America's Still Trapped In Suspended Animation (As The GOP Runs America)

 

 This is obviously a strange time to be alive. It's even stranger if you started a blog in 2005, called The Macho Response, that predicted the cultural shift we're now experiencing, including - and probably especially - the defeat of the Democratic party. In hindsight, it wasn't that hard to see coming, because TMR was analyzing the deeper reasons America's been failing, not just moaning how bad it is to be where we are. And those underlying forces - like a love for NewAge cultism - still aren't being anywhere near fully addressed. If they were, we wouldn't have the husband to a "reiki master" and homeopath in charge of Medicare. 

Oh well. At least cartoons, today, better reflect our cartoon lives.

  

While the "6-7" meme is cute (and definitely not some "Satanic Numerology bullshit") it's also illustrative, in the wake of "Rapture" claims and the shooting of Christian grifter Charlie Kirk, because it reflects how easy it still is - even in 2025 - for seemingly-educated and intelligent people to get swept away by low-calorie ideas. South Park's contrast (of kids enamored by "6-7," with something equally powerful but invalid that adults are into, like Peter Thiel and the Christian concept of an Anti-Christ) nails how dangerous this cavalier treatment of beliefs is: as school authorities are coming down on innocent kids over nothing, for religious reasons, the powerful also decide they also see threats to us all. 

The difference is, the kids know the idea they're playing with is nothing, while, by the time they become adults, they're treating all of it like it's very real. And - except for kids having fun for a while - no good is coming from any of it. As everyone takes action.

    

Today, contradictions, of all kinds, are starting to pile on top of one another. When Democrats were in power America saw encroaching fascism. Now, the GOP was complaining that people are shooting at them, before the Young Republicans were caught admitting they're Nazis who love them some Hitler. And this led to JD Vance - who, at the start of the administration, made it known he'd punish anyone being so antisemitic as to criticize Israel's genocide - now claiming these ultimate of antisemites on the right are just kids (in their 20s and 30s) having fun. 

You know, like 8-year olds, on South Park.

 

You Know You've Lost The Will To Live When Losing Your Keys Hits You Harder

 

 FAMILY VIEWING:

The Cults, Crimes, Creeps & Curse Of The WB (Buffy, Charmed, Smallville & More)

PRINCE OF DARKNESS - COUNSELOR:

The devil-worshiping 'Ministers of Satan' who now have an 'unprecedented opportunity' to be school chaplains... because of a Republican law 

   

TOO LATE MUSIC REVIEW:

 "Tomato In The Rain" by Kaiser Chiefs: What Talking Heads might've sounded like, if - instead of Afica - Brian Eno had been inspired by Paul McCartney's solo work.

GOODBYE, CHILDREN:

Isaac Hayes’ Son Believes That Chef Didn’t Quit ‘South Park’ — Scientology Forced Him Out

IT'S OVER:

How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea

ADULTERY PLUS:

Cheating Site Ashley Madison Is Overflowing With Sextortionists

OCEAN MAN:

On Viagra Maker's Plea, Court Bars Use of 'Vigoura' Name By Homeopathy Firm

DEADLY:

Taylor Swift song from new album provides the perfect beat for performing CPR

Oil And Water

 

 "Nerds!"

    

 Police warn witchcraft shop in rural Pa. that tarot is illegal 

   

 A woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower 

   

 Veterinarians Confront a Human Problem: Anti-Vaxxers 

   

 University students march on campus after TAMPONS removed from the MEN'S bathroom 

   

 Paul McCartney Says Yoko Ono's Presence During Beatles Sessions Was Workplace 'Interference'

Harvey Milk And Matthew Shepard Were NOT Victims Of Homophobia (But, Hey, Thanks For The Lifetime Of Being Bombarded By Dishonest Gay Propaganda)

"I'm not going to thank anybody. None of you fuckers have given us a hand. You didn't do anything"

Hamas vows to broadcast hostage executions. Tech firms can’t stop them. 

   

 "What is our country coming to? What is happening to us? Are we a sick society?" 

   

 He Tried to Convert a Remote Tribe to Christianity and Got Killed

‘We’re coming out of the broom closet.’ In Rhode Island, the season of the witch has arrived.

Celebrity tattoo artist baptized after renouncing witchcraft

Hip-hop tracks that changed the world

Arnold Schwarzenegger blasts Democrats: They 'want to fuck up every city in America' 

(Like he did his marriage)

    

 TikTok ‘doctor’ revealed as fraud who gave people health advice on cancer, HIV

Jada Pinkett Smith Calls Tupac Her 'Soulmate,' But Had No Chemistry 

   

 The South Park boys are now women of color 

   

The true story of Matthew Shepard,...a lover,...a meth-fueled murder spree 

    

 A U.K. University Will Confer a New Title: A Master’s Degree in the Occult

It's Sunday: Give It A Rest

To say the Anti-Abortion Movement Won the Legal Battle, but It’s Losing the War is such a self-destructive way to frame this issue, since there never was anything but a legal battle to begin with. It's framed this way to make people angry, and - as usual - they take the bait every time. Roe V. Wade lost because it was bad law - NOT because anybody hated women or was banning abortion. To say otherwise is simply a lie.

Isn't it AMAZING how "We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For The Past 300 Years," but - once you mention black reparations - then, we're told, "we've" not been together to do anything? There's just an immediate disconnect from history - and each other.

Alan Moore has been donating all his Watchmen money to Black Lives Matter, so he must not read this blog, because TMR hasn't received a dime. Uncool, Alan Moore, uncool. Black Blogs Matter.

The Most Interesting Element of the Hunter Biden Indictment, besides the bank records, suspicious activity reports, 22 shell companies set up in the names of various family members, and an email from Hunter saying he was angry about sharing his income with his father? The most interesting element is how the Democrats are still saying they see no evidence of a crime. That is one observant party.

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has been removed from Rock Hall leadership after controversial comments about blacks and women. He said we're not articulate. I could give him a well-worded reply.

Trump fumbles when asked if a man ‘can become a woman’ which - if you know the guy - should surprise no one. 

  

Principals Made and Shared Meme of a Student’s Exposed Breast

And Death by homeopathy is what got TMR into the subjects that animate the blog, today. 

It is NOT not recommended.

 

It's A Cultural Conspiracy

 

 "Reparations" 

   

 It appears Matt and Trey are onto the whole NewAge Nazi idea, even if the general public ain't 

   

 "So, if the [2008] election is fake, what's really going on?" "The end of America."

 

Chick Corea Has Died (And I Hope He's Taken Belief In Scientology With Him)

I hate reading about cultists dying of old age. Maybe the worms will vomit him up or something, like South Park did Issac Hayes.

Fuck all these assholes.

 

South Park Figured Out How To Solve Race Problems

We can discuss reparations afterwards,...

Losing Respect For Unreal People Isn't Easy In Cartoons

The plot to last night's South Park, "World War Zimmerman":

Eric Cartman believes that the town’s token black student, Token, blames him for the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case. This belief leads him to imagine that Token is “Patient Zero” in an epidemic of black violence that Trey Parker and Matt Stone equate with the zombie apocalypse from World War Z. The show mocks the Breitbart-fueled rumors of the black riots that would inevitably follow anything but a guilty verdict for Zimmerman.

The episode ends with the United States government — which believes the rumors of an epidemic of black violence — showing up at George Zimmerman’s house and asking him to “do what he does best”: “Shoot a young African-American.”

After he mistakenly shoots a black-faced Cartman, Zimmerman laments that he’ll “have to live with this for the rest of his life, even though [he'll] be a free man.”

When an officer discovers that Cartman is white, Zimmerman’s immediately arrested and summarily executed.

Cartman = Cody Jarrett:

Here's the link to the entire episode if you want to watch,...

 

South Park Takes On The Trayvon Martin Case (Token!)

If Oprah Runs For Office The Entire Planet Will Explode

Just like with Jesse Jackson, Jr., one reason I knew Mitt Romney was going to be a failure was his involvement in the NewAge. 

And I'm not alone in how I look for it - simple skepticism. 

The guys behind South Park use it - and doctors, too. Check out Orac busting Carol Alt, another self-appointed "Miss Information":

Before I wrote this post I Googled “Carol Alt cancer,” and what I found was surprisingly thin. There’s this article from 2008 in which Alt is quoted as blaming cervical and uterine cancer for the failure of her marriage to Ron Greschner because she had been rendered unable to have children and Greschner very much wanted to have children. This happened back in 1997; so her cancer diagnosis must have occurred before that. There was also this article, which said basically the same thing but also revealed that Alt is very much into raw food woo. This article reinforces the same points, but doesn’t mention Alt’s battle with cervical cancer and instead attributes her adopting a raw vegan diet to feeling run down and larger as she got older. In the article, she also spews many of the tropes and bits of misinformation about raw vegan diets. She even blathers on about “acid diets” and how the body likes to be “alkaline.” Holy Robert O. Young, Batman!

Here’s the interesting thing. Alt takes a lot of supplements. A lot of supplements,...

Another fool "on the path" - Glenn Reynolds has promoted the wonders of "raw food woo" as well. And wouldn't you know it? Carol Alt's possibly using supplements provided by who else?

Mitt Romney.

Corruption, profiting from spreading bad advice, losing elections, selling and/or taking worthless concoctions, giving money to criminals, etc., it's always the same.

Seriously:

 NewAgers - and the problems they'll eventually accrue for us - just aren't that difficult to discover ahead of time,...

It's A Future Shock: Mike Judge Is NOT A Twig Boy

Cool:

In conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' move to the center, he got the great Mike Judge to sit down for an extended chat, put it online, and - lo and behold - Judge turns out to be,...normal (Normals, commenting on the rest, might be The Next Big Thing one day,...). 

This is the interview where Judge admits Michael Moore's deception, in Bowling For Columbine, turned him against gun control. There's also comments on South Park, as well as Judge's own creations, Beavis & Butthead, King Of The Hill, Office Space, and Idiocracy. 

And they're all sane. 

Even when Judge gets into (or out of) politics, which has to be the strangest thing about the entire talk, since it is on Alex Jones' show. I was waiting for the crazy, and it never came. Now I'm smiling:

This image of success - as opposed to the mainstream's - is very comforting,...

 

Trey Parker On "Alternative" Medicine: "I Remember Matt Yelling At Her And Saying, 'What Is A Toxin?'"

The South Park Guys (Before "The Book Of Mormon")

What Do You Want To Be (When You Grow Up?)

You know, I could easily take James Carville's 1992 admonition, "It's the economy, Stupid!" and just-as-easily reframe it, today, as a plea for understanding - to our gasping means of support:

"It's the stupid, Economy!"

(You know, like on South Park, adding a "Please, forgive us!" or something for good measure,…)

Don't get on my case about it, because I'm not the only one who's noticed it.

The fact is we've become a dumb people. Not as dumb as some others, but still, pretty dumb for Americans.

If you're looking for an answer to why we're so messed up these days, you might want to consider that any nation, once drilled and encouraged to "think outside the box," has already conceded it's incapable of doing so within the one it's built.

And thus, we have bestowed upon ourselves A NewAge Nation, flailing wildly to be "happy" without appreciating what that is or how it's truly attained.

We've thrown our money down a hole.

Through our incessant use of faux-spirituality, positive visualization, seminars, Self-help books, motivational speakers, and whatnot, the West has been lifted up through NewAge's "magical window," only to find itself being set right back down into an isolated cul de sac.

Where a(nother) gang is impatiently waiting. 

And they mean "business"...