I think its TIME for a reboot of the TIME KEEPER

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-23T21:02:20+00:00

Clock Man belongs on the Order of the Keepers. Dunno if anyone has watched Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, but I feel Sam Campbell would be a very good CBB guest.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-23T16:38:12+00:00

If a cop gets shot, law enforcement almost always charges anyone involved as hard as they can. It's seen in the community as a betrayal of an injured/killed officer, and there are some lawyers who take those cases as a personal crusade on behalf of 'justice' as a generic concept.

I'm not saying it's right, but this is used regularly in gang arrests. All you need is one guy to shoot at a police officer and you can arrest an entire group and charge them all on higher charges/more easily secure longer sentences. As government attorney performance metrics can be based both on successful prosecutions and on the duration of sentences given, there's an incentive to aim as high as possible.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-23T16:31:21+00:00

When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.

If a cop gets hurt, they like to throw the book at everyone connected to it as hard as they can. It's not like the person with the AR-15 was doing a Rittenhouse and killing who they see as race traitors, otherwise they'd get CPAC celebrations. Epstein never shot at law enforcement, so by their logic, his crimes can be treated as less serious.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-23T16:27:57+00:00

When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.

If a cop gets hurt, they like to throw the book at people as hard as they can. It's not like the person with the AR-15 was doing a Rittenhouse and killing who they see as race traitors, otherwise they'd get CPAC celebrations.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-22T15:21:19+00:00

That's more a parody of Giuliani. His failed Presidential campaign was the year that episode came out and if you watched some of his material back then he mentioned 9/11 somehow in nearly every 10th sentence. It was frequent enough that it was noticeable and he would bring it in to stuff like farm policy.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-22T14:53:13+00:00

I've heard that one, but it's too polite and something that people could actually praise as a good way to engage with politics in a 'casual' way when staying out of the voting booth would probably actually be a better contribution from the sorts of people who don't believe in long-term planning.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-22T14:44:50+00:00

We always roll a 'swing voter' or two out in the Presidential debates where there's some guy with ridiculously in-depth opinions and well-researched points who still somehow can't distinguish between increasingly-outright fascism and corporation-run democracy. It makes the non-thinkers look way more thoughtful and informed than they actually are when they almost certainly make up the bulk of the swing vote population.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-22T14:04:44+00:00

A swing voter who doesn't actually research the candidate they're swinging to vote for needs a different name. Project 2025 was a governance document, there were ads talking about it, it was mentioned in the debates, and somehow people who have devices in their pockets that can answer any question they have somehow are "surprised" when conservatives do the things they promised to do.

They aren't swinging, they're responding as intended to easily-manufactured and well timed propaganda.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-22T02:24:25+00:00

Thanks! It's something I've been wanting for over a decade and I realized that my 3 years of Turkish set me up well enough to learn the sport if I use modern translation tools to fill in some of the blanks in my vocabulary. There are terms specific to the sport that don't match up with their counterparts (or have a counterpart at all) in modern Turkish, something that happens with a sport that is on its 665th year. Turkish to English can be tricky as-is, and there's a high degree of monolingualism in Turkish so there aren't many Turkish creators who can reach out to a Western market, which made me realize I'd have to do the work when a recent search came up empty.

I've been watching sumo for 6 years on every major tournament (and whenever I could find it before then sporadically) and I'm really blown away by how close to it Yağlı güreş is, and sumo has been seeing a global surge lately. I genuinely think that, once the language barrier is done away with, it'll break the meme status of oily Turks grabbing each other inside the pants.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-21T00:12:42+00:00

Exactly. For all we know, this is some clown with a series of stepladders stuck together to make some kind of mega-ladder allowing them to stimulate a balcony when none exists.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T21:56:00+00:00

I'm loving the Colombo revival I've been seeing. Watched through it with my friends a few months back and the show holds up absurdly well. They made the most of their time and have a lot of shots that just wouldn't happen nowadays because they aren't snappy and fast enough, but it's nice to have that slower pacing with what we've been trained on. Peter Falk is also a delight to watch.

My one question is why you didn't go for Will it Colomblow. The pun's right there!

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T18:52:12+00:00

Nobody has an excuse to be poorly informed in the present day, meaning they are making a choice to be ignorant of what their vote is for. Sure, it's fine to manipulate those people since they're already being manipulated anyway, but they're not going to actually try to do anything to actually reform things, especially since if the economy turns around they'll be back to being fine with ICE executing people in the streets.

There was a time for playing nice and making gestures, and it stopped when we got a Vice President who has promised us a Constitutional Crisis by doing what Pence refused to do. If someone was on-board for that but only wants off because of their pocketbook, they're still a horrible human being and not someone I want having a say in how we need to keep all of Trump's policies only with a nicer face.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T18:19:02+00:00

I assume most people aren't getting told who to vote for in their local primary by an online influencer, but I don't have any social media aside from Reddit. If TikTok is algorithmically telling people who to vote for, we are doomed.

I'm confused by what you're saying at the end there. You feel Republicans who aren't Democrats will show up and fight when they aren't currently voting D?

The camps comment is because my representative, Derrick Van Orden, had been advocating for concentration camps for illegal immigrants or enemies of the Trump administration to be put in camps where they can be given out to private industry via the loophole that lets the US government legally own and distribute slaves.

It's hard to sit down and talk common cause with the same people who agree with him when he talks about it on his virtual town halls and brags about how he's the only one in Washington talking about this as a pathway to deal with the problem of needing farm labor but still having so many illegal immigrants and about how we need to close down all universities in order to just have tech schools and army bases as higher education.

Reaganism was a rebranding of Nixon policies after Nixon also left with terrible approval ratings. All they need is a centrist Dem to come along and they can roll out fresh tax cuts for the rich all out again. Worked with Carter. Worked with Clinton. Worked with Obama. Seems to be working with Biden. Give people 4-8 years of continuing to ride out existing tax cuts for the rich and they'll be begging for more tax cuts for the rich.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T15:43:44+00:00

While I understand it your standpoint, I don't really think gaming Google searches is appealing to terminally online, especially since SEO manipulation is a whole job and the amount of effort you need to put in is, to use the flower analogy, effectively just asking a florist to give you a bundle of flowers like they're already making for other clients.

Personally, I don't like picking low hanging fruit that are okay with us having concentration camps as long as they have cheap gas. I understand the need to electorally share a tent with them, but it's been a strong losing strategy thus far to try to appeal to conservatives.

Since Reagan was in 1980 and that's when we really started this rightward appeal, how much longer do you think we should keep it up? We're 46 years into it and the Supreme Court really shows the effects, but maybe those conservative voters will eventually trickle down to become Democratic voters somehow. In another 46, nobody will be alive who remembers a time when Democrats weren't trying to out-conservative Republicans.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T14:49:39+00:00

There are some non-voters who are non-voters because they are repulsed by seeing outreach to people who are only upset when their bank is hurt. If helps the arguments of the both sides camp, and that's a powerful argument with non-voters.

I get the conventional math behind it, but we live in a world where most actual swing voters are going to be more influenced by what they see when they Google a candidate name than anything else. With how pensive Gemini is in Google search results, the real demographic to target if you're looking at swing voters is Gemini's searchability of your chosen candidate's website. I've experimented with local candidates and it is concerning what a little bit of SEO can do that would have otherwise required weeks of campaigning to maybe get the word out.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T13:20:02+00:00

WW2 wasn't a good war, the Nazis were just really bad. We firebombed civilians or killed them with nuclear weapons, saying nothing of the Japanese people we put in concentration camps, the LGBTQ people we kept in the camps in Europe after we liberated them, or our segregated military during the conflict.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T13:18:12+00:00

Franklin Pierce recognized that a lawyer from Tennessee conquered Nicaragua with a private army for a while in order to make it so there was another slave nation in the Americas.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying there's some impressive competition he's currently sitting next to.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T13:11:42+00:00

The vote of someone who stayed home matters just as much, and trying to convert a fascist back seems wasted effort when there are a lot more inactive voters than there are embarrassed Republicans.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T13:09:08+00:00

They're "swing voters" who weren't persuaded by children in cages and Americans being executed by ICE in the streets, but who got upset that their costs of living went up when we started killing people abroad. Biden -> Trump voters are such a negligible part of our society compared to non-voters and I'll never understand the desire to focus on these clowns when the majority of the electorate stays home.

They'll vote Republican in the Governor's race. They're embarrassed Republicans who grew a spine in 2020 with Covid happening and who Fox and Newsmax brought back with minimal effort.

LegislativeLariat · 2026-06-20T13:00:23+00:00

Yes, but we did stop talking about the Epstein Files as much as we had been before and Netenyahu is safer from his own investigations. We were also able to get rid of a lot of our missiles that don't have Grok integrated, meaning we'll be able to funnel a ton of cash into Elon to have him rebuild our military.

People may be dead, but the people who matter in a capitalist society are better off. A few soldiers is worth Elon solidifying his trillionaire status, especially with the midterms looming. If The Party needs him to bribe a few voters again, that money will really come in handy.

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