Grumpy Rootbeer

Twitch before it's time.

Can't speak for the last decade or so, but you'd definitely want to look at some part of the Mrs. Garrison ark, which I have to imagine was the first exposure a huge number of millennials had to the concept of being trans.

Something he only just now noticed! How convenient!

As I've observed elsewhere, this is directly downstream of all of these guys being completely uncultured dolts who only engage with media and culture as bulk commodities. They have no idea why anyone engages with a song or a show or an article beyond it simply being there.

I long ago accepted that I just enjoy learning stuff and understanding why the world is the way it is. I don't expect it to prevent me from being crushed by the wheel of history, but I'll at least know enough to get a wry joke off beforehand

Genuinely thought those first two images were Bill Maher.

But but but, my brave truth telling heterodoxy!

You know, I would take the braying of natalists that we have to keep the birth rate up to avoid economic collapse more seriously if they hadn't gone all in on President Destroy the Economy.

You can't out tax cut Republicans. They will happily put taxes to zero, cut everything they don't like, debt finance whatever they do, and stick a Dem with the resultant mess when it shits the bed.

We're gonna roll it

Fuck.

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.

This is not a joke.

We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

It's one of the many apropos grotesques of our era that Trump et al explicitly sought to import these people who in every way but their skin color match the right wing bigot's fantasy of an immigrant (spongers who expected to be provided with housing, jobs, and welfare) as a political stunt.

I think a lot these days about the massive wipeout of British aristocratic wealth in the interwar period because a huge cohort inherited after WWI and blew it all on chemin-de-fer in underground casinos.

I held on to car wash tokens from a place near where I lived in Maryland through about five subsequent moves that only took me further and further away. Always had the "well, but if I ever go on a trip to DC..." thought until the last move when I just chucked 'em.

But it is also, unfortunately, not a possibility that can be dismissed out of hand, god help us

Crusader sacking Constantinople going "smh, I should be back in the French countryside, why'd these Greek idiots bring me here"

Always been mystified by the legions of people who simply must have children but resent bitterly having to do any of that tedious parenting shit. 19th century European aristocrat shit.

Even Putin bothered coming up with a consistent building story for why Ukraine needed to be invaded.

I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber

I get the thrilling transgressive frisson of saying the r-word at parties, so it's all worth it.

Their sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Only two movies in the last week due to watching Strip Law and embarking on a Resident Evil playthrough this week. But those two were real bangers.

If only there was a way to know that the man who purposefully ignored potential links to the broader white supremacist movement when he prosecuted the Oklahoma City bombing catr would do such a thing!

And the food sucks.

Maid-Rite for the finest Iowa cuisine (some browned ground beef on a hamburger bun)

Des Moines folks, recommend the best/worst local chains to the Doughboys.

You could go to Jethro's if you want barbeque brought to you by one of the metro's biggest creeps. Fong's for pizza with an American Chinese food twist. I do not know if their owner is a creep.

You can just block and ignore them. It's quite easy.

I learned those dumbshit slogans first hand from one of my childhood friend's Vietnam vet uncle. I thought he was really cool when I was 10, but by the time I was in high school I was able to see the wreck of his life clearly and understand that maybe he didn't know what he was talking about.