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)

"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. Today, we will teach Jordan Peterson how the GOP turned climate science into a 'debate' with two sides, and show him what we can do to mitigate the worst outcomes. Are you paying attention, Jordan?!"

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Follow up to part one, of course.

You know what? By the end of this video, I was starting to think that maybe it wasn't entirely about Jordan Peterson, or even mostly about Jordan Peterson, or even slightly about Jordan Peterson, except for the occasional reminder that Jordan Peterson is, in fact, a person who exists, who also happens to be a stupid fucking idiot and/or a stupid fucking liar.

At least there was no threatpromise of a third part to this series that was specifically and only about Jordan Peterson. I do think there might be more SMN videos on the topic of climate change[1] in the future, though, oddly enough. Weird, that.

[1] - Or "global warming," if you prefer, since it was apparently the Republicans/Conservatives/GQP who mandated the change from talking about "global warming" to talking about "climate change," because "global warming" scares and enrages them (and also because they are dumbshit liars), rather than the Democrats/Liberals/Not Reality Deniers making the change because talking about "global warming" "wasn't working" or whatever dumbshit lies the former have been telling about the latter for the past two or three decades now. Doesn't (much) matter what it's called, though; it's still a thing that definitely exists and is absolutely happening now, regardless.

"Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November."


Three caveats, though:

First, he's not actually leaving the Senate until 2027 (at the earliest, and assuming he really doesn't run and [somehow] win again in 2026), though, so he'll still, you know, be there (barring his untimely death or something. *fingers crossed*).

Second, this just means his "leadership" position is up for grabs by probably some dipshit Trumpanzee now.

Third:

"President Joe Biden, who has had a productive working relationship with McConnell, said he was sorry to hear the news.

"'I’ve trusted him and we have a great relationship,' the Democratic president said. 'We fight like hell. But he has never, never, never misrepresented anything.'"

Holy shitting fuck, Joe. Bitch McConnell has "never, never, never misrepresented anything," Joe? Really, Joe? Seriously, Joe?

Okay, that, right there, could well be the first real evidence that I've seen that maybe Joe Biden might actually be suffering from dementia, after all, like what the Trumpanzees have been claiming all along. I mean, I still don't believe that's truly the case, but... to claim that Bitch McConnell has "never, never, never misrepresented anything" is definitely a dementia-ish delusion, no doubt.

The fact that Donald Trump is even being mentioned at all in relation to this, let alone being a deciding factor, demonstrates how utterly fucked up US politics are.

Honestly, for me, the only thing slightly surprising about this is that Thom Tillis, of all people, is one of the ones (half-assedly) supporting the deal and not merely talking in lockstep with his God Emperor. That upgrades him from the status of "irredeemable Trumpanzee" to the status of "even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

A post on Whatever.

Everyone's making fun of the so-called "red wave" and how it ended up being more of a "red trickle" at most. But here's the thing, though. The fact that the GQP candidates, particularly the worst of the Trump-wannabes and other such QAnon-believing, (2020) election-denying nutfucks, won as much as they did (e.g. GQP expected to take majority in the House of Representatives, which is terrible enough on its own), and that every single one of them wasn't completely, entirely, fully shut out, in utter landslide defeats across the board... well this just goes to show that this country is still far too fucked up in the head right now, same as it has been since the colossal brainfart of 2016. Maybe not as fucked up as it could be, granted, but still incredibly fucked up.

Also, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are still there (they're not up to be drummed out until 2024, which they probably won't be, unfortunately), so it doesn't even really matter all that much that the Democrats will retain the Senate, because those two DINOs/stealth-GQPers will continue to monkey wrench everything all to hell anyway, same as they did before.

I guess I'm happy that it wasn't much, much worse (especially when taking into account all the myriad ways in which the GQP has been [and is still] trying to cheat and game the system), sad that it wasn't much, much better (i.e. complete and total, unequivocal, literally not-able-to-be-denied defeat for every GQP candidate), and realistic that it is, objectively speaking, still pretty fucking bad, regardless. It has been "pretty fucking bad, regardless" for quite a long while now.

"Hi. In this week's video, we discuss the Supreme Court overturning Roe Vs Wade, and man, it's a real bummer."

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Obligatory gripe about shitty teaser videos and premieres and whatnot.

With that out of the way...

They don't mention it in this video, but I think one of the most hypocritical things about the whole anti-abortion brouhaha is this: the states which ostensibly care so very much about the "sanctity of life" or whatever that they're climbing over each other to be the first to enact draconian laws against women getting abortions and against anyone who dares to lift a finger to help women get abortions... are the same fucking states that are potentially most likely to punish anyone and everyone who violates said draconian laws... ...with the fucking death penalty.

Also, mild shout out, again, to how utterly (and intentionally) broken the Supreme Court is, now, which they also touch upon in this video.

In other words, Bitch McConnell is a hypocritical liar who does the wrong thing for the wrong reasons and is a willing accessory to Trump's crimes as long as it suits his own political ambitions.

In other blatantly obvious news: grass is green, the sky is blue, and water is wet.

"John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s done, and, crucially, what we can do about it."

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I wasn't sure if there would be a sustained-double-deuce-worthy situation in this video, but then, sure enough, Bitch McConnell's leathery face appeared on screen, during which he spewed quite a bit of verbal shit out of that anus he keeps between his nose and his chin. (Also, with this post comes the addition of the "middle-finger-worthy" tag to my repertoire.)

Alternate link because region-locking is also middle-finger-worthy.