#evening echo november 1991

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Stained Glass Windows - Chapter Fifty

Life was complicated, but they wouldn't have it any other way.

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Hi friends,

I cannot believe this is chapter 50 of this fic!! Thank you so much for still being here, for still loving on this version of our favs almost a whole year into writing SGW (end of November 2022 is when I started to post it!). It means the world to me because I love this version of them so much.

As it is October 12th, our beloved Emily Prentiss's birthday, I have dedicated this chapter to celebrate that, and given it a special banner to mark the occasion.

There is still SO MUCH of this fic to go in my little head, so who knows...maybe we'll have another 50 chapters?!

Please do let me know what you think <3

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A full list of warnings for the fic can be found on the Series Master List and will be updated as we go along.

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October 12 1991

She just needs a minute to herself. 

It’s what she tells herself as she leaves the party supposedly being thrown in her honour. The house filled to the brim with her mother’s friends and their sons, men deemed suitable for her to date and marry, and people Emily hadn’t really seen or spoken to since she left for college. 

This had never been her home, not really. It was a base. The place they came to for a month or so in between her mother’s postings, somewhere she knew could have been a home if her parents had made different choices. 

She sighs as she hears her mother’s laugh, the gregariousness that Elizabeth only ever truly had when she’d been drinking. It had been a problem for years, since her father had left, but Emily knew it had got worse since she’d gone to college, as if the loneliness her mother had always seemed to strive for hadn’t been as peaceful as she thought it would be. It made guilt bubble in her stomach even though she knows it’s not her fault, that she finally deserved her own life. The chance to find some stability. 

She pulls the office door closed behind her, grateful for the barrier it creates, for the way it muffles the sound she was hiding from. She pauses when she spots the mostly empty bottle of scotch on her mother’s desk, its presence answering a question she’d never dare ask. She walks over and grabs it, pouring herself a measure into one of the crystal glasses Elizabeth kept in here. She then drops the, still not empty, bottle into the trash can, finding satisfaction in the sound it makes as it hits the bottom, the clang echoing around her, briefly blocking out the sound outside. 

She sits on the couch in the corner, sinking into it as she looks at the drink in her hand before she blows out a breath. 

“Happy 21st birthday to me,” she says, taking a sip of the scotch. She drops her head back against the couch cushion, “At least she buys the decent stuff.” 

Her peace is disrupted as the door opens, a brief burst of sound draws her attention towards it. She furrows her brows as she sees one of her mother’s new security agents walk in. He seems just as shocked to see her, freezing in place in the doorway as their eyes meet. 

“Miss Prentiss,” he says, clearing his throat, “I’m sorry I didn’t realise you were in here, I was just looking for some paperwork.” 

She smiles politely at him, “That’s ok Agent…” she drifts off, cursing herself for not remembering his name.

“Hotchner,” he says, finishing for her, his smile polite as he steps further into the room, “Isn’t it your birthday party out there?”

She smiles and nods, “Yes, yes it is. I just needed a break from all of the suitors my mother lined up for me this evening,” she says, and he raises his eyebrow at her, clearly trying to stop himself from smiling, “I’m being serious.”

He smiles politely, “Well, I’ll get what I came for and leave you to it.”

She’s not sure what makes her say it, whether it was the fact he was nice, or because he was handsome, but she’s speaking before she’s aware she’s going to, “You should stay. Have a drink with me.” 

He furrows his brow, a mix of confusion and something close to absolute horror that makes something spark in her chest, “I’m working, I can’t-”

“Come on,” she says, smiling at him, “I won’t tell anyone. Besides, it’s my birthday. It would be rude not to.” 

He thinks about it for a moment, wondering if he should just leave, politely say he had things to do, or if he should stay. His decision is made by the slightly sad sheen to her eyes. He’d never spent much time with her, but she always seemed lonely when he saw her.

“Ok, one drink,” he says, turning to where the glasses are, his eyebrows knitting together when he doesn’t see any liquor. 

“The scotch is in the trash can,” she replies, sipping her drink, finding herself amused by the look on his face, how he doesn’t question what was, on the surface of it, a ludicrous statement. She watches as he pours himself the smallest amount, the amber liquid barely visible from where she is sitting, and he crosses the room and sits next to her, a respectable distance between them.

“Happy Birthday Miss Prentiss,” he says, raising his glass, and she smiles at him. 

“Emily,” she corrects and he nods as he swallows thickly.

“Happy Birthday Emily,” he says, clinking his glass against hers. They exchange a smile and drink. “Your mother seems to be the life of the party.” 

Emily hums and finishes her scotch, letting the liquor burn the back of her throat, “Yeah,” she replies, smiling tightly at him, “She really is,” she looks him up and down, taking in his suit, the way he looked nothing short of an agent. She has an urge to mess with him, to mess up his hair and see what he does, “What does your girlfriend think of you working late?” 

He frowns, “How do you know I have a girlfriend?”

She shrugs, “I can tell,” she says mysteriously, smiling when he looks confused, “You’re a nice guy. The nice ones are rarely single.” 

He clears his throat, feeling his cheeks go warm at the compliment, “She’s okay with it,” he explains, “Haley, my girlfriend, she knows it’s a means to an end.” 

“That’s good,” she replies, watching as he finishes his drink, “I hope she knows she has one of the good ones.”

He chuckles as he stands up, placing the empty glass on the desk before he picks up what he had come in for, “I’ll let her know,” he walks towards the door, “Happy Birthday again, Emily.”

“Thank you for having a drink with me, Agent Hotchner,” she says, and he turns to face her, offering her a half smile. 

“Aaron.” 

She nods and presses her lips together to stop her smile from getting too wide, “Aaron.”

___

October 12, 2000

Emily curses under her breath as she pushes her apartment door open, her arms full of groceries, her briefcase and the birthday gift her colleagues had bought her. 

She makes it to the kitchen counter and dumps everything she’s holding onto it. She turns and closes her front door, making sure it’s locked before she puts away groceries she knows will go bad before she eats them. She pulls out the card her colleagues had given her, the number ‘30’ emblazoned on the front, and she takes a moment to read the messages inside before she sets it down on the counter, next to the one her mother had sent her, and she heads to the fridge. She pours herself a glass of wine and stares at it for a moment, the scar on her abdomen throbbing. 

A silent warning, a phantom of her worst fear - that she’d turn into her mother. After she’d saved her mother’s life, literally giving her part of herself and turning down a once in a lifetime job opportunity to do so, things between them hadn’t got better. There were no apologies from Elizabeth, no thank you. No acknowledgement of what Emily had done. It got too painful to be in DC, to watch her mother act as if nothing had ever happened, so when she’d been offered a job doing translation in the FBI Detriot Field Office she hadn’t thought twice. She’d taken the job and started again, only letting her mother know when it was already a done deal. 

She shakes her head and pours the wine away, tipping it unceremoniously down the sink, before she makes herself a hot chocolate, the warmth of the mug in her hands a comfort. 

She settles on the couch and is about to turn on the TV when she hears the phone ring. She groans and gets up, but sees her mother’s number flashing on the screen and she decides not to answer, feeling wholly not in the mood to listen to comments about her life. Thinly veiled criticisms that she thinks she’d accept from someone else. 

Emily knew she wasn’t entirely happy, but it would do for now. She was content to simply exist until she figured out what she wanted her life to look like. 

She sits back down and waits for the call to ring out, the beep of the voicemail ringing out around her. 

“Emily, I had hoped to catch you, but you may still be at work. I just wanted to say Happy Birthday. When you’re here over Thanksgiving I’ll introduce you to Bruce Cameron’s son. He’s your age and is about to get divorced-”

She rolls her eyes and stops listening after that, not paying attention as she flicks through the menu on the television, finally pressing play on something she knows she also won’t pay attention to when the message comes to an end. 

She couldn’t help but wonder if she should be sadder about her 30th birthday being like this. If the loneliness should bother her, but she was used to it. She had friends here, people who had tried to coerce her into going out for drinks, something she’d got out of by lying and saying she was seeing her boyfriend that night, a man she’d broken up with a few weeks ago without telling anyone. 

Emily sighs as she takes a sip of her hot chocolate and she thinks of her 21st birthday. Of Agent Hotchner and how he’d been nice to her, the few minutes they’d spent in her mother’s office the highlight of her day that year. She hadn’t thought about him in years, but all of a sudden she wonders where he is, what he’s doing. If he’d married the girlfriend she’d tricked him into mentioning. If he had kids. 

It’s something she knows she wants. A family. People in her life she knows love her unconditionally, something she’s not even sure her parents had ever done. 

She just hoped she’d get the chance. That her life wouldn’t pass her by, years melting into decades, as she turned into the one person she told herself she’d never be. 

As she drinks her hot chocolate and barely pays attention to the TV, she idly hopes that one day, life will look a lot different for her. 

___

Emily is woken up by a tiny hand on her face, small fingers and sharp nails digging into her skin. 

“Careful, Lilypad.”

She opens her eyes at the sound of her husband’s voice, and smiles at the sight that greets her. Aaron is sitting on her side of the bed, Lily in his arms, and a tired smile on his face. 

“Happy Birthday, sweetheart.”

“Thank you,” She says as she sits up and stamps a kiss on his lips, her hand ghosting over the back of Lily’s head as she does so before she rests her back against the headboard, her hands reaching out for Lily, “Give me my baby.”

Aaron smiles as he does as he’s told, handing Lily over immediately. Emily laughs when she sees the onesie she’s wearing, one she’s never seen before with flowing words on the front.

Happy Birthday Mommy

“Oh my god,” she exclaims, lifting Lily to press several kisses to her cheek before she settles her into her arms, “You’re so fucking cute.” 

“Em.”

She looks up at Aaron and raises an eyebrow, unable to stop herself from smiling, the happiness and joy in her chest too overwhelming to suppress, “She’s 13 weeks old, Aaron, it’s going to be a while before she picks up on cursing,” she says, her smile only getting wider as Aaron shakes his head at her, love shining in his eyes, “So, what’s the plan for today? Now you can finally tell me.” 

He’d kept it secret from her for weeks. His insistence on planning her birthday for her was as endearing as it was irritating. He’d said not only was it her 40th and special because of that, but it was also her first birthday as a mom, and he wanted it to be perfect. 

Aaron swallows thickly, suddenly nervous that he’d got it wrong, but he nods, “Well, first thing this morning Lily and I went out to your favourite bakery to get those pastries you love.”

“You did?” She says, looking down at Lily, the baby’s hand tangled in her hair, “You’ve been busy this morning, huh?”

Aaron hums in response, smiling at the sight of the two of them together, “By the way the woman at the bakery is obsessed with her.”

“As any sane person would be,” Emily replies, tickling her daughter to make her laugh before she looks back at her husband, “So that’s breakfast?”

“Breakfast and then presents. Then Jack is coming over this afternoon,” he says, his heart warming at how excited she looks, her love for his son one of the many things he adored about her, “And this evening Dave is cooking us your favourite meal, and the team are coming here so Lily and Jack can sleep in their own beds and we don’t have to worry about bedtime being disturbed.” 

“You really thought of everything,” she says, the thought of spending the day with the people who meant the most to her a perfect one. She smiles at him, unhooking a hand from under Lily and wrapping it around the back of his neck, pulling him in for a kiss, “Thank you.” 

“I know it’s a bit simple-”

“Honey, it’s perfect,” she says, stamping another kiss to his lips. She smiles at him as she pulls back, “So, are you worried about no longer having a hot wife in her 30s?” 

“No,” He shakes his head at her and reaches out to tuck some of her hair behind her ear, “You just keep on getting hotter, baby.” 

“Good answer,” She smiles, her cheeks aching with it, and she looks down at Lily, the infant chewing on her fist, “Daddy is so getting laid tonight.” 

“Emily.”

___

The house is bursting at the seams. 

The whole team is there, the gifts and love they brought with them filling all the space. The laughter was so raucous that Emily keeps glancing at the baby monitor, checking the lights on it, just in case she misses Lily crying upstairs. 

As she sits at her dining table, Aaron’s arm slung around the back of her chair with his fingers skimming her shoulder, she feels lucky. She takes a sip of her wine as she looks around, not paying much attention as Derek gives Dave crap about something said on a recent case, the older man taking it in his stride. JJ was smiling wistfully at them in between continuing her conversation with Spencer, her secrecy about her new job something that scared Emily, a feeling she would put away for tonight. Something she’d bury deep inside so she could enjoy this - the life that not all that long ago she convinced herself she’d never have. 

She’s pulled out of her thoughts by the sound of a fork being tapped against a glass, the noise enough to draw everyone's attention, and she looks at her husband, her eyes going wide as she sees him raise his glass, her cheeks already turning pink at the thought of a speech.

“I just wanted to take a moment-”

“Oh God, not a speech,” Derek exclaims, any further protest cut off with a yelp as Penelope stamps on his foot, her eyes narrowed as he looks at her in question. 

“Don’t ruin this for me,” she says, always keen for any insight into Aaron and Emily’s life, and she turns back to the couple in front of her, “Carry on boss-man.” 

Aaron shakes his head and turns to look at Emily, his spare hand on her leg under the table, squeezing softly to stop her protest. They exchange a small smile and she nods. He was never one to talk about how he feels in front of other people, never one to reveal too much, so even though she already felt a little embarrassed she let him carry on.

She could never get enough of his love. It was her lifeline, the very thing she knew she could always rely on. 

“As I was saying,” he says, raising an eyebrow at Derek before he looks around the table, “I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for being here tonight to celebrate Emily’s birthday,” he looks back at his wife, his smile soft, “Em, sweetheart, it’s been 19 years since I first met you and somehow you’re infinitely more interesting and more beautiful than you were even then. I love you and Happy Birthday.” 

She chokes on a sound halfway between a laugh and sob, and is grateful that it’s drowned out by the other’s cheering and clinking their glasses. She had no idea that he remembered. He’d never alluded to it, and neither had she - so sure that it was something that existed only in her memory. A moment between the two of them that was just for her, so worried he didn’t remember it that she hadn’t wanted to embarrass either one of them by bringing it up. 

The sound of crying cuts through everything, and Emily goes to stand, but Aaron stops her, his hand still on her thigh, and he leans in to kiss her cheek.

“I’ve got her,” he says, stamping a kiss against her lips, both of them ignoring Penelope’s enjoyment as Emily places her hand on his cheek and keeps in place a beat longer than he’d intended. He pulls back and smiles at her, “You enjoy yourself.” 

She watches as he leaves, her eyes fixed on him until he disappears from view. 

“Em.” 

She turns to see JJ and Penelope leaning in over the table, “You never told us you met Hotch when you were young.” 

She shrugs, trying to act nonchalant, “It was nothing really,” she says, and both of her friends raise their eyebrows at her. She’s not sure if it’s the wine in her system, or the love that was warming her from the inside out, but she sighs and carries on, “It was my 21st. My mom threw me an awful party and I hid in her office. Aaron was working there at the time, he came in to get something. I made him have the world's quickest drink with me.” 

Penelope squeals and sits back in her chair, her smile so wide Emily’s sure it must hurt, “It’s like you’re meant to be.”

For once, Emily can’t bring herself to say she doesn’t believe in that kind of thing, because she thinks she agrees.

___

“Dave sure knows how to use every dish in a kitchen.” 

Aaron chuckles at his wife as she stacks dishes next to the sink and he walks over, wrapping his arms around her from behind and pulling her into his embrace. He kisses her shoulder, smiling into her skin when it makes her shiver. 

“It’s your birthday, you’re not supposed to be doing the dishes,” he says, his hands on her hips as he turns her in his arms, “I’ll sort them later.”

She nods as she wraps her arms around his neck, her fingers trailing through his hair, “Thank you for everything today,” she says, smiling as thought of it all. Of the jewellery Aaron had bought her, a beautiful necklace with a Lily flower carved into the small disk pendant,  the line of cards on the mantel from the team. The glitter that she knew she’d be finding for months which had come loose from the handmade card that Jack had made, Haley’s neat writing on the inside. 

“You deserve it and more, sweetheart,” he says, leaning in to kiss her, his lips firm against hers. He presses his hand to her lower back to pull her closer. She hums as she pulls away and she rests her head on his shoulder, content to stand there with him. 

“Mom didn’t call,” she says, her cheeks pressing into his shirt, “I knew she wouldn’t, I asked her not to but…” 

It was a complicated feeling, a situation she knew her mother couldn’t win. If she’d contacted her she’d be going against what Emily had asked of her, but it was still her birthday. A big milestone that had gone unmarked. Their usual game of Elizabeth calling and pretending she didn’t know Emily was screening her call, only for Emily to return the call a few days later, nowhere to be found. 

“I know,” he says, kissing the top of her head, “It’s hard.”

“Yeah,” she replies, giving herself a moment before she clears her throat, wanting to only focus on the good today. All the ways she’d been shown that she was loved - everything she’d hoped for as she sat in her apartment in Detriot on her 30th birthday. She bites her lip as she pulls back to look at him, her eyes meeting his as she says what she’d been wanting to say all evening, forcing herself to wait until it was just the two of them, “I didn’t realise you remembered that moment on my 21st,” she says, pressing her lips together, “I…never wanted to bring it up in case you didn’t.” 

Aaron cups the back of her head, “Sweetheart, there is nothing on earth that would ever make me forget you,” he says, his fingers trailing through her hair, “Even then I was fascinated by you.” 

She blushes and bites the inside of her cheek, “Why did you never mention it?” 

“I didn’t think you remembered,” he says, and she raises an eyebrow at him, “I’m serious, I really thought you forgot. Then a few weeks ago when we went looking for that scotch for Dave, you picked up that bottle and said-”

“I drank this on my 21st.” 

He smiles as she finishes his sentence, “Yeah. And then I realised you remembered too.” 

She leans in to kiss him, her lips firm against his, and she loses herself in the feeling of him, of the way she was drowning in his affection. They eventually pull back, both breathless with swollen lips. She looks towards the diffraction of the stairs.

“How long do you think we have until Lily wakes up?”

He looks at his watch, “Maybe 20 minutes?”

She smiles devilishly at him and pulls away just enough to push herself onto the kitchen counter, “Then we’d better be quick.” 

She pulls him in by his shirt collar and kisses him again before he can complain, her legs wrapping tightly around his waist. 

He was going to clean the kitchen in the morning anyway, so she saw no harm in making it a little dirtier beforehand. 

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Evening Echo - November 25, 1991

TRIBUTES POUR IN AFTER AIDS KILLS QUEEN STAR

There’ll never be another King Freddie

Fans and friends of pop star Freddie Mercury were today mourning his death from AIDS.

The 45-year-old singer of rock group Queen died during the night, just hours after telling the world he had the disease.

He died peacefully at his luxury home in Kensington, west London, said his publicist Roxy Meade, adding “His death was the result of broncho-pneumonia brought on by AIDS.”

Mercury, who is to be cremated in a private ceremony later this week, confirmed only on Saturday that he was suffering from the disease. He issued a statement saying he wanted to end specualtion about his health.

Figures from the music world today paid tribute to the flamboyant star.

Disc jockey and comedian Kenny Everett, a close friend of the singer, told Independent Radio News: “He burnt the candle at both ends - and in the middle.”

Unique

Musician-turned-politician Screaming Lord Sutch, who played on the same bills as Queen at colleges in the early 1970s, said: “We have lost a most original and entertaining singer who inspired many, many people. He was a unique talent.”

He said Mercury deserved to ranked alongside the likes of Mick Jagger and Elvis Presley.

“We have no one else left like him except Mick Jagger. Like Presley he had the looks, physique, movement and that outrageous voice. It was almost like he had too much talent to pack into one body.”

Mercury rose to fame with Queen in the 1970s.

The Sheer Heart Attack album gave the band a big hit with Killer Queen but it was A Night At The Opera which produced massive number one Bohemian Rhapsody.

Mercury will also be remembered for his outrageous pop videos and stupendous performance when Queen took part in the Live Aid concert at Wembley in 1985.

Rock critic Paul Gambaccini praised Mercury’s abundance of talents and his professionalism.

“What a star. They don’t make them like him any more. He really gave life and showmanship to the form,” Mr. Gambaccini said in an interview on TV-am.

“He could command an audience, hold an audience in the palm of his hand. The ultimate was when he and the group absolutely stole Live Aid.”

The group’s release of the Bohemian Rhapsody video in the mid-seventies also had a lasting effect.

“Let’s give them credit for the video revolution,” Mr. Gambaccini said. “Without Bohemian Rhapsody the whole video revolution which we now have with MTV and all that, would never have happened.”

Mercury had talent, fame, amassed a huge fortune and had everything money could buy except the one thing he really craved - true love.

He once said: “You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man, and that is the most bitter type of loneliness.”

He never made any secret of his bisexuality saying: “I’ve had a lot of lovers. I’ve tried relationships on either side - male and female. But all of them have gone wrong.”

[brotheralyosha]

Obama cops early on to possessing “a deep self-consciousness,” or what the Nigerian American novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in by far the longest book review in the history of The New York Times, characterized as “a man watching himself watch himself.” He tells readers nothing new about his childhood, college experiences, or his young adulthood as a community organizer on Chicago’s Far South Side in the mid-1980s, but he does expressly confirm how Harold Washington, the city’s first African American mayor, whom Obama once met only briefly, served as a profound inspiration for him. “Above all, Harold gave people hope,” and “For me, this planted a seed. It made me think for the first time that I wanted to someday run for public office.”

After less than three years as an organizer, “I left for Harvard Law School … with my motives open to interpretation” and “my own ambitions” very much in mind. By early in his second year, Obama admits “knowing even then that the practice of law would be no more than a way station for me.” Just before his 1991 graduation, he told his then-fiancée, Michelle, “I could even see myself running for office.” Michelle’s brother Craig has long told of how Barack volunteered to him that those aspirations included the presidency.

Back in Chicago, Obama began his political career within less than five years by winning election almost unopposed to a seat in the Illinois state Senate. “The first two years in the legislature were fine,” notwithstanding his wife’s intense distaste for how often the job took him away from home, but “by the end of my second session, I could feel the atmosphere of the capitol weighing on me,” particularly as a junior member of the minority party. In addition, Michelle was increasingly unhappy, for they now had a newborn baby in their young family. “This isn’t what I signed up for, Barack. I feel like I’m doing it all by myself.”

Obama acknowledges that “I knew I was falling short,” but his response to this conundrum was to run for Congress, challenging the well-known incumbent and onetime Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush. “Almost from the start, the race was a disaster,” and the result was “a humiliating defeat” in which Obama won barely 30 percent of the vote. In its wake, “I recognized … I’d been driven … by the need to justify the choices I had already made” in pursuing a political career and “to satisfy my ego, or to quell my envy” of others. “In other words, I had become the very thing that, as a younger man, I had warned myself against. I had become a politician.”

This is an unforgettable self-critique and confession, as Obama admits that even in the face of his wife’s intensifying opposition to his life in politics, he was simply unable to quell his ambition for electoral success. Oddly, he then quickly narrates his decision to undertake a statewide race for a U.S. Senate seat without any similar self-revelation as to how he justified this initially long-shot undertaking in the face of such a daunting self-portrait. In the end, Obama triumphed thanks to self-inflicted wounds on the part of two top-tier opponents and a superb last-minute television advertising campaign. At age 43, following a breakout address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he found himself a widely heralded U.S. senator, much to his wife’s amazement.

Ensconced in his new office, “I figured I had all the time in the world” to ponder a subsequent race for Illinois’s governorship or the presidency some years in the future. Yet within just a year’s time, Obama’s ambition once again surged to the fore. Rather unconvincingly, Obama asserts that a disastrous hurricane and a brief early-2006 trip to an American military quagmire altered his relaxed timetable. “Katrina and my Iraq visit put a stop to all that. Change needed to come faster,” and so “by the spring of 2006, the idea of me running for president in the next election … no longer felt outside the realm of possibility.”

When Obama first broached the idea with his wife, Michelle was unsurprisingly furious. “When is it going to be enough?” she asked, and her anger echoed something she had told him years earlier: “It’s like you have a hole to fill … That’s why you can’t slow down.” Obama concedes the point. “Was I still trying to prove myself worthy to a father who had abandoned me” and was now long dead? “Whatever it was in me that needed healing, whatever kept me reaching for more” was the root of his unquenchable ambition, but Obama plumbs the question no further.

Eight months later, on the night of November 6, 2006, Obama returned home after the last of countless campaign appearances on behalf of other Democrats, appearances at which crowds responded far more to him than to the actual candidates. In what is without question the most notable passage in A Promised Land, Obama recounts what he says is a dream that awoke him late that night. “I imagined myself stepping toward a portal of some sort … And behind me, out of the darkness, I heard a voice, sharp and clear … uttering the same word again and again. No. No. No. I jolted out of bed, my heart racing, and went downstairs to pour myself a drink. I sat alone in the dark, sipping vodka, my nerves jangled, my brain in sudden overdrive. My deepest fear, it turned out, was no longer of irrelevance … The fear came from my realization that I could win” the Democratic nomination and then the presidency, should he indeed declare his candidacy.

This is an indelible admission for a world-famous figure, yet to date not a single English-language commentator on Obama’s memoir has highlighted and quoted this passage, a comprehensive web search confirms. Yet it seems beyond doubt that some part of Obama’s brain was attempting to rein in his snowballing ambition, warning him—“No. No. No.”—not to pursue the chalice of which he had long dreamed. But as clearly as Obama remembered that late-night vision, he cast the warning aside and pursued the presidency just as he had long planned.

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Donald Trump is running for the presidency of an America that no longer exists.

Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly reprised two of Richard Nixon’s most memorable rallying cries, promising to deliver “law and order” for the “silent majority.” But in almost every meaningful way, America today is a radically different country than it was when Nixon rode those arguments to win the presidency in 1968 amid widespread anti-war protests, massive civil unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., white flight from major cities, and rising crime rates. Trump’s attempt to emulate that strategy may only prove how much the country has changed since it succeeded.

Americans today are far more racially diverse, less Christian, better educated, more urbanized, and less likely to be married. In polls they are more tolerant of interracial and same-sex relationships, more likely to acknowledge the existence of racial discrimination, and less concerned about crime.

Almost all of these changes complicate Trump’s task in trying to rally a winning electoral coalition behind his alarms against marauding “angry mobs,” “far-left fascism,” and “the violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats.” The Americans he is targeting with his messages of racial resentment and cultural backlash are uniformly a smaller share of American society now than they were then.

Not all the country’s changes present headwinds for Trump. The population is older now, and older white voters in particular remain a receptive audience for Trump’s messages of cultural and racial division (even if his mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak has notably softened his support among him). Fifty years ago, Southern evangelicals still mostly leaned toward the Democratic Party; now they have become a pillar of the Republican coalition. And while many Northern white Catholics back then might have recoiled from Trump-style attacks on immigrants as a smear on their own heritage, now “when Trump talks about making America great again,” more of them “see themselves as part of that country that is getting protected,” says Robert P. Jones, the founder and chief executive of the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the author of White Too Long, a new book on Christian churches and white supremacy.

[David Frum: This is Trump’s plague now]

Together, those shifts have solidified for Republicans a much more reliable advantage among white voters without a college education than they enjoyed in Nixon’s era. Like Trump, who once declared “I love the poorly educated,” Nixon recognized that he was shifting the GOP’s traditional class basis. On “tough problems, the uneducated are the ones that are with us,” Nixon told his White House advisers, according to David Paul Kuhn’s vivid new book about blue-collar backlash in that era, The Hardhat Riot. “The educated people and the leader class,” Nixon continued, “no longer have any character, and you can’t count on them.”

Trump might echo both of those assessments. But he is offering them to a very different audience. The demographic shifts that have most reshaped politics since Nixon’s day sit at the crossroads of race, education, and religion.

From the 2016 GOP primaries forward, white voters without a college education have provided Trump’s largest group of loyalists. In the 1968 presidential election, that group comprised nearly 80 percent of all voters, according to post-election surveys by both the Census Bureau and the University of Michigan’s American National Election Studies. White Americans holding at least a four-year college degree represented about 15 percent of voters, with non-whites, almost all of them Black, comprising the remainder, at just under 10 percent. (Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz analyzed the ANES data for me.)

That electorate is unrecognizable now. The nonpartisan States of Change project has forecast that non-college-educated white Americans will likely constitute 42 percent of voters in November, not much more than half their share in 1968. States of Change anticipates that both college-educated whites and voters of color will represent about 30 percent of voters in 2020. For the former group, that’s about twice their share in 1968; for the latter, that’s somewhere between a three- and four-fold increase.

The change is just as dramatic when looking at the nation’s religious composition. White Christians comprised fully 85 percent of all American adults in 1968, according to figures from Gallup, provided to me by senior editor Jeffrey M. Jones. They now represent only half as much of the population, 42 percent, according to PRRI’s latest national figures.

The groups that have grown since then reflect the nation’s increasing racial and religious diversity. In 1968, non-white Christians represented only 8 percent of Americans; now that’s tripled to just over 24 percent in the PRRI study. Most explosive has been the growth of those who identify as secular or unaffiliated with any religious tradition. They represented just 3 percent of Americans in 1968; now it’s 24 percent.

Other shifts in society’s structure since that era are equally profound. Census Bureau reports show that a much smaller share of adults are married now than they were then. Only about half as many Americans live in small-town or rural communities outside of major metropolitan areas. The share with at least some college experience is about triple its level then.

Across all these dimensions, the consistent pattern is this: The groups Trump hopes to mobilize—non-college-educated, non-urban, married, and Christian white voters—have significantly shrunk as a share of the overall society in the last 50 years. The groups most alienated from him include many of the ones that have grown over those decades: college- educated white people, people of color, seculars, singles, and residents of the large metro areas.

Trump faces two other big challenges in channeling Nixon. One is that the crime rate, especially the rate of violent crime, doesn’t provide as compelling a backdrop for a law-and-order message as it did during the 1960s. The overall violent-crime rate increased by more than 50 percent just from 1964 to 1968, en route to doubling by the early 1970s. Robberies per person more than doubled between 1960 and 1968. The murder rate soared by 40 percent just between 1964 and 1968; by 1972 it was nearly 85 percent higher than in 1964. In Gallup surveys from September 1968, 13 percent of college-educated white voters, 11 percent of non-college-educated white voters, and 9 percent of non-white voters identified crime as the biggest problem facing the nation.

Today, overall crime rates are much lower, a change that’s made possible the revival of central cities around the country. After violent crime peaked in 1991, it declined fairly steadily for about 15 years. It’s proved more volatile over the past decade: The violent-crime rate fell from 2008 to 2014, then rose through 2016 and has dipped again since. As Trump did in 2016, with his dark warnings about “American carnage” following the uptick in crime late in Barack Obama’s second term, he is again using recent findings of elevated murder rates in some cities to raise the specter of Democrats unleashing a new crime surge. “Despite the left-wing sowing chaos in communities all across the country … and the heart breaking murders in Democrat controlled cities like Chicago, New York City, and Atlanta, Joe Biden has turned his back on any semblance of law and order,” the Republican National Committee warned in a press release yesterday morning.

But James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said that any crime spikes this year amount to “short-term fluctuation [in] a long-term trend” toward greater safety. “We’ve enjoyed, really since the early 1990s, a decline in crime,” he told me. “From year to year, some cities see decreases, some see increases, [but] there’s no crime wave … although Trump may want to construct one—a trumped-up one.”

Though polls generally show concern about crime hasn’t fallen as fast as crime itself, Americans haven’t entirely missed this long-term trajectory: In June Gallup polling, just 3 percent of adults cited crime as the nation’s top problem, far less than in 1968.

Trump’s other big obstacle is that racial attitudes have shifted since then. That’s partly because people of color represent such a larger share of American society. But it’s also because college-educated and secular white Americans, who tend to hold more inclusive views on racial issues than non-college-educated and Christian whites, are also a bigger portion of the white population. Gallup polling in 1968 consistently documented a high level of white anxiety about the pace of racial change: Almost half of white Americans said the federal government was moving too fast to promote integration; two-thirds said Black people did not face discrimination in hiring; and, most strikingly, a bristling three-fifths majority supported a policy of shooting looters on sight during riots. On each front, college-educated white people were less likely to express conservative views than those without degrees, but even they split about evenly on these questions.

[Read: The rage unifying boomers and Gen Z]

A half-century later, racism remains ever-present in America. But many more white people appear willing to acknowledge its persistence, especially in the national debate that has followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A recent Monmouth poll found that most white people now agree police are more likely to use deadly force against African Americans, while CNN found that most whites agree the criminal-justice system is biased. And while Trump has called Black Lives Matter “a symbol of hate,” three-fifths of white people expressed support for the movement in a June Pew Research Center poll. White people with a college degree were consistently more likely than those without one to express such liberal views on race, but these perspectives claimed significant support among non-college white Americans as well.

Those attitudes point toward a final key difference from 1968. Back then, many anxious white voters genuinely believed Nixon could deliver law and order; but today, many white Americans, especially those with degrees, have concluded that Trump himself is increasing the risk of lawlessness and disorder. In one particularly striking result, Quinnipiac University last month found that college-educated white people were twice as likely to say that having Trump as president made them feel less safe rather than more safe. That’s a very different equation than Nixon faced: Though he may have considered “the uneducated” the most receptive audience for his hardline messages, he overwhelmingly won college-educated white voters too, carrying about two-thirds of them in both of his victories, according to the ANES. Some recent polls have shown Trump carrying only one-third of them now.

Trump still has an audience for his neo-Nixonian warnings about an approaching wave of disorder: In that same Quinnipiac survey, a solid plurality of white voters without a degree said they feel more safe with Trump as president (even though many blue-collar whites have also expressed unease about his response to the protests). In a PRRI poll last year, majorities of white Protestants, Catholics, and especially evangelicals said discrimination against white people was as big a problem as bias against minorities. Yet both these groups—working-class and Christian white voters—will each likely comprise only about half as many of the voters in November as they did when Nixon prevailed five decades ago.

Those numbers won’t become any more favorable for Republicans in the years ahead: While white Americans accounted for four-fifths of the nation’s total population growth from 1960 through 1968, Frey noted in a recent report that all of the nation’s population growth since 2010 has been among people of color; the final 2020 Census, he concludes, will likely find that this has been the first decade ever when the absolute number of white people in the country declines. The shift in the nation’s religious composition is as unrelenting: Jones says that the share of adults in their twenties who identify as secular grew from 10 percent in 1986 to 20 percent in 1996 to nearly 40 percent in PRRI’s latest study. Only one-fourth of adults younger than 30 now identify as white Christians.

Trump hopes that reprising Nixon-style messages about disorder will allow him to mobilize massive margins and turnout among the white voters who feel threatened by these changes. But the country’s underlying evolution shows how narrow a path Trump has chosen. He is betting the Republican future on resurrecting a past that is dissolving before his eyes.

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source: Classic Rock November 15, 2006

The Story Behind The Song: Rooster by Alice In Chains

By Henry Yates (Classic Rock) November 15, 2006

Rooster by Alice In Chains was Jerry Cantrell’s tribute to his Vietnam veteran dad, and it showed a different kind of dark side to the band

Rooster by Alice In Chains may have become one of the band’s defining tracks, but it came from humble beginnings. When guitarist Jerry Cantrell found himself temporarily homeless at the start of 1991, he turned to a fellow grunge legend for help. “I was between places to live at that time,” Cantrell recalls, “so I moved in with [Soundgarden singer] Chris Cornell and his wife Susan Silver at their house in Seattle. Susan was managing Alice In Chains at the time. I stayed for a few weeks, up in this little room.”

Alone, late at night, Cantrell’s thoughts kept turning to his estranged father, whose psychological scars from his service in the Vietnam War had contributed to the breakdown of the family some years earlier. “That experience in Vietnam changed him forever,” explains Cantrell, “and it certainly had an effect on our family, so I guess it was a defining moment in my life, too.

“He didn’t walk out on us. We left him. It was an environment that wasn’t good for anyone, so we took off to live with my grandmother in Washington, and that’s where I went to school. I didn’t have a lot of my father around, but I started thinking about him a lot during that period.”

Sitting in front of a four-track recorder, the song that poured out of Cantrell might have been laced with bitterness. Instead, its harrowing lyrics were written from the standpoint of his father; describing the ‘stinging sweat’ and ‘mosquito death’ of a trek through the jungle, and an imagined skirmish with the Vietcong.

The title was the nickname given to Cantrell Snr. by his great-grandfather: “Apparently he was a cocky little kid, and his hair used to stick up on top of his head like a rooster’s comb.”

“I certainly had resentments,” Cantrell notes, “as any young person does in a situation where a parent isn’t around or a family is split. But on Rooster, I was trying to think about his side of it – what he might have gone through. To be honest, I didn’t really sit down intending to do any of that; it just kinda came out.

But that’s the great thing about music – sometimes it can reach deeper than you ever would in a conversation with anybody. It’s more of a forum to dig deeper.” Alice In Chains had enjoyed some success with their 1990 debut album Facelift and its single Man In The Box, but Rooster was arguably the first song to announce the depth of the band’s talent.

Cantrell recalls that “it felt like a major achievement for me as a young writer,” and this sentiment was echoed when he played the demo to vocalist Layne Staley, bassist Mike Starr and drummer Sean Kinney.

When it came to recording Rooster, the band turned a prior engagement to their advantage. “Cameron Crowe had already come to us to ask for a song for his movie Singles,” recalls Cantrell. “So in the session that was meant for recording that one song [Would?], we ended up demoing about 10 songs, which included all the stuff that ended up on the [1992] Sap EP, Rooster and a couple of others from Dirt.”

Rooster by Alice In Chains: the video

Rooster was taped at Eldorado Studios on LA’s Sunset Boulevard, which the band co- produced with Dave Jerden. “It turned out to be really powerful,” notes Cantrell, “and the way Layne sang on it is amazing.”

Similarly powerful was the video, in which director Mark Pellington [fresh from Pearl Jam’s Jeremy] interspersed scenes of Apocalypse Now-style brutality with an interview with Cantrell’s father.

“My father had never talked about that time in his life, and was reluctant to do so if anyone ever asked,” recalls the guitarist. “So I was amazed that he agreed to do Mark’s request, for about an hour, on film.

“He was totally cool, totally calm, accepted it all and had a good time doing it,” Cantrell added in the notes for 1999’s Music Bank box set. “It even brought him to the point of tears. He said it was a weird experience, a sad experience and he hoped that nobody else had to go through it.”

Released as a single in 1993. Rooster drew immediate praise, both among followers of grunge and further afield.

“I’ve been all around the world,” explains Cantrell, “and I’ve talked to combat vets from Desert Storm and the recent war in Iraq – and they have a deep affinity with that song. I just recently got a letter from a guy in Iraq who told me his unit had changed their call sign to Rooster. Obviously it’s unfortunate that guys still have to fight for political ends. But it’s cool that people connect with that song; for it to be part of them getting through.”

And yet Rooster’s greatest triumph was ultimately a personal one. Against all the odds, the song repaired the fractured relationship between father and son.

“When I first played it to my father,” recalls Cantrell, “I asked him if I’d got close to where he might have been emotionally or mentally in that situation. And he told me: ‘You got too close – you hit it on the head’. It meant a lot to him that I wrote it. It brought us closer. It was good for me in the long-run and it was good for him, too.”

The Story Behind The Song: Rooster by Alice In Chains source: Classic Rock November 15, 2006 The Story Behind The Song: Rooster by Alice In Chains…

[keanuquotes]

This is the list.  The Keanu filmography.

The Prodigal (1984) Letting Go (1985) One Step Away (1985) Babes in Toyland (1986) Dream to Believe / Flying / Teenage Dream (1986) Under the Influence (1986) River's Edge (1986) The Brotherhood of Justice (1986) Young Again (1986) Act of Vengeance (1986) Youngblood (1986) The Servant (1988) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988) Permanent Record (1988) The Night Before (1988) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) Life Under Water (1989) Parenthood (1989) Tune in Tomorrow... / Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1990) I Love You to Death (1990) Point Break (1991) Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) My Own Private Idaho (1991) Providence (1991) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Echo (1993) Little Buddha (1993) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) Freaked (1993) Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Speed (1994) Johnny Mnemonic (1995) A Walk in the Clouds (1995) Feeling Minnesota (1996) Chain Reaction (1996) The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) The Devil's Advocate (1997) Me and Will (1999) 

The Matrix (1999) 

The Replacements (2000) The Watcher (2000) The Gift (2000) Hardball (2001) Sweet November (2001) The Matrix Reloaded (2003) The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Something's Gotta Give (2003) Constantine (2005) Thumbsucker (2005) Ellie Parker (2005) A Scanner Darkly (2006) The Lake House (2006) Street Kings (2008) The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) Bollywood Hero (2009) Henry's Crime (2010) Sunset Strip (2012) Side by Side (2012) Generation Um... (2012) Man of Tai Chi (2013) 47 Ronin (2013) John Wick (2014) Knock Knock (2015) Deep Web (2015) The Bad Batch (2016) The Whole Truth (2016) The Neon Demon (2016) Keanu (2016) Exposed (2016) SPF-18 (2017)   John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) To the Bone (2017) Siberia (2018) Destination Wedding (2018) 

Replicas (2019) 

John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019)

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[bowietracks]

What is a concept album? There are many answers to this, but one thing for such is that it is not necessarily one thing, and that one thing is a narrative. Nic Pegg – who nonetheless loves the song – writes on Soul Love: ‘Only the most overworked imagination could slot this song directly into a Ziggy Stardust narrative’ (253). A concept album need not have a narrative – indeed, lots of modernist art, arthouse cinema, avant-garde books turn away from narrative all the time. Do they have themes? Is a theme a concept? Of course (think of Pink Floyd’s Animals [1977]). Tho again, not necessarily. Rather than think of the word concept as synonymous with narrative, or theme, and so on, we should ask – what is a concept? But even here things get tricky. Are concepts abstract mental thoughts that are actualized in the world, or do they emerge from the world to become generalized ideas? And one more thing, in their book What is Philosophy? (1991), Deleuze and Guattari say concepts are philosophical, and that an equivalent in art would be sensations. So let us ask, what are the sensations? What are the perceptions, affects and thoughts that arise from an encounter with the song? In this way, it seems to me Pegg is poking us with a sharp stick here. For his commentary on the song is wonderful: ‘Compared with the rest of the album it initially seems an unusually compassionate song, a series of wistful moments in love: a mother grieving at her son’s grave, the son’s love of the ideal for which he died… a pair of young lovers… and the love of “God on high”,’ to which I would add the caveat this love of God is positioned as the Priest’s love for God, and the narrative that then is told by the priest. Nonetheless, leaving aside I see ‘Rock n Roll Suicide’ as one of Bowie’s most compassionate and empathetic songs, Pegg is correct – what we get in Soul Love is a taxonomy of love, love is a complex concept, a complex sensation that manifests in manifold ways. Yet Pegg goes on: ‘on closer inspection there’s a nihilistic undercurrent… he rails against “idiot love” which “descends on those defenseless” and bleakly concludes that “love is not loving”… [and] Bowie’s scorn for institutions and causes… “gave his life to save the slogan”… [and] “the blindness that surrounds him” [of] “[t]he priest”, already a character in “Five Years”.’ And this connection with Five Years extends to the music, that song’s tempo and drumbeat outro echoed in the tempo and drumbeat of the intro to Soul Love. How will love manifest itself as the world ends, Bowie seems to be asking, and answering, just as always… a complex of delusion, confusion, bad and good faith, and – of course – a love so strong it tears hearts to sleep… 

Written by David Bowie. Recorded 12 November 1971. Released 16 June 1972. Available on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

[dclphinedupont]

Hello friendships! If you want to get to know Delphine a bit better, I’ve attached her bio under the read more! I’ll be working on her wanted connections page later tonight, but if you want to plot anything out of if you have any wanted connections you’d like me to fill, please let me know! 

like this post and I’ll slide into your dms! 

* IN CHARACTER INFORMATION

GOD/GODDESS & FULL CHARACTER NAME:

Hecate / Delphine “Phi” Dupont

FACE CLAIM:

Lucy Boynton

AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: 

28 / November 8, 1991

PRONOUNS & SEXUALITY:

She/Her and Pansexual

BIOGRAPHY BULLET POINTS

Her fondest memories were composed of moments heavy with cigarette smoke, bright purple nail-polish, the scent of burning sage and the Beatles. Her parents were big on that whole aesthetic, and Phi loved everything about it. She remembers sitting on her father’s lap as her mother danced in the middle of their living room to “Yellow Submarine”, skirts swooshing against her legs, smile bright and wide against the candlelight. Her father would wrap his fully tattooed arms around her and laugh full and loud and she would feel safe. She would feel loved. She would feel happy. That was home.

Her parents were good people with bad habits, that was how she liked to describe them.

“Keep the car door locked, Phi. Open it only when you see us.” Her mother would tell her, hands on both sides of her face as her father jimmied the lock off the door of a particularly large house. Phi would nod and smile in obedience before watching her parents tip-toe up the cobblestone pathway of other people’s homes, coming back with sacks upon sacks of shiny objects that Phi wasn’t allowed to touch. Then they would drive away and head home, “Hey Jude” playing softly on the radio.  

Her parents get caught when she’s around thirteen years old. She’ll never forget the look on her father’s face as he’s forced to the ground by men with guns, her mother screaming for them not to take her daughter. “She didn’t do anything! She didn’t know anything!” It echoed in her head like a broken record, throat raw as she tried to claw her way to get to them, only to have to watch them leave her behind on the back of a squad car. That was the day her world went off kilter.

She doesn’t do well in foster care. They call her ‘the runner’ because she always manages to wiggle her way past her foster guardians to visit her parents in jail. Time after time, she would find them, talk to them, beg them to take her home because she didn’t like her ‘new parents’. There was always something wrong with them. They didn’t like Beatles. They took away all her healing crystals. They wouldn’t let her dye her hair. “They aren’t you…” She just wanted to go home.

She gets adopted at sixteen, and she’s almost positive the Walters see her as more of a pet than a daughter. They’re blonde, just like her, and she thinks they’ve adopted her mostly because she looks good with the rest of their perfectly pristine furniture. She hates them almost immediately, but they’re definitely her ticket out of foster care, so she rides it out for a while. They take her ‘home’ and they’re probably the blandest people she’s ever met. The antithesis of her true parents. Her hatred for them grows, and she doesn’t even feel bad for pocketing whatever valuable item she might find.  

By the time she’s eighteen, she saves up (steals) enough money to pay for a terrific lawyer for her parents. She hasn’t seen them as much as before, but god she’s so close to getting them out, getting them home. She’s sure they wouldn’t mind that it’s been only a few months since her last visit. They’ll forgive her. They always do. She makes her way to where they’re being held with high hopes and a warm heart. She leaves with mascara running down her cheeks and trembling legs, escorted by more than a few police officers, reminiscent of the day they took her parents away from her.

Death penalty is legal in about thirty states. South Carolina is one of them.

She runs away not too long after. She has more than enough money to get her by for a few more months, but by the time she gets to Louisiana, she only has enough money to pay rent for another two. She pokes her nose into a couple of job openings, attempts to waitress for a bit (she ends up being fired on account of burning some customers with spilled coffee) and tries her hand at retail (she gets caught stealing a few earrings), before finally making her way to the front desk of an auto-shop that may grows to be her saving grace.

For the first time in a long time… she doesn’t want to run away.

Her fondest memories were still heavy with cigarette smoke, and painted nails (her own, long and noisy against counter tops). They let her play the Beatles and they don’t take away her sage, and things… things are good. Now though, there’s the sound of loud motorcycles revving and the nose-wrinkling scent of wax. There’s nights spent guarding the door and the clinking of glasses swimming with whiskey… And it was home… It was now her home.

CHARACTER TRAITS: 

( + ) Eccentric - If there was one thing her parents have ingrained in her system, it was that individuality should be a pillar trait in one’s psyche. Be colorful, be loud, be you. Go against the grain and make sure people knew who you were while you did it. Phi was more than happy to comply, of course. From her fashion, to her mannerisms, to her beliefs, there was not an inch of conformity to be found if she could help it. She enjoyed bright colors and long nails, ostentatious outfits and odd knick-knacks. Also, prepare to be blessed with sage when you enter the auto-shop, she has a few rolls hidden under her plants.

( + ) Charming - She flourishes at the front desk for a reason. She’s a tad bit of a talker, but surprisingly not the obnoxious kind. When you’re in foster care, you tend to meet a lot of people, take notice of their ticks and understand how to read them. Because of this, she adapts herself to each person, tickling every nerve for easy charming. When asked how she does it so effortlessly, she jokes that she’s cast a spell on the free mints she gives them.

( + ) Cunning - You don’t get away with stealing from your adoptive family for two years without having a little meat up in that old noggin. Phi lacked many things. She wasn’t the strongest, wasn’t the best at school, wasn’t the prettiest, but if there was one thing she knew how to do, it was slither her way through situations in a very machiavellian fashion. Be wary of her smile, for it holds more than mirth on many occasions.

( - ) Reckless - Despite her skill in evading trouble, she does little to avoid it altogether. She’s more than reckless with her decisions. She enjoys to steal when upset with someone, and she does so without thinking of the consequences. Her decisions are made almost purely out of emotion and she sees no reason to change that part of herself. It gets her into more trouble than you would think, and sometimes her smile won’t get her out of it.

( - ) Tactless - What gets her in trouble most of the time is her tongue. Why? She can never seem to hold it. What comes into mind is exactly what she says, and it doesn’t matter who she’s talking to. Whatever authority you might have, she doesn’t feel the need to put a filter, and that more than anything may lead to her demise if not careful.

( - ) Manipulative - She knows how to play people, knows how to be the puppet-master when no one expects it from her. She hides behind sweet smiles and carefully picked words, and most of the time, her dirty work is done by someone else because of a quick kiss and a flutter of her eye-lashes.

PLOT IDEAS

Someone from her foster-home - I’m sure she’s made more than meaningful relationships in foster-care, people who’ve met her before the death of her parents and while she was still seeing them. Someone who perhaps either helped her escape foster care to visit prison or perhaps tried to stop her.

A special someone that ties/tied her to the Primordials - This can either be an ongoing thing or a past relationship. Despite her feeling at home amidst the chaos of the Primordials, it would be fun to have a special bond with someone that would truly solidify her place in the group.

[lapeaudelamemoire]

Other things that have occurred to me: I delineate things I love in your language. I delineate things I love in the languages of the people I've loved. It's rudimentary, little tiny links left that take up the least effort, merely nominal, but I express dismay in your tongue or another's. I rarely swear by saying 'Fuck' any more. Rarely say 'What is this?!' in English any more. I say 'I love' in your language. I say 'my heart' in your language. I say 'mine' in your language; 'I' in your language; 'me'. It's a small space to occupy, almost meaningless to anyone but me; perhaps even performative to others. What I wanted to be changed when I met you. My wants altered. The languages I turned towards made space for yours. My motivation made room for you. Was it that my priorities changed, that I wanted less? Did I want to be a Good Wife more than I wanted to be a Free Woman? Maybe yes, but also maybe both. Mostly, I loved you (all the answers coming now) because, just as the line in Luv(sic) says, I liked the way we sounded together. I liked my life against the soundtrack of yours; it resonated, made it more. I liked my music and myself against your sound, how it blended together to make something I recognised that I loved. I love that track and your Polish music because it's a poetry I recognised as such, against a beat I knew from and that had scored a good deal of my youth. Mostly it was what we said, about recognising something in the other, and finding it beautiful; was it not? I liked where we met, that juxtaposition of what and who I was against what and who you were. Some things fit together; some collaborations beautiful in their art. What was that graffiti event you liked and went to once, that roams across the world? Meeting of styles. I liked the places your culture and mine met; the common ground that, in the practice questions of the psychology course I'm doing, is defined as the similar grammatical features between speaker and listener; the "mutual knowledge, mutual beliefs, and mutual assumptions” that is essential for communication between two people (Clark & Brennan, 1991)". Conversationally speaking, I understand you perhaps more even than some I've met after you. Striking in your grasp of the English language, your fluency that occasionally strikes poetic ground, the romanticism of your culture showing through. You said no one translated you better than you yourself, but your translation of some lyrics, some words, some things, for me, fell no short. (I think the closest answer I came to giving was that I loved you because you're you.) I think perhaps I was reluctant to pay attention to school because I couldn't find anything of you in it; and I was looking for you everywhere, or, looking everywhere for you. I think, perhaps, that it seemed to be taking me further from you, no echoes, no reminders; that what I wanted to pay attention to remained you. Wasn't that how I ended up at Polish festival last November; bars I knew you'd love; read books where I found mention of placki in the last pages, poetry that resounded with what sounded like how it felt towards you? Your gravitational pull like one of those sci-fi occurrences where once within it, it takes so much to get out of; how without check it slams you against the planet and into the ground towards its core; like a black hole that caught me and from which one is nearly never heard from or seen again. Your carelessness perhaps because of a lack of recognition of power. For those who don't believe in god, one is their own god. For those who don't believe in god, man, perhaps, is. It was easier to believe in you than it was to believe in god. Easier to see what you'd done than god. What does that say? (You are more present [for me] than god.)

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🆒 📷 Gallery: When Take That came to Bournemouth | Bournemouth Daily Echo

«"Screaming pop fans had the chance to meet their idols as the chart-topping band Take That appeared in Bournemouth."

So began a Daily Echo report on August 7, 1992, as the rising band of the day appeared at the 2CR FM roadshow on the Pier Approach.

But the screams would be even louder the following year when more than 12,000 would see them at the BIC.

Neither gig was the Take That’s first appearance in the area. According to Echo reports from the time of those sell-out BIC concerts, they had appeared a couple of years earlier as pop wannabes at Herbert Carter School.

For the 2CR FM roadshow, they were the last act in a two-hour live broadcast, promoting a new single, I Found Heaven. But the loudest screams were for It Only Takes a Minute, which had made the top five the previous month.

A little over a year later, the band were in a different league again.

The Echo reported on Saturday, November 6, 1993, that three “massive” concerts at the BIC had entertainments bosses “gearing up for life on the front line of teenage hysteria”.

The group – Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams – were riding high on the success of their album Everything Changes and their recent number one single Relight My Fire.

There would be 12,300 tickets for the three stage shows. The band were bringing the same stage set they would be using for their shows at Wembley.

BIC entertainments manager Rob Zuradski said his concern was for the safety of fans, who were predominantly girls aged 12-16. He was having food and drink prepared for those who arrived long before the concert to secure front-row spots.

“We have found that children queuing all day without proper food and drink is one of the biggest problems of all on occasions like this. I would appeal to fans not to come too early,” he said.

A special team was being brought from London to patrol the inside of the safety barrier between the stage and the audience. There would be more than 20 special constables, a St John Ambulance team and at least one paramedic.

“The fact is we don’t actually know what to expect,” said Mr Zuradski. “We just want to ensure that nothing will go wrong.”

The band were not made available for interviews, but the Echo’s entertainments editor, Jeremy Miles, recalled that they hadn’t always been so coy.

Two years before, Mark Owen had told the paper how excited he was to be staying in hotels, and how he had never been to London before joining the band. Jason Orange, meanwhile, had said that on a visit to Bournemouth in the summer of 1991, the band had gone to the Odeon in Westover Road to see The Fisher King.

On Monday, November 8, the day of the first BIC concert, the Echo reported that the band were under round-the-clock guard at the Dormy Hotel in Ferndown, along with 27 minders, managers and personal assistants.»

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Recommended Listening: solo stuff in PGH. EAST COAST! Jazz?? also check out my wife!

frenz! i hope you're all doing great and living your best lives. here's some good stuff to listen to: Star Rover :: I May Be Lost But I'm Laughing gee whiz these guys are just so so so great. will graefe and jeremy gustin have been making music together for awhile and it is ALWAYS good. the album comes out October 19 and i've been listening to the three available tracks pretty much on repeat lately. tom-heavy grooves. guitar sounds ranging from spaced out echo to raw and crunchy to desert americana (is that a thing?). beautiful vocals blown out with tons of reverb. sounds like someone you love singing a song to you as you're waking up from a half-dream. their previous album Western Winds Bitter Christians is also banana-nuts good. Yang Jin :: Folk Music Master i recently had the pleasure of meeting and performing alongside Jin in Ben Barson's insane climate change / migrant justice opera and i'm hoping to hear her up close a whole lot more. this recording of hers is beautiful and virtuosic and full of sounds that i think are familiar at first and then ... they aren't. really special recording by an amazing pittsburgh based artist. Michael Azerrad :: Our Band Could Be Your Life ok so it's not listening, but it's led me to tons of artists who i'd never heard before. i'm halfway through and even the bands that i'm not head over heels for musically have such awesome and compelling stories that i'm riveted anyway. granted, it's about the indie scene from 1981-1991, so it's super white-dude-y (and self-admittedly so), but damn there's so much good stuff. black flag, mission of burma, minutemen, hüsker dü... the list goes on. can't wait to read more and listen more. Hannah Epperson :: Slowdown hannah mixes violin loops, fragile vocals, poetic lyrical narratives, and electronics in ways that i really love. this new album always makes me feel like it's 2am. in a good way. ///// Weds, October 17 at The Abbey Pittsburgh. 8-11pm FREE hey guys i'm playing some jazz music. it just so happens that i wrote a lot of it and i'm pleased as punch to be playing it all with some exciting young players. come check it out! Eli Naragon- Acoustic Bass Antonio Croes- Keyboards Patrick Breiner- Tenor Sax Carter Freije- Drums and Cymbals ///// Thursday, Oct 25 Twin Talk at Spirit Pittsburgh 7-9pm NO COVER i'm not on this one but i set it up for my dear pals who are coming through PGH on tour from chicago. this is one of those bands that might not be back for a looooooong time. so make a point to come and scope. tenor saxophone, upright bass/voice, drums. Twin Talk is the real damn deal. unique and smart compositions mixed with telepathic group interplay. https://twintalk.bandcamp.com/ ///// Friday, Oct 26 Rooftop Garden Benefit Dinner at Spirit Pittsburgh 6:30-10pm Ticketssss not cheap but WORTH ITTTTTT. 5 courses by brilliant local chefs Becca Hegarty (Bitter Ends), Brandon Blumenfeld (Scratch), and Greg Austin (Spirit) paired with booze and bevvies AND ALL OF THAT PAIRED WITH MUSIC. tons of surprises. piles of amaze-balls farm to table grub. and farm to table tunes on top of it. i'll be performing solo saxophone up close and personal as Vartan. like i do. ///// Mon, 29 October 2018 8pm. $5-10 suggested at 1106 Reedsdale Street. Pittsburgh, PA Jim Storch - Electroacoustic set Patrick Breiner - Solo as Vartan Mamigonian Kuo/Bernabo Duo - Performance Trimm/McCune Duo featuring the Esteemed Betty Douglas - Free jazz WRIST (Weston / Ritter / Storch Trio ) - Debut performance i love this place (played duo here with jason nazary a few weeks back) and i'm psyched to be back in its beautiful post-art-pocalyptic embrace for a solo set. some new friends and some even newer friends are also performing and all of it will be good. ///// Fri, 2 November Vartan Mamigonian time tba at Caffe D'Amore. Pittsburgh great new intimate listening room in my neighborhood. you know you wanna get real close for those tiny freaky sounds. this will be a show you won't want to miss. ///// Sun, 4 November Myk Freedman and Freends 6-8pm at Barbes Brooklyn reunited and it feeeels so gooooood Myk Freedman - lap steel and comps PB - tenor saxophone Adam Hopkins - bass Wendy Eisenberg - guitar Carlo Costa - drums ///// Mon, 5 November at The Root Cellar Greenfield, MA Myk Freedman - lap steel and comps PB - tenor saxophone Wendy Eisenberg - guitar ///// Tues, 6 November Vartan Mamigonian and Mike Effenberger at The Button Factory at WSCA Portsmouth, NH PB - solo saxophone Mike Effenberger - something indescribable and amazing. seriously. mike is a genius and i can't wait to hear whatever the hell it is he'll be doing. ///// Sun, 11 November 2018 4-7pm. at Nick-a-nee's Providence, RI trio with Gingerbeard: Aaron Darrell - bass, voice Max Goldman - drums PB - tenor saxophone ///// also Sun, 11 November 2018 8-11pm at Tea and Sahara. Providence, RI the return of Pride of Lowell: Max Goldman - drums PB - tenor saxophone double bill w/ Phil Mazza nad Matt Crane ///// November 1-10 Midnight Radio's Frankenstein at Bricolage Pittsburgh 8pm or 2pm :: also there's one pay what you want performance, and one foley sound workshop Getchyo' ticketssssss so i'm not in this one, but my wife jamie agnello is a brilliant genius and works her friggin butt off in order to be brilliant and a genius. and she's in some shows coming up. she'll be playing Mary Shelley in Bricolage's Midnight Radio production of Frankenstein. it's in the style of a live radio play with live foley sound and it's going to be perfect. come! (there's also free booze before the show if you're into that kind of thing... ahem....) geez o man we busy and it's awesome! oh also if you're in PGH i'll be working at the Bureau starting later this month. it's a new coffee shop in east liberty brought to you by the fine folks at the Vandal. so swing through and get jitteryyyyyy. 206 N. Euclid. all the hugs!

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Spain declassifies 1,900 pages of top-secret UFO files

Another step towards global UFO disclosure. The Spanish Ministry of Defense has declassified 80 reports of alleged UFO sightings that took place between 1962 and 1995.

The material is available to the public in the online library of the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The reports include the location of the sighting, the date, the summary of facts, considerations, conclusions and the proposed classification or declassification of each document.

The declassification process of the documents began in 1991 when the Ministry of Defense decided to analyze the reports and reduce their classification level in order to make them available to the general public which demanded access to these documents.

Fascinating accounts – inexplicable phenomena

One of the most interesting UFO sightings was reported by pilots and crew when President Adolfo Suarez was traveling from Germany to Spain. The strange UFO was spotted at an undisclosed location. The encounter occurred when former President Adolfo Suarez, was on board an aircraft of the Spanish Air Force. The pilots and passengers onboard witnessed strange lights that could be explained. It remains unclear as to where the sighting took place. 

The report reads: “During night hours on February 25, 1980, onboard the 401st Squadron aircraft on a flight from Germany to Spain, Madrid with President Suarez, strange lights were observed by the pilots and passengers“.

Furthermore, the declassified documents reveal a number of different sightings that occurred over Spain when UFO’s were detected by radar but were invisible for pilots who were sent out to intercept them.A document which dates to the 28th of November 1979 indicates that numerous individuals observed two UFOs in Madrid. A military plane was sent out to search for the UFOs. The pilot of the intercepting aircraft didn’t see anything, even though “the weather conditions were excellent” and “radar contact had been established four times” the report reads.That same report details other sightings, one of them occurred on November 27, 1979, when “lights in the sky, were observed by many people” and “unknown echoes” were recorded.

Check out more about the declassified documents by visiting this link.

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How Many Republicans In Congress Support Trump

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How Many Republicans In Congress Support Trump

No Republicans In The Senate Have Said That They Would Approve Of Impeachment Proceedings Against Trump Cnn Noted Sen Ron Johnson Of Wisconsin Said That Trump Told Him He Had Withheld Aid Because Of Concerns About Corruption In Ukraine

Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who is a former Republican but now an Independent, has said that he supports impeachment proceedings, CNN reported.

Bill Weld, who is running against Trump, has said that Trump’s actions amount to treason. Weld ran on the Libertarian ticket in 2016, but he served as the Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. He’s not currently in Congress.

So far, Republicans in Congress haven’t specifically stepped out to speak in favor of impeachment. Back in August, this was the same, with no Republicans in Congress supporting impeachment.

An Updating Tally Of How Often Every Member Of The House And The Senate Votes With Or Against The President

Trump margin: Trump’s share of the vote in the 2016 election minus Clinton’s

Trump score: How often a member votes in line with Trump’s position

Trump plus-minus: Difference between a member’s actual and predicted Trump-support scores

Member How often a member votes in line with Trump’s positionTrump scoreHow often a member votes in line with Trump’s position Trump’s share of the vote in the 2016 election minus Clinton’sTrump marginTrump’s share of the vote in the 2016 election minus Clinton’s How often a member is expected to support Trump based on Trump’s 2016 marginPredicted scoreHow often a member is expected to support Trump based on Trump’s 2016 margin Difference between a member’s actual and predicted Trump-support scoresTrump plus-minus

A Trump score is not calculated for members who have not voted. How this works »

* No longer in Congress.

Trump margin: Trump’s share of the vote in the 2016 election minus Clinton’s

Trump score: How often a member votes in line with Trump’s position

Trump plus-minus: Difference between a member’s actual and predicted Trump-support scores

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A Large Share Of Republicans Want Trump To Remain Head Of The Party Cnbc Survey Shows

A CNBC survey conducted in the days before former President Donald Trump‘s impeachment trial finds a large share of Republicans want him to remain head of their party, but a majority of Americans want him out of politics.

The CNBC All-America Economic Survey shows 54% of Americans want Trump “to remove himself from politics entirely.” That was the sentiment of 81% of Democrats and 47% of Independents, but only 26% of Republicans.

When it comes to Republicans, 74% want him to stay active in some way, including 48% who want him to remain head of the Republican Party, 11% who want him to start a third party, and 12% who say he should remain active in politics but not as head of any party.

“If we’re talking about Donald Trump’s future, at the moment, the survey shows he still has this strong core support within his own party who really want him to continue to be their leader,” said Jay Campbell, a partner with Hart Research and the Democratic pollster for the survey.

But Micah Roberts, the survey’s Republican pollster, and a partner with Public Opinion Strategies, emphasized the change from when Trump was president. Polls before the election regularly showed Trump with GOP approval ratings around 90%, meaning at least some Republicans have defected from Trump.

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Gop In Ousting Cheney Send Message You Can’t Be In Leadership If You Contradict Trump

Republicans plan to remove Cheney as chair of the House Republican Conference, the No. 3 position in House GOP leadership, in a move to demote the highest-ranking Republican who voted to impeach Trump early this year. She has vocally criticized Trump’s “big lie” that the election last year was stolen.

Ayers warned that efforts to exile Cheney — the highest-ranking Republican woman in Washington and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney — could further antagonize suburban voters, particularly college-educated women, who ditched the party because of their opposition to Trump.

“They will also say there’s no room in today’s Republican Party for anyone willing to be honest about the 2020 election and the events of Jan. 6,” Ayres said. “That does not strike me as the best way to get back the suburban voters who’ve left the party in the last few years.”

That message was echoed by Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Monday.

“Expelling Liz Cheney from leadership won’t gain the GOP one additional voter, but it will cost us quite a few,” Romney, the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, said in a tweet.

Said Collins: “I believe Liz Cheney is an honorable leader with great strength and did what she felt was right. And our party should be big enough to accommodate people with a wide variety of views.”

She indicated that removing Cheney for her pushback to Trump could send the wrong message to voters. “The issue is being inclusive,” Collins said.

Gop Leader Mccarthy: Trump ‘bears Responsibility’ For Violence Won’t Vote To Impeach

Some ambitious Republican senators have never been as on board the Trump train as the more feverish GOP members in the House, and the former might be open to convicting Trump. But their ambition cuts two ways — on the one hand, voting to ban Trump opens a lane to carry the Republican mantle in 2024 and be the party’s new standard-bearer, but, on the other, it has the potential to alienate many of the 74 million who voted for Trump, and whose votes they need.

It’s a long shot that Trump would ultimately be convicted, because 17 Republicans would need to join Democrats to get the two-thirds majority needed for a conviction. But it’s growing clearer that a majority of the Senate will vote to convict him, reflecting the number of Americans who are in favor of impeachment, disapproved of the job Trump has done and voted for his opponent in the 2020 presidential election.

Correction Jan. 14, 2021

A previous version of this story incorrectly said Rep. Peter Meijer is a West Point graduate. Meijer attended West Point, but he is a graduate of Columbia University.

House Votes To Impeach Trump But Senate Trial Unlikely Before Biden’s Inauguration

9. Rep. John Katko, New York’s 24th: Katko is a moderate from an evenly divided moderate district. A former federal prosecutor, he said of Trump: “It cannot be ignored that President Trump encouraged this insurrection.” He also noted that as the riot was happening, Trump “refused to call it off, putting countless lives in danger.”

10. Rep. David Valadao, California’s 21st: The Southern California congressman represents a majority-Latino district Biden won 54% to 44%. Valadao won election to this seat in 2012 before losing it in 2018 and winning it back in the fall. He’s the rare case of a member of Congress who touts his willingness to work with the other party. Of his vote for impeachment, he said: “President Trump was, without question, a driving force in the catastrophic events that took place on January 6.” He added, “His inciting rhetoric was un-American, abhorrent, and absolutely an impeachable offense.”

Gop Rep Reveals How Many Colleagues Actually Believe Trumps Election Conspiracies

Lee Moran

Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Friday that only a handful of his Republican colleagues in the House actually believe ex-President Donald Trump’s election lies.

The vast majority of House Republicans, Kinzinger told CNN’s Jake Tapper, were simply boarding the Trump train in a desperate bid to preserve their jobs.

“How many actually believe it? Five, probably, if that, maybe? I don’t know, but it’s in the single, it’s low,” said Kinzinger, a vocal critic of Trump who defied his party to vote for the impeachment of the former president for inciting the deadly U.S. Capitol riot.

“People don’t believe it,” he continued. “But what they are doing is they’re sitting around saying, ‘I need to continue to exist in this job so that I can make an impact. I don’t have the courage or the strength or the ability to swing this party, so I’m going to just kinda put my head down and go along.’”

“Some people have made the decision that grabbing onto the Trump train again, even though it’s been derailed, is the best way for us to push whatever,” Kinzinger added. Others, meanwhile, “just want to destroy the place.”

Kinzinger said GOP backing of Trump’s conspiracy theories may give the party a “temporary hit, maybe you’ll win the majority, I don’t think you will.”

“But I guarantee you in the long arc of history, this is not going to bode well for Republicans,” he added.

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Have Expressed Reluctance Or Misgivings But Havent Openly Dropped Their Backing

Paul Ryan and John Boehner, the former speakers of the House: Both have expressed their dislike of the president, but have not said whom they will support in November.

John Kelly, a former chief of staff to the president: Mr. Kelly has not said whom he plans to vote for, but did say he wished “we had some additional choices.”

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: She has said that she’s grappling with whether to support Mr. Trump in November. She told reporters on Capitol Hill in June: “I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time.”

She said: “I think right now, as we are all struggling to find ways to express the words that need to be expressed appropriately, questions about who I’m going to vote for or not going to vote for, I think, are distracting at the moment. I know people might think that’s a dodge, but I think there are important conversations that we need to have as an American people among ourselves about where we are right now.”

Mark Sanford, a former congressman and governor of South Carolina: Mr. Sanford briefly challenged the president in this cycle’s Republican primary, and said last year that he would support Mr. Trump if the president won the nomination .

That has since changed.

“He’s treading on very thin ice,” Mr. Sanford said in June, worrying that the president is threatening the stability of the country.

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

Trump Calls For ‘no Violence’ As Congress Moves To Impeach Him For Role In Riot

This time, there will be more. Some Republican senators have called on Trump to resign, and even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he is undecided at this point.

Trump’s impeachment won’t lead to his removal — even if he is convicted — because of the timeline. The Senate is adjourned until Tuesday. The next day, Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president. But there’s another penalty the Constitution allows for as a result of a Senate conviction that could be appealing to some Republican senators — banning Trump from holding “office” again.

While there is some debate as to the definition of “office” in the Constitution and whether that would apply to running for president or even Congress, that kind of public rebuke would send a strong message — that Republicans are ready to move on from Trumpism.

Just 27 Of 249 Republicans In Congress Willing To Say Trump Lost Survey Finds

Two congressmen tell Washington Post Trump beat Biden

Does Trump really plan to absolve himself and his family?

Only 27 of 249 Republicans in Congress are willing to admit Joe Biden won the presidential election, a survey found on Saturday.

The election was called for Biden on 7 November, four days after election day. The Democrat won the electoral college by 306-232 and leads in the popular vote by more than 7m ballots.

But Trump has refused to concede, baselessly claiming large-scale voter fraud in battleground states.

The survey of Republicans in the House and Senate was carried out by the Washington Post, a paper Trump promptly claimed to read “as little as possible”.

The president also said he was “surprised so many” in his party thought he had been beaten, promised “we have just begun to fight” and asked for a list of the politicians he called “Rinos”, an acronym for “Republicans in name only”.

Two congressmen, Mo Brooks of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, told the Post Trump won. Gosar said he would never accept Biden as president, telling the paper there was “too much evidence of fraud”.

In fact, there is no evidence of voter fraud anywhere near the scale Trump alleges in any of the key states in which he is pursuing legal redress, so far winning one lawsuit but losing 46.

The Post said it had obtained video of Perdue telling donors Biden won.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Kevin McCarthy, who leads the House minority, have dodged questions.

Rep Tim Ryan: Probe Underway On Whether Members Gave Capitol Tours To Rioters

7. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington’s 3rd: Herrera Beutler was swept in with the Tea Party wave in 2010, but her district is a moderate one. Trump won it 51% to 47%. Herrera Beutler gained prominence several years ago for giving birth to a child three months early, born without kidneys and a rare syndrome. Her daughter, Abigail, became the first to survive the often-fatal condition. The now-mother of three and congresswoman from southwest Washington state declared on the House floor her vote in favor of impeachment: “I’m not choosing sides, I’m choosing truth.”

8. Rep. Peter Meijer, Michigan’s 3rd: Meijer is a freshman, who won his seat with 53% of the vote. He represents a district that was previously held by Justin Amash, the former Republican-turned-independent who voted in favor of Trump’s impeachment in 2019. Meijer, a Columbia University grad who served in Afghanistan, is a social conservative in favor of restrictions on abortion rights and against restrictions on gun rights and religious freedoms. But he said Trump showed no “courage” and “betrayed millions with claims of a ‘stolen election.’ ” He added, “The one man who could have restored order, prevented the deaths of five Americans including a Capitol police officer, and avoided the desecration of our Capitol, shrank from leadership when our country needed it most.”

In Demoting Cheney Gop Holds On To Trump At Risk Of Further Alienating Others

Allan SmithSahil Kapur

Liz Cheney may be done with former President Donald Trump, but her impending ouster from House Republican leadership is a clear sign, party insiders say, that the GOP isn’t done with Trump.

The calculation is that the party will be better off in the midterm elections embracing Trump than running from him, even if it means further alienating the kind of suburban voters who handed Democrats victories in 2018 and 2020.

“Removing Liz Cheney from leadership will give a boatload of ammunition to the GOP’s critics,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster.

Republican Groups Censure Party Lawmakers Who Voted To Impeach Convict Trump

Kinzinger said 11 family members sent him a handwritten two-page note that started, “Oh my, what a disappointment you are to us and to God!” The letter accused him of working with “the devil’s army,” which it said included Democrats and the “fake news media.” “We thought you were ‘smart’ enough to see how the left is brainwashing many ‘so called good people’ including yourself” and other Republicans. “You have even fallen for their socialism ideals! So, so sad!” “It is now most embarrassing to us that we are related to you,” the family members wrote. “You have embarrassed the Kinzinger family name.” Kinzinger said the family members suffered from “brainwashing” at conservative churches. “I hold nothing against them,’’ he said, “but I have zero desire or feel the need to reach out and repair that. That is 100% on them to reach out and repair, and quite honestly, I don’t care if they do or not.” Kinzinger said he knows his vote against Trump could imperil his political career but that he “couldn’t live with myself” if “the one time I was called to do a really tough duty, I didn’t do it.” 

List Of Republicans Who Opposed The Donald Trump 2016 Presidential Campaign

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This is a list of Republicans and conservatives who announced their opposition to the election of Donald Trump, the 2016 Republican Party nominee and eventual winner of the election, as the President of the United States. It also includes former Republicans who left the party due to their opposition to Trump and as well as Republicans who endorsed a different candidate. It includes Republican presidential primary election candidates that announced opposition to Trump as the nominee. Some of the Republicans on this list threw their support to Trump after he won the presidential election, while many of them continue to oppose Trump. Offices listed are those held at the time of the 2016 election.

List Of Republicans Who Opposed The Donald Trump 2020 Presidential Campaign

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This is a list of Republicans and conservatives who opposed the re-election of incumbent Donald Trump, the 2020 Republican Party nominee for President of the United States. Among them are former Republicans who left the party in 2016 or later due to their opposition to Trump, those who held office as a Republican, Republicans who endorsed a different candidate, and Republican presidential primary election candidates that announced opposition to Trump as the presumptive nominee. Over 70 former senior Republican national security officials and 61 additional senior officials have also signed onto a statement declaring, “We are profoundly concerned about our nation’s security and standing in the world under the leadership of Donald Trump. The President has demonstrated that he is dangerously unfit to serve another term.”

A group of former senior U.S. government officials and conservatives—including from the Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43, and Trump administrations have formed The Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform to, “focus on a return to principles-based governing in the post-Trump era.”

A third group of Republicans, Republican Voters Against Trump was launched in May 2020 has collected over 500 testimonials opposing Donald Trump.

Democratic Insider And A Republican Backed By Trump Win Ohio House Races

The victories by Shontel Brown, a Democrat supported by the national establishment, and Mike Carey, a Republican endorsed by Donald Trump, provided a lift to the leadership of both parties.

A Democratic candidate backed by the party establishment and a Republican endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump won two primary races for open House seats in Ohio on Tuesday, an assertion of dominance for the leadership of both political parties as they face questions over unity in their ranks.

In a Democratic primary in northern Ohio, Shontel Brown, who vowed to be “a partner” with the Biden administration and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, prevailed over Nina Turner, a party outsider who openly rejected the idea that Democrats are more effective through conciliation and compromise. Late Tuesday, Ms. Brown was leading by over five percentage points, and Ms. Turner conceded the race.

And in a Republican primary near Columbus, Mike Carey, a newcomer to elected office who was largely unknown before being endorsed by Mr. Trump, easily beat out 11 rivals, many of them with much longer records in Ohio politics.

Between the two races, the Democratic fight for the deep-blue 11th District around Cleveland and Akron was the most closely watched as a national bellwether. Prominent Democratic politicians and money from national interest groups cascaded into the district over the past several weeks, leaving a trail of ill will and weariness in their wake.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Us House Votes To Strip Republican Of Key Posts

The US House of Representatives has voted to expel a Republican congresswoman from two committees over incendiary remarks she made before being elected last November.

Marjorie Taylor Greene had promoted baseless QAnon conspiracy theories and endorsed violence against Democrats.

Before the vote, she said she regretted her views, which included claims that school shootings and 9/11 were staged.

Eleven Republicans joined the Democrats to pass the motion by 230-199.

The Republican dilemma, embodied in one politician

It means the representative – who was elected in November, representing a district in the southern state of Georgia – cannot take up her place on the education and budget committees.

This would limit her ability to shape policy as most legislation goes through a committee before reaching the House floor. Committee positions can determine the influence of individual lawmakers in their party.

It is highly unusual for one party to intervene in another party’s House committee assignments.

On Friday, Mrs Greene said that she woke up “laughing” at the situation.

“I woke up early this morning literally laughing thinking about what a bunch of morons the Democrats are for giving some one like me free time,” she tweeted, referencing the 11 Republicans who also voted to remove her.

At a news conference in Washington hours later, Mrs Greene said that Democrats had “stripped my district of their voice” by removing her from the committees.

Republicans Supporting Donald Trump In The 2016 Presidential Election

Elected officials’ positions on Donald Trump Federal:Republicans and their declared positions on Donald Trump • Republicans supporting Donald Trump • Republicans opposing Donald Trump State and local:

See also: Republicans and their declared positions on Donald Trump

In a typical general election year, elected officials readily line up behind their party’s presidential nominee. In 2012, for example, The Hill reported that only four Republican members of Congress had declined to endorse Mitt Romney by mid-September of that year. “All other House and Senate Republicans” had already endorsed the Republican nominee.

But 2016 was not a typical general election year.

Controversial comments from the GOP’s 2016 nominee, Donald Trump, about women, Muslims, , and caused some Republican lawmakers to distance themselves from the businessman, while others outright denounced him.

This page tracked Republican lawmakers who openly declared their support for Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

More Than 150 House Democrats Support Starting An Impeachment Process

In total, 145 Democrats have backed impeachment as of Monday night, The Washington Post reported. That number is in the 150s as of Tuesday morning. However, some Democrats believe that some Republicans also need to get on board before impeachment can proceed.

Seven freshman Democrats wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post saying that impeachment is necessary if the allegations are true. These were all in the House. They are:

Rep. Gil Cisneros of California

Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania

Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia

Rep. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey

Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan

Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia

In addition, the following Democratic House members have recently publicly supported calls for impeachment:

Rep. Dean Phillips

Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro

Rep. Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee Chairman, said impeachment “may be the only remedy” if the Ukraine reports are true

Rep. Brad Sherman

If all 435 House members vote, they would need 218 votes for a majority to be reached and for Trump to be impeached. There are 235 Democrats in office in the House, one Independent, and 199 Republicans.

NBC News counted a total of 134 Democrats who said they would support starting an impeachment inquiry process back in May. Now after the Ukraine news, CNN notes there are 151 Democrats calling for impeachment inquiries. Here’s the full list below. The names with asterisks next to them also called for impeachment in May.

Republicans Vote Against Measure; Bill Faces Uphill Fight In Senate

In this Jan. 6 file photo, supporters of then-President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington.

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WASHINGTON — Thirty-five House Republicans joined Democrats Wednesday in voting to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, risking the wrath of former President Donald Trump and flouting GOP leaders who condemned the proposal as unfairly partisan and unneeded.

Modeled after the investigation into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the legislation would establish an independent, 10-member commission that would make recommendations by the end of the year for securing the Capitol and preventing another insurrection. It passed the House 252-175.

The Republican mavericks were led by New York Rep. John Katko, who wrote the measure with Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. Katko, that panel’s top Republican, was battling two tides that have overwhelmed Congress in recent years: the nearly overwhelming potency Trump still has among Republicans and a jagged-edged partisanship that often confounds even mundane legislation.

“I encourage all members, Republicans and Democrats alike, to put down their swords for once, just for once, and support this bill,” said Katko.

“This is about fact. It is not partisan politics,” he said pointedly.

“Leader McCarthy won’t take yes for an answer,” she said

House Impeaches Trump A 2nd Time Citing Insurrection At Us Capitol

This vote could expose some of them to potential primary challenges from the right as well as possible safety threats, but for all of them Trump had simply gone too far. Multiple House Republicans said threats toward them and their families were factors weighing on their decisions on whether to impeach this president.

Ten out of 211 Republicans in the House is hardly an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, and clearly, most Republicans’ sympathies still lie with Trump — and his ardent base of followers. But the 10 represent something significant — the most members of a president’s party to vote for his impeachment in U.S. history.

How Wyoming Voters Are Reacting To Rep Cheneys Leadership Battle

Many Republicans, including McCarthy, have decided that the path to retake majority control of the House requires embracing Trump, which means either repeating his false assertions that the election was stolen or keeping quiet, neither of which Cheney has been willing to do.

McCarthy has long viewed Trump as important to helping him become the next House speaker — and important to helping Republicans win the midterm elections — said a House Republican aide who works for neither McCarthy or Cheney.

The aide described the leadership fight as “a s— show” and “something that should never really have happened,” expressing anger over its handling.

“I think it’s dumb when we always try to claim that we’re this big party that we’re pushing out someone who has a slightly different opinion,” the aide said, adding, “It’s just absurd to me.”

Another senior Republican congressional aide argued that Cheney was likely to be removed because she keeps publicly disagreeing with McCarthy, not because of her criticism of Trump.

“As conference chair, was spending more time bashing Republicans than Democrats” at the recent House retreat, the aide said, adding that McCarthy “was literally the only thing keeping her in leadership.”

Many Republicans have lamented that the squabble is distracting from anti-Biden messaging, which is what they say will actually help them in the midterms.

It Doesnt Pay To Be A Congressional Republican Opposing Trump

Rep. Liz Cheney was sent a loud, clear message by her House Republican colleagues this week: oppose former president Donald Trump, and you’re out.

It’s a message that has been sent in less official ways before but by now is unmistakable for any congressional Republican who would dare to venture where she has. Most of them have been forced out in one way or another, with many voluntarily backing down and retiring. But we’re about to get a better sense for how politically tenable such a position could be in today’s GOP.

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Cheney hasn’t lost her congressional seat — though she already has challengers back home who want to run against her in the 2022 GOP primary. But her leadership position is gone and is likely going to a congresswoman who has made praising Trump her No. 1 priority. But Cheney has staked her political future on opposing Trump, saying she believes she can lead the party back from where it is now.

If she can actually leverage her opposition to Trump into some kind of political success — which appears unlikely at this point — she’d pretty much be the first. It hasn’t gone well for other elected Republicans, going all the way back to those who opposed Trump during his 2016 presidential run.

Flake announced he wouldn’t run for reelection just nine months into Trump’s presidency, becoming an early symbolic sacrifice — and a bit of a trophy for Trump. More than that, though, it sent a message.

Of those 11:

Trumps Kingmaking Plan Threatens Gops Congress Hopes In 2022

Bloomberg

— Donald Trump could hurt Republicans’ chances of regaining control of Congress in the 2022 midterms, just by endorsing the candidates working so hard to win his backing.

The former president is studying races and plans to bestow his superlative-laden endorsements around the country in many 2022 primary or general election contests for the U.S. House, Senate and governorships, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

Former President Donald Trump

Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg

While those nods can still be the golden ticket in a Republican primary and solidly GOP districts, they also can energize independents and Democrats who don’t like Trump in competitive districts — risking defeat for Republican candidates in the general election and with it possible control of the House, according to studies of the 2018 and 2020 campaigns.

History is on the Republicans’ side. Midterm elections generally favor the party out of power and redistricting is expected to change district lines in a way that gives the GOP an advantage.

Read More: Republicans Unhappy With Trump GOP See Path for Alternative

“The Republican Party cannot win swing districts where Donald Trump is still the dominating face and voice of this party,” Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

“And that’s where they’re going to take a historic opportunity in a midterm and pass it right by.”

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source: Loudersound May 31, 2016

How Mayhem’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas changed metal

By Dayal Patterson (Metal Hammer) May 31, 2016

Mayhem are one of the most influential black metal bands on the planet, and their album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas remains a timeless classic

  It is an album whose significance, both inside and outside of black metal, has been acknowledged by a wealth of leading contemporary metal acts, from Watain to Enslaved to Inquisition, and one that led Nergal of Behemoth to proclaim it “the opus magnum of extreme metal”. Two decades after it was recorded, it continues to top ‘best album’ lists by longtime fans of the genre, while at the same time providing primary inspiration for new bands whose members were not even born when it was recorded. There are many who would say it is the single most important album in black metal’s broad and ever-growing catalogue, and very few who would argue that it is not, at the very least, a strong contender for that accolade.

The record in question is none other than Mayhem’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, a milestone work that the long-serving Norwegians are set to perform in full around Europe this year, including Finland, Norway and France. And well they might, for this is an album that has lost neither its devoted following, nor any of its potency, in the years that have passed.

There are plenty of even more hyperbolic (yet equally true) statements that could be made in support of this unique collection of songs. Yet the biggest testament to its artistic value is perhaps the fact that discussion of its recording, songwriting and performance qualities continues to outweigh the highly notable circumstances of its creation. Indeed, it is testament to Mayhem’s significance as a musical force that any music was able to overcome all the drama involved with the band during the period in question. For – as most reading this will probably know – this is also a record that captures the vision of a musician who was not only cut down in his prime, but cut down by a bandmate appearing alongside him on this very recording.

The former party is of course Mayhem guitarist and co-founder Øystein ‘Euronymous’ Aarseth, who was stabbed to death in his apartment in August 1993 by the latter, Varg Vikernes, best known for his similarly-influential project Burzum but also the bassist for Mayhem during the era of De Mysteriis’ creation. The ultimately fatal conflict between the two men is a long and complicated episode in black metal’s grim history that has been discussed at length by fans and media alike for two decades.

What is still worth noting today though, is that the album’s roots are intrinsically linked to two now-departed members of the band. The second is the Swedish-born vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin – otherwise known as ‘Dead’ – and in fact it was he who actually came up with the title; Latin for ‘Of Lord Satan’s Mysteries / Secret Rites’, and a title taken, he explained, from an occult book he had discovered. The fact that Dead took his own life in 1991, while the album was released in 1994, gives some idea of how long the band’s debut studio album was in gestation.

Certainly it was long enough that the band’s first full-length, the legendary live album Live In Leipzig, (recorded in November 1990 but released almost three years later) captured the band (the line-up then comprised of Dead, Euronymous, bassist Necrobutcher and drummer Hellhammer) performing no less than half of its eight numbers. The oppressive, melancholic and suffocating aura found on that recording would thankfully remain in place following the transition of these aforementioned songs to the studio. While the obvious standout track Freezing Moon ia a grim monochromatic epic that remains a fan favourite even today – the unholy and, well, freezing feeling within that song is just as present on Funeral Fog, Pagan Fears, Buried By Time And Dust.

Complementing these older compositions and undoubtedly giving the album a more three-dimensional character was the incorporation of four newer, somewhat more angular and twisting songs, namely the title track, Cursed In Eternity, Buried By Time And Dust and From The Dark Past. Euronymous’ playing had become somewhat more calculated and considered by this point, his writing influenced significantly by the introverted but talented guitarist Snorre Ruch, whose unique approach to riffing within his band Thorns had proven ridiculously influential within the Norwegian scene. In fact, Snorre (now going under the name ‘Blackthorne’) would be inducted into the group as a second guitarist prior to the album’s recording. Despite not appearing on the finished record, he would contribute entire Thorns riffs to several songs, his presence being felt not only during these moments but more generally through his impact on much of Euronymous’ creeping guitar work.

His other role would be to rearrange Dead’s lyrics on several songs in preparation for the deceased vocalist’s replacement, Attila Csihar. A Hungarian musician who was admired in Norway thanks to his short-lived but seminal black metal band Tormentor, his appointment and spirited performance remains a defining factor of the record, and it was one that provoked no small controversy at the time. In contrast to the more typical black metal vocal styles of the time he introduced an eccentric, otherworldly and theatrical approach incorporating a drawling delivery and lurching from screams and rasps to an almost operatic form of singing that makes a feature of his distinctive Hungarian accent.

“The way of singing it, we were talking about how to do it of course,” recalled Attila in an interview conducted back in 2009. “I heard some demo recordings that had been done by Dead and [previous vocalist] Maniac before, but I like individualism… so when I talked to Euronymous in the studio I said, ‘Why don’t we try something else instead of making again the traditional screamed vocals?’ The De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas song, when I looked at the lyrics there was this Latin line so I thought, ‘Let’s do this voice there.’ I came out with the low vocals with more melodies, and he liked it so much we did the whole recording that way.”

Though seemingly a long-running plan on the part of Euronymous, the decision to use Attila for the role proved as much of a surprise for other musicians in the Norwegian scene as it was for the Mayhem fanbase. After all, not only was Euronymous surrounded by an abundance of local talent, but many of the vocalists in the country actually knew the songs on the forthcoming album already, having listened repeatedly to an instrumental tape that had been making the rounds for some time.

“People were a little bit pissed that they didn’t receive the phone call,” recalled Grutle of Enslaved during the same interview, “but they thought, ‘Well that’s going to be interesting’ – and it was! Actually while [Attila was] doing the vocals Øystein went to the callbox and called me and said, ‘He sings like a sick priest, he sings in Latin, with an accent, it’s incredible!’”

Of course, one cannot mention De Mysteriis without mention of the pounding and detailed percussion that underpins it. A fine performance by one of black metal’s best known drummers, Hellhammer (a man who has performed for innumerable bands from Arcturus and Covenant to Dimmu Borgir and Shining), the formidable yet restrained drumwork is complimented by both the spacious, eerie and strangely minimal bass work and a powerful and gloriously unpolished production. The latter is no small factor in the album’s success and was apparently the result of a considerable amount of work on the part of both Euronymous and the infamous Pytten, a producer who spent much of the 1990s capturing iconic works by legends such as Enslaved, Burzum, Hades, Gorgoroth and Immortal.

“Euronymous had specific ideas about each instrument and he had specific ideas about echoes,” recalled Attila. “The drums were recorded in a huge concert hall, solos were recorded in a room and he was moving round all the time and saying, ‘Okay, there we have it.’ If you listen to records from the time and then De Mysteriis you hear the production is far and away better than anything else.”

“The whole album was recorded in very spacious areas,” confirmed producer Pytten. “Øystein, Hellhammer and me were walking about, talking about how to do it and I really wanted to use the stage for the drums. I really like big sounds — especially for the drums — and reverb on the leads. So the drums were done on stage and [in that hall] you have nine stories going up, so we closed the room side, but kept all the height.”

It isn’t only the drums that utilise large numbers of tracks, another defining ingredient in the album is the mass of multi-tracked guitars, which create a huge (yet suitably icy and treble-heavy) wall of sound, a perfect compliment to the similarly sizeable percussive bombardment. Indeed, the combination only accentuates the crushing and malevolent character of the whole record, the overall effect being a dense and impenetrable assault on the senses, one only balanced by the surprising touches of groove throughout the album.

And this is perhaps the last thing to underline, particularly for newcomers to the record. Though undeniably a standout opus, it is not an easily accessible work – even by black metal standards – and is not necessarily a gateway album. Nor is it meant to be. It is a purposely gloomy and aggressive beast, and one that makes no concessions to outsiders, instead following its own wilful and destructive path without any apology. Give it the time it deserves however, and it will be with you forever. We can only hope that its forthcoming live invocations are equally memorable.

The interviews in this piece were originally conducted for the book Black Metal: Evolution Of The Cult and appear in an extended form there. The book and its sequels are available at now.

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How Mayhem’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Changed Metal source: Loudersound May 31, 2016 How Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas changed metal By Dayal Patterson…

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Keanu’s filmography

The Prodigal (1984) Letting Go (1985) One Step Away (1985) Babes in Toyland (1986) Dream to Believe / Flying / Teenage Dream (1986) Under the Influence (1986) River's Edge (1986) The Brotherhood of Justice (1986) Young Again (1986) Act of Vengeance (1986) Youngblood (1986) The Servant (1988) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988) Permanent Record (1988) The Night Before (1988) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) Life Under Water (1989) Parenthood (1989) Tune in Tomorrow... / Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1990) I Love You to Death (1990) Point Break (1991) Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) My Own Private Idaho (1991) Providence (1991) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Echo (1993) Little Buddha (1993) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) Freaked (1993) Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Speed (1994) Johnny Mnemonic (1995) A Walk in the Clouds (1995) Feeling Minnesota (1996) Chain Reaction (1996) The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) The Devil's Advocate (1997) Me and Will (1999)  

 The Matrix (1999) 

The Replacements (2000) 

The Watcher (2000) The Gift (2000) Hardball (2001) Sweet November (2001) The Matrix Reloaded (2003) The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Something's Gotta Give (2003) Constantine (2005) Thumbsucker (2005) Ellie Parker (2005) A Scanner Darkly (2006) The Lake House (2006) Street Kings (2008) The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) Bollywood Hero (2009) Henry's Crime (2010) Sunset Strip (2012) Side by Side (2012) Generation Um... (2012) Man of Tai Chi (2013) 47 Ronin (2013) John Wick (2014) Knock Knock (2015) Deep Web (2015) The Bad Batch (2016) The Whole Truth (2016) The Neon Demon (2016) Keanu (2016) Exposed (2016) SPF-18 (2017) Replicas (2017) John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) To the Bone (2017) Siberia (2018) Destination Wedding (2018) John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019

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Toei's random menacing figure generator actually kinda came closer to the eventual Super Saiyan design than it had any business doing? Extra spiky hair, golden color... of course the size is completely wrong, the eyes are solid red when they should be green, but still!

DBZ Episode 66 first aired on November 7, 1990, while Goku’s Super Saiyan form first appeared in the March 19, 1991 edition of Weekly Shonen Jump.   So it’s possible that maybe Toriyama had settled on a general design four months ahead of time, and Toei was able to use this to animate Vegeta’s imagination. 

Of course, the design used for Vegeta’s mental picture of the Super Saiyan was basically just a shadowy Oozaru with yellow highlights.    Arguably, they only went with yellow because it gave a good contrast with the black, to make it look like a Giant Ape with some extra power.   Maybe yellow was the only detail Toriyama had settled on in late ‘90, or this was a simple process of elimination.  Goku already turned red when using the Kai-o-Ken, the villains had cornered the market on blue and violet auras, and the background of the Golden Oozaru scenes were all orange.    I guess that still leaves green and white, but out of those three choices, yellow makes the most sense.   So it could just be a happy coincidence.

I have heard from time to time that Toriyama had considered giving Goku red eyes for his Super Saiyan form, perhaps to echo the Oozaru form, but I don’t know if that’s true or not.    In any case, the eyes for Episode 66 were clearly based on the Oozaru design, rather than any attempt to predict what the Super Saiyan form would eventually be. 

I would be interested to know why Toei chose the giant ape form to illustrate the idea.    I mean, when they first showed the Androids, for example, they were depicted as featureless shapes, almost like phantoms.   Toei could have gone the same route here, but they didn’t.    I’ve always assumed that this was because the advantage of the Giant Ape form is that Saiyans look pretty much alike when they use it.  So when Vegeta tries to imagine a Saiyan he’s never seen before, his mind uses the Giant Ape form as a placeholder.    Besides, he would have associated that form with immense power, even if he had recently surpassed it.