Every American should be embarrassed today. But because his hardcore base is built on people who prize grievance and trolling above anything else, of course not.

100% agree with you on Daou. He’s a more rabid Hillary defender on everything than Lanny Davis.

Miller’s a great director, but talk about someone who’s been fired from a lot of studio productions.

Yeah, it read to me like something you would say when you want to make sure not to say anything. It’s political, and also mature and professional, qualities not to be churlish about. Probably a good indication why RJ lasted, and the others didn’t. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if RJ didn’t do it, simply because…

This has always seemed like a no brainer to me - high concept and a structure that works for features - but its been stuck in development hell for ages.

I really dug that book. It’s probably the best of the Bachman novels.

If history is any indication, the incumbent always gets re-elected unless there’s a recession of some kind, so he’s not far off. I doubt it’ll be a landslide, though. Also, it might help if the Dems put up someone who’s not 70+ and has ideas that can represent the future.

Yeah, the guy who gave us the ACA, which saved my mom’s life, the Iran Nuclear deal, the Paris Climate accord, the repeal of DADT and the legalization of gay marriage, and two liberal SCOTUS judges. Yeah. Fuck that guy.

He won twice. Maybe you should look at things like gerrymandering and that Democratic voters generally don’t give a fuck about showing up unless it’s a presidential election, whereas Republicans will show up, no matter what. But cute of you to simplify to everything to Thanks Obama.

People don’t want to admit that paying attention to Michigan and Wisconsin doesn’t necessarily mean she would’ve won them. She practically lived in Pennsylvania and still lost that reliably blue state.

I was pretty close to that age and the scene just struck me as...bizarre. I thought it stopped the story entirely, though, if memory serves me, I thought the book had fallen apart by that point, anyway.

Ditto. I always assumed the weird shit he wrote during this period - and the 1000 page lengths - was due mostly to his substance abuse.

The first 300 pages of IT are probably the best KIng’s ever written. The rest of the 1000 page book, however....

So what are the odds Congress just passes DACA again, but under a different name and taking Obama out of the equation, and Trump signs it and takes credit. Because that’s what this is really about, isn’t it? I’m sure Trump couldn’t even tell you what DACA stood for.

Can we just make a list of the things that Republicans claimed would end the world during Obama’s tenure, and now they’re totally chill with, even fighting to preserve? The Iran Nuclear deal, DACA, the ACA.....

The part about rounding up young adults and kids and deporting them in an election year is your first clue this wasn’t well thought out, to no one’s surprise.

“Ignore the pee stains”

When Trump gets beat in 2020, that will probably be the first line in the letter he leaves to the incoming Democrat.

After last nights episode, I think it’s pretty clear that GRRM gave them the big plot points of the last two episodes (ice dragon, Jon and Dany, the secret wedding), but didn’t (or didn’t have) the material tying it all together so the writers had to reverse engineer their narrative. I think the challenge of writing…

“In addition, I have not become younger. Age does not add enthusiasm.”