bourbonsaurus.bsky.social
Baseball/Hockey nut, history/civics teacher, musician/occasional actor, alcohol/dinosaur enthusiast
Owns way too many hats
The world needs more trains
Jersey City, NJ
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You were around for James Buchanan?
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I look at sports venues and notice that; I can get legitimately decent sushi at Mets games. That would’ve been absurd circa 2000.
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The whole “don’t take him seriously/literally…” schtick has done so much goddamned damage.
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They bring insane Victorian era middle class energy: shame people for everything, you’re personally responsible for anything that feels wrong in your life (the word ‘systemic’ doesn’t exist), your shortcomings are moral failings, etc. Self-help culture has always been a cult of self-loathing.
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www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/u...
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I remember I used to hear this guy as the "sane conservative" on Pete Dominick's old XM show. Always smelled like a contrarian rat to me, so nice to see confirmation.
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Word up, Thome.
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Today, I think they’d write/orate it to be “never ride in a helicopter”.
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Both, I think. Poorly informed electorate, plus assuming “they’re all crooks, anyway”, plus the “flood the zone” strategy making it hard to focus on any one thing when it’s all chaos, so it blends into background noise for many.
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Also really going to suck losing one of the few areas of the park where it doesn’t feel like the company’s actively trying to pry open your wallet and sell you anything.
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Hey, my Devils made history with their deals: pretty sure they’ve constructed the NHL’s first ever fifth line.
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This IS satire…right? Goddamnit, this timeline has ruined that game for everyone.
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It's just deranged; every side of the coalition is convinced that the other side cost Harris the election, reality be damned. All feels like a way to avoid having to confront that maybe, just maybe, American voters kind of suck and we *all* need to be able to navigate that.
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You will not get talented people willing to consider government jobs — where traditionally there’s been greater stability to compensate for the pay cut you take — when people see entire departments are always one bad ketamine trip away from annihilation.
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I wonder if the entirety of the GOP now being terminally online will actually be what dooms us all, or if it'll save us before it gets to that point.
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And this is how I learn a major part of my childhood just passed. If there's another plane of existence out there, I hope he and C. Martin and are chatting with Gary Owens and some other guests...fully in-character, of course.
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RIP George Lowe
Your whole career was amazing, but it would've been legendary even if you'd only executed this line reading:
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"What is it you're hoping to 'Acclaim', Mr. Jarrett?"
"Acclaim *this*, slapnuts." <guitar shot>
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Really needs to be more public talk about home schooling; so much of it's tied to Christian fundamentalist concepts of family hierarchy and authority. There are obviously exceptions, but I think most people just look at it as "eh, kinda weird, but you do you" and miss the wider nightmare stories.
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But it can't be their fault! He wore fleece vests! FLEECE VESTS!
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Time for her to go, holy shit.
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Oh yeah, it’d pretty much be a difference in time, not in kind.
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Not attend, or go full in-person MST3K with it.
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It's the "but her emails" effect; the media loves scandal over substance, and both parties can be substantively critiqued, but it's easier to point to scandals. Dems don't provide enough scandals, so they need to prop stuff up for news. GOP scandals are just Netflix movie background noise.
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There are arguments that modern policing doesn't really trace back to slave patrols...but it *does* trace back to security for robber barons and industrialists whose one job is protecting the property of the wealthy and cracking the skulls of labor. So, not great no matter which way you look.
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Takeaway (besides his obvious dementia): while "Trump is a fascist" isn't untrue, his real goals are, sadly, all-American - he wants to go back to Plessy v. Ferguson and the Lochner era, to get the racial and business/capital-friendly aspects of the Gilded Age back, and to kill the New Deal.
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I honestly didn't even notice the chimp when I first posted this, but given Gen. Turgidson, I'm more surprised Kubrick didn't try it on set.
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Works for ESPN, they can find a way to air NFL Today 407 days a year.
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Dude walks up, puts his hands behind his back, instantly goes limp...and more of them rush up to hold him down. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but so many police departments continue to amaze with how fascist-forward they are.
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I hate that I remember when The Atlantic had anything to offer. Makes the last 5-8 years of their constant "the SJWs are coming to steal your SUVs!" content all the more depressing.
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Sigh…the dream called WESTcot…