Liz Cheney was long ago excommunicated by the Wyoming Republican Party for the crime of suggesting that maybe January 6 was a bit of a problem. Her counterpart among the House Republican caucus's Lone Dissenters, Adam Kinzinger, was censured by an Illinois county Republican group in February 2021, less than a month after those tourists toured the Capitol like the Visigoths toured Rome. And now both Cheney and Kinzinger are turning to face the wrath of the national Republican Party, which took less than a year to gather itself fully behind the notion that January 6 was no big deal and also all the really bad shit was done by Antifa, or whatever. Stop asking questions, shut up.
Liz Cheney was long ago excommunicated by the Wyoming Republican Party for the crime of suggesting that maybe January 6 was a bit of a problem. Her counterpart among the House Republican caucus's Lone Dissenters, Adam Kinzinger, was censured by an Illinois county Republican group in February 2021, less than a month after those tourists toured the Capitol like the Visigoths toured Rome. And now both Cheney and Kinzinger are turning to face the wrath of the national Republican Party, which took less than a year to gather itself fully behind the notion that January 6 was no big deal and also all the really bad shit was done by Antifa, or whatever. Stop asking questions, shut up. Whether you want to play up the romance or keep things low-key. Now is not the time to choke. Now is the time to go all in on love. Within the first 21 minutes of Netflix's recent documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, you witness the following: a man declares he will climb all of the world's mountains with summits above 8,000 meters in the space of seven months. He climbs the first, which turns out to be a ferocious deathtrap by the name of Annapurna, and descends to basecamp only to learn a climber from another group was lost on the mountain. He promptly helicopters out with his team to climb again and reach the oxygen-deprived man, bringing him down just in time to save his life. The rescue was a testament to the overwhelming humanity of Nimsdai "Nims" Purja's project, in which he led a team of elite Nepalese mountaineers on a mission that fewer than 50 people have ever completed. Time to upgrade your home gym. Stay cozy and stylish all day, every day. Per tradition, Jackass Forever opens with a warning: "The stunts in this movie were performed by professionals, so for your safety and the protection of those around you, do not attempt any of the stunts you're about to see." Since Johnny Knoxville and company's hijinks first premiered on MTV in 2000, such notices have sought to both caution viewers against partaking in potentially lethal mimicry, and to limit corporate liability in the event that they do. Nonetheless, these introductory missives are also central to the success of the series, functioning as impish proclamations that the forthcoming feats are as authentic as they appear. Simply put, they're declarative badges of honor, confirming that every doubled-over expression of pain, every gruesome concussion and bloody laceration, and every burst of vomit and explosion of fecal matter, is the real outrageous deal. |
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