I gave up on GB when Brad, Vinny, and Alex left.  They were my 3 favorite personalities.  I like Jeff, but and Bachlar and Rickert, but I can only get through so many podcasts a day.  The shift to hybrid work has just dramatically cut down on my commutes so I have been 6 or 7 months behind on podcasts since the…

be tired of the gop voters.  They will vote for anyone who has an R next to their name.  This guy shouldnt be holding office, let alone be a congressmen and frontrunner for a senate seat.  

Trump is canny, which isnt the same as smart. He has a good instinct for keeping his base enthralled, but he is awful at knowing how to use that to do anything productive.

On economic issues, 100%.  The MSM continuously lets the GOP frame the terms of every discussion and debate.  For the Dems, it is not a fair fight, but it is what it is and their inability to ever frame a coherent message is mind numbing.  They back down on pointing out that the two biggest reasons we have inflation:…

The N64 sold for 199.99 at launch.  Adjusted for inflation that is 375.  So i mean cheaper than a ps5.  But Turok cost 75 bucks, that is like 140 adjusted for inflation.  I got FF3 on Snes for christmas in 1994.  It cost like 80 bucks according to my mom at the time.  That is like 160 now.  Games got cheaper on the ps…

the ending is fundamental to the story.  I just finished the remake.  They need to keep that the way it is.

Sub par compared to whom? I dont say that real health care reform is a pipe dream, I said it is a pipe dream until we start seeing real economic impact studies concerning knock on effects on the economy. Because no one has ever moved this many people onto a universal system from a private system. The only way that…

I cant think of too any kids books that go over 6 books, with that level of page counts to compare them to.

No.  Her chastity in a culture where the legitimacy of noble children is considered important to determine succession is not a trivial thing.  Its trivial compared to killing rivals by our sensibilities, but not that of the feudal society they live in.  

Those arent what his leaking had any relation to. Our government as compared to China or Russia, or Iran, or Turkey or any other major, non western power? Europe, Japan, Korea, Austrailia, NZ, Canada all handed over their security policy to the US during the coldwar. Part of our structure of government is reflected by…

I dont know, current economic issues aside, the UK is nice.  Their flow of life is pretty similar to ours, but they get more national holidays, the country more or less goes on vacation between christmas and new years....and you get universal healthcare.  

We also have intelligence oversight committees in the Senate and House, with elected representatives on them. Snowden decided his judgment supersedes our elected officials and, thus, our own rules.  Fucking traitor.

The best of the major powers maybe.  You dont hear about France doing this...but then they dont have to.  The US is largely responsible for the security posture of the western world.  But if France was top dog, or vying for it, they would be doing the shit we do.  We took over the top position from the British.  That…

Correction, a traitor flees to Russia.  You can be a criminal and still not betray your country, and your countrymen.  This clown put the lives of US intelligence operatives at risk.

No.  He took the job with the security firm with the intention of exposing secrets, that is literally the definition of espionage.  He didnt stay and face the music. That would have been a whistleblower.  He leaked our diplomatic cables, putting our spies at risk.  People focus on the NSA spying...really, anyone here…

they wont draft him.  He is useful to Putin just to remind the US that they have him.

There isnt enough golf in Russia.  They dont have the population to support the rallies his ego needs.  Trump wont flee because he doesnt think something will happen to him.  He has never had to face consequences.  The closest he came was rich person bankrupcty in the 90s...then his dad died and he got bailed out, he…

I dont know.  The US doesnt allow you to be a citizen of another country if you have to take a loyalty oath.  Its typically only available for birth right citizenship of countries.

How about Dumbledore leaving Harry at his abusive Aunt and Uncles house for 11 years.  Like the weaselys couldnt have taken him in?  Here is the kid of two well known and powerful wizards, lets leave him with his non wizarding family who will actively abuse him emotionally while neglecting him.  England has an…

a princess lying about making out with her uncle and sleeping with her sworn sword (in an age where a noble woman had to be chaste to ensure no issues with hereditary transfers of power) is not a trivial thing.  At all.  It is trivial to us, in this day and age, not in the world they have constructed.