Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]

There is no official color designation for the parties; and they used to commonly be “reversed” although it varied from media outlet to outlet.

The colors “switching” is almost entirely a media fabrication. Different television networks trying out different colours and configurations, copying each other, chasing viewer numbers, etc. and the 2000 election is where it gets kind of standardized as what we have today.

“My firm belief is that the turning point in red/blue states was the national map (that) USA Today ran the day after the election in 2000, in which — for whatever reason — red was Republican and blue was Democratic-”

Keating Holland, CNN’s director of polling and election analysis from 1993 to 2014.

In the movie Winter Kills (1979) John Huston’s character, before plummeting from a skyscraper to his death, he says to Jeff Bridges’ character:

You get out of this alive, son-
You get out of this alive.
Take our money out of the western world and put it in South America.
Oh!
Brazil. Ah!
Aah!
Brazil! They’re the next ones up!

Also this movie is shockingly good, 10/10 recommend from me won’t spoil anything.

What the heck is it, what’s the origin, and what is it supposed to mean? Looks like some Philips CD-i game.

• it is “morshupls”

• Morshu is a shopkeeper character from Link: The Faces of Evil

• It’s generally used to convey someone giving an overly verbose and possibly asinine explanation “Morshu Explains” see also :pronouns: