Castle Magus

"Hi. You may have noticed a new crop of influencers like The Nelk Boys and Bryce Hall taking over online spaces. Today we’re looking at who these people are and how MAGA influencers garnered so much... well, influence."

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"The extremely partisan and vindictive crime president, looking to wet his thick beak as sloppily as possible, is now lording over every social media platform, which now happens to be one of the primary ways in which Americans get their information, the youth of which specifically following individual influencers, who may or may not be getting paid by political operatives working directly for that president to put out misinformation."

(My only minor quibble with that italicized quote from Cody Johnston there is that he used the world "misinformation" when he clearly should have used "disinformation.")

This is just dystopian shit. All of it.

It's frustrating and sad and horrible and disgusting that MAGA has been around long enough for there to be a "next generation" of anything related to it.

Also, I'd just like to state, yet again, that I loathe the entire concept of "influencers" in general. The only consolation for me is that I'd never heard of any of those "next generation" MAGA assholes, prior to this video. But then, there were a whole lot of mentions in this video of the current/old generation of MAGA assholes, too.

"Hi. Uh oh! In this episode – which we wrote and shot before the current tariff/market troubles – we look at how the U.S. and other nations measure economic success, and how that often doesn't square with our individual experiences of The Economy."

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(Yes, I foresee that many future episodes will likely need a "Sorry, but we recorded this video before Trump went and made things even worse" disclaimer in front of it. Even without taking the most recent, even worse bullshit into consideration, though, the above video is still fucking dire.)

So people thought the economy was terrible during Biden's presidency, when it actually wasn't that bad? Gee, I wonder, could that be because Donald Trump and Donald Trump's asinine lickspittles spewed lies about it for four solid years (and, you know, actively torpedoed it during the previous four solid years [thanks in part to COVID and to Trump's abysmally nadiral response to COVID], as a kind of practice run for what they're doing now)? Yes, that is why.

And yeah, none of that really matters that much, because bragging that inflation is going down is, indeed, kind of like bragging that the amount of piss in the soup you serve is going down. Even if you weren't the one who pissed in all the soup to begin with. People are still going to blame you for serving piss-filled soup. And then, you know, maybe reelect the original soup-pisser, so that he can now not only piss in the soup but straight up take a diarrhetic shit in it, too. For some reason.

Or maybe we can switch up the metaphor from piss soup to instead be about a train speeding in the wrong direction, which Biden managed to slow down but not actually stop. A Trump Train, if you will. That works, too. And now, that guy has been put back in the driver's seat, again. Go goddamned figure.

I'll just say it, again (same as Cody says it here). If the economy was "good" under Trump (until he wrecked it), it was thanks to Obama. And if the economy was "bad" under Biden (until he kind of almost sort of fixed it but not really), it was "thanks" to Trump. And if the economy is "good" under Trump II... nah, I can't even finish that, because he hasn't even completed his "first 100 days" yet, and he's already fucking launched a trilithium missile at the economy. I wonder if Trump thinks the Nexus is going to absorb him as a result. Who knows? Trump is a delusional motherwannabe-daughterfucker, after all. In any case, he'll be leaving behind a shattered economy, regardless.

Democrats, generally, are better for the economy than the GQP is. Yet... we keep electing GQP dumbshits to positions of power. Why is that? *shrug* I'unno. I guess because, as Cody says, what the Democrats do is good, but not good enough. And, thus, fickle voters kick them out to give the other side a try, again, even though the other side has been consistently, demonstrably worse, every time. The only thing that has been truly consistent throughout the past 3 or 4 decades or more, though, is that the obscenely rich have gotten obscenely richer and the downtrodden poor have gotten more downtrodden and more poor. Prices continue to creep up and wages continue to remain mostly stagnant. And yeah, there are way more subscription services (and all that other stuff that Cody mentioned) than there used to be. *eye roll, but not really*

People (wrongly) see Trump as the solution to "the bigger picture," even though he clearly has made, clearly is making, and clearly will continue to make everything so very much worse. Because he's a liar and a grifter and a conman and a criminal who only cares about one person, and that person is Donald Trump. And he's also a complete and total fucking dumbass who has absolutely zero clue what the hell he's doing, being coattails-ridden and heavily influenced by vile, disgusting, evil shitsmears on the underwear of humanity who absolutely do know what they're doing, and what they're doing is vile, disgusting, and evil. There's that, too. (And that's not even bringing Putin into the picture, though that, too, is definitely a factor in play here. Very little would tickle Putin's pecker than to see the US economy bottom out as a direct result of the actions taken by his obvious puppet.)

Anyway, yeah, an economy based on all growth, all the time, is completely unsustainable in the long run. But... well, as long as it makes billionaires even richer in the short run... what can the rest of us do about it? *shrug* (Hmm, I wonder when Some More News will do a two-hour episode about Peter Thiel. Assuming they haven't already and I just missed it.)

"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.

A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.

"You fucked around, US voters. Now you’re gonna find out.

"('I didn’t vote for him!' Well, thank you, neither did I. Got some bad news for you, though.)"

Pretty much, yeah. There's more to Mr. Scalzi's post than just that, but still... yeah...

"John Oliver discusses Donald Trump's reelection, what happens next, and why the whole thing is – arguably – Katy Perry's fault."

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Man, invoking Mister Rogers even for a little bit feels like one of those "break glass in case of emergency" moments. Which, I guess, this whole "Trump got reelected" thing definitely is. If I had to pick one human being who is the absolute polar opposite of anything and everything Mister Rogers, it would be Donald Jackass Trump.

And yeah, this episode is a wee bit behind the times, because Matt Gaetz for Attorney General wasn't even on that pestilential chart of potential Trump picks.

In conclusion, to Donald Trump and to every one who voted for Donald Trump, I just want to give you all a very hearty, "Fuck you quite a lot!"

A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.

I agree with pretty much all of it.

So, Some More News will be livestreaming the election tomorrow, starting at 8:00PM EST, apparently. There's the link, for anyone interested, but as for me... no fucking thank you.

I intend to do my level damn best to ignore anything and everything pertaining to the election tomorrow, find out on Wednesday what the early consensus is for who won, and then wait until, like, January 20, 2025, to find out who will actually become the next POTUS, assuming they even have that shit figured out by then. *shrug + weary sigh*

Hope it's Kamala Harris and not Dumbfuck Trump, of course.

"A quick message ahead of Tuesday’s election. And the worst photo that’s ever been taken of anyone. Ever."

So our dumbfuck neighbors just a few houses down the road from us have a fucking "I'm Voting For The Felon 2024" sign in their yard now. *very hard eye roll* Apparently, that is a pretty popular slogan with Trumpanzees. Just goes to show how utterly brain-rotted at least a third of this country still is. Go goddamned figure.

I mean, they don't want convicted felons to vote, but they're all falling over themselves to vote for one. And on top of that, Donald "Convicted Felon" Trump trying to position himself as a "tough on crime" candidate (compared to, you know, the former prosecutor, Kamala Harris) is just... ...well, "Trumpish" is about the only word I can think of to adequately describe it, since any other word used in that case would be an insult to the word in question, even words like "idiotic" or "moronic" or "dumbshit" or whatever.