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Should be a wild four years.

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Funny how Trump paying out of his own fortune to improve the White House is the end of civilization, but the Clintons renting out the Lincoln Bedroom like some kind of lefty flophouse was no big deal…

I love Parable. That moment where the preacher realises what Surfer is doing and just how noble Surfer really was is good stuff.
The message of that book is genuinely moving.

One man can win a war he doesn’t survive to see, if he has the courage to fight even though it is hopeless.

No way in hell Stan Lee wrote Parable.

The “marvel method” of comic book writing was basically Stan tells the artist what he wants to have happen, and the artist figures every single thing out on their own from there. It’s why so many of the silver age Marvel artists took him to court over credits and creator claims.

Read any other thing Mobius ever did on his own and tell me those are Stan’s words and thoughts on the pages of Parable. It’s almost laughable for him to have made any claim of authorship.
The anniversary edition has reproductions of Stan’s original script, in his handwriting.

Also, if Moebius wrote it, it would be a lot more New Age than Christ allegory. At that point in his career he was doing stuff like Aedena on his own.
 
Update on the RIFs case (reductions in force, firings of government employees during the shutdown). Last night the defense (Trump admin) submitted their opposition/response to the motion for preliminary injunction filed by the plaintiffs (the unions). It is thirty pages long, which is a shame because the Clinton-appointed lady judge in the Northern District of California will not bother to read it.
Also last night, the defense filed its opposition/response to the motion for plaintiffs to amend their complaint yet again. It's only five pages, but the judge still won't read it.
A 4d chess move for when this case gets to the supreme court would to have a clause like this buried somewhere in a filing:
And to prove the judge in this case was biased against us, we note she did not read our motion; otherwise she would have brought up this section in court.
Just a massive middle finger to the her, and the legal system.
 
China is never going to invade Taiwan as long as it's under the protection of the United States. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool. If they didn't invade when the United States was being run by a senile old man and his administration full of literal retards, they're certainly not going to try now.
Remember negative interest rates? That was a little preview of China's economic strategy to encourage the US to stay out of a conflict with Taiwan. Militarily, stationing a couple of carriers south east of Formosa would block the US support strategy that requires putting carrier in the same area. China's type 004 carrier equipped with their new stealth J-35's should be entering service before 2030.
 
ACA allows for Medicaid expansion, and some states who opted to expand their Medicaid programs might be funneling those extra dollars towards healthcare for illegal aliens even though illegal aliens aren't supposed to be eligible for ACA coverage. Republicans and Democrats might also be clashing over this.
This is absolutely what Republicans are trying to prevent and the Democrats pretend it doesn't happen while calling you an evil super-Nazi bigot for not wanting illegals to get healthcare on the taxpayer's dime.
 
I kinda get it, tho. Vietnam in general is not the worst place in the world. No cartel, no grinding poverty or a narco state. Generally just don't fuck with the Party and you can live in a relatively modern third world city. If you gotta go back, absolutely worst places to go.
This is more or less true. Don't criticize the government, don't talk shit about Vietnamese heroes, definitely don't bring up Ho Chi Minh's mistresses, obey all laws, and you'll be fine.
 
The Vietnamese seem very pragmatic. Get invaded by Imperial Japan? Fuck the French, the US and the USSR will arm us against them. The US snubs Ho Chi Minh? Fuck it I guess we're technically communist now. Also Fuck the French. The US have taken over fighting us on behalf of the French? Punji pit time. Worked on the mongols. We won the war but what the fuck is Pol Pot doing over there? We need to go fix that. Oh China's invading us now? We'll show them who's gooking who.

Best thing about it is that after all of it they're largely on good terms with everyone.
 
NOW - Trump says he won't meet Putin again unless a deal is confirmed and that he thought Russia-Ukraine peace deal would have been done already, "There's a lot of hatred between the two, between Zelensky and Putin, there's tremendous hatred."x
 
I'm fairly behind on the thread (gratz on 9001 btw), but if I'm understanding the last 20 or so pages correctly, Dickens is basically just Ye Olde Rick and Morty, and you need to have a pretty high IQ to appreciate it.
Dickens is Ye Olde Prole Slop. He wrote serials in magazines that were mainly read by women. He knew exactly what they liked, adorable little children, effusive descriptions of what people were wearing, and absolutely mental drama. Supposedly, he wrote A Tale of Two Cities in part to silence critics who said he wasn't a real author due to him actually making money and being famous. The critics, of course, still pouted and whined, and Tale of Two Cities went on to possibly be the best selling novel of all time, moving over two hundred million copies. Dickens just massively flexed on everyone all the time, the alpha Chad of novelists reminding everyone else that if you could be a #1 best-selling author, you would be, and you're not because you're not him.

Imagine if Andreas Carlsson took a break from writing top 100 pop hits because he was tired of people who can't even chart accusing him of being a fake musician, so he takes a break and writes what becomes the absolute most popular opera of all time. That's pretty much what Dickens did in literature.

English majors don't know any of this shit because knowing things is racist, and they spend all their time writing essays about how Jane Austen's books are sorely lacking in scenes of niggerfaggots sucking each others' cocks.
 
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Imagine if Andreas Carlsson took a break from writing top 100 pop hits because he was tired of people who can't even chart accusing him of being a fake musician, so he takes a break and writes what becomes the absolute most popular opera of all time. That's pretty much what Dickens did in literature.
Or how Adam Sandler can actually do serious films when he really wants to.
 
NOW - Trump says he won't meet Putin again unless a deal is confirmed and that he thought Russia-Ukraine peace deal would have been done already, "There's a lot of hatred between the two, between Zelensky and Putin, there's tremendous hatred."x
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Trump is wasting energy and political capital on irrelevant foreign theaters rather than relevant ones (I.e. East Asia) and domestic issues- like hello, Antifa is already doing VBIED probing attacks against the Federal government and the Democrats are talking blood everyday and somehow their political machines haven’t been crushed yet?

Zelensky won’t cede because he’ll get lynched by Azov for losing Crimea and everyone else for corruption, and Putin won’t cede because Ukraine is a red line for Russian geopolitics and because they already survived the initial wave of sanctions and can grind it out.
 
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Trump is wasting energy and political capital on irrelevant foreign theaters rather than relevant ones (East Asia) and domestic issues.

Zelensky won’t cede because he’ll get lynched by Azov and everyone else for corruption and Crimea, and Putin won’t cede because Ukraine is a red line for Russian geopolitics and because they already survived the initial wave of sanctions and can grind it out.
Maple syrup-stained hands typed this.
 
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