"Every bit of media consumed is safe from close scrutiny because it’s enjoyed “ironically.” It’s fandom as an accessory to identity, and it speaks to an attitude of selective seriousness: Everything is worth a laugh, and almost nothing deserves a deep dive. This pose jibes with what author J.D. Cowan has called “irony poisoning.” Instead of a playful gesture; it’s a lifestyle choice affected to mask an aching void where meaning used to be."
https://brianniemeier.com/2024/11/millennial-snot-and-the-pop-cult-worship-in-a-soulless-age/#:~:text=Every%20bit%20of,used%20to%20be.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

Let's hope not. A Blind Item from CDAN...
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2024/11/blind-item-7_6.html

More: https://voxday.net/2024/11/07/this-bodes-darkly/

"Heeeere's Bobby!"

IT WAS TOO BIG TO RIG
Congratulations America
Congratulations Trump!

They could have won if they'd been able to break Joe Rogan's stranglehold on American media and get their message to the public.

https://x.com/AetherCzar/status/1854650886322045260

"We worked too hard to get to a place where we don’t live hand to mouth, and we will not go back to living like 20-year-olds in their first apartment. And we will not allow the government to step on our necks and the necks of our children. No amount of mean tweets will stop us from inflicting as much pain on the people who did this to us as possible. They all hate Trump. THAT makes him the perfect guy for the job. GenX is bearing the brunt of this terrible government and has been for some time. We want revenge."

https://pjmedia.com/megan-fox/2024/11/07/genx-delivered-for-trump-and-theyre-not-afraid-to-tell-you-why-n4934064

"With so much focus on COVID shot mandates over the past few years, it’s easy to forget that many Americans have long been and are still required (or coerced or compelled) to take the annual flu shot."

https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/how-many-americans-are-mandated-to