I'd imagine we'd get through a hell of alot of demographics before landing on the service rates of straight white men.

That was for W.'s administration. I don't think he'd have survived that one if he were still around even then. This is totally uncharted waters.

Before dinner, good sir?! I am scandalized! My monocle shatters!

I did this for a few weeks after the election and you're right. You're going to hear about it all sooner or later; better to do it a little at a time than all at once like I did and then get paralyzed by the depression.

We'll have to disagree on the religious part; Cruz's dad is a zealot and alot of Cruz's hard lines politically are attributed to his religious beliefs. I mean, yeah, he's pandering too, but I think he also believes it.

I know. And it's an entirely plausible (and of course horrific) scenario.

It puts the US on the sidelines and diminishes them on the world stage. It distracts from the shit Russia's doing.

Cruz wants the presidency above all though. As long as that's a possibility he won't take something that sidelines him so.

It checks the box for a presidential bid.
Who knows though. I wouldn't put it past that ambitious wormy little motherfucker to primary Trump in '20 if things keep going as they are.

I went to lunch with a new client once and one of them claimed loudly to the table and our server that she was a "vegan" and then ordered the chicken.

The world has rapidly moved on without us while we're in Time Out. I kind of admire them for stepping up. Hopefully part of their renewed vigor will be a highly permissive Immigration policy for disillusioned Americans.

And we probably have a Governor Cruz to look forward to down the line.

Those crafty Russians hid his glasses before he took the call!

Trump is such a gift to the Russians. Not because their end goal was Trump in charge; their larger goal instead is chaos and uncertainty. And Trump is a useful idiot to them. So they tell him to do something shady, he goes out of his way to do it, then they turn around and "leak" it back to the press here and starts…

No, don't be ridiculous.

Thirded. Did not seem like good advice.

I always get David Warner and Christopher Plummer confused, and didn't even realize they were both in Star Trek VI, probably the inciting incident of my confusion.

"I say, Vanilla and Ice are a capital pair together. Good show, old sport."

This is crazy! You have stars repping you now!

I forgot the Batgirl thing until after I wrote that. That makes a little more sense, though it still seems odd given how vocal he was about wanting to develop his own properties instead of working with someone else's not to terribly long ago.