Old Man River. Old Man Hydra?

Then the sun develops a fungal infection, and don’t scratch that itchy rash, it’ll only make it worse.

Knee deep in the hoopla
Smoking from a hookah

Aw hell yeah, Sparkomatic!

Bilbo’s gone bananas!
Then Saruman decided to turn Isengard into Sauron’s banana republic on the side.

And under socialism in the 20th century, science was an institution that only funds research that advances whatever narrative the hermetic powers-that-be decided to push and strengthen their grip on power, their obsession with secretiveness and projecting an image of infallibility.

Take the Soviet Union.
T.D. Lysenko and his crackpot food engineering ideas is one such glaring example. But boy oh boy could he talk a “toe the party line” game and suck up to Stalin.
Or how about how the kremlin rendered nearly one quarter of Kazakhstan uninhabitable due to their relentless nuclear testing. And they nearly did that for all of western Europe with Chernobyl.

In the name of workers and science, we shall poison your land. Science for the workers’ paradise, rejoice, comrades!

Thank god the redtangle is there

FTFYa!

But what about Doctor Detroit, then? And Doctor Strangelove?

As a cloud of electrons, I agree to everything my electromagnetic field says. If it doesn’t want to go through that wall, we are not going through that wall.

Well… you know what they say: if Frodo can go to Osgiliath…

The old fashioned, waterless toilet way: meat waves!

He just dresses up as Batman to pose on top of his skyscraper for the Tiktok hits! He’s addicted to social media and is always getting into flamewars with the Joker and Riddler!

But hey, YOUR narrative doesn’t fit the algorithm! You know the one - the bleak and cynical, bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe “too cool for school (and for voting)” narrative!

The loaves and fishes… at the juggaloo convention!

EDIT: Huh… what would that look like? Twinkies and Doritos? Beer and tits?

We spared a lot of expense

So it’s a Disney park, then.

Wait till they find out about the couple of comets headed our way!

RADIO RAHEEM! THAT’S THE HYPE, YO!

Do you think she started out earnest and got co-opted?
Has she been a willing accomplice since day one?

To sit at a fancy gala dinner with the very definition of what the hard right salivates to be, then to declare that both parties are the same… that is something… that takes some fucking chutzpah.

I’ll observe my sister-in-law’s birthday, thank you very much.

“What if our entire Solar System is just a plum pudding?”
JJ Thompson