He was the one with the blue mask, right?

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all.

5/

Surely that was the chance to go as "The Secret M. Bannister"?

Anybody complacent enough to think that the shitshow in the US could not happen here should take a glance at how quickly elements of the media have rushed to excuse proven lawbreaking by a far-right populist and undermine due process.

Been spending most your life thinking 'bout how they yanked his pair o' nikes

Look, he's just making the most of the training data available, which apparently is a dumpster full of Game & Watch devices he found in an alley somewhere.

And most are able to get to a slightly more nuanced position on historical theory than Thomas Carlyle.

I preferred the ending of the original version, though...

"He was philosopher enough to be contented with his venture, and set off the same evening for the Continent. He was never heard of again."

Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and sayeth unto him "Go on mate, that one does this thing called tiramisu, you'd love a bit of it."

Nah, that was the nuns.

Sweet Tooth dreams are made of this.