“The GWOT was a combination of money laundering scheme by the military-industrial complex, and a feminist international liberal Gay Race Communist moral crusade. It was a complete waste and betrayal. America could’ve done a small military response, with a couple thousand Green Berets and Special Forces troops. America could’ve done a big military response, dropping nuclear bombs and flattening the entire region. America could’ve treated the Middle East like the Wild West, allowing young men to move out into a colonial frontier where the natives were deported and young men took all the land for themselves.

What instead happened was a swift and brutally effective military campaign, followed by a feminist welfare society and pretend democracy Soviet Potemkin village and a permanent American military garrison, babysitting Third World savages like a law enforcement operation.

The whole war was pointless, a waste, a betrayal of American men who bled and died for a completely stupid and unachievable program of religious evangelism, trying to spread feminism and homosexuality to the Third World.”

https://x.com/thombrady5/status/2098481904072765604?s=61

https://www.ign.com/articles/peter-cullen-final-optimus-prime-performance-transformers-short

Yep, I know that song well. I quite liked the first HALESTORM album, though its back-end songs were relatively weak. I never really bothered with them after that release, though.

I’d always heard that Lovebites named themselves for Lzzy Hale’s “Love Bites (So Do I)” song.

searches teh interwebz

Their wikipedia page confirms this, but the reference/source link gives a dns error, so… who knows?

This is that tune, in case you wonder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkHqUwa4zg

I’ve got my tickets to see The Original Movie on the 20th. I was maybe a year too young to catch either the show or the film in their original run, but I had plenty of the toys anyway and was a huge BEAST WARS fan in the 90s.

If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend Transformers One from a few years ago. Mr. Cullen didn’t do the voice there, but Chris Hemsworth does an admirable job of channeling his and Prime’s spirit. It’s not perfect and there is some small but mostly inoffensive “modern audience” pandering, but I went in with no expectations and got the best Transformers movie since 2007 (hate on Bayformers all you want, that first live action film RULES. I could take or leave the rest.)

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