I made like no progress over the last week reading. Had a few days off work and just ended up playing some video games so I am still in the middle of Morning Star, book 3 in the Red Rising trilogy and Between Two Fires.

Morning Star is getting really interesting so I hope to finish it by weeks end.

I fear its going to be worse. After the midterm, Trump has nothing holding him back and a limited time before congress, with any luck, is democrat controlled. Trump will launch a ground invasion or worse nuke Iran. Things get much worse and he can point the finger at dems saying its their fault since it didnt happen until they were elected. Trump then runs for his 3rd term because who is actually gonna stop him?

Rorshach not being on there is disappointing.

Oh no another anti trans politician doesnt get to be on TV?

Work was busy up through the weekend so barely started the audiobook for Morning Star, the last book in the Red Rising trilogy. Or the first trilogy? I am not sure how those are seperated.

Still reading Between Two Fires as well. Going to keep trying on it, but so far has not really grabbed me. Its not bad just maybe not great?

Depending on your age its entirely ok to not know McCarthy.

To show my age the reason I know her is she, along with Carmen Electra were popular Playboy models who parlayed that into mainstream appeal. Which is kind of wild to think about now. I have no idea if any other models ever did that as successfully. McCarthy also was a cohost on MTVs game show Singled Out that was hosted by of all people Chris Hardwick.

Its a combination of things and time.

First is name recognition. If you hear things from a name you know you are going to give it more consideration regardless of its insanity.

Second is Jenny McCarthy broke the brains of a lot of American moms, in the 2000s? I think it was going on her massive tour of talk shows saying vaccines cause autism. She was never an expert and the only study ever cited was debunked. Massive TV talk shows put her on to nation wide audiences including Oprah, known for giving us such awesome people as Dr Oz and Dr Phil. Saying she knew her child better and the causes of autism vs what those dorks in science were saying gave some people the idea you could know better than an expert in a field.

Next the internet became what it is… an awful place where you can find a number of people to agree to damn near anything. Yea maybe before there was one mom who was anti vax in your town and everyone thought she was a kook. Now she has friends online that can provide her with wild stories and made up statistics that you cannot counter on the fly. Mommy blogs and now influencers talk about all different ways to keep your baby safe from “big pharma” and their evil vaccines but you should totally buy this $250 a month bone broth, methalyne blue pill that will keep you healthy. Disregard the fact its never actually been tested and we wont tell you where it comes from.

I think anti intellectualism is the final piece to this. No longer do people feel ok saying “I dont know” when presented with hard questions or things they habe no basis in. We have fought against things science has shown us because it doesnt match our beliefs, evolution, or it isnt immediately obvious what it hurting, climate change, or we have never experienced the horrors of some diseases, anti vaccine.

RFK Jr ticks all these. He is a Kennedy and regardless of your political affiliation you know that name. He speaks to the same anti vaccine sentament McCarthy started years ago. Ignore all those deaths in American Samoa that were the cause of him preaching his anti vaccine bs. He is also clearly not an expert so he is not made bias by those evil intellectuals in their ivory towers. He studied this stuff and didnt need to do any of that stupid testing.

Long and short of it, RFK Jr is only the picture of health to those who want him to be. They see the same stuff we all do but it doesnt matter because he says what they want to hear.

Sorry this was longer than I expected it to be.

Not an influencer I dont think but a character the person was the voice actor for, hence the VA in their username.

The person found or made an AI of that character and that AI of the fictional charactr said the voice actor would do all this if the insane person messaged them.

I mean if you consider being alive as an “other cause” diseases have never killed anyone. QED Covid 19 was a hoax and vaccines are useless and probably cause autism.

Finished Amber and Ashes was enjoyable but its D&D based so can see it wouldnt be for everyone. Its the first in a trilogy so will get to the others hopefully soon.

On recommendation from friends of my partner started Between Two Fires. Not really far into it, so no judgements yet.

Will start Morning Star later this week. Usually do audiobooks at work and been busier this week than previously so dont want to get into anything just yet.

Its really nice they sent him back to the UK instead of Libya, or El Salvador, or Haiti wherever the fuck else the US is “deporting” people now

Look based on the AI’s affinity for feet, i would accept Quentin Tarantino

Finished Golden Son by Pierce Brown. Book 2 in the Red Rising series. Really enjoyed this one. Picks up the action and intrigue super quick. Overall like a 9/10 for me

Also about halfway through Amber and Ashes by Margaret Weis. Its a D&D book in Krynn which Weis wrote a number of books for. Its ok. Kind of what i expect from these types of books.

Thanks Trump Biden

FTFY

Cant believe people still dont understand after nearly 18 months everything is still Bidens fault.

Think you are missing the obvious one of him calling a female reporter a bitch or more likely a cunt.

Started Golden Son second book in the Red Rising series. Really enjoying it so far.

Also started Amber and Ashes a D&D book in the Krynn world written by Magaret Weis. She was one half of the writers on my favourite Krynn sseies so figured i would try it. Its first in a trilogy.