Well, I slept pretty much the entire day

[conuly]

Still feel kinda numb about it. Kinda want to go back to sleep again, but I'm all sore from sleeping all day, so... maybe not so much.

You can't murder your way to a happy ending, but that doesn't mean I don't want a whole lot of people to suddenly (and painlessly, I'm not a monster!) drop dead.

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Unrelatedly, Wordsmith Daily has had quite an interesting choice of words this week. Tuesday it was "security blanket". Today it's "nuclear option".

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Comments

[jessie_c]

Besides which, any hypothetical assassin needs to get Vance and Johnson at the same time they get Trump. That's next to impossible.

[conuly]

In my hypothetical murder spree, there's no way I'm stopping just at the three of them. There are so many world leaders to kill.

[duskpeterson]

Thank you for that link.

[conuly]

:)

[brokenallbroken]

I feel like the window on assassinating Tre45on having any good effect closed in 2020 or so. Martyring the head of the cult without also eliminating the rest of them just inflames the cult members to go harder. Plus, now, it's being fed by the Heritage Foundation and its ilk, and they have picked a successor in Shady JD, meaning Tre45on is simply a figurehead. The cult seems to be able to self-perpetuate without him; an assassination is pointless.


I'm one of the 50% who will never apply for my boss' job. I already have more in my life than I can handle on my own, no way should I be responsible for anyone else. Never mind that I doubt I would be good at it, regardless of training.

[conuly]

Martyring the head of the cult without also eliminating the rest of them just inflames the cult members to go harder.

Okay, just to be clear, if I had the power to make people drop dead without my having to actually shoot them or whatever, I'd probably go absolutely drunk with that power.

Which would absolutely make me the villain in this scenario, so I guess it's just as well.

[jessie_c]

The gene pool needs chlorination.

[conuly]

Yeah, that's exactly the sort of things the baddies say. I don't want to be a baddy. Maybe a mind control way is a gentler method.

[jessie_c]

They have to have minds before you can control them.

[conuly]

Well, maybe.

[brokenallbroken]

I would be happy to join you in such villainy.

[conuly]

It wouldn't work, though, and the knock-on effects would be... troublesome.

[med_cat]

You've "got a little list", have you?

...yeah, me too...the list, inside and outside the US, has been growing...

*hugs*

[conuly]

I mean, in these trying times, who doesn't? I just can't see how it would work.

Maybe the best thing is to really push for a whole bunch of them to emigrate. To Mars.

[med_cat]

Mhm

[shadowkat]

You can't murder your way to a happy ending, but that doesn't mean I don't want a whole lot of people to suddenly (and painlessly, I'm not a monster!) drop dead.

Sigh yes.

Although...I'm currently wanting the pain, so there may be a touch of the monster in me?

[conuly]

No, I feel you.

To be honest, I don't really care what happens to them. I just want half the country to be isolated from the other half. If we suddenly found a second earth, I'd happily agree either that they all go there or that we do. (Downsides: Gotta build an infrastructure from scratch. Upsides: No lead in the air or water!)

[shadowkat]

Have similar thoughts. (Granted it helps that all my friends and family members aren't Boogeyman supports. I'd not lose anyone if we did that.). I keep fantasizing about waving them into a parallel universe where their decisions create the world they appear to want, and our decisions affect the world we want, completely isolated from each other. But alas, we can't have that.

[conuly]

Not completely isolated. I’m okay with open borders. Just so long as they keep their weird autocracy over on their side.

[shadowkat]

I just want them gone. But admittedly - I don't really know anyone who supports him outside of a few annoying co-workers, who I could live without, and an annoying uncle. So, I'm biased and it's a good thing I'm not making the decision.

Whoa, I smell that odd smell of wood burning fireplace smoke again. Is there another fire burning tonight?

[kengr]

Nearly half of Americans don't want a promotion

Not surprising. I felt that way back in the early 90s. I had a job I liked. But the only way to get more pay was to become a supervisor. I don't *want* to be a supervisor. It'd have meant less time doing the stuff I liked about the job, and being responsible or "in charge of" other people was major disincentive.

[conuly]

Heck, I remember this being a description of a teacher in one of the Streatfeild books - probably Skating Shoes/White Boots. She didn't want to be promoted, but for some reason instead of saying so she just changed jobs every time the word "promotion" came up, until she finally landed on "private tutor for a main character" as a career.

[conuly]

Side note, every time I see somebody successfully spell the name Streatfeild correctly, including myself, I want to just give them a round of applause. It's surprisingly tricky! Lots of people manage the Streat part, but most people get the feild wrong.