Yes, I know it’s a joke cover for a non-existent book, but it’s also National Novel Writing Month! Someone needs to use this as the basis for their novel.
I don’t want to know what “Elevenses” would mean in this context.
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Someone at Michigan TV station WNEM needs someone else to double-check their work. They aired this yesterday.
Here’s a reminder from Amy Coney Barrett to set your clocks back. It’s on her agenda, and she’ll likely be setting them back by more than an hour…
This is violence, hitting people with cars is violence. All Republicans need to denounce this political violence
— Alex “Test, Trace, Isolate” Lawson (@alaw202) October 31, 2020
Welcome to the richest country in the third world, where armed thugs in trucks take part in campaign interference and voter intimidation as the police willfully ignore the illegality.
From KEYE, a CBS news affiliate in Austin:
The Biden bus has also been closely followed by Trump supporters while on the road, though Texas Democrats insist their presence didn’t affect their decision to call off the downtown Austin rally.
As the Biden bus rolled down 11th street toward I-35, Trump supporters scrambled to their trucks to follow it. @cbsaustin pic.twitter.com/idnbDqFU3L
— Jordan Bontke (@JBontkeCBS) October 30, 2020
In Pflugerville, Texas House Representative Sheryl Cole tweeted the Biden bus was supposed to make a stop there with the Austin Young Democrats but she wrote they, too, had to cancel–but due to security reasons.
“Pro-Trump Protesters have escalated well beyond safe limits,” she posted.
She quoted a tweet from Texas House Rep Rafael Anchía, who claimed “Armed Trump trolls harassing Biden Bus on I-35, ramming volunteer vehicles & blocking traffic for 40 mins.”
Some more details: https://t.co/2Ecaqb1LjT
— Sheryl Cole (@SherylCole1) October 31, 2020
Multiple videos and images captured the bus being dangerously harassed by trucks. Dr. Eric Cervini, an author who says he flew to Texas to join the tour, said that he called the police as he witnessed the drivers’ behavior. According to him, the Trump supporters actively attempted to drive the bus off the road, and one officer on the scene wearing Thin Blue Line apparel refused to intervene, saying, “Not my jurisdiction.”
See all these pickup trucks with Trump flags? They were sitting along I-35, waiting to ambush the Biden/Harris campaign bus as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin. 2/
— Dr. Eric Cervini (@ericcervini) October 31, 2020
The police refused to help. When I flagged down one officer, he said his hands were tied: “not my jurisdiction.” He was wearing a blue stripe bandana. 4/
— Dr. Eric Cervini (@ericcervini) October 31, 2020
While Germany still had elections and Hitler was merely a disgraced politician, his militia of Brownshirts interrupted his opponents’ political meetings and incited violence on the streets. You know what happened next. 6/
— Dr. Eric Cervini (@ericcervini) October 31, 2020
Maybe it’s that I grew up in the ’80s watching the WWF (the old name of WWE), maybe it’s because I can hear the Tweet in his voice, or maybe it’s just the comparison, but this cracked me up. This is my Tweet of the day.
Watch, if you dare!
The Canadian TV series Kenny vs. Spenny was a gem of cringe comedy, in which Kenny Hotz and Spencer “Spenny” Rice would compete against each other in various contents of varying amounts of ridiculousness.
In each episode, the loser would have to face some kind of humiliation, and in the “Who’s the better wrestler?” episode, Spenny lost. His punishment: Naked humiliation at the hands (and beer bottle) of the Iron Sheik. Like the heading says: Watch, if you dare!
See also: VICE — The Disgusting and Depraved Story of ‘Kenny vs. Spenny,’ Canada’s Most Underrated Show
Thanks to David Janes for the find!
Existential Troopers is Auralnauts’ latest Star Wars remix in which they take the classic “Stormtroopers” scene from the final season one episode of The Mandalorian and turn it from simple comedy gold in great philosophical comedy gold.
It’s a great premise. One speeder bike trooper has been thinking about how in spite of their superior numbers and technology, The Empire always loses. He even brings up the the topic of how the best-trained, best equipped army in the galaxy has such terrible aim and got defeated by “a bunch of weekend warriors and their pet teddy bears on Endor”. He’s reasoned out that it might be their destiny to lose, and existential hilarity ensues…
If you liked what Auralnauts did with Existential Troopers, be sure to catch my article spolighting another Auralnauts creation, Go To Sleep Baby Yoda, which takes scenes of The Mandalorian and The Child on the Razor Crest (the ship) and turns it into a sweet bedtime story, complete with catchy synthpop tune!