Beef Stew and Buttered Toast

tgre ch 74: eF

If I were to die, and some part of me which lived on changed it’s shape, would it just be my imagination? 

and if you were here, I wonder if I would have been able to hear just a few more beautiful words… is it my imagination, and who’s fault is it? 

I can still hear it, I can hear it.

The ultimate ‘mask’ was hiding ‘you’ underneath after all…

I couldn’t decide which version I liked better, so have both.

A List of Things Donald Trump Has Done - Week 1

Trumps actions stand alone in their absurdity, sheer danger and as he puts it “enormity” that Australian journalist and host of The Project, Waleed Aly, found that simply listing them all out loud, spoke louder than dissecting them individually. The full list includes

Signed First Executive Order to Rollback Obama Care

Took Control of Nuclear Codes

Declares January 20 (his inauguration day) to be the National Day of Patriot Devotion

The White House Spokesmen lied in his first press briefing about the size of Trump’s inauguration “The biggest in History”

A Senior Trump Adviser supported the lies, claiming they were ‘Alternative Facts’

Ordered the shut down of the National Park Service Twitter account after they retweeted photos comparing the sizes of Trumps and Obama’s inauguration crowds

Trump planted staffers to cheer and applaud at a speech he gave to the CIA

Bypassed anti-nepotism law to hire his son-in-law as a senior White House adviser

His office confirmed that he’ll never release his tax records

Withdrew America from the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership). A multi-national economic deal that is seven years in the making

Allegedly allowed his businesses to take money from foreign government

Now is facing a new law suit for breaching the constitution.

Claimed the election suffered mass voter fraud (2-3 million votes illegitimate, which no evidence supports such high numbers) specifically with regard to dead voters and voters registered in more than one states.

The white house spokes men (mentioned earlier), his son-in-law (also mentioned earlier), his youngest daughter, his White House strategist and his Treasury Secretary are all registered to vote in more than one state

Reinstated a global GAG rule to cut all US funding to international NGOs that offer and council women on abortion

His party passed a bill that permanently bans American women from using federal funds or private health insurance towards abortion services

Vowed to cut funding to Violence Against Women’s programs, National Arts and Humanities, Legal Services, Minority Business Development Programs, Public Broadcasting, and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Trumps Administration removed the Spanish Version of the White House Website

Deleted Website pages of Civil Rights, LGBT Rights, and Climate Change

Overturned the ban on two major gas projects where a fear of water contamination, and destruction of sacred land is present

Ordered a total media blackout on the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services.

Imposed a hiring and regulatory freeze across all government agencies

Except for the Military and a handful of public safety sectors

Drafted orders to temporarily suspend America’s refugee intake

Syria refugees face a indefinite ban on entry to America

Announced plans to halve America’s Asylum Program

Drafted new plans to suspend Visas from people from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen

Plans to open CIA black-sights, around the world, to reintroduce torture as an interrogation tactic

Moved to redirect allocated Federal Funds to start building a $20 billion wall on the southern boarder

Suggested to cancel his upcoming meeting with the Mexican President, to him publicly on Twitter, after the Mexican President refused to fund the building of the wall. The meeting was canceled

Following this, he flagged a 20% tax increase to all imported goods from mexico in order to recoup the cost of the wall

Stated he would publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants

Stripped Federal Funds from US cities that provide sanctuary for Illegal Immigrants

Laid the legal ground work for mass deportation

It can be easy to lose track of what is happening with Trump at the moment, but it is vital that, if you hope you fight back, even so much as build a healthy opinion on him, you know what he is doing. So please, read every entry on this list. In a single week, Trump has done more unimaginable things that people give him credit for. This has been a week, people. There are still over 200 left, at the least

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Uta wears a mask under his fake kagune guise.

Check, @Potus @Flotus and @VP.

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I’m not even American FFS!!!

“You understand. It’s too far. I can’t take this body with me. It’s too heavy.”

Wait, hear me out :) I know it sounds crazy when we all basically admitted he was with ch84 and 98…

…and he is extremely strong and clever, but technically no one ever said “Donato is the boss” and neither did he, so I’m just wondering about the possibilities that he is admitting to being “the boss” when he might in fact not be at all (he was always called “crown” not the boss and Uta referred to a “boss” in ch31.5).

 As for why I’m wondering about this, well, we now know that the one who caught Donato was Urie’s dad…

And seeing as Urie’s dad was killed by Eto…

that means Donato’s capture was at least 13 years ago if not even before. However (and this is why my crack theory starts) the Clowns’ annihilation was…

7 years ago at the end of TG

10 years ago at the beginning of :Re

so basically 11 years to 12 years ago as of the current arc

And Donato went to prison for basically 14 years, which means that if he’s the Clowns’ boss, he was captured way before the annihilation happened + as he said to Urie…

He was running the orphanage at this time and it was “a life of peace/tranquility” which means that…

…I don’t see how a life of peace or tranquility running that orphanage (aka enjoying playing family with Amon) is supposed to also fit with the Clowns’ gang becoming more and more powerful (probably by fighting and gaining more members).  So this is just bugging me because, even if the Clowns’ gang doesn’t have such a real hierarchy and its members work solo most of the time, then why would “the boss” be a guy who was apparently maybe not so involved with the gang (since he was busy with running peacefully that orphanage) as they were becoming more powerful?

For all I know it’s a plot hole because Ishida-sensei got messed up in his timeline or maybe Donato was being the boss as a part time job, but… meh, I feel something is off, even more because Donato was basically freed 1 month ago and yet the plan with Furuta launched off before he was even freed.

I know, I know, Donato was probably somehow getting intel even when in Cochlea (one way or another, or maybe even thanks to Furuta was had met with the Clowns) and besides, Nico, Uta and Itori were free doing their own things all these years, so Furuta’s plan could have been discussed while Donato remained in Cochlea but still, the timeline is bugging me…

The Clowns are an odd group, each member more used to doing things their own way instead of working together…

…So if we say the boss is Donato, that means that the Clowns managed to stay one of the most powerful organizations of the story with their boss-like figure only half into it the whole time + in prison for the last 14 years, but still somehow getting intel and planning things out carefully for when it would be time to counterattack.

Which means again that either it is a timeline mistake from Ishida’s part, or the CCG were beyond stupid when it comes to underestimating Donato and the Clowns. 

The whole Clowns’ annihilation is bullshit in the first place though, and I’m wondering if Ishida intends on explaining what exactly went wrong because the CCG saw this as a great victory (thanks to Houji, Arima, Hirako and a few others) and yet they’re still kicking it and powerful so I hope someone (Juuzou?) will bring up the fact that something apparently went wrong 12 years ago. 

Lastly, seeing as I don’t think the Clowns might stay Furuta’s buddies until the end, them making Furuta believe that Donato is the boss when he’s not would be a good prank to play on him. As for who the boss would be if it’s not Donato, well: 

it has to be someone who was around at the time of the Clowns’ annihilation, 

it has to be someone who’s still alive

it has to be one of the reasons the Clowns managed to stay a strong group even when at a disadvantage after the annihilation

it could be someone who, like Furuta (or Yoshitoki before him) currently directing his people from a control room, is generally not seen fighting alongside the others.

And… well, we do have that one Clown who went missing ever since the beginning of :Re and whose existence is not even suspected by the CCG (see the panel of ch26 above). Besides, I made a list long ago of arguments as to why she could be seen as the boss, maybe.

Please keep in mind that it’s obviously a crack theory because Donato still is likely to be the boss but I am currently struggling with a small timeline issue that might or not get explained next chapter (since it seems Donato might start reminiscing), so I guess we’ll see next week whether this crack theory actually has some more basis or not.

After all, for all I know maybe Donato was initially the boss, then he got busy with the orphanage so he left the other Clowns on their own, but now that he’s free again and still angry at his peaceful life being taken away from him, he’s back into the gang and assuming the boss role again.   I really can’t be sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am not sure why, but the first time when I read the Auction Search and Destroy Arc, I did not realize how many similarities it had to the Ghoul Restaurant in TG. It`s a bit embarrassing for me to admit this since even in :re itself is said that these two events were similar:

What fascinates me the most is that Tooru and Kaneki went trough rather similar sequences of events in these two places, and it fits since Tooru has massive amounts of parallels to Kaneki. My main point here is to look at some of the parallels these two characters have in these two events. 

One of the firs links between the two characters is that they are sent there. Kaneki was asked by Itori to collected information about the Restaurant, and Tooru along with the CCG was investigating the Auction and the human trafficking involved. Kaneki went to talk with Shuu about this and eventually was invited to the location. In the party where The Q`s and Haise are collecting information about Nutcracker, Tooru manages to get invited to the Auction:

Both enter the location, ready in action and to collected the needed information. Sadly things don`t go as planned. Kaneki is going on the assumption that he indeed is a guest at the place, taking a shower and chatting with the other quests. Before he realizes that there is something strange going and as he enters the stage, Shuu proudly announces that a delightful new treat has been served.

Tooru went into the Auction knowing that the reason why he was invited was a ruse and knew what was really going in the place. Sadly things don`t go as planned either in Tooru`s case and he is drugged. Then he is dragged to the stage under the dazzling spotlight, where Uta confirms him to be an one-eyed-ghoul, which makes customers of the auction quite delighted.

Speaking about the drugs, both are drugged during these events. At the Restaurant Kaneki first smells something odd in the coffee. It had drugs in it to tire the victims. He did not drink because of this odd smell, but what later gets him is the gas. The area is filled with gas that makes the body move more sluggish, and that is why the masks had breathers on and all of the windows where shut tight. In Tooru`s case the drug is used earlier, before the Auction starts. After Tooru enters Nutcrackers car with Juuzou, the vehicle is filled with gas while Nutcraker herself wears a gas mask.