Just roll with it
So Barack just surprised Joe with a Medal of Freedom, so we need some memes in case we get too maudlin.
First the surprise.
And now some memes.
Tip Jar
So Barack just surprised Joe with a Medal of Freedom, so we need some memes in case we get too maudlin.
First the surprise.
And now some memes.
I would say that I’m going to miss Obama/Biden, but damn, that’s not a strong enough word for the emotions that are going to be roiling in me on January 20. (I’ll stock up on Imodium, just in case)
Be honest though, iknklast, if Trump were taking over from Bush Jnr. you’d be kind of wishing Bush were staying ;-)
To be fair, that would apply equally if I substituted Bush for Hitler or Satan.
AoS – busted. You’re right. Of course, I might have balked at Nero or Caligula, but then, I think that’s just what we’re getting, anyway, so it would be like no real choice, right?
Those were very funny. Days of camelot are over. Welcome to a world that waits for the Orange-Haired Chaos Monkey to fling poo through tweets” (courtesy C.Stross)
https://twitter.com/cstross/status/819666010378747904
iknklast, you”d baulk at Nero but not Satan*? Should we be concerned?
* a hypothetical Satan, obviously.
Can you imagine that kind of humanity and dignity from the Goblin?
I’ve always suspected Satan was the victim of the unreliable narrator. After all, we only hear God’s side of the story, and why should I trust someone who drowns the entire population of the earth (save 8 people) to have a great sense of what’s moral? No, I’ll take my chances with Satan…maybe he’s just a fun-loving guy who likes to do all the things God hates, like laugh and dance and have sex and party. Rock and jazz, too, of course.
That’s not too far from my own thoughts on Satan, iknklast. Having been booted down to the basement I’d have thought he’d empathise with all the souls experiencing rejection by the boss and create party central down there.He wasn’t evil before being expelled, all he wanted was a bit more responsibility, so it makes more sense that he’d create a better Heaven than going against his nature by spending eternity torturing. No, I think he’d let God do his own cruel and dirty work. Besides, if the Godbots are right, all the cool, interesting and intelligent people take the snake riderather than the ladder climb; it’d be the work of a complete maroon to toss them all into a lake of fire rather than enjoy their company.
In short, were I Satan I’d be determined to be a far better person than the psychotic monster that sacked me.
I would take Nero over Trump. Sometimes he had good advisors; he had a work ethic, albeit not one consistently applied to his job; and his antics were relatively benign. Caligula… it’d be a wash, I think.
I do think that Millard Fillmore and James Buchanan are going to enjoy getting bumped up from the bottom of Best Presidents lists, and Grant and Nixon are going to be forgotten as representatives of the scandalous administrations.
That noise you can hear, the one that sounds like an Earth-wide earthquake; don’t panic, it’s just Nixon, rather violently spinning in his grave.