Castle Magus

"Hi. On today's episode, FYPod's Cameron Kasky joins three young, spry, Gen Z-adjacent hosts to discuss why 18-to-21-year-old men have swung so hard for Trump and what can be done about it. They also talk through the extremely boring-but-important dismantling of government infrastructure and marvel at Tim Pool's really good and incisive question at a recent White House briefing."

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Two things:

First, they should have Cameron Kasky on their show again, if possible. He seemed cool.

Second, every time they said Buttigieg, the auto-captioning translated that as "Buddha Judge," which was fairly amusing.

"Hi. Former president Donald Trump is bad. He is a criminal, a sex pest, a racist, and a wannabe dictator. He was a bad president and is a bad person. And he might be the president again? Really? Are we.... are we really maybe doing this again?"

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"Hi. Climate change is real. We all know that. But, Jordan Peterson does not. Today, let's go through the science and see if we can convince him."

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This was way more a "climate change for dummies (and maybe even super dummies like Jordan Peterson)" video than it was just a video specifically about clowning all over Jordan Peterson, bukkake-style. That said, there was still an awful lot of clown dunk involved. Also weird little finger puppets for some reason? *shrug* Still better than Warmbo, at least.

And yeah, there will be a part two of this, as stated both by the title and in the video itself. I expect about the same ratio of explanation of climate change versus Jordan Peterson clown dunking in that one as well.

"John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s plans for a second term, why it could be much worse than his first term, and what Trump has in common with a hamster."

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To Donald Trump and to anyone and everyone still supporting Donald Trump, I have only one thing to say to you:


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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. The theme of today's episode is incremental change. To end 2023, we're celebrating some things that are good, and some things that are just slightly less bad in the worlds of science, labor, health, money (fake), and the environment."

"Hi. Conservatives sure want Americans to have more children, but they don't seem to like children at all or want to support them in society! In today's episode, we look at the many challenges Americans face if they want to become parents, and the questions one has to answer to make such a decision."

"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.

I am presenting this article as is, with almost no commentary on it. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I also don't necessarily disagree with it, either. I just find it interesting, no more and no less. Make of it what you will.

I suppose that I would probably fall under the "We deserve getting hit by an asteroid" bit, which I see less as misanthropy and more as poetic justice. That doesn't mean that I think we shouldn't take steps to prevent "unaligned superintelligent AI" from becoming a thing, though. (And, with that statement, I guess I just got myself into the queue to be tortured forever by Roko's basilisk. *eye roll*)

Just to note, I haven't seen Don't Look Up that is referenced heavily in this article, but now I think I might want to.

Yeah. It was above 80°F here yesterday. That's not normal.