"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez"

yeah they need to watch the Walt Crying In His Tighty-Whities compilations

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

Plus, there are a lot of moments even after he starts cooking meth where Walt is deeply pathetic. If you think he's aspirational, you kinda have to ignore everything EXCEPT the parts where he blows stuff up.

I know we like to believe art can shape the world more than it actually can, but people who fantasize about being badasses delivering ownage to everything and everyone around them, usually are already inclined to think that before they see it on the TV.

I would bet that people who found Walter White aspirational did not get the idea that being a domineering psychopath causing widespread death and destruction would be awesome from Breaking Bad.

haha, he's pretty good at it! and "Lance Drake Mandrell" is another fantastic entry into the 30 Rock character names canon

But to the point of Walt being aspirational, he is only to the people whose model of masculinity is to dominate (right-wingers, manosphere guys, incels - at the risk of repeating myself somewhere), and they were fucked in the head way before Breaking Bad, it didn't make them that way.

Mackey busts the cartel kingpin for ICE and there's no "You did us a solid so I guess we'll let you say goodbye to your kids" or anything like that. It's still "go fuck yourself, here's your desk, piss in this cup, fifty single-spaced pages a week."

Vince couldn't resist giving Walt one little last win at the end, one chance to make some kind of amends.

This is why The Shield is the GOAT: The ending is uncompromising for Vic, Ronnie, and the Vendrells. The decisions they've made can't be undone or mitigated.

I do find the finale of BREAKING BAD to be surprisingly toothless, but if you find him cool and aspirational during any point in the show's run, you are already a total media illiterate.

You can't make art with the world's dumbest people in mind or you'll never make anything truly great.

At a fucking funeral

Too bad she couldn't predict that running on "All the people who want to do what Trump is doing, but not in a way that might lay bare how cruel it is and inspire the people to fight back, love me" would not win the election against Trump

Surely this is not shocking, but Rogan had most of the big anti-trans scientists that my reporting found to be in the Epstein files on his podcast.

Krauss even tried to connect Epstein to Rogan at one point.

conbinary

i don't think anyone at the time expected reagan tearing solar panels off the white house to spite jimmy carter would be such a significant metaphor for the 21st century

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically They just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be.

"Instead of respecting my inalienable right to be debated, they just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be."

Don't run, Deborah

Imagine being mad that your daughter is a genius

Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically

clinton's plan to beat trump was to elevate him above the rest of the republican field and then coast to an easy victory. i don't think she was right about that

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

They correctly predicted Trump running for president was dangerous, because he would be running against them, the only two people who could lose to Trump

These people are losers at heart. That's why they worshipped Ruth Bader Ginsburg (and even made her racist ass an honorary Black person, but that's a whole other story). "Her dissents were so sassy and epic!" Wow, she's famous for losing with style!

“They said Trump would be a lawless criminal!” Yeah and so did a lot of other people, but they didn’t try to elevate him to be the competition either.

literally name one thing they were right about that a million other people weren’t saying

ultimately, as much as usian liberals would want to rewrite history to justify their decomposing empire, the lesson in the tragicomedy of Hilary Clinton, and to some extend Kamala Harris, is that president moron j pedo was simply better than them at the game of being evil

sHe wAS rIghT abouT eVeRythinG

Good counterargument! Full of facts, reasoning, and cause and effect!

I guess as an old white man from a slave state you're used to "Whatever I say goes and no one gets to question it," right?