He’s banking on, and probably mildly correct, that there’s voters who want to go back to that era and like MTG, want to distance themselves from Trump and his methods but not the power/results. He’ll never get anywhere though. They’ve sold their souls 3x to support Trump and will again rather than risk splitting conservatism and creating openings for opposition to win.

Trump brand conservatism appeals to everyone from Boomers yearning for a return to the privilege of mid-century America to Gen Zs who think mid-century America was the Golden Age it’s said to be and that they’ve been denied. Nobody wants a polite, stick-up-his-ass, Victorian sensibility patriarch that has the personality of wet cardboard.

It’s how you get Hell’s Bell-Bottoms.

Arachtifa.

“Oh no, the launch pad for the fireworks finale was set up horizontally instead of vertically!”

Happy Birthday America! 🇺🇸🦅🧨🫡

Just need Harry Caray to lead you in “Take Me Out to the Balls Game” during the seventh-cucking stretch.

Damn, just giving it all to the plants and fuck all for the fungi and insects doing their part in the cycle that provides the nutrients plants need? What vile botanicalcentrism and outlandish kingdom level elitism. You owe fungi and insects a sincere apology.

Gotta man scissor though, so you’re both the fucker and the fuckee at the same time, otherwise one of you is the girl.

Born 1981. Suburban parents but my grandparents still had a small farmstead so I got the best of both worlds. Like a lot of kids of that era, plenty of free reign to wander neighborhoods, explore the woods and creeks, and when I went to my grandparent’s place I learned how to ride horses, pull lambs, garden, how to care for chickens, and that a gun isn’t a toy or fashion accessory but to be handled responsibly. Got a Nintendo the first Xmas they dropped and was the envy of all my classmates a few years later when I got a Powerglove, which was cool for about 5min until we realized it looked way cooler than it was. If you were lucky you or a friend had an older sibling who’d find a way to grant you access to R-rated movies, which were pretty much guaranteed to contain at least a few boob shots but mostly practical effects violence so over-the-top it was cartoonish. Everybody knew about the scenes in Robocop and Batmania when ‘89 dropped was a big deal.

In elementary school we had an annual Idaho history jamboree where reps from the tribes and mountain men reenactors would come to school and we’d spend a day outside grinding corn, being shown how to flint knapp, skinning a deer, tanning hides with deer brains, throwing hatchets, and the mountain men would do black powder demonstrations. In high school the rednecks would hang their rifles in the back window of their truck at school. I’m the same age/grade as the Columbine murderers, watched that real time in class as the normal school day ended that day. That day was the end of normal as we had accepted it and the change came overnight.

There’s all the fun stuff. The bad stuff. We were drilling for nuclear annihilation like kids now drill for mass shootings. The atomic holocaust never came but it’s still rather terrifying to subject kids to that, particularly when as an adult you know that desk isn’t going to do much to save your ass from the bomb. The AIDS crisis was also terrifying because it was so deliberately mishandled because politics and bigotry ignored it to achieve their own goals; then suddenly it wasn’t just gays and druggies who could get HIV, anyone could, but people didn’t understand how and why due to misinformation. Despite nostalgic takes on the 80s/90s, racism, bigotry, misogyny, “16 is old enough”, homophobia, and poverty were normalized to varying levels and each had folks working hard to address those in various ways. Nothing got “solved” or “fixed”, but I do think the progress of that era and the contributions of the activists and artists had an impact on the youth of that era. It’s why so many people my age have cut their hateful boomer parents off. They were so busy indulging themselves and ignoring their kids they failed to notice we weren’t adopting their mindset but that Captain Planet, Tupac, Rage, Philadelphia, X-Men, and a lot of other quietly (or not so quietly) coded media was pushing us to reject their worldview.

We still had a lot of access to Holocaust survivors, WW2 vets, Civil Rights/Vietnam vets, and as queerness broke out of the closet, the old guard who had been forced to hide for most of their lives. We got to talk to the people who’d lived through “when shit was really, really bad”. I think that too was a root of the boomer/X-Mil split. Talking to people who lived the shit of history makes one realize that the American Dream narrative is fiction.

It was a pretty good run and the hype that the last few decades of the 1900s were a great era to be a kid in the US aren’t without merit, but they’re fast becoming the new 50s/60s nostalgia fantasy of “it was the best”, so if we don’t want to become boomers we can’t forget that not all of us got that experience, not all of us were that safe & secure, and we definitely hadn’t “solved” American hate and bigotry.

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Fuck it. Sec of State MyPillow Guy, Treasury Secretary the Corpse of Charlie Kirk. And once they’re good and embedded; somehow, Epstein returned…

Data centers are next gen Planned Parenthoods, the ones where post-birth abortions are performed.

The few benefits of living in Idaho are that we’ve still got millions of acres of roadless, primitive wilderness and carrying guns is so normalized people grocery shop strapped like they’re expecting Billy the Kid to come for them. They are trying to parcel out our wildlands to the oligarchs and I expect MAGA will increasingly be coming for the guns of their enemies.

I think not only that, they want to make sure they have all the kinks worked out in their system before the next presidential election. He’s going to run, there’ll be legal challenges but he’ll do it anyway, he’ll win and use that to justify that it’s the “will of the people”, SCOTUS will rubber stamp that excuse, Congress will cheer like they did when Palpatine declared himself Emperor.

Maybe after they rig this one more people will start recognizing this is beyond a problem that can be solved with elections.

LLMs might be garbage but the children yearn for the mines. And are we really better as a civilization for the loss of indoor smoking while indulging the all-you-can-eat option at Sizzler?

“Strategery.”

I appreciate the feedback on my attempt to translate this into late 20th century vernacular. The ego of Clavicular is timeless toxic masculinity, but I’m trying to find time sensitive descriptors that are but aren’t cliche.

Can confirm. Blasting fishing boats labeled “traffickers” has done nothing to disrupt the supply chain or affect prices. Well, at least the price of blow, idk about fish prices. I’m a vegan.

There’s something deeply disturbing about cucking yourself to a known impotent. Like, bruh, watching some beer belly broke dick rub his misshapen penis on your wife is next level sexual masochism. No shame for having kinks, but there’s a level of judgement and disgust there. Guarantee every time we see him his dick is double locked in a chastity cage.

I think I might have translated it for the older folks.

“Dude was totally shreddin’ the game at the club when a bunch of weebs rolled up and harsh’d the vibe.

So is it more gnarly to blow off the weebs while actin’ fly for the babes, or should he keep dropping poseur moves on the dance floor?”