Castle Magus

*weary, sad sigh*

So, let's see...

Ridiculous lies about how her daughter died... Check.
COVID-19 mdisinformation... Check.
RFK Jr. bullshit... Check.
Alex Jones Sandy Hook and 9/11 bullshit... Check.
Royal Family is shapeshifting lizards... Check.
Wifi is dangerous... Check.
Coffee enemas can make you "cancer free"... Check.
Sunscreen can cause cancer... Check.

That and a bunch of other worse-than-worthless dogshit beliefs just demonstrates that this Kate Shemirani asshat (along with her husband and her "alternative medicine" friend and some others mentioned in the article) is an insane shitfuck of a human being who doesn't deserve oxygen, same as every other person like her who believes and, worse, spreads rampant disinformation, especially when it is actively making people (like her own daughter) unnecessarily dead.

"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.

"In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory."

Okay, yeah, the fact that RFK Jr. was apparently the victim of both a literal brain worm and mercury poisoning explains an awful lot. ¬_¬

"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.

I don't have a "joe rogan" tag... hmm... not sure if even this 1:18:01 episode of Some More News that is explicitly about Joe Rogan is enough for me to bother creating a "joe rogan" tag. I mean, sure I could just plop "joe rogan" down there in the tags list and then have a "joe rogan" tag for the future, in the unlikely off-chance that I ever mention him again, but he's absolutely not worth the effort of finding and back-tagging the very rare few posts from the past in which I may have mentioned the asshat. Eh... okay, I guess I'll throw a new "joe rogan" tag on this post, for what tiny bit that is worth (even just to me, let alone anyone else).

Also, disclaimer: I have never seen anything of Joe Rogan's show myself, other than a few short clips here and there over the years of him saying stupid shit.

Anyway, on with watching the video at 2x playback speed...

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...all right, not even five minutes in, and there's some transphobia. Off to a good start.

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Side bar: "Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans"

Wow. So, basically, a man came into a women's bathroom at a Walmart to harass and threaten a cisgender woman, who worked at that Walmart, because he wrongly, stupidly thought she was transgender merely because she happened to be tall, and then the woman was fired from her job at that Walmart after she reported the incident. (Ostensibly because she rEpOrTeD iT tO tHe WrOnG tYpE oF mAnAgEr... what the actual fuck ...so, then, why was the manager she did report it to not also fired for not reporting it up the chain to the, supposedly, "correct" type of manager? Probably because said manager wasn't a tall woman who "looked trans.")

And, of course, this fucking happened in goddamned Florida. That tracks.

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And now, onto the COVID disinformation part of the show...

Ah, and there's the racism... hmm, turns out Joe Rogan apparently had very different views back in 2019 or whenever, compared to now...? Gee, I wonder why? Oh, right, it's because of the Trump stuff.

And here comes the Trump-specific stuff (though that's really been an undercurrent of the entire video all along)... Joe Rogan before: "The morons had a king." Joe Rogan now: "He's real." Also, it does indeed seem really weird that Joe Rogan, who apparently hates everything to do with Jeffrey Epstein, had Donald Trump, someone who really appears to have been a close, personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as a guest on his show, and apparently never once mentioned Jeffrey Epstein. Go figure.

Joe Rogan didn't like Tim Walz, because Tim Walz was, supposedly, "a liar." Therefore, all in for Trump I guess????? The guy who has spouted literally multiple tens of thousands of documented lies over the past decade????? Okay, Joe Rogan. Okay.

Elon Musk? A genius? The smartest person alive? Okay, Joe Rogan. Okay.

Trump is "an outsider" and "anti-establishment" in the same way that GamerGate was "actually about ethics in video game journalism." Joe Rogan, by supporting Trump, is also no longer "anti-establishment," because Trump, like it or not, is the fucking, goddamned "establishment" now. Thanks, in part, to Joe Rogan, specifically.

Ah, and there comes the anti-abortion sentiment and the homophobia, too. Keep 'em comin', Joe. They're all just beach ball issues with no actual substance or value, amirite? *eye roll*

I'm on the tail end of Gen X, having been born in 1979 (Google/Wikipedia says Gen X was from "1965 to 1980"), and believe you me, I have absolutely not undergone a "right-wing turn." Maybe I'm just an aberration, though. *shrug*

Oh, and we're even getting just a smidge of antisemitism up in here (along with some Nazi propaganda/Hitler apologia), too. The hits just keep on comin', Joe.

So, in conclusion, while Joe Rogan isn't the absolutely worst grifter/con-man/right wing dumbshit that Some More News has done a video about, he's also obviously not the greatest dude in the world, either. I don't know... maybe Joe Rogan could be one of the rare few Trumpanzees that potentially could be shamed into changing his ways by being called a hypocrite, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that. In any case, this video has not convinced me to suddenly start watching the 6000+ hours of The Joe Rogan Experience or whatever the fuck.

(They didn't manage to get through this video without at least some dumb skits involving Katy and Warmbo. Short as they were, they were still present. *sigh*)

*weary sigh*


All of these parents, who were themselves almost assuredly vaccinated against measles (and other, even worse diseases) as children, actively choosing to NOT vaccinate their own children, for whatever political/religious/pseudoscience/dumbshit reasons, are the absolute height of asininity. If you hear "Hey, you should maybe probably get your kids vaccinated so that they don't catch a very contagious disease that used to not be much of a problem anymore in the US but is becoming a big problem again precisely because you fucking dumbfuck assholes aren't vaccinating your kids," and your response is a militant "YoU'rE nOt ThE bOsS oF mE!1!1!1!1!1" then you can just eat shit and die, as far as I'm concerned. Sadly, though, instead of you, it's your children who are the ones eating shit and dying because of your goddamned moronic choices.

A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.

The pertinent part (which is most of the post):

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Why get these vaccinations now? As I noted yesterday on Bluesky, for several reasons:

1. Got COVID in August so now is appropriate time;
2. Going on a cruise in two weeks so will be at max efficiency;
3. Then going on a book tour, will be in front of literally thousands of people;
4. Re: Shingles, because shingles sucks;
5. Fuck RFK jr, that’s why.

The first three are specific to me personally, the fourth one for people over 50, and the fifth one is for all of us. Kennedy in his new role as Secretary of Health and Human Services is a clear and present danger to the health of everyone in the United States, specifically for his well-known and ruinous anti-vaccine nonsense, but for other reasons as well. Because of that, I really do urge everyone to get any vaccines they need, as soon as they can. We can no longer rely on the US government being sensible about these things.

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Anyway, yeah, to hell with RFK Jr., and to hell forever with the bozo who put him in the position he's in now.

"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!"