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Illinois, famous for Domino's pizza. Also, Ted Cruz is a bearded road apple.
Boy, howdy, I can't tell you how glad I am that the Supreme Court basically decided that Trump can't ever do anything wrong when it comes to the powers of his office, real or imagined. (This is fucking sarcasm)
When Rand "I spread COVID to my Senate colleagues" Paul is making this point.....
Ogles is at least apparently aware enough to realize that if Trump isn't running for President again (and he can't), then they're very seriously fucked, because they have not built up a credible candidate at all in the last ten years.
*long slow draw on a cigarette* (I don't actually smoke) Ain't that just a fucking shame, then. Ogles can fuck right off into the sun with the rest of the authoritarian assholes.
Nah, I figure it's just different people on the lore team(s) putting their take on things. This is just my version of ranting in a comics letter page to the tune of "This can't be right, because clearly, in Amazing Spider-man #127....."
On a completely different note: I wish I realized I didn't have any grated Parmesan cheese before I made spaghetti. Oh well. At least the sauce turned out nicely.
I may have this slightly wrong. It may be that no one outside of the realms of Death (Shadowlands) believes in the First Ones. But again *points to Zereth Mortis, etc.* Do the math.
Look, you can call them Spankydoodle if you want, but clearly, there's something "above" the power level of the Pantheons. It doesn't mean we have to ever meet them, or fight them. Hell, ignore Shadowlands if you want, most people would prefer that, honestly. But don't do this bullshit.
Goddamnit Blizzard, I know the reception, overall, of Shadowlands sucked, but this is not the way to fix it. You're creating more plot holes than you're fixing.
*deep breath* Then. Who. The. Fuck. Created. The. Eternal. Ones. You. Idiots. "Oh yeah, you fought robotic construct versions of us, and the Jailer turned into a sad puppet when he died, but uh, clearly that doesn't mean we were created by anyone. It's probably just a myth."
This is after we've been to Zereth Mortis, and fought the Prototype Pantheon, which are an earlier iteration of the Eternal Ones. And after defeating the Jailer, and watching him turn into the world's saddest puppet with the strings cut. "But the First Ones might not be real! We don't know?"
Only, in the upcoming Warcraft Chronicles 4 lore and art book, apparently, the whole idea of the First Ones is more of a "Well, it's a myth, isn't it? We don't really know." And that's the take from the Eternal Ones as well. ...... fucking what.
There was evidence of this throughout Shadowlands in the form of things that the Pantheon of Death didn't create, but was there nonetheless. And in the last raid of Shadowlands, one of the boss fights was against "The Prototype Pantheon". Yeah, you basically fight 3D printed "gods".
But, importantly, in Shadowlands, there was new lore introduced about "The First Ones". Beings who supposedly existed before the Pantheon of Death, and the Titans, and well, everything. They apparently created reality and the six forces, etc. and so forth.
Fel is part of Chaos. Arcane is derived from Order. Holy energy comes from the Light. And so on. Now, for years before Shadowlands, there was knowledge of the Titans, who are powerful beings, a pantheon, of Order. In Shadowlands we met the Eternal Ones, powerful beings, a pantheon, of Death.
You'll notice there are three opposing pairs there. But also, each part of the pair cannot exist without the other. If there was no Life, there couldn't be Death. If there was no Order, there couldn't be Chaos. If there was no Light, there couldn't be Shadow.
Okay, so this requires some background lore. As far as players (and characters within the game) are aware, there are six major forces comprising reality (and other minor forces that are adjacent to one or more of those big six). Those six forces are Life, Death, Order, Chaos, Light, and Void.
Now, that retcon (retroactive continuity) ended up working because it provided more depth to Sargeras' fall from the side of order into chaos. Well, I just found out about another possible retcon. Namely that the First Ones (originally mentioned in Shadowlands) might not exist.
Probably the most famous example of the lore being retconned is the Eredar. At one point, the lore was that Sargeras was corrupted by the Eredar, demons from the Twisting Nether. That got retconned to reverse the relationship. Sargeras corrupted the Eredar instead.
So, I play World of Warcraft. And the lore for the game, over it's many expansions..... There's a lot of it. And some of it has been contradicted over the years, some has been ignored, some has been dropped, and some has been outright retconned. ..... and uh.... it isn't always successful.
Translation from Vance: None whatsoever. We flat out fucking murdered the people on that boat. Under an excuse so flimsy it wouldn't stand up to a 1 year-old's drool.
Heh www.youtube.com/shorts/bGCvL...
Translation: Give me what I demand, and I pinkie swear I won't come back for the rest in a few years.
"Pictured here, the approximate shape of a Twinkie...."
And when Zelenskyy wisely and correctly says, "AHAHA no, fuck you, I'm not placing myself in your power and hoping for the best.", there will be people claiming, quite idiotically, "Well, clearly, Zelenskyy doesn't want peace."
3) He's already obviously had political enemies killed. In such subtle ways as blowing up the goddamn plane they were on. 4) Putin doesn't want peace with Ukraine. He wants pieces of Ukraine. Hell, maybe the whole thing at this point.
Now, with my followers, it's not likely anyone's going to say "Putin would never kill him in Russia. It would make Putin an international pariah." But just in case someone does.... 1) Do you think Putin cares? 2) Putin is (well, was, before Trump got re-elected) a pariah.
"Step into my parlor...."
Look in the mirror, asshole.
We've already seen this with Mamdani in NYC. The Democratic establishment largely seems to be going out of their way to actively work against the candidate who won the primary. And it's going to be to their detriment.
Look, I'm not saying old people shouldn't be in office. .... I mean, not generally. A few specific ones, sure. But when you already have a candidate who seems to be popular, at least early indications are that he is, why not work with that?
Yes, how dare anyone suggest that Maine be represented by this callow youth, aged.... 40? ..... Schumer, you really are a fucking dolt.
You'd think, with all his money, he could afford an actual nice suit, tailored to fit him well. .... yes, that assumes that anything fits him well.
Abraham Lincoln, Cannibal Hunter
So, it's not a huge surprise that Donnie might not care about any sort of commute these Guardsmen will have from where they're barracked to their duty stations in Chicago, wherever those may be, to you know, stand around and look tough and probably harass people.
Whether it's having them spread mulch (which, let's face it, they might be good at it, but it's not normally something associated with them), or doing their deployments in 29 day chunks so they don't get extra benefits, Trump fucking doesn't care about them, only what they can do for him.
Look, we all know that Trump has zero respect for the troops, just based off well.... practically every interaction he's had with them. And he's been fucking over the National Guard that he's ordered deployed as well.
Clearly, the amount of planning that Trump has put into this required nearly five minutes.
As a side note, in Discworld, five exclamation points is the sure sign of an insane mind. Donnie just fucking used 11.
Damn, Donnie, maybe if you hadn't had it turned into a shitty patio and had just left it as is....
Okay, got my flu and pneumonia shots scheduled. There is currently some folderol about the COVID vaccine needing a prescription, but the nice pharmacist at Walgreen's said that should be straightened out within a week. And yes, I'm getting those other two shots the same day.
Well, there's a pretty good chance that's going to cause Trump to go on a paranoid "WHO TALKED?!" spree, investigating and/or firing a bunch of people, while he simultaneously ignores the fact that he's said he wants the military and/or National Guard in Chicago, multiple times.
"He said he threw the ball, but he really just hid it behind his back." *doggie sobs*
"Goddamnit, he still looks unnatural." "Jerry, stop saying that, he looked bad before he died." "Fine, can we at least staple the sunglasses to him so they stay on?"
"I just found out that Vince McMahon is really the father of Don Jr."
Because as we all know, bisexuals don't exist at all. *checks notes* Wait....
Let's just hope this thread doesn't go off on a tangent.
It's spelled Cujeau.
Look, I don't like mowing my lawn, but nobody around here is just giving away a perfectly functional riding lawnmower. The damn thing will be busted in some way I can't fix, and they're just looking for someone to haul it away.
*email notification - Free stuff in your neighborhood* Me: Oh, this is usually nothing but crap. *reads email* "Riding lawnmower" ...... nope. Nope, not falling for it.
And he's going to be making this from the Oval Office, so odds are he'll be sitting down if/when coverage starts. Makes it easier to hide that he's not wearing pants.
I believe it's 30 meters.
To hell with them, and their stupid-ass opinions.
Roughly 10% chance he announces he's won the Nobel Peace Prize even though he hasn't.
What would be fucking hilarious is if he dies during his announcement. "Many people have been speculating about my health. I just want to say..." *thud*
Somewhere between terrible and "they've put makeup on a zombie", and the rambling will be roughly 85% of it.
Not to mention if he were dead, they're not pulling a "Weekend at Bernie's" with him. There's no fucking point to.
Kinda looks like it's clothes. Maybe suit jackets?
That's why he hides the bruises on the back of his hand, that's why he does the shitty spray tan, that's why he does the stupid teased hair. For him to lurch out of the White House, slack-jawed like that? He's declining, fast.
Don't get me wrong, most people don't age gracefully. Hell, I'm not aging gracefully. But Trump, and his sycophantic inner circle, insist that Trump is in godlike health, will live to be 200, etc. All fucking nonsense, obviously. But Trump, in his own bullshit way, tries to present that facade.
Why do I picture her maintaining eye contact the whole time she said that?
My assumption is that he's on the way to a golf course, but he doesn't look like he's looking forward to what should be his favorite leisure activity. He looks like he's barely fucking there at all.
I mean, let's face it, Trump has looked terrible for years. His shitty diet, his general lack of exercise, his posture, his insistence on spray tanning his face (poorly), and so on. But we've also seen that without his spray tan, his skin looks terrible. And this? He looks exhausted as well.
Well, he still looks like shit.
And completely lacking in charm.
I am still (occasionally) salty about being talked out of dark brown window blinds in favor of off-white ones because "it would be better for the resale value".
Once you pay the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Because he wants to pretend to be a good guy.
I mean, I know the basic plot, but I've never seen it. I have seen (movie versions) of "Paint Your Wagon", "Fiddler on the Roof", and a few others, though.
..... I don't think I've ever seen "Annie". I've seen some musicals. Well, film versions of musicals.
I thought the FDR/Eleanor comparison was a nice touch.
To be fair, I've never driven a sports car, but there's a certain level of revving an engine where it's ceased to be for the operation of the vehicle and moves well into performative showing off.
*hears unnecessary revving of engines* *looks out front window* Ah, someone in a mid-life crisis sports car (bright blue), using the cul-de-sac to turn around because they missed their turn back the other way.
Like, it doesn't even come out of Trump's bank account, and he's still fucking stiffing people who work for him.
Right? Like, if it had just been "Rudy Giuliani was in a car accident where he was rear-ended", that would probably be enough of a statement. But this statement? Even if he's not hiding something, it comes across as he's hiding something.
..... no?
Given the general state of journalism these days, we should probably be happy that the article wasn't just AI generated.
So, naturally, he's trying to stack the deck as much as possible to prevent that. See also: efforts in Texas, Missouri, and probably soon to be other states that are thinking about redistricting.
The goal behind all this crapola is that Trump doesn't want the GOP to lose control of the House or the Senate in the midterms. Because if they do, well, the rest of his agenda for the following two years becomes that much harder, and oh yeah, they might actually investigate him.
(To note, all the "he's dead" bits in here are intended as humor. The Trump administration isn't competent enough to pull a "Weekend at Bernie's" for longer than, say, an hour.)
What I would likewise expect to happen is that Democratic Governors/state legislatures would refuse to pass laws supporting that order, and Trump, via the necromantic cabal animating him, would publicly flip his shit and say that election results in those states don't count, because how dare they?
Now, if he issues that order, I won't be surprised if GOP Governors/state legislatures try to pass laws supporting that order, but that's literally what they would have to do to enforce that order. It isn't "just because he said it, it happens". It doesn't work that way.
So, it's looking increasingly likely that Trump (or the shambling animated corpse thereof) is going to issue an Executive Order to the effect of "banning" mail-in voting, etc. and so forth. Reminder: An Executive Order is not a law. I don't care what Republicans tell you.
And see, it's the same sort of thing. "You are incapable of handling these problems. You must ask Trump for assistance. All hail Trump, without whose wisdom, we would all surely fail." It's a fucking cult.
What if they had one person who shot and killed a dog?
The pharmacy is closed today, so I'll be checking this tomorrow. ..... assuming they're not closed for Labor Day as well, that is.
I mean, that all depends on whether fire was supposed to be involved.
So, this isn't a new thing with the Trump administration, but it sure feels like they're ramping it up a bit. And that is the "Without Trump, you would all be much worse off, if not dead. How dare you ever oppose him?" And this is while he's corpse-walking another golf course, probably.
What a load of shit.
Hey now, Santa followed through on some things I asked for.
He really just wants to stamp the name "TRUMP" in giant letters on the countryside.
"What is it, a shed for ants?"
The Savage Worlds system would probably be pretty decent as a system for it.
To be honest, I never would have got it without what you posted, but it brought that scene to mind.
It's from "Lords and Ladies", where a young wannabe witch, Diamanda, asks Granny Weatherwax what level she is, and when Granny replies, "Well, I suppose I'm level one." "Just starting?" "Oh yes. Just starting. Every day, just starting." bsky.app/profile/gobs...
So, this is saying you don't need a prescription for a COVID-19 vaccine in South Carolina, but Walgreen's website insists that you do. To double-check I'm going to go there tomorrow and see.
Well, if you leave off weddings, cargo shorts and a polo shirt work fine.... And depending on who's getting married....
#2 is the more likely option, in that "These were Trump's last executive orders" has a kind of weight to it where even if Vance doesn't like them, he might not issue his own orders nullifying them, as he's going to have a hard enough time as President as he doesn't have a cult of personality.