Notices by Grimm :bc: (grimmreality@beige.party)

I'll go a step further because Oprah seems to be universally beloved by people who should know better: Oprah created then evangelized an industry of selling easy solutions to complex problems, and EVERYONE she recruited as corollary embodiments of those easy solutions were dumb facile assholes because it was, on its face, an exercise in dumb facile assholery. She created monsters because the easiest, most boilerplate thing to do given the absurdist challenge of her mission was find shitty PT Barnum yayhoos to infantilize and prescribe bromidic dipshit solutions to actual human problems, which, thus, made those problems worse. https://c.im/@msbellows/115528892568683708

Look into The Secret and come back and tell me she is not, intrinsically, a placebo-peddling carnival barker.

A few years ago, Oprah gave a nice speech at some awards show, I don't remember which, and she definitely has the capacity and talent to do that kind of thing, but people came away saying "OMG she should run." And, sure, President Oprah would be hands-down better than the actual neo-nazi government currently running the United States, but, y'know, low bar and you could credibly say the same thing about the Munsters, right? Only the Munsters didn't hatch monstrous bullshit-hucking snake-oil salesmen like Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz into the world specifically because their stock-in-trade was bullshit and snake-oil.

Now, don't get me wrong, you can compartmentalize or pragmatize X or Y manufactured mass counsel you got from Oprah, or Dr. Phil or Oz, back in the day, but here's the fucking fascinating thing @msbellows brings up: BOTH the latter, Oprah's two most successful acolytes and co-productions, became WITTING, EAGER, UNABASHED, FULL-THROATED agents of the American neo-nazi movement.

Pretty conspicuous shit, there, right?

Be honest, kids, does knowing a company is slapping behavior-correction collars on its workers make you more or less likely to stop boycotting it?
https://www.wilx.com/2025/11/07/target-is-now-requiring-its-employees-smile-more/

HELP I AM TRAPPED UNDER A MUPPET

If I was an elected Democrat with any kind of mic and reach I'd use it to LOUDLY float the prospect of amnesty to any DHS, ICE or CBP goon who starts blowing whistles like now-ish and that the clock is ticking.

Be kind. Except to nazis. Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Pretty fucking likely with nazis.

haha
https://theonion.com/ice-agent-7-year-old-both-wearing-same-military-commando-halloween-costume/

I'm gonna be honest here, if I failed an open-book test, I'd just admit that ANYone is well within their rights and responsibilities to NOT give me a gun and the Official Power of Racism.

LFG. #NoKings

I feel if the Vatican can denazify, America can denazify.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-pope-leo-set-to-break-up-opus?r=1e7ix&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

If the fediverse circles the drain, we all need to agree we're meeting up at LinkedIn and seriously fucking their shit up.

They've found a ton of shit in the bible mistranslated over the years but the funniest thing would be if the Rapture was actually "Raptors" and many many raptors came down and ate a bunch of self-righteous churchy fucks.

"This dead neo-nazi was actually good" is a pretty fucking stupid take for how smart you think you are.

Dogsitting at my sister's house and they have one of those fancy beds with a clicker and it has a "ZERO G" setting but it didn't shoot me into the vacuum of space so I'm thinking it's bullshit.

OH NO THIS JIFFYLUBE IS WOKE

I am once again asking white people with MBAs to stop having ideas.

So my phone call with Anthem Blue Cross, my insurance provider, is now at 1 hour and 40 minutes, most of that time on hold. What complex and sophisticated medical procedures are they stonewalling and making impossibly complex? Reader, I am trying to find a primary care doctor. That's it.

I see some people still consider it worth their time, and mine, to quibble what libertarians claim to believe as gauzy ideology versus what they've actually materially provably done, which is nigh-universally and full-throatedly support and bankroll fascists doing programmatic eradication of democratic processes, stomping on dissent in any form and scatter-gun masked goonsquad ethnic cleansing based on no actual law. Funfact, you can actually shut the fuck up instead of jump over your own asshole to try to make that case.