#shitter nation

[bibleofficial]

i dream of being able to go get a couples massage but instead of w the love of my life it’s w my colon & she finally gets what the FUCK has been WRONG w her WORKED out 😭🙄

[blondebrainpowered]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, 1989

[through-broken-eyes]

It’s a little late but my mom got my sister and I matching Cousin Eddie jerseys from national lampoons Christmas vacation for our Christmas gifts and I’m slightly obsessed 😂

[twospiritstooprideful]

Can you tell I lost all hope, faith, and respect for the nation I live in?

Cuz I have

dear the fucking gods

[sprinklina]

gee peko ! i sure hope nothing was goinng on in the bathroom during the black out

[desertdragon]

I wish I could animate because I would LOVE to have Vaste pursue someone in a zombie style chase scene; the zombie inspo needs more emphasis

[dusty-siltstrider]

(copied from my heads-up over in Viktor Nation)

yes it's not a drill this time shut up

Hi! Netflix is braindead and apparently gave some guy (claims to work in entertainment) full access to fully rendered season 2 episodes. To which he watched them all and proceeded to take a bunch of screenshots and yap endlessly on Twitter.

I am NOT on twitter and don't know how much this shit is currently circulating or how properly fast things are being deleted, but PLEASE **if you're on arcanetwt lay low and be careful** because dude apparently revealed a lot and that kinda thing spreads like herpes on Shitter. All I know is that there's a whole lotta screenshots he took that are going around.

Also don't know how much the guy might have grabbed about Viktor specifically (the screenshots I saw were of Vi) but I doubt he completely left that out. **These screenshots do NOT have the classic warning signs of hallmarks and timers**, they're fully rendered and shit. So you're gonna have to be paranoid. Thanks, Netflix. Thanks asshole guy.

As always I will NOT be posting s2 content related to leaks here. And thank you to Ignimbrite over in Viknat for the initial warning. Marcus voice "The situation is still developing" so pls just be careful! With 20 days left.... smh...

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

man i saw this and i was gonna write a whole post abt how maybe the problem for these ppl isn’t that ed wasn’t punished enough (even tho that’s what they say) maybe it’s that it’s a poorly-executed redemption arc but they don’t know how to verbalize that.

and that would actually make sense bc ed doesn’t have a redemption arc in s2. bc the show does not think ed needs redeeming. even at his worst and most harmful to the people around him the show is deeply sympathetic towards him and gives us sooooo much screentime dedicated to showing us that everything ed does he only does bc he’s hurting. which doesn’t excuse any of what he does but it does shift the narrative framing away from an actual redemption arc, where a character needs to like, learn why the things they did were bad and try to make amends. but ed never needed to learn anything, he knew his actions were unacceptable and that’s why he did them. he was trying to be the most horrific monster he could be in hopes that someone would get sick of him and kill him.

so then i went looking for an old post i wrote abt redemption arcs to talk abt why ed’s s2 arc probably reads like a poorly-written redemption arc for ppl who are expecting an actual redemption arc and. i change my mind actually. because “is this character willing to accept that their behavior is harmful, to make amends for their past behavior if at all possible, and to try and become a better person?” yeah we see ed do all of that tho.

Accept Their Behavior Is Harmful: i mean aside from the fact that ed knew this the whole time, we also see ed talking to fang about how guilty he feels for how he treated the crew. but like this isn’t zuko slowly unlearning an entire lifetime of fire nation propaganda, ed doesn’t need a season(s)-long arc abt this. He Already Knows

Make Amends For Their Past Behavior: like literally the whole thing with getting pushed off the ship!! wearing a sack and a collar at the crew’s behest!! he’s very much trying to make amends!!!!!

Try To Become A Better Person: there’s a lot i could talk abt here but just on a surface level, he’s trying to quit his job where he attacks and steals from random innocent ppl for a living. like objectively that job does not make you a good person. and also that job makes him miserable and when his mental health is in the shitter sometimes he hurts other ppl in his efforts to hurt himself so like!!! he is very much trying to not be the kind of person who forces crew members to fight to the death anymore!!!!

so yeah, thinking this was abt a “poorly-written redemption arc” was giving these ppl too much benefit of the doubt lol they just want to see ed grovel and suffer for an entire season, which was never going to happen lmao. the show thought izzy had more to apologize for than ed and that’s why ed’s apology was one sentence and izzy’s apology was a whole speech on his deathbed. the show thought izzy needed more punishment for his actions than ed did and that’s we see izzy get put through the physical ringer in the beginning of s2 and ed getting beat to death by the crew happens off-screen. ppl can argue all they want abt how ed did so much worse than izzy but at the end of the day the show disagrees with those takes and that’s why it treats these characters the way it does. die mad about it.

[redwolfstabs]

OKAY HEAR ME OUT (js realize I have this horrible grudge on this guy's dad wtf)

Stuart Macher's face had been on national news for the past couple weeks, and Stu was feeling fantastic. When you first hear about his case you'd begin to wonder... "What's so special about him? He only killed his father." new reports could never do his story justice, but blame that on the police because they'd never show the public what Stuart had done to his father.

The way his face was completely disfigured, but to even say that was an understatement! The way the blood pulled in the man's poor caved in face, and only using a thermos his father had gotten for him when he was young. And the fact the police found his father’s blood under his fingernails, and all of it trailed up to his elbows like he was in a pool of it. The house was a wreck, easy to say his dad did not go down easy, a worthy fight Stuart thought.

Stuart was being brought into jail after being found guilty; he was such a cooperative and good little boy in court... A liar would say. When put on the stand he didn't say a fucking word, smiling when both his and the other lawyer began to lose their shit. He smirked at the thought while he stared down at his cuffed hands bruising just barely due to the police men putting them on tightly. Once he was brought to his cell, he was met with a roomie— well not really a roomie, a prison guard who was told to stand and watch Stu for the time being as he got settled in. After he was uncuffed, the guard who brought him to the cell warned the other about his conviction, what he had done to his dad. Billy glances at the prisoner, the boy looked about his age and Stu just dropped out of college after three years of it. Then the other guard walked off and to that Stu walked up to the bars. I mean, could anyone blame Stuart?

So, maybe Stu beat the shit out of his father because daddio flipped when he found gay porno mags under his bed, you gotta stand up to the Man, right? He stared at the cold face individual, the way the man didn't make another attempt to make eye contact and wearing a frown on his face. "Hey.." Stu flicked his hand out to him, pressing his face against the cold and unwelcoming bars. "What's your name, huh?" he smiled as the guard stood there unmoving, completely ignoring the prisoner. He huffed a little, this act was boring.

“Hey! William!” A prisoner had shouted from down the long and bare hallway of cells filled with men and boys in orange jumpsuits. The guard then turned his head to look down the hallway, bingo, Stu chuckles a little.

The prison guard Willaim Loomis was the son of Hank Loomis, the warden of the hellhole they put Stuart Macher in. There’s nothing too special about the place, the prisoners are shit and the prison guards are even shitter– maybe even worse than your average because of Warden Looms. William or Billy, didn’t plan on being in this shithole. Maybe when he was tiny and thought that being the warden would be the coolest thing ever but as he grew he had different desires. He really enjoyed the effects on movies, horror movies to be specific and he was going to head the film route until his father offered him a job at the prison. Billy didn’t want to go. He hated the idea of being in that place filled with shit heads who got caught because they suck. But after a couple of days which turned into months then years he became familiar with the prisoner and it turns out they like him a lot more than he thought they would. William thought being the warden’s kid meant he would have a huge target on his back.

Turns out if you give some guys packs of smokes, and porn mags of women, it can be pretty chill. He does favors for a lot of the guys stuck in here but in return he gets respect.

“Who’s the newbie?” The prisoner asked which led Billy to turn his head at Stu. Stu was still smiling, flashing his gums and teeth as he pulled his hands in to grip the bars tightly. Stuart just wanted to have fun.

“Some dumb fucking kid.” Billy said with disdain and to Billy’s luck Stuart's little act was dropped. The smile was gone and the grip on the bars loosened as he continued to press his face against the bars staring at the asshole. The guys started laughing and taunting Stu as they hit the bars and walls of their cells. It brought a little smirk to Bill’s face. He doesn’t know why but he just really wanted to fuck with this guy, they seem about the same age so it doesn’t really matter to William if this kid, what– Stuart? Respected him. He had an entire prison by his side… What’s this one time murderer gonna do? There's tons of murderers in this place that have killed people multiple times... And Billy has been wanting to push someone's buttons for a very long time. thats all i have thats whagt I wanna present to the class please!!!:D

OOOOOHHHH KAAAAAYYYY ENEKJSOFNWKR

I’m going insane. Did you know that? That I’m going insane??? IM ACTIVELY GOING INSANE DO YOU HEAR MY YELLING????

Goddd.. This is delicious. I’m grrr GRRR RGRRR AHLFSBLFBDKFNDKF

[queen0fm0nsterz]

You think the Lady is someone powerful arrogant and cool. Well I happen to know her personally and intimately and I can tell you that she most definitely is not cool. If it wasn't for her shadow fairy floating abilities she'd trip on her carpets and fall flat on her ass because she forgets to pick up her dumbass books. Are they about shadow magic? Are they cringe self written essays? We may never know. I'm not sure the Lady herself knows because her dumbass cannot think the same cohesive thought for a long period of time. She made tea for herself in the Residence and fucking forgot about it like an idiot. Her attention span is a total of 2. 2 what? Seconds? Minutes? Years? Depends on how lucky you are. She has pictures of toilets in her rooms. Its modern art. Don't even bother asking why she has a picture of a bathroom and then a second picture zoomed in on the shitter specifically WHICH IS THE SAME FROM THE OTHER PICTURE. You wouldn't get it. Don't even get me started about the feet. If she wants to keep someone's fucking dogs on her wall then she will have their dogs on her wall. She cuddles her dolls because in her life she has never felt the loving hand of someone else because she is insufferable. ZERO MAIDENS AND ZERO GENTS. And her outfit? Girl? You are gonna pull up to the feast with a SINGLE LAYER OF YUKATA? What is this? This is like if Joe Biden or some other politician (I am not american) pulled up on national television with his pajamas still on. Instead of worrying about the fake ass face Mirror Man conjures up specifically to haunt you maybe you should STOP BUYING THE SAME YUKATA 700 FUCKING TIMES AND GET AN ACTUAL PROPER KIMONO. But girl I get it. You're autistic. I am autistic too. I get it. What I do not get is why you have an hidden stash of alchool behind a bigass painting. Why hide that and not, I don't know, THE PICTURE OF SOMONE'S GODDAMN FEET.

This is who she is. A girloser. The original weird girl. A reclusive femcel. I need her in my bed immediately

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Kash Patel (he calls himself "K$sh") has a signature look... it involves lots of black leader, steel studs and a stuffed crotch. Perfect look for an FBI director, don't you think? This is an actual ad that Patel did for Lucchese boots.

[Robert Scott Horton]

* * * *

“FOR MY FRIENDS, EVERYTHING; FOR MY ENEMIES, THE LAW.”

TCinLA

Dec 01, 2024

If you want to assemble infrastructure for an authoritarian government, this is what you do.

"Enshittification" was a good word to describe Trump’s goals, though I personally go with "kakistocracy" (In case you’ve forgotten or didn’t know, the word is Greek, and refers to “government by the least-qualified or unprincipled citizens - government by the worst men”).

But even Kakistocracy doesn’t fully capture what Charlie Sykes called “the dazzling craptacularity of this moment.” What we are witness to is the utter preposterousness of what the most damaged psyche in history wants to do to “get revenge” on all those who ignored him as he pressed his nose against the glass door to social acceptance, forever excluded from “polite society.” He wants to blow it all up for their crime of not recognizing him as the glorious genius he alone knows he truly is.

As completely preposterous as the incompetent sex trafficker Matt Gaetz was as Attorney General, or the skeevy chode (called out as such by his own mother) Pete Hegseth is as Secretary of Defense, or the science-denying scumbag RFK Jr (called out as such by the rest of his relatives) is as Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the Russian asset (they say so themselves) Tulsi Gabbard is as Director of National Inelligence - that a dedicated fanatic like Kash Patel can be nominated to run the FBI is genuinely scary.

But “scary” is the point - a feature, not a bug. Trump’s predecessors in office all tried with mixed success to sell hope or unity; the return of happy days; called us to a higher purpose; even presented their hopes as a plea to the better angels of our nature.

Instilling fear is Trump’s goal. It’s the message Trump’s buddy Elon Musk now puts out in a steady stream on Xitter (that’s pronounced “Shitter”): “Be afraid.” “We are coming after you.” “We are now the law.” “Judge Dredd is coming.”

Over the past three weeks since the election, Trump has released the names of his nominees for the Cabinet and other senior posts in waves; beginning with some relatively “conventional” choices, he began the weekend after to unload bombshell after bombshell. The goal was to “flood the zone with shit,” as Steve Baanon puts it, with the goal of paralyzing Republican Sentorial opposition and to also overwhelm the limited political attention span the American public possesses.

But beyond all the others - from the absolutely unqualified to the ideological nightmares - his Saturday night post on (Un)Truth (Anti)Social, announcing the nomination of Kash Patel as Director of the FBI shoots from kakistrocracy through enshittification, craptacular and preposterous to score a bullseye at Truly Outrageous.

A Patel nomination to a position in law enforcement or intelligence has lurked as a possibility going back to the end of Trump 1.0. Most believed he could only be placed in position as a Number Two who would not face the senate approval he could not get. That Trump waited till now, and made the nomination at the level he did, shows his belief that he has created enough outrage and exhaustion with his other nominations, and is now free to scream Fuck You to all. This isn’t just a “Fuck You!” to law enforcement, a sharp stick in the eye to professionalism. This is a “Fuck You, You Can’t Do Shit About This!” to John Roberts and the other traitors on the Unsupreme Court who decided to put Trump above the law. It’s “What The Fuck Do You Think About That - Boy?”

Kash Patel is absolutely dangerous.

He is Reinhard Heydrich leading the Sicherheitsdienst.

For Trump, nominating Patel serves several goals. It demonstrates he is taking his razor-thin 1.6% election win as a mandate to rule as he pleases; Patel is proof he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks and that those who think Susie Wiles will bring any order to this chaos are deluded. Second, this lets him show that the objections of senior elected Republicans are of no consequence, that he can flatten them politically at will. Even knowing what his first term was like, enough Americans chose to return him to office; he has taken that narrow decision as a license to do whatever he wants.

Patel’s nomination is shocking in many ways. Like the other preposterous, outrageous senior Trump nominees, his only qualification is his willingness to do Trump’s bidding without hesitation. Patel has no ideological or religious beliefs like Vought, which provide a rough guide to what can be expected from him, thus allowing opposition to organize. Patel’s only goal is to please Donald Trump, and to achieve this he will literally do anything.

Trump has daily demonstrated his ability to be worse than any opponent can imagine. Now he will have a servant who is will never question any one of his master’s terrible whims or outrageous beliefs. A servant in control of federal law enforcement, willing to turn it loose on whatever target the sick mind of Donald Trump chooses. In an administration full of loyalists and sycophants, Patel will be exceptional in his devotion, his priorities always subject to his mercurial master’s insane wishes.

Patel was recognized as the danger he was by nearly everyone in the upper levels of the first Trump administrtion. During the final days of Trump 1.0, when he thought to name Patel deputy director of the FBI, Attorney General Bill Barr confronted chief of staff Mark Meadows and said, “Over my dead body.” When Trump planned to name Patel deputy director of the CIA, Director Gina Haspel threatened to resign; Trump relented only after Mike Pence led an intervention.

What wouldn’t a lackey like Patel do, if asked or ordered?

Patel later wrote in one of the three books he has written in the four years since Trump left office that he “wouldn’t sit quietly and accept their actions to stonewall direct orders from the president.”

Trump has promised to learn from his mistakes. When he returns to the White House in 50 days, there will be no Milleys, Haspels, or even Barrs to restrain him as he sets out t o gain his revenge against his political enemies. There will be Patel - whose true faith and allegiance belongs not to a nation, but to one man.

“Kash, I know you’re probably going to be head of the CIA,” Steve Bannon said on his War Room podcast a year ago, this December. “But do you believe that you can deliver the goods on this in pretty short order, the first couple of months, so we can get rolling on prosecutions?”

Patel responded, “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media. Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections—we’re going to come after you.”

Russians speak of the “power ministries,” those departments possessing significant legal and coercive capacity. In the United States, those “power ministries” are the Justice Department, the Defense Department, the FBI, and the intelligence community. Trump has now named sycophants to lead each of these institutions who will follow his orders, unbound by the law or the Constitution.

According to one longtime advisor, Trump once said of Patel,“A lot of people say he’s crazy. I think he’s kind of crazy. But sometimes you need a little crazy.”

Peruvian strongman Óscar R. Benavides once stated a simple operating principle for authoritarian crony government - kakistocracy: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

We have been warned. Trump has clearly told us, “Expect the worst.”

[TCinLA]

[cathedral-of-the-forest]

You know what will break my heart? And at this point it’s pretty fucking hard to break. It’ll be watching my nation go down the shitter on November 5th, if that is what happens.

But the thing about it that will be really crushing will be knowing how easily the nation just rolled over and let it happen.

[parasiticstars]

Every day I think about how humans are becoming more vile to the point of no return (myself included don’t take this the wrong way) human rights are being questioned like it’s 1980 AGAIN there’s the whole national rape day thing men have somehow gotten worse into 4chan ass behavior especially with the rise of looksmaxxing and transvestigation is rampant (again) and ozempic and heroin chic are in and body standards are getting more and more unrealistic and the internet is a giant ad and big brother has enough of my data to make a clone out of me and AI is literally taking all of our jobs and the fucking Middle East is getting nuked off the map and the housing market is down the shitter and we are experiencing the worst sudden wildlife extinction event to date and America is becoming a christofacist apartheid and I’m walking around with an artificial pulse in a body that doesn’t belong to me and I really genuinely hope we completely fucking nuke ourselves out of existence in 2025. God bless.

[plutooonium]

me as a gameshow host: “dude you can’t fucking swear on national goddamn television has your brain gone down the shitter”

[lady-wildflower]

Fuck.

Whelp, shit's about to get bad for anyone who's not a landlord. Especially for the poor and disadvantaged. Smarmy fucking corporate cunt wants to pretend he'll help the people who didn't vote for him, when his policies are designed to fuck us over. To everyone else who's about to get shafted by this punitive fucking disgusting morally bankrupt National-led government's cuts and beneficiary bashing and inflationary policy and racism, just know you're not alone.

A new fucking low. It was nice to feel proud of Aotearoa's progressive government while it lasted. Now I guess all we've got is "at least they might not be the worst of the Tory cunts in the world." Utterly dismayed at how many votes ACT and their disgusting race-baiting anti-Maori rhetoric got. Disgusted by how populist bigotry combined with widespread apathy and gullibility for a vague notion of change - with no understanding of how horrible that change will be - has brought us perhaps the worst government we could have right now.

Also, you get so many talking about moving to Australia, but they're not much better, and it's a bit disheartening to say the least that with Aotearoa about to fall down the right-wing shitter, the rest of the world is just as bad or worse. If I even had the option to leave (which I might not, gotta love being disabled and what our new PM describes as bottom feeder leeches), the only place I'd go might be a hypothetically independent Scotland, if it by some miracle accepted my burdensome arse.

Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

To anyone who voted National or ACT: fuck you. From the bottom of my heart, sincerely, fuck you you selfish fucking cunts. You are no friend of mine, because you just voted to upend my life. I depend on the services you just voted to gut so you could get your precious tax cut.

[frankendykes-monster]

I'm biased for obvious reasons but logging into Instagram today and seeing all the national boyfriend day posts is showing me that the dating pool for women is in the shitter. Like I knew the situation was dire but I didn't know it was this bad.