Following my promise to rewatch all anime designated as 'great', here comes S3 of Shingeki no Kyojin, which came out last year and is one of the few series that got a blu-ray release at nyaa.si.
It was a fantastic season full of thrilling battles and reveals. I hope the final season is as good as this one was, which begins later this year.
I'm most of the way through 'A Man in Full,' but it's a long book so it will take a little longer. The high point of the book, by far, is Conrad trying to deal with the unreasonable towing agency. I've experienced that frustration too. Tom Wolfe always seems to have one scene, one beautiful passage of literature, where he genuinely gets into the head of one of his characters and experiences and narrates their entire stream of consciousness perfectly. It's a thrilling ride, whether it's Charlotte dealing with her parents during winter break, Sherman taking the wrong exit into the bad side of town, or now Conrad getting his car towed. These passages just leap off the page and make you feel like not only you were there, but that you genuinely were the characters.
Meanwhile, Trump's state of the union address took the cake. The feel good moments where he started giving gifts and granting dreams left and right like an all-powerful God are unbeatable. Added to that his endless stack of numbers proving Americans have never had it so good, and his full-throated praise of America's history including my great state of Texas' stand at the Alamo. . .I couldn't stop clapping. What a man. This is what a president of the United States should act like. He doesn't apologize for our founding fathers, he celebrates them.
The petulant Democrats threw childish temper tantrums throughout the speech, including 80 year old Pelosi acting like a 2 year old and tearing up the speech immediately after Trump, in a reverential and presidential tone, prayed for God to bless America. The contrast couldn't have been more clear.
Trump is riding high with his highest ever approval rating of 49%. He won in an electoral college landslide with only 46% of the vote, so the writing is clearly on the wall. The Democrats can't even tally their own caucus votes correctly, they don't stand a chance against Trump. I can't wait for November.
A record 94% of Republicans approve of Trump, so of course Andrew Anglin, supposedly the right's vanguard, disapproves of him. Way to estrange 94% of your receptive audience, Andrew. I'm sure the revolution is just around the corner by throwing Trump under the bus. On top of that his website is now unreachable due to some sort of malware threat and can only be read on Tor. That's a great way to reach a wide audience. [the new reachable domain is dailystormer.su, for now at least. . .] All of these mistakes were self-inflicted. What really gores my goat is that this man took the largest right-wing, white nationalist, Nazi audience in history and threw it away, misdirected it, wasted its energy, and is now self-immolating. That much money and power, that great a chance to spread truth, may never come again. And all he did with it is stab Trump in the back while Trump tried to do everything politically viable possible for our cause, organize a rally that lead to a terrorist attack, painting us all as terrorists instead of patriots, and shilled for stillborn, hopeless causes like Christianity, Communism and Celibacy.
If those same millions of readers had been reading virtually anyone else in the movement we could have had our own independent nation by now.
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