The thing that got me was the set up with the execution: basically Gaetz and his little friends were trying to get an Angry Black Man (TM) dunk on Sec. Austin they could tweet/Fox News about with their shitty shitty questions. Sec. Austin didn’t become Sec Austin or Gen Austin or even Lieutenant Austin by falling into …

Which platform?

I think it’s also likely our founding fathers - lacking the hindsight of some 250 years of history, sociology, public policy, critical race theory, statistical modeling, etc — didn’t foresee a scenario where the weighted handicapping of power in the Senate not only gave sparsely populated states an advantage to…

If she was truly that damn worried about what’d happen if/when the Democrats are in the minority maybe she should consider legislating like she wants Democrats to keep and have a stronger majority - that can only really happen if the party is able to do the things they promise people that make them a party to vote…

I did not need to think of his dick, but now it’s all I can see, in its verdant-crusted choad glory

Woke a motherfucker up on a plane, no - got the man woken up on a plane, to tell him he fucked up music? Really? I mean... even if you believe that (and there are soooo many exemplars of Music Fucker Uppers out there he could’ve been rude as shit to) was it truly worth disturbing a man’s sleep? Did that shit stew in…

Thought: bring it back, but tilted. then have a larger, maybe sandal-wearing, foot of Lady Justice  there knocking it down. Or: the gravel idea with a plaque: ‘this parking lot was made with the white tears from the removal of a garbage stone phallus’.

Ooo, pregnancy for season two, but there’s a complication, leading to a season three where there’s now a cute baby or toddler that’s the albatross on the show (bonus if there are catch phrases and enough ‘Aw!’ moments)

I really dug the Morty section and was quite happy to see that it was the A Plot and Rick shit was the B. Morty has definitely been affected by Rick/Rick-isms, but is still just too damn Morty to take a second and pause and maybe ask questions. The IR nerd in me saw ties to the US in foreign intervention: Rick/Great…

Might be a more aggro response. Frankly it’s been a thing for quite some time - try to wade through DS9 fanfic without tripping over some hardcore Garak/Bashir stuff, then go farther back with Kirk/Spock. Probably leans on the same crap: what gets shown vs what reality is/what people actually want. Plenty of straight…

Hmm... I will not even try to untangle that word vomit. But maybe go parallel, cause maybe? Male friendship - close, deep, platonic friendship between two men (sexual orientation of the parties involved not a factor, they don’t want each other) where there’s talking and shared emotions and deep empathy... isn’t…

Never going to hate on any baby, especially one still figuring out things like temperature regulation and gravity. But you can raise an eyebrow at a parent - and that’s really all you can do, because maybe those names have a special meaning and power to both and it’s not anyone’s business.

I need more context - not because I care, but because I feel like it was a quote from some media I should know. But yeah, maybe we don’t give Hunter Biden a cushy non-job gov’t job... what’s that? He’s just a recovering drug addict hyper-privileged white guy with a rich daddy now old and smart enough to keep his ass…

Really didn’t need to do that. LMM was going to be alright (and as rightly pointed out it there was an entire directing, casting, and production group to look at too as well as general American culture), she wasn’t needed to serve as an EGOT-having fairy godmother. Or, if she really needed to, she could’ve took a…

While I agree with you: was it that she wanted to be Elizabeth Taylor - as in have her type of career withall the fame and opportunities, or she wanted to be Elizabeth Taylor - as in be seen as some white lady? Because she could’ve gone the Rita Hayworth/Raquel Welsh way of tossing her name, dying her hair, and shrug…

Indeed. Can’t say he don’t care about his kids... or the retirement home they might shove him in.

Democratic party booting of Manchin and Manchin types would require

I’m pretty sure his appeal would drop off dramatically if he started showing up at random people’s door with cookies and weed, uninvited and without warning.

Kinda fucked, though: if not enough money/face time is sunk in there’d be a whole faction of the party in their feelings about not listening/talking to the real* America. Then that’d be the tool used by folks pitching the “same bird, different wing” shit that stopped meaning shit when the big-R Republican Party went…

Also: would harm his daughter’s current and future pockets.