Hypomesus transpacificus is going to go extinct, and for once it’s not even going to be that people didn’t care, or gained some transient benefit from destroying them. It’s going to be from direct hatred of the idea that people might ever care about anything other than money and power for the rich and powerful.
This morning I was thinking about how grateful I am for weed species. Like for fish there are carp. They’re a serious invasive and destroying all kinds of habitats and all that…but they’re charming enough otherwise, and apparently we are hell bent on destroying that anyway. So at least I can say that carp are still going to be there in the future, and maybe they can create a new diversity of Cypriniformes after we finish destroying the Cenozoic.
Where by “we” I don’t mean all of us. The world isn’t simply dying, it is being murdered by people like this. I say people because I don’t have an insult strong enough for them.
Why doesn’t Biden use his newfound “absolute presidential immunity” to just say “fuck it” and direct it to be published as an “official act”. That and any other embarrassing stuff they are holding back on Trump. Just get it out there.
I mean, what is anybody gonna do about it other than complain?
It’s fucking “freedom fries” all over again.
I don’t know that I can take 4 more years of this shit. Just hearing like 2 minutes of his press conference yesterday had me wanting to scream.
Because that immunity only applies to “official acts” and SCOTUS didn’t define what they mean by that, which means they get to define it on a case by case basis. In other words, if Biden does it, it won’t be an official act. If Trump does it, it will be. It’s another reason why that was a horrible ruling. It wouldn’t have been as bad if they had provided some firm guidelines for determining what official acts are, but they didn’t say one fucking word about it.
I’m actually impressed by his self-restraint. I’m sure he considered renaming it the “Trump Gulf.” And when you think about it, it is an American gulf. “America” being a geographic term, not a political one.
That being said, I will continue to call it the Gulf of .
Ol’ Friedrich Nietzsche’s words a burr under my mental saddleblanket:
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
It’s getting harder and harder to live by the wise words “never let anyone steal your joy.” That eternal, internal struggle has taken on new meaning for me.
If you mean the Americas as continents, though, so are the Gulfs of Alaska, St. Lawrence, California, Honduras, Nicoya, Panama, Darién, Venezuela, Paria, San Matias, San Jorge, Peñas…
We’re in a time where all enterprises fall
We should beware of the wolves that haunt us
They are not all the same, cannot take the blame
Await the time to unchain utopia
On CNN right now the rightoid talking heads are blaming DEI, Democrats, cannabis regulation, environmental regulations, and “not climate change” for the wildfires in Los Angeles. It’s absolutely infuriating.
Yeah. (Though a slight quibble-- I still don’t think “weird” is a strong enough word. It didn’t work during the campaign, and as that illustration depicts, “apocalyptic” is more accurate, even if it might not fit well on that sign. Grrrr…)
Thing about “weird” is that it stuck, unlike just about everything else they’d tried. But (like everything else about the Democratic operation) I think they left it too late. If they had deployed it early in the campaign cycle (maybe in an alternate timeline where Biden was never the nominee) it could have served as the thin edge of a wedge to open the discourse to more descriptive (and accurate) language.
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