Dr. Gonzo

Nixon got away with committing crimes in office. Then George W Bush commit war crimes, set the foundation for ISIS... and nothing happened. Then America had Trump committing what feels like crimes on a daily basis... I really, really hope America ends its tradition of not prosecuting presidents. Also I’m not really surprised... because it’s Trump. But turns out the Trump administration had no plan whatsoever in rolling out the COVID vaccine: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/report-biden-admin-discovers-trump-had-zero-plans-for-covid-vaccine-distribution - which probably isn’t illegal, but it is a huge disgrace. The fucker wanted 4 more years without doing anything for the country, just grifting to put taxpayer money into his pocket.

That’s been the case since Virgil got injured tbh

I’m happy to see Trump relegated from President of the United States to just another “Florida Man”

Breaking: Alexei Navalny has the biggest testicles in the world Man in captivity, likely facing death, coming out and publicly tormenting his captor in Putin.

Glad you’re feeling better mate!

I tested negative

I don’t think we’ve really been in the mix for a while, tbh. I’m not sure if it’s impressive from our players we’re still in contention or if it just means the league is more shit than we think.

They’ll win the league imo

To make a wide and sweeping generalisation, which I don’t like to do, I just think a lot of Americans are trained at school to think: COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM = BAD, CAPITALISM = GOOD, USA HAS THE STRONGEST MILITARY. And then when they grow up they don’t question why they spend so little on improving life for Americans, but spend so much on blowing up people in the Middle East.

Yeah the states are all very different. Texas is more of a purple state than a full red state, but I could see people in Kentucky (or some other place like that) not knowing anyone that voted for Biden.

You’d think so, but it’s a country where the biggest reason for financial trouble is medical bills, pretty much everyone I know here is in support of some sort of USA equivalent of NHS, yet in national politics... getting Americans on-board with a state provided healthcare system seems nearly impossible. I can tell you how some coastal Californians think. But if I drive an hour or 2 out East, it’s basically a very different California. Same with Northern California vs Southern California - some pretty big differences, although I’d say that’s less different than the whole city v rural thing. And thats just one of the 50 states. If you asked me to explain how people from the Deep South think... I wouldn’t be able to tell you at all. And even then, the terrorist bitch who got shot during the insurrection that out to be a San Diego resident at Ocean Beach (weirdly, because that’s a hippy-hub... and she was a US Air Force veteran that was a virulent racist). So even then, she was pretty different from her neighbors I’d say. It’s a ridiculously diverse country. There’s so many differences between people in this one state alone, I have to assume other states (at least the populated ones) are similar. The empty ones too though probably. I’d say it’s hard to get a pulse on Americans because of that diversity

I live here but I’m probably a bad person to ask “why do Americans think ____________” - your guess is as good as mine

Where is @Fairy In Boots? Come on, I want to see someone that isn’t a part of this Tory government defend this government. Where are you at FIB?

Yeah that was a very nice turn and finish. Maybe that’ll help him adjust to England a bit quicker

Brentford officially Gonzo’s third favourite club side (behind LFC & Tranmere). Hope his lack of an immediate impact is just growing pains in a new country and new league

Yeah he's been impeached a second time... but Mitch McConnell has said that the senate won't be having an emergency session to vote on conviction/removal until after the inauguration. So it seems to mostly be a symbolic impeachment vote - there's never been a president that has ever been removed by the senate. But there's no real indication of what it would mean for the Senate to convict and remove a President that is no longer in office - the idea is to prevent him from having office again, collecting a pension, and having a lifetime security detail... but it's something that would probably be challenged in court and make it's way up into their Supreme Court. If anything, I think the GOP will use this as a time-waster for Biden getting important things done quickly, like getting his cabinet appointed, appointing ambassadors, and appointing new agency heads. With the State department, in particular, the GOP and Trump have been really destructive in the way they have "reinvented" the inner workings of that agency... so a lot has to be done to rebuild America's framework for diplomacy. And they'll do this all the while probably playing out a trial that doesn't actually need to play out because we all have the news and saw that Trump incited a riot into the American house of government... just so they can wash themselves of the stench of Trump and pretend they are heroes for standing up to him when he is out of office and banned from twitter. Meanwhile a year ago, they all had the chance to hear a real trial regarding impeachable conduct from the President... and they chose to have a witness-less summary trial to vote along party lines. America would do well to remember all of Trump's enablers, because it does seem to me like enough time made America forget how shit Bush was (and Reagan and... the other Bush before them)... and someone shittier than the last shit republican comes along and sort of whitewashes how utterly terrible the last GOP president was. The current US President makes George W. Bush look like a well spoken philosopher that really thought out his actions when you compare them. That isn't good, because that is not an accurate reflection of Bush - no matter how you want to slice it. Josh Hawley & Tom Cotton are going to try to go for the GOP nomination in 2024... and they're both terrifying because they're fascists like Trump but they can string words together in a coherent sentence.

I think it'll a Mando game in the vein of Assassins Creed/Far Cry (I think those games have multiplayer components... but I never play those parts - I just play the singleplayer on those ones). I haven't played an Assassins Creed since the one where it was in Paris (the Pirate one is the best one IMO, by a long distance) - but I think the Far Cry games are pretty fucking ace. I imagine they'd make a Mando game 3rd person though so they have you looking at as much Disney Star Wars IP as possible at all times Yeah, game exclusivity rights are that great... and I don't think EA really did all that great with the Star Wars world tbh. The Star Wars Battlefront reboot was shit and basically just a demo for Battlefront 2, which was less shit (campaign was actually decent, even if the gameplay is pants)... and Battlefront 2 is a good casual multiplayer game if you're into that sort of thing - it's just not really my type of multiplayer game anymore though. The best they did was Jedi Fallen Order, which was brilliant - and I hope that Respawn get to continue making Star Wars games as a result. Because I think Respawn are one of the better developers out there, even though they're owned by EA, and they should get to keep making games while they're still good.

I'm going to try making my own Bao for the first time and making some pork dumplings. It's supposed to be pretty easy so I looked online on how to do it and I think the hardest thing is folding the dumplings - but it should be good because bao dumplings are fucking delicious.

Apparently this Void Bastards game is a genre called "roguelike" and I don't even know what the fuck that means - but I absolutely love this game... so maybe I need to learn more about this genre and find other games like it. But holy shit, I love Void Bastards I think everyone should try it

Ubisoft open worlds are usually pretty fucking ace - although they are pretty formulaic so if you play too many of them... they all seem very samey. But this could be really really nice if it goes well. I am very excited about Bethesda's Machine Games studio making an Indiana Jones game! Of the 3 games I've played from Machine Games... 2 of them were very, very, very good (the first of the 2 Wolfenstein reboots) - one was shiiiiiiiiiiiite (the other Wolfenstein game they made). Decent track record - hopefully they make it 3/4 good games!

I loved Tropico 2! I don't think I've played any of them since Tropico 5 (which I think I last played, sometime last year). I haven't tried 6, but I'll look into it. I've just started playing Void Bastards last night, not really knowing anything about the game at all and just being recommended it. I love it though - it plays like an old school fps (I get old school Doom vibes from it, even though it doesn't really look anything like Doom 3D - I think it's because of the flatness of the enemies) but with some really simplistic stealth mechanics. Ammo's a bit rare so it sort of promotes picking and choosing when you go in shooting & when you sneak around. I think part of the fun of the game, for me, was not really knowing much about the game before jumping in. But it was recommended to me by someone who pretty much knew I would love the game after he played it for a bit... so maybe I should explain the game more. But if you just want to go in fairly blind like I did, I wholly recommend it. I think it's a brilliant little game. The way they handle the player controlled character dying/respawning is also pretty fucking brilliant. It's a very cool game, it reminds me of a lot of different games from the past... but in a way that feels really fresh and original and the game itself, imo, is very unique.

Maybe George W Bush - started the Iraq War because of Al Qaeda... when the only connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda is they both have an "a" and a "q", which then led to the rise of ISIS and further escalated tensions in probably the most tense region in the fucking world. In terms of actions with the most widespread immediate negative consequences, GWB is probably the American president in our lifetime with the claim to "most destructive." But Trump's been destructive to the idea of American democracy, as shown by his mob's attack on American democracy last week. He's radicalised shitloads of Americans and probably forever changed American politics to where extreme far right ideas are normal and socially acceptable. And he's damaged America's soft-power and ability to act through diplomacy by cozying up with autocrats while damaging America's ties with allies like the UK and EU.

Willian really has little incentive to leave. He wanted to stay in London and he’s not going to get better wages at Valencia.

Sources in the White House have said he only condemned the rioters because he was told he might face legal issues if he didn't disassociate from what happened given his speech prior to the siege of the house of US government.

He's worth somewhere between 14-20 billion, I doubt he gives a shit about losing a few millions if he truly wants a long-term change of culture at Chelsea. I don't know if Lampard is the man for that or not, but it's a big change from the way Chelsea have normally operated so you can't expect things to change overnight. But I do think there's something very wrong with the way Chelsea have been approaching their buildup this season. They look like a team with a lot of talent but not many ideas.