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Cake day: September 5th, 2024

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  • lol, let’s check back in 12 months shall we, after Trump pulls America’s “inconsequential” “not wanted” and “not needed” US military and political support for Russia’s war in Ukraine (we won’t even mention Taiwan right now, but same). We’ll get a much better picture of how well Eastern Europe is fairing on their own without the United States. You, sir, are a clown, writing wish fulfillment with no basis in current geopolitical reality.



  • I was there when the deep magic was written (or soon after to catch reruns), Monty Python was skewering the Post War Conservative British cultural zeitgeist in ways which audiences hadn’t quite seen before, through the lens of British toffs (oxford and cambridge) playing at being proletarians skewering toffs. It was different for British TV, but it was like a sea change when American audiences finally caught up and began taking notice. It was smart comedy, pointed, brutal, and hilarious. America wasn’t doing anything like this, at that time, going more for the broad jokes that would appeal to the lowest common denominator. Sure others have mentioned Brooks, and Berle, and Cartoons which had been sending up cultural norms for decades, but they weren’t Python, Python, at the time were a thing of their own. Monty Python’s Flying Circus ran from 1969 to 1974. Saturday Night Live started in 1975.















  • next four years? i’m pretty sure with the damage trump and his minions in, let me get this right, The Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches of the United States Government squarely in control of Republicans, whatever we have four years from now, will in no way resemble what we’ve all grown up with and been taught about what America is, or was. what happened on November 5th is nothing short of destruction. so many people are about to die in so many placed by domestic and foreign, most will act shocked. i watched a million americans die from a purposefully inept and sandbagged global pandemic response, and that was before trump knew where all the buttons and levers are.