the turmoil within him. This moment underscores that, like Sam and Cas, Dean can’t fully escape his sense of duty to others.
