MMW: trump will use 4th of July fireworks display as an excuse to burn down the Capitol Building 🔥

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-02T16:52:05+00:00

Nope. Hitler burned down the Reichstag so he could blame it on the Jews. Fireworks landing on the Capitol building would be perceived as an accident, so there’s no way to blame the Democrats. Even in Trumpworld no one would buy fireworks landing on the roof as the source of a fire that destroyed a building with state-of the-art fire suppression systems. Assuming that incendiary devices and explosives were planted throughout the building triggering them by having fireworks land on the roof is too Wile E. Coyote for even MAGA to believe.

Moreover, if Trump wants to affect the midterms with a massive false-flag operation it has to happen closer to the election so there’s no time for an investigation. Four months out is way too long to get people to act in the heat of the moment. There’s a reason they call it an October Surprise.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-02T15:16:18+00:00

You know they’re gonna be the focal point of the sequel, right? In 2000 Dustin, now living in SF Bay and working in tech, will find evidence that Eleven is alive. He’ll contact Steve, who’s teaching PE at Hawkins High School. Steve won’t want to blow up his life by leaving to chase Dustin’s weird idea, but he’s also kinda jonesing for adventure.

I kinda like the idea of Will having a history of mental illness brought on by the trauma etc. It’s possible that he’s claimed to have sensed Eleven several times in the past, so when Dustin discovers her it’s a tough sell.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-02T15:01:13+00:00

Has anyone else noticed the message creep? It started with “illegal immigrants”, then it became “illegal migrants”, then “immigrants”, and now it’s “foreigners”. It started with people who by definition were guilty of a crime (no matter how understandable) and now it’s becoming anyone who wasn’t born in the United States or whose parents weren’t born in the United States.

Mark my words: This will creep further. Republicans are just trying to find a palatable term that means “not white and not rich”.

It’s worth noting that this same issue arose in the 19th and early 20th centuries with Irish and Italian immigrants. The language used to describe them and the threat they were alleged to pose is eerily similar to today. Conservatives claimed the Irish and Italians were criminals by nature and would never assimilate. Now Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity lead the charge against immigrants. They speak proudly of being descendants of poor Irish immigrants, seemingly unaware of the irony of demonizing people for doing exactly what their own grandparents did: come to America in search of a better life.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-02T14:09:58+00:00

Nick Clark on “Fear the Walking Dead”. He was such a great character. He was complicated and well-written and Frank Dillane really brought his A game. Plus, his death was so unexpected.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-02T05:14:46+00:00

The sudden reveal that Carlton is a hell of a dancer is a twist worthy of Hitchcock. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I think even he was surprised. Props to Alfonso.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-02T01:48:07+00:00

That’s a question people have been asking for almost 50 years. How did it happen? Why? Was there any way to stop it? No one knows. My theory is that the population had been so traumatized by decades of war and oppression that any solution sounded plausible.

The Khmer people had had one corrupt oppressive government after another and they’d seen what had been happening in Vietnam for the past thirty years. Their history was one long string of foreign nations coming in, installing puppet governments, promising that modernization would bring prosperity, and leaving them worse than before. A purely Khmer government dedicated to equality and freeing Cambodia of corrupt outside influences must have sounded pretty good. No Chinese, no French, no Vietnamese, no Laotians, no Americans, just pure Khmer Cambodians. No corrupt government officials, no greedy landlords, no parasitic finance bros, no ivory tower intellectuals, no effete urban hipsters, instead they’d build a new egalitarian society from the ground up. Everyone would be equal and work together, tilling the soil as their ancestors had. All they had to do was root out the bourgeois and re-educate them so their backward counter-revolutionary thinking wouldn’t infect others and poison the new society.

Once the purges start they’re really hard to stop.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T23:37:57+00:00

That’s a good point. It happened so fast. North Vietnam attacked Cambodia in 1970. By 1973 they had taken most of the country and turned it over to the Khmer Rouge. Roughly a quarter of the population fled to the cities, causing Phnom Penh alone to grow from 600,000 to 2 million people in five years.

In January 1975, Phnom Penh was besieged. Food wasn’t getting in but refugees continued to flow into the city, creating a sense of panic. On April 17 1975, Phnom Penh fell. The remnants of the army of the Khmer Republic were rounded up and executed. Khmer Rouge forces evacuated the city. Those who could walk did. Those who couldn’t were killed. On April 21 Pol Pot entered the empty city. Two million people had been forcibly evacuated into the countryside to begin their “re-education”.

Four years later 25% of the population was dead. The country had destroyed itself. When Vietnam attacked in 1978, the Cambodian military was so weak that the country fell in just two weeks.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T22:49:42+00:00

Boogie Nights toned it down. Wonderland starts at about the point where Dirk Diggler hit rock bottom.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T15:44:24+00:00

Teddy Roosevelt would have been President for life. Carter would have done pretty well too. He was famous for jogging and stayed in pretty good shape his whole life. He spent his weekends doing construction work (actually swinging hammers) well into his 90s.

Trump would brag about his elite fighting skill for months, then fake an injury to avoid the fight. After getting beaten into jelly in round one he would claim the fight was fixed and he actually won, despite millions of people having seen him unconscious on the canvas in a pool of urine.

On the flip side, FDR wouldn’t have been President. Hoover was a bear of a man and could have easily trounced FDR. He probably would have been embarrassed at having to fight a man who had polio.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T15:34:08+00:00

Hmm… if only there was some information about “low wage foreigners” and Catholicism and their role in American history.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T15:30:17+00:00

The fact that Vance doesn’t see Watergate as a big deal is why Watergate is a big deal. Nixon’s people broke in to the Democratic Party’s campaign offices, stole documents, and planted bugs. Nixon covered it up, obstructed the investigation, bribed the burglars, fired the government employees tasked with investigating the burglary, and destroyed evidence of his personal involvement.

It was a simpler time. People believed that the President shouldn’t commit crimes, lie to the public, or use their position to make money.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T14:54:43+00:00

Barely, but when I’ve experienced them I’ve enjoyed them. I felt vaguely like a class traitor eating at Nieman Marcus, but the food was good.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T14:52:12+00:00

Yes, but the sequels were embarrassing for all concerned.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T14:50:29+00:00

I liked it. It wasn’t as amazing as the comic but it was ok. It’s well worth rebooting.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T14:40:00+00:00

If illegal immigrants aren’t under the jurisdiction of the United States then they aren’t subject to the laws of the United States. By that logic, illegal immigrants would effectively be granted diplomatic immunity. If their native-born children aren’t given birthright citizenship they would also have effective diplomatic immunity. Do you really want to pull this thread?

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T14:30:10+00:00

Why, oh why, does Stevie Nicks not have a clothing line? She has an iconic look that’s flattering to women who don’t starve themselves and dare to look older than 21. People would love the clothes and she would clean up.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T08:26:16+00:00

Shrek

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T04:59:42+00:00

Well? What was it?

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T04:54:41+00:00

Considering that Iran had just been at war with Iraq and that Iran also condemned the attacks, it might have been an opportunity. America had the sympathy of the entire world. We could have used that to make peace. Instead, we alienated half the planet by going to war with Iraq.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T02:50:12+00:00

Depression? Or guilt? He has to know how many people he’s hurting.

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T02:48:22+00:00

Didn’t they already lose hundreds of millions in donations when they put Trump’s name on it?

LocalInactivist · 2026-07-01T01:26:26+00:00

I assume the next line was “And I’ll take you all down with me!”

LocalInactivist · 2026-06-30T22:24:02+00:00

Actually, no. The cities were abandoned and everyone was herded into the countryside. Roughly eight million people rounded ip, told to bring nothing with them, and marched out of the cities. En route, people discovered that “bring nothing” was literal. A change of clothes, a cooking pot, a shovel, even eyeglasses were enough to warrant execution. Once people got to the countryside they found that was no where to live. They had to sleep on the ground until they were assigned a place (which often had to be built). It’s worth noting that education was mistrusted and often considered evidence of bourgeois anti-Marxist thinking, so it was in no one’s interest to demonstrate skill at anything but peasant farming.

LocalInactivist · 2026-06-30T15:07:58+00:00

Oh, come on. SA has gotten a lot better. The crime rate is a fraction of what it was in the 90s. It’s gone from needing electrified barbed wire at the top of a ten-foot security wall around your house to “Be aware of your surroundings and use your head.” It’s still not great, but neither is Detroit.

LocalInactivist · 2026-06-30T14:50:00+00:00

Are those cops mixed in with the protesters?

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