Thursday, January 15, 2026

Amazing How They Can Always Find A Way To Be Racist In Addition To Being Awful.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Skull Murder Mystery.

This little quasi-plotline is really dragging out and we are quickly hitting 'bears with power tools' territory in my book.

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  1. JLGJanuary 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM

    This from eon is kind of making something click in my mind:

    “MN with a D in the Oval Office 2029;
    You ride the bus to the below-minimum-wage ($2/hr) job you’ve been detailed to by the DFL’s Labor Bureau.
    You pass through several “checkpoints” where Somalis with AKs come on board to collect “tolls”- and beat up anyone who doesn’t have enough.
    At the entrance to your workplace, you must give money to Somali “children” (up to age 18) who demand “bakshish”. With more “toll takers” fingering their AKs meaningfully in the background.
    And inside, the first thing on the agenda is a two-hour “sensitivity training class”. rather like an AA meeting.
    You stand up, and say
    ‘Hello, I am (your name) and I am a white supremacist racist.’
    If you think these monsters are beaten, you are very, very wrong.
    They’re just coiled up in their dens, waiting for the right moment to strike again.”

    ***

    Par the course, it’s a flop-sweat fever dream of delusions and projection. But what’s really clicking with me here is that for all the laughable, absurd “future projections” that deluded, paranoid, hysterical doomsayers have spect many decades hyperventilating about, the only ones that have turned out to be coming true are….ours.

    Many of us — though not nearly enough — saw this fascist nightmare coming a thousand miles away. (I saw it when I was a teenager in the late ‘90s, for god’s sake.) Plenty of breathless warnings were issued over the decades, warnings that most rolled their eyes at and scoffed at as loony hyperbole.

    Well, all of that turned out to be much closer to the actual future, now didn’t it,

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    1. EurobratJanuary 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM

      I definitely had to pause and blink a few times after reading his comment. I mean...if you want to get beat up by scary people brandishing guns in Minneapolis right now, you can....they are not Somalian.

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    2. EurobratJanuary 16, 2026 at 10:17 PM

      Sorry, I meant to say Somali...sheesh

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    3. John BallJanuary 17, 2026 at 8:36 PM

      Ahh, but when the fash threaten YOU with their guns, that is as it should be. When they are threatened--or even made to feel there is a slight chance they'll be threatened--that is the world out of joint.

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  2. JLGJanuary 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM

    Different note:
    I’m having trouble understanding what’s supposed to be so controversial about larryarnold’s method of getting his daughter to cooperate when being dressed.

    Telling her to keep her hands on her head? What’s so bad about that?

    And his wife was furious? “How could you do that to a child”?
    What?
    Am I missing something here? I’m totally confused.

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    1. EurobratJanuary 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM

      I didn't quite get it either. I read it as his wife possibly just getting upset because he found a faster and better way to perform this task, and that this was unacceptable because it threatened her status as the caretaker of the kids, which was her traditional womanly role. But I could be reading way too much into it.

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    2. John BallJanuary 17, 2026 at 8:38 PM

      My suspicion is we are deep in the land of 'personal anecdote that an outsider can't help but be baffled by'. The only reasonable explanation I can produce for the wife's reaction is that 'hands on your head' is a standard cop/corrections officer order, and entails a great deal of giving up autonomy, but even that feels like a stretch.

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