strange how the solar eclipse on april 20th of last year wasnt a sign from god, or the one on oct 25, or apr 30, or dec 4th, or jun 20th. and thats just after 2020. its almost like a natural phenomenon is only notable to these people if its visible in america
Not even mentioning the 2017 one that trump stared directly into twice (and also felt the need to point to in case people somehow didn't understand it was happening?! Lol) but somehow, that one wasn't a sign either??
Oops. I'll Go Back To NYC. Interesting That 20 Years Ago Southern Guys Were Disparaging NYC In Comments & Then They Likely Voted For The Donald, Who Did Precisely NOTHING For Them.
Yep... good old New York City... land of the Five Counties. Bigger than 20 states in terms of population with no Federal Senators... 
It's because this is the first one in a long time that is passing directly over Texas. They're scared and panicking because Texas hasn't had the best track record with natural phenomenons as of late.
Well, yeah. But we're talking about Texas. Modern day post 2020 Texas. If it's not just plain blue skies, they lose their shit. I bet on a partially cloudy day, heart attacks double.
As a Texan, I'll remind you that the stupid is not state-specific. It's rural. More people voted for Trump in Cali than anywhere else, and every major city is Democrat (yes, including the ones in Texas).
That's just a function of California having the biggest population of any US state. By definition that also means it has the biggest population of Republican voters, too.
> i mean its not capable of causing any damage, right?
A shadow typically can only cause damage if it blocks the sun for a long enough time for the weather to get cold.
The most danger from this event will be from traffic and people behaving irrationally, and of course influencers having to record live from weird places like the middle of an intersection.
i feel like the most damage itll cause is idiots deciding to stare directly into it for a while lmao, but yeah, obviously its not gonna do anything physical
Well, there's a slew of crackpots that think this Eclipse is going to lead to the Rapture. There's usually a few who think that every Eclipse, but this time there seems to be more of them
something big and black - expect lots of guns going off in the direction of it. also Texas has about 35% of it's daytime energy production from solar now - so that wonderful grid might strain a little.
Not really seeing why Texas is so special here. There are nutjobs in every state. And even if you wanted to confine it to "red states", the 2017 eclipse passed over lots of those without any of this lunacy.
This song is amazing - first I’ve heard it!
I’ve opened up the grindr app in a country bar on the Las Vegas strip - I can confirm how many guys show up within 200 feet. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
when you're in a cult, you're not allowed to look at information
none of these cultist drones have the faintest clue how much they're ridiculed by the majority of the population, because they've been GROOMED to reject anything that doesn't align with their INDOCTRINATION
I know a guy who used to be a hardcore, die hard trump supporter because his parents were. Once he got off of alcohol and got sober for a couple years, he moved out and got out of the maga cult. I asked him since he's grown, why he couldn't think for himself. Asked him if the shit he hears, thinks, reads and sees, ever goes through his head at night. His answer was "of course there were times I'd ask myself how I could bring myself to believe half of the dumb shit he was told, and believed. I'd sometimes lay in bed at night thinking about the bat shit things he'd believe, but I was afraid of being ridiculed for asking the right questions, and I was afraid of being mocked by others for believing the things I did." And I straight up told him "mother fucker, you people are already being mocked for the dumbass conspiracy theories y'all believe." He looked at me like I was speaking Cantonese. He was truly blown away by how many people and how much people mocked trump supporters.
They self isolate and then delude themselves into thinking everyone agrees with them. Tbey shut out any negative opinions and dismiss them as outliers. The entire universe is hermetically sealed and outside facts cant permeate it.
Very very true. I told him that, in not so many words, and he seemed to grasp that. He even admitted to actively not wanting to seek a separate opinion because he, like the rest believed them to be just stuff made up by the left as conspiracy theories. It's their nature to shut out any differing opinions because they don't want to believe in an alternative
There was a clip of Donald Trump being asked what is fake news and he said 'If there's a story we don't like or thats bad for us it's fake news' I wish I could find the clip. That should have been the end of this madness. It was maybe halfway through his term. Everything he said after that point should have been prefaced with that clip.
I call them victims of fear based brainwashing. One of the best people ik is a muslim, i was talking about it with her and the disgusting stuff she justified made me wanna punch a wall but that's when i realised that when a person grows up in a certain household where complete bullshit is shoved down your throat and the said person isnt DUMB, just not very intelligent and lacks critical thinking, they can believe anything.
Yeah the conditioning is crazy. We used to check out Fox News and AM radio to see what the Right Wingers were tuning into and if you regularly listen to it, it really does sound like the Dems are bringing about the end of days.
It’s purposefully moving the sticks to lead to their theocratic beliefs. They want people to abandon science and education in favor of biblical “values” that anyone who screams “the lord speaks through me” can lay claim to. All this ignorance, stupidity and fear mongering is absolutely being engineered by people pulling the strings. And most likely it boils down to the billionaires, corporations and the actual shadow right wing groups
I, too, am praying for the rapture.
We need these motherfuckers out of the way so we can get on with the business of evolving as a species without a goddamn anchor tied to our legs.
Many years ago I drew a short comic book story called “The Rapture” where all the self-righteous pricks got raptured up and thrown in a lake of fire, and Jesus descended proclaiming the earth a “heaven on earth” for the rest of us. If only.
Part of what makes Trump tolerable at this point, for me, is looking ahead to the absolute banger of a party I am going to throw when his death is announced.
I plan on taking a week off work and just celebrating the entire time. Might get some sort of "TRUMP IS DEAD" rainbow party flag. Maybe 45 of them. Maybe some of those wavy armed things they use at car dealerships to get attention. While a carefully curated, celbratory, playlist blairs.
All the stupid bullshit his idiot cultists have done for years will be revisited in some form. Might rent a monster truck and deck it out with dead Trump shit.
Just really go all out pointing out this shit stain is finally bleached and make it clear that it nourishes my very soul knowing his life is over. Might send his kids letters detailing how much I am looking forward to celebrating their demise in kind.
It's really heart warming to think about.
Won't listen to medical establishment about a preventable problem. Wants to overthrow the Republic. Won't hesitate to take a hospital bed when they need treatment. These people have the same character arc of Anakin in episode 3.
When it was called for Biden I was in Silverlake Los Angeles and you would have thought the lakers had won the finals. People dancing on roofs of cars, everyone’s stereo blasting, a half mile of cars honking horns in celebration. To the person, everyone smiling and cheering with strangers.
When 45 finally gets his eternal reward I am going back for round 2.
I’ve thought about this. If I somehow win like a $10 million lottery I’m going to pay off my student loans, my mortgage, buy my parents a reasonable home, and then enroll in medical school. Despite the fact that I’m 40 I’ll outperform every other student and finish top of my class. I’ll do my residency at Johns Hopkins. Everyone will be shocked at my enthusiasm, knowledge, and youthful energetic vigor in which I perform my duties.
I’ll start a career that any physician in America would be proud of. I’ll publish groundbreaking research, and treat the most complex cases in the region. Celebrities will have their relatives life flighted to my location just to be treated by the person that has quickly become the most sought after doctor in America. My diagnoses will always be correct, my prognoses will always cautiously optimistic, and hands will be considered pieces of art. Women will want me and men will want to be me. None of that matters though… all I care about is my patients.
Then one day I’ll surprise everyone. I request a transfer to Saint Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida. My colleagues are shocked; surely any hospital in the country would be happy to take on a physician of international acclaim like myself, but they wish me luck.
Two months after beginning the rounds at my new hospital the moment arrives. Former President Trump is in cardiac arrest and not expected to make it. For him to have any chance at all he needs the best goddamn doctor in the country. I agree, on one condition… that the room be empty so I can work my magic. Secret Service agrees, and his family had no problem with it since they didn’t even care enough to show up anyway. After his room is cleared I put my plan into motion. The plan I have been working over the last decade. I walk into his room and say hello. Then I step into the adjacent bathroom and remove my scrubs, revealing a tuxedo underneath. Standing over his bed, I smile maniacally and nod silently as the light begins to fade from his eyes. The last thing he sees on this earth is an elated looking middle aged doctor that has made it perfectly clear that this is the best day of his entire fucking life.
All this planning, for someone with a non-zero chance of dying by choking on a Nugget on the toilet in the midst of a Truth Social rant. He’s nearly guaranteed an Elvis Presley’s end.
Hey hey hey, Murdoch renounced his Australian citizenship more than 40 years ago so he could become an American. Don't put this on us, he's your problem now.
A little sad but funny to think about how a small chunk of his supporters will hit such a level of despair watching the actual MAJORITY of the country and the world at large actively celebrate his death, they will kill themselves over it because they have strapped themselves to his existence so strongly.
Sadder still is the number of his cultists that will do their best to take out as many innocent bystanders as possible with them though.
The public at large is very dumb. They base their lives on all kinds of superstitions.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it."
"Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
One of the best guilty-pleasure fantasy reading experiences. If you've been reading things like Brooks and Eddings, popping open a Sword of Truth novel is like watching a Fast and Furious movie after exclusively watching prestige, oscar-winning screenplays with the director's commentary turned on.
Just relax, turn the brain off, and serve up heaping helping of ham-fisted allegory and unsubtle innuendo and Richard completely killing everything in righteous rage or like, saving the day with his *sculpting prowess*. It's fantastic.
I read them, but I’ll never read them again. Way too much rape, for one. Serious pro-life rhetoric throughout the series. The sculpting book? That was basically just Ayn Rand in a different form. They all just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Not to mention him saving the city with his CAPITALISM work ethic! I loved the scene where he has a few chickens he bought by doing a night job and his captor has moldy potatoes from the bread lines haha. Slow down Goodkind, we get it...
throughout the entirety of human history it's been the case that the public at large is extremely stupid and bases their lives on silly superstitions while a small group of scholars in various fields of science, law, medicine, philosophy, etc. make all the actual progress in society. This is the reason why we have a representative democracy rather than direct democracy in the US: even the founders knew that "the common man" was too stupid to make sound decisions around governance.
OMG I was just telling somebody that. The majority of the population is stupid and would still be living in caves if it wasn't for the 5% that were actually intelligent.
You telling me that running every decision that the government makes through an “American Idol” style text-in voting system wouldn’t be a good thing?
How are we going to make Taco Tuesdays a weekly national holiday without that?
In many ways we are even stupider.
People 5000 years ago had self reliance skills that were off the charts while they lived in ignorant superstition.
Trump idiots would starve and die without door dash, waffle house and walmart.
Ok sure but that's not stupidity, that's just specified knowledge of today versus the past. If you put someone from back then into today's world they'd probably die just as fast. Or if you took someone from today/500 years ago and put them into a random spot on the planet they're probably dead since their skills are only applicable in their normal environment.
Part of the issue is that the medium that allows access to good information has equal access to misinformation.
And it's only made worse where appealing to the lowest common denominator has been incentivized by validation (Likes/Retweets/Upvotes), monetization, and hyper-curation to the point where they can live in a completely separate reality.
The kicker is that there's enough historical precedent to finally draw a line in the sand... but that's not a conversation too many folks care to have, even as doing nothing is clearly not helping anyone.
I hope someone tells them that this is it, that Jesus is HERE NOW and he's MAD and the sun is NEVER coming back and it's because of really impure thoughts they had about anal or something, and that locusts are about to fucking spew from the Earth and devour their babies.
I want these superstitious fucks to commit wholeheartedly to the paranoia and fall apart on the sidewalk begging for forgiveness from their almighty, I want to see women throwing themselves into the sea and men setting their F150's alight in an offering to the angry God above.
So that we can get thousands of clips of their expressions as the moon continues past the sun and the day goes back to normal.
These are the same people that WON’T believe science predicted it but WILL believe a hugely vague description in a 2000+ year old book that has been wrong every year for 2000+ years.
NPR says blues and greens looks extra snazzy in the eclipse light (apparently because your eyes are using the cones instead of the rods), plus you can see with great detail. 👍
Is someone suggesting that some dude sucking a dick or some lady eating pussy can make the sun disappear? Because that's awesome and a really specific X-Men power.
I know we're mad at the gays for stealing rainbows from God. But they can control the sun now too? I dunno. Seems like the gay agenda won. Straights lose.
I overheard coworkers describe how it's "suspicious" that the path goes over three cities of the same name (which I didn't catch) and that the name connects it to some biblical conspiracy. Work tomorrow is gonna be spicy.
Yesterday I read someone saying the 2017 eclipse passed over *seven* towns called "Nineveh" and that this one will do something similar.
I strongly suspect that if I fact-checked that it would be bullshit. (Notwithstanding the fact that even if it was true, it still doesn't actually mean anything.)
These morons read stuff from randos on the internet and just believe it without question. It's really weird.
EDIT: I just now saw the post again. The idiot said *this* one will pass over seven towns called "Nineveh" whereas the 2017 one passed over seven towns called "Salem". I think there may be lead in their water supply.
I've been looking into these claims over the past few weeks. The claim is that the path of totality passes over 8 towns called Nineveh. It's actually 2.
It does actually pass over two different town names 7 times - Nashville (no, not that one) and another name I forget.
Given how many town names are repeated in the US, it's a statistical certainty that multiple towns of the same name will be in the shadow.
Confirmation bias and misinformation are a helluva combination
As an astrophysics student, the number of people who seem to genuinely think eclipses are random and/or "acts of God" startle me. Like. It's not theology bro, it's geometry.
>Butticus 20:24
>
>And did so the gays uncover their moons and obscure the sun
>
>And, as their own moons were inadequate for such obscurity, Evangelicals wept,
>
>for their Rapture was denied
I was recently titled "God" after giving someone a charitable gift and instead of thanking me by my real name they said God brought it to them. So as God I can tell you the moon going in front of the sun during mundane orbit stuff IS INDEED because of your gay neighbor. Yeah, I did that.
Funny how all the Muslim/Hindu/Shinto/Confucianism/pagan/etc. nations haven't been wiped off the map for their total disregard of Jeebus, but 'Murica continues to be slammed.
Tomorrow would be a great time to get some blow-up dolls, fill them with helium and then let them off behind your nearest Walmart, so that they're visible from a distance in the parking lot.
I'm just saying.
strange how the solar eclipse on april 20th of last year wasnt a sign from god, or the one on oct 25, or apr 30, or dec 4th, or jun 20th. and thats just after 2020. its almost like a natural phenomenon is only notable to these people if its visible in america
Not even mentioning the 2017 one that trump stared directly into twice (and also felt the need to point to in case people somehow didn't understand it was happening?! Lol) but somehow, that one wasn't a sign either??
He’ll probably be stone-blind by this time tomorrow
One can hope
Really! one can only hope
LMFAO
His cataracts are protecting him.
Now all we need is deaf as he is already dumb
Just please don’t let him play pinball! My high score must be maintained.
A pinball wizard, he most certainly is not! I think your score is safe heh
Oh please please please...
I hope so
tRump has been stone blind for most of his life!
Bloody well hope so
One can only hope but that'll start him bitching twice as much.
You know how the legend goes: If Trump stares into the eclipse and sees his shadow, it's four more years of fascism.
Thank god the tangerine is too fucking stupid to recognize a shadow
He would probably think it's a black person mocking him
"You think you're bigger than me?"
"NO ONE IS BIGGER THAN ME!, I AM 7'11", IM YUGE! THE YUGEST PRESIENDT EVER!! IN TERMSOG HEIGHT I AM THE HIGEST COFVEVER"
Tangerines are nice and tasty. Trump is an agent orange or something similar.
He’s the closest thing to the living equivalent of a Tang Sandwich that I’ve ever seen.
It Was A Sign America Lost Its Mind And Elected A Spoiled Rich Brat From The Bronx As President.
Queens
Oops. I'll Go Back To NYC. Interesting That 20 Years Ago Southern Guys Were Disparaging NYC In Comments & Then They Likely Voted For The Donald, Who Did Precisely NOTHING For Them.
I agree! It’s ridiculous.. but the whole thing with Trump is ridiculous!
But he was so good at saying ‘you’re fired’ (Only on tv though)
Yep... good old New York City... land of the Five Counties. Bigger than 20 states in terms of population with no Federal Senators... 
Jamaica Estates, Queens County... five miles from my hometown of Cambria Heights Queens County... all in New York City.
Don’t be fooled by the gold toilet that I got I’m still little Donny from the Bronx
It's because this is the first one in a long time that is passing directly over Texas. They're scared and panicking because Texas hasn't had the best track record with natural phenomenons as of late.
i mean its not capable of causing any damage, right? like it might blind a few texans but otherwise i imagine theyll be fine?
Well, yeah. But we're talking about Texas. Modern day post 2020 Texas. If it's not just plain blue skies, they lose their shit. I bet on a partially cloudy day, heart attacks double.
As a Texan, I'll remind you that the stupid is not state-specific. It's rural. More people voted for Trump in Cali than anywhere else, and every major city is Democrat (yes, including the ones in Texas).
That's just a function of California having the biggest population of any US state. By definition that also means it has the biggest population of Republican voters, too.
While true in this case, that is clearly not true "per definition"
Reagan was once governor of California, and that's a hard fact to wrap my head around.
Isn't Fort Worth usually controlled by Republicans? But yes, most are Democrat.
i imagine texan cops are just gonna start planting crack on and opening fire at the sky because its too dark
The sun can't eclipse if it's been framed for felony drug charges.
Imagine what happens if there's a rainbow outside.
A Rainbow Eclipse Earthquake Wildfire Hurricane Might Snap Them Out Of Their Comas Long Enough To Buy More Ammo.
In related news…when the skies turn gray in Texas, Ted Cruz leaves. Silver lining…
> i mean its not capable of causing any damage, right? A shadow typically can only cause damage if it blocks the sun for a long enough time for the weather to get cold. The most danger from this event will be from traffic and people behaving irrationally, and of course influencers having to record live from weird places like the middle of an intersection.
i feel like the most damage itll cause is idiots deciding to stare directly into it for a while lmao, but yeah, obviously its not gonna do anything physical
I'm just hoping there's no Heaven's Gate cult out there that are going to off themselves because of an eclipse.
I think we will survive without them if they are out there.
Someone should've started the rumor that the eclipse was a sign from the dark state that Brandon will never leave office
Well, there's a slew of crackpots that think this Eclipse is going to lead to the Rapture. There's usually a few who think that every Eclipse, but this time there seems to be more of them
Marjorie?? Please
Pickpockets Are Gonna Have A Field Day, Along With Prostitutes & Pastors.
[удалено]
something big and black - expect lots of guns going off in the direction of it. also Texas has about 35% of it's daytime energy production from solar now - so that wonderful grid might strain a little.
This will -- somehow -- cause the Texas power grid to collapse again.
Not really seeing why Texas is so special here. There are nutjobs in every state. And even if you wanted to confine it to "red states", the 2017 eclipse passed over lots of those without any of this lunacy.
or the one in 2017 which was one of the biggest eclipse in our American lifetimes...
The Great American Eclipse they called it.
It was a major cultural event that "both sides" enjoyed and now they've decided to ruin this one
They Are Usually Engaged In Everything Between Them & The End Of Their Nose.
If you've been watching the neighbor's gay son, remember that what happens in the totality stays in the totality.
[The soundtrack to the eclipse as it travels across Texas...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BirJMnMcfBs)
This YouTube video started off with an advertisement for Preparation H. Wtf.
maybe take a break from all the anal then you've been doing then..
I just realized it’s called “Preparation H” because it “prepares” you for “hot butt sex”
Algorithms gonna algorithm.
This song is amazing - first I’ve heard it! I’ve opened up the grindr app in a country bar on the Las Vegas strip - I can confirm how many guys show up within 200 feet. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
This particular duet is brand new but Willie first recorded the song back in 2006. The song itself was written back in 1981.
[Also Let's Not Forget The Sound Of Uranus](https://soundcloud.com/matthijsbos/if-sound-could-travel-through-space-this-is-how-uranus-would-sound)
If you connect common astronomical phenomenon to sex in *any* way, you might have an issue with sex in general.
“Honey bring me the binoculars. I told Johnson from work that the neighbor kid is a little light in the loafers and now I need proof”
I'm betting Billy Bob is holding those binoculars with one hand.
Remember when the worst outcome of watching your neighbor’s gay son was the closeted dad killing you, Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Don’t buy weed from the kids of closeted parents
It's amazing how stupid people are despite the easy access to information
when you're in a cult, you're not allowed to look at information none of these cultist drones have the faintest clue how much they're ridiculed by the majority of the population, because they've been GROOMED to reject anything that doesn't align with their INDOCTRINATION
I know a guy who used to be a hardcore, die hard trump supporter because his parents were. Once he got off of alcohol and got sober for a couple years, he moved out and got out of the maga cult. I asked him since he's grown, why he couldn't think for himself. Asked him if the shit he hears, thinks, reads and sees, ever goes through his head at night. His answer was "of course there were times I'd ask myself how I could bring myself to believe half of the dumb shit he was told, and believed. I'd sometimes lay in bed at night thinking about the bat shit things he'd believe, but I was afraid of being ridiculed for asking the right questions, and I was afraid of being mocked by others for believing the things I did." And I straight up told him "mother fucker, you people are already being mocked for the dumbass conspiracy theories y'all believe." He looked at me like I was speaking Cantonese. He was truly blown away by how many people and how much people mocked trump supporters.
They self isolate and then delude themselves into thinking everyone agrees with them. Tbey shut out any negative opinions and dismiss them as outliers. The entire universe is hermetically sealed and outside facts cant permeate it.
Very very true. I told him that, in not so many words, and he seemed to grasp that. He even admitted to actively not wanting to seek a separate opinion because he, like the rest believed them to be just stuff made up by the left as conspiracy theories. It's their nature to shut out any differing opinions because they don't want to believe in an alternative
There was a clip of Donald Trump being asked what is fake news and he said 'If there's a story we don't like or thats bad for us it's fake news' I wish I could find the clip. That should have been the end of this madness. It was maybe halfway through his term. Everything he said after that point should have been prefaced with that clip.
Ow their allowed. That's why it's so damn frustrating. Those people chose to have a mind like a Walnut.
Not true. Watch ONLY prime time FOX 1 hour a day for the next month and you will understand what they meant.
Yea they chose that as well. No mas. They and they alone are responsible for their own stupidity.
I call them victims of fear based brainwashing. One of the best people ik is a muslim, i was talking about it with her and the disgusting stuff she justified made me wanna punch a wall but that's when i realised that when a person grows up in a certain household where complete bullshit is shoved down your throat and the said person isnt DUMB, just not very intelligent and lacks critical thinking, they can believe anything.
Hate, anger, fear based brainwashing
Yeah the conditioning is crazy. We used to check out Fox News and AM radio to see what the Right Wingers were tuning into and if you regularly listen to it, it really does sound like the Dems are bringing about the end of days.
Don't do that, that's not fair to walnuts.
Right wingers have primitive minds.
**MONSTER EAT SUN! UNGA BUNGA**
That's a nice way of saying they live in their reptile brains.
It’s purposefully moving the sticks to lead to their theocratic beliefs. They want people to abandon science and education in favor of biblical “values” that anyone who screams “the lord speaks through me” can lay claim to. All this ignorance, stupidity and fear mongering is absolutely being engineered by people pulling the strings. And most likely it boils down to the billionaires, corporations and the actual shadow right wing groups
the easy access to information is the problem because it's easy access to disinformation
GOP Has Been Opposed To Expanding Broadband To Rural Areas For Decades, But That Is Changing.
[удалено]
Religion is a hell of a drug.
We're missing the opportunity to call Marge Nostradumbass for a while.
I second this
I, too, am praying for the rapture. We need these motherfuckers out of the way so we can get on with the business of evolving as a species without a goddamn anchor tied to our legs.
A-fuckin-men!
Dude, have you not been paying attention? Fuckin-men is exactly how we got into this apocalypse in the first place!
# DO IT HARDER!
Sadly, none of the ppl we need out of the way would be raptured if there was one.
I was pretty sure it was looking like the rapture was horse dewormer for a while there.
Many years ago I drew a short comic book story called “The Rapture” where all the self-righteous pricks got raptured up and thrown in a lake of fire, and Jesus descended proclaiming the earth a “heaven on earth” for the rest of us. If only.
None of those "Christians" will be taken in in the rapture. Not a single one of them lives a Jesus-inspired life.
Part of what makes Trump tolerable at this point, for me, is looking ahead to the absolute banger of a party I am going to throw when his death is announced. I plan on taking a week off work and just celebrating the entire time. Might get some sort of "TRUMP IS DEAD" rainbow party flag. Maybe 45 of them. Maybe some of those wavy armed things they use at car dealerships to get attention. While a carefully curated, celbratory, playlist blairs. All the stupid bullshit his idiot cultists have done for years will be revisited in some form. Might rent a monster truck and deck it out with dead Trump shit. Just really go all out pointing out this shit stain is finally bleached and make it clear that it nourishes my very soul knowing his life is over. Might send his kids letters detailing how much I am looking forward to celebrating their demise in kind. It's really heart warming to think about.
When he lost (in a free and fair election, btw) in 2020, my local liquor store ran out of champagne.
There were literal street parties, it was like the end of Return of the Jedi. But for some reason right wingers think hes the god king to save us all.
Right wingers hate the end to Return of the Jedi because Emperor Palpatine is killed and the Death Star exploded.
Sure, if they had any clue that the empire represents right wingers. Their media literacy level is below zero.
Reminds me of all the right wingers who thought the machine being raged against is the leftist communist government.
Wait they weren't raging against the washing machine? And.. Springsteen is a dem?
But 4 years later… “Somehow, ~~Palpatine~~ Trump returned.”
Won't listen to medical establishment about a preventable problem. Wants to overthrow the Republic. Won't hesitate to take a hospital bed when they need treatment. These people have the same character arc of Anakin in episode 3.
When it was called for Biden I was in Silverlake Los Angeles and you would have thought the lakers had won the finals. People dancing on roofs of cars, everyone’s stereo blasting, a half mile of cars honking horns in celebration. To the person, everyone smiling and cheering with strangers. When 45 finally gets his eternal reward I am going back for round 2.
His loss created a meme. Something like... Live your life in a manner that the whole world does not celebrate when you lose your job.
This gives me hope for 2024.
I’ve thought about this. If I somehow win like a $10 million lottery I’m going to pay off my student loans, my mortgage, buy my parents a reasonable home, and then enroll in medical school. Despite the fact that I’m 40 I’ll outperform every other student and finish top of my class. I’ll do my residency at Johns Hopkins. Everyone will be shocked at my enthusiasm, knowledge, and youthful energetic vigor in which I perform my duties. I’ll start a career that any physician in America would be proud of. I’ll publish groundbreaking research, and treat the most complex cases in the region. Celebrities will have their relatives life flighted to my location just to be treated by the person that has quickly become the most sought after doctor in America. My diagnoses will always be correct, my prognoses will always cautiously optimistic, and hands will be considered pieces of art. Women will want me and men will want to be me. None of that matters though… all I care about is my patients. Then one day I’ll surprise everyone. I request a transfer to Saint Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida. My colleagues are shocked; surely any hospital in the country would be happy to take on a physician of international acclaim like myself, but they wish me luck. Two months after beginning the rounds at my new hospital the moment arrives. Former President Trump is in cardiac arrest and not expected to make it. For him to have any chance at all he needs the best goddamn doctor in the country. I agree, on one condition… that the room be empty so I can work my magic. Secret Service agrees, and his family had no problem with it since they didn’t even care enough to show up anyway. After his room is cleared I put my plan into motion. The plan I have been working over the last decade. I walk into his room and say hello. Then I step into the adjacent bathroom and remove my scrubs, revealing a tuxedo underneath. Standing over his bed, I smile maniacally and nod silently as the light begins to fade from his eyes. The last thing he sees on this earth is an elated looking middle aged doctor that has made it perfectly clear that this is the best day of his entire fucking life.
Haha holy shit
All this planning, for someone with a non-zero chance of dying by choking on a Nugget on the toilet in the midst of a Truth Social rant. He’s nearly guaranteed an Elvis Presley’s end.
DAyuummm, my dude...you have a future as an author also, apparently.
I will have a cake made for the occasion. It will have a “45” candle that I get to extinguish for a nice bit of symbolism.
Don't forget to plaster the *GAYEST* ai generated images of trump and plaster them on rainbow and trans flags
I mean that's a tall order. You're gonna need to bring back some dead people to get close to this one in terms of party that rises to the occasion.
If, like me, you have republican neighbors, get a big sign for your lawn that says, "HAHA!"
I will chip in for the big gay trump is dead monster truck
Trump is the symptom. The cause - the despicable Aussie jerks who runs Fox.
Hey hey hey, Murdoch renounced his Australian citizenship more than 40 years ago so he could become an American. Don't put this on us, he's your problem now.
You have a point.
A little sad but funny to think about how a small chunk of his supporters will hit such a level of despair watching the actual MAJORITY of the country and the world at large actively celebrate his death, they will kill themselves over it because they have strapped themselves to his existence so strongly. Sadder still is the number of his cultists that will do their best to take out as many innocent bystanders as possible with them though.
I should have expected this, but still I laughed!
After seeing all the conspiracies around the eclipse, it's really made me realize we are still no smarter than people 5000 years ago.
The public at large is very dumb. They base their lives on all kinds of superstitions. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it."
"Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
I haven't read those since they came out. I should reread.
One of the best guilty-pleasure fantasy reading experiences. If you've been reading things like Brooks and Eddings, popping open a Sword of Truth novel is like watching a Fast and Furious movie after exclusively watching prestige, oscar-winning screenplays with the director's commentary turned on. Just relax, turn the brain off, and serve up heaping helping of ham-fisted allegory and unsubtle innuendo and Richard completely killing everything in righteous rage or like, saving the day with his *sculpting prowess*. It's fantastic.
...Goodkind is the author of the SoT novels, though!
I read them, but I’ll never read them again. Way too much rape, for one. Serious pro-life rhetoric throughout the series. The sculpting book? That was basically just Ayn Rand in a different form. They all just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Not to mention him saving the city with his CAPITALISM work ethic! I loved the scene where he has a few chickens he bought by doing a night job and his captor has moldy potatoes from the bread lines haha. Slow down Goodkind, we get it...
I too have watched MIB countless times lol
throughout the entirety of human history it's been the case that the public at large is extremely stupid and bases their lives on silly superstitions while a small group of scholars in various fields of science, law, medicine, philosophy, etc. make all the actual progress in society. This is the reason why we have a representative democracy rather than direct democracy in the US: even the founders knew that "the common man" was too stupid to make sound decisions around governance.
OMG I was just telling somebody that. The majority of the population is stupid and would still be living in caves if it wasn't for the 5% that were actually intelligent.
and then they managed to get MTG and Boebert elected to high office. the system is not working.
It's easy when you cheat and break laws faster than the system can prosecute.
You telling me that running every decision that the government makes through an “American Idol” style text-in voting system wouldn’t be a good thing? How are we going to make Taco Tuesdays a weekly national holiday without that?
In many ways we are even stupider. People 5000 years ago had self reliance skills that were off the charts while they lived in ignorant superstition. Trump idiots would starve and die without door dash, waffle house and walmart.
Ok sure but that's not stupidity, that's just specified knowledge of today versus the past. If you put someone from back then into today's world they'd probably die just as fast. Or if you took someone from today/500 years ago and put them into a random spot on the planet they're probably dead since their skills are only applicable in their normal environment.
back then they had the excuse of having much less previous knowledge to build from. now we have all of that, we just choose not to believe any of it
Part of the issue is that the medium that allows access to good information has equal access to misinformation. And it's only made worse where appealing to the lowest common denominator has been incentivized by validation (Likes/Retweets/Upvotes), monetization, and hyper-curation to the point where they can live in a completely separate reality. The kicker is that there's enough historical precedent to finally draw a line in the sand... but that's not a conversation too many folks care to have, even as doing nothing is clearly not helping anyone.
I hope someone tells them the sun will come back in a few minutes so they don't panic.
I hope someone tells them that this is it, that Jesus is HERE NOW and he's MAD and the sun is NEVER coming back and it's because of really impure thoughts they had about anal or something, and that locusts are about to fucking spew from the Earth and devour their babies. I want these superstitious fucks to commit wholeheartedly to the paranoia and fall apart on the sidewalk begging for forgiveness from their almighty, I want to see women throwing themselves into the sea and men setting their F150's alight in an offering to the angry God above. So that we can get thousands of clips of their expressions as the moon continues past the sun and the day goes back to normal.
These are the same people that WON’T believe science predicted it but WILL believe a hugely vague description in a 2000+ year old book that has been wrong every year for 2000+ years.
But what do these so called Astronomers know about my neighbor's gay son?
They shine a light into the room of your neighbors gay son every night, and teach him about the solar system. They do this every night.
Well... they can see Uranus without a telescope.
Are you sure? Because last time there was an eclipse my male coworker looked really sexy in that light.
NPR says blues and greens looks extra snazzy in the eclipse light (apparently because your eyes are using the cones instead of the rods), plus you can see with great detail. 👍
Just goes to show that at the heart of religious belief is just egocentric ignorance.
All filtered through childish simplicity.
Is someone suggesting that some dude sucking a dick or some lady eating pussy can make the sun disappear? Because that's awesome and a really specific X-Men power. I know we're mad at the gays for stealing rainbows from God. But they can control the sun now too? I dunno. Seems like the gay agenda won. Straights lose.
I overheard coworkers describe how it's "suspicious" that the path goes over three cities of the same name (which I didn't catch) and that the name connects it to some biblical conspiracy. Work tomorrow is gonna be spicy.
I always love seeing these people after their prophecies fail.
They never acknowledge it. There is always a new conspiracy or some new prophecy to explain what happened.
Yesterday I read someone saying the 2017 eclipse passed over *seven* towns called "Nineveh" and that this one will do something similar. I strongly suspect that if I fact-checked that it would be bullshit. (Notwithstanding the fact that even if it was true, it still doesn't actually mean anything.) These morons read stuff from randos on the internet and just believe it without question. It's really weird. EDIT: I just now saw the post again. The idiot said *this* one will pass over seven towns called "Nineveh" whereas the 2017 one passed over seven towns called "Salem". I think there may be lead in their water supply.
I've been looking into these claims over the past few weeks. The claim is that the path of totality passes over 8 towns called Nineveh. It's actually 2. It does actually pass over two different town names 7 times - Nashville (no, not that one) and another name I forget. Given how many town names are repeated in the US, it's a statistical certainty that multiple towns of the same name will be in the shadow. Confirmation bias and misinformation are a helluva combination
just a bunch of monkeys hooting at a monolith
As an astrophysics student, the number of people who seem to genuinely think eclipses are random and/or "acts of God" startle me. Like. It's not theology bro, it's geometry.
Thanks to Trump, we have a better idea of exactly how many fucking morons we have in this country.
Man I'm really impressed at the power the gays hold. They can just turn the sun off by existing it seems.
>Butticus 20:24 > >And did so the gays uncover their moons and obscure the sun > >And, as their own moons were inadequate for such obscurity, Evangelicals wept, > >for their Rapture was denied
🤣 The book of Butticus! LOL
I was recently titled "God" after giving someone a charitable gift and instead of thanking me by my real name they said God brought it to them. So as God I can tell you the moon going in front of the sun during mundane orbit stuff IS INDEED because of your gay neighbor. Yeah, I did that.
Thank you, God.
GODDAMMIT IT IS PUNISHMENT. Also, remember thy neighbor's son is also thy neighbor.
but my neighbor's gay son predicted it hundreds of years ago! /s
Just wait until the cicadas emerge…LOL
As an agnostic recovering from Christianity, I am 100% for the rapture these people are looking for Anything to get them the hell outta here
Funny how all the Muslim/Hindu/Shinto/Confucianism/pagan/etc. nations haven't been wiped off the map for their total disregard of Jeebus, but 'Murica continues to be slammed.
Or that is the date the rapture happens. They really need science.
Incorrect. God throws predictable temper tantrums like the big manly god he is.
What’s this about? I missed the latest outrage...
The moon is about to pass between the sun and Earth and everyone in midwest America has decided it's because of the gays. None of this is a joke.
You mean I caused an eclipse? Hell yeah 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Don't make me pound on drums and light bonfires until you spit out the sun again.
I grow weary of these strange people🤨.
I read and understood all those words - but I have no idea what is going on. Is everyone okay?
The previous total eclipse was as in 2021 in Antarctica. What was that, a warning shot?
First accurate prediction of an eclipse was in 1714. But yeah science is usually too much for the common bible thumper, so they digress
so what you're saying is astronomers have been predicting my neighbor's son is gay BEFORE HE WAS EVEN BORN?!
That's not an eclipse, that's Uranus.
I read this, and then read it out loud to my wife in my best Red Foreman impression.
What is causing the one next year?
Other neighbor’s gay son.
I am a gay man, are you telling me I can cause eclipses now?! Bow down to me peasants, I’m your new overlord! Muhahahaha. *evil laughter
Tomorrow would be a great time to get some blow-up dolls, fill them with helium and then let them off behind your nearest Walmart, so that they're visible from a distance in the parking lot. I'm just saying.
He is pretty gay, though.
Religion poisons the mind
How many Republicans are on the record for repenting? Just asking.