{"id":2564,"date":"2025-12-31T23:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:14:17","slug":"subject-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/subject-2025","title":{"rendered":"Subject 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So ends another one. Let&#8217;s get to it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>January:<\/b> Pass Interference<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; My poor country<br \/>\n&#8211; Holy crap, the Commanders are in the NFC Championship game! Superbowl perhaps?<br \/>\n&#8211; Oooh, no, nope, got squished by Eagles.<br \/>\n&#8211; It&#8217;s official. The Orange Thing once again occupies the White House. With a vengeance.<br \/>\n&#8211; Also, Nazi salute<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/arguments-attempts\" title=\"Arguments and Failed Attempts to Fly\" class=\"fort\">Remembering<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Gulf of what now?!<\/p>\n<p><b>February:<\/b> Inventory Check<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Everything right now is just so&#8230; stupid<br \/>\n&#8211; Let&#8217;s all point and laugh at anyone who actually thought the Skipping Dipshit who bought Twitter was some sort of free speech warrior<br \/>\n&#8211; He&#8217;s sending in goons to tear apart vital government agencies&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8230;and what everyone is most offended about is that these goons are young. Oy.<br \/>\n&#8211; The entities that are supposed to protect or counter all this are just&#8230; letting it happen.<br \/>\n&#8211; Chiefs fell apart this time in Man Bowl.<br \/>\n&#8211; Sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/candy-hearts-19\" title=\"Mmmm, Candy Hearts 19\" class=\"fort\">we all miss red flags<\/a>. That&#8217;s life. It&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p><b>March:<\/b> Cloture<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Holy shit, that&#8217;s three years in a row now Disney\/Pixar didn&#8217;t win Best Animated Feature!<br \/>\n&#8211; WTF?! Let Mahmoud Khalil go, you fucking shitbags!<br \/>\n&#8211; Lunar eclipse<br \/>\n&#8211; Are Schumer and Dems going to stand up in the slightest to Orange Thing admin?<br \/>\n&#8211; Maybe&#8230;?<br \/>\n&#8211; Can we at the very least step back from the brink&#8230;?<br \/>\n&#8211; Nope. They caved again.<\/p>\n<p><b>April:<\/b> Lemon Cake<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; SHINY BAG<br \/>\n&#8211; Ovechkin&#8217;s 895th goal!<br \/>\n&#8211; Not even penguins are spared from tariffs.<br \/>\n&#8211; More college students snatched away for speaking up for Palestine.<br \/>\n&#8211; Suspected &#8220;illegal immmigrants&#8221; getting whisked to concentration camp in El Salvador<br \/>\n&#8211; Hey, that&#8217;s my Senator going to El Salvador personally to see about a captive Marylander<br \/>\n&#8211; Glad someone is being brave<\/p>\n<p><b>May:<\/b> Carbonated Fruit<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stop acting like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/pride-and-groom\" title=\"Pride and Groom\" class=\"fort\">your transphobic bullshit<\/a> is about protecting kids<br \/>\n&#8211; I&#8217;m the meaning of life!<br \/>\n&#8211; Oh, shit, do I have a pinched nerve again?<br \/>\n&#8211; I can still bring what I usually bring<br \/>\n&#8211; Final Fantasy 12<\/p>\n<p><b>June:<\/b> Five Judges<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; No Kings!<br \/>\n&#8211; Just say NO to the Orange Thing!<br \/>\n&#8211; No one is coming to your birthday parade, Orange Thing. We&#8217;re all protesting everywhere else!<br \/>\n&#8211; You did good, New York.<br \/>\n&#8211; Supreme Court: &#8220;Birthright citizenship? Children&#8217;s academic freedom? Haha, fuck all that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>July:<\/b> Single Point of Contact<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/who-are-we\" title=\"Who Are We?\" class=\"fort\">Don&#8217;t cede American identity to MAGA<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; What do you mean Colbert is cancelled?!<br \/>\n&#8211; Yeah&#8230; do it, South Park&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>August:<\/b> Traceable<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Got some new responsibilities.<br \/>\n&#8211; Oh, shit, I fucked up.<br \/>\n&#8211; Get out of DC, National Guard!<br \/>\n&#8211; Shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about the event being safe.<\/p>\n<p><b>September:<\/b> Least<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I got it in one! Wordle is my starting word!<br \/>\n&#8211; The Right: &#8220;How dare you say Kirk was anything less than a saint!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Also the Right: &#8220;Let&#8217;s kill the homeless.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Kimmel gets cancelled because he so much as mentioned the whole mess.<br \/>\n&#8211; Backlash brings him right back.<br \/>\n&#8211; Hey, take note, backlash gets shit done.<br \/>\n&#8211; See You Later, Bob Carpenter!<\/p>\n<p><b>October:<\/b> Debts<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Oh, Dems aren&#8217;t caving this time on shutdown.<br \/>\n&#8211; Hmm, Commanders aren&#8217;t as good this time. Too many injuries.<br \/>\n&#8211; The revolution will be ribbited.<br \/>\n&#8211; No Kings!<br \/>\n&#8211; Oh, swell, now he&#8217;s tearing down parts of the White House. For a ballroom.<br \/>\n&#8211; It&#8217;s about goddamn time.<\/p>\n<p><b>November:<\/b> Reprieve<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Apples<br \/>\n&#8211; Oh, God. Poor Blue Jays.<br \/>\n&#8211; Blue wave! Mamdani! Spanberger!<br \/>\n&#8211; Okay, now they&#8217;ve caved.<br \/>\n&#8211; His already abundantly clear close relationship with Epstein is still more abundantly clear.<br \/>\n&#8211; Oven trouble<\/p>\n<p><b>December:<\/b> Snow Monarch<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fancy party is fancy<br \/>\n&#8211; A lot to do before holiday break&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; Done!<br \/>\n&#8211; I guess I wasn&#8217;t invited to participate this time.<br \/>\n&#8211; Brownies, cookies, and gingerbread cake<br \/>\n&#8211; Isn&#8217;t a standing rib roast supposed to&#8230; stand?<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/20-years\" title=\"This Is Eight Mine Fortress - 20 Years Later\" class=\"fort\">Twenty years!<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Zootopia 2<\/p>\n<p>Ugh. Just&#8230; ugh. Whether what&#8217;s happening to this country or my own personal life getting in the way of doing more interesting things so I&#8217;m not straining my brain to remember anything good to add to this recap&#8230; ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, ball in Times Square, hovering over the unlit 2026. It has every indication of being out of the frying pan and into the fire, but I guess there&#8217;s no other way out of the frying pan. Bring it on.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So ends another one. Let&#8217;s get to it&#8230; January: Pass Interference &#8211; My poor country &#8211; Holy crap, the Commanders are in the NFC Championship game! Superbowl perhaps? &#8211; Oooh, no, nope, got squished by Eagles. &#8211; It&#8217;s official. The Orange Thing once again occupies the White House. With a vengeance. &#8211; Also, Nazi salute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/subject-2025\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Subject 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-uncategorized","tag-new-years-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}