#Right-wing judges

[deadpresidents]

Every single MAGA supporting conservative appointed to the courts should star in my new theater play: "Thick Clots Sit In the Pillory and Are Pelted with Rancid Tomatoes". Admission is free.

Sounds great, but do you know what the really awful thing is? They'd still have the power to do exactly what they are currently doing to the country when it comes to abortion, LGBTQ+ issues, race, guns, voting rights, climate change, corporate regulation, economic inequality, immigration, education, the freedom of speech, expression and religion (or the freedom to not believe), and so on.

So, while the idea of throwing tomatoes sounds like a nice way to blow off some steam and win a minor skirmish, they are winning the war. Because ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES and the worst possible person won the wrong election at the scariest possible time. And it resulted in a federal judiciary dominated by very conservative judges who have their jobs as long as they live.

Seeing a free play is always nice, but make no mistake, a lot of us are probably going to be paying for this right-wing federal judiciary for the rest of our lives. I'd rather pay to watch something else.

#ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES #Judicial Branch #Federal Judiciary #Supreme Court #U.S. Supreme Court #Law #Constitution #Politics #Elections #Right-wing judges #Federal Judges #Abortion Rights #LGBTQ+ #Gun Safety #Voting Rights #Climate Change #Corporate Regulation #Greed #Economic Inequality #Immigration #Freedom of Speech #Religious Freedom #Freeom of expression #Vote #Always Vote #And run for office too

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Republicans have been re-shaping America since the 60’s to suit their views. They have billionaires pumping unlimited dark money into hundreds of political foundations staffed by right-wing scholars and lawyers. We have a handful of social media bloggers sending warnings into the digital ether.

Educate yourself and educate others. They don’t even need to control Congress or the White House to do this. They’ve been doing this at the state level for decades, long before they purchased the Supreme Court.

#vast right wing conspiracy #oligarchs #fight-wing billionaires #Republican political foundations #dark money #abortion access #reproductive rights #republican assholes #resist #judge shopping

[unfulfilled-jury]

listen. harry brewis isn't exempt to criticism. however I think it's very ironic and telling how much people have been missing the very point of his video on plagiarism and turned his name on a new topic to exploit as of late. when i was trying to look up clips of harry's older videos this came up, and the contents were about the creator clearly being disapointed her line of work (drama youtube) was disregarded as sloppy and something with no effort put into it.

while I do understand her hurt, the thumbnail and title is inherently clickbaiting potential viewers, and her point comes off as a nitpick of a segment harry made out of his own frustration with content mills and how much situations on or between content creators can be so throughly exploited for "commentary" when people don't end up saying anything at all. I think that this is a prime example of the things harry deemed important to criticise. someone who clearly had a point to make about harry's video felt the need to make sure they could milk the shit out of it.

#hbomberguy #as a long term fan it actually bothers me how people will think of harry as “the guy who murders people's reputations” #or only judge his character by this one video #because harry doesn't usually do stuff like this or at least not only stuff like this #this format is very familiar to a lot of his videos #even the ones that seem trivial #harry also talks about dangerous right wing ideologies and videogames and series he cares about #and it feels so desingenious to just label him as this big takedown video essayist who's egotistical and full of himself #yes the guy has flaws and mistakes and some of his older work isn't the most polished. don't get me wrong you are free to criticise him #but not while you are making money off something that seems like a nitpick in retrospect or using a strawman argument

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[From Robert B. Hubbell’s Newsletter]

Fifth Circuit holds a biased and embarrassing hearing on the mifepristone ruling of Judge Kacsmaryk

         Federal district Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued an order withdrawing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Kacsmaryk’s ruling and ordered that the ruling go into effect immediately. The US Supreme Court reversed the 5th Circuit and issued an unusual order that effectively told the 5th Circuit it could not ban the distribution of mifepristone until the Supreme Court ruled on the matter. In other words, the Supreme Court put the 5th Circuit on a “time out” for bad behavior.

         A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments on the merits of the appeal today. The hearing was an embarrassment. The judges acted like petulant children who were upset that they had been reprimanded. Worse, they made no pretense of maintaining impartiality or objectivity—or adherence to the rule of law. The obscene display of judges following personal religious convictions rather than the Constitution is explained by Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, The 5th Circuit is furious that the Supreme Court put it in mifepristone timeout.

         I highly recommend reading Stern’s article in full to get the full flavor of the hearing. Stern is at his best in this article. He writes, in part:

And here’s the punchline: Nothing these intellectual Lilliputians do will even matter. The Supreme Court has already decided that the 5th Circuit cannot be trusted with this case: In April, it froze the court’s previous decision stringently limiting access to mifepristone, expressly maintaining the freeze until the justices themselves take further action. Elrod, Ho, and Wilson are howling into the wind; they have no power to change a thing about federal regulation of medication abortion. The adults in the room have already put them in time-out. And rather than demonstrate that they can judge responsibly, they seized on Wednesday’s hearing to throw a combination temper tantrum/gaslight party. No lessons have been learned, no maturity acquired. This time-out probably isn’t ending anytime soon.

Ho read aloud random people’s criticisms of the FDA and made Ellsworth respond to them, then declared that federal courts should override the FDA’s scientific determinations because the agency isn’t trustworthy.

These are not serious people. This is not how real judges conduct themselves. This was barely a judicial proceeding. It was a struggle session in which three anti-abortion zealots yelled at attorneys who have already prevailed in this case once at the Supreme Court. Their rage should have been aimed at SCOTUS, but it’s not a good look for lower courts to trash-talk their superiors, so they redirected it to Harrington and Ellsworth instead. (Erin Hawley, wife of Sen. Josh Hawley, argued against mifepristone; the less said about her unceasing stream of shameless falsehoods, the better.)

         I also recommend Talking Points Memo, Right-Wing Judges Mulling Restricting Abortion Drug: Isn’t The Real Problem Here How Mean You All Were To Kacsmaryk?

         If we had a functioning Supreme Court that cared about the rule of law, it would castigate the 5th Circuit panel for its shameful display of bias, animus, and religious zeal.

         But, as Stern notes, the 5th Circuit cannot restrict the distribution of mifepristone. And the failure of the 5th Circuit to address serious legal questions—like the absence of standing by the plaintiff doctors—may doom the 5th Circuit’s opinion to a chilly reception in the Supreme Court. We can only hope.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#corrupt right wing courts #Rule of Law #women's rights #human rights #Kacsmaryk #Corrupt SCOTUS #Radical Right Wing Judges #reproductive Rights #FDA #Robert B. Hubbell #Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter

[slaket-and-sprash]

*conservatives watching who framed Roger Rabbit* how come judge doom hates toons when he himself is a toon? Idk seems like a psyop against us...

#lgbt #who framed roger rabbit #roger rabbit #jessica rabbit #discourse #conservatives #right wing #judge doom #toons #toontown #disney #warner bros #mickey mouse #bugs bunny #looney tunes #chip and dale rescue rangers #looney tunes back in action #epic mickey #anamaniacs

[beardedmrbean]

Black radio host and comedian Charlamagne Tha God blasted DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs and initiatives as "garbage" on The Daily Show, a political satire television program.

DEI practices in corporate America grew in popularity, with companies promoting the value of creating a welcoming atmosphere where people from diverse backgrounds can excel. Now, however, DEI programs have become a frequent target of right-wing activists in recent years, and Republican lawmakers are backing dozens of bills targeting DEI initiatives at universities and other public institutions.

Progressives tend to back DEI programs as a way to combat institutionalized racism that they say is ever-present in society. Conservatives, on the other hand, have fought against such initiatives as they worry that DEI aims to push a narrative against some classes of people (whether that be based on race, gender, socioeconomic status, etc.) and create an unfair advantage for others.

During an appearance on The Daily Show on Wednesday night, Charlamagne showed a few ads from companies like Microsoft, General Mills and Vaseline promoting their DEI initiatives, and then showed clips of media personalities bashing such programs, saying things like "DEI is just a rebranded version of hating white people."

"These right-wingers are crazy. Right? Jesus," Charlamagne said. "But here's the part where you all stop applauding everything I say. The truth about DEI is that although it's well-intentioned, it's mostly garbage, okay."

Charlamagne then joked: "It's kinda like the black Little Mermaid—Just because racists hate it, doesn't mean it's good. And you know, I'm right, because every one of you has sat through one of those diversity training sessions and thought this is some bulls***.

"And it's not just you. Over 900 studies have shown that DEI programs don't make the workplace better for minorities. In fact, it can actually make things worse because of the backlash effect."

Newsweek could not independently confirm which studies Charlamagne referred to.

However, a paper published by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev in Anthropology Now, a peer-reviewed journal, in 2018 wrote, "Hundreds of studies dating back to the 1930s suggest that antibias training does not reduce bias, alter behavior or change the workplace."

The radio host pointed out that even with DEI programs, Black people still lack leadership positions in corporate America.

"The biggest failure of DEI is that the number of black people in power at big companies is basically the same as it was five years ago. In fact, maybe the only thing that DEI has accomplished is giving racist white people cover to be openly racist," he said.

Charlamagne said that DEI programs don't work because it's "just corporate PR" for companies who "want to cover their ass."

"We don't need corporate DEI. Yes, we want diversity and equity and inclusion. But we don't want it from Vaseline," the comedian joked.

He continued: "Real DEI is only going to come from black leadership. I don't know how to do it because I'm not a black leader, but I do know how to tell if it's working—Just keep an eye on right-wing media, the more they're freaking out, the more progress we're making."

#nunyas news #to be fair right wing media doesn't give a shit #so long as you aren't being racist #which dei programs are #got what should be a historic appointment to the supreme court #that will have a asterisk next to it #because the guy that put her there announced that there were standards he was going to judge by #her making the cut without much fuss tells me #she would have made it just fine #but now people will forever say she was a diversity hire #welcome to what dei does for the black community

[babygray-dam]

Reading Corner 2023:

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (魔尊也想知道) by Cyan Wings (Qing Se Yu Yi / 青色羽翼)

Devil Venerable Wenren E receives a romance novel set in the world he lived in and features him as a fan-favorite character. Left with a mandate to fix the plot and a lot of questions, he sets off to pull the lead female off her doomed path and keep his loyal subordinate, Yin Hanjiang, from going mad at Wenren E's possible future death.

It's quite good, with both genuinely horrifying and genuinely funny moments and characters. It goes into the power-leveling that a lot of cultivation novels get bogged down in (who is at what stage of what level, who is stronger, leveling up at critical fight scenes, that sort of thing), but it devotes just as much, if not more, time on the more philosophical aspects of cultivation. Wenren E points out multiple times that cultivation means hording and stealing energy, and a major plot point involves causing a minor disaster to hold off an apocalyptic one, and how the mortal world flourished while the cultivators fought and culled themselves.

I love it when a story has something to say.

Oh, and the danmei romance is good, too.

(I read mourningcrow's fan translation and recommend it.)

#reading challenge #reading corner 2023 #devil venerable also wants to know #cyan wings #i was checking on 'the villain has something to say' and this was recommended #i took a glance at the other translator's website and noped right out #so i can't judge the quality only the character.

[kp777]

Judge Faces Death Threats, Jurors Doxxed Amid Multiple Trump Indictments

#judge tanya chutkan #death threats #doxxing jurors #right wing terrorism

[gonersgoners]

remember when i said over a year ago that vegapunk's arc would start revealing even more of sanji's power and potential and how hard that was worrying me? yeah

#i'm clearly talking to myself here since this blog is basically a corner of my brain #but last chapter having sanji deflect a light beam and both kizaru and franky reacting the way they did #and zoro commenting in wano you cannot possibly block a laser... lmao....lmao! #ooooh man i just. feel oda is cooking something for sanji. and since there was a parallel with the wings of the pirate king #in recent chapters (where oda typically shows both sanji and zoro fighting and not just one of them) #just... man. man! man. lol #i know i can't let myself go and talk about all things going through my mind anymore because of. lol guilt and fear of being annoying #but god. that moment stirred something in me. like you're resurrecting a fucking corpse #so i am both scared and excited about next chapters and what this means for sanji #i was saying from DAY ONE of this arc being centered about vegapunk that it would eventually #touch on sanji and this is it. this is happening #if this for some reason isn't it. and oda will for some reason just let this slide or die in the shadows? i won't understand it #because of JUDGE and VEGAPUNK and QUEEN being partners and being linked to vegapunk! like come on. the connection is there #and this laser deflecting thing seems to finally touch on this red thread i've been holding with both my fingers like an insane person #so yeah. lol. listening to a video right now about it and finally. FINALLY i see SOMEONE ELSE point out that #not mentioning judge still is giga weird. so here's hoping. here's hoping #also lol it was very fun to be on reddit and look at so many people being MAD that sanji managed to do that. and that we got a little bit o #mr prince vibes. LMAO STAY MAD. my boy is being treated good right now and i can't wait for oda to destroy me #(again) lol #GG rambles

[hudbannonarchive]

no but not to bring up old discourse but i saw the funniest post the other day like “why would you assume dean winchester would be conservative” saying the only argument you could really make in favor is his use of guns and even that was questionable bc everything he did was illegal. like wait i really forget some of you weren’t here for the daily lectures me and the mutuals were having about the inherently conservative ideology of spn. or are apparently stupid as fuck.

#like if it makes you feel better sam would also be conservative by nature of his participation in hunting as an institution #he’s just less jingoistic + his connection to the supernatural complicates his position #but yeah the politics of the show are inherently conservative like you’re really dumb if you can’t see that sorry #sam and dean acting as judge jury and executioner for whole races of people is uh. bad. the fact that it’s presented #as mostly positive/difficult but necessary is a right wing fantasy #like actually how can’t you see that #*

[bookwyrminspiration]

i'm over 2/3rds of the way through the wings au :)

#i'm on track! was behind by one chapter for a while but got caught up yesterday #13 chapters left y'all #i'm enjoying myself and laughing at some things (in a good way) #there's also some things where I'm like 'hmm I could do this better' #but I don't know if I'm being overly critical or if it's genuinely that i'm a better writer now #obviously i have improved somewhat since then. but is ALL of my observations from that or are some because i'm judging myself? #don't get me wrong. adore the wings au. i just ALSO think I could do even better! #i need an outside perspective #anyone who's read the wings au tell me every thought you ever had about it right now (joking)

[agentfascinateur]

Three former Supreme Court justices joined more than 600 members of the British legal profession in calling for the UK government to halt arms sales to Israel, saying it could make Britain complicit in genocide in Gaza.

Customary international law recognises the concept of ‘aiding and assisting’ an international wrongful act.

Are you paying attention, USA?

#palestine #palestinians #gaza #genocide #childrens holocaust #famine #humanitarian crisis #world central kitchen #israeli apartheid #israeli occupation #right wing extremism #war crimes #free palestine #free gaza #us weapons #arms embargo #united nations #idf terrorists #iof terrorism #ethnic cleansing #mass murder #settler colonialism #illegal occupation #illegal settlements #justice #us complicity #uk complicity #judges #rule of law #respect for the law

[treesah]

I do not trust anyone who does not have a good relationship with their partner(s) and/or child(ren). Especially if they’re in any position of authority. How about you get your own house in order before you try being in charge elsewhere?

Anyway I just watched Succession last night with my husband and I don’t understand how Shiv and Tom have such a toxic marriage. If Shiv’s so smart and savvy, why is she so bad at manipulating Tom? He is such a simple little man! Tell him you love him and ask after his winery and hide your affairs better! Put some more fondness in your tone when you’re being condescending to/about him! Hint that you have mysterious and better plans for his future after you imply that he’s going to be let go from his job! He never would have betrayed you if you were actually good at playing the game and didn’t make him question his security as your spouse! He already wants to kneel at your feet and eat out of your hand so let him and tell him good boy once in a while!

#relationships #adulting #my husband says this makes me ultra-conservative #apparently I sound like a tradcatch mafia don #but if your management skills suck at home #they’re probably gonna suck at the office #and if you’re awesome at the office #why don’t you apply some of those skills and methods at home #or do some fucking work and figure it all out #I judge aromantic and asexual people by completely different ultra-conservative social stereotypes #don’t worry I’m not excluding or erasing anyone #succession #honestly all of them have shitty marriages #and bad relationships with their kids #the breakdown of the family is responsible for unchecked corporate greed and late-stage capitalism #go fill that cavity where your soul is with some meaningful social bonds instead of money #I am very concerned with the breakdown of the American family #but unlike right-wing Americans #I’m not an idiot so I know it’s not because of atheists and LGBT people #it’s because people who didn’t get their own house in order are in charge of the rest of us #and they hate their families and never want to spend time with them #and so they don’t let us spend any time with our families #and that’s why we don’t have federally mandated paid parental and caregiver’s leave

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

January 3, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JAN 4, 2024

If yesterday was a news storm, today was a lot of follow-up.

Tensions in the Middle East continue to tighten with the explosion of two bombs at a ceremony today honoring prominent Iranian general Qassem Soleimani on the fourth anniversary of his death from a U.S. drone strike in Iraq. At least 95 people were killed. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombings. Iran-backed militias, including Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, are aligned against Israel.

Meanwhile, today the U.S. and twelve allies warned the Houthis to stop attacking ships in the Red Sea or face military action. Since December 19, Houthi rebels have hit more than 23 ships in the crucial passage. ​​“Let our message now be clear: we call for the immediate end of these illegal attacks and release of unlawfully detained vessels and crews,” the countries said. “The Houthis will bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, and free flow of commerce in the region’s critical waterways.”

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell today said that the world must “impose” a solution to the Middle East war before it expands. 

At home, at least eight U.S. state houses had to evacuate today. According to Andy Rose of CNN, an emailed bomb threat was sent to state officers in 23 states. Law enforcement officers found no explosives and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has called the threats a hoax. It is not clear who was behind the threats.

Aside from today’s threats, the dramatic rise of violence in our politics since former president Trump entered political life is reshaping the country. In Vox yesterday, Zach Beauchamp noted that mayors, federal judges, public health officials, election workers, and even school board members, officials who previously had gone about their business without much attention, are facing unprecedented threats. Before 2020, threats against election workers were virtually nonexistent, Beauchamp notes; now they are so frequent that 11% of election workers surveyed by the Brennan Center for Justice are “very or somewhat likely” to  leave their jobs before the 2024 election. 

While attacks on election workers and political officials show Trump’s attempt to erode faith in our electoral system, Beauchamp notes that another key aspect of today’s violence has been to threaten Republicans to fall in line behind Trump. The fear of physical violence from Trump supporters kept certain Republicans from voting to convict him after his impeachments. MAGA Republican threats against other Republicans insufficiently supportive of Trump have led party members to swing publicly behind a leader that many of them privately oppose. 

That pressure has reduced the formerly grand old Republican Party to a vehicle for promoting Trump.  

Today, Representative Tom Emmer (R-MN), whose bid for the House speakership Trump torpedoed just weeks ago, became the latest to endorse Trump for president as party leadership lines up behind him. 

The decision of the right-wing Fifth Circuit today illustrated what the Trump leadership of the MAGA party means for the majority of the country. Three Republican judges, two appointed by Trump, ruled that hospital emergency rooms don’t have to perform life-saving abortions in states that have passed antiabortion laws.

After the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion, Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services reminded hospitals that accept Medicare money that under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), they had to provide care to stabilize patients in a medical emergency, including abortion care, regardless of state law.

Texas sued, and the Fifth Circuit has agreed, saying that the EMTALA does not preempt Texas law. 

Today’s news also highlighted the MAGA plan for immigration. House leaders have refused to pass legislation providing additional funds to help Ukraine fight off the Russian invasion until the measure also contains their own immigration policies, patterned on Trump’s. Although President Biden has asked for additional funding for the border since he took office and has said he will offer significant concessions in negotiations even though those concessions will anger progressive Democrats, House Republicans say they will reject any compromise and will insist on their own policies. 

Those measures include significantly narrowing asylum programs or even ending them altogether, outlawing the electronic application system the Biden administration put in place to require appointments to apply for asylum, ending parole programs for Afghan and Ukrainian refugees, and taking private property to build a border wall. Their plan has no provision for creating a pathway to citizenship for so-called Dreamers, those brought to the U.S. as children, although a strong majority of Americans support such a pathway.

Now House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says the House conference does not want and will not accept a compromise, such as the one senators are working on; they want a complete change of policy. That is, the Republicans in the House, who have a majority of two, are bowing to their far-right members and insisting that until that faction’s policies are put in place over those of the Senate and the president, they will refuse to fund Ukraine, whose defense from Russian aggression is key to our own national security. 

It’s a wild power grab. And it is apparently being done with an eye to 2024. Representative Troy Nehls (R-TX) said to Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona, and Lauren Fox of CNN, “Let me tell you, I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating.”

As CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto noted, “This would leave Ukraine—currently under its worst bombardment since the start of the Russian invasion—very much out in the cold.”

Finally, today is the 65th anniversary of Alaska’s joining the Union as the 49th state. In order to convince Congress and the president to make their territory a state, Alaskans had to overcome concerns on the part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower that, because the territory bordered the Soviet Union, its admission as a state might compromise national security.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters from an American #Heather Cox Richardson #national security #The US Mexico Border #border security #Mike Johnson #us house of representatives #women's health #reproductive rights #right wing judges

[ramayantika]

Found a comment saying that there is a reason why those erotic sculptures in Khajurao are outside the temple and not in the inner premises i.e the garbhagriha Or near to it

"Because once we leave all this 'homosexuality' stuff we will find parmatma"

I want to hit my head. When did parmatma differentiate? And why are we even at this point still in that mind set that those in homosexual relationships only care about sex so they can't be wise, they can't be intelligent etc.

If you want to realise the parmatma/higher self/god/universe/highest consciousness what ever it is I don't think that a person's relationship is going to be a problem

If homosexual relationships affect the path to parmatma Or brahman then so do heterosexual relationships. Come on, males and females too have sex. So them having sex will let them reach brahman while the others won't.

So all of us must be brahmacharis and brahmacharinis and then only we will realise Brahman right?

It's through love and compassion for everyone irrespective of their form, religion, ethnicity, caste etc and through identifying yourself as no different than the same God/infinite/consciousness/universe do we realise ourselves who we are and parmatma

Isme sex ya kon kiske sath relationship kahan se aaya?

#so called right wing Instagram groups will post vedas and upanishads yet judge others #samridhi speaks

[the-acid-pear]

I have yet to keep inspecting the sweepstakes, I need some air and food first, but I might as well share what I've been thinking about Mike today, because I heard of an interpretation saying Mike was a camera man for Spamton which ... Is very interesting. Like for me this makes me think of Mike as someone who admired Spamton, someone way smaller than him, definitely younger imo, who simply excitedly followed along with the orders given. I mean, up to a certain point. I mean this feeling is reinforced in the q&a when asked about Mike, that makes Spamton get very defensive, almost protective. In my eyes it almost creates this almost platonic familiar bond dynamic whatever. But like this is just a shot in the dark, bc what we know is, 3 lines, period. But if when chapter 3, 4 and 5 come out and Mike is there and I'm right about these things then I'm gonna feel like a god tbh.

#luly talks #not gonna put this one on main tag bc its a bit too vague and speculative and shit but im leaving rbs on in case some1 is like hm ur into #something here nemo im which case i will wag my tail and bat my eyelashes #but am i making sense anyway? #like just to make sure: my idea of mike is a camera man younger and smaller than Spamton who admired the guy #and spamton out of idk fondness bc he reminded him of his old self kinda took the guy under his wing in a way #that's why he's so protective and shit #although unrelated to this bc just. putting that there and NOT touching it but it's interesting what Spammy says right after name dropping #mike if you believe in the cameraman interpretation (which i saw in a video i then stopped watching bc i wanted to explore that shit myself) #bc he right after says to not believe anything you see on tv but this could easily imply mike did do his part but the editing team changed #shit. but its just very curious what involvement Mike could've had because. why would he be as targeted as he appears to be? #and what caused him to also abandone spamton? is mike even fucking alive? judging by Spammy's q&a dialogue you'd assume he is #but i mean that's official but not canon right so it's a bit hard to judge? #but Mike seems to be the only one he isn't really resentful towards for leaving him almost implying it wasn't Mike's choice? #i just can't wait to see more of this bc it's gonna reveal a whole side to this little puppet previously unknown #in fact i think that after breathing some air im gonna go look at the snowgrave neo fight flavor text and cry and piss and etc #I'm still not over spamton begs the audience to stop taking the furniture i can see the poor guy being evicted as he tries to plead not to #so vividly wugh. my poor little guy of questionable morals . . . 😢 #also don't get me started on the commemorative ring man what on earth is going on there.........