I often wonder who I would have been in Game of Thrones. And not Hodor, you jackasses.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!
Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.
GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.
I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.
White supremacy is terrorism.
Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.
There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.
In my day, never was longer.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.
My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
“But what about the lurkers?”
This really is a full service blog.
Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard
TheOtherHank
I do like to bake, and Hot Pie definitely won the game, so I’d hope to be Hot Pie.
lollipopguild
John, you are the guy who wrote the books.
Yutsano
Samwell Tarly.*waits for the ban hammer
EDIT: no really: FYWP.
eclare
Another GoT thread. Too violent for me.
I loved The Wire. Let’s dial it back.
Yutsano
Nancy
Who do you want to be?
Old School
Jon Snow.
A lot of people think you’re a bastard, but you’re actually not.
Leto
Tormund Giantsbane
moops
uh, the Night King? I can’t friggin’ remember that show. He likes the cold weather, right?
Wave Function Collapse
I’m a long time lurker, but I always had you pegged as Arya Stark.
— expecting the fatal stab wound over the intertubes in 3, 2, 1.
dlwchico
Dolorous Edd?
Alison Rose
@lollipopguild: I was gonna say…there’s a wee bit of resemblance between them.
mrmoshpotato
Lord Moldybutt!
Dlwchico
@lollipopguild: several years ago I dressed as him for Halloween work thing. All the younger people were characters from GoT and I was GRRM.
I think I pulled it off pretty well.
Kdaug
You’re binging old shows, Cole. I’m trolling old haunts.
Pick your poison.
Poptartacus
Some random grunt, bitch’en about the chow
LiminalOwl
Mance Rayder
Keith P.
Probably Hot Pie
Juju
One of the kitchen workers. I believe his name was Perdue Dijon.
NotMax
No need to watch the whole video, but please do go see and hear the measured statements by a citizen who is my new hero (1:49 to 3:54). Link should go to the beginning of the segment
“There is no right way to do the wrong thing.” Formidable sentiment.
glc
What’s wrong with Hodor?
Odie Hugh Manatee
@NotMax:
That was a thing of beauty to hear, every single word of it. It goes right to the heart of it, which means that the heartless Christians on the right will hate him for speaking the truth.
Which is something Christians gave up on decades ago because who needs truth when God is on your side.
JWR
@NotMax: Damn! Formidable sentiment indeed! Now, if only the bad guys could be forced to react like normal and thoughtful adult human beings when so directly called out…
Haha. I crack myslef up sometimes.
satby
From Heather Cox Richardson, noting the 160th anniversary of a two minute speech.
satby
And from Ken White’s (Popehat’s) substack, a barnburner about free speech:
Ten Bears
What’s the kill-ratio in that story … ?
Most people ended up dead
mrmoshpotato
@Ten Bears:
Asking about Game of Incest?
BethanyAnne
I’ve been rereading a great series of books, the Locked Tomb series. Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth. It’s complicated. It reminds me of game of thrones in that – if you could get someone into it, should you?
lowtechcyclist
Never seen GoT, or read the series it’s based on.
I’d be Goodgulf Grayteeth from Bored of the Rings.
Tony Jay
Oh, that’s easy. I’d be the character who you never see knifed, chopped, burnt, eaten, flayed, raped, crushed, hammered, drowned, hung or poisoned, the guy with no name, only ever recognised by his distinctive carriage as he runs like buggery in the opposite direction from any approaching trouble, legs pumping, arms windmilling, the sole survivor of a hundred scenes of blood-curdling carnage.
Yeah, I’d be that guy.
LiminalOwl
@NotMax: Wow, that was amazing. Thank you.
”There is no right way to do the wrong thing.” Just beautiful.
OzarkHillbilly
Some Gin Alley extra. Oh wait a minute, that’s me.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: Wow.
zhena gogolia
I never watched it, but that character Diana Rigg played was pretty badass.
Barry
“I often wonder who I would have been in Game of Thrones. And not Hodor, you jackasses.”
JADP (Just Another Dead Peasant) like the rest of us.
ETtheLibrarian
My last name is close to Tyrell so I would have been the one of the family that stayed at home and not bothered with all that shite.
The Up and Up
He says he’s not Hodor so … Tyrion Lannister
That’s a good Game of Thrones character for Comrade Cole.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Who I hoped I’d be: Arya Stark
Who I’m probably most like: Female version of Samwell Tarley before he got more awesome
Who I’d probably really be: Peasant who died early in the show.
Paul in KY
I’d like to think I’d have been one of the smart lords and like alot in the Wars of the Roses, just ignore it all & stay on the estate (obviously being in the far South too).
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: That’s sorta like my take. Only I’d just have been ‘unavailable’ for any of it.
glc
@BethanyAnne: I checked out of Game of Thrones well before the end, but finished the Locked Tomb series, with a bit of confusion in the last volume – not in matters of detail but in terms of what, fundamentally, was really going on.
No doubt this could stand a reread as there were substantial pauses between the volumes, but not going to happen. But an impressive new (still, relatively) author.
Then there’s the Poppy War, where the violence has very specific historical roots.
I’ve always preferred my special effects in written form – cheaper, and more realistic.
billcinsd
@Tony Jay: Sir Not Appearing In This Show?
Dallas Taylor
Catelyn Stark, because you have a good grasp of the politics and possibilities, and no one in a position of power’s willing to listen until it’s too late.
JimV
The Black Fish. An aging Hero, not heard much from in these times. (He escapes by swimming in the river the night before the Castle surrenders to the Lanning seige in the book, which is better than the series.)
BethanyAnne
@glc: Yeah, it’s confusing. That’s actually primarily why I didn’t recommend them to the one friend that might like them. Because I’m still not exactly certain what’s happening.