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Well, that was a night. I was so anxious I could barely sleep last night so I got pretty little sleep. Anyway:
Despite the Florida one and all the shit in Georgia for the most part the governors races were pretty good. Glad Kansas ditched Kobach. Very happy Colorado has elected the first gay man to ever be elected governor in the US. Very happy Scott Walker lost, and that New Mexico and Michigan flipped blue. Also Nevada elected their first Democratic governor in 20 years!
Democrats took the House, the big takeaway from last night. Glad to see a lot of especially bad Republicans (I'm looking at you Rohrabacher) gone and also huge gain in electing two Muslim women to Congress and several others.
The senate races besides Jacky Rosen's victory were a fucking bloodbath unfortunately. I was expecting North Dakota to flip given Heitkamp has performed awfully in the polls but I thought Missouri and Indiana would hang on, same with Florida, although they're probably doing a recount in Florida. Glad Montana stayed blue though, I was concerned about that seat when the votes started being counted.
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I'm only 17 so I can't vote, but I registered over a year ago to vote. However I really wish I could; here in North Carolina our state legislature, to be frank, is absolutely fucked and immoral beyond belief.
I don't want to brag but I'm a bit of a political buff so I want to give a quick outline of pivotal Senate races for everyone. I can do Governors races later, but not House, as that's just too much.
CYANIDEFISHBONE'S SENATE GUIDE 2018 (TRYING TO BE AS NONPARTISAN AS POSSIBLE)
Arizona: US Rep Kyrsten Sinema (Democrat) is running against Martha McSally, another US Rep. Sinema is a Blue Dog (centrist wing of the Democratic Party that tends to shift more rightward) Democrat while McSally is a conservative who distanced herself from Trump in 2016 but repositioned herself with Trump during this campaign. If elected, Sinema will become the first Democrat elected to the Senate in Arizona since 1994 and will become the first openly bisexual member of the US Senate and the second lesbian elected to the US Senate. The most recent projection shows Sinema one point above McSally.
Florida: Incumbent Senator Bill Nelson (Democrat) is running against Florida governor Rick Scott in probably the largest re-election challenge during his time in the Senate. Bill Nelson is a relatively moderate Democrat while Rick Scott is an extremely pro-Trump Republican. The most recent projection shows Nelson 4 points ahead of Scott.
Indiana: One-term Democratic senator Joe Donnelly is up for re-election against state representative Mike Braun. Joe Donnelly was elected in 2012 after longterm Indiana Republican Richard Lugar lost re-nomination to an extreme Tea Party candidate, who's campaign would be riddled with scandals, giving Donnelly an edge in a mostly conservative state. Donnelly is again, a mostly moderate Democrat while Braun is pro-Trump Republican. The most recent projection shows Donnelly up by 2 points against Braun.
Mississippi (Special): This is definitely one of the most interesting elections this year, in my opinion. In April, long-time Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran resigned over personal health issues. Mississippi Secretary of Agriculture Cindy Hyde-Smith was appointed to fill Cochran's seat (kind of goes without saying but Hyde-Smith is a Republican). Obviously as a new senator is appointed like this a special election must be held. The main 3 candidates are Hyde-Smith, Mike Espy (who was Secretary of Agriculture under Bill Clinton and the former representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district), and Chris McDaniel (a state senator). Hyde-Smith is an extremely pro-Trump Republican, Espy is a mostly moderate Democrat, and Chris McDaniel is a Tea Party politician with the backing of Ron Paul. If no candidate secures 50% of the vote, according to Mississippi state law a runoff election will occur on the 27th where the top two candidates with the most votes will campaign against each other. Espy is pretty much destined to be one of the top two, but depending on whether Hyde-Smith or McDaniel wins the election could go either way. Every poll putting Espy against McDaniel shows Espy leading, while Hyde-Smith vs. Espy could be competitive as well. If elected, Espy will become the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Mississippi since 1988 (and to be frank, the first one who isn't a fucking racist), as well as the first African American elected to the Senate from Mississippi. If Espy wins, he will also become the 4th African American in the Senate. The most recent projection shows Espy at 40 percent, Hyde-Smith at 27 percent and McDaniel at 28 percent. This seat could go anyway, it's extremely hard to tell.
Missouri: Two-term Democratic senator Claire McCaskill is up for re-election against Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley. McCaskill was re-elected by narro margins each of the times she was elected in the past, with her being elected during the Democratic boom in 2006 and being elected in 2012 after her candidate, much like Indiana's, was an extreme Tea Party candidate with a campaign riddled with scandals. Being in Missouri, McCaskill is a fairly moderate Democrat while Hawley is a pro-Trump Republican. The most recent projection shows Hawley 3 points above McCaskill.
Nevada: One-term GOP senator Dean Heller is up for re-election against Democratic US Rep Jacky Rosen. This is a seat that has been heavily targeted by Democrats as Heller is the only GOP senator this year up for re-election in a state Clinton won in 2016. Heller is a pro-Trump Republican while Rosen is a somewhat progressive Democrat with the backing of former Nevada senator and Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid who retired in 2017 after serving for 30 years. The race has been very competitive as the most recent projection shows Heller and Rosen tied, but most people believe Rosen has a slight edge as Nevada, whilst a split state, has been shifting leftward.
North Dakota: One-term Democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp is up for re-election against GOP US Rep Kevin Cramer. This is seen as the GOP's best seat to target Democrats as North Dakota is an extremely conservative state. Heitkamp, as many other red-state Democrats is relatively centrist while Cramer is a pro-Trump Republican. The polls have been shifting more in Cramer's favor recently; i just don't trust the ones I'm seeing, but FiveThirtyEight gives Cramer a 3 in 4 chance of winning while Heitkamp has a 1 in 4 chance of winning.
Tennessee: Two-term GOP Senator Bob Corker is retiring, leaving an open seat. The GOP candidate is US Rep Marsha Blackburn while the Democratic candidate is popular former governor Phil Bredesen. Blackburn is an extremely pro-Trump Republican while Bredesen is a moderate Democrat that was popular on both sides of the political spectrum when he was governor (when he ran for re-election in 2006 all counties in deep-red Tennessee went blue). So it seems certain that Bredesen would win, right? It's actually a pretty split race, with the most recent projection saying Blackburn and Bredesen are tied. Early polls also tended to favor Bredesen while later polls have been shifting in Blackburn's favor. Interestingly, Bob Corker also originally endorsed Blackburn as his successor but revoked his endorsement 4 days ago, saying both would be good as his successor (Personal opinion: Corker is a spineless piece of shit but this was interesting to note). If elected, Bredesen would be the first Democrat elected to the Senate since 1994.
Texas: Incumbent GOP Senator and former 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz is running for re-election against US Rep Beto O'Rourke. This has probably been the most interesting Senate election of the entire year as it has been extremely competitive, unexpectedly as Texas is a conservative stronghold that has not elected a Democrat to a statewide office since 1994. Ted Cruz is a heavily pro-Trump Republican while O'Rourke is a fairly progressive populist Democrat, somewhat in the mold of a modern Bobby Kennedy. Currently, the most recent poll shows the two tied.
Okay, that was a pretty nonpartisan look at some key races. Of course vote how you want but in my brutally honest opinion please vote Democrat. Republicans have shown to not care about dignity and honor while serving and while Democrats aren't perfect, in my opinion they'll bring some civility to government in this crazy ass time. As I said vote how you want but that's how I look at it. Also I don't want to see Ted Cruz's stupid ass face again god I hate that man.
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Yeah that was another really good episode. It wasn't laugh out loud funny but it had some good jokes but the plot was incredibly strong, and I was definitely not at all expecting a Mr. Mackey/Kenny teamup episode at all and it delivered very well. Felt so bad for Kenny the entire episode lmao but it was SO nice to see him again. It didn't connect with me as much as Tegridy Farms did but it was damn good for modern SP standards. I'm starting to have more faith in this season but I don't want to jinx myself.
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Sad. A lot has happened these last couple of days.
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"Boxing Day" // Blink-182
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"Time Turned Fragile" // Motion City Soundtrack
The last two minutes of this song are so goddamn good. Love this album.
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Treehouse of Horror I-X. 'Nuff said for me.
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2 hours ago, Prince of the Netherworld said:
Honestly they should just end The Simpsons instead. I’ve made my point loud and clear for years now about how I (as well as many) feel, even on The Problem With Apu controversy. But this move in particular, just awful. If you’re going to get rid of one character because of “cultural insensitivity”, then get rid of Groundskeeper Willie and Bumblebee Man too. Stupid move.
And Fat Tony..... and Cletus.... I could go on.
It's a common argument but yeah, this is a show centered around caricatures as Springfield is supposed to be Anytown, USA. Also I believe that so much has been added to Apu over the years to distinguish him from a simple stereotype to a fleshed out character, and also compared to most people in Springfield Apu's got his shit together. The point does stand of a white man voicing an Indian man though, but I definitely think this was not the right choice. End the show or keep Apu. The show has lost a huge chunk of it and it's been a zombie for years and years and fucking years. I can't imagine the show is doing too hot in ratings either. It's been said again and again but put this show out of it's goddamn misery. Even though it won't happen, a man can dream, I guess.
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Welp, it finally happened. I've got a lot of feelings on this whole subject matter but I don't want to go into that right now.
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Well, that was probably the best episode of South Park I've seen is 2 or 3 seasons. I'm shocked.
Let me just say first things first that I'm a little biased. Vaping is a huge epidemic at my school (luckily I have one more year left to deal with it as a senior, but it'll probably still be around in college). Tons of kids at my school are just addicted to the stuff, they're pretty much all the type obsessed with anything Supreme and spend tons of time playing Fortnite. I've had several times where I've gone to the bathroom only to walk in on some kids vaping and trying to hide it once I enter the bathroom but doing a piss poor job at doing so, so a lot of things in the episode I definitely related to. Also I've been offered it by my cousin who's a year younger than me before and some kid I was kind of friends with (he was the brother of one of my long time best friends, he moved to military school a state over like a month ago), and it's just like..... this shit is so fucking stupid. My main reason behind my opinion is the fact my aunt was a heavy tobacco smoker and pretty much died because of that so I've got a real distaste for anything tobacco/nicotine (Not gonna tell you to stop doing the stuff, I'll do me and you'll do you but I never, never ever want to try the stuff because of that). Mainly though, I just very much agree with Randy calling vapes "pussy sticks"; that summarizes most of my opinions.
Enough about my personal opinions, on to the episode. This episode was fucking great. There was a lot to love; it's SUCH a fucking breath of fresh air to get an episode with the main boys as one of the main focuses and Cartman/Butters shows are always a treat. I honestly enjoyed the Randy B-plot way more than I thought I would, a lot of it from the fact he really wasn't an asshole for most of it and there was a really understandable reason for him wanting to move away and start farming pot. I loved a lot of the pot jokes, I'm kind of a sucker for pot humor, and it was well done here. He was an idiot as always, but I found it so charming. Something about Randy being this super gung-ho farmer really just fucking worked. Also I'm so glad they brought back Towelie for reasons that made tons of sense with his character. Him as a pot inspector is a great use of established characters; I'm glad they brought him back as it made sense instead of creating a new character to fill the role.
Something Trey and Matt have seriously struggled with in recent years are running jokes. A perfect example of how bad they can get is the period joke from Dead Kids where it just gets used over and fucking over again and it just wasn't funny in the first place. The Two Princes hemp hat, the vaping Kool-Aid man, and Cartman and Butters one-upping Kyle were all hilarious. Maybe it's because all of them weren't beaten into the fucking ground and used more conservatively, but they were all really funny and memorable. A lot of the other jokes worked well too.
And then there's the satire. While it wasn't super thought-provoking or great, the jabs were still very fun, at all the stupid fucking "flavors" of vapes there are and all the ridiculously stupid names to the jabs at Colorado legalizing marijuana, it was all done very well. I enjoyed The Problem With A Poo, but this one was definitely better in my eyes. For fuck's sake I might say this one is as good if not better than Put It Down. I don't want to get my hopes up going forward, but yeah, this was seriously a fucking great episode. Easy 9-10/10.
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Pumpkin biscotti. Really tastes like fall in the best way.
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God I really really really hope they don't mess up this next one about vaping. Vape culture seems like a ripe target for South Park and the idea of Butters as a vape dealer is a match made in heaven.
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That was the first episode this season I can say I enjoyed. Mr. Hankey was fun to see again and it skewered controversies like the James Gunn one and the controversies over characters like Apu pretty well, although I kind of wish they went more with lampooning the Brett Kavanaugh hearings; that seems satire-rich for Trey and Matt but I can't really complain because the stuff lampooned was a little broad and cluttered, but I definitely still enjoyed this one. Also really helped that this episode was definitely the funniest this season. I'd give it a 7-8/10. Also honestly did not mind watching a Mr. Hankey episode in October because the episode was just straight out funny, the Speedy Gonzales joke had me laughing out loud. Also the Simpsons nerd in me loved the ending. I do hope we get another Halloween episode honestly, because I think they're taking a dark week next week and the next episode would be around Halloween and I honestly really enjoyed last season's Halloween show.
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"I Will Be There When You Die" // My Morning Jacket
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Summer Girls is the biggest enigma to me in the world. It's just like...... the most un-song lyrics ever. Definitely more concerned on making random pop culture references than singing about girls.
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Well, this certainly was a "stuff happens" episode. The plot was well constructed and made sense within the show's characters for the most part, but just felt ineffective on the whole. I guess it's because South Park's already covered this subject in "Red Hot Catholic Love", an episode I admittedly don't remember off the top of my head but taking that one out of the equation this one was still pretty ineffective. There were a couple good lines and moments, but just did not really leave an impact on me at all. Also it's another fucking episode where Randy plays an important role.... sigh. Look, I love Randy but I miss when South Park centered MOSTLY around the boys. Can we not have an episode where Randy plays a pivotal role? For fuck's sake........
Also for a Butters episode there was something so.... un-Butters about it. I can completely buy him becoming friends with Father Maxi and all but there was none of Butter's trademark happiness and naivety in the midst of fucked up shit happening around him, which in my opinion when Butters works best. Also I can buy Randy constantly making jokes about priests molesting little boys and all.... but Sharon? Also I can't buy Randy as being obsessed with religion all of a sudden at all. Meh. I'm done here. I'm starting to get concerned for this season; I've always been concerned about the show since the story arcs, but usually a meh season premiere would be followed up with a pretty good episode. Not the case here, this one might be worse than Dead Kids. 5/10 I guess. It's not terrible but just did not impress me at all.
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"Wendy Clear" // Blink-182
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It was okay. Definitely had some problems, mostly with the A-plot. It just felt thin and empty, with no real substance beside period jokes (which was kinda funny at first but got old really fucking fast) and just the fact Sharon is the only one who feels affected by shootings anymore I felt got really drawn out. There was just nothing to the A-plot besides that. School shootings are getting more and more common which is terrifying, and pubic attention to them is dwindling because people are getting used to it, which is also fucking terrifying. I'm all for Matt and Trey discussing school shootings in 2018, but I just wish there was more to it. Why not discuss the public movement against big gun groups like the NRA? Why not discuss school walkouts protesting the gun lobby? Instead they just treaded on the same thing over and over again. The A-plot, while very weak, was not all bad though. Randy at the therapist was definitely the funniest scene of the show, and him at the house meeting was funny to. I'm not so much angry at the characterization, that was handled well. Randy is thickheaded enough to do the stuff he did here and Sharon being this emotional seems so in character. The scene at the school near the end with Sharon calling everyone out was great, and of course the reveal that she isn't going through menapause and her period started today. Finally the fucking period jokes are gone. Thank god. However, the ending makes no sense to me, especially since she seems to just go from calling everyone out for being ignorant to shootings to being ignorant her own son was shot. What the hell? It makes absolutely no sense. Did snicker at Randy's bliss while his wife apologized to him, though.
The subplot definitely worked better for me. Cartman believing Token not letting him copy off his math test was because Token found out Cartman didn't like Black Panther and going overboard with it is something Cartman would totally do, and the jokes worked well. For some reason I found Cartman mentioning he would get grounded from playing Fortnite after getting a bad grade funny. I guess it's just the idea of Cartman talking about Fortnite. It was pretty standard Cartman scheme stuff, but pretty much all effective and served as a nice something else for the empty A-plot. Also the scene where Cartman and Token go to their classroom in the middle of a shooting was very well done and did a great job intertwining the A and B plots for an ending. So yeah, it was okay. 5/6/7/10 I guess. I hope well for the rest of the season and of course Trey and Matt aren't great at premieres usually, but this one was pretty meh.
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Tried the Honey BBQ Glazed Chicken Tenders today. Absolutely not my thing (buying them was a complete impulse decision), but not that bad. What surprised me was the barbecue sauce actually had some kick to it and I was expecting to feel absolutely disgusting after eating it but I don't at all. They were pretty good, just not my thing at all.
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"The Seventh Stranger" // Duran Duran
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Well, damn... A school shooting. I'm really intrigued. That said I was pretty intrigued with White People Renovating Houses before it aired and that one turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment and Trey and Matt aren't the best with season openers but I still can't wait for Wednesday.
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"Ada" // The National
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Being in North Carolina it's been rainy and windy all day. Power went out for like thirty mintues earlier today but it's been back on for a while.
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Fucking love these OST tracks with lyrics. Especially COME OUT DRAGON JUST FOR ME and the Red Ribbon Army theme. So goddamn 80's in the best way possible.
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Yeah this episode was great. Absolute blast to see Al Gore again. This season has been a surprising lift in quality despite it's rough start so I'm hoping Matt and Trey are gonna keep pumping out great episodes. Also it's such a breath of fresh air to see another episode that is centered around the boys.