The audiobook is 29 hours long.

This means that you can listen to a president speak for 29 hours, on and off, for the next few weeks (depends on how fast you listen).

Just grabbed it from audible and, straight up, I’m going to be listening to this as a counterpoint to the news until Jan. 20 (cannot come soon enough).

I…

You guys are able to buy either?

I think the order of magnitude of difference in cost would be the rub here. But I like the thought.

I for one, plan to crack wise as I’m being loaded onto the “subversives bus.”

Joke and prepare. Prepare and joke.

Fascism abhors being made light of, and thrives on deadly seriousness both from within and without. 

We have the class photo sheet up on the fridge and our four year old points out the names of his friends from school and still tells stories about them.

He’s been home since the pandemic really took off (March-ish) because we have two new babies and we’re asthmatic.

It’s two emotions mostly.

Heartbreak. at his loss of…

Ever been in a cult?

The front door pitch is amazing and sleek, but the long game is expensive.

This is a feature, not a bug.

The FBI is exceedingly good at stamping out Left Wing radical groups, because they threaten capital. Right Wing Militants groups, however, only tangentially threaten the status quo by making the White Supremacy at the heart of US systems blatant for a moment, before dissipating back into…

That’s the secret sauce. They have been terrified all year long by their news sources and their President.

The language used to describe their opponents (the American populace) is terrifying if you live in that echo chamber.

The “Trump Train” people see this as a last ditch effort to fight for their lives against some…

It’s the exact definition. They are traitors to the Democracy, and by the transitive property, to the Nation at large.

There are two candidates in this election.

Democracy and Violent Intimidation.

Vote.

“just being thrown into the ether.”

So long as loan forgiveness is on the table, this is absolutely how it feels to pay off student loan debt.

Like performing a blood sacrifice every month to an angry God that the AOC Avengers might or might not be able to defeat. 

Something something, FIRE ZE MISSILES

I for one, welcome a copycat stream from Mitch McConnel, because watching him flail around mispronouncing terms and generally being unable to use a computer while trying to appeal to “the youth Conservative voter” would make SNL forever obsolete. 

I think some of that is clear in the structure of the magic in LC.

It’s that “fear of entropy / power over life and death” language that is so antithetical to any spiritual truth or non-oppression based living that gives it away. And the purity of Hippolyta’s experience shows an alternative path to “naming magic.”

The…

I simultaneously wish that Thompson could be around to write about all this, and recognize that he would have hated to see his internal descriptions of an amoral psychedelic orgy of lizard people fucking each other in the blood of their victims  Conservative Party come true.

I have never heard the “two bean pies and a pamphlet” description of hotep-pery.

To that end, my Twitter is totally fair game.

Now my Reddit account. That’s a state secret. :D

Honestly, I am high-key excited for the discussions that may pop up if/when my sons discover my twitter account when they are the right age.

That said, I think considering you own kids hearing what you are saying is probably a good metric for interactions in general, you know, acting as civilly as you want them to,…

“Skip this one and live to enjoy many more.”

This is the line I’m going with with my family. 

This is accurate. If I spent Ebay PS5 scalper money this year when we are already basically zeroed out everywhere, she’d probably get the dog in the divorce. 

This is true, and your username is inspired.

I can hear Elrond saying to his daughter, “if you stay, you will never reach Operating Thetan Level 5!”