It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Rich and Strange.
I'm going to take what little amusement I can in that Muir's efforts to play the moral crusader happen against the background of all his utterly bizarre sex quirks.
He's bad at this in a way it's tough to find.
I'm agog at what the Canadian Peanuts are saying, to the extent I can deduce what they're saying through all the layers of sarcasm and weirdness.
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WayneM:
"Trump rubbed Carney’s nose repeatedly in how Trump’s influence resulted in Carney’s selection.
For a while, I was thinking Trump was going to grab Carney’s forearms and force Carney to slap himself in the face while saying 'Stop hitting yourself, Markie!! Oh and give me your lunch money.'"
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Annnd he WANTED to see that happen.
Oldarmourer, from what I can see, not only actually WANTS to be annexed by the US, but thinks all of North America should be one state. Which is absolutely WILD, because the "NAU" used to be one of the biggest paranoid conspiracy theories on the far right. Alex Jones used to talk about it all the time. But now at least some of them like the idea?? What?
Also, Kafiroon says he thinks the Supreme Court is running the country. The same Supreme Court whose 9-0 order is being ignored?
I'll say this, though. I agree that Trump is not running the country. He never was the first time either, but it's different now. I think he really is being kept almost entirely out of the loop. He's not on top of anything at all.
The thing about the Canadian Right that you have to understand is that they are not overly fond of Canada. This was much easier for them when the British Empire was a Thing, and they could feel happy about being a valuable part of it, but the entire post-WWII thrust of the Canadian Right has been them starting to see the US as the new Daddy.
DeleteOn the subject of Trump--I do think he's ultimately the one in charge, it's just that he's fairly hands off about it. You can run things, but if you try to be The Real Big Guy, it will go badly for you. (Witness Elon crawling away to lick his wounds.)
At least one of the Canadian Peanuts (I love referring to them as that) spends part of his year down in Texas, where his wife lives as well, I believe. He loves it there, for all the imaginary right-wing "freedoms" and I think wants to move to the States permanently. So at least one of these guys is only a part-time Canadian.
DeleteWonder if he's from Alberta, aka, Canada's Texas.
DeleteWhere did Jeff even come from, anyway? How did this shapeshifting naked chrome man come to be, and how did he meet the DBD gang? All this crazy shit -- the compound, the Dawgs, all the insane tech, shapeshifters --- happened during the stretch of roughly seven years when I wasn't paying attention.
ReplyDeleteJavier built him. All the magitech is Javier, he's pretty much a genie.
DeleteAs for why he's obsessed with the Terminator movies, well, because Muir is.
Of course. Javier. Whom, if I'm not mistaken, has had absolutely zero character definition at all apart from being a super-genius. (I vaguely recall a couple of years ago there was a slight hint of a personality emerging, but it went nowhere.)
DeleteMuir has always had the annoying tendency some writers have of using children as little more than props. Before they enter their teens (whether way ahead of schedule a la Mari and Kiko or not), they're pretty much ciphers.
But Javier seems to still be one. He's a super-genius whiz kid wunderkind who was inventing all this insane tech when he was still in the single digits, but that's all there is to him.
Like I said, he's essentially a genie, just like his grandfather El Dorado Dad. Together, the pair make sure that the Compound always has the materials it needs to beat anything and do anything.
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