Even putting aside that when it comes to choosing GWB over Trump, there are about 37 people in America who make up that audience, what is it they are actually supporting in terms of solving the problem?

Mattis is speaking out, now, after having covered for Trump for years (and there’s still a lot more he could say that he’s not). Esper hasn’t resigned. Both of these guys, and every high ranking military officer, have sat through, and tolerated, a lot of insanity from Trump. The military may well enforce the rule of…

most of the people who are armed to the teeth, who insist that they need their arsenal as a bulwark against tyranny, actually favor the idea of the government calling in troops to brutalize people calling for equal rights for black and brown people.

Hey, remember that hero who threw the shoe at George W. Bush back in 2008?

Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for 2 minutes after he was unresponsive and someone else was unable to find a pulse.

I’m not sure you could encapsulate what is wrong with our politics any more crisply than this: A former DEMOCRATIC staffer, discussing his tenant, a person who is facing off against an authoritarian police force, saying that the tenant, who could be subject to rubber bullets, tear gas, flash grenades, or worse, isn’t…

The continued existence of confederate monuments throughout America (including places that weren’t even a part of the confederacy) is a perfect example of the contempt with which black Americans are viewed. Monuments to horrible racists abound in this country—George Washington, who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson who…

Even if I can’t get these rural whites to recognize that aligning themselves with plutocrats over working-class minorities is a terrible business decision

That gets to the problem of who it is for, and who among that potential audience is actually going to pay for it.  They have multiple bingeable series options that actually stretch the story over multiple episodes, so that in reality it is not just 10 minute chunks of content, but can take up a half hour or an hour or…

That’s fair.  But then the problem is that they launched without casting to TV as an option.  So then it’s not that the idea that’s fatally flawed (although it still might be), but that they failed to provide a basic bit of functionality.

The app’s co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg told the New York Times in May that the coronavirus is to blame. 

Time to play everyone’s favorite game: Most craven Republican defense of Trump. But really, as always, there are a variety of flavors to choose from, and it depends on how you like your bootlicking cowardice. Do you like blatantly mischaracterizing the situation? Here’s John Cornyn, a master of the form:

Stop killing black people and hold officers and others who kill black people accountable.  You know how you can tell that is what the protesters want?  Because the protests are in response to cops not having been held accountable for killing a black man.

What’s happening right now is not about public safety. If anyone was interested in safety, you wouldn’t send police in full fucking riot gear out to deal with protesters who are protesting police abuse and violence. That is a deliberate provocation. And the police asserting their authority to act with impunity and…

Do you really not understand what the demands are? The only way you could possibly think the point of the protests is unknowable is if you just woke up this morning, from a coma, ignorant of American history as a whole, as well as the events of the last few months in which there have been multiple unjustified…

I’m not racist and i never have been but i need to speak up about this because just not being racist isn’t enough.

It’s still the answer. I really can’t find it in me to care all that much that some buildings get fucked up.

Right!  Police are attacking non-violent protesters!  They clearly are not capable of keeping the peace, at least not when it comes to protests that are targeting their own behavior. So they shouldn’t be there!  Sending more jack booted thugs to quell the protests against the tactics of the jack booted thugs isn’t a…

No, he’s not. A very astute observation indeed. 

I agree the violence needs to stop.  So tell the police to stay the fuck away from the protests, since they’ve done nothing but be an accelerant since this all started.