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Kathy Hochul is … well, as a New York state resident I’ve found her to be an accidental governor (she inherited the job when Andrew Cuomo resigned) and generally ineffectual and embarrassing. But when asked at a press conference whether New York Democrats would gerrymander in kind, Hochul said, “This is a war. We are at war. And that’s why the gloves are off and I say, bring it on.” In another comment she even claimed she wanted to get rid of New York’s independent redistricting commission, saying, “I’m tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back” and insisted on “fighting fire with fire.” She expanded on the point, “We’re sick and tired of being pushed around when other states don’t have the same aspirations that we always have,” Hochul said. “And I hold those dear. But I cannot ignore that the playing field has changed dramatically, and shame on us if we ignore that fact and cling tight to the vestiges of the past. That era is over — Donald Trump eliminated it forever.” This is, to put it mildly, not the Kathy Hochul we’re used to at all.

There’s a Big Sea Change Underway Among Even the Most Conventional Dems 

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Why is this horse in the middle of a creepy room?

Because it wants you to know that Trump is in the Epstein files and the entire Republican party is protecting him and his fellow pedophile rapists.

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This is both objectively hilarious, and a reminder of how easily stupid people are fooled.

The Satanic Panic was fucking INSANE, y'all. This shit was everywhere, and ya boy was in parochial school at the time, so they REALLY went hard into how serious and deadly this whole thing was.

Meanwhile, little kid Wil was listening to Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, WASP, Maiden, and playing the hell out of D&D and other fantasy tabletop games.

It was my first, and most profound, experience with a large group of people -- my teachers and other authority figures -- being completely consumed by bullshit that I knew was fake. I would watch these breathless news stories and listen to my teachers repeating whatever nonsense they'd been fed at church or on talk radio, and know in my heart and soul that none of it was true, because I listened to the music and played the games and watched the movies, as did all of my friends, and none of us were conjuring black masses (though if we'd had the candles and robes, I'm sure we would have cosplayed it).

The Satanic Panic shaped a lot of my values and convictions. I was in 5th grade when I began to wonder if these teachers and other adults who came to school to lecture us about the dangers of the music and games I already (secretly) loved knew they were lying, or if they were just stupid and easily misled. (I suspect it was a little from column a and a little from column b, as it frequently was with those right wing christian nationalist nutjobs who ran my school).

I remember so clearly when I saw through them all, and realized that all of it was bullshit.

So I guess I have the Satanic Panic to thank for giving me the push I needed to completely reject religion as a fear-based cult built on lies.

I was in 5th grade when I figured that out. It's wild to me that there are full-on adults today who haven't caught up.

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'No one ever leaves a star. That's what makes one a star.'

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Farhad Khalilov (Azerbaijani, 1946), Untitled (from the cycle Memories), 1977-2006. Acrylic on canvas, 299.5 x 149.5 cm.

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Robert Benedetti tattooing Ozzy Osbourne at Sunset Strip Tattoo c. 1982

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Doc: So tell me, future boy, who's president of the United States in 2025?

Marty: Donald Trump.

Doc: Donald Trump?! The con man?? Then who's first lady, some illegal immigrant from Eastern Europe?

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i got a lot going on rn tbh it’s overwhelming

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Joan Jett

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In order to balance out the extremism of the Republican Party, the media and Republicans themselves need an equally extremist figure on the left. As they rarely get that from elected Democrats, they’ll often content themselves with people vaguely “leftist,” even if they aren’t part of the formal Democratic Party, much less wield any influence over it. College kids are one of the favored stand-ins in this equation, since it’s fairly easy to catch a 19-year-old saying something dumb or histrionic, and comparable power isn’t a necessary prerequisite. The Sydney Sweeney “debate” is this dynamic in a microcosm: The supposed “leftists” here, as Favreau points out, are random social media users. Their combatant on the right is … the President of the United States. Actual Democrats absenting themselves from this argument doesn’t matter. Fox News and Trump can squeeze days and days of content out of covering the deranged Democrats who hate “beautiful women” because of so many years of more respectable commentators conflating institutional Democrats with anyone ostensibly of the “woke left.” Since Democrats could never police the messaging of everyone with a liberal worldview, the right will never lack an eyeroll-inducing left-wing posterchild to prop up and gleefully attack.

The Sydney Sweeney News Cycle Proves That Democrats Simply Can’t Win - TPM 

Yep.

Also, Trump is in the Epstein files. Why won’t they release the Epstein files? Is it because Trump is in the Epstein files? Is it because Trump was part of Epstein and Maxwell’s criminal conspiracy to traffic children to be sexually abused? 

The Sydney Sweeney News Cycle proves that the entire Right Wing Cinematic Universe is laser-focused on protecting Trump, and covering up that he is a rapist who is in the Epstein Files

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