He seems to be in a middle spot between old guard GOP, who I guess is represented by VP Boyer, and the alt-right pseudo intellectual internet-troll-come-to-life Menken.

Food as a status symbol but also a plot device is a consistent theme for sure. The examples that immediately come to mind:

What’s funny about the Waystar Royco hat is it runs contrary to the Roys’ penchant for wearing conspicuously non-branded clothing. Both Logan and Kendall favor plain, black baseball caps, no logo, which is a thing I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen in the wild. I know there’s probably some IRL rights/brand issues…

Connor is essentially the GOP base come to life. I think he’d be a perfect candidate for the party, tool for the family, and a disastrous president.

That’s essentially the situation. Any one of the Roys can pull the ripcord and bail and still live a life of luxury that anyone reading this thread can only dream of.

Shiv keeps trying to play things both ways. She wants to make her father proud and plays his games, but simultaneously plots against him and makes her own moves. She’ll trample Gerri if it means getting to deliver good news to dad, and at the same time conspire to send her father to prison. She chose the middle path…

I feel like the show was low-key suggesting that as terrible as Roman is on the surface, deep down he does truly have love in his heart — for his siblings, for his father, and ultimately that suggests that he has the capacity to be a good person (even if he appears to be the most acerbic member of his family, next to…

I’ve seen numerous recipes for salt crusted/salt encased fish but I can never bring myself to use the amount of salt required to try preparing them. 

There’s cars in it so sure

I loved that movie, but it is absolutely racist. I love it the way I love my racist grandma (RIP 1924-2009).

Honestly... this doesn’t sound completely unreasonable. A private tour of the Colosseum and a cold beer, plus lifelong bragging rights, for $900...? It’s too rich for my blood... but only just... 

The right to self-defense in America appears to be viewed through a very specific frame of reference:

Certainly the strongest cast I can remember. Feels like any of the four semi-finalists could have won any other season.

• The Ponzi Dome

Rittenhouse is going to be a go-to champion in the right wing machine for the rest of our lives.

Olympic athlete is a stretch but kid is a top tier dancer. He’s had a physically demanding career and probably knows the tune of his body and its performance backwards and forwards. If it’s declining in some way he would notice, and it’s not to be unexpected that he can’t do backflips in his mid-20s the same way he…

The easiest litmus test for answering the question “how fucking crazy is this politician” is if you repeated their words/actions in the workplace and the result is you getting fired.

Can you fucking imagine having to interact with Mark Wahlberg for seven months straight, 12-14 solid hours a day. That would break any sane mortal mind.

I agree 100% that this cannot be ignored. But symbolic gestures only hold as much value as the principles they represent. The very premise of “shame” is no longer something the GOP recognizes.

Voting to let Trump off the hook was grounds for an entire purge of the Republican Congress, in my view.