I was thinking more about the “niceness” (read: passive-aggression) and the greater acceptance of social welfare spending (the popularity of which has declined dramatically as ethnic diversity has increased).

Minnesota is basically Canada anyway so there’d be some continuity

Arabella Juniper Torres is her name.

So he was in a gang after all.  The doppelgang.

No shit! I’d love to find an example of a PoC driver involved in a drive-by shooting, bank robbery or home-invasion homicide getting off as lightly as Terrell.

Aiding and Abetting charges (to me) seem to be over applied, though apparently only for Black, Latino and really poor white people.

And that they literally cannot function without proximity to whiteness and patriarchy and power. Like, you move them 25 feet away from them and they become more and more useless, like a Comcast remote separated from its modem.

Did someone say Sucker Punch?! (I’m sorry, don’t “what’s good” me.)

I think that Bernie is so steeped in 1960s Marxist social and historical analysis that he is intellectually incapable of seeing any issue through anything other than a purely economic lens. That said, you’re not wrong. As you said, he literally cannot help himself.

“Damon” must be swahili for “lacks a mature palate”.

Ohh..it’s no secret..I love it...

Poutineteen

Totally appropriate for Umi Says to start up from my playlist while reading this. Love it when everything comes together! 

I really thought you were talking about the band. I was so thrown for a second.

I suspect that at first you had a lot more support folks at Fox who treated it just as a job, and ignored the political slant - but as time has gone by, and the political slant from Fox has gone from “conservative” to “fascist/white-supremacist and completely detached from reality” more and more of the competent sorts…

See? This is how it’s supposed to be done, “protect and SERVE.” Not ‘criminalize first’.

Or he knew full well the consequences of *not* doing the photo. (“Özil’s defense of the photo-op—“having a picture with President Erdogan wasn’t about politics or elections, it was about me respecting the highest office in my family’s country”—can read as weaselly over here in America, but then again Americans don’t…

Damn. And is it just me, or does it look like the hands belong to the same person?

basically the Carl Reiners and Mel Brooks-es of the future,

That really sounds more like a “you win some, you lose some” week to me.