Ironic that Bilbo is so annoyed with the Sackville-Bagginses for stealing from him and trying to evict him from his house, when his whole adventure involves stealing from someone and evicting them from their house.
To be fair, he was essentially helping someone else get rid of their own Sackville-Bagginses
This is an absolutely world-rocking take on narrative parallels in The Hobbit. Like why yes those were equally petty property disputes, and your point?
Thorin: “The dragon Smaug is terrible beast who has invaded our home and taken the heirlooms of our people as his loot.”
Bilbo: *remembering the last time Lobelia Sackville-Baggins was in his house* “I know the type.”
More than 8,000 people on Instagram watched Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live stream herself putting together IKEA furniture, drinking wine and talking about the GOP and climate change.
the hotline was flooded with reports of UFOs, bigfoot, the mothman and other cryptozoological creatures
“…internal emails and documents obtained by The Verge under the Freedom of Information Act show. The calls nearly brought the system to a halt, leaving operators unable to answer almost all incoming calls during the protest. ICE attempted to contain the narrative, and lie to the public about the impact of the prank.
In the first days of operation, Internal reports from ICE describe an “overwhelming” amount of calls. The day after the hotline was launched, ICE received more than 16,000 calls. Of those, only 260 could be answered. Callers in queue waited as long as 79 minutes to reach an operator. An official noted that if the rate of calls were to continue, ICE would need an additional 400 operators to field the hotline.”
