Kinda mid, TBH. In my day we frenzied over imagined threats like razor-blade laced candy, opioids and vodka-soaked tampons.

Yeah, ain’t nobody got T1Mэ for that.

I had never heard of that tactic. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be looking for IRL examples now.

Nixon should have started a hobby in hydraulic engineering specializing in the design and production of water gates, specifically for the Potomac River, including one near that hotel/office/apartment complex that’s name I forget.

Does this count as Beetlejuicing?

Wow, thanks for doing the research! Did you find anything especially interesting?

Always has been 🔫

And just to rub salt into the wound, someone created a clothing store named after the political corruption imposed on those countries to accomplish this: Banana Republic.

I can’t think of what an equivalent would be in terms of offensive marketing, Starving Irish brand potatoes? A Saudi demolition company named after September 11th? A clothing store inspired by antebellum southern US clothes? I guess some companies still use imagery of indigenous people for tobacco products. That seems like it’s in the same vein.

Generally, I try to focus on how beautiful life can be, but damn if there isn’t a crowd trying to make it ugly for others.

A human being could have said that without drooling.

Furthermore, let’s prevent the ascension of an antichrist by [checks notes] using a perverse interpretation of theology to oppose charity and concentrate power? Sure, that makes sense. Hey, while we’re at it, let’s mitigate climate change by displacing wind, solar, hydro and nuclear with fossil fuels.

Edit: Grammar

Paunch-o Danza

To be fair, it was turning the frogs gay. I feel like we need to evaluate the cost-to-benefit tradeoff between completely destroying the human race as we know it and having amphibians and other species that don’t conform to traditional gender roles. It’s a tough choice.

I keep wondering when they’ll propose using coal to heat methane clathrates in the arctic for methane extraction. It really does seem like they’re actively trying to warm the earth at this point.

It’s definitely not recommended by the few cosmology sources I’ve read.

I found this helpful:

https://www.thelist.com/1817157/what-is-mar-a-lago-face-who-has-tried-the-trend/

Then you get JD Vance, who’s even more in the pocket of right-wing think tanks and billionaires. If there’s a Vance presidency, It’ll pretty much be run by people like Thiel, Yarvin and Ellison.

Until congress fixes the damage done by Citizens United, everything else is just going to be a bandage. Maybe if the FPTP voting system and the electoral college go away, but that’s even harder to do. I don’t think America needs a good or strong president. It needs congress to do its job by reigning in the two other branches that have gone off the rails, but it’s also controlled by openly corrupt right-wing representatives.