Castle Magus

"Hi. We've got a long road ahead until (at least?) 2029. Today we explore how Democrats are resisting Donald Trump's authoritarian surge and what individuals can do on the local level to help their communities."

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Just gonna go ahead and put the "middle-finger-worthy" tag on this one, based solely on the thumbnail showing an image of co-Presidents Musk and Trump gladhanding each other. Now to actually start watching the video.

Okay, so like the first quarter or so of the video is Cody just correctly and appropriately shitting all over the Democrats for doing practically nothing whatsoever of any worth to slow down Trump, other than lawsuits (which, let's be real, will just be tossed out when they reach the Trump-stacked Supreme Court[1]). Basically, Cody is figuratively shitting on Democrat politicians for not literally shitting on the floor of Congress in protest of Trump. The Democrat Party, collectively, is pretty much just sitting around saying "but I am le tired," without even actually "firing z missiles," right now. Worse than that, they're effectively bending over and spreading their ass cheeks for all the "missiles" being fired by the Trumpublicans.

The next section of the video is suggestions for what the rest of us mere mortals can do in the face of this surging tide of rancid dinosaur shit.

Also, quite a bit about Phony Stark and his Department of Obnoxious Memelords and what people are doing to oppose him, both in and outside of government. That said, I don't see how "tethering Elon Musk to the Republican Party" (which, I mean, he's already done, himself, with their full blessing up to now) is going to accomplish much, considering how tethering fucking Dumbshit Jackass Trump himself to the Republican Party has accomplished exactly jack, squat, and shit all, and has, in fact, been counterproductive to any attempt to censure the GQP for their horrendous malfeasance, since it just makes them circle the wagons and double down on their nonsensical adherence to Trump. Still, protesting Tesla because of Elon Musk's rampant dickholery certainly isn't a bad thing, in and of itself. (Aside from the bullet holes through windows and setting fire to recharging stations. I mean, I guess. Like, really, no matter how much you may hate Elron Mustard and his inane Cybertrucks and the fact that he's literally, indisputably a Nazi, maybe don't shoot up Tesla dealerships and set shit on fire, okay?)

Hey, whoa, it turns out at least a small few Democrats actually are doing more than nothing at all, barely. Good on them.

Man, this video almost makes me wish I were less misanthropic and less a/anti/whatever-social and actually cared even the tiniest bit about "coming together with other people." Well, I mean, outside of posting these blog entries into the ethereal void on a semi-regular basis, I guess. *shrug*

(Also, this was yet another video in which it was simply Cody sitting and talking to a camera for the whole video, without any puppets or whatever. The only thing that could be called a dumb skit was the creamed corn crap at the start and his followup little "I gotta go take a shit now" thing at the end. [Beware of the sudden PlutoTV jumpscare at the ass-end of the video, though; I've never before hit the stop button on a Youtube video faster than I did there.])

[1] - Except, maybe possibly, in the most utterly extreme cases, like when Trump is actively ignoring the orders of federal judges and is improperly calling for the impeachment of federal judges, which is a thing about which even Chief Justice John Roberts took a dim view, imagine that. I won't be holding my breath on that, though. (EDIT) Nope, they bent right over for him in that scenario as well. (/EDIT)

"October 27th, 2024. Before the 2024 election, John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s promises to carry out mass deportations, what some of his supporters might not realize about the details of those plans, and – shockingly – how Bill O’Reilly still has a show."

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Yeah, this is apparently a clip from back in October of last year, even though it was only just uploaded yesterday. That doesn't make it any less relevant now than it was back then. Perhaps even more so, because pretty much every prediction that Mr. Oliver makes in that video for what would happen if Trump became POTUS again is coming true or has already done so.

And yes, Dumbshit Trump, America is "like a garbage can for the world" right now, but not for the reasons you claim, although you are definitely the main reason why that is the case, you stuffy sack of shit. It's very difficult to wrap my head around the fact that this vile puddle of diarrhea in the vague shape of a human has been the fucking President of the goddamned United States of shitlicking America for only a mere two weeks thus far. And we still have four more years to go, everybody.

"Hi. Well, we're doing this again.... I guess. So, let's ask the tough question: are Americans just plain stupid for electing Donald Trump?"

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The gist of the above video:

1. Voters in general = ignorant and gullible and inattentive and very checked out of politics on the whole (because politics, granted, is indeed very fucking banal and insane and enraging), but not necessarily full on stupid, and as such it almost, almost makes sense that more of them voted for the loud, obnoxious, brazen liar/con man/criminal who claims he very definitely has real, true, totally legitimate plans to Fix Everything™ instead of for the establishment bozos who appeared (to ignorant, gullible, inattentive, very checked out eyes) to have been, at best, keeping everything bad or, at worst, actively making everything worse, in large part because the loud, obnoxious, brazen liar/con man/criminal repeatedly, incessantly said they were.
2. Democrats (specifically Democratic politicians) = very definitely stupid, for myriad reasons.
3. Liberals (extended from Democrats and distinct from progressives [and mainly referring to vapid talking heads on the ol' boob tube and the not so ol' social media]) = apparently secretly racist, sexist, transphobic, MAGA-lite shitbags all along, who don't have a clue what they're talking about, because now they're apparently trying to blame "special interest groups" (like, you know, immigrants and trans people and Palestinians) instead of their namby pamby, wishy washy, milquetoast, "trying to please everybody but actually pleasing nobody" candidates (e.g. Biden and Harris, see point #2), even though said politicians didn't even really do all the "bad" stuff that the pundits are claiming cost them the election (e.g. "bad" stuff like "caring too much about" immigrants and trans people and Palestinians). Let's just say pants-on-head stupid and leave it at that, I guess.
4. Republicans (specifically, the vile, self-centered, hypocritical asshats who knew and continue to know that Trump is eminently terrible and have explicitly said so in the past, but who now pretend to adore the taste of Trumpian dingleberries) = vile, self-centered, hypocritical asshats who slurp the shit on Trump's ass hair either out of cowardly fear of reprisal, out of the hope that Trump can directly benefit them at the expense of everyone else, and/or out of petty, hateful revenge for racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, etc. very stupid reasons.
5. Some More News (both the creators and the fans of the show): could and should and need to do better.
6. In conclusion: We, all of us, even those who voted for Trump, are almost assuredly about to be properly super fucked by Trump and his incoming administration of utter clowns (with apologies to clowns for the unfair comparison), and we need to be prepared for the consequences of that, despite the fact that this is a thing that was easily predicted and long foreshadowed due to the very words that have come out of the face-anuses of Donald Trump and those who disingenuously support Donald Trump. We're all in this together, whether we like it or not.

"The former president rallied for Kamala Harris in battleground Pennsylvania after he told volunteers he worries that Black men, in particular, aren't showing enough enthusiasm."

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"Election surveys suggest a wide gender gap, showing Harris winning women by large margins while struggling with men. Some Democratic strategists worry they risk losing slices of young men, Latino men and even Black men, who have expressed openness to Trump or low enthusiasm about voting."

Speaking as a man, I just have to say that if all it takes for men to vote for Dumbfuck Jackass Trump is that he's running against a woman, then that is just goddamned pathetic and speaks very ill of the men in question, especially if the woman running against Trump is far more qualified than Trump and a much better candidate than Trump and would make a many orders of magnitude better President than Trump ever has been or ever will be (which was true in 2016 and is true now in 2024 and will continue to be true from now until the end of time).

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Yeah, Trump is not strong. Trump is not strong physically, Trump is not strong mentally, and Trump is not strong morally or ethically. Trump is not strong veraciously. Trump is not strong existentially, as he is old as fuck, out of touch with reality, and probably only a few more hamberders away from a fatal heart attack. Trump is the opposite of strong.

Trump is fucking weak. Feeble. Anemic. Limp. Fragile. Decrepit. Flaccid. Rickety. Torpid. Rotten. He is all of those things, physically, mentally, morally, ethically, veraciously, in temperament, and just in reality. Trump sucks. There really isn't anything else that can be (honestly) said about Trump. He sucks shit. He should not be allowed within at least a thousand miles of the White House again, and I hope to all the powers that be that he is prevented from attaining it again in November.

Fuck Donald Trump, and to hell forever with Donald Trump.

"All politicians lie, though."

That's the banal platitude you will invariably hear from any Trumpanzees you may have the misfortune of having in your presence if you happen to bring up the demonstrable, undeniable fact that Donald Trump is an irredeemable pathological liar.

And, to a great extent, it's actually true. I mean, the literal answer to the question "Do all politicians lie?" is probably "no," but it really feels like it should be way closer to "yes," doesn't it? Even now, today, fact checkers fact check statements from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, hell, even Barack Obama, and they sometimes find them lacking in pure honesty. I'm not trying to claim that "my" politicians are as pure as the driven snow, because they're not. (Still, compare it to Donald Trump. [And even then, I think Politifact is grossly erring on the side of giving Trump way the fuck too much credit.])

But here's the thing. (And you knew there was "the thing" that "is" "here," otherwise I wouldn't be making this post.)

In the Precambrian era, back before Donald Trump entered the political scene, untold eons ago, most of the lies from politicians seemed to be of the "of omission" type, or the "exaggeration" type, or the "little white" type, or the "fudging the numbers a bit" type, and such. You know, lies that at least could be plausibly believed by sane people, unless they did a bare minimum of fact checking on the matter. Lies that have the ring of "truthiness" to them. Back in ye olden times, before the uncountable millennia of Trumpism, it was rather rare for a politician to just tell a straight up whopper. And by "whopper," I mean a lie so far away from reality that the light of any star, let alone just the sun, has yet to reach it. A lie so divorced from reality that reality has sole custody of the children as well as a restraining order against the lie. A lie that could not possibly be believed by anyone with a functioning brain cell or two. A lie that doesn't require intense fact checking before it becomes clear that it's a fucking lie. Politicians who told actual whoppers, back in the golden age, would usually be resoundingly castigated by everyone, forever driven from politics on pain of being beaten with sticks (or worse) if they tried to return.

But then...

Along toddled Donald Trump.

Donald Trump entered the chat.

Here came Donny Boob Boob.

Donald Trump took that ill-fated escalator ride. (To be fair and accurate, that wasn't the first time that Trump stuck his malignant toe into the waters of presidential politics, but it was the first time that mattered at all. The first time that he actually managed to infect said waters with whatever disgusting toe fungus he obviously has, metaphorically speaking. Especially since, you know, he actually won that time. Somehow. With obvious help. To the detriment of us all.)

And now...

Now, there is an entire political party that doesn't even blush at telling whopper after whopper after whopper. Whoppers like "Haitian immigrants are eating pets," or like "pedophiles are running a child-trafficking ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor (which doesn't even have a basement)," or like "Democrats want to murder babies after they're born," or like "kids can go to school and come home with a transgender operation," or like the en-fucking-tirety of QAnon, or like "Trump won in 2020." They don't give the slightest shit. And as much as the rest of us would probably sorely love to drive them away from politics forever, with the threat of being stick-beaten if they ever try to return, it hasn't happened yet, sadly and frustratingly.

And there is an entire, gun-toting base of that political party who willingly, militantly, hatefully "believes" those ludicrous lies. It's not necessarily because they think that the lies are actually true, per se. It's that they simply want to believe the lies, actual truth of the matter be damned. They believe the lies because to believe the lies "pwns the libs." They believe the lies because that's what gets their vile asshole politicians voted into office. Or, maybe, they believe the lies simply because they really are that fucking gullible and stupid and ignorant, and they actually do think the lies are literally true. *shrug*

And, of course, there are all the middlemen out there, perpetually stirring the fucking pot.

My point is that, yes, all politicians (probably) do lie. However, it is not the case that all politicians lie equally. One side (i.e. the side that doesn't include Donald Trump) is still telling the "of omission," "exaggeration," "little white," "fudging the numbers" type of plausible lies. The other side (i.e. the side that includes Donald Trump and all of his Trumpanzee lickspittles) has put in a permanent change-of-address to Bizarro World. And even Bizarro World doesn't want them.

Is this the doctrine of relative filth trap fallacy? Maybe. Yes, "my" politicians (e.g. Biden, Harris, Obama, etc.) are dirty, and I don't think they shouldn't be taken to task when they fuck up, intentionally or unintentionally. No, I don't think "my" politicians are even remotely as dirty as those in the Trump camp. Just because "my" politicians probably deserve at least a paddling (with one of those scary paddles with the holes drilled in it for aerodynamic purposes), though, that doesn't mean that Trump and the Trumpublicans (still a terrible band name) don't deserve, at the very least, a full on sustained assault via baseball bat, preferably with rusty nails driven through it. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

"Hi. In Part 2 of our Reagan series, we're looking at how Ronald Reagan's presidency altered how both parties think about politics, why it pushed Democrats to the right, and how Reagan's tactics and racist dog whistling paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump."

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Follow up to this one.

Wow... Reagan's campaign slogan really was "Let's Make America Great Again." Holy fuck. Well shit, that just makes MAGA even worse, since it's just a blatant, banal ripoff. So... completely par for the course for Dumbshit Jackass Trump, in other words. (If nothing else, it's so nice to be able to say, for the first time in a while, that I'm too young to remember that shit. Still... it feels like that should have been something I would've heard about before now, even so. Huh...)

Oh, and a whole bunch of other really terrible, shitty things were discussed in the above video, too.

Of course he did. Donald Trump wouldn't know what truth was if it came up and bit him in his corpulent ass.


In other news, once again, grass is still green, the sky is still blue, and water is still wet.

"Hi. In today's episode, we discuss the literal only MLK quote that Republicans ever mention, how it's a single sentence, why they love it so much, and what else he said that they're avoiding."

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Man, all of the dishonest dumbfucks are coming out from under their rocks for this one. Fucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Ben Carson, Ben Shapiro, Joe Walsh, Mike Pence, Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Youngkin, Ron DeSantis, Kevin McCarthy, Rand Paul, and several others whose names I don't know without looking them up which I have zero interest in doing. Surprisingly little Donald Trump, though. He was mentioned several times, sure, but at least I didn't have to hear his putrid voice in this one.

Seriously, as I've said before, the blatant, abject hypocrisy of Republican politicians/talking heads is probably the thing I hate most about them, out of a nearly infinitely long list of things I hate about them.

"John Oliver discusses the end of America’s war with Afghanistan, and the humanitarian crisis being left behind."

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Alternative link, because fuck region-locking.

"Hi. Here is our 100th episode... and yeah, it's about Donald Trump and all of his lies, crimes, impeachments, and insurrections."

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Only slightly less than one more eternityday until Donald Jizzstain Trump is officially no longer the President of the United States of America.