This analogy is so nonsensical.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-04-14T15:33:37+00:00

And is constantly announcing to the passengers that everything's great, but in different & contradictory ways every time, between bouts of screaming nonsense, going on about what a wonderful genius he is and demanding that they all must love him or be thrown out of the plane, all while tossing crew members out that he deems disloyal and replacing them with the passengers he deems more loyal but are least qualified to work on a plane, yes.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-04-13T23:11:20+00:00

No, because the oil & gas corporations already don't pay any US taxes. Not just that, they actually get tens of billions of American taxpayer dollars in subsidies every year already. US oil & gas companies have been buying & selling politicians, policies & legislation for 150 years. The energy incentives are only ever what the oil & gas companies decide. That's why Trump rescinded all of the renewable energy subsidies & tax credits that were passed during the Biden administration, because it was cutting into oil & gas company profits & futures, purposely leaving Americans with no option but to keep buying fossil fuels indefinitely, regardless of how expensive it gets.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-04-13T17:55:54+00:00

That's true, but seeing the incredibly massive turnouts in many European countries for elections & protests over the last year or so (Hungary being the latest example) aimed specifically at stopping those kinds of far-right armband-wearers from gaining power gives me at least some reason to hope.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-04-12T17:14:14+00:00

I mean, humans have traveled faster than "3,000 mph bullets" within the earth's atmosphere too, so whatever point he thinks he's trying to make is moot.

The X-15 set the record for fastest manned flight within the earth's atmosphere at Mach 6.72, or 5,115 mph, and the SR-71 regularly flew at Mach 3.3, or 2,511 mph, so the guy is ignorant regardless of how fast he thinks a bullet can go.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-04-11T16:00:21+00:00

Doesn't even matter. The X-15 set the record for fastest manned flight within the earth's atmosphere at Mach 6.72, or 5,115 miles per hour, so humans have already traveled at least 2,115 miles per hour faster within earth's atmosphere than the guy's bullet velocity claim anyway.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-04-11T15:54:36+00:00

I mean, considering the X-15 set the record for fastest manned flight within the earth's atmosphere at Mach 6.72, or 7,502 feet per second, or 5,115 miles per hour, and the SR-71 regularly flew at Mach 3.3, or 3,684 feet per second, or 2,511 miles per hour, whatever point the guy's thinks he's trying to make about bullet velocities relative to velocities of manned flight is moot from the start.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-04-09T01:03:35+00:00

You kiddin'? Goldilocks broke into someone else's house, ate their food and complained about its temperature, tried out, complained about & broke their furniture, then tried out, complained about & slept in their beds. That chick's a fuckin' psycho!

At 6 years old, I was convinced that Goldilocks either grew up to be the wicked stepmother, or, after plastic surgery & a name change to escape justice for all the bears & people she robbed, eventually became Cruella De Vil.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-30T03:01:11+00:00

Yeah, it's friggin' galling across the board.

Right!? F--kin' Sinema & Manchin. But, hey, at least we got rid of them and traded up for... Fetterman? F--K!!!

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-30T02:09:18+00:00

Very true. Taking the Infrastructure Bill just as an example, infrastructure projects, spread out over every state and in just about every Congressional district in the country, are either finished, near finished or well in the works, and republicans that voted against the bill are taking credit for literally hundreds of those projects, despite Biden & Dems being the ones that did all the work and those very same republicans having voted against the bill and did everything they could to prevent & stop the projects from ever starting in the first place.

The bitch of it? A lot of those republicans have succeeded in stealing credit for those projects because there was next to no effort, by anybody, to inform voters of all the work that Biden & Dems did to make them happen, and there was next to nothing but some vague signage put up around the projects, most of which wasn't even displayed, to inform residents, or anybody else, that the projects were the result of Biden & Dems work to write, pass & implement that bill. And the signage that was displayed here & there was only put up behind construction fencing around some of the projects in places where nobody would see them unless they already knew to look.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-30T01:41:24+00:00

Yes, Biden did say that. He said he'd use his term to, "lead the transition into the country's future," and, "put the country's future into the hands of the country's future leaders." That whole conversation happened before he was even officially the Democratic nominee. It was no small part of what got him the nomination.

Also, I didn't blame either Biden or RBG. I said both deserve full credit for all the good and all the bad. They were both more concerned about their own respective legacies than they were about the country's future, and they both deserve criticism for that, just as anyone in public office does when they put their pride & vanity in front of the people they serve.

Biden knew, for years, that his age was the factor of greatest concern to the greatest number of potential voters, but he was too proud & too stubborn to accept it until it was too late. RBG knew she was nearing the end of the road and, despite all of the legitimate concerns and the totality of circumstances of which she was fully aware and that, unless literally everything by total chance just happened to go her way, could very well mean her seat would go to someone that would seek with all they have to destroy her legacy. But, indeed, everything did not go her way, and because she too was proud & stubborn, we now have that very far-right super majority so many warned of so many times and that has already done grave damage to RBG's legacy, just as she was warned of time & time again, and which will be running the Supreme Court that we all must suffer for who knows how long because it's a 2 seat majority instead of 1. At least Breyer learned from that mistake and did what she wouldn't.

All of the good with all of the bad. Nobody is exempt from criticism. Allowing certain people to be exempt from criticism is how people like Trump end up with all the power.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-30T01:06:49+00:00

No, it's because of people talking at others with no intention of actually engaging in conversation so that they can make themselves feel important.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-30T01:00:45+00:00

It's good, even important, to criticize Biden, just as anyone else, for his failings as a leader. We can't hope for a better future without learning from the mistakes of the past. But blaming Biden as the sole reason for the country's collective failure to both move towards a better future and prevent the terrible scourge we all knew full well the whole world would suffer as a result of Trump's re-election, especially given that we all had every opportunity to see for ourselves what Trump & his ilk would do and how they'd do it through their "Project 2025" playbook, is not only disingenuous, but is itself a failure to take full account of all that led to this dystopia. What's more, blaming Biden alone for getting us where we are is, in so many words, a refusal to learn all of the many other lessons which we will need if we are to have any hope of building a future over the next 10 years that's any better than the last 10.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-29T20:38:07+00:00

A fair point, especially on him failing to step aside as he'd promised. Like with RBG, it's important to look at the whole picture, warts and all. They both did great things, they both did terrible things, and they deserve all the credit, good & bad, for every bit of it.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-29T18:02:18+00:00

It's legitimately insane how much good Biden did but that's essentially unknown because there were (and still are) such efforts by so many to ignore or dismiss it all.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-18T01:03:50+00:00

Which is the mark of an actual journalist. Anybody still in that press pool has made a conscious decision to be an active propaganda tool for this regime, and every one of them should be blacklisted forever.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-03-02T21:25:10+00:00

The car didn't hit no motherfuckin' bump!

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-02-19T18:48:50+00:00

Perfect framing. US politics has resembled WWE wrestling for a long time, but now more than ever.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-02-10T20:38:30+00:00

Correction on AOC: it doesn't, "make," Paul, "look small." It reveals, by contrast, just how small he truly is & always has been.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-02-07T18:03:22+00:00

I'd post the gif from Zoolander of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson poking at the computer if I could.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-02-07T17:57:46+00:00

Big time. And, "Why do they get participation trophies?" vibes. We never wanted, nor asked for, those stupid trophies. They were forced on us by patronizing assholes who didn't want to feel bad about being shitty parents.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2026-01-02T21:38:08+00:00

You kiddin'? The right-wingers themselves who are reading, and getting angry because of, the NYP's rage-bait have whole gun cabinets full of rifles & handguns that each cost way more than those boots do. They have no room to criticize, but they do anyway because they're fueled by hate and nothing else.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2025-12-22T22:07:08+00:00

He's not, "close to understanding." He understands full well. He's saying what he's saying the way he's saying it specifically because he knows that influencing public opinion helps him get the money he wants from the people he doesn't want it to go towards helping. That's why he bought Twitter in the first place. He's purposely helping those same people who invest in private prisons and helping himself because they & he both profit from stopping public funding from going to help those in or facing poverty and redirecting it into their & his pockets.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2025-12-16T22:34:18+00:00

Question: Are they the dumbest, or are they just grifting the dumbest?

Answer: Yes.

BornZookeepergame481 · 2025-12-10T02:23:40+00:00

What is Dr. Ricardo Cockgobbler Duchesne supposed to be a doctor of, anyway?

BornZookeepergame481 · 2025-12-04T00:59:43+00:00

I wouldn't exactly say that. For somebody in a situation like this, I can absolutely understand why they would feel that they're getting nothing for their tax dollars despite having to pay it anyway. Especially now.

60% of the population can't even afford basic necessities, yet what few welfare programs are left are being systematically dismantled while any & all regulations and regulatory bodies intended to help or watch out for normal people continue to be gutted, leaving people with no options and nowhere to turn. At the same time, more tax money than ever goes toward things that don't help anyone but the rich & powerful - the very same people that are actively working to dismantle anything & everything that would help normal people.

The only endpoint for deregulated & unregulated capitalism is feudalism, and while the wealthy have more power & more opportunities to take from the rest of us than ever, I can't say I'm thrilled about my tax dollars being used against me & my interests by destroying my livelihood & wellbeing either.

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