And, yet, a little while later, he deleted it and replaced it with a new version that mentioned the Espionage Act instead of the Insurrection Act. So, which is it? Is he admitting to something new or just ranting about the usual old shit?
It’s all very curious.
I will note that we’ve entered the period of the year where Big Things happen. Between now and Labor Day, HUGE EVENTS are probably going to happen because, lulz, all the Elites are on vacation.
Anyway. It’s all something of a mystery at the moment.
I “get” Scott Galloway’s shtick. He is the center-Left’s version of the center-Right’s Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. There is an audience for a guy like him who has the same earnest, intense masculinity of a Rogan or Peterson, but, who, unlikely them, plays by the rules of the “woke cancel culture mob.”
But, sometimes, especially in the context of the writers’ strike going on in Hollywood at the moment, he can come across as something of a dick. His argument is not only is AI coming for writers, but shut up and be grateful for what you have (or something along those lines.)
In the last podcast he had with Kara Swisher, he really went in for the kill when it came to Hollywood writers, going on a very lengthy rant about why they shouldn’t go on strike to protect, on an existential basis, the very nature of human involvement in recorded media.
But, in general, I will admit that Galloway is pretty good at predictions and he is tolerable to my center-Left sensibilities. Which, of course, is probably part of the point.
What is so amusing is he comes from Central Casting when it comes to “center-Left masculinity guru” — he totally fits the part. If you were to imagine what someone with his current “center-Left masculinity thought leader professional” would look like….it would be him.
He’s successful, wealthy, handsome (tall) and cracks dick jokes that make white liberal women titter. Anyway, what do I know. He’s a success and people like him and I can’t even get anyone to read the public beta of my novel all the way through.
The thing I’ve learned from Tik-Tok is I, personally, will never get published — that is, at least what the Tik-Tok people who talk about getting published tell me. I don’t know anything about how to actually go through the querying process and everyone in the publishing industry who has seems angry and bitter at the world.
But I still have hope and, since I don’t plan on self-publishing (at least the moment) I’m going to have to learn how to pull it off.
And one issue I’ve learned about when it comes to querying is rather a “duh” kind of situation — you need to know what to compare or “comp” your novel to when you write your query letter. There is a problem, of course, and that problem is I haven’t read the type of novel I’ve been working on in, oh, 15 years. So, I have to buckle down and find out what are some modern novels that are similar to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo that I can “comp” my novel to them.
My novel is definitely not a direct 1-to-1 with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but that was, at least, the novel that inspired me to write a novel in the first place. (ACTUALLY, it was that novel’s sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire that is my “textbook,” but, lulz.)
Anyway, the point is — I have a lot of reading to do. I need to buckle down and go outside my comfort zone by reading other people’s writing instead of just re-reading my own stuff over and over and over again as I edit. I have begun to think that I probably have about a year left in the writing and post-production process before I begin to query seriously.
And, in a sense, it will be poetic if I start to query in the fall of 2024, just as the USA decides if it’s an autocracy or if it wants to blow itself up.
So, here is a picture that has apparently “triggered” the more “woke” amongst us:
The reason is — there aren’t enough non-white people in the picture. And, yet, Olivia Munn is there, hamming things up in a very conspicuous manner and she ain’t white.
So, I suppose the issue is — either Olivia Munn isn’t close enough to the camera to suit the “woke” people who are complaining, or these “woke” people are upset there aren’t any black people in the picture and an Amerasian person doesn’t count towards the “white liberals have to have x number of non-white friends at their dinner party not to be hypocrites” metric?
To me, the issue is not the whole suck-your-own-cock woke nature of things, but how fucking wealthy everyone in this picture is! Everyone in the picture above has GOT to be at LEAST a multi-millionaire and they live in their bubble of liberal whiteness with pretty much total disregard for us Poors.
What’s more, this picture from Kristen Bell also gives us validation of our most basic assumptions about celebrity — they really do all know each other and that’s why nepobabies control everything.
While I general believe the whole idea of “woke” is everything and nothing relative to the need of an ambitious Republican lawmaker trying to scare up votes, it’s shit like people attacking the Bell picture that really does annoy me. Should they have strategically put Munn closer to the camera to put at least one non-white person closer to the frame?
There seem to be three major lines of attack against the two Hollywood unions that are striking by Reply Guys on Twitter.
Your Stuff Sucks Anyway This is the “anti-woke” argument against the strikes. In essence, the argument goes that Hollywood is a bunch of woke hacks who haven’t entertained MAGA audiences for years, anyway and fuck you, lib. In fact, I’ve seen at least one fucking cocksucker MAGA person say they look forward to the day that Trump can buy up all the bankrupt Hollywood studios. You’re Overpaid This argument is very corrosive because it pits the vast majority of actors and writers who aren’t making much money versus the high rollers. People who make this argument don’t understand that the unions set the MINIMUMS for the profession.
You Can’t Stop AI The last argument is, lulz, AI is coming for Hollywood anyway, just give up. I don’t quite know what to say about this one because in a way it’s right and, yet, I do believe that the looming transformation of Hollywood by AI can be mitigated and / or managed in various ways if the unions know what to demand. But make no mistake — no matter what, Hollywood is about to be “Moneyballed” in a way that it hasn’t felt since the advent of the talkies.
With the news that the U.S. economy is doing exceptionally well, despite the “vibes” telling us everything sucks, I’m reminded by how people on the Right have complained that Biden has been to partisan.
People who talk like this obviously pretty much just want Biden to be something he’s not — “statesman” is code for “Joe Manchin.” Given how divided the country is, and how 38% of the Republican electorate is all-in on the idea of fascism…I just don’t see how Biden becoming some darling of the non-existent Center would have worked.
Yes, he could have said he wasn’t going to run again. And, yes, he could have muted some of his more center-Left policy movies…but who would have that placated? You have an entire MAGA bullshit echochamber designed specifically to juice the MAGA base at any perceived “woke” slight.
As such, Biden would be pretty much only making the Green Room at Face The Nation happy if he tried to “statesman” route. The country is tearing itself apart and we’re either going to become a MAGA-themed autocracy or we’re going to start blowing shit up.
I think and hope we just become an MAGA autocracy. I hate violence too much to think otherwise. But there is a real risk that the most powerful nation in the world is going to destroy itself over “vibes.”
I’m a nobody. But I do like to make abstract concepts concrete and here is what my “revolutionary” agenda would be if I had the power, should Blues have a revolution starting in late 2024 – early 2025. Remember, I’m assuming this happens after Blues have won a Blue Revolution. So, these would be taken care of via Constitutional Amendments.
SCOTUS Reform I would increase the size of SCOTUS to 13 to match the number of Federal circuits. I would also require retirement ages for Justices. I would also have a very strict code of ethics for the court too.
Mandatory Financial Disclosure This is specific so someone like Trump would have to release his taxes.
Sitting Presidents Would No Longer Be Above The Law I would make it clear in the Constitution that someone like Trump could be criminally charged, even if they were in office.
Mandatory Mental Evaluation This would be specifically so someone bonkers like Trump could not allowed to run for POTUS or be POTUS.
End to Gerrymandering This would really help make political life in the United States better.
Increase the size of the House This is a simple reform that would have a huge change in our politics for a number of reasons.
Public financing of elections I would have very strict public financing laws built into the Constitution so a lot of the problems we currently have would no longer exist.
Limit the length of Election cycles I would figure out a way to limit how long the election cycle was allowed to last.
Eliminate the Electoral College This would really help fix a lot of problem in modern American politics.
Limited Second Reconstruction Red States that fought — and lost — the Second American Revolution would be reconstructed to be more democratic — I’m looking at YOU fucking Texas.
Constitutional Convention I would see this as an option only if there were safeguards in place to prevent it from going rouge.
January 1 – February: a blank, slack void March – July 4th — The actual year. July 5 – Labor Day — the nadir of the year September – Halloween — People are thinking about the coming holidays November – December –events zoom past.
So, it definitely seems as though, lulz, the year is just about over now. Barring aliens landing on the front lawn of the White House, I think we should officially begin to worry about What The Fuck Is Going To Happen To America In 2024 – 2025.
I still don’t know. It could go either way. It really could.
For all my talk about a potential civil war / revolution, I just don’t think America has it in her to do such a thing (which is good.) I think we’re going to re-elect Trump, turn into an autocracy that that will be that. Trump will destroy what’s left of our democracy, pull us out of NATO — and probably South Korea — and America will become an autocracy like Russia.
I’m always, always wrong. And I can’t predict the future. But it definitely seems possible that the conditions are there for a revolution (Blues) or a civil war (Reds) starting in late 2024, early 2025. If this happens, it will be because the country is just too unstable to handle another election cycle.
If we do have a civil war or revolution, our enemies are going to take advantage of this particular crisis. The one country with the means, motive and opportunity to really fuck us over is the DPRK. I could totally see them lobbing a few H-bombs our way if we collapse into chaos.
Anyway. I hope I’m wrong. I really do. I don’t want any violence at all to the point that I’m will to accept autocracy in the US if that’s the only way to avoid it on the macro level. If we’re an autocracy then, of course, ICE will come after me and put me in a camp but, lulz, I’ll think of something.
The weather continues to be very strange not just where I live, but all over the world. The world’s climate continues to grow hotter and hotter…and yet because American conservatives have to “own the libs” we’re just going to cook. All of humanity will end because 38% of the Republican electorate simply can not, will not work in a bipartisan way to save the planet.
That’s kind of deep.
In fact, I would go so far as to say the ONLY WAY humanity survives long-term at this point is if we have a civil war / revolution in the United States, WW3 happens, about 1 billion people die and THEN after THE GOOD GUYS WIN, humanity is so crestfallen that we have some sort of collective effort on a global scale to save ourselves from ourselves.
If that doesn’t happen, we’re fucked. It’s the end.
I don’t want that to happen, I mean, Jesus Christ, what kind of monster would what THAT? But if we peacefully slip into autocracy into the United States, soon enough, places like Florida will sink into the ocean. Something has to happen to get us all on the same page.
And it definitely seems as though that’s just not going to happen unless 1) more white Christian babies are born so angry white conservatives have some reason to not to hate liberals so much or 2) we blow ourselves up on a global basis and as we rebuild we see ourselves as humans rather than anything else.
Forgive me, I’m in a fucking bad mood about all of this because reality is important to me and I fucking hate how white Christian conservatives would rather have all 8 billion of us die than work with the other side to help save humanity. UGH.
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