Well, frankly, I think the Democratic Party would need to give them a reason to vote for Biden beyond mere threats. The party may instinctively want to swing right for the general election, but I think they already have that base covered.  It’s the left that isn’t convinced.

And, if so, it’ll be four more years of Trump. Honestly, Democrats are the absolute worst at choosing the “safe candidate” (see John Kerry in 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2016). Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won on a combination of charisma and change.

A lot of this is going to come down to personal taste, I suppose. There were those who decided that Twelve was “too old and boring” and tuned out, and we really didn’t pay much mind to these people, but now that the show has a new showrunner and a female star, I suppose complaints are going to be amplified. For what…

I mean, try as one may, you really can’t “salt the earth” with a show about time travel. I can think of about a dozen or so different ways to play off this plotline—which I really quite enjoyed—that could ultimately lead to bringing Gallifrey and the time lords back.

The Master said he put all the time lord bodies on ice, and presumably, those Cyberlords were only a small number of them. Even with that last detonation, it could be argued that they were unaffected, because they were already dead, but, being on ice, they could be later revived. Also, considering the Master will…

The Master, also conveniently, somehow managed to kill everybody on Gallifrey simultaneously. No, you can’t ask how he did it. He just did. They’re all dead, not a single one of them escaped in a TARDIS or put up the slightest resistance, and none of them regenerated.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think they’re ever going to answer this question—the Master always comes back and the “how” is traditionally left to the viewer’s imagination, so your guess is as good as mine here.

Republicans rail against big government, except when they don’t like shit, then it is legislate it away.

he already casually ruined Moffat’s wonderful Missy redemption arc

The thing is, they haven’t really “renounced” anything. Their HRH titles are just basically on pause, and I suppose that’s the sticking point: if they don’t really want to give up anything, they’re going to have to do things the royal family’s way.

Different species that are closely related can often still breed. It’s not a limiting factor in how we classify different species.

Quite frankly, the Democratic Party has never nurtured “rising stars” the way the GOP does. I mean, Paul Ryan got to be Speaker of the House in his 40s. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi has had a stranglehold as (alternating) Speaker of the House and House Minority Leader for close to 20 years now. The DNC’s preferred…

It’s not as if early humans had the benefit of science. They encountered people who looked enough “like them” and went with it (perhaps in rather terrible ways, if our own history of war and conquest is any guide). The idea that these were different species likely never crossed their minds.

The fact that we’ve all prematurely declared a “winner” after two small state contests is very much by design. It’s what the DNC wants, so they don’t have to spend lots of money for a nationwide contest ahead of the general election, and the media is always happy to oblige.

Warren is facing a couple of major issues: the sheer passion of Bernie Sanders’ fan base, which has put a lot of pressure on progressive voters who might otherwise see Warren and Sanders as similar to consolidate around him, and now the “bomb” of Michael Bloomberg, who has effectively tanked the candidacies of…

Yes, anything you observe with this star today happened 700 years ago, and this is always the case with observing objects in space. If Betelgeuse went supernova at exactly this moment, it would take 700 years for us to notice it.

that is, the specific brain regions that allow us to experience the smell of burnt toast

The Democratic establishment playbook can be reduced to upper middle class interests. When they talk about candidates like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren being “unelectable,” they’ll say things like “he/she doesn’t appeal to people of color like Biden,” but when people of color don’t “fall in line” like they…

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The show was explicitly designed to be secular, not favoring any particular religious viewpoint, so it sort of ruled out revealing “God” (or a “Master Architect”) or reincarnation, because that would endorse eastern religions. So I can’t help but think that, in an afterlife stripped of all spirituality, eternal…