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Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Jun 18, 2018 3:17:46 pm PDT #26303 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Today, I hit my I-can't-even point with the Trump administration literally putting kids in cages.

I can't believe I even typed that sentence.

If other countries got together behind our back and decided to invade us over this shit, I would fly their goddamn flags on my porch. Because fuck the United States. We are monsters. And I mean "we", because I voted for Clinton but I can't keep babies out of cages. Canada should bomb the hell out of us, and more power to them.


Connie Neil - Jun 18, 2018 3:20:19 pm PDT #26304 of 30002
brillig

Yeah, if a platoon came by my house flying the Maple Leaf, I'd breathe a "Oh, thank god. God save the Queen."


DavidS - Jun 18, 2018 3:21:43 pm PDT #26305 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I have some close friends whose parents are ardent Trump supporters.

So I've spent the last half hour imagining punching septugenarians in the face, and ripping out their oxygen cannulas. Die you horrible old racist fucks.

My enemy lives under my flag.


NoiseDesign - Jun 18, 2018 3:22:23 pm PDT #26306 of 30002
Our wings are not tired

Canada needs to sack the White House again.


Steph L. - Jun 18, 2018 3:23:15 pm PDT #26307 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

It's unexpectedly hitting one of my triggers (which I mean in the clinical sense, not "oh, that makes me sad"), so I'm admittedly not rational about it. But then I also think there is no possible rational reaction to kids in cages.


Steph L. - Jun 18, 2018 3:29:46 pm PDT #26308 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I have some close friends whose parents are ardent Trump supporters.

Tim's dad has found himself a girlfriend at his assisted living facility, which would otherwise be fucking adorable, because she is a sharp-tongued, extremely intelligent, suffers-no-fools lady from Boston. But she seems to be the only Republican from Boston I've ever met, because I had to sit at dinner one night and listen to Jack and Millie talk about how much they love Trump. (One of the other ladies at the table, Edith, who had also seemed like she might be sweet on Jack, started rolling her eyes at the Trump talk and looked like she was going to stab him with a fork, so *that* romance never got off the ground. Edith is now my BFF there.)


Gudanov - Jun 18, 2018 3:43:50 pm PDT #26309 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

It feels like Fox News has ruined a good chunk of a whole generation.


Calli - Jun 18, 2018 4:01:36 pm PDT #26310 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I just get ideological whiplash with it all. One minute Republicans are all "family values, think of the children" and the next they're "kids in cages is a perfectly reasonable response to people fleeing persecution." (They use to have reservations about Russia, too, but that's another issue.) I guess children only count with Republicans if they're white.


Dana - Jun 18, 2018 4:06:21 pm PDT #26311 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I can't even comprehend it. We seriously have to protest this? This is a thing we've come to?


DavidS - Jun 18, 2018 4:06:34 pm PDT #26312 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Ugh, I'm feeling so stabby and angry.

And I've purposefully chosen to live as far from Republicans as possible so it's almost impossible to go outside my front door and step on their bunions.