Castle Magus

Sure... okay... *shrug + incredibly heavy, weary sigh*

All of that is just yet more unsurprising and worthless GQP hypocrisy, though, to be shoveled on top of the taller-than-Olympons-Mons pile of GQP hypocrisy which has been stinking up politics for decades, and calling them out on it only serves to make people like me feel very mild, very vague, very brief, very useless schadenfreude.

I mean, it is incredibly likely that these same people also just straight up said very terrible (and very true) things about Trump himself, back before Trump was nominated (either time), similar to JD Vance.[1] But just look at them all now, with their noses and lips and tongues all snug and cozy in the fathomless depths of Trump's festering ass crack.

And, needless to say though I will say it again anyway, unlike Trump's idiots here, nothing that Hillary Clinton supposedly did ever amounted to even as much as a single bean, let alone an entire hill of them, despite the multiple years and millions of dollars the GQP wasted "investigating" it. (But you ask them to maybe investigate all the crimes that Trump has committed and is still committing and will continue to commit, and they'll just shriek at you for daring to challenge their God Emperor.)

[1] - I know for a fact that at least Marco Rubio did. I don't feel like sullying my search results with the names of the others to check what they might have said about Trump back in the halcyon days when Trump wasn't SCROTUS IMPOTUS, though.

"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.

"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.

"Hi. Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee in 2024. What this episode presupposes is... what if he wasn't?"

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Yeah, the fact that primaries are state-by-state, completely different shit depending on the state in question, and not all held on the same day is apeshittingly bugfuck.

All that other stuff Cody said... eh. *shrug* The gist of the episode, in general: Joe Biden sucks, but not nearly as much as Trump sucks, so let's use that as a jumping off point to talk about primaries in general, from like a century ago to now, while reminding everyone at every possible opportunity that Biden sucks, though not as much as Trump, who is still orders of magnitude worse than Biden could ever possibly be, even though Biden is pretty bad. Oh, right, primaries, so let's dunk on the whole Bernie/Hillary thing again, too.

Also, we almost had an episode that successfully didn't involve Warmbo in any way. Almost. *weary sigh*

"Hi. In today's episode, we look at how billionaires often benefit from their supposed altruism and why we can't rely on their "generosity" to solve society's problems."

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"Billionaire philanthropist" is an oxymoron. If they were truly philanthropists, they wouldn't be billionaires.

Here's some appropriate music to set the mood.

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So, basically, what I take away from all this is that this report by John Durham, a Republican appointed as a special counsel by Trump stan[1] William Barr to "investigate" the FBI investigation into the whole Trump/Russia thing, can pretty much be safely ignored as the partisan dogshit it was always destined to be. What a shock, I know. *eye roll* I mean, apparently, Durham's conclusion was essentially "While the FBI was free to investigate Trump, they totally shouldn't have investigated him so hard." From the very start, this was never intended to be favorable to the FBI or unfavorable toward Trump.

In any case, Trumpanzees are just going to use this as more "proof" that Trump/Russia is a "nothingburger." Though, to be fair, it pretty much is a nothingburger, at least in the sense that Trump is ever going to face even the tiniest of consequences for his myriad heinous crimes. *weary sigh*

(I was kind of waiting for a Seth Abramson thread on this, but apparently he just used it as opportunity to plug his books again. I mean, good on him and all, because more people need to read those books, but I was hoping for something a bit more immediately relevant than that. Unless he's saving that for his Substack thing. *shrug* Oh, and speaking of Seth Abramson and Trump and the FBI and all that shit, I will just use that as an excuse to leave this here, yet again.)

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Also this:

ICYMI: As Expected, the Durham Report Was An Embarrassing Dud; Report Trump Said Would Lead to Scores of Prosecutions Led to Precisely Zero—and Even Officially Exonerated Hillary Clinton of Any Criminal Conduct https://t.co/3Eq8D4zLmz

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 16, 2023

I don't know what has become of CNN lately. They seem to have gone from mostly dry and boring to actively bad and untrustworthy. Basically, they are becoming the "fake news" that Trump always said they were, but mostly because they seem to be becoming explicitly more pro-Trump. I guess they're taking that guy's desire for them to "be more like FOX News" to heart. As far as this concerns me, I guess if CNN is becoming worthless shit like Faux Noise, that just means that I'll be refraining from linking to CNN in the future and will be seeking out more legitimate sources of news for any given story.

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(EDIT 2)

Okay, it's not Seth Abramson, but here is a thread on the subject of the Durham "report."

(And reading only a few of the replies to that thread on actual Twitter makes me glad that I no longer have an account on that blazing trashfire of a social media website.)

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[1] - At the time, at least, though Barr seems to have become a little bit soured on Trump these days. Not that that matters at all, as it's a textbook case of far too little, far too late, as well as textbook cases of backpedaling and ass-covering. Barr still deserves to rot in prison alongside Trump and everyone else involved in Trump's criminal dumbfuckery.

When a Democrat (supposedly) commits a crime, Republicans are adamant that law enforcement investigate them thoroughly and excessively.

When a Republican (definitely) commits a crime, Republicans are adamant that law enforcement that attempts to investigate them must itself be investigated. (EDIT) Funny, though, how there's never been a single fucking peep out of the GQP about investigating the FBI concerning the True Pundit Hoax. Go figure. (/EDIT)

(But then, we already know that Republicans just don't give a fuck.)

Hi! In today's episode, we honor 4/20, the weed day, by discussing the history of 'fear of crime' politics and its impact on our society. Probably negative impact, if I had to guess!

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Already hoisting the middle finger and I'm barely a minute in. This one's going to be good (if, that is, you define "good" as "existentially horrifying" or something).

"Hi. In today's episode, we ask questions about Joe Biden's first year as president. Questions like, 'What's his name?' and 'How's it going, Joe?'"

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Be warned: Warmbo is in this video. Anyway, outside of the mere existence of Warmbo in this video, there was very little else with which I disagreed.

Or, rather, there was a whole hell of a lot in this video with which I disagreed, but it was not the fact that it was Cody who was presenting the things said by others with which I disagreed, nor was it Cody's vicious mockery of said disagreeable things. Like, I didn't agree with a single word that Dumbfuck Trump or Bitch McConnell or any of the other GQP dumbfucks (or GQP dumbfuck-wannabes like Manchin or Sinema) said, and there were some things that Biden himself said with which I didn't agree, but I'm glad Cody presented all those things, if only for the purposes of middle finger waving.

"Hi. Today we discuss forever war, and explore what it is good for."