How Long Till California Runs Out of Juice?
How Long Till California Runs Out of Juice?
And not the orange kind
Good day to everyone except my readers in California, who probably can’t read this because your power has been cut off.
Sounds great. So, how’s that going?
Oh. Whoops!
It must be that nasty, horrible climate change, or global warming, or whatever we’re supposed to call it now. It couldn’t be anything our leaders are doing, because they’re Democrats and therefore the good guys.
And California wants to ban gasoline-fueled cars by 2035. If Democrat-led states can’t handle their citizens’ power consumption as it is, what will happen to the power grid when everybody has to plug in their cars to go to work? Does Gavin Newsom think Doc Brown is gonna find a convenient lightning bolt? Will Thor use his magic hammer? If you need your car to move, do you just yell “Shazam”?
What on God’s green earth is this old man babbling about now?
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time…
But Joe Biden doesn’t always mutter complete gibberish. Sometimes he screams complete gibberish!
The pandemic is a distant memory now, huh? Thanks for the vaccines, guys, but now this crazy old man is gonna go back to demonizing you.
But hey, nobody’s prerfrect!
For whatever it’s worth, I don’t care that there are black people on fantasy shows. Yeah, okay, stuff like Game of Thrones and The Hobbit is based on medieval Europe, but also: Who cares? Black people can be nerds too.
But this is what happens every time:
I first noticed this phenomenon when the trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out in 2015. A handful of trolls complained about John Boyega, and then everybody else had to tell you that they’re not racist. Because it feels so good to declare that you’re better than the bad people. How else will everyone know how enlightened you are? “I’d vote for Obama a third time if I could!”
The same thing happened when Michael B. Jordan was cast in that awful Fantastic Four movie, and when another black person played another character one of those Star Wars shows, and on and on. Most people didn’t care, but they needed to broadcast that they’re not racist.
This stuff isn’t news because racism is prevalent. It’s news because the overwhelming majority of people commenting on it are not racist. They have been trolled, and they want you to know about it.
Which isn’t to say those shows are good. House of the Dragon and Rings of Power are both very boring. But that’s the fault of the writers, not the actors. Well, not all the actors. The point is, both shows are mediocre for reasons that have nothing to do with race. Calm down, you dorks.
Although it is kinda funny that the people who say crap like “Every billionaire is a policy failure” are now concerned with Jeff Bezos’ investment…
Speaking of nerd rage, here’s another recent nontroversy:
Megan Thee Stallion appeared as herself on the latest She-Hulk, presumably because Cardi B wanted too much money. And a few people have complained that a giant green CGI person was twerking, because they don’t like things that are funny. But it’s only a few people.
Mostly nobody cares. It’s She-Hulk. It’s stupid. Just relax.
Three-day weekends, am I right? Somehow today feels like even more of a Tuesday than a usual Tuesday does.
Thanks for reading, and let’s do this again tomorrow. Same Treach-time, same Treach-channel.
I saw a still shot of that She-Hulk twerking scene captioned with "Tony Stark died for this," and I think they were both serious and offended.
Has.... has this person seen any of the films with Ironman in them that's not End Game? I can hear the Doc Strange/Tony Stark discussion in my head right now:
"So there's a possible future with a female hulk, but she's hot, an attorney, and she's twerking in the post credits scene in her law office?"
"Yes."
"And in how many futures does this happen?"
"Just one; the one you die in."
"I've had a good run."
Great newsletter. California is what happens when the technology isn't up to the policy/dream. It reminds me of phasing out incandescent light bulbs: we could all have been stuck with CFLs instead of the environmentally friendlier LEDs. Mandating EVs and then telling people they can't CHARGE them, is insane. 75,000 without power?!
Biden's wretched Blood-red speech has to be among the worst ever given, demonising (at least) 74 million voters and their families. Of course he also has to go full Swallwell and threaten citizens with F-15s; it's taunting, just like when his goons raided Mar-a-Lago and he then went on vacation to a $20 million manse. With Hunter.
Oh, don't call them "vaccines". Call the new "boosters" the jab, like the British do. They are amelioratives, like the flu shots. You can still get it, transmit it, but hopefully, not get decked by the illness.
As for "diverse" casting, just realize it goes one way; tribal Zimbabwe (Ndebele and Shona) needn't be "multicultural"; Sweden does. In the movies, Wakanda is populated with black folk. (Well, except for Sebastian Stan.) (However, in Love and Thunder there must be black Asgardians. At least Jane Foster didn't go full Mary Sue.) So there is no need to gender- and race-swap everything else. Except that it's mandated: see the Oscars for example. I agree with Stan Lee: Make up your own heroes. Tolkien was brilliant. Amazon is trashing his work.
From American Thinker:
"Fans are not happy. They are also unable to express their discontent at Amazon, or its subsidiary, IMDB, because Amazon has suspended reviews of Rings of Power, and IMDB is deleting any reviews that rate the show as less than six.
The true audience reactions can be seen on websites over which Amazon has no control. Rotten Tomatoes shows the audience rating at 39%, and Metacritic assigns the show a rating of 2.5 out of 10. It would appear that Amazon's attempt at silencing viewers is backfiring, and the audience is not happy with a show set in Middle Earth that retcons what Tolkien created." [It says a LOT that Amazon won't let critical reviews be posted.]