u/Chimpucated

Alright folks with the primary over and the counts wrapping up let's take a minute to roast Reid Rasner one last time before he disappears from the billboards and the social media feeds.

Looking at his current vote count at the time of this post: 9392. How much did this guy spend per vote?

Between the billboards from i25 to i80, and the constant algorithmic content feeds is there anyway we can estimate how much he paid for each of these yays? I wouldn't be surprised if he forked out a Benny Frank for each yes. It's gotta be at least three Andrew Jackson's. What if each one cost him a golden 250 Trump?

All I know is I don't get a laugh from Chuckles taking the lead, but I do feel jazzed about the performance of the razz.

You and your entire family can spend your life savings for 3 months of payments for the opportunity to work this ranch with no idea what the inside of the domiciles look like!

I know that the music itself isn't supposed to be about anything specific per Issac. No specific story, or no specific messages in any of the albums but it's obvious some of the themes are about mankind's seemingly inevitable ability to self destruct. Strong examples from other albums: Bury Me With It, Lampshades on Fire, Parting of the Sensory etc.

Although not explicitly stated the album MAA thematically eludes to a nuclear apocalypse event throughout most of the tracks.

3rd planet being watched by an eye in the sky that can't be stopped, when you get to the promised land you'll shake the eye's hand" references for a future inevitablely.

"Might disintegrate into thin air if you'd like" Dark Center.

Tiny Cities made of Ashes in entirety.

"Through the cracks in the wall, slow motion for all. Dripped out at the bars someone smart said nothing at all. So rusty is a fire, and our blood oxides, my eyes rolled around, around on the carpet. Oh hit the deck it's the decal man, standing upside down talking out of his pants. Through the cracks in the wall, slow motion for all. Left holding the ball, and a part for your car" - Different City

"So long to this cold part of the world" a reference to nuclear winter post the event in Different City.

"You can't see anything well, you ask me what size it is not what I sell"- perhaps applicable to the names of Fat Man and Little Boy and "The devil's apprentice gave me some credit he fed me a line and I'll probably regret it"- maybe a biblical style reference to original sin of the pursuit of knowledge that produces nuclear science.

"In the last second of life they'll show you how they run this show, sure run it into the ground" "right wing left wing chicken wing (cold war political ideology standoff, who's the chicken in a MAD situation). "Where do circles begin?" (Who's ultimately responsible?) Stars are projectors

"My mother's crying a blood dust" from the death of the sister dying from the wild family dogs that roam post apocalypse, and or radiation sickness.

"There shaking hands there shaking in their shoes o lord dont shake me down, it's been agreed the the whole world stinks is no one's taking showers anymore" the type of society that reforms post event. Paper Thin Walls

Lives and life like weeds are more a reflection on ourselves and how we got here, our struggles, and our lack of introspection to the consequences of our actions, and our lack of ability to influence them.

"Way in the back of the room there sits a cage, inside is a clock you can win, if you can guess it's age, which you never can do cause the time it's constantly changes, for lack of luck I guess that is the saying." A reference to the doomsday clock minutes to midnight? "The last page in a book of blue it read, if you read this page then that will be your death, by then it's too late you end up on an island of shells and bones that bodies have left " You can't undo the nuclear button once you've hit it and mutually assured destruction leads you to a wasteland of your own making.- What people are made of

I know that many of these lyrics are anecdotal and it's a reach to tie it all together, and that most of this is unintentional. But you gotta ask yourself this. Which two places are left relatively unharmed by such an event? The Moon and Antartica.

Let's discuss I'm looking forward to hearing how whack my interpretations have grown over the decades of listening to this.