Castle Magus

Pat Robertson is dead and Trump has been federally indicted? I could say something banal like "It's like Christmas in June," except that I don't give much of a shit about Christmas even in the best of times, generally speaking, so instead I'll just say that these two pieces of news do not make me unhappy. Not unhappy at all. They don't necessarily make me happy, mind you, but definitely not even a little bit unhappy.

First learned of Pat Robertson's death via Wil Wheaton and of Trump's indictment via Seth Abramson, both when I happened to open my Feedly page, a few minutes prior to starting on this post.

Mr. Wheaton's story is dark as fuck. I like it. Quite a bit of "thorn-cocked Gulbuth The Rampant" energy, there. Honestly, I don't believe that hell is a thing that exists. I think that Pat Robertson has merely ceased to exist, except as inert matter and in the memories of living people, which, hopefully, will entirely fade away soon enough, as far as the world as a whole is concerned, at least. That said, I'm totally in favor of "fan" fiction and parody articles that place human shitstains like Pat Robertson in hell. I can't wait to read all the similar "fan" fiction that will be written once Donald Trump finally carks it. I might even write a bit of it myself when the time comes (hopefully sooner rather than later), who knows.

Speaking of Trump... meh... some of that Seth Abramson Twitter thread I linked to up there sounds kind of like equal parts hopeful/doom-saying/sensationalist "fan" fiction, too. Meh again. Part of me wants to say "This might be it... Trump might finally be about to go to prison... oh how I hope so..." but most of me just wants to say "Meh, Trump will slime his way out of this, too, the same way Trump has slimed his way out of all the other fucking consequences to his execrable actions." In any case, my breath is not a thing that I will be holding over this.

Also, assuming that Trump, despite everything, still somehow manages to win the GQP primary and runs in the general election in 2024, which still has an alarmingly high possibility of being a thing that happens, I will, of course, be voting against his stupid ass, same as I've voted against his stupid ass in every other election in which Trump has run and for which I have been eligible to vote. And if Trump somehow, someway, despite everything, against all the odds, manages to win the Presidency again in 2024... well... recall how I said that "America has officially shit the bed" after the last time Trump somehow managed to win? This would be ever so much worse.

Oh, and fuck Kevin McCarthy, Ron Desantis, Elon Musk, and all those other seething, deceitful dumbfucks right in their malign anuses with a necrotizing fasciitis-infested pine cone, too. One can even use the same pine cone for all of them. In fact, I would recommend it. It would probably turn out better that way.

(As this post started getting longer and longer, I thought about breaking it into two separate posts, one about the Pat Robertson thing and one about the Dumbshit Jizzstain Trump thing... but meh. Current time, as I'm about to hit the "post" button: 3:22am EDT.)

Yeah, this seemed like a big enough Event™ that I felt like looking up the Seth Abramson thread about it, because I knew there would be a Seth Abramson thread about it.

(Pre-post EDIT) Here is a Thread Reader page for the below thread, if you'd prefer to view it that way. For one thing, it preserves the images and article blurbs, which the below embeds do not. The only thing the Thread Reader page doesn't have is my own aside about the #TruePunditHoax. (/Pre-post EDIT)

Because the threading is all wonky at the moment on Twitter, I'm just going to individually embed all of his tweets here:

( Behind a cut, of course. )

If all of this ends up with Trump evading justice yet again and, worse, somehow becoming POTUS yet again, all this will prove is that justice is well and truly dead forever in the United States and also that there are still far too many braindead wastes of oxygen in the American voting public if anyone at all votes for Trump in 2024. But even if the best case happens and Trump ends up not only not POTUS again in 2024 but also in prison for what would hopefully be the rest of his natural life, the fact remains that he's already pretty much irrevocably ruined the SCOTUS for at least the next several decades. This has already happened, and as far as I know there's not a damn thing anyone can do to fix that grievous mistake.

"We discuss the top 25 NES games ranked, as compiled from journalist Seth Abramson. Do we agree with the list?"

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I've got no real problems with the list, but then, same as last time, I haven't played a ton of NES games to be able to make such a list myself. I'd agree that either Super Mario Bros. 3 or The Legend of Zelda should be in the top spot, for sure, as that's kind of a no-brainer really.

I still just find it rather surreal to be thinking about Seth Abramson in a context of "video games" rather than a context of "exposing Donald Trump's bullshit six months to a year or more before anyone in the mainstream media even sniffs at it."

"We discuss a list of the worst NES games, compiled by Seth Abramson. What do we agree and disagree with?"

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I don't really have a dog in this race, as I've never played the vast majority of the games discussed here, and the only reason I've even heard of most of them is due to things like the Angry Video Game Nerd and such. I just thought it was interesting that Seth Abramson is apparently the one who made this list. I haven't been paying all that much attention to him with regards to political shit lately[1], but if Mr. Abramson has started talking about video games now, maybe I'll start paying attention again.

[1] - Not that I stopped agreeing with him as far as the politics stuff went, mind you. His was just one of the many other more politically inclined profiles that I culled from the list of those I followed, back when I started using Twitter again, mainly due to the fact that I just find the absurd asininity and visceral hatefulness of politics in general utterly exhausting nowadays.

Surprising absolutely nobody who has been paying the least bit attention for the past few years now, William Barr has once again proven himself to be a good little Trump lackey. Maybe one of the best, even. Perhaps someday, in a perfect world, he would end up sharing a prison cell with his butt buddy Trump. However, given that Barr is not already in prison but is, instead, somehow, still the Attorney General (just like how Trump is, somehow, still the President), this proves that we don't live in a perfect world, or even a remotely good one.

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Even though I otherwise haven't been bothering lately, I felt that this issue was serious enough to look up a Seth Abramson Twitter thread on it. So, there it is. And here is a different, non-Seth thread, too. There are probably thousands more just like them on Twitter, but that would require looking at Twitter for more than five minutes outside of that, and that's not a thing I'm willing to subject myself to.

Anyway, yeah, everyone in smelling distance of Donald Trump deserves to rot, first, in prison and, second, in hell for the rest of eternity. Whatever it will take to make that come about needs to happen now. That is all.

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Okay. I'm once again reinstating my self-imposed (but long since abandoned) moratorium on reading, and, more importantly, ranting about political shit. At least, I'm going to try it for a while, anyway. Maybe a week, maybe two, maybe a month, hopefully longer.

The way I see it, I already know for a stone cold fact that I'm going to be voting for any and all Democrats come November. No amount of anti-Trump/anti-Trumpanzee news is going to somehow make me vote even harder against them. That's not a thing that is even possible at this point. As such, there's just no point in bothering with it. And no rant by me is going to change anyone's mind about Trump (especially since, given how curated my FB feed and f-list is, it's mostly just being seen by those who already agree with me, for the most part [or at least, I assume and hope that's the case... if not... I'm not sure I even want to know]). Lastly, nothing I say or share or "retweet" or whatever is going to magically remove Trump (and McConnell and Graham and Kavanaugh and... etc.) from office.

Mainly, this means no more Seth Abramson threads for a while. But also, no more other shit, either. Just today, I (re-)added NPR and BBC to my FB feed, but now I'm going to turn right around and take them back off again. That was probably the tipping point for this decision, in fact.

It probably won't make me happier, per se, to do this, but I think it'll at least maybe help a little with the all the headaches (both literal and figurative).

The only thing I won't be eschewing is Some More News by Cody Johnston. ­¬_¬

I wonder how many posts with the title "Another Seth Abramson thread" I'll have made by the time this whole Donald Jackass Trump shitshow is all over.

So yeah, the first time I read that hit piece on Slate a couple years ago was pretty much the last time I trusted Slate for anything.

Mr. Abramson links to the Slate hit piece himself at the end of his thread there. I'm not going to sully my FacebookDreamwidth page by posting the link here.

Real thread starts around here, by the way.

And yeah, it is ridiculous that all of these heinous, criminal motherfuckers aren't already in prison and haven't already been in prison for at least half a decade by this point, rather than acting as the legal team for a criminal buddy who is badly masquerading as a President of the United States of America.

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"So, Ben Matthis-Lilley, how do I feel about pegging John Dowd *exactly* correctly more than *two years* before his perfidy became evident to the public at large? I feel fantastic about it. Proud as hell. And I hope your breed of birdcage-liner 'journalism' dies—and soon."

I love it when Seth gets especially catty. It's almost never not fully deserved.

Really, this is only one of many, many times that Seth Abramson has been proven exactly right on something he was saying anywhere from six months to a year or two more before the mainstream media got more than a whiff of it. (And collecting and collating what "whiffs" there have been up to now has been Mr. Abramson's bread and butter for the past three-plus years now, which is why he has been and continues to be so knowledgeable on the subject of all of Trump's inane horseshit.)

And he even apologizes for spelling the asshole's name wrong.

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This, right here, is a huge part of the reason I completely abandoned the toxic cesspit that is Twitter.[1] This never happened to me personally, but I saw it happen enough times, to famous, semi-famous, and non-famous people alike, that it just plain disgusted me, and I wanted nothing more to do with it.

"we argued for hours"

And that was Mr. Abramson's big mistake.

Of course, you can't and shouldn't just let these fuckers get away with constantly libeling you, but if you try to confront them about it, they win. If you don't try to confront them about it, they still win. I don't know what is the solution to this conundrum.

Lawsuits, I guess? But those take time and money, and if you (especially if "you" are a semi-famous person like Seth Abramson with as big a following of haters and trolls as you have actual normal, human, non-shitstain followers) sued everyone that libeled you on Twitter, you'd be doing nothing else but that for literally the entire rest of your life, and you still wouldn't handle even a tiny fraction of them (and that's assuming you actually won all your cases, which is not a certainty).

[1] - Aside from getting back into reading Seth Abramson threads, of course, though those are usually just direct links from the ThreadReader site, and I rarely venture beyond that anymore, these days.

This is an example of Faux Noise lies literally getting innocent people killed.

The President of the United States of America is using Twitter to literally make terroristic threats to commit war crimes now.

This is the age we live in.