Frightened? A bit. Infuriate? Incandescent rage burning with the fire of a thousand suns comes to mind. Here is the ideology Hegseth is promoting as goog for the military and good for the country:
Loving sexual relations that aren't explicitly for procreation are worse than owning people to be farm equipment. Necessary reproductive health care is equivalent to owning people as far equipment. Then a bit of inconsistency in viewpoint because owning people as farm equipment was OK because people who owned people as farm equipment sometimes treated some of them with affection, the way you would treat a pet.
Hegseth can deny that his tattoos don't signify Jesus flavored white supremacy all he wants, but celebrating abhorrent shit like this shows just how much of a Jesus flavored white supremacist he is. It is a good thing that the generals aren't likely to allow that nonsense as policy.
He fired most of the generals who would oppose him and has been threatening many of them with court martial and imprisonment to prevent a counter-coup. The Air Force Academy was already pretty Christian Nationalist, but Hegseth has been trying to take over the other service academies as well. He renamed the Harvey Milk battleship, is reinstating Civil War statues and undoing name changes at army bases.
And the beat goes on. How can our entire military just FOLD? The greatest military ever assembled has caved to the whims of a flatulent, draft dodging conman who will destroy the very democracy they have sworn to protect.
Kegsbreath was scraped up off of the human refuse pile that is FAUX News. His behavior now is exactly what his demented cult leader demands. He got the job because he is a mindless, sociopathic automaton that does whatever Shitler and the Heritage Foundation tell him to do. Honestly, I think there is worse to come from this fucking Nazi in charge of our armed forces.
Well considering he thinks women are just holes that other people come out of, he cannot consider any loving relationship sexual, or otherwise. May he get the ending he deserves… soon.
There seems to be something in the water there, like too much lead? They have elected some truly awful people, who voted in some heinous things. I feel sorry for the sane people stuck there.
A long time ago I was hoping to be offered a job in eastern Tennessee. I wasn’t. The recruiter told me the reason was the employer thought I wouldn’t fit in to the culture. The employer was right.
Since 2016, I’ve been saying that to stop this fascist movement, we need to cut off the head of the snake. The head of the snake would be Donald Trump. I believe now that purging Trump will not work, it’s too late. The snake has already wrapped its coils around our government and is choking it to death and we will never ever return to a free and fair society unless the hundred million people who didn’t vote in the last election get off their lazy ass asses and vote.
Remember, that out of that hundred million people, about 75-80 million of them are Democrats.
Trump is really just the puppet--they allowed him to run again to use his cult to their advantage. The Heritage Foundation didn't get rid of their never-Trump leader until 2021--they are now completely pro-Viktor Orban. Peter Thiel has his puppet installed as vice president. As for the Democratic Party, far too many Republicans who didn't want to be associated with the MAGA base left the party and registered as Democrats--without changing their own underlying assumptions. When Elissa Slotkin says Michiganders just want to get back to when politics was arguing about taxes, she is glossing over the fact that opposition to taxes is what united the Far Right coalition in the first place: Libertarian business moguls and pro-segregation Christians.
When voters on the right said they wanted small government, did they know that consisted of 1 King and a corrupt sadistic Supreme Court? I think for many of them the answer is yes. They’ve been searching for the perfect empty vessel to make transactions with and found that in Dear Leader. Anyone outside of the authoritarians that still voted Dear Leader is either an idiot, brainwashed, or paralyzed with fear. If they want out now we should welcome them, but tell them they must put in the work to make this right. There’s no lazy oops at this point that’s acceptable.
Dear Leader is just a symptom of a collapsing empire. The final act.
If they don't vote, that leaves a military coup as an option.
As things stand right now, civil war is not beyond the realms of possibility. These are the sort of things that we think now only happen in those 'shithole countries' Trump talked about.
And if Putin sticks his nose into it, that war could spread. Even Musk could get involved to bankroll it.
The only way Canada would become a U.S. territory is if Trump orders the United States military to invade and conquer Canada. Canadians also own guns and know how to use them, so Canadians would fight back. That conflict would make a mess of the World economy (especially the American economy) and would be political hand grenade for the American government.
The only part of Canada that would be interested in joining the United States might be the prairie provinces, and even then it would be a small minority of people in those provinces.
How can there NOT be a revolution. The fascists are stealing everything that isn’t nailed down and some that is. Nobody is coming to save us. Who will lead the majority of Americans against this fascist coup? Anybody? Bueller?
Quote from newsweek; 'President Donald Trump, in response to California Governor Gavin Newsom: "I don't want a civil war. Civil war would happen if you left it to people like him."'
They seem to have got the titles and names in the wrong places.
I agree in many ways. I do wonder though if he does die or is jailed will it fragment or begin to fall apart as cults do typically? One can hope. It would be a start.
Jerry , both parties are in the clutches of forces external to the democratic process , The Corporate Oligarchy with unlimited ways to buy an election and a former Supreme Court.
If only one of our political parties was actually working for We the People, the world would be a much different place. The Republicons are fascist criminals in a cult. The Dems have failed to counter that fascism and now we are all at risk.
In response to their own ineffectiveness, old grizzled white men (Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, etc.) have ceded power to the young, vibrant new voices of the Democratic Party - AOC, Jasmine Crockett and…wait, I’m fucking dreaming again.
Pete Hegseth is on record saying he wants the American military to become the flaming sword of Christ. Such a remark would have totally disqualified him with any other Senate in history. Every Senate Republican knew full-well how unfit Hegseth is to lead the DOD, but voted to confirm him anyway. Party before country at all times for Republicans. Hegseth's military career peaked out at Major. For those unfamiliar with the military, that's six grades below a four star. He peaked out there for a reason.
Well if Christianity is true I can assure him that he is making it into the flaming sword of the Antichrist. And if not then it is making it into the Republican MAGA army.
And I hate to Godwin this thread, but that second option is a bit too close to the 'Gott mit uns' army of the Third Reich. The first option would suggest Armageddon.
Watch the documentary 'Til Kingdom Come. It's on YouTube. Mike Huckabee has been leading White Christian Zionist tours to the site of the future Armageddon for YEARS. That's why he was chosen as ambassador. And why there are so many real estate investors in Trump's administration. Even Karoline Leavitt's husband is a real estate developer who specializes in gentrification. Don't forget that Gaza riviera video the White House put out. It wasn't a joke.
The whole thing about the Christian Nationalists is their unshakable belief that they are entitled to impose their worldview on every other person in the Country. They and they alone are in possession of right opinion. Go back and read what Plato had to say about these people 2400 years ago. This is not a new problem. The modern version is that they have been set free by tRump and Faux Snooze to be the very worst versions of themselves. It is why I see little hope of knitting our Nation back together.
D.U.I hire Pete Hegseth and his buddies like Doug Wilson are terrified of their inadequacies to compete in a system created for them/by them. Women and minorities are the biggest threat and continue to rise above them and develop survival skills despite the hardships and inequality they face. It’s so pathetic it’s laughable.
Wow. I so often struggle to believe that such people exist. Intellectually I see what is happening, but emotionally they just have so little humanity in them. (Or maybe I have to admit how their twisted logic and actions really are quite human).
Is it just me, or do narcissistic people end up in three places: politics, religion, and executives at large companies.
It’s not just you, Mark. The greediest, least humane people on earth flock to make 💰 anyway possible to give their pathetic, sociopathic lives some juice. And society praises the fucking oligarchs like Elmo and Thiel because they overcame any speck of humanity they once had to become rich…at all costs to the planet and the people that live on it.
Dark Enlightenment TechBros and Opus Dei together to steal democracy from us. Using Orange Crush to be their flunky. Alligator Auschwitz was built for average citizens, not just immigrants. They're being used as scapegoats to distract the US from a fast moving dictatorship.
As I understand it, part of the reason the worst narcissists end up in those three spots is because they honestly think they deserve more authority and power: even when it's demonstrated otherwise, they think they can do it better. Depending on the relative ethics of a given individual, they might be willing to do quite a bit to get there, too, and when knocked down out of that power they tend to think it's someone else's fault so they get right back up and start clawing their way back to the top.
It'd be a lot more fascinating if it weren't currently damaging the country so much right now.
My only surprise here is that other people are surprised by this revelation. The tattoos were a huge signal, but he’s been telegraphing this shit from the beginning. Add in the fact that the Heritage Foundation is running the show and who do you think approved his nomination? Heritage Foundation. I mean all this was advertised since the beginning of the campaign.
“They also didn’t mention that Wilson has said sodomy is “worse than slavery,” that abortion is “as great an evil as slavery,” and that slavery was a net positive because it “produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.””
So, if abortion is just as bad as slavery, but slavery was a good thing, then abortion is a good thing. And if sodomy is worse than slavery and slavery is good, then sodomy is not all that bad. Slavery is beyond deplorable, there’s just no words that do justice to how horrible it is. Abortion allows women to protect themselves from abuse and life threatening medical issues, so weak men cannot allow it, but it is a good thing because women are people and deserve the right to healthcare. Sodomy, or what he really means is gay sex because sodomy includes a lot of hetero sex acts too, allows people to be sexual outside the control of the church, an abusive institution using sex and sexuality to control the masses. These condemnations by these preachers is an indication that they’re losing their influence over the world. Abhorrent as they are, we should celebrate their desperation. Unfortunately, this current regime is run by these fucks, so they will get away with turning the tide for a while,which is deadly to far too many. That will make them lose even more in the long run, but it is still a tragedy for those who will suffer.
People like Hogshead think the rest of the world needs him to define their values for them because they are incapable of doing so themselves. It's part of what makes kkkristers so damned fucking insufferable.
A lot of white male Americans, in the South especially, are obviously still furious about all the civil rights the coloured folk have been given. And the rights women were given before that. And the slaves before that.
And their wives vote how they are told to vote.
Putin lit the fuse on this pile of TNT. Who can defuse it now?
The answer to that is the 100m Americans who did not vote last year. But do they they know how desperate this could be by 2028? Or indeed the 2026 mid terms.
This feels ridiculous suggesting a First World country could have a civil war. But that was before two things happened. Firstly, Yugoslavia and the fact it no longer exists. Second, Putin putting his puppet in Washington.
Just don’t know that there will be an election where we can try to make things right. Take seriously that Shitler has no intention of leaving our White (& Gold) House in anything other than an oversized casket. He is King.
I want that orange mutant to die a slow and horridly painful death. Like in Stephan King's Dreamcatcher. Either he would be in a sealed off environment, or the Ripley would attack only hard-core, unrepentant MAGAts.
I don’t want Trump to die and become a symbol for the Christian nationalist. Now put him in prison and take everything that man owns (selling his possessions) to pay the various fines. Not letting him have any social media access that is different from the other prisoners have. And I would put him in a cell with a large Mexican, so Trump will become the Mexican’s bitch. That would be a worse punishment for Trump than death would be.
And THEN after he’s been the bitch for so long he can’t remember anything else, can he die horribly of the Ripley? Please? After what he has inflicted on other people, that’s almost too good for him. I would pay my life savings to watch that unfold, in all its horrible permutations, and I used to be such a nice person, if you can believe that.
I don’t think he would be a martyr if he just up and died. After all, the asshole is a hot mess physically.
Now if someone assassinated him, I agree that would amount to instant canonization, which is why I have to concede that it’s a good thing the would-be assassin just nicked an ear. Even so, that just gave him a big boost among his supporters, who didn’t seem to even notice that the shooter was a far-right nut job just like them.
Even then, there’s no guarantee we could come out of this as anything other than a hollow shell with a ruined economy and even more MAGAts scrambling to be top dog….
No matter how Trump dies, the MAGAS will believe that Trump was killed by a secret cabal of liberals/deep state/transgender atheist/etc. The Elite members of the Christian nationalist will push that lie, and the average redneck will believe it without question. The rednecks would resort to violence against anyone the elite members of the Christian nationalist movement said was behind the “attack” regardless of the lack of evidence supporting such an attack!
A few years back I was reading something about the political and religious fracturing here. Can't remember the author, but the piece spoke about "the Balkanization of the United States." It jolted me how accurate that description felt.
It's WHITE Christian Nationalism. And White Supremacy is all about patriarchal hierarchy. Hegseth's is covered in Crusader tattoos because he is a Christian Zionist--he believes (as much as people so incapable of thought can "believe" in anything) that Christians will take over the Holy Land--Jews (and Muslims) will convert of die. Please watch the documentary 'Til Kingdom Comes. When the Right talks about "civilization" or "Western Civilization" or the "Classics," those are code words for White Supremacy. Christian Zionist homeschooling curricula like "Classic Conversations," "Memoria Press--Saving Western Civilization One Student at a Time," anything sold by the Timberdoodle catalog--and Richard Corcoran's wife's "Classical Prep" charter school that Ron DeSantis loves using for photo ops--all signal White Christian Nationalism and White Supremacy. FaithfulAmerica.org's Resources page has good books on White Christian Nationalism. The Guardian has tons of articles on the rise of White Supremacist mens' groups in the US and Europe, and on the acolytes of Peter Thiel who are pathetically trying to build a "high IQ" technocracy via "pro-natalism" by, ironically, rapid pregnancies and corporal punishment that damages childrens' brain development.... [Look up "Simone Collins Isle of Man" on The Guardian.] Peter Thiel is a White supremacist who hates women--and now the US government and healthcare system is run by Palantir. This is all very real, and I wish Americans would take it more seriously. I wish Americans had taken it seriously in 2015, but here we are a decade later.... Should have listened to Trevor Noah!
Nostradamus seems well rounded in his activities. Like other accomplished people of old, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Leo DaVinci, Alex Bell, etc. Their active minds were always on the forefront of modern invention.
The thought of such amoral assholes not only dictating the rest of my life but also thinking they have the gawd-given right to do so -- that they in fact are the ONLY ones who should do so -- I can't even....
My country has turned into Nazi Germany in real time. I want out, but one of us is having trouble getting a passport. I don't know whether to scream bloody murder or sob hysterically. Or do both at once.
I never had any children, and now I am so glad I didn't.
Lol. The Moral High Ground had this Wilson story yesterday. My comment: Apparently not every Christian faction got the memo that Wilson’s group of kooks are top dog. Who’s going to break the news to all 45,000 denominations?
Apparently Hegseth loves Trump so much he’s dedicated his life to emulating him. His youngest child was conceived while he and the mother were both married to other people. He cheats on current wife with next wife only to cheat on her with the next one.
He probably believe in the Jewish way of divorcing. The one where only the man is free to remarry, unless he gives a document allowing an ex-wife to do the same.
She married for money, or she thought Trump had lots of money. Trump would have lots of money (if Trump is so rich why is he asking for donations from various sponsors) if Trump didn’t waste it on stuff to prop up his fragile ego. I doubt she married for love (it is possible she did marry for love, but I think it is unlikely)
Bigotry. Chauvinism. White male supremacy. All said out loud and by someone who SHOULD be among the most responsible people in our government, and yet has proven to be one of the biggest SCREW-UPS the Defense Department ever knew.
I knew Pete Hegseth was bad. I didn't know that he was a Dominionist. Now I DO know, and for that reason, I want him and the rest of Trump's sycophants OUT ALL THE MORE.
OT: I helped my 25 year old son and his girlfriend move from one apartment to another today. My god, the amount of stuff they own astonished me. When I was approximately that age I moved halfway across the country in a Toyota Corolla. We rented a cargo van from UHaul. Filled it twice. And filled my Toyota Highlander 3 times. I told my son that they really need to go thru their stuff and make some reductions. Also, next time, smaller boxes that don’t weigh so much!
When we moved a couple of years ago, we had to do it ourselves and it wasn't much fun. Apparently if you want to move in December you have to book a moving company sometime in October – and we didn't even have a closing date by then. We moved the day before Christmas, hired truck and some university students – were pretty damn good actually. A few things got damaged, and I lost all my disk world books not quite sure how, and at the end of the day we were all exhausted. But it was over, and all that remained was a bit of tidying up. We had to get rid of a lot of stuff before we moved simply because it wouldn't fit in the new place which was much smaller. Even so, it took all damn day. 😁
I hope you don’t mind if I suggest a few books for you: Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation by Ronald Hutton. Plus The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times To Present also by Ronald Hutton.
Pratchett books will probably be banned in the USA. Not because they understood the satire that is, but because they have magic in.
A bit like Harry Potter, that has a lot of 'woke' stuff in it. Half of the huge book 5 is about government interfering in Education. None about trans people unsurprisingly, and only the slightest hint of a gay relationship, but that was 100 years before Harry Potter was born.
And yet all these ban Harry Potter people fail to see (or more likely do not know) that Harry Potter died to save his friends and everybody else from Voldemort and then came back to life again. I think I have heard that before somewhere.
I had the complete set of pratchett books, hard back edition. My husband made me get rid of them because they took up too much room on *his* bookshelves. At the time, I figured real life relationships were more important than beloved books,
Try to move when you don't have a car and no money to rent anything. It took DM and me 2 or 3 days and too many go and forth by bus to move our stuff from our long stay hotel to our apartment.
I can imagine the nightmare. I once had to move without a car. In the middle of August, in Florida. An unexpected surprise because the girl I had moved in with got pissed at me for something and gave me two days notice. I asked her for a refund on the second half of that month's rent and she told me to go fuck myself, or she'd called the police and file a complaint against me and her boyfriend would back her up for anything she said. Yep, I was in college at the time, and didn't know the value of getting things in writing, so I was screwed.
I worked for a printers once. I very quickly learned that depending on the paper a medium-sized box full of the stuff could weigh 50lbs– Easily. Often more.
When all the kids had moved out and the closest road got more used (too noisy) we moved to another and smaller house. We had quite a book collection too, and so had my mum. She had to move at the same time as we did.
We kept the books we probably would read again, so DW is still with us. And a lot of cartoons. We ditched books and cartoons we probably won't miss.
We moved from a two-family house to a condo. I threw out any books in poor shape, kept the ones I really, really wanted, and donated 4 boxes of books in good shape to the local library. I was going to donate it to the library where I used to live but the NYC library system does not take donations since covid. Which was an real WTAF moment for me.
In the USA, meritocracy means that to qualify for positions you must kiss the right asses, hold the right views, and fuck over the right people. Or maybe the Right’s. Actual qualifications for the job are moot. Anyone with actual qualifications and experience and abilities are just DEI hires and undeserving. Undeserving of what, you ask. Life they say.
Someone in my area is starting a scream group or club. They are setting up a time and place where folks get together and do primal screams to deal with stress. I’m thinking of joining, I was personally invited. I doubt it would help, but it’s more community and I know they are supportive of pretty much everything I stand for.
Go for it, and let us know if it helps. What we do and say here is basically a form of primal screaming, is it not? But sometimes it isn't quite enough. Fortunately, we live out on a rural highway, and when my spouse isn't home, I can just scream bloody murder in the middle of my living room.
Unrelieved stress can really screw up one's health and mental acuity. I wish there was a scream club here, I'd join in a heartbeat. Does this group give out any info on how to get one started?
Well, she’s taking clues from the one in Chicago. But I think she’s just winging it, reaching out to folks she knows and suggesting the idea. She invited us to a park on the outskirts of town at a specific time and date to scream, and said we could go from there. So, just put it out there and see what happens.
A bit OT, but I recall an episode of Gomer Pyle USMC where Sgt. Carter just couldn't take another second of Pyle, leaped into a jeep, raced to the top of an isolated hill, and screamed into the empty countryside like a maniac.
𝐻𝑒𝑔𝑠𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑛’𝑠 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦; ℎ𝑒’𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.
Frightened? A bit. Infuriate? Incandescent rage burning with the fire of a thousand suns comes to mind. Here is the ideology Hegseth is promoting as goog for the military and good for the country:
[𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑛] 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 “𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓.”
Women don't count as people, they count as glorified livestock.
...𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑖𝑠 “𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦,” 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 “𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦,” 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 “𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠.”
Loving sexual relations that aren't explicitly for procreation are worse than owning people to be farm equipment. Necessary reproductive health care is equivalent to owning people as far equipment. Then a bit of inconsistency in viewpoint because owning people as farm equipment was OK because people who owned people as farm equipment sometimes treated some of them with affection, the way you would treat a pet.
Hegseth can deny that his tattoos don't signify Jesus flavored white supremacy all he wants, but celebrating abhorrent shit like this shows just how much of a Jesus flavored white supremacist he is. It is a good thing that the generals aren't likely to allow that nonsense as policy.
He fired most of the generals who would oppose him and has been threatening many of them with court martial and imprisonment to prevent a counter-coup. The Air Force Academy was already pretty Christian Nationalist, but Hegseth has been trying to take over the other service academies as well. He renamed the Harvey Milk battleship, is reinstating Civil War statues and undoing name changes at army bases.
And the beat goes on. How can our entire military just FOLD? The greatest military ever assembled has caved to the whims of a flatulent, draft dodging conman who will destroy the very democracy they have sworn to protect.
I tapped "Like" not because I like it but because it is accurate.
Kegsbreath was scraped up off of the human refuse pile that is FAUX News. His behavior now is exactly what his demented cult leader demands. He got the job because he is a mindless, sociopathic automaton that does whatever Shitler and the Heritage Foundation tell him to do. Honestly, I think there is worse to come from this fucking Nazi in charge of our armed forces.
You hope…
Well considering he thinks women are just holes that other people come out of, he cannot consider any loving relationship sexual, or otherwise. May he get the ending he deserves… soon.
There's speculation that he has worn out his welcome at the Pentagon and is now considering a run to be Tennessee's next governor.
There seems to be something in the water there, like too much lead? They have elected some truly awful people, who voted in some heinous things. I feel sorry for the sane people stuck there.
A long time ago I was hoping to be offered a job in eastern Tennessee. I wasn’t. The recruiter told me the reason was the employer thought I wouldn’t fit in to the culture. The employer was right.
It's a beautiful state, with too much religion. I'd take it as the compliment it was.
But.. but...the price of eggs?
It is a good thing that the generals aren't likely to allow that nonsense as policy."
We hope.
Since 2016, I’ve been saying that to stop this fascist movement, we need to cut off the head of the snake. The head of the snake would be Donald Trump. I believe now that purging Trump will not work, it’s too late. The snake has already wrapped its coils around our government and is choking it to death and we will never ever return to a free and fair society unless the hundred million people who didn’t vote in the last election get off their lazy ass asses and vote.
Remember, that out of that hundred million people, about 75-80 million of them are Democrats.
Trump is really just the puppet--they allowed him to run again to use his cult to their advantage. The Heritage Foundation didn't get rid of their never-Trump leader until 2021--they are now completely pro-Viktor Orban. Peter Thiel has his puppet installed as vice president. As for the Democratic Party, far too many Republicans who didn't want to be associated with the MAGA base left the party and registered as Democrats--without changing their own underlying assumptions. When Elissa Slotkin says Michiganders just want to get back to when politics was arguing about taxes, she is glossing over the fact that opposition to taxes is what united the Far Right coalition in the first place: Libertarian business moguls and pro-segregation Christians.
You are 💯 percent correct, Sarah. Shitler is the puppet and the Heritage Foundation is holding the strings.
When voters on the right said they wanted small government, did they know that consisted of 1 King and a corrupt sadistic Supreme Court? I think for many of them the answer is yes. They’ve been searching for the perfect empty vessel to make transactions with and found that in Dear Leader. Anyone outside of the authoritarians that still voted Dear Leader is either an idiot, brainwashed, or paralyzed with fear. If they want out now we should welcome them, but tell them they must put in the work to make this right. There’s no lazy oops at this point that’s acceptable.
Dear Leader is just a symptom of a collapsing empire. The final act.
If they don't vote, that leaves a military coup as an option.
As things stand right now, civil war is not beyond the realms of possibility. These are the sort of things that we think now only happen in those 'shithole countries' Trump talked about.
And if Putin sticks his nose into it, that war could spread. Even Musk could get involved to bankroll it.
Putin is already involved: His has Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and Trump himself.
I imagine that is what Putin and his pawn will discuss in Alaska. Their next move.
The Ukraine thing is just a smokescreen. Putin already put his terms out there, that is not going to change.
And a return to Alaska to Russia. drumpster is stupid enough to agree to it.
He would do that and then claim Canada have agreed to be the replacement 50th state.
After all they are having a meeting to agree terms on the Russian invasion without Ukraine being represented.
The only way Canada would become a U.S. territory is if Trump orders the United States military to invade and conquer Canada. Canadians also own guns and know how to use them, so Canadians would fight back. That conflict would make a mess of the World economy (especially the American economy) and would be political hand grenade for the American government.
The only part of Canada that would be interested in joining the United States might be the prairie provinces, and even then it would be a small minority of people in those provinces.
I have Canadian friends, their answer to drumpster’s threat to annexation is 🖕and as they reminded me, they have guns and know how to use them.
How can there NOT be a revolution. The fascists are stealing everything that isn’t nailed down and some that is. Nobody is coming to save us. Who will lead the majority of Americans against this fascist coup? Anybody? Bueller?
"There was music in the cafes at night,
and revolution in the air."
Will we rise up? I don't know yet but at 77 I have little to lose. Not going to live much longer anyway.
Eat well, stay fit, Die Anyway!
That’s what I’m talking about!
I agree.
Quote from newsweek; 'President Donald Trump, in response to California Governor Gavin Newsom: "I don't want a civil war. Civil war would happen if you left it to people like him."'
They seem to have got the titles and names in the wrong places.
I agree in many ways. I do wonder though if he does die or is jailed will it fragment or begin to fall apart as cults do typically? One can hope. It would be a start.
I also wonder about that, Linda. Shitler has some weird, magnetic hold on his cult. Can the “personality free” Couchfucker Magee keep MAGATS intact?
The Manson girls held the family together long after Manson was found guilty.
Exactly. I think not. No charisma there. Also, JD is a “true believer” and Dear Leader is not.
Jerry , both parties are in the clutches of forces external to the democratic process , The Corporate Oligarchy with unlimited ways to buy an election and a former Supreme Court.
If only one of our political parties was actually working for We the People, the world would be a much different place. The Republicons are fascist criminals in a cult. The Dems have failed to counter that fascism and now we are all at risk.
In response to their own ineffectiveness, old grizzled white men (Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, etc.) have ceded power to the young, vibrant new voices of the Democratic Party - AOC, Jasmine Crockett and…wait, I’m fucking dreaming again.
That’s what AOC’s trying to fight— this corporate bullshit going on in our government.
Pete Hegseth is on record saying he wants the American military to become the flaming sword of Christ. Such a remark would have totally disqualified him with any other Senate in history. Every Senate Republican knew full-well how unfit Hegseth is to lead the DOD, but voted to confirm him anyway. Party before country at all times for Republicans. Hegseth's military career peaked out at Major. For those unfamiliar with the military, that's six grades below a four star. He peaked out there for a reason.
Well if Christianity is true I can assure him that he is making it into the flaming sword of the Antichrist. And if not then it is making it into the Republican MAGA army.
And I hate to Godwin this thread, but that second option is a bit too close to the 'Gott mit uns' army of the Third Reich. The first option would suggest Armageddon.
Christians warned of the anti-Christ for centuries, then when he showed up they voted for him.
Watch the documentary 'Til Kingdom Come. It's on YouTube. Mike Huckabee has been leading White Christian Zionist tours to the site of the future Armageddon for YEARS. That's why he was chosen as ambassador. And why there are so many real estate investors in Trump's administration. Even Karoline Leavitt's husband is a real estate developer who specializes in gentrification. Don't forget that Gaza riviera video the White House put out. It wasn't a joke.
Earth-Moon-Sun Lunar Eclipse
Moon-Earth-Sun Solar Eclipse
Earth-Sun-Moon Apocalypse
He should still be a buck Private cleaning latrines.
"military to become the flaming sword of Christ."
https://music.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/705abf26-bc45-4040-9424-cf6aead0b75b/gif
More often than not US finger prints throughout the world creates enemies.
And yet we never learn.
It's called the Peter Principle. Fits like OJs glove on Secretary Pete.
The whole thing about the Christian Nationalists is their unshakable belief that they are entitled to impose their worldview on every other person in the Country. They and they alone are in possession of right opinion. Go back and read what Plato had to say about these people 2400 years ago. This is not a new problem. The modern version is that they have been set free by tRump and Faux Snooze to be the very worst versions of themselves. It is why I see little hope of knitting our Nation back together.
Plato and George Carlin knew their shit.
Check out the "Jerusalem vs Athens" debate that Young Republicans and Christian Nationalist homeschoolers are trained in.
It's still Manifest Destiny. It just goes by a different name now.
In many ways their lust for power, statues, and financial gain is evidence that they are practical atheists
Their Jeebus is just an excuse for then to do whatever they want to do, as long as they don’t have to act like the Jesus of the Gospels.
D.U.I hire Pete Hegseth and his buddies like Doug Wilson are terrified of their inadequacies to compete in a system created for them/by them. Women and minorities are the biggest threat and continue to rise above them and develop survival skills despite the hardships and inequality they face. It’s so pathetic it’s laughable.
🎯
Wow. I so often struggle to believe that such people exist. Intellectually I see what is happening, but emotionally they just have so little humanity in them. (Or maybe I have to admit how their twisted logic and actions really are quite human).
Is it just me, or do narcissistic people end up in three places: politics, religion, and executives at large companies.
Some narcissistic people end up in the three places you suggests. Most of them end up nowhere because they expect other people to do the work.
It’s not just you, Mark. The greediest, least humane people on earth flock to make 💰 anyway possible to give their pathetic, sociopathic lives some juice. And society praises the fucking oligarchs like Elmo and Thiel because they overcame any speck of humanity they once had to become rich…at all costs to the planet and the people that live on it.
Dark Enlightenment TechBros and Opus Dei together to steal democracy from us. Using Orange Crush to be their flunky. Alligator Auschwitz was built for average citizens, not just immigrants. They're being used as scapegoats to distract the US from a fast moving dictatorship.
Megachurch leaders can end up in all three places at once.
As I understand it, part of the reason the worst narcissists end up in those three spots is because they honestly think they deserve more authority and power: even when it's demonstrated otherwise, they think they can do it better. Depending on the relative ethics of a given individual, they might be willing to do quite a bit to get there, too, and when knocked down out of that power they tend to think it's someone else's fault so they get right back up and start clawing their way back to the top.
It'd be a lot more fascinating if it weren't currently damaging the country so much right now.
They are just so broken inside.
"Is it just me, or do narcissistic people end up in three places: politics, religion, and executives at large companies."
No. 1, 2, & 8.
𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭?
https://time.com/32647/which-professions-have-the-most-psychopaths-the-fewest/
First line confirmed what I thought 👇
“CEO is the profession with the most psychopaths.”
Go to any university, and you will find that the business school has the most sociopaths.
Late to the party, but today I learned I was no.8 on the psychopathy chart,
Earlier I read the more people of my horoscope sign are serial killers: Gemini.
It's not just you.
My only surprise here is that other people are surprised by this revelation. The tattoos were a huge signal, but he’s been telegraphing this shit from the beginning. Add in the fact that the Heritage Foundation is running the show and who do you think approved his nomination? Heritage Foundation. I mean all this was advertised since the beginning of the campaign.
And universally ignored. We are apparently so fat and happy here that no response is necessary.
“They also didn’t mention that Wilson has said sodomy is “worse than slavery,” that abortion is “as great an evil as slavery,” and that slavery was a net positive because it “produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.””
So, if abortion is just as bad as slavery, but slavery was a good thing, then abortion is a good thing. And if sodomy is worse than slavery and slavery is good, then sodomy is not all that bad. Slavery is beyond deplorable, there’s just no words that do justice to how horrible it is. Abortion allows women to protect themselves from abuse and life threatening medical issues, so weak men cannot allow it, but it is a good thing because women are people and deserve the right to healthcare. Sodomy, or what he really means is gay sex because sodomy includes a lot of hetero sex acts too, allows people to be sexual outside the control of the church, an abusive institution using sex and sexuality to control the masses. These condemnations by these preachers is an indication that they’re losing their influence over the world. Abhorrent as they are, we should celebrate their desperation. Unfortunately, this current regime is run by these fucks, so they will get away with turning the tide for a while,which is deadly to far too many. That will make them lose even more in the long run, but it is still a tragedy for those who will suffer.
BFFs
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Do not search for "slave getting whipped". Definitely NSFW.
Wrong. Commander La Forge.
People like Hogshead think the rest of the world needs him to define their values for them because they are incapable of doing so themselves. It's part of what makes kkkristers so damned fucking insufferable.
A lot of white male Americans, in the South especially, are obviously still furious about all the civil rights the coloured folk have been given. And the rights women were given before that. And the slaves before that.
And their wives vote how they are told to vote.
Putin lit the fuse on this pile of TNT. Who can defuse it now?
The answer to that is the 100m Americans who did not vote last year. But do they they know how desperate this could be by 2028? Or indeed the 2026 mid terms.
This feels ridiculous suggesting a First World country could have a civil war. But that was before two things happened. Firstly, Yugoslavia and the fact it no longer exists. Second, Putin putting his puppet in Washington.
Just don’t know that there will be an election where we can try to make things right. Take seriously that Shitler has no intention of leaving our White (& Gold) House in anything other than an oversized casket. He is King.
I want that orange mutant to die a slow and horridly painful death. Like in Stephan King's Dreamcatcher. Either he would be in a sealed off environment, or the Ripley would attack only hard-core, unrepentant MAGAts.
I don’t want Trump to die and become a symbol for the Christian nationalist. Now put him in prison and take everything that man owns (selling his possessions) to pay the various fines. Not letting him have any social media access that is different from the other prisoners have. And I would put him in a cell with a large Mexican, so Trump will become the Mexican’s bitch. That would be a worse punishment for Trump than death would be.
And THEN after he’s been the bitch for so long he can’t remember anything else, can he die horribly of the Ripley? Please? After what he has inflicted on other people, that’s almost too good for him. I would pay my life savings to watch that unfold, in all its horrible permutations, and I used to be such a nice person, if you can believe that.
I don’t think he would be a martyr if he just up and died. After all, the asshole is a hot mess physically.
Now if someone assassinated him, I agree that would amount to instant canonization, which is why I have to concede that it’s a good thing the would-be assassin just nicked an ear. Even so, that just gave him a big boost among his supporters, who didn’t seem to even notice that the shooter was a far-right nut job just like them.
Even then, there’s no guarantee we could come out of this as anything other than a hollow shell with a ruined economy and even more MAGAts scrambling to be top dog….
God, I am just depressing myself….
No matter how Trump dies, the MAGAS will believe that Trump was killed by a secret cabal of liberals/deep state/transgender atheist/etc. The Elite members of the Christian nationalist will push that lie, and the average redneck will believe it without question. The rednecks would resort to violence against anyone the elite members of the Christian nationalist movement said was behind the “attack” regardless of the lack of evidence supporting such an attack!
gawd this is fucking depressing….
A few years back I was reading something about the political and religious fracturing here. Can't remember the author, but the piece spoke about "the Balkanization of the United States." It jolted me how accurate that description felt.
It's WHITE Christian Nationalism. And White Supremacy is all about patriarchal hierarchy. Hegseth's is covered in Crusader tattoos because he is a Christian Zionist--he believes (as much as people so incapable of thought can "believe" in anything) that Christians will take over the Holy Land--Jews (and Muslims) will convert of die. Please watch the documentary 'Til Kingdom Comes. When the Right talks about "civilization" or "Western Civilization" or the "Classics," those are code words for White Supremacy. Christian Zionist homeschooling curricula like "Classic Conversations," "Memoria Press--Saving Western Civilization One Student at a Time," anything sold by the Timberdoodle catalog--and Richard Corcoran's wife's "Classical Prep" charter school that Ron DeSantis loves using for photo ops--all signal White Christian Nationalism and White Supremacy. FaithfulAmerica.org's Resources page has good books on White Christian Nationalism. The Guardian has tons of articles on the rise of White Supremacist mens' groups in the US and Europe, and on the acolytes of Peter Thiel who are pathetically trying to build a "high IQ" technocracy via "pro-natalism" by, ironically, rapid pregnancies and corporal punishment that damages childrens' brain development.... [Look up "Simone Collins Isle of Man" on The Guardian.] Peter Thiel is a White supremacist who hates women--and now the US government and healthcare system is run by Palantir. This is all very real, and I wish Americans would take it more seriously. I wish Americans had taken it seriously in 2015, but here we are a decade later.... Should have listened to Trevor Noah!
Or George Carlin…or Frank Zappa - you know, the Nostradamus’ of our day.
Did they write a book about cosmetics and jams too ?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nostradamus-jelly-maker-book-recipe
Nostradamus seems well rounded in his activities. Like other accomplished people of old, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Leo DaVinci, Alex Bell, etc. Their active minds were always on the forefront of modern invention.
The thought of such amoral assholes not only dictating the rest of my life but also thinking they have the gawd-given right to do so -- that they in fact are the ONLY ones who should do so -- I can't even....
My country has turned into Nazi Germany in real time. I want out, but one of us is having trouble getting a passport. I don't know whether to scream bloody murder or sob hysterically. Or do both at once.
I never had any children, and now I am so glad I didn't.
Edited for typo.
Christstains lecturing about their version of "morality" are like arsonists lecturing about fire prevention.
I want xtians of all stripes to war with each other to see who gets the title of Christian Top Dog.
The blood shed would float an aircraft carrier.
Lol. The Moral High Ground had this Wilson story yesterday. My comment: Apparently not every Christian faction got the memo that Wilson’s group of kooks are top dog. Who’s going to break the news to all 45,000 denominations?
When did the bloodshed ever stop? More wars have been fought over…well, you know the rest, NOGODZ20.
Hasn't Hegseth been married 3 times? He wants others to live by his religion when he refuses to.
Apparently Hegseth loves Trump so much he’s dedicated his life to emulating him. His youngest child was conceived while he and the mother were both married to other people. He cheats on current wife with next wife only to cheat on her with the next one.
Why am I devoid of surprise?
Because you have a functional brain ?
If I could turn my brain off, I’m sure I could make a fortune (damned inconvenient rationality and morality).
Those brains are still “on.” They’ve just been pickled with Ivermectin.
And religion. A toxic brew, but unfortunately, not fatal.
Hegseth and his ilk probably couldn't SPELL irony or hypocrisy, never mind try to give you a definition!
Irony. Isn't that a woman's job? Hypocrisy, isn't that the thing where a person on stage gets somebody to run around and cluck like a chicken?
Only if it happens in a church.
He probably believe in the Jewish way of divorcing. The one where only the man is free to remarry, unless he gives a document allowing an ex-wife to do the same.
Ha! Sounds like a pastor of an SBC church I fell in that one time.
That's different. Rules for the little people don't apply to righteous and holy leaders 🤮 like Hogsbreath.
Do you really wish to be punished by the Hog father ?
How big of a loser, devoid of self esteem, does a female have to be to marry Pete Kegsbreath?
To say nothing of the Stepford women who married Trump.
She married for money, or she thought Trump had lots of money. Trump would have lots of money (if Trump is so rich why is he asking for donations from various sponsors) if Trump didn’t waste it on stuff to prop up his fragile ego. I doubt she married for love (it is possible she did marry for love, but I think it is unlikely)
Bigotry. Chauvinism. White male supremacy. All said out loud and by someone who SHOULD be among the most responsible people in our government, and yet has proven to be one of the biggest SCREW-UPS the Defense Department ever knew.
I knew Pete Hegseth was bad. I didn't know that he was a Dominionist. Now I DO know, and for that reason, I want him and the rest of Trump's sycophants OUT ALL THE MORE.
It is hard to imagine a worse person to lead the military. This is life in the Upside Down.
Life on .Htrae
OT: I helped my 25 year old son and his girlfriend move from one apartment to another today. My god, the amount of stuff they own astonished me. When I was approximately that age I moved halfway across the country in a Toyota Corolla. We rented a cargo van from UHaul. Filled it twice. And filled my Toyota Highlander 3 times. I told my son that they really need to go thru their stuff and make some reductions. Also, next time, smaller boxes that don’t weigh so much!
When we moved a couple of years ago, we had to do it ourselves and it wasn't much fun. Apparently if you want to move in December you have to book a moving company sometime in October – and we didn't even have a closing date by then. We moved the day before Christmas, hired truck and some university students – were pretty damn good actually. A few things got damaged, and I lost all my disk world books not quite sure how, and at the end of the day we were all exhausted. But it was over, and all that remained was a bit of tidying up. We had to get rid of a lot of stuff before we moved simply because it wouldn't fit in the new place which was much smaller. Even so, it took all damn day. 😁
Students + good books. I totally don't see what could have happened 🤔
I hope you don’t mind if I suggest a few books for you: Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation by Ronald Hutton. Plus The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times To Present also by Ronald Hutton.
I think you would find it interesting reading!
Thanks for the recommendation. I never say no to a good book.
The Discworld books should be possible to buy from somewhere. I know I would have done that.
I fully intend to buy replacements for what I was forced to give up when I got married.
Pratchett books will probably be banned in the USA. Not because they understood the satire that is, but because they have magic in.
A bit like Harry Potter, that has a lot of 'woke' stuff in it. Half of the huge book 5 is about government interfering in Education. None about trans people unsurprisingly, and only the slightest hint of a gay relationship, but that was 100 years before Harry Potter was born.
And yet all these ban Harry Potter people fail to see (or more likely do not know) that Harry Potter died to save his friends and everybody else from Voldemort and then came back to life again. I think I have heard that before somewhere.
I had the complete set of pratchett books, hard back edition. My husband made me get rid of them because they took up too much room on *his* bookshelves. At the time, I figured real life relationships were more important than beloved books,
Boy was I an idiot of the first magnitude.
The man who would try to make me choose between my books and him would see me for the last time.
I always thought that while Pratchett was funny, he was also quite an angry man.
And as others have pointed before, j. k. Rowling is a christian.
JK Rowling can bite me.
Don't forget your tetanus and rabid shots.
https://imgur.com/gallery/spock-died-sins-yn56f
Try to move when you don't have a car and no money to rent anything. It took DM and me 2 or 3 days and too many go and forth by bus to move our stuff from our long stay hotel to our apartment.
I would have loaned you my truck. I also have a trailer.🛻
I can imagine the nightmare. I once had to move without a car. In the middle of August, in Florida. An unexpected surprise because the girl I had moved in with got pissed at me for something and gave me two days notice. I asked her for a refund on the second half of that month's rent and she told me to go fuck myself, or she'd called the police and file a complaint against me and her boyfriend would back her up for anything she said. Yep, I was in college at the time, and didn't know the value of getting things in writing, so I was screwed.
You really should retire. : )
lol!
Goddammit, I am.
And get off my lawn!
Kids these days!!
NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS: "Old man Maltnothops is yelling at clouds again."
I learned that smaller box trick with books. Just a few feel like a ton.
I worked for a printers once. I very quickly learned that depending on the paper a medium-sized box full of the stuff could weigh 50lbs– Easily. Often more.
I love books. Used to have quite a collection before my husband made me get rid of them.
When all the kids had moved out and the closest road got more used (too noisy) we moved to another and smaller house. We had quite a book collection too, and so had my mum. She had to move at the same time as we did.
We kept the books we probably would read again, so DW is still with us. And a lot of cartoons. We ditched books and cartoons we probably won't miss.
We moved from a two-family house to a condo. I threw out any books in poor shape, kept the ones I really, really wanted, and donated 4 boxes of books in good shape to the local library. I was going to donate it to the library where I used to live but the NYC library system does not take donations since covid. Which was an real WTAF moment for me.
In the USA, meritocracy means that to qualify for positions you must kiss the right asses, hold the right views, and fuck over the right people. Or maybe the Right’s. Actual qualifications for the job are moot. Anyone with actual qualifications and experience and abilities are just DEI hires and undeserving. Undeserving of what, you ask. Life they say.
Someone in my area is starting a scream group or club. They are setting up a time and place where folks get together and do primal screams to deal with stress. I’m thinking of joining, I was personally invited. I doubt it would help, but it’s more community and I know they are supportive of pretty much everything I stand for.
Is it actually an I Scream for Cake from Dairy Queen club? I would be so in.
I wouldn’t be hesitating.
Go for it, and let us know if it helps. What we do and say here is basically a form of primal screaming, is it not? But sometimes it isn't quite enough. Fortunately, we live out on a rural highway, and when my spouse isn't home, I can just scream bloody murder in the middle of my living room.
Unrelieved stress can really screw up one's health and mental acuity. I wish there was a scream club here, I'd join in a heartbeat. Does this group give out any info on how to get one started?
Well, she’s taking clues from the one in Chicago. But I think she’s just winging it, reaching out to folks she knows and suggesting the idea. She invited us to a park on the outskirts of town at a specific time and date to scream, and said we could go from there. So, just put it out there and see what happens.
A bit OT, but I recall an episode of Gomer Pyle USMC where Sgt. Carter just couldn't take another second of Pyle, leaped into a jeep, raced to the top of an isolated hill, and screamed into the empty countryside like a maniac.
Jeez, the weird stuff I remember sometimes....
youtu.be/_pB1c5Kjxpw
Thanks, NOGODZ, you made me laugh out loud for the first time today! 😂
Glad to do it. :)
Are you sure the group aren't art enthusiast? https://clipground.com/images/scream-clip-art.jpg
Or maybe movie buffs? https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/8e/24/588e240495dc1419afde130a7f2ac4a5.png
Well, the woman setting it up is definitely an artist, but it’s really is about getting together to just scream.