To be clear I wasn’t trying to say “how bad it’s gotten” broadly, just that Kimmel specifically is surreal to me because of how I first became acquainted with him as a kid, but you are totally right overall
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This is out of line, Carl is an awful and gross person but he’s not evil
Which is why all the factions are trying to get their agenda advanced as quickly as possible before he croaks. The techno-feudalist side had the advantage with their boy JD poised to take over but removing him is much more politcally viable for the Christian nationalists in congress
That’s not how civil wars work anymore, it’ll be akin to a Balkanization where there are multiple different factions, upstart states, militias and insurgencies. The second will be nothing like the first. The Syrian civil war is a decent smaller scale modern example
Edit: if you’d like a good idea of what it will look like I HIGHLY recommend the fist season of the excellent podcast It Could Happen Here by Robert Evans. It’s from 2019 but wildly prescient
In my experience phones are exacerbating trauma more than soothing it, I type from my phone
This is very much a situation where they sure as shit ain’t our allies but if ICE wants to make an enemy of the police I’m not gonna stop that mistake
Put a lid on her Turkish fore she gets bitten
We’re already in the first throes of the Second American Civil War, we just haven’t started calling it that yet
Edit: throws to throes because I’m a dumb southern hillbilly
He’s had a long week alright, just wants to have a drink and unwind
They will go through bone like butter
Add it to the list of shit we desperately need yesterday