@paganroadkill
Rock 'N' Roller. Poli-Geek. News-Nerd. Lifelong Lions fan. Played football, boxed, wrestled, and put the shot. An avid bicyclist who likes to hit his gym. Frustrated writer and actor. Once an on-air talent programming metal and alternative. Love The Blues.
2/ demeans women who won't show deference, his constant lewd references to the women serving his administration or in his employ, and repeatedly he displays either a calloused indifference or a deer-in-the-headlights dodge on the Epstein investigations... In your gut, you know he's a pedophile...
1/ TFG is a misogynistic pig. Bragged on crashing the dressing rooms of pageant contestants, ogled underage girls, sexualized his own daughter, consistently boasted of his hedonism, alleged to have raped or sexually harassed upwards of thirty women, his "grab 'em by the p----" utterance, regularly
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Just 'cos...
This week's listens:
Black Pistol Fire/Flagrant Act Of Bliss/2026
Left Lane Cruiser/Bayport BBQ Blues/2024
The Heavy/Sons/2019
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Italy beat the United States in the World Baseball Classic. Truly, these are The End Times...
Unjustified and lacking cause, our conflict with Iran is an unconstitutional preemptive war of choice TFG hadn't tried to make even the feeblest case for and then, in the immediacy of its initial violent toll, embarked on a trainwreck of incoherent rationalizations for it. Fuckups fuckin' things up.
I don't doomscroll, but the shit hit the fan a while back and whatever tenuous hold on American democracy remains, the effort to reinvigorate, renew, and reestablish it is going be like a moon shot. It can't just be a redoubling of effort. Any reconstitution must be impenetrable to all bad actors.
TFG and his family have pulled in an estimated 4 billion dollars in the time he's occupied our White House. He and his are corrupt sonsabitches tapping the U.S. taxpayer as if the American government and its many channels are a personal fiefdom for the pillaging.
Deploy these bitches to Iran.
Losing Frank and now Taylor feels like an injustice. Hardly anyone can tell you which OL is which. Nature of the position... It's just you doing your job, effectively and with scant acknowledgement, but as soon as your name drops, it probably means you missed a block, a pull, or incurred a penalty.
2/ "just business" and cap space moves. I get that. Still, as free agency looms before us, I’m hoping we can resign several of our guys, but Anzalone and others are likely gone. However, I do like the idea of Cam Jordan, Braxton Jones, Luke Fortner, and Isiah Pacheco finding their way to our roster.
1/ I have prospects lined up on my personal draft board for Detroit. A couple are inked in 'cause I really want my Lions to draft them, but right now most are just penciled in because... Fluidity... Losing Decker and Montgomery sucks. And I'm not liking the suspected departures, either... Mostly its
Just 'cos...
2/ And as he’d logged 753 combat flight hours, leading two Apache helicopter platoons during Operation Iraqi Freedom, you’d think Rep. James, having lived it, would not allow any one single individual to initiate a preemptive war of choice or lead us into a war without clear objectives and an exit.
1/ My congressperson, Lisa McClain (MI-09), voted against the War Powers Resolution. So did John James (MI-10) who is the presumptive Republican nominee for Michigan governor in 2026. They'd both abrogated their responsibilities to their constituencies and our nation. That's some shameless shit.
2/ Every bad situation further escalated by poor training and crappy impulses, every indecent family separation, every questionably detained immigrant, every roughed-up U.S. citizen or journalist, every deportation without due process, each assault and death - it's predicated on Washington politics.
1/ The rottenness of the mass deportations isn't just the optics of thug-like tactics and ICE and CBP's skirt-the-law approaches or their underhandedness invading our courts, schools, churches, etc. It's this can that's been kicked down the road since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
I cannot understand how people will pull themselves into the darkest of holes and will every time act on their worst impulses, but they do and they do so with immeasurable entitlement as they spew their resentments and hatreds. They believe their grievances are a superpower... Charred souls, man.
This current iteration of my Lions has given me some crazy good football. Exhilarating stuff that'll stick with me a lifetime.
And following a disappointing season, my Lions said this upcoming one would be about getting comfortable with the uncomfortable.
But really, what the eff are we doing?!
Appalling. Reprehensible. But not unexpected coming from these quarters. Knowledge, insight, empathy, and any understanding of the world we live in are lost on these fuckwits as ignorance and hatred are their most common traits. They are morally desiccated...
What a piece of human garbage. Really, a shit stain in the history of the American presidency (and we've had a few doozies undeserving of the office). TFG is an uninformed, unaware ratfucker. A tragedy he's the Commander-In-Chief. Zero empathy with absolutely no understanding of sacrifice and duty.
TFG, Vance, Miller, Hegseth, Noem, Patel, Bondi, Rubio, Gabbard, Waltz, Homan, Witkoff, Kushner, Ratcliffe...
The inverse of talent recognizing talent.
More a case of power mad demagogue recognizing bootlickers and toadies.
Remember, this war was preemptive and unconstitutional.
#RESIST #Defy
Every time I see Hegseth it's like watching some dickish full-of-himself ten-year-old competing in a military board game. He may have served, but he's still a cosplaying fuckwit showing off for an audience of one (and simply, there aren't enough curse words for that vainglorious fucker).
In terms of objectives and clarity, nada... Just a lot of spitballing.
Its TFG's war. Its Netanyahu's war.
But it's a war where a twentysomething Army specialist from Topeka or a middle-aged reservist from Joliet shed their blood for the murkiest of reasons.
Not Barron, Eric, or Donald Jr.
A corrupt, morally depraved C-in-C, an unfit Sec Def, and an inept SoS with no valid, clear rationale for preemptive major military operations against Iran and no metric for a "general close" or cessation of hostilities... And End Times Christian nationalists are showing up in the COC... Galling af.
We're sacrificing our soldiers and U.S. citizens trapped in neighboring Gulf nations, innocent Iranian civilians, NATO allies in proximity to the war theater, partners in the Gulf region, and, if some projections prove correct, upwards of 210 billion USD because, more or less, Bibi said "jump"?
3/ to go along, BUT there are those who will profit, not just in terms of fattening their personal fortunes or expanding corporate revenues, but geopolitically, and then those who are extremely invested in the political futures of TFG and Netanyahu and need a "wag the dog" narrative to hard sell.
2/ or collaborate in this preemptive attack on Iran for good cause i.e. justified reasons of national security or international stability - TFG did so because he and Netanyahu need the chancy distraction of war. Sure, they've a hard on for Iran, Benny especially, and TFG is brazenly ignorant enough
1/ Unless sufficiently provoked or threatened, hardly anyone in the U.S. wanted a war with Iran. Unquestionably it is a brutal regime that has inflicted at times, if not directly, indirectly in its use of proxies, terrible damage on Western democracies and neighboring nations. But TFG didn't start
Yes. Yes. Yes. The David Montgomery trade feels like self-inflicted sabotage. And I can't be the only Lions fan feeling that way. Even the haul we get in this trade with the Texans feels "less than"... Hey. I'm still loyal. A lifelong Lions fan. But... fuck... me...
#OnePride #Lions #DetroitLions
Three of our U.S. soldiers have been killed as several others sustained injuries.
Cadet Bone Spurs: "That's just the way it is."
More pointedly: "We expect casualties with something like this. We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end, it's going to be a great deal for the world."