I just got a text trying to sell me a GULF OF AMERICA t-shirt, and reader, I just fucking can't. This whole thing feels like I'm living in a goofy 90s sci-fi DEMOLITION MAN style future and not anything resembling reality. Like, I didn't even get the Fast Food Wars out of it. - ThreadSky

crobertcargill.bsky.social • 95 days ago

I just got a text trying to sell me a GULF OF AMERICA t-shirt, and reader, I just fucking can't. This whole thing feels like I'm living in a goofy 90s sci-fi DEMOLITION MAN style future and not anything resembling reality. Like, I didn't even get the Fast Food Wars out of it.

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mographer.bsky.social•94 days ago

It's our fault for not smothering this in the crib adequately when it was just "Freedom Fries".

marksweeney.bsky.social•94 days ago

When I hear “Gulf of America” I immediately think of the vast, empty space between Donald Trump’s ears.

madscientist08.bsky.social•95 days ago

lumynezent.bsky.social•94 days ago

It's been two days, right? Really feels like lots more. But that's kind of the strategy, overwhelm the people into a paralyzed state. So, uh... gotta find some peace.

alexmarshall.bsky.social•95 days ago

Literally about to crack open some Taco Bell right now.

liddlest.bsky.social•94 days ago

that chick looks like TSwift with dark hair and (almost) no eyebrows

but yeah, lol at Gulf of America. The world has to change its maps bc some orange schmuck made an EO? fucking please.

scottletteau.bsky.social•94 days ago

It's no co-incidence that most of the advertising Youtube pushes at me is for 'Water 2.0'. Extolling the value of electrolytes! (It's what the plants crave).

stlchapman.bsky.social•95 days ago

We didn’t get Dan Cortese on jazz piano.

scyllafren.bsky.social•94 days ago

Fun fact: some countries had a slightly different version, they had Pizza Hut in the movie, as Taco Bell wasn't a known brand.

browntuesday.bsky.social•94 days ago

Strangely, they left it as Taco Bell in the UK, despite nobody knowing what a Taco was at the time, let alone a Taco Bell.

darkphoenix975.bsky.social•94 days ago

And here I thought the end of days would be AI taking over the world, becoming sentient, and kill all humans. But no, this is far scarier.

merrillbarr.com•94 days ago

You’ve heard the rumor about the legal reason why they’re doing this, right? Cause it’s so much worse than you think.

brianvfx.bsky.social•94 days ago

What? What “legal” reason could they possibly have?

merrillbarr.com•94 days ago

To get around Biden regulation that says they can’t drill for oil in the Gulf of MEXICO.

daveanthony.bsky.social•94 days ago

Lol. Even this dumb as SCOTUS wouldn't go for that.

merrillbarr.com•94 days ago

I said that’s the rumor. I didn’t say it would work.

brianvfx.bsky.social•94 days ago

Ahh. Yeah that feels like a very Trumpian thing to do.

louise747.bsky.social•94 days ago

At least Donnie can break out his Zoro costume and cos-play with Melania

jtq3.bsky.social•95 days ago

It appears our grandchildren may grow up in a very different world.

tsevelev.bsky.social•95 days ago

"It's Gulf of Mexico" is not an addition to "Crimea is Ukraine" that I would expect 10 years ago, and yet here we are.

backy-kaet.bsky.social•94 days ago

Yup.

dougstewardartist.bsky.social•95 days ago

No its really "Idiotocracy"

bigbatchofcumber.bsky.social•95 days ago

I’ll take the Taco Bell on every corner over whatever this is.

mskn.bsky.social•95 days ago

you haven't gotten the fast food wars...YET!

rusty.zcx.cc•95 days ago

I'm trying to remember what percentage IOI supposedly thought they could get away with using of a player's screen for advertising in the movie version of 'Ready Player One.'

llax-nyc.bsky.social•95 days ago

It would be a rather dark irony if people who authored dystopian works ultimately knew that they’d be used as instruction manuals by people who were depraved enough to want to do that.

rangerdonald.bsky.social•94 days ago

jenejareth.bsky.social•95 days ago

Denis Leary is so hot in that

artofstevet.bsky.social•94 days ago

Teddy Bear…?

baztales.bsky.social•94 days ago

The Fast Food Wars are coming. The Chicken Sandwich skirmish a few years ago was just a preamble.

grievous501.bsky.social•95 days ago

Trump would 100000% do the sea shells thing

entropicenigma.bsky.social•95 days ago

How do we jump back to the good timeline? Asking for a country I might reside in..

drwatchbreaker.bsky.social•95 days ago

Pretty soon, we’ll have to learn how to use the three seashells

ambienzombie.bsky.social•95 days ago

Sir, how are you going to be able to write fiction when the real world is beyond belief in the most awful way possible?

crobertcargill.bsky.social•94 days ago

We go realism while the world goes wacky.

unraveledlissa.bsky.social•95 days ago

This is America in a nutshell. Grifting off the grift.

chrisflemingnh.bsky.social•95 days ago

Demolition Man? we’re living in the Temu knock off of a PM Entertainment dystopian flick.

davebrowne.bsky.social•95 days ago

Come 2028 "America" will be the only acceptable noun for placenames.
One plus is that it will make karaokeing "I've Been Everywhere" so much easier.

jodyhouser.bsky.social•94 days ago

This is what happens when reality gets too big and fancy to take notes.

robowieland.bsky.social•95 days ago

We got Shadowrun without the dragons

millenniumman33.bsky.social•94 days ago

I feel like The Office meme "No! God, no!" Is appropriate now, lol!

doomedhippo.bsky.social•95 days ago

blackmyron.bsky.social•95 days ago

Florida Governor DeSantis made a disaster declaration today referring to the winter storm from the north as the "Gulf Winter Weather System", a term that no one else is using, solely so he could refer to the "Gulf of America" in his declaration.

crobertcargill.bsky.social•95 days ago

Ugh

crash006.bsky.social•95 days ago

How did we end up in the dumbest timeline?

seano332.bsky.social•94 days ago

We don't have Taco Bell in my state in Australia, is it genuinely as bad as people make it out to be?

darkphoenix975.bsky.social•94 days ago

Many, many years ago it actually used to be good but as is the case with many fast food joints over the last 25 years or so they decided to get cheap on the ingredients and now for some it is no longer good and sometimes may lead to "unfortunate digestive tract issues". lol

crobertcargill.bsky.social•94 days ago

It has its fans, but the big issue is that in the US its meat is not legally allowed to be called beef because of all the stretchers they use to bring the price down. But at 2am when you’re drunk, a crunchy taco supreme can hit the spot.

patrickseitz.bsky.social•95 days ago

We don’t even get the three shells. They’ll make us wipe our butts with some crypto Ponzi scheme. 🤦‍♂️

photomatcali.bsky.social•90 days ago

The sad part is many people around the world are looking at all of His Wrecklessly dangerous antics and commenting on how greedy and horrible Americans are not realizing MOST AMERICANS do Not want to mess with Canada, Greenland, Mexico etc. It is the spoiled whims of our Un-American “Liar in Cheif”!

tylertrautman.bsky.social•94 days ago

and you didn't get to experience a Dennis Leary rant firsthand.

andygbv.bsky.social•95 days ago

Demolition Man + Total Recall + Idiocracy

zebulon35.bsky.social•94 days ago

Or is it Dredd + 1984 + Idiocracy ?

perfectface4radio.bsky.social•95 days ago

I’m feeling like I’m trapped in “Idiocracy”..? why couldn’t I get trapped in “Into the Blue”, where Jessica Alba is in a tiny bikini for almost the entire movie??? That would have been great…

anarchomystical.bsky.social•95 days ago

It really is just...amazing. Like on top of this democracy-shattering shit cake full of soul-crushing injustice and terror, we also have to have this assclown icing? The Gulf of America. The GULF of AMERICA. I legit dissociated for a few minutes when I saw it the first time.

crobertcargill.bsky.social•94 days ago

And I literally just read this whole post in your voice circa 1998 and it was fucking amazing.

davesdungeon.bsky.social•95 days ago

We will never have an answer to that ever-burning question:

Would Taco Bell actually still win the Fast Food Wars?

witchyempath.bsky.social•95 days ago

I can't even anymore and it's just barely started. The next four years may just make me start drinking alcohol again.

fatgiraffe.bsky.social•94 days ago

akelacooper.bsky.social•95 days ago

The fact that our country is being sold down the river so these fucks and their sycophants can grift is truly infuriating. We couldn’t even get a decent cause of an apocalypse, our society is crumbling over basic bitch greed.