We get to watch a slow-motion coup in real-time, for me, as a history-hobbyist, this is a thrilling moment in time. We'll all soon know how 300 plus non-Nazi's sat in the Reichstag felt the day Goering announced the Enabling Act and it dawned on them they were in the hands of mad-man.

I'm giddy with excitement, I've never lived so close to a budding dictatorship, I've been pinching myself all morning.

I'm curious to see Trump's liquidation rosters, there'll be more than a few recognizable names near the top for the chop...

Erasing the intelligentsia shouldn't take too long, most have fled. Religion doesn't stand a chance, I can't see an avowed anti-theist maintaining that pretence longer than needed. (tick to the good column)

If any of you survive the day, I look forward to your observations, your perspective from inside the maelstrom of an unpopular coup will enrich my over-all experience...

Toodles.

LL&P

Came across this during the week, which answers a question you were posing on Election night...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-native-american-voters-2020-election_n_5fad7436c5b635e9dea00c76

-CW

All proceeds from my flights of fiction go to the Biden, "keep Rudy Guilliani talking shit until his hair stops crying" fund.

'Live to give', that's my slogan.

LL&P

I'm more inclined towards perception than I am anything else.

Naturally, I've many wasted hours logged into my 'transmogrified' hindbrain.

We've come to a few conclusions, the details of which can be purchased in the lobby.

However, without confusion, I urge people to read, watch, and ultimately explore things that can't corrupt their thoughts through the prejudice of political belief, which obviously precludes FOX and CNN.

They need to acquiesce their directed political bent to a more measured, and frankly, less obtrusive coverage.

When Laura Ingram-Man-Person from FOX starts laying down religious markers in a political debate, the time for self-evaluation is at hand, if not overdue.

LL&P

You're right about Mastermind....

-CW

donald is fighting a war on seven different fronts. even if he manages to throw a monkey wrench into a couple states, it's highly unlikely he'll be able to somehow change the eventual outcome.

JL

The post-Trumpian era needs new guard rails, I'm happily working my way through a few suggestions...

'The Carlin Table'

We all grew up with this one... If you're vexed with some troll or other on a moderated, and humourless comments section of your preferred outlet, consider this subtlety...

"Sir, you're a Carlin-6, look it up"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words#:~:text=The%20seven%20dirty%20words%20are%20seven%20English-language%20curse,%22%2C%20%22%20motherfucker%20%22%2C%20and%20%22%20tits%20%22.

I like how 'Carlin-1 through 7' look, it's clinically aesthetic...

Thoughts? Feel free to make use of this material, RSVP.

LL&P

While I do agree with you about Steve Harvey (he really fits, the way the original Hogans Heroes guy did), I think you're selling Ken short.

He's also an institution to the show's viewers. He didn't just win a showcase, he won 74 of them in a row. He spanned two seasons, it went on so long. And he's returned again and again (he battled Watson, the IBM computer).

Like I said, there are indeed other mega-winners, but Ken stands ahead of them by a mile, in my opinion at least...

-CW

'Why aren't his armies attacking south?'

'Mien Fuhrer, Wenck no longer has the necessities to conduct an operation of this type...'

'And Steiner, where are his divisions'

'Mien Fuhrer, I regret to inform you, Steiner was unable to break through, operationally both armies are now redundant... For the sake of Berlin and her people, you should consider immediate egress to the south and the redoubt...'

'I see...clear the room, except for Krebs (no relation) Goebells (no relations remain) and...where is Hermann Fegelein?

Off Trump and his painted monkey, Guilliani, go to their redoubt...Michigan.

Why choose the hill you want to die on where the greatest obstacle to your fraud remains.

It is almost Wagnerian in its clumsiness, no?

My hopes remain.

LL&P

...I swear, that's the last brilliantly focused comparison...

Or a religion. Heh.

-CW

Host: He won this state in the presidential election of 2020 on the first count and on the subsequent recount.

Me: Who is Joe Biden? I'll take Georgia for $1000, whatever your name is. :)

QED

It's not something the average Bear can process, sadly.

LL&P

I agree that Gayle King would not be my first choice, either, simply because she has her gig doing the morning news already. Same for George S. — stick to journalism! For both of these choices, they need to recognize that in today’s political realms, the distinction between “journalist” and “entertainer” is already very blurred; and they need to pick a lane and stick in it!

Walter Cronkite did not seek a side job hosting a game show out of his respect for the field of journalism; not because he wouldn’t have been a hoot hosting the Newlywed Game!

There's no way half of America will believe or accept a former slave and future blind starship helmsman can read, let alone answer complex questions...

Obama would stand little chance in this charged environment, and he has the minerals.

Capiche.

LL&P

Touche.

lol

LL&P

I just don't understand why you would be worried that Levar Burton would make it all about himself and not stick to the basically etched in stone format of the show and core essence.

In any event, I'll tune in to see how Ken handles it. Maybe he'll change the core! Stranger things have already happened, repeatedly. :)

I like your direction, it's pretty much what I was thinking also. Alex would have liked it too, for what it's worth. I always got the vibe that Trebek's unassuming nature wouldn't presume to tell an organization who would make the best replacement, but if he did, he'd agree with you, without reserve.

Jeopardy was, with Trebek on the tiller, styled on the greatest 'trivia' game show model...The empress of all game shows... Mastermind.

Behold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C59pI_ypQ

LL&P

LeVar, maybe not so much as Gayle, I admit.

What I don't want to see is it suddenly being about the host or limiting the time for the game itself. That's what I mean about the core...

-CW

Chris, why do you think he would change the core essence of the game?

But, how many straight wins (in a row!) did Alex Trebek get?

Back to politics tomorrow, I promise.

:-)

-CW