Things I find on the internet, thoughts I share, et cetera.
This is not a personal diary.
This is just stuff I find and love on the good green internet.
My favorite (non-living) things are food and theater.
I know there are a lot of restaurants on Broadway the street, but there arenât a ton of Broadway-themed restaurants.
There should be. I would call mine âAnnie Get Your Lunchâ or âEverything Is Beautiful At The Buffet.â
Sample Dishes:
You Wonât Succeed On Broadway If You Donât Have Any Juice
Avenue Q-cumber Salad
Oh The Things You Can Think When You Think About Soup!
Cheese and Rice Superstar
Itâs Pasta-ble
Lettuce From The Refuge
The Poor GUYâS Bread Is Spinning!
Everythingâs Coming Up Roast Beef
Thoroughly Modern Meatloaf
Miss Baltimore Crab Cakes
A Light In The Pizza (cheese pizza, for the vegetarians among us)
The Dessert of Desserts: The Dessert!- a medley of sorts, featuring Pippin apples, Kiss Me Cake and My Fair Ladyfingers, as well as oneâs choice of sorbet (Cell Block Mango or Lime Warp) or Ice Cream (Ice Cream A Cream In Time Gone ByâŚ.when hope was high and life worth living)
My favorite (non-living) things are food and theater.
I know there are a lot of restaurants on Broadway the street, but there arenât a ton of Broadway-themed restaurants.
There should be. I would call mine âAnnie Get Your Lunchâ or âEverything Is Beautiful At The Buffet.â
Sample Dishes:
You Wonât Succeed On Broadway If You Donât Have Any Juice
Avenue Q-cumber Salad
Oh The Things You Can Think When You Think About Soup!
Cheese and Rice Superstar
Itâs Pasta-ble
Lettuce From The Refuge
The Poor GUYâS Bread Is Spinning!
Everythingâs Coming Up Roast Beef
Thoroughly Modern Meatloaf
Miss Baltimore Crab Cakes
A Light In The Pizza (cheese pizza, for the vegetarians among us)
The Dessert of Desserts: The Dessert!- a medley of sorts, featuring Pippin apples, Kiss Me Cake and My Fair Ladyfingers, as well as oneâs choice of sorbet (Cell Block Mango or Lime Warp) or Ice Cream (Ice Cream A Cream In Time Gone ByâŚ.when hope was high and life worth living)
Like ordinarily Iâm against anyone being drugged against their will, but in the extenuating circumstance of âa patient walks into a doctor and confesses that they want to kill an open-ended number of people, and offers the doctor payment to provide a false alibi proving they couldnât have killed anyone, and the doctor has a safe and effective treatment that makes their chosen murder method quietly fail every time and stops them from looking for someone who will give them a fake alibi, that can be administered without the would-be killer ever noticing that the people theyâre trying to kill just arenât dyingâ yeah Iâm definitely okay with doctors giving the covid vaccine to antivaxxers and pretending to go along with their âgive me a water shot and sign my vaxx cardâ plan
Anyone know who runs the Waitress Wiki (and I mean, the separate Waitress Wiki, not the actual Wikipedia page for Waitress?). I have some corrections on cast info and the contact form is either not working or not showing up for me.
...what things are antisemitic that gentiles donât usually pick up on?
I was talking to my wife the other day and the word âcabalâ came up, and also following some folks who practice Jewish mysticism, I was like âwait a minute...I bet money that this word has antisemitic rootsâ and sure enough, gentiles took it from the term âKabbalahâ and now it means cult or secret political group. Yikes.
If I was able to pick up on that, I was wondering what kinda stuff flies under my brainâs Hate Detection Radar all the time.
Hi friend! Such an important question, and thanks so much for asking it.
Because antisemitism is one of the worldâs oldest prejudices, it is absolutely baked into our language (particularly in the west, but thanks to western imperialism it is a global problem as well). Cabal is a great example of a word that is steeped in antisemitism but that many people do not realize is antisemitic in origin. Hereâs some other words/phrases that I hear used uncritically by people and that are steeped in antisemitism:
- Cabal
- New world order/NWO
- Global elites/cosmopolitan elites/coastal elites
- Rothschilds
- âJew downâ/âjewedâ
- lizard people
- Illuminati
- scapegoat
And some dog whistles that are more pointedly antisemitic, but that the uninitiated may not realize are antisemitic code:
- Zionist organized government/ZOG
- Khazars
- kosher tax
- đ
- âthe goyim knowâ
Thereâs plenty more (sadly), but these are the ones I see floating around unchallenged the most often, so I thought Iâd highlight them. Thanks again for such a good and helpful question!
Boba Baby, Boba Bubbe
Pickle Little, Talk A Little
Iâve Been Thinking...
My favorite (non-living) things are food and theater.
I know there are a lot of restaurants on Broadway the street, but there arenât a ton of Broadway-themed restaurants.
There should be. I would call mine âAnnie Get Your Lunchâ or âEverything Is Beautiful At The Buffet.â
Sample Dishes:
You Wonât Succeed On Broadway If You Donât Have Any Juice
Avenue Q-cumber Salad
Oh The Things You Can Think When You Think About Soup!
Cheese and Rice Superstar
Itâs Pasta-ble
Lettuce From The Refuge
The Poor GUYâS Bread Is Spinning!
Everythingâs Coming Up Roast Beef
Thoroughly Modern Meatloaf
Miss Baltimore Crab Cakes
A Light In The Pizza (cheese pizza, for the vegetarians among us)
The Dessert of Desserts: The Dessert!- a medley of sorts, featuring Pippin apples, Kiss Me Cake and My Fair Ladyfingers, as well as oneâs choice of sorbet (Cell Block Mango or Lime Warp) or Ice Cream (Ice Cream A Cream In Time Gone ByâŚ.when hope was high and life worth living)
Two things:
1. They missed out on an opportunity to just call her Miranda
2. This is probably someone abusing the platform for, like, a Glee roleplay in which "Lia" is their OC
My favorite (non-living) things are food and theater.
I know there are a lot of restaurants on Broadway the street, but there arenât a ton of Broadway-themed restaurants.
There should be. I would call mine âAnnie Get Your Lunchâ or âEverything Is Beautiful At The Buffet.â
Sample Dishes:
You Wonât Succeed On Broadway If You Donât Have Any Juice
Avenue Q-cumber Salad
Oh The Things You Can Think When You Think About Soup!
Cheese and Rice Superstar
Itâs Pasta-ble
Lettuce From The Refuge
The Poor GUYâS Bread Is Spinning!
Everythingâs Coming Up Roast Beef
Thoroughly Modern Meatloaf
Miss Baltimore Crab Cakes
A Light In The Pizza (cheese pizza, for the vegetarians among us)
The Dessert of Desserts: The Dessert!- a medley of sorts, featuring Pippin apples, Kiss Me Cake and My Fair Ladyfingers, as well as oneâs choice of sorbet (Cell Block Mango or Lime Warp) or Ice Cream (Ice Cream A Cream In Time Gone ByâŚ.when hope was high and life worth living)
Re: the post you reblogged about Bush. I'm 21 and tbh feel like I can only vote for Bernie, can you explain if/why I shouldn't? Thanks and sorry if this is dumb or anything.
Oh boy. Okay, Iâll do my best here. Note that a) this will get long, and b) Iâm old, Tired, and Iâm pretty sure my brain tried to kill me last night. Since by nature I am sure I will say something Controversial â˘, if anyone reads this and feels a deep urge to inform me that I am Wrong, just⌠mark it down as me being Wrong and move on with your life. But also, really, you should read this and hopefully think about it. Because while Iâm glad you asked this question, it feels like thereâs a lot in your cohort who wonât, and that worries me. A lot.
First, not to sound utterly old-woman-in-a-rocking-chair ancient, people who came of age/are only old enough to have Obama be the first president that they really remember have no idea how good they had it. The world was falling the fuck apart in 2008 (not coincidentally, after 8 years of Bush). We came within a flicker of the permanent collapse of the global economy. The War on Terror was in full roar, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at their height, we had Dick Cheney as the cartoon supervillain before we had any of Trumpâs cohort, and this was before Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden had exposed the extent of NSA/CIA intelligence-gathering/American excesses or there was any kind of public debate around the fact that we were all surveilled all the time. And the fact that a brown guy named Barack Hussein Obama was elected in this climate seems, and still seems tbh, kind of amazing. And Obama was certainly not a Perfect President â˘. He had to scale back a lot of planned initiatives, he is notorious for expanding the drone strike/extrajudicial assassination program, he still subscribed to the overall principles of neoliberalism and American exceptionalism, etc etc. There is valid criticism to be made as to how the hopey-changey optimistic rhetoric stacked up against the hard realities of political office. And yetâŚ. at this point, given what weâre seeing from the White House on a daily basis, the depth of the parallel universe/double standards is absurd.
Because hereâs the thing. Obama, his entire family, and his entire administration had to be personally/ethically flawless the whole time (and they managed that â not one scandal or arrest in eight years, against the legions of Trumpistas now being convicted) because of the absolute frothing depths of Republican hatred, racial conspiracy theories, and obstruction against him. (Remember Merrick Garland and how Mitch McConnell got away with that, and now we have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? Because I remember that). If Obama had pulled one-tenth of the shit, one-twentieth of the shit that the Trump administration does every day, he would be gone. It also meant that people who only remember Obama think he was typical for an American president, and he wasnât. Since about⌠Jimmy Carter, and definitely since Ronald Reagan, the American people have gone for the Trump model a lot more than the Obama model. Whatever your opinion on his politics or character, Obama was a constitutional law professor, a community activist, a neighborhood organizer and brilliant Ivy League intellectual who used to randomly lie awake at night thinking about income inequality. Americans donât value intellectualism in their politicians; they just donât. They donât like thinking that âthe elitesâ are smarter than them. They like the folksy populist who seems fun to have a beer with, and Reagan/Bush Senior/Clinton/Bush Junior sold this persona as hard as they possibly could. As noted in said post, Bush Junior (or Shrub as the late, great Molly Ivins memorably dubbed him) was Trump Lite but from a long-established political family who could operate like an outwardly civilized human.
The point is: when you think Obama was relatively normal (which, again, he wasnât, for any number of reasons) and not the outlier in a much larger pattern of catastrophic damage that has been accelerated since, again, the 1980s (oh Ronnie Raygun, how you lastingly fucked us!), you miss the overall context in which this, and which Trump, happened. Like most left-wingers, I donât agree with Obamaâs recent and baffling decision to insert himself into the 2020 race and warn the Democratic candidates against being too progressive or whatever he was on about. I think he was giving into the same fear that appears to be motivating the remaining chunk of Joe Bidenâs support: that middle/working-class white America wonât go for anything too wild or that might sniff of Socialism, and that Uncle Joe, recalled fondly as said folksy populist and the internetâs favorite meme grandfather from his time as VP, could pick up the votes that went to Trump last time. And that by nature, no one else can.
The underlying belief is that these white voters just canât support anything too âun-American,â and that by pushing too hard left, Democratic candidates risk handing Trump a second term. Again: I donât agree and I think he was mistaken in saying it. But I also canât say that Obama of all people doesnât know exactly the strength of the political machine operating against the Democratic Party and the progressive agenda as a whole, because he ran headfirst into it for eight years. The fact that he managed to pass any of his legislative agenda, usually before the Tea Party became a thing in 2010, is because Democrats controlled the House and Senate for the first two years of his first term. He was not perfect, but it was clear that he really did care (just look up the pictures of him with kids). He installed smart, efficient, and scandal-free people to do jobs they were qualified for. He gave us Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to join RBG on the Supreme Court. All of this seems⌠like a dream.
That said: here we are in a place where Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren are the front-runners for the Democratic nomination (and apparently Pete Buttigieg is getting some airplay as a dark horse candidate, which⌠whatever). The appeal of Biden is discussed above, and he sure as hell is not my favored candidate (frankly, I wish heâd just quit). But Sanders and Warren are 85% - 95% similar in their policy platforms. The fact that Michael â50 Billion Dollar Fortuneâ Bloomberg started rattling his chains about running for president is because either a Sanders or Warren presidency terrifies the outrageously exploitative billionaire capitalist oligarchy that runs this country and has been allowed to proceed essentially however the fuck they like since⌠you guessed it, the 1980s, the era of voodoo economics, deregulation, and the free market above all. Warren just happens to be ten years younger than Sanders and female, and Sandersâ age is not insignificant. Heâs 80 years old and just had a heart attack, and thereâs still a year to go to the election. Itâs also more than a little eye-rolling to describe him as the only progressive candidate in the race, when heâs an old white man (however much we like and approve of his policy positions). And hereâs the thing, which I think is a big part of the reason why this polarized ideological purity internet leftist culture mistrusts Warren:
She may have changed her mind on things in the past.
Scary, right? I sound like Iâm being facetious, but Iâm not. An argument I had to read with my own two eyes on this godforsaken hellsite was that since Warren became a Democrat around the time Clinton signed Donât Ask Donât Tell, she sekritly hated gay people and might still be a corporate sellout, so on and etcetera. (And donât even get me STARTED on the fact that DADT, coming a few years after the height of the AIDS crisis where it was considered Godâs Judgment of the Icky Gays, was the best Clinton could realistically hope to achieve, but this smacks of White Gay Syndrome anyway and that is a whole other kettle of fish.) Bernie has always demonstrably been a democratic socialist, and: good for him. Iâm serious. But because thereâs the chance that Warren might not have thought exactly as she does now at any point in her life, the hysterical and paranoid left-wing elements donât trust that she might not still secretly do so. (Zomgz!) Itâs the same element thatâs feeding cancel culture and âwokeness.â Nobody can be allowed to have shifted or grown in their opinions or, like a functional, thoughtful, non-insane adult, changed their beliefs when presented with compelling evidence to the contrary. To the ideological hordes, any hint of uncertainty or past failure to completely toe the line is tantamount to heresy. Any evidence of any other belief except The Correct One means that this person is functionally as bad as Trump. And frankly, itâs only the Sanders supporters who, just as in 2016, are threatening to withhold their vote in the general election if their preferred candidate doesnât win the primary, and indeed seem weirdly proud about it.
OK, boomer Bernie or Buster.
Hereâs the thing, the thing, the thing: there is never going to be an American president free of the deeply toxic elements of American ideology. There just wonât be. This country has been built how it has for 250 years, and itâs not gonna change. You are never going to have, at least not in the current system, some dream candidate who gets up there and parrots the left-wing talking points and attacks American imperialism, exceptionalism, ravaging global capitalism, military and oil addiction, etc. They want to be elected as leader of a country that has deeply internalized and taken these things to heart for its entire existence, and most of them believe it to some degree themselves. So this groupthink white liberal mentality where the only acceptable candidate is this Perfect Non-Problematic robot who has only ever had one belief their entire lives and has never ever wavered in their devotion to doctrine has really gotten bad. The Democratic Party would be considered⌠maybe center/mild left in most other developed countries. Itâs not even really left-wing by general standards, and Sanders and Warren are the only two candidates for the nomination who are even willing to go there and explicitly put out policy proposals that challenge the systematic structure of power, oppression, and exploitation of the late-stage capitalist 21st century. Warren has the billionaires fussed, and instead of backing down, sheâs doubling down. Thatâs part of why theyâre so scared of her. (And also misogyny, because the world is depressing like that.) She is going head-on after picking a fight with some of the worst people on the planet, who are actively killing the rest of us, and I donât know about you, but I like that.
Of course: none of this will mean squat if she (or the eventual Democratic winner, who I will vote for regardless of who it is, but as you can probably tell, sheâs my ride or die) donât a) win the White House and then do as they promised on the campaign trail, and b) donât have a Democratic House and Senate willing to have a backbone and pass the laws. Even Nancy Pelosi, much as sheâs otherwise a badass, held off on opening a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump for months out of fear it would benefit him, until the Ukraine thing fell into everyoneâs laps. The Democrats are really horrible at sticking together and voting the party line the way Republicans do consistently, because Democrats are big-tent people who like to think of themselves as accepting and tolerant of other views and unwilling to force their membersâ hands. The Republicans have no such qualms (and indeed, judging by their enabling of Trump, have no qualms at all).Â
The modern American Republican party has become a vehicle for no-holds-barred power for rich white men at the expense of absolutely everything and everyone else, and if your rationale is that you canât vote for the person opposing Donald Goddamn Trump is that youâre just not vibing with them on the language of that one policy proposal⌠well, Iâm glad that you, White Middle Class Liberal, feel relatively safe that the consequences of that decision wonât affect you personally. Even if weâre due to be out of the Paris Climate Accords one day after the 2020 election, and the issue of climate change now has the most visibility itâs ever had after years of big-business, Republican-led efforts to deny and discredit the science, hey, Secret Corporate Shill, am I right? Canât trust âer. Letâs go have a craft beer.
As has been said before: vote as far left as you want in the primary. Vote your ideology, vote whatever candidate you want, because the only way to make actual, real-world change is to do that. The huge, embedded, all-consuming and horrible system in which we operate is not just going to suddenly be run by fairy dust and happy thoughts overnight. Select candidates that reflect your values exactly, be as picky and ideologically militant as you want. Thatâs the time to do that! Then when it comes to the general election:
America is a two-party system. It sucks, but thatâs the case. Third-party votes, or refraining from voting because âit doesnât matterâ are functionally useless at best and actively harmful at worst.
Either the Democratic candidate or Donald Trump will win the 2020 election.
There is absolutely no length that the Republican/GOP machine, and its malevolent allies elsewhere, will not go to in order to secure a Trump victory. None.
Any talk whatsoever about âprogressive valuesâ or any kind of liberal activism, coupled with a course of action that increases the possibility of a Trump victory, is hypocritical at best and actively malicious at worst.
This is why I found the Democratic response to Obamaâs âdonât go too wildâ comments interesting. Bernie doubled down on the fact that his plans have widespread public support, and heâs right. (Frankly, the fact that Sanders and Warren are polling at the top, and the fact that theyâre politicians and would not be crafting these campaign messages if they didnât know that they were being positively received, says plenty on its own). Warren cleverly highlighted and praised Obamaâs accomplishments in office (i.e. the Affordable Care Act) and didnât say squat about whether she agreed or disagreed with him, then went right back to campaigning about why billionaires suck. And some guy named Julian Castro basically blew Obama off and claimed that âany Democratâ could beat Trump in 2020, just by nature of existing and being non-insane.
This is very dangerous! Do not be Julian Castro!
As I said in my tags on the Bush post: everyone assumed that sensible people would vote for Kerry in 2004. Guess what happened? Yeah, he got Swift Boated. The race between Obama and McCain in 2008, even after those said nightmare years of Bush, was very close until the global crash broke it open in Obamaâs favor, and Sarah Palin was an actual disqualifier for a politician being brazenly incompetent and unprepared. (Then again, she was a woman from a remote backwater state, not a billionaire businessman.) In 2012, we thought Corporate MormonBot Mitt Fugginâ Romney was somehow the worst and most dangerous candidate the Republicans could offer. In 2016, up until Election Day itself, everyone assumed that HRC was a badly flawed candidate but would win anyway. And⌠we saw how that worked out. Complacency is literally deadly.
I was born when Reagan was still president. Iâm just old enough to remember the efforts to impeach Clinton over forcing an intern to give him a BJ in the Oval Office (This led by the same Republicans making Donald Trump into a darling of the evangelical Christian right wing.) Iâm definitely old enough to remember 9/11 and how America lost its mind after that, and I remember the Bush years. And, obviously, the contrast with Obama, the swing back toward Trump, and everything that has happened since. We canât afford to do this again. Weâre hanging by a thread as it is, and not just America, but the entire planet.
So yes. By all means, vote for Sanders in the primary. Then when November 3, 2020 rolls around, if you care about literally any of this at all, hold your nose if necessary and vote straight-ticket Democrat, from the president, to the House and Senate, to the state and local offices. I cannot put it more strongly than that.
Can verify. My brother hit this phase and would try to one-up his friends competing over who could eat the spiciest sauce and not die. When he got older, he would drive multiple times a week to the local pizza joint and get himself a spicy chicken pizza. He already had a weak stomach but he was quickly approaching ulcer territory by eighteen. He's still like that at 31.
Also, there was a guy in college we called Hot Sauce George. George's girlfriend used to visit him a lot and bring him weird hot sauces that he'd use to improve the cafeteria food. Sometimes he didn't want more food but he did want more sauce, so he'd put it on his hand and lick it off, and we'd be like "I hope you don't wipe with that hand."
My favorite (non-living) things are food and theater.
I know there are a lot of restaurants on Broadway the street, but there arenât a ton of Broadway-themed restaurants.
There should be. I would call mine âAnnie Get Your Lunchâ or âEverything Is Beautiful At The Buffet.â
Sample Dishes:
You Wonât Succeed On Broadway If You Donât Have Any Juice
Avenue Q-cumber Salad
Oh The Things You Can Think When You Think About Soup!
Cheese and Rice Superstar
Itâs Pasta-ble
Lettuce From The Refuge
The Poor GUYâS Bread Is Spinning!
Everythingâs Coming Up Roast Beef
Thoroughly Modern Meatloaf
Miss Baltimore Crab Cakes
A Light In The Pizza (cheese pizza, for the vegetarians among us)
The Dessert of Desserts: The Dessert!- a medley of sorts, featuring Pippin apples, Kiss Me Cake and My Fair Ladyfingers, as well as oneâs choice of sorbet (Cell Block Mango or Lime Warp) or Ice Cream (Ice Cream A Cream In Time Gone ByâŚ.when hope was high and life worth living)
Jared from Zoom was pretty awesome, but he passed away years ago :(
listen thereâs jared kushner, jared leto, jared padalecki, jared the subway guy. i defy you to name one good jared. i think itâs time we retire the name
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