Dark_Cloud_Overhead

Time to stuff our faces with cream puffs and get all swole.

Survivor The Summit

Of course, the A-hole will just set up shop somewhere else, but it's still fun and fitting to see them taking away his baby.

Brainwashing adults via their media platforms has proven effective for them, so it's simply the natural next step to go after the kids next by doing anything that enables them to dig their claws into the schooling curriculum.

Just wait till RFK is in charge of HHS and clears out most of the FDA. Without anyone working there anymore to catch stuff like this, we'll be finding much more interesting stuff in our food... like whale and worms and bears, oh my.

Night Swim 7/10 Borderlands 6/10 (Still surprised this bombed so hard. I really liked the little robot, Claptrap. He was funny. Without him it probably would have been pretty meh. Not a bad movie though. Never played the game mind you, so I had no expectations to dash.)

Her tear drops bring the episode to an end. That would be a pretty useful ability. If you don't like the way the plot's going just cry.

OMG Those attack names...

LMAO WTF Franky. First a hug, now a kiss. What a ladies man.

Even the kitty cats are fawning over Senor Baby?

I barely remember anything about this show at all it's been so long since it was on before, so I if they are getting any other seasons of it soon really good idea for them to run the first one again like this.

LOL like a volleyball, and then juggling. Totally trolling the dude now.

Guess they don't know how to use doors either.

LMAO He knows how to fix doors, but not open and close them. Looks like this guy's even got muscle between his ears.

Thank goodness. I was getting worried I was about to actually going to have to make a discussion for this. I mean I barely even remember how to make a thread it's been so long since I've had to do that. First impression: this show's looking like One Punch Man and Black Clover had a baby.

Yeah, except it doesn't exactly seem like sincere praise of any kind coming from the guy who said it. More like he intended it to be a sarcastic dig at us for criticizing them for their treatment of woman when we continue rejecting letting a woman be our leader. Kind of hard to be sure without a full accurate translation, but the article's title saying he mocked us suggests that at least. Also, him calling America a "great country" I find really hard to believe any Taliban guy really thinks that about us.

Having the Taliban applaud you for anything is a dunk.

The Louisiana AG's cyber unit said they've traced them back to a VPN in Poland, but haven't found the original source. Could be a coincidence, but seems pretty fishy to me that it's being routed through a country that Putin and some of his cronies have basically outright threatened. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ally-warns-enemy-poland-you-risk-losing-your-statehood-2023-11-02/

We'll see what happens. I'm still incredibly skeptical he'd ever dare do anything to go against what Putin wants in the end, but it doesn't surprise me there'd be talk like this after him speaking with Zelensky simply because Zelensky cares about his people and knows full well that if you kiss up and flatter the jerk enough you can get him to change his mind on just about anything. Problem is, it's whoever has his ear last and offers him whatever he sees of most personal value to him that's gonna be the one pulling the strings in the end, and Trump's got more to gain from having Putin on his side than he does Zelensky.

There's still a lot of it; that's without question. Just look at the news today about the threatening racist text messages being sent to black people across the country. It's scary stuff. Even if it's not coming from here in the U.S. (some speculation Russia could be behind it), it's happening for a reason and should be looked at and called out for what it is: a terrorist attack. Whether it's physical or psychological, it's just as evil and despicable, and whoever's doing it, they're doing it because they know it'll be effective because of how much hate and fear there is here still. That said, there isn't any single reason he won. If there were, people would have seen it coming much more easily. The rot that's here has been slowly creeping in and building up for a long time I believe, and that's exactly why trying to root out the causes of it all is gonna be next to impossible at this point. Racism plays a part, misogyny plays a part, the internet and changing media landscape plays a part. It's a toxic stew that's been brewing for quite some time, and I think we should face the fact that there's no easy way to throw it all out now. All we can do is do is our own part in trying to oppose succumbing to it in whatever little ways we can. Expect the worst, but hope for the best. If that sounds overly bleak and cheesy, all I got to say is -- dammit people I'm trying my best to be as optimistic as I can here!

Ghost Stories 12 - 20 That was good. I really enjoy scary stories, and some of those ghosts were surprisingly scary considering how old the show is. I did sample the dub in some places along the way, but mostly just for episode 12 cuz it was a more emotional kind of serious episode, and I was most curious I guess about how the dub would handle something like that. It was worse than I was expecting honestly, and I wasn't expecting much. But yeah, changing the part of Satsuki remembering her father and some nurses rushing to her mother's hospital room because she's dying into a joke about him apparently going to have group sex with the nurses instead told me everything I needed to know about it really.

Survivor The Summit

Yeah, I agree with that, expect for one thing... He doesn't have to worry about re-election anymore, so does what his base thinks even really matter anymore to him? Yeah, I suppose if they were to get so mad at him and completely turn on him it might damage his ego, which could get him to back off, but it would take something pretty extreme I think for that to happen.

Covid screwed up the supply chain, and I think his donors came out from that alright. Gave them an excuse to raise prices on goods, which they could always do again. It would be awful for the economy sure, but the rich always seem to find a way to come out ahead. Maybe you're right and I'm just looking at things too cynically though. I hope you're right anyway. About congress, that assumes they don't choose to do away with the filibuster entirely, in which case anything goes. What reason do we have to believe that they would ever play by the same set of rules as the democrats I mean. Mr. Hypocrite McConnell may be leaving as leader, but I really doubt whoever replaces him as senate leader is going to be more moderate than him.

I wouldn't bet on it either way. That's how come he's able to get away with proposing so many crazy ideas that would have sunk any other presidential candidate though. Nobody takes a clown seriously. Whatever zany stuff he does it's just part of his act, right? Thing is, you just never know. He's gonna be looking for some way to pay for his next ridiculous giveaway to the filthy rich, so it's either that or cutting Social Security and/or Medicare/Medicaid. One thing I do know, is if the republicans get the house (which seems really likely they will), I fully expect they're gonna try as hard as they can to rig the game harder than ever so any election to come from now on is just gonna be an election in name only, at least when it comes to the general election.