Well now, at least those career pursuits are usually born of passion. Greed can only motivate a person through so many failed auditions/tryouts/dead shows.

And he'd also been governor. Trumpists treat it like a point of pride that he had absolutely no political experience, and whenever challenged on how that could be a handicap in taking on the highest political office on the planet, the response is usually that rich people know what they're doing.

Yes, but W had more to his name than just Look At All This Money I Made!

If there's one thing this administration accomplishes I hope it's that we will finally put to rest the myth that the very rich are inherently very smart.

You don't hear about it because they don't talk about it because it's business as usual. Writers/boarders submit scripts or boards, suits and censors comb through it to pick out the jokes they aren't willing to air, the scripts and boards get sent back to the writers and boarders and the changes are made. That's…

Every person my age and younger who shrugged off my insistence that they need to vote gave me the "giant douche/shit sandwich" meme. Thanks a fucking bunch, Matt and Trey.

Yup. These cowards helped bring us Trump with their dumbass preaching about "both sides are the same so who cares" glib faux-intellectual white dude bullshit. Fuck Matt and Trey. Their memes got repeated to me by every 20 something year old who told me there wasn't any point in voting because "giant douche/shit…

The deal wasn't for $10 million though. Snuffaluffagus is assuming he'd have earned that much money from the royalties.

I think it's valid to be critical of dumb statements and to call folks out on them, though I agree it often snowballs with folks being snarky for snarkiness's sake.

Sure, but if people are going to join and perpetuate the conversation about how he said something dumb, they should be informed.

Unless I misunderstood, I think there's an "unless" missing in your second paragraph.

No, but it's a fact that the internet has a bad habit of taking small sound bytes of larger discussions and excoriating people for them without bothering to seek out their original context.

It's more like the 0.0001%. Boy we got a lot of economic disparity! Doesn't roll off the tongue so well though.

Watch the debates again.

The article is about why that's the case and how to turn it around.

I've noticed the use of the word "corny" as a negative is a helpful identifier of people I won't get.

Delightful. I miss them though they've both gone on to many wonderful things.

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It was definitely an effectively unsettling scene. Like I say, I wish I had been given a reason to forgive James. It's hard to get past my prejudice against bullies, former or otherwise.

There was stuff I liked about it but the pacing knocked about two stars off for me. But maybe I was just too tired when I saw it.