The opening and closing scenes make it worthwhile.

' it’s flanked by songs that make use of simple drum machines and synths befitting of an ’80s pop record'

Obviously she went to the tattoo parlor and asked for the Lena Dunham

He does look really odd in Robocop III.

Damn I think Bradley Whitford ages five years for every human year

See also Gore, 2000; Clinton, 2016

Indeed IIRC Reagan pursued a similar strategy, trying to break unions from the Democratic party (except his crowbar was race rather than trade deals.) Rank-and-file union members are not necessarily loyal Democrats. I don't recall whether or not the air traffic controllers' strike brought unionized Reagan voters back…

I think Harris is a serious 2020 contender.

You're wrong: celebrities are people with microphones, not 'like all people'. When they get the politics wrong, they fuck things up. Which is why it's refreshing to hear someone who actually knows what they're talking about. Sure the number of politically literate politicians is >1 but not much more than that.

'Related' does a lot of work there. Until the UN can get a bill through Congress, it's a different bag.

For me Songs of Faith and Devotion is the 'sub-grunge mediocrity-defining album'. Ultra is the 'decent comeback album'

I haven't thought about GYWO in ages. That would have been perfect for twitter…

I'd add Ministry's Houses Of the Molè, their last great record, one that draws its energy from its anger at GWB.

The Women's March is far from the first time she's spoken about or been involved with politics. And 'knowing a good deal about politics' is a bar that most political celebrities can't clear (listen to Bono or Angelina Jolie try to articulate an idea more complicated than a bumper sticker without a script.)

Yeah but the UN is not a political organization that can do jack for American domestic politics. I don't want our best political minds at the UN, I want them in congress. (I want our best diplomats in the UN.) Ferrera seems like she could be a decent legislator and politician, a much different skill than just being an…

And they didn't have anyone to play Obama before Jay Pharoah.

I wonder if The Onion are trying out 'Mike Pence is a 1950s Dad' as their satirical characterization, a la Diamond Joe Biden.

Politics=legislation, domestic policy and governance, none of which the UN is involved in. And a celebrity working with the UN an indicator of political savvy (the opposite, probably).

America Ferrera needs to run for congress. She's pretty much the only 'celebrity activist' who understands politics, not just activism.

Wait, wait, the lede has been buried: Allison Anders is directing a remake of a schlocky 80s film for Lifetime? Can somebody please let her direct a real movie?