100 Random Thoughts on Current Items
Things that Are Currently Going through My Head
Anyone who is truly shocked that Joe Biden pardoned his son is also surprised the sun comes up every day.
For those who are upset at the Hunter Biden pardon, remember that Trump pardoned Michael Flynn who had been working on behalf of a foreign country while he was National Security Advisor. Essentially, spying. Which offense do you think is worse? A federal gun charge or espionage?
He also pardoned Greorge Papadapolous, who was charged and convicted through the Mueller investigation. “No Russia Collusion” my a**.
Speaking of Trump and Russian collusion, he also pardoned Paul Manafort, who was convicted of turning over documentation to the Russians while running Trump’s campaign.
Pete Hegseth must be the worst cabinet appointee in the history of cabinet appointees.
Woops, Matt Gaetz.
Woops, not Matt Gaetz.
Woops, Kash Patel must be the worst cabinet appointee…
Well, now I’m waiting for Trump to appoint Marjorie Taylor Greene to the FDIC or CFTC or Bureau of Reclaimation so that I can then say she is the worst appointee ever.
When everything on Social Media is faux political outrage, Taylor Swift and everyone gushing over Wicked ad nauseum, what is the point of social media?
Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom) is my favorite follow on any social media platform. I’m going to miss him and his crumudgeonly sense of tough love now that I am off social media.
Do you think Donald Trump realizes how truly dumb he is?
Everyone hates global warming, but if it makes Minnesota tropical, I may be OK with it.
On second thought, no I wouldn’t. Good weather attracts criminals like moths to a flame. Keep the snow coming.
A few days ago, South Korea was one of the last countries on the planet I would have expected to declare martial law.
Remember when all the MAGA nitwits wanted Trump to declare martial law, seize all the voting machines and purge all the democrats from the federal government, then have show trials? Yeah, that actually happened—MAGA wanted to do all that.
That’s what seems to be happening now in South Korea. Well, without the voting machines.
My biggest pet peeve are people who ask questions, and then don’t care about how you answer, they just want to throw the question out there so they can express what THEY think about it.
How dumb men are, Part I: You only need to know that OnlyFans grossed $6 billion last year and not all of it was graphic content. We’re pathetic stupid beings sometimes, just because of that damn Y chromosome.
I still like that I have a Y chromosome.
Ever notice how socialists are usually the sloppiest people you know?
Is Canada really a different country when most everyone in it lives within 2 hours from the American border?
I need a drink. Not like a drink right now, but I need a “go to” drink so that when I go to a regular spot the bartender sees me and is like “Another….Mr. PurpleAmerica.” As a Wisconsinite, I’ve had Old Fashioneds my whole life and those are hit or miss outside of the Badger state. I need something else. Comment for me your favorite go to potent potable.
Speaking of Potent Potables, Jeopardy is kind of unwatchable now. It’s not Ken Jennings’ fault, it’s the way they make stars of the contestants. The questions were always the real star of the show. The people on it are just too obnoxiously smug for my taste. I could care less who wins but darnit I’m going to get that “90s song lyrics” question if it kills me.
I dislike it when people say “This deserves an Oscar!” Hey, Kamala Harris deserved to be President but that’s not how elections work (and despite the aura of accolades, the Academy Awards IS an election).
After Trump won, I’ve been slumping. I could really use Fox going into its normal “War on Christmas” bullshit instead this year. Alas, no.
Tens of thousands of protesters are currently protesting in Tbilisi, Georgia over that government’s pullout of EU talks, and wanting closer ties with Russia. This is exactly how the Ukraine protests started over a decade ago. The America of my youth in the 1980s would do everything possible to help the protesters.
Ugh, Ukraine. It pains me to know what is going to happen there once Trump gets into office. I know a Ukrainian family that moved here after the war started. Last time I saw her the day after the election, the mother was crying.
I like the idea of the NBA in-season tournament. I hate how they spread it out over a month. Hardly even feels like a tournament.
And damn man, those courts for the NBA in season tournament are eyesores.
Kamala Harris’ political career is over. No way she runs for President again and wins. The stink of losing (to TRUMP!) is on her. Its hard for that to come off, no matter how much she didn’t earn it.
For as much as Gen Zers hate “Do They Know It’s Chrismas,” I still kinda like it.
When did High School athletes get so damn big? My junior year, I was 6’4”, 185 lbs of skin and bones and was the tallest in my grade. Today, that’s the resume of a 7th grader on the traveling basketball team. Every starter on the local high school team is 6’2 or taller and most are bulked up over 200. Don’t even get me going on how that same school (who often competes for the State football championship) has a starting offensive line composed of 5 kids bigger than 250.
Pound for pound, gymnasts have to be the best athletes of any sport.
Do people in New York realize that those everywhere else in the country regularly look at them and say “Christ those people are obnoxious, I’m going in the exact opposite direction than what they want.”
Please, for the love of God, quit covering debutante balls and all the social page crap of young kids of celebrities. Yes, they have good, cushy, easy lives and can drop more on a party than the average person makes in a year. Seriously, its like rubbing our noses in it.
Does MI-6 have someone like James Bond ensconced in Elon Musk’s entourage, ya think? Musk does seem like a Bond villain in every possible way, including in the Moonraker way, which has to be the worst Bond movie ever.
A reminder. He once launched a Tesla into space. After looking it up, it is now somewhere orbiting Mars.
You want to know how dumb men are part II. Bitcoin is still a thing and expected to go over $100,000 a coin. And it’s not women buying it up.
All you need to know about Bitcoin is that the first exchanges were originally set up and organized as exchanges for MAGIC The Card Game trading cards. That’s all Bitcoin is; its the equivalent of a trading card.
Speaking of, whatever happened to NFTs?
How hard is it to emigrate to Liechtenstein? Just curious.
Or Andorra.
All this Wicked shit is really starting to get on my nerves. Yes, it was a good movie and a great musical. That doesn’t mean its the greatest thing ever put to film. In fact, I found everyone in it other than the lead actresses completely annoying, and that includes Jeff Goldblum. On top of that, it’s only half a movie and humanizing one of the greatest villains ever is a very modern thing to do that just kind of takes away of the greatness of the original Wizard of Oz.
It is not the best musical ever. Get your head out of your asses people.
Just once I want to see Goldblum play a really dumb person. Not someone like the Wizard who is dumb and just fakes being smart. But an honest to god imbecile. Someone where a kid could look at him and be like “Gee Mr. You’re dumb.” Talk about casting against type. He’d probably win an Oscar for it.
Notice how I did not say he would DESERVE an Oscar for it. There’s a difference.
Hollywood hasn’t made a good Christmas movie since Home Alone. Think about that a second.
You know, for the rest of America’s history, Trump will now be mentioned in the same breath of Grover Cleveland. It should also be noted that Cleveland’s second term was an utter disaster too.
Grover was my least favorite muppet. He was Elmo before they had Elmo. Then they turned Grover into “Super Grover” and it went to shit.
My favorite muppet has to be Beaker.
The best holiday festival actually has to be the made up Seinfeld one, Festivus. Airing of grievances and an aluminum pole that you don’t have to decorate, Im all for. I do think they need some music for it so the Festivus carolers can go door to door spreading the charm of the holiday. I mean, imagine a dozen people knocking on your door singing Green Day’s “The American Dream is Killing Me.” I think it would really go over well.
How come I have a dozen streaming channels and the same movies are playing on all of them?
Back to Trump a second. I’ve just received notice that Santa has him on the naughty list. But the New York Times is reporting that SO IS HUNTER BIDEN!!!! OMG. I CAN’T BELIEVE HUNTER BIDEN IS ON THE NAUGHTY LIST. WE NEED ANOTHER INVESTIGATION TO THAT IMMEDIATELY!
Sports journalists ask the dumbest questions.
Except for Taylor Swift. I don’t want the swifties on my case. I’ll give you that one.
Someone recently asked “What is the male equivalent of Taylor Swift?” Honestly, it might have been Michael Jackson or the Beatles at their peaks, but I genuinely don’t think there is a modern equivalent today.
Went to Barnes and Noble yesterday and got a book about how to take over the world and become a supervillain. If I’m not running things by 2026, I’m returning it for false advertising.
It just dawned on me that Trump could have a stroke tomorrow, or become as weak and feeble as Biden appeared back in June during the debate, and nobody would know the difference or even care. He could be drooling mashed potatoes and seizing in his chair, and everyone would be like “Mr. President, that is so great sir! You are trying to do the YMCA in your chair. So much fun!”
Worse yet, if they do realize it, Peter Thiel, I mean J.D. Vance would be in charge.
It’s a sad consideration that if it actually did happen, then Melania pulling an Edith Wilson and running the show might have been the best option, if she wasn’t already a Putin plant.
Speaking of Melania, plants and Christmases again, just think, we get four more years of this:
Everyone always asks politicians “What’s the first thing you would do as President?” I’ll tell you what I would do. I’d throw a kickass Lollapalooza-esque bash as an Inauguration and have Smashing Pumpkins sing “Today” as me and the Mrs. have our first dance as President and First Lady. Then on the next day, I’d quit and turn it over to someone who actually wanted to, you know, do the actual JOB of being President.
Trump has never actually wanted the job of being President. He just wants everything that goes along with the job. Particularly the social status.
Frankly, I’m kind of curious to see what Trump fucks up first. He’s got a fine head start so far.
People get way too wrapped up in who they are politically that it just goes with their identity. That’s a shame. There are so many better, other ways to define yourself.
Purple isn’t even my identity. In fact, being originally from Wisconsin and living in Minnesota, I’m Green and Gold, not Purple. I tried getting my son on the Packer train, 1 but on the first day of school when he saw all his friends were Viking fans he relented. I’ve had to make a house rule that “Skol” is a swear word in this home, but it doesn’t stop him. I know, he’s going to have a lifetime of sports disappointment and misery. I know. But you can lead a horse to water….
“Green and Gold America” just doesn’t have the oomph factor that PurpleAmerica does. And its not as descriptive. People might mistake me for being a Green or a Libertarian advocate. Nah.
I really think they should have dollar coins with George Washington’s face on it. But he’s already on the quarter. No problem, let’s change the quarter since smaller change is used less often. Teddy Roosevelt would look pretty good on a quarter I think. Sacajawea just isn’t cutting it on the current dollar coin.
I miss board games. Kids don’t like to play them anymore. They’d rather play them on a phone which just isnt the same. The closest we can come is some kind of card game that is usually a variation of Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity. That and 20 different variations of Uno.
What are the odds that George R.R. Martin actually finishes Winds of Winter?
I hope he decides to eventually change the ending. King Bran kind of sucks.
You know what the most watched scripted show of 2024 was? Tracker. I couldn’t tell you what night it was on much less ever watched it. Meanwhile, I have everyone telling me to watch some crappy prestige show on Apple+ or HBO usually relating to wealthy overprivileged people making a mess of their lives. Sorry, “Max.”
Notre Dame Cathedral is about to reopen. Saw on 60 Minutes how much restoration and renovation they had to do to fix it all. All the artwork looks almost brand new! Funny, in the 800 years its been open, it was never really cleaned before and now that they had a fire and billions poured in to fix it up, they rediscovered so many great murals that had been covered up by centuries of gunk.
Macron invited Trump to the opening of Notre Dame. Even though he accepted, he has money on them losing in the first round of the CFP.
Just read that Trump appointed Jared Kushner’s dad as Ambassador to France, and Tiffany’s father in law to some sort of Ambassador consultant to Saudi Arabia. Seems like the best way to get a job in the Trump admin is to be married to one of his kids, or related to someone married to his kids.
Am I the only one that when they type in “69” think of this scene from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure?
Just read an article by Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post talking about the shady deals of all family members of Presidents’ families. She suggests making a law putting in guardrails and disclosures of what they can and cannot do. This would give Republicans everything they claim they need in the wake of the Hunter Biden ordeal.
What I really love about that article though is that it really puts into context the extent of Trump’s corruption. To wit:
Now is the time when all the “Best of the Year” lists come out. I always find it interesting in that usually many of the items selected as the “best” only came out in the last month, and some haven’t even been released at all yet. What’s particularly bothersome is that nothing in the first few months of the year ever really gets mentioned. They should just name it “The Best of October through January next year.”
Just once I’d like for them to say “Hmm….well, only 6 good things came out this year, so we’re not even going to stretch to add the other four.
Remember when we could take vacations without people still being able to reach us through internet or mobile phones? Thems were the days. Now you can be soaking up sun on a beach in Turks and Caicos and still be on the hook for some end of the year spreadsheet that has to get out. Kids today will never understand the true beauty of isolation and disconnection.
GOOD GOD! I just saw that coffee prices are going to go through the roof due to supply chain issues. JACK UP THE PRICE— I’LL STILL PAY IT. Darn that caffeine addiction. I’m such a junkie I would take it intravenously if I could.
China just announced they are no longer going to sell microchips or computer batteries to the U.S.. Congrats Trump, you’re anticipated trade war is having great consequences so far. You haven’t even gotten into office and its paying dividends.
My son asked me to doublecheck his math homework before submission yesterday. I took a look and found one wrong. He fixed it like I suggested and submitted it. It was the only one he got wrong and now he is looking at me like “You cost me a perfect paper.” In my defense, his handwriting was so bad I thought a 3 was actually a 5 and miscounted; that he believed me just shows you how much he even admits how bad his handwriting is.
Kids today will never know the frustration of having penmanship/writing class and needing to be graded on how well you made a Q or capital Z in cursive.
How stupid are men part III: I just saw a commercial for BlueChew. It’s just an ad with some scantilly clad attractive female influencers talking about how guys should get BlueChew and how it will help them last longer. I made a mental note that there is no indication it contains any form of viagra or cialis or any such drug of any kind and seems more like a typical kind of supplement, that you don’t need a prescription for. I have no doubt in my mind millions of men saw this ad and bought as much of it as they could.
I’d say 90% of those men don’t even have a girlfriend.
I live in Minnesota, so Canada isn’t really THAT far away, just about 4 hrs from the Twin Cities. But even with that closeness, it just feels that much more COLDER.
True story, I went to Canada last year on a fishing trip. We stopped at a liquor store and someone I was with asked for “bloody mary mix.” The person behind the register was like “What, like Tomato Juice?” My friend replied, “No, like premixed, Bloody Mary mix.” The person behind the register laughed and was like, “No, we don’t have anything that cosmopolitan here. You need to go to Toronto for something like that.”
What has 10 different movies, 5 kids from the ‘90s, three separate locations that all look the same, two different plots and is on an endless stream at the gym I go to? Answer: The Hallmark Channel.
I don’t mind it though because all the women at the gym use the treadmills and bikes in front of that television, while I’m watching NFL Network on one of the other ones.
I genuinely don’t get the appeal of the Hallmark Channel at all. “Come watch Kirk Cameron’s sister from Full House in this fun update from Scrooge where she has to get back together with the boy who got away, in ‘A Christmas Carrie’” or “Hillary Duff needs to relive Christmas Eve in this rip off of Groundhog Day until she gets the guy the perfect gift!” or “That one girl from Party of Five, who wasn’t in Scream, but who was in Mean Girls is still trying to make ‘Fetch’ happen in ‘I want a Puppy for Christmas!” I feel like my IQ dropped 20 points just typing that shit out.
It never ceases to amaze me at the gym the number of women walking 2.0 MPH on a treadmill while they scroll though their phone. I’d say at least they weren’t watching the Hallmark Channel, but they are doing that too.
I’m convinced the world started going to shit when Al Gore lost Florida by 500+ votes. We’d be living in a different world had that not happened.
That’s right, I blame the current state of affairs on “Florida Man.” It’s only gotten worse since then. We’ve now become “Florida Nation.”
The northern equivalent of “Florida Man” is “Wisconsin Bar.” Seriously, google your birthday and “Wisconsin Bar” and you’re bound to find some great story.
Does anyone REALLY celebrate Kwanzaa in the United States?
This is still the greatest SNL skit ever.
Sending out warm thoughts for you and yours this Holiday season. My best wishes to you, your family, everyone you ever knew. Make the most of it. Mix that drink that you were going to recommend for me in the comments, toast how you made it another revolution around the Sun and feel good knowing that the world, despite all of what is going on in it right now, still has a lot of love in it. From PurpleAmerica to every color and location around the globe, Happy Holidays.
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Footnotes and Fun Stuff
Seriously, I put him on the season ticket waiting list BEFORE he was born. Since they processed his before mine, he is actually one AHEAD of me on the list.
This post is fucking genius. I love it.
Re #23: A negroni if it's someplace I am new to. Three equal parts, you can explain it if you have to. Most places will have a decent gin like Tanqueray readily available. Have a Boulevardier if you don't like gin.