"Indeed, one of the strangest things about the Epstein case is that it's the rare instance in which right-wing conspiratorialists care about actual people, rather than imaginary ones."
@pluralistic Care about actual people? Not really. I hear a lot of talk about the list and who's on it, not much about the victims and making life better for them. That's true for both MAGA and anti-Trump voices.
"Trump's conspiratorial base are hugely and reliably animated by stories about impunity for elite sex predators. As well they should be! Elite sex predators get away with all kinds of crimes -- not just Epstein, but the whole universe of powerful men, from Harvey Weinstein to Donald Trump, who systematically abused women for decades and got away with it -- bragged about it, even!
"But despite these very real abusers, the conspiracists in the Trump base are mostly concerned with _imaginary_ abusers -- Qanon's shadowy cabal of adrenochrome-guzzling pedophiles, tirelessly freighting trafficked children from one nonexistent pizza parlor basement to the next, packed inside of very mid Wayfair home furnishings.… "
where do TV shows get this idea that high school is constant drama, nothing even fucking happened to me in high school
I’m now remembering that my school got a slurpee machine and then had to get rid of it two weeks later after someone poured toxic chemicals into it that they stole from the science lab in an attempt to poison the entire cheerleading squad so like, maybe I was just boring
Not every day you find out youre a background character
… why I take Greyhounds, to meet people. Despite everything I wrote above, almost all of it which reads negative, sitting here now, looking back, I’m very glad I did this journey, because I met a lot of people I would have never encountered otherwise. Tough, troubling, but almost all genuinely decent human beings.
That’s why I encourage everyone to walk and take buses whenever you can, because you end up dealing with people who remind you what humanity actually is. Not the polished cartoonish version we’re supposed to aspire to, but the far more common messy, complicated, and resilient version.
It doesn’t matter if the MAGA movement dissolves. The country is only being partially run by Trump, there’s a new deep state we don’t know much about.…
Dave’s thesis might be dismissed as paranoid Bluanon ranting — but somebody was prepared on Jan. 20 with a fusillade of executive orders and coordinated attacks on Congress, the courts, media companies and universities. I find Dave’s theory of a New Deep State more credible than the idea that Trump coordinated it himself. Trump is a genius, but he has a very narrow range — attracting attention to himself — and he’s an incompetent clown at everything else. Trump is a man-sized toddler. He’s not running things. Somebody else is.
They know Trump is old and frail, and when the time comes they will make a deal with him to retire to Florida, immune from prosecution.… “
Margaret Yvonne Middleton (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007), known professionally as Yvonne De Carlo. Film and television actress, dancer and singer. She became a Hollywood film star in the 1940s and 1950s, made several recordings, and later acted on television and stage.
In 1964 she signed a contract with Universal Studios to perform the female lead role in The Munsters opposite Fred Gwynne. She was also the producers’ choice to play Lily Munster when Joan Marshall, who played the character (originally called “Phoebe”), was dropped from consideration for the role. When De Carlo was asked how a glamorous actress could succeed as a ghoulish matriarch of a haunted house, she replied simply, “I follow the directions I received on the first day of shooting: ‘Play her just like Donna Reed.’" She sang and played the harp in at least one episode (“Far Out Munsters”) of The Munsters.
After The Munsters, she guest-starred in “The Moulin Ruse Affair” in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967) and “The Raiders” for Custer (1967) and episodes of The Virginian. (Wikipedia)
“A kiss may be grand, but it won’t pay the rental, on your humble flat, or help you at the automat.”
Like literally the most famous song about how much girls love jewellry is just explaining the importance of getting jewellry for when your partner leaves you penniless and alone.
The founder of Girl Scouting in the US, Juliette Gordon Low, funded her first troop by selling her pearl necklace, which was her only belonging after her husband died and left everything to his mistress.
She founded Girl Scouts to teach girls self-sufficiency so they wouldn’t have to go through what she went through when her husband died and she didn’t know how to take care of herself.
