Castle Magus

Eat shit, fuck off, and die, forever, Donald Trump.

In an ideal world, it wouldn't be two terms for his stupid, hateful, criminal, evil ass, much less three. Shouldn't have been even one term, if only America hadn't brain-sharted and diarrhetically spewed the bed back in 2016.

Also, as usual, fuck the NRA.

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Oh, by the way, NRA (and all the other ammosexuals out there [who I'm sure are falling over themselves to be the first to read my dumb blog here]), remember this shit? I even embedded a version of this from your beloved Faux Noise here.


Trump cares exactly as much about you stupid gun nuts as he does about anyone else whose name is not Donald J. Trump: nothing at all, not even the tiniest bit. Even if you vote for him (or suck his dick or eat his asshole or whatever [literally or figuratively]), he still does not and will not ever give the single slightest shit about you. He'll pay lip service and play make believe that he does, but he doesn't. He will lie and say whatever dumbfuckery he thinks you want to hear, just so long as it dupes you into doing what he wants you to do, which in this case is voting for him for president again. If only all the addlepated Trumpanzees would finally get this demonstrable truth through their thick fucking skulls and join the rest of us in doing everything we can to keep this lying, double-dealing motherfucker from ever becoming president again, the better.

Doing fucking anything as a government official without due process first... even if it's taking guns away from people (which, otherwise, is a very good idea, especially from delusional, murderous gun-fuckers)... is just indicative of Trump's nature as a wannabe-dictator. (You know, the very sort of thing that your vaunted Second Amendment was intended to prevent?)

Again, fuck Donald Trump forever. The sooner he's making hell reek a little worse, the better.

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I'm currently sitting in JDK Automotive, because my sister asked me to bring her Rav4 down here for an oil change and tire check. They have a TV up on the wall in the corner blasting Faux Noise at high volume. Right now, they're doing a segment on "tHe TrAnSgEnDeRs" and about how "wOmEn'S sPoRtS aRe RuInEd FoReVeR bEcAuSe Of ThE tRaNsGeNdErs." Oh, it just went to a commercial with a campaign ad of some dipshit blathering about "wOkE pOlItIcS." It is... decidedly unpleasant, to say the very least.

While I could just, like, go outside or something, I'm kind of morbidly curious to see just how ludicrously terribad it can get.

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Oh goody, their main story is apparently about "tHe BoRdEr CrIsIs" and how "bIdEn Is DoInG nOtHiNg." But then, in the very next breath, they started talking about the bipartisan border control bill that the Trumpanzees in Congress just killed because their God Emperor Trump commanded them to kill it, since Trump would rather have "ThE bOrDeR" as a talking point, instead of actually fix anything (or, at least, let it be even partially fixed without sticking his own tiny, piggy fingers into the pie and poisoning the whole goddamned thing for everyone involved).

Basically, so far, the main thrust of the Faux Noise "discussion" has been "drug cartel gang murderer rapists are flooding into this country in droves and BIDEN IS DOING NOTHING!!!!!!11!!"

Seriously, it's like a window into... well, I'd say "Bizarro World," but I don't want to libel Bizarro, his planet, or DC Comics.

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Oh fucking Jesus... some ancient dude (who apparently works here) just came in the door, glanced at the TV, and immediately launched into a tirade with the guy at the desk about "tHe IlLeGaLs." And the desk guy is ranting about all the "iNnOcEnT pEoPlE bEiNg PeRsEcUtEd" who were at the capital on Jan 6. Both of them are going on and on about how "the world has gone to hell" or how "I don't know what to tell my kids and grandkids about their future" and other such loony, melodramatic asininity. The ominous phrase "I'll tell you one thing, a lot of 'em have guns" was said. I am embarrassed to even be in the same room with these fuckwits.

Car stuff is done, so I'm stopping for now.

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(EDIT 2, 5:02pm)

Okay, back home now. Don't really have too much to add to the above though, aside from a bit of editing/fixing stuff, because I wrote all of the above on my phone (well, aside from whatever I end up adding/editing, here and now). One thing else I remember was that the Faux Noise dumbfuck talking heads discussing the Trumpanzee killing of the border control bill were trying to frame it as "tHeY kIlLeD iT bEcAuSe It DiDn'T gO fAr EnOuGh To CuRb BiDeN's EvIl OpEn BoRdEr PoLiCy" or some such astounding buffoonery, rather than the truth, which was that they killed it because Dumbshit Jackass Trump ordered them to kill it, no more and no less.

I guess the point of all this is to just remember... this... all of the dumbfuckery described above... this is the diseased, malformed, hateful mindset of at least a third of the entire fucking country right now, thanks almost entirely to the efforts of dishonest horseshit like Faux Noise here and their equally disinformational contemporaries over the past several decades. It's abjectly fucked up, and I just don't know what can be done to fix the problem. I mean, besides the obvious solution that I've already talked about before, of course. Even if that solution would be nigh impossible to ever actually implement. (EDIT 3) And even if it somehow were successfully implemented, that wouldn't magically make the wrong-headed, dipshit one-third or more of the country suddenly become not that. (/EDIT 3)

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"Hi. For Part Two, we're looking at outspoken, celebrity Democrats. Do they put their money (votes) where their mouths (mouths) are?"

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The gist: loudmouth Democrat congresspeople are, for the most part, pretty much demonstrably not as horrifically terrible as their loudmouth Trumpublican congressasshole colleagues are. Big shock there. Oh and Gavin Newsom, for some reason, even though he's not a member of US Congress. Also Joe Biden, I guess, at least for a little bit?

"Hi. In today's episode, we look at the election-industrial complex, why U.S. election season drags on for so long, and what we could do to lessen the influence of corporate money on politics."

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Spoilers: The answer to "what we could do to lessen the influence of corporate money on politics" is "not a whole lot, because the things we could do will be fought tooth and nail by those with corporate money and an interest in using that corporate money to influence politics."

"I watched 'book bans' happen in real time. I thought they were all hysteria. Then I opened one of the most-challenged titles."

This article has a really weird vibe to it. It's all over the place.

It's like...

"Well, I used to think that book bans were very dumb, but then I found this one book that changed my mind to think that maybe book bans are okay after all in some cases, except not really, because I still think the book is probably good actually, except not really, because the book still really squicks me out personally, but maybe it's still okay, because it's not as bad as all the rage-boner-havers say it is, but even so I still get why people want to ban books now, even though I still think those people are politically up their own asses for the most part, but maybe they have a point, and maybe this book should be banned, but I don't actually think it should be banned, but I'm pretty sure I'm certainly not going to be showing it to my own kids, despite this one expert I talked to telling me I should get over being so namby-pamby and totally show it to my kids, because it's okay to show it to my kids and would even do them good, but I'm probably not going to show it to my kids because it's got 'graphic images' in it and that makes my pee-pee feel all weird, like I should be trying to hide while reading it, but books like this are necessary because kids are bound to see way worse out in the 'real world' and this book could help prepare them for that, but it really does look kinda-sorta-but-not-really-porn-y though so I see why prudish moms would want to ban it, but I'm not really sure that's the best thing, but..."

...and so on and so forth, forever circling around and around, ad absurdum, ad nauseam.

Even the final two paragraphs of the article are:

"Carnagey told me she keeps a copy of It’s Perfectly Normal in her home library, and assured me that her young boys aren't sneaking around to peek at it. As I got further into the book, I began to see it the way Carnagey does, as a meaningful book intent on destigmatizing everything from puberty to sex, birth, and STDs. And by the end, when I got to the new section about the internet that was added when the book was rereleased for its fourth edition, I found a lot of things that I wished I had known when I was young and exploring the internet myself. So much of the information in this book would have made a huge difference.

"'It's not fair for young people to be put in the position that so many of us were in,' Carnagey told me. I don't know if my kids are ever going to find a copy of It’s Perfectly Normal on their bookshelves, but that much I believe is true." (Emphasis mine.)

It's like "Yeah, in the end, I think the book is fine... ... ...just not for my kids." It kind of reminds me of the "Michael Jackson Jury Selection" skit from Chappelle's Show. "So you'd let your children <read It's Perfectly Normal>?" "Fuck no! Ew!"

Ultimately, I think the author of the article comes down on the side of not having the book banned, but they were hemming and hawing and being incredibly wishy-washy and grossly ambivalent all throughout their nebulous, ambiguous article. I say "ambiguous," because just look at some of the comments attached to the article that chastise the author for what they incorrectly(?) see as support for the book being banned. The vast majority of the comments are supportive of the article (at least as far down as I bothered to read of them, anyway), though, just to note. But then, Slate is kind of a supposed "LIEbrul hive of scum and villainy," viewed by GQPers in the same way that most sane people view the likes of Faux Noise, though, so take that with a grain of salt. (EDIT) Disclaimer: This is the first Slate article that I've deigned to read in literally years (mainly because I got suckered in by the gratuitously clickbait headline [which in the Google News app I originally saw it in was actually "Book bans: I thought the challenges were hysterical. Then I opened one of the books" and not just "Closed Book" the way it is on the actual website]), ever since they put out a hit piece against Seth Abramson. And this article here also kind of reminded me of why I don't typically read Slate articles anymore, I just have to say. (/EDIT)

This is the book in question, by the way. That's what conservatives/Republicans/GQPers are in an uproar about (among, of course, the myriad other asinine things about which conservatives/Republicans/GQPers are incessantly in an uproar).

As one of the comments says, "Can't kids just watch porn behind their parents' backs and develop a whole catalogue of bizarre, unhealthy and unrealistic ideas and aspirations regarding sex like we did in the good old days?"

(Tangentially speaking, I've already talked about what I personally think should be banned forever, and the sooner the better. This article here, in an indirect way, is another bullet point reinforcing my opinion on that matter.)

"Hi. It's Republican primary debate season! Ungghhhh.......... sfhkjsahvj...
Anyway, here's a look at some of the giant weirdos who think they can beat Trump and BE Trump and not inspire their political party to want to hang them."

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(Warning: this video features not just one Warmbo, but two Warmbos. *weary sigh* And yet, either or both of those Warmbos literally would still make a better POTUS than any of the supposed humans discussed in this video.)

Truly, the fact that anyone would even want to be "the next Trump" is just depressingly mind-boggling (and also mind-bogglingly depressing) to me.

Yeah, keep right on riding that Trump Train, you disingenuous ghouls. Honestly, I hadn't even heard of half of these assclowns before watching that video, and now I'm just kind of almost wishing that I hadn't watched the video so that I could have continued on with my life without having heard of those assclowns. When Chris fucking Christie[1], of all people, is apparently the """""best""""" of that whole bunch, that just demonstrates how egregiously shitty and terrible that whole bunch is.

Also, I just have to say that "The end result of decades of dog whistling finally calling the dog," has to be one of the most succinct and apropos descriptions of the GQP, of Donald Trump, and of Trump's effect on the GQP that I've heard in a while.

[1] - I.e. Chris goddamned Christie, the man whose pretty much only redeeming virtue whatsoever is the fact that he is apparently the only candidate with a willingness to unequivocally denounce Trump for the con man, charlatan, and blatant, brazen criminal that Trump most certainly is (out here in objective reality, at least), unlike all the rest of those intolerably ludicrous shitbirds. And yet, as the video helpfully points out, Christie is still a raging dog turd in far too many other ways.

"Hi. In today's episode, we analyze the accusation that THE LEFT is grooming children by injecting gender ideology into schools and putting disgusting things like rainbows on shirts. We also look at the actual definition of 'grooming' and ask ourselves what group in the U.S. appears to fit that definition."

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The exact instant Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on my computer monitor, early in the above video, that made this post about that video eligible for the "middle-finger-worthy" tag, and thus it was tagged below. And then, Steven Crowder popped up. And then Matt Walsh. And then Tim Pool. All of this reinforced the inclusion of the "middle-finger-worthy" tag on this post. Hell, even Fucker Carlson's fugly mug appeared on my screen for a few agonizing seconds, and even though he didn't even say anything other than a single, confused-looking "yeah" in response to some of Matt Walsh's idiocy, that alone earned this post the right to be labeled with the "fucker carlson" tag as well.

Also, don't be scared, but I am about to share a huge, massive, gargantuan spoiler for the above video, so here is a glaring spoiler warning, beware... and, I know, this spoiler is so unexpected and it may come as a complete and total shock to everyone... but... it turns out that, once again, there are many among the GQP who are indeed guilty of the very thing that they're accusing their enemies of being, i.e. being groomers, in this particular case, even while in the process of accusing their enemies of being groomers. In other words, they are, yet again, projecting. In other other words, they are, yet again, being hypocritical. Gee. Golly. Willickers. Well I'll be. Aw shaw. Tsk tsk. Imagine that. Go figure.

Anyway, all kidding and blatant sarcasm aside, there was one thing that I actually was a tiny bit surprised about, and that was the complete lack of mention of either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. Well, I guess there was that one oblique reference to DeSantis with that "before Libs of TikTok became governor of Florida" bit, but aside from that, nothing at all.

"Hi. In today's episode, we look at the hype surrounding artificial intelligence, the way corporations are desperate to use it to save money, and the theory among some rich people that it's going to destroy civilization."

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Pretty fucking much, yeah. Basically, the problem is not so much LLM/AI in and of itself, but it is instead human beings and how human beings are misusing LLM/AI to fuck over other human beings. In other words, nothing too awfully surprising.

*weary goddamned sigh*

I've pretty much already made my opinion of Fucker Carlson pretty clear (if the fact that I call him "Fucker Carlson" in the first place wasn't enough to clue you in), and it's pretty much the same as my opinion of all the rest of RWNJ "news" "media." In Fucker's case, he should be one of the first up against the wall, for a multitude of reasons, but he most assuredly shouldn't be the only one. He certainly isn't the only shithead calling for asshole Abbott to pardon the murderer, after all.

Wait, so Mike Pence will say this stuff at a fancy dinner in DC, but he doesn't want to testify to this stuff in a way that might actually matter.

This post was originally going to be a "You go, Mike Pence! For once!" type of post, because I'd only seen that first article, but then I saw the second article (linked to from the first article) from just a week or so before, and it became what it is now.

Also, this enraging bullshit.

I hate politics so much. That's why I write about it so much, I guess. *weary sigh* (Though, again, not nearly as much as I used to.)