Jman

Ostensibly it’s so they can cut off every single form of aid. Realistically this is what sets off an intervention, and historically has in Roman times. The tyrants forcing themselves into Rome to dispose of leaders. Shit is about to get very ugly.

This is reaching “Military is going to take over and round up the President and his friends” levels.

We knew his brain was mush, this just confirms it.

The fire has been contained at least. California may have issues with it due to geography, but investing in desalination plants might be a good idea. Works for Aruba, which is why one of the few things they produce locally is beer. The alternative is mush for brains having another brilliant idea no one can stop.

This is why I stand by DeMarco, who considers him a music tastemaker and a guy trying to avoid tropes that seem too Japanese, going with an instrumental. Even if it will be forgettable and not as memetically hilarious as Limp Bizkit.

Sorry, I was just saying you were right.

My sole hope at this point is that Murdoch croaks soon since his liberal kids won the lawsuit in December. Just imagine the idea of those two essentially snapping off the conservative firehose.

Learjet, depending on the model carries up to nine people. Way less than even a smaller commercial airplane.

It was a condition of licensing his music back in the day he got to have a cameo IIRC. He didn’t charge AS much in exchange for the exposure.

The band responsible for so much music behind DeMarco’s favorite show is calling it a day.

Something is going to break. This is the sort of thing where it just takes one person to light a fuse and everything really goes to hell. Probably hoping to declare martial law.

Dante is the exact kind of guy who would have thought Bikertaker was awesome.

He’s just trading one corp for another. Get me someone who will guarantee access to vaccines in a pandemic so we all don’t die or have to fly to Canada or Europe to get them. That’s the bare fucking minimum I want.

Two things can be true at once - 1. Big Pharma’s control over healthcare by pushing profits over people has been a disaster and led to a guy being shot and the killer declared a folk hero for it. 2. A vaccine skeptic that puts his own profits over human lives belongs nowhere near the agency that coordinates responses when pandemics hit, and one we may need VERY soon if the bird flu and tuberculosis outbreaks worsen, given both are treatable (this isn’t the 1890s anymore) but not if we have some quack telling us we can’t have those tools because it hurts his worm-eaten brain.

I don’t think wanting to avoid triple on…everything is that dramatic a position. Granted, with the Trump party, anything resembling human empathy is a sign of weakness. As for pariahs, we’re a rather tightly knit community here. Message boards are a reflection of an older internet culture.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/north-america-braces-new-trump-tariffs-saturday-deadline-nears-2025-01-31/ Once again, confusing signals concerning everything opposing Trump’s strongman image prompts a massive sell-off at the stock market. Hedge funds are apparently betting on a market crash.

Metaphor ReFantazio: A 100+ hour RPG about a political crisis in a racist society where the people’s decreased faith in the central government has led to the popularity of an autocrat who is practicing a form of Darwinian meritocracy. I wonder where they got the idea.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-set-impose-tariffs-mexico-canada-starting-march-1-sources-say-2025-01-31/ No tarrifs this month, threatened for next month. Presumably the idea is to get concessions, even ones on paper for reducing migrants and fentanyl, then campaign on how he cleaned up Biden’s mess without having to start an economic trade war that would destroy the economy.

I’m looking forward to this edgelord too cool for school deflection to explain $20 eggs, no vaccines for bird flu, and triple the prices on everything the hell else. Now if only Murdoch can drop dead since apparently his more liberal children managed to secure majority control of NewsCorp as soon as he dies. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/probate-commissioner-rejects-rupert-murdochs-attempt-to-change-family-trust-over-fox-news-media-empire-control

Bernie asked RFK Jr. if healthcare was a human right and he said he couldn’t answer. No one in Big Pharma believes it’s a right because rights get in the way of profits.

I don’t want kids to die. I think that’s a bare minimum for anyone in charge of health. He meanwhile, UNDER OATH, promoted vaccine skepticism while admitting his vaccines his own kids. Fuck this rules for thee and not for me horseshit.

No it’s because he killed kids in Guam with his nonsense and that nonsense could lead to mass casualties given we’re dealing with bird flu and tuberculosis breakouts, breakouts we need vaccines to keep under control. Keep up.

Trump Tarrifs are a go on Saturday and you’re about to pay triple for groceries. Because tarrifs are the only thing that make Trump hard anymore outside of wanton cruelty.

So we’re totally getting an instrumental that sounds like a Bebop track for the opening, right? Edit - I mean, that tends to be DeMarco's preference in shows he's had a more direct hand in. I mean, I think I get why, he wants something that doesn't sound distracting due to a Japanese guy singing, or whatever the hell Adi Shankar was thinking -

Specifically September 5, 2000.