#carlos danger

[tenderbittersweet]

Happy 10th Anniversary of One Crazy Summer!

[lastweeksshirttonight]

DANGER!

[iisthepopeoffools]

2024 Presidential Election: Anthony Wiener vs. Mitt Romney aka Carlos Danger vs. Pierre Delecto

[potato-lord-but-not]

put the podcast guys’ boyfriends (and non corporeal besties) in a room together to trauma bond

[justc2world]

CCTV footage of the incident

[f1-stuff]

Canadian GP '23 // Post Quali

"I think we all were impeding each other today. I got impeded seven times, but then there are some people that get investigated, others not. And it's sometimes just very difficult to understand..."

[vyeoh]

The most baffling character decision I've ever seen goes to Carlos Reyes, who doesn't want to join the Texas Rangers due to their history of murdering innocent people of color and instead stays with the clearly better alternative of the police department.

[leclercskiesahead]

Sometimes I think it’s very funny how Reyes watched her husband put their INFANT SON OF BARELY A FEW MONTHS OLD WHO ALSO SHARES HIS FATHER’S NAME into the driver seat of his racing car and still had the heart to think ‘it’s ok Carlos doesn’t have to be a racing driver he can be whatever he wants’

[lescarbille]

For me, the funniest thing about Carcar/Carloscar is that Oscar prefers to have beef with his DRS or a Safety Car rather than with Carlos.

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Carlos : I hate you.

Oscar : Cool! I'm going to puncture the safety car's tires.

Carlos : I said I hate you.

Oscar : Is that supposed to change my life or what?

[sainzstorms]

was yapping to my friend (who just watch her first f1 race with me!) about alex's appendicitis pipeline just to give her the idea on the significance of carlos' appendicitis to the grid in the future. rest assured that she wasn't expecting the twist and turns!

[tomorrowusa]

A MAGA think tank (sort of an oxymoron) published a document with the official title Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise but is widely known as Project 2025 after the name of the group inside the Heritage Foundation which compiled it. Whatever you call it, it is a bloodcurdling blueprint of the shape a second Trump administration would take.

Carlos Lozada of the New York Times read 887 pages of it so we don't have to.

[W]hat is most striking about the book is not the specific policy agenda it outlines but how far the authors are willing to go in pursuit of that agenda and how reckless their assumptions are about law, power and public service. “Mandate for Leadership,” which was edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation, is not about anything as simplistic as being dictator for a day but about consolidating authority and eroding accountability for the long haul. It calls for a relentless politicizing of the federal government, with presidential appointees overpowering career officials at every turn and agencies and offices abolished on overtly ideological grounds. Though it assures readers that the president and his or her subordinates “must be committed to the Constitution and the rule of law,” it portrays the president as the personal embodiment of popular will and treats the law as an impediment to conservative governance. It elevates the role of religious beliefs in government affairs and regards the powers of Congress and the judiciary with dismissiveness. And for all the book’s rhetoric about the need to “dismantle the administrative state,” it soon becomes clear that vanquishing the federal bureaucracy is not the document’s animating ambition. There may be plenty worth jettisoning from the executive branch, but “Mandate for Leadership” is about capturing the administrative state, not unmaking it. The main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology.

We hear a lot of far right rhetoric about destroying "the deep state" or "the administrative state" – particularly from the odious Steve Bannon. But what's clear from Project 2025 is that what MAGA really intends is an unfriendly takeover of "the administrative state".

Executing a conservative president’s agenda “requires a well-conceived, coordinated, unified plan and a trained and committed cadre of personnel to implement it,” the document says on its opening page. The phrasing quickly grows militaristic: The authors wish to “assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day 1 to deconstruct the administrative state.” That deconstruction can be blunt. Portions of “Mandate for Leadership” read as though the authors did a Control-F search of the executive branch for any terms they deemed suspect and then deleted the offending programs or offices. The White House’s Gender Policy Council must go, along with its Office of Domestic Climate Policy. The Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations is a no-no. The E.P.A. can do without its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should be dismantled because it constitutes “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”

Making the US safe for fossil fuel companies is a HŪGE Trump priority which gets too little attention. Remember "drill drill drill" from Trump's dictator interview? If there's any hope of reversing climate change, you can kiss it goodbye if Republicans win in November.

Of course abortion is a target of Project 2025. Christian nationalism would become the semi-official ideology.

If “Mandate for Leadership” has its way, the next conservative administration will also target the data gathering and analysis that undergirds public policy. Every U.S. state should be required by Health and Human Services to report “exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence and by what method.” By contrast, the government should prohibit the collection of employment statistics based on race or ethnicity, and the Centers for Disease Control should discontinue gathering data on gender identity, on the grounds that such collection “encourages the phenomenon of ever-multiplying subjective identities.” (Why the executive branch might concern itself with the subjective identities of American citizens becomes clearer some 25 pages later, when the document affirms that the government should “maintain a biblically based, social-science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.”)

A far right army of ideological zealots is to be recruited to replace anybody in the federal government not sufficiently pro-Trump.

One of the “pillars” of Project 2025 is the creation of a personnel database — a sort of “right-wing LinkedIn,” The Times has reported, seeking to attract some 20,000 potential administration officials. “Mandate for Leadership” maintains that “empowering political appointees across the administration is crucial to a president’s success,” and virtually every chapter calls for additional appointees to wrest power from longtime career staff members in their respective departments.

In short... (emphasis added)

This book does not call for an effort to depoliticize the administrative state. It simply wishes to politicize it in favor of a new side. Everybody does it; now it’s our turn. Get over it.

The book is hardly a secret. The far right is quite open about its intent.

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (PDF)

As with Mein Kampf, we know ahead of time what the bad guys will do if they hold power. We need to take the danger more seriously than Germany of the early 1930s.

What's needed to defeat Trump is a pro-democracy mobilization of the United States. That means putting aside ideological quibbles with other anti-Trump groupings and becoming more politically active in real life.

EDIT: Tumblr is telling me that the link to Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise isn't working and refuses to let me post it. But I just checked it twice and it's fine. Until this peculiar glitch gets fixed, go to this Substack article and click "Mandate for Leadership" in the middle of the first paragraph.

[wafflesrisa]

Just woke up to the news a drain cover nearly took Carlos’s leg off through the car floor????

[britneyarmee]

Carlos: I’m gonna give Gustavo a pizza my mind!

Logan: Did you just say pizza my mind?

Carlos: Yeah, it’s an expression!

[padfoot0216]

Paul - Ah, yes. Here we have a beautiful couple...

Judd - I really care about your feelings.

Grace - I really care about YOUR feelings.

Paul, turning his head - …and then there’s this disaster couple…

TK - YOU NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO ME INSTEAD OF BEING AT THE HOSPITAL!

Carlos - I WOULDN’T HAVE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME AT THE HOSPITAL IF YOU HAD ANY SENSE OF SELF PRESERVATION!

[takavasen]

Imagine Cecil and Carlos playing Portal 2 co-op together

Carlos being fascinated by all the science and Cecil trying to solve all the puzzles with his brilliant Night Vale logic

[ninacarstairss]

i’m gonna need time to recover from my stupid babygirl carlos walking right into a serial killer’s nest but i’m also gonna need time to recover from next week’s ABSOLUTELY FERAL TK LOOKING FOR HIM TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. I HAVE BEEN WAITING YEARS TO SEE FERAL TK WORRYING OVER A NEARLY DYING CARLOS