In light of recent events, I keep coming across a newfound sense of optimism in places I otherwise expect to make money complaining about how much everything sucks.
This is my review of Vitamin Sea Brewing Phoenix Rising:
Who makes money complaining about how much things suck? Entertainment critics.
Trump Media, which got a sizable boost from the former and future president’s victory last night, offers another way for stars to get creative.
YouTube creators like Tim Dillon, Ryan Long and Theo Von draw millions of views at a much cheaper price point than typical Hollywood fare. They don’t play by the rules, either.
Hollywood was already in deep trouble before Trump’s victory.
Productions have been fleeing L.A. for some time. Dueling 2023 strikes left the industry reeling. Box office receipts are down from 2023, and dramatically so since 2019. The semi-annual TV Critics Association Winter 2025 Press Tour just got canceled.
What better time for a new, freedom-friendly Hollywood to rise up?
Wishful thinking perhaps, but markets are the most efficient vehicle to get products and services to people that want them…maybe even need them.
The cultural implications mean this market might be much larger than being a mere counterculture that just wants to see “not woke” movies.
There is ample evidence this might happen. It doesn’t take a lot of time looking around to see the people that are mortified over the election have all one thing in common: they’re ugly. Today’s androgynous fashions accentuate this phenomenon with the popularity of high waist jeans and oversize shirts.
Contrary to that of course is the near obsession with Sydney Sweeney (I will pause for applause….), and a few others that fit into this more classical standard of beauty. I noticed recently when my daughter asked to go shopping and came back with Lululemon. She figured out a hack with today’s giant t-shirt fashion by simply wearing booty shorts underneath. Which drives me up a wall, but she did figure out how to stand out while still conforming to her generation’s norm.
I suppose we will have to see how all of this plays out.
Another day another IPA. I am not going to pretend the artwork didn’t factor into my decision at all, or that I thought this was a local brewery. Its not, its Massholio based so its not a “West Coast” IPA either. So its more too much hop rather than too much fruit hop. They’re a very well regarded brewer and I can’t really complain too much about it, other than my standard disclaimer that I can’t stand these. Vitamin Sea Brewing Phoenix Rising: 2.3/5 6.8% abv (could not find IBU).
I want to make this very clear: Young men have nothing. Literally, we have nothing, no future prospects, most don’t have skills, most don’t have partners, all for reasons outside of our control All we had was our hobbies, and we couldn’t even be left alone to have that.
jennie’s wife can only get so hard.
Also has obviously not been near a college campus in the last few decades.
They screwed the pooch, fucking with people’s gaming.
Mojeaux:
More than just gaming, you could potentially point to Gamergate as the start of young men shifting to right though. The fact that the studios (games, television, and movie) kept trying to fuck with established properties to “take them back” from men just accelerated it.
Sydney Sweeney is the modern day Claudette Colbert.
Thank you. And shockingly accurate.
“Why thank you, Gustave…may I call you Gustave?”
Productions have been fleeing L.A. for some time.
In totally unrelated news, governor Newsom has been pushing for higher and better benefits and subsidies for the movie industry.
I for one welcome out new telenovela overlords.
I talked to my brother a while ago. He brought up the election. I told him I wasn’t exactly grief-stricken by the outcome. He, on the other hand… I tried to tell him there won’t be some of sort radical social upheaval, but he’s not buying it. He’s all in on TDS and has been from day one.
Oh, well. At least he said he’s laying off the news.
I like my next door neighbors very much but she’s got some bad TDS;
He’s a Brit, green card holder and married to an American but she thinks he’s gonna get deported if he gets so much as a speeding ticket. Which nobody at all is proposing.
It makes me sad when otherwise intelligent people are unhinged.
You should tell him he won’t even be deported if he jaywalks.
One way to keep permanent residents on the straight and narrow.
I know citizens who think their citizenship is going to be revoked and they are going to be deported because their grandparents were immigrants.
These people are broken. Casualties of political war. They will be fucked for the rest of their lives. It’s one thing to be mislead about some policy or another. These people have been brainwashed into believing the most far flung conspiracy theories about camps and everything else. Some believe Trump is going to kill them, or force them into birthing camps and forcibly impregnated and forced to give birth over and over.
This is not foolishness or stupidity. It’s brain damage caused by nonstop propaganda. These people have been programmed, and deprogramming isn’t going to happen.
“Yeah, I heard that! Y’all better not as much as draw a noise complaint…”
I’ve been pondering, post election, if we’ll be seeing more conservative based entertainment. Like Last Man Standing type stuff for example.
I don’t want more conservative or progressive films. I want good writing and good acting.
Good writing & good acting = conservative. Hollywood can’t abide that.
….that have a story to tell, that explore and provoke ideas, that have lessons.
I really dont care for more movies featuring a bunch of monkeys beating each other up and poking their dick at anything that cant outrun them.
poking their dick at anything that cant outrun them.
STEVE SMITH NOT CARE ABOUT BEING MOVIE STAR ANYWAY!
STEVE SMITH READY FOR CLOSE UP, MR. DEMILLE.
Have a heapin’ helpin’ of haughty sneering disdain</a<
When Donald Trump took the stage in Florida at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday to deliver a declaration of victory, he promised his gathered supporters “the golden age of America” in his return to the White House. You may be surprised at the number of white women with babies on their hips, front-facing cameras trained on their highlighted cheekbones, nodding right along with him on their social media accounts–but only if you haven’t familiarized yourself with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again, MAHA for short, a “health plan” custom-fit to appeal to those who proudly brand themselves as free-thinking mamas and boss babes. Hey girl, we’re gonna make America healthy again!
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Right-leaning social media influencers like Jessica Reed Kraus, who posts endless typo-riddled Instagram stories under the handle @houseinhabit, and their merry bands of wine moms and girl bosses have long waited for this moment: Validation that they, too, can “go wild on medicines,” no matter how many lives it puts in danger. Should Kennedy be instated to this unnamed high-ranking public health role (both he and Trump have waffled about what the position would actually be, but Kennedy seems to be participating in the time-honored far-right tradition of saying something absolutely insane a whole bunch of times and hoping that makes it true, presto change-o), his intention is to dismantle and privatize the foundations of public health initiatives.
White wimmin. How we hate them traitorous bitches.
Goddammit you tricked me into clicking a Vanity Fair link.
Thanks for the warning
Stupid fingers.
I promise to continue doing the things you hate, even as I ponder the unanswerable question of why you hate me
Gov. Tim Walz vowed on Friday to make Minnesota a safe haven for the values that drove the Democratic presidential ticket he helped lead, while at the same time promising to work harder to understand the concerns of President-elect Donald Trump’s voters.
Inside a high school auditorium in Eagan, Minnesota, a suburb just south of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Walz addressed a crowd of supporters with his reflections on Trump’s election victory, an outcome he said left him searching for answers.
“It’s hard to understand why so many of our fellow citizens, people who we have fought so long and hard for, wound up choosing the other path,” Walz said. “It’s hard to reckon with what that path looks like for the next four years.”
Why do those sinners not seek the path of righteousness? What is wrong with them?
“left him searching for answers”
Easy-peasy. The voters failed him and Calamity.
It is a mystery, Tim.
I am already worn out on the histrionics and faux puzzlement of the left. They know very well why they lost and know very well that the world is not going to end. They remind me of the 5 yo that has figured out their brain-dead parent falls for their shit.
#metoo
I don’t think they do know. It’s hard to let go of a theology you have invested your entire being in.
1. They grew up with Marxist propaganda poured in their ears.
2. They have been inculcated with envy and entitlement.
3. They have been encouraged to think only of their selves.
4. They have received nothing but validation from their equally brainwashed peers and leaders.
5. They have been shielded from disagreement and disagreeable persons.
6. They have been repeatedly told that they are right thinking people.
7. They have been shielded from the slightest discomfort.
8. They have been championed by their brainwashed parents for their ill behavior.
9. They have been taught that people who disagree with them are subhuman and do not deserve the most basic of decent treatment that you would give an animal bound for slaughter.
Leaving THAT church is more painful than leaving any other church, because other churches let you go. This one won’t.
I agree with Mojo here, especially since I know and work with many of these people. They attribute Harris’ loss mostly, to the ignorance and inherent racism and sexism of white males (and, to some extent, white females).
They KNOW, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Trump will: arrest homosexuals; arrest and/or harass transgender people; is literally a Nazi; implement Project 2025 which is “his”; buddy up with Putin to destroy Ukraine; and many other things.
For most of them the proof of what Mojo writes is when you ask them, or make a comment, along the lines of “what is it, specifically, that leads you to believe Trump wants to impose a dictatorship?” They either quote some of his statements out of context (a context of which they are usually unaware) and/or begin to raise personal questions about my character.
Suthen: yes, I think some of the people running the party know what’s what, but the rank-and-file progressive? Nope.
To wit:
“To every woman that voted for Trump, I hope your daughter has an ectopic pregnancy.”
That is VILE and EVIL. And yet, they are perfectly comfortable saying such things because we are subhuman, and they have been told for years that they are RIGHT in thinking so.
We talked about this on the Zooms last night, and it really informs my views on the notion of free will, which is that you only have free will within the confines of your environment and personality. You don’t know what you don’t know.
Every year you live in a shit environment without a personality that questions the status quo (very few people), your perimeters of free will shrink.
Unless these people come upon some real adversity that they can manage to conquer or even live through that makes them question their premises, they’re just automatons going about their masters’ bidding and will remain so until they die.
That is VILE and EVIL
It’s also stupid – there literally isn’t a state in the union where a woman couldn’t get healthcare for an ectopic pregnancy. Nor is anyone proposing limiting healthcare when the mother’s health is in danger.
I normally don’t celebrate such things but I’m happy to see that she’s been fired.
I will also add that most of the people declaring they are “scared” are being honest.
No they don’t know why they lost. Moral certainty is the biggest human blindspot of all.
You have a good point Mojeaux. It is difficult for me to watch adults behave that way and believe they are that psychologically stunted and twisted. Given their inability to learn I suppose you are right and we are stuck with them for at least a generation. What has been done to them is a moral crime of staggering scale.
I think I am going to try and re-popularize the old ‘kill a commie for mommy’ quip.
Yes, and thus we have a generation of castrated boys and weaponized passive-aggressive girls. Weak, terrified, envious, and entitled.
Government aid underpins all of it, because if they were forced to scrabble for their sustenance, they’d either harden up or die.
(I will pause for applause….
/insert applause gif here
She figured out a hack with today’s giant t-shirt fashion by simply wearing booty shorts underneath.
More than a few younger women at the gym I go wear this uniform.
I can’t stand these.
🙂
>>>>Walz also said Americans wanted the freedom to live their lives as they see fit, a message that had been a cornerstone of the Harris-Walz campaign. To that end, Walz promised to make Minnesota a bulwark against a second Trump administration’s potential attacks on abortion rights, immigrants and labor unions.
The government off our backs ticket.
I must be living under a rock because I didn’t know this was a thing. Are you telling me not everyone dresses like sluts anymore?
You should put the Sydney Sweeney gif in the rotation with the Mexican volleyball girls.
Hear, hear!
Yes.
the people that are mortified over the election have all one thing in common: they’re ugly.
Ugly inside and out. Ugly all the way through.
You should put the Sydney Sweeney gif in the rotation with the Mexican volleyball girls.
yes, plz.
+1 applause gif
As for female behavior and dress – most of what young women do is advertise their fecundity. Both genders, whether they know it or not, are trying to attract attention to their own suitability as a potential mate. It always has been that way and until we ‘ascend to a higher plane of existence’ or some nonsense, it always will be.
Of course each generation once past that stage find that behavior trait troubling because….well, that’s also what we do. We make offspring and then protect that offspring.
It makes me sad when otherwise intelligent people are unhinged.
My brother was always the “sciency” one when we were growing up. It was incredibly depressing to see him go all in on the plague superstitions. He called me one time nd pleaded with me to go get the vax.
I always thought it was odd that “so I suppose you did your own research” was such a sneering dismissal.
It’s the flip side of “I’m not here to educate you”.
OFFS. Yeah. It is incredible to me how fear and reason are like oil and water.
Fear must be the water – it wins so much.
Production has fled Hollywood due to high costs. Newsom just moved to double the production tax credit. It’s an obvious giveaway to his donors.
You’re not free unless you’re free to be wrong.
I don’t remember if this was part of the original Iron Laws, or was an addendum.
I have been thinking about this quite a bit, because it is a bright line distinction between “them” and “us”. They are all about enforced consensus and obligatory belief. Democrat-ocracy is a doomsday cult.
One of the OG Iron Laws.
I will also add that most of the people declaring they are “scared” are being honest.
Irrational fear is still fear. It doesn’t matter how many times you turn on the lights and open the door to the empty closet,
the monsterTrump is still in there, waiting to eat them.Maybe for the lunatics but a lot of this stuff is too performative to be real. Many of the people who are supposedely scared are just participating in social signaling and trying to live up to what they think is required of them. I mean, if you aren’t about to hang yourself in the shower you must be a closet Trumper.
This is what led me to opine as I did. I think Moj and co. have a point. No doubt it is a mixture of the two. Lots of signaling and performing and lots of genuinely psychologically disturbed people. They aren’t mutually exclusive.
I think many of the damaged people might be better off were they off themselves than live out their lives being psychologically broken pawns.
Well shit, a Brit who understands US women.
Trump wasn’t the candidate who made women feel bullied and repulsed
Also to wit
I have seen quite a lot of videos of young women complaining that they cant get dates and men no longer approach them in public. Even if they approach the men the men do not respond.
That is some scary shit.
So at least eight fucking people to capture a squirrel and a raccoon.
DEC officers union says public misled in seizure and death of Peanut the Squirrel
And still unclear on what is misleading.
Wait…you can’t test for rabies unless you kill the animal?
I know they can achieve a quicker result that way but it’s not been reported said animals had or bit a human right?
They allege the squirrel bit one of DEC people, but refuse to provide confirmation or the results of the rabies test.
Ah well…kill it with fire then. What an overreach of State power. I can see DEC there if it was reported prior but this is akin to a cop killing the family dog because it ‘growled’
Well, it was a ‘compound’ so clearly the guy was a right wing nationalist white supremacist MA(G/H)A anti government extreme misogynist with skidmarks on his underwear, a Trump sign in his front yard, and hundreds of tens of rounds of bullets in his clips and an arsenal of bumpstock assault pistols and black rifles with things that go up, so our brave government bureaucrats couldn’t be too careful. Thankfully, at great risk to themselves and with unprecedented bravery, they were able to neutralize the dangerous attack squirrel and racoon and escape with their lives. Much dedication. Such brave.
And why in the hell did you need to ‘secure an 80 acre compound’? How about sending one agent out there to knock on the guys door and say “hey buddy, what’s up with the squirrel?”
Act like an occupying army, don’t be surprised when people speak of you and treat you as such.
Genius
In short, Trump has been able to engineer a near-wholesale rightward shift in the electorate in ways that he couldn’t in 2016 or 2020, when it seemed as though different constituencies were racing past each other in opposite directions. The trends have blown up long-held Democratic and Republican narratives about how Americans vote. It’s leading Democrats far beyond Torres to sound the alarm about the party’s future as Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement grew to become the most diverse GOP coalition in generations and gave Trump the most decisive victory for a GOP presidential nominee in two decades.
“Insane, truly insane,” a Republican operative who described themselves as “shell-shocked” by the results on Tuesday said of his improvements with Democratic and Republican constituencies. Like others interviewed for this article, the operative would only speak anonymously to offer candid analysis of party strategy. “It was just everyone.”
He did it all by himself, with magic political tricknology and mind control. Despite the Democrats’ superior message and messenger.
The idea that Americans of every description looked at the plain reality of four years of Biden and Harris and said, “That’s it. You’re done” is simply inconceivable.
Srsly.
Trump dinndo nuffin.
No, he didnt. What he did was point to them and say “Look what these evil fucktards are doing to you. I will stop them.”
would only speak anonymously
Cheeeekin sheeeeet
You don’t say. It really is masterful of Trump to make Dems more attractive to rich white people.
I suspect, given the retard inculcated into the college crowd, we should expect a very marked change in economic mobility and the demographics of such.
“Inflation hurt everyone regardless of their age, skin color or where they live,” Mike Berg, a senior official at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NBC News. “Trump’s strategy of going on apolitical podcasts to reach low-propensity voters was also a stroke of genius.”
He preached to more than just the choir? Unprecedented!
And why in the hell did you need to ‘secure an 80 acre compound’? How about sending one agent out there to knock on the guys door and say “hey buddy, what’s up with the squirrel?”
You slay me.
Yeah, I was just thinking how much money and time they spent on their tacticalistic tactialy tactics and tactile stuff? They cant not use it.
that was suppose to be ‘tacticool stuff’
Natasha, must catch
mooseraccoon and squirrel.I kind of like tactile in that particular sentence.
I’m sure the police would have been equally as diligent if this hadn’t made the national news.
Passenger busted in viral, staged Belt Parkway crash deemed an insurance scam: prosecutors
I’m seriously thinking about a couple dash cams.
One advantage to my Tesla.
Standard equipment? I didn’t know that.
Fron/rear/cabin?
Front, rear, right side, left side are stored to a flash drive you can access.
It also has an interior camera for driver monitoring.
It’s not perfect as it wasn’t designed as a dash cam so it can occasionally drop recording at critical times, but it’s much better than nothing.
https://www.allprosoftware.com/sentrykeeper/?srsltid=AfmBOoob0e1JgUdjwuyZ6emPiS-LZe6TbtaeBg70eOFiP7WeuVRkUsIS
Neat. I’m not sure I want cabin but it would be helpful for cop or psycho interactions.
Here we go
The Biden administration will allow U.S. military contractors to deploy to Ukraine — a policy reversal aimed at helping Kyiv maintain complex Western-provided weapons systems, a defense official told POLITICO.
The decision was made before Tuesday’s election as a way to provide Ukraine with specific technical expertise needed for weapons like F-16 fighter jets and Patriot air defense systems, said the official, who was granted anonymity to speak about a sensitive military issue.
It will give the Defense Department the ability to ask for a small group of American weapon contractors to bid on sending their maintainers to the war-torn country.
“Having small numbers of contractors in Ukraine conducting maintenance away from the front lines will help ensure U.S.-provided equipment can be rapidly repaired when damaged and be provided maintenance as needed,” the defense official said.
Decision made prior to the election; of course it was. We’ll get so stuck to that tar baby Trump will never be able to get us loose.
Remember the Maine!
“Trump has been able to engineer a near-wholesale rightward shift in the electorate”
Nope, he just stayed in his lane. It was the Democrats who crossed the double line. That’s what happens you veer left on a straight and level highway into a tree and try to claim to the officer that the road turned right on you.
President Joe Biden has long promised that the U.S. would not put military boots on the ground in Ukraine — other than service members detailed to the American Embassy in Kyiv — despite the administration providing more than $64 billion in aid since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago. The official said the American contractors would be working “far from the front lines” and would not be fighting Russian forces.
“They will help Ukrainian Armed Forces rapidly repair and maintain U.S.-provided equipment as needed so it can be quickly returned to the front lines,” the official said of the contractors. Each contractor or organization that successfully bids on the maintenance contracts will be responsible for their own safety, the official added.
Yes, yes, of course. Right up to the point one of those “contractors” gets knocked off by the Rooskies some time between now and the inauguration and we are forced to retaliate in defense of our national honor.
Couch cushion money
I’m curious how Putin will play this. It’s definitely in his interest to cool things off a little.
I want cheap Russian steel cased back.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/us-news/fema-official-who-allegedly-told-workers-to-avoid-florida-homes-with-trump-signs-fired-report/
Let’s be honest, she would not have been fired if the commie won.