I find myself rewatching it in its entirety every so often but mostly I just throw a few episodes on every so often when nostalgia strikes.

I also find it to be one of the funniest shows I’ve seen but my taste is terrible. It’s just nice to watch something that is easy to turn my brain off with - the show is quite disjointed from reality so offers a nice escapism

You’re in the right ballpark.

https://youtu.be/yZdG1rY2U7s

I’ll mark your words with a big giant red X because it’s some doomerist bullshit.

Human history and existence is one big ball of “just keep going” doused in a heap of “this is awful but imma make some babies because horny” so it just keeps going.

It’s pretty messed up but here we are. Going. Because what’s the alternative?

accepting US aid,

Jokes on you and the thousands of dead people from starvation and preventable diseasw. The Trump admin got rid of USAID and our other means of international aid have been significantly curtailed too.

I’m still mad the DNC didn’t hold a primary election when they all got together in Chicago (I think that’s where they were I could be wrong) after Biden dropped out. Would have been way better optics.

Also still think Biden could have just stayed in and won because sexism and propaganda was way more effective against Harris than another old white guy. Harris not that inspiring for voter turn out either in my opinion.

Let me preface this with the caveat that I desperately want the ghouls to be lined up and shot. That’s not hyperbolic I truly believe they deserve it.

Having said that, I’m just thinking about American history in general. Plenty of people, including former presidents, who have done unconscionable things to others and were never punished or straight up celebrated.

The president that perpetrated the Trail of Tears, a big defining moment of our genocide against the Native Americans who were here before whitey showed up, is literally on our $20 bill. The dude that ignored the Supreme Court order and proceeded to round up tens of thousands of humans that died due to his actions is memorialized on our currency.

I want a currency redesign for our country that doesn’t celebrate any presidents at all, let’s put other cooler stuff on it than dead white guys. (Yes I know technically that’s not all our currency)

It’s not surprising Trump hung Jackson’s portrait up in the oval office. He really loves that asshole.

This is just one of the many times I’ve said something and really want to be wrong. Sadly, it seems that most of the time I want to be wrong I’m right even if my prediction is suckville.

Even after the administration is put in prison for their crimes (however long that may take – years, definitely, decades, possibly),

That’s a pretty optimistic take. You know nothing is gonna happen to these fucks. I do know I’m popping a bottle of champagne when Trump dies. I bet there will literally be spontaneous parties after he dies to celebrate it.

I learned something new today (that German phrase on the stop sign) - I like the reminder to not just sit on the toilet … I say while typing this on the toilet.

I mean I think he did the best he could with what was in his power to do.

Him getting his hands tied by Congress and the Judiciary is part of living in a functioning democracy. Even if I did want Obama as a dictator that doesn’t really matter nor would it be cool.

I do wish we could have had more impactful legislation passed while he was president but that’s not really part of his job duties.

I’m not trying to whitewash Obama here, plenty of bad shit happened while he was president and some because of him. Nonetheless, I don’t think it’s fair to paint him as a totally useless and bad president that “(didn’t) act on popular legislation” given the action a president has in regards to that are a signature or veto.

didn’t even shut down the very torture camp he ran on closing.

To be fair Obama did try to do it but Congress screwed him.

Not that I’m saying dude was a good guy or anything like that, just that he did everything he could as president to shut down guantanamo. He did successfully drastically reduce the number of prisoners held there but Congress held up funds and approvals for certain prisoner transfers preventing the actual closure.

I don’t understand how Newsom can’t just order the CA national guard to not follow unlawfully given orders.

I’m not a lawyer but the statute in the Constitution that is written into the executive order as the authorization for it literally says the national guard are under control of the state Governor.

Why can’t Newsom give the guard orders and tell Trump to go fuck himself and see what happens? I guess at that point you’ll have conflicting orders from federal and state but, in theory, the national guard are under command of the state Governor and he’s their highest authority. So they should follow Newsom’s orders.

Like I said IANAL so I’m sure I’m missing something but for fuck sake this is outrageous. We’re rounding people up for not having a paper, they’re not even hardened criminals. If this was hardcore enforcement of actual dangerous people that would be one thing. These are just innocent undocumented migrants trying to live the their lives same as the rest of us.