The Malgorian Blog

Of course it won't be "so easy." Even if everything comes up completely aces for the Democrats between now and whenever, I am sure that they'll somehow manage to find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, as they have done far too often lately.

Also, I kind of really despise the fact that the Democrat "leadership" seem to be thinking about this shit in terms of "the bIg BeAuTiFuL bIlL is terrible and is going to hurt a lot of people... and that's great, because it gives us a chance to win again!!!" rather than in terms of "the BiG bEaUtIfUl BiLl is terrible and is going to hurt a lot of people. Period. Full Stop. End of Line. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200."

It would be like playing in some sportsball thing, seeing the other team's star player literally die on the sportsplace due to some horrendous injury, and immediately thinking "Wonderful! We can actually win this game now!" (EDIT) Well, no, I guess this would be less like seeing the other team's star player die and more like seeing that star player go batshit insane, dive into the crowd, murder several of the audience members (half or more of whom were there specifically because they were megafans of that very star player), and get arrested and dragged away in handcuffs, and then immediately thinking "Yes! Awesome! This is our chance!" (/EDIT)

On the one hand, it is mind boggling to me that "the Democratic brand remains deeply unpopular" given that their opponents are, you know... *gestures vaguely in the direction of Dumbshit Jackass Trump and the GQP*, but on the other hand, given my own personal observations of the Democrats over the years and the fact that I, myself (a registered Democrat), don't even like them very much (though I still like them many orders of magnitude more than I like the GQP), it's not actually all that shocking or surprising that they're so heavily disliked lately. And shit like this is why. They seem almost ecstatic by the fact that this dogshit bill got passed, because, at least in their minds, it seems to give them the "in" that they so desperately needed. I mean, no, that's not quite as vile and evil as thinking that this dogshit bill is actually good, but still, it's pretty vile, all the same.

Ah, yes, the best, most memorable bosses of the Persona series: Takahisa Kandori/Guido Sardenia, Pandora, Adolf Hitler, Nyarlathotep, Nyx, Erebus, Izanami... and... the subway slammer guy.

(I still haven't played Persona 5 Royal at all, yet, and I probably never will, because it is still, to this day, infested with Denuvo, and probably will remain so forever, because it was one of the games that, unfortunately, got in on the whole Denuvo thing back when Irdeto was still handing out lifetime licenses, rather than yearly subscriptions.)

I finally saw a Cybertruck in the wild for the first time, today. They're just a fugly and asinine in person as they are in pictures on the Internet.

"Hi. Katy, Cody, and Jonathan are here to discuss the Supreme Court's rulings against nationwide injunctions and how every non-white baby, starting next month, is going to need to lawyer up to establish that they're a U.S. citizen. They also go through some of the worst parts of the GOP mega-bill, which is set to strip about 12 million people of their Medicaid coverage."

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Yeah, Katy, the next shitsucking GQP megabill should be called "2 Big 2 Beautiful."

"People are about to see..." Well, no, I'm way more pessimistic there, because if people haven't fucking already seen the disgusting, horrid, vile, evil things that Trump and Trump's people/the people who prop up Trump for their own gain have been doing and trying to do for the past decade now and have voted for him three times now (including 2020), regardless, then there's no guarantee that they "are about to see" it now. And even if they do see it, they will rationalize it as being the Democrats' fault somehow, because shit like Faux Noise will tell them that it is the Democrats' fault, and they will swallow it, hook, line, and sinker (and, of course, the Democrats will be completely ineffectual, as always, in countering such blatant, obvious lies).

It feels so weird and wrong to side with Elon fucking Musk even partially about anything at all, even just a little bit, and I still sorely dislike the guy and think that he's barely a hair's breadth away from being just as big of a moist shitstain on the underwear of humanity as the big orange Turnip himself is, but...

...I find myself hoping that Musk still has just enough residual influence with the Congressassholes considering passing this goddamned bIg BeAuTiFuL bIlL to change their minds and kill the fucking thing, even if I mostly don't care about Musk's reasons for wanting to do so (i.e. because he didn't get everything he wanted concerning EVs or whatever the fuck).

Oh, and Elon, we already have more than just 'one party.' We have more than two, in fact. It's just that American politics is so fucked up broken that only the top two[1] have any real chance of getting anyone elected on a consistent basis, and as such, none of the other parties really have any cachet with the general American public. And it fucking sucks.

[1] - Those being, right now, the Democratic Party and the MAGAt Party or Trumpublican Party or Trumpanzee Party or GQP or whatever one wants to call it[2], and those two are not a "uniparty" or whatever fucking dumbshit.

[2] - And, I guess, it could be claimed that there still exist the dying remnants of a "Republican Party," too, made up of the rare few people in that party who are not and never were on board the bad ol' Trump Train.

"John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” what will happen if it’s passed, and what it has in common with Apple’s Terms and Conditions."

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... ... ... *weary sigh* Fine. I guess I can tolerate John Oliver shitting on Trump's "BiG bEaUtIfUl BiLl" for almost half an hour, but only because it's John Oliver.

Republicans: "Oh no, Obama's gonna do death panels!"

Also Republicans: "Well, if you don't work or you don't work enough or you don't have the time to do all of our extraneous, superfluous paperwork to prove that you work because you work too much or you can't do the paperwork because our systems are shitty and broken, then you don't deserve health insurance or food."

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and Mehmet Oz and all the vile ghouls in Congress who are in favor of this horrible horseshit (or who are not in favor of it but who are going to vote for it anyway), as usual.

"The surprise announcement comes one day after Tillis opposed a massive bill for Trump's agenda in the Senate."

Man, fuck Thom Tillis. I'm glad his stupid ass isn't running again. And him trying to compare himself, even indirectly, to Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema is a load of horseshit. Manchin and Sinema were contrarian DINOs who regularly voted against their own party's interests and allowed the Trumpublicans far more wins than they otherwise would have gotten, and I'm glad their stupid asses are gone from the Senate, in Manchin's case, and no longer pretending to be a Democrat and also gone from the Senate, in Sinema's case. Unlike those two shitheels, however, 99.9% of the time up until this encrusted ass-end of his career, Thom Tillis has regularly marched in complete and total lockstep with all the other Trumpublicans, right up to Trump's distended anus to take some good long huffs.

After one of the rare few times in his goddamned life that he actually did something right, Tillis has bawwed out and decided to run away home, immediately after. Of course, fortunately, this particular turd no longer clogging up the toilet bowl that is the US Senate and, potentially, being replaced by someone who maybe won't be such a Trumpanzee MAGAt puddle of fecal matter is a good thing.

And seriously, pass or fail (and I sorely hope it's "fail," though that's probably unlikely), I am so fucking sick of hearing about the goddamned motherfucking "Big Beautiful Bill." There is not a single thing about it that is "beautiful," though it certainly has the "big" part down pat. And let's just hope that if the dogshit does pass, Tillis will be proven right in predicting it "costing" the MAGAts politically (though that's not the only or even the best reason to oppose it).

This video and the comments underneath either add or reinforce several dozen points to/on the big list of "Reasons why kane_magus never plays online multiplayer video games ever."

"Hi. The House of Pod's Kaveh Hoda joins Katy, Cody, and Jonathan to talk about Trump's decision to bomb Iran, the ceasefire, and his desperate desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize. They also discuss the Supreme Court's ruling that the administration can feel free to rendition people to countries they have never visited."

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Youtube auto-captionimg translated "sycophants" (in reference to the guest talking about Trump's sycophants) as "sick fans." I think that works, too.

Man, why can't Stephen Miller be excommunicated from the cult in the same way that Steve Bannon and Elon Musk and so many others have been? The problem with Donald Trump isn't just Donald Trump, but also that Donald Trump is surrounded by (has surrounded himself with) people who are arguably and possibly even worse than he himself is, and that's really saying something, since Donald Trump himself is literally worse than a wet, leaky sack of dogshit.

Also, if Donald fucking Trump ends up getting a Nobel Peace Prize, then that will just pretty much invalidate the entire concept of Nobel Prizes forever afterward.

And they're talking about Trump sounding tired and so done with this shit or whatever... well, just a reminder, this is what happens when Trump finds something to be too difficult to deal with and he just doesn't want to bother anymore:


Link, in case the embed goes to shit later.

RIP, Nexus Mods. Making Bethesda and Obsidian and other companies' broken games actually halfway playable, 2001-2025. I dread to see how egregiously enshittified your corpse inevitably becomes.

I do not have a 200 Canadian dollars life time subscription to Nexus Mods (or any dollar amount, Canadian or US or otherwise, unless zero dollars counts for the free account I have there), so Pat's issue doesn't directly relate to me, outside of tepid sympathy pain.

Also, Pat, goon/coomer mods are not just for RPGs. They're for life sims like The Sims, too, as well as many other genres.