Yeah, the characters acknowledge a couple of times that their actions don’t mean anything official, but I think there are two decent readings of the show. One is just that the kids are overestimating their own strength and import, which I would argue has been a theme from the beginning. But the other, just tonally, is…

One thing worth looking at is the parallels to the 2000 election; Gore actually publicly conceded based on the media calling Florida for Bush and only rolled it back when he realized the results were worth waiting out and contesting. Similarly, remember in 2020 a big ado was made of Fox News (iirc) calling AZ for…

They don’t really say that, but what they’re doing is giving Succession’s George W. Trump ammo to keep it alive in the court system so that ultimately it gets to SCOTUS level where the Succession version of Clarence Thomas can vote in favor of the candidate for whom his wife works on the transition team. Or, ATN just…

“Jacobs also confirmed that having a central count in Milwaukee does mean that all absentee ballots are processed in one place on one day, making the possibility of a well-placed fire genuinely changing political tides a very real one.”

Well Jesus fucking Christ don’t tell everyone that!  

The actual election and vote counting process is surprisingly durable and effective, despite MAGA Republicans striving to undermine it 

But showing a movie in its entirety in a class is a violation of the home use agreement that comes with every DVD/BluRay/VHS.

Has nobody in FL ask to remove all bibles from schools on account of all the sexual assaults?

My hope: make this our generation’s Scopes Monkey Trial. Charge her. Force her to defend herself in court. Then let the best lawyers the ACLU can find tear that law apart for the unconstitutional mess that it is.

If kids are capable of viewing material that shows opposite sex partners, they’ll be fine viewing material that shows same sex partners. They’re not even pretending that this has anything to do with sexuality, it’s just legislation expressing the idea that “ew, gay people are gross”.

“Free speech is under assault from the Left!” I shriek as I persecute teachers for crimethink.

Absolute insanity. They aren’t even pretending it’s not bigoted anymore. 

Jesus, even by the standards of modern AV Club this is embarrassing stuff.

This episode isn’t predicting anything, it’s highlighting how Bush Jr became president in 2000 despite losing the popular vote.

Yeah this episode had me stressed and feeling kind of ill precisely because it took me BACK to all the shit that’s already happened (as well as IS happening and likely will CONTINUE to happen) . I’m not even american and ‘16 (and ‘20) was one of the most painful things I’ve ever been through on that kind of stage.

Seriously, this article showed the same cluelessness as a classic Pat D. take.

Oof, maybe AV Club just shouldn’t do political analysis.

Damn I want to live in your world, where there aren’t busloads of right-wing extremists dropping by polling stations, there aren’t arsons blamed on both sides, and the financial elite don’t jerk the reins this way or that nominally for business reasons but mostly for coddling ego and daddy issues, where an election…

Man, if all that Coby says is true, what a bitchy little prima donna. Reminds me of a girl I knew in high school who fucked around on her college essay and went out drinking the night before the SATs and then bitched because she didn’t get into Yale. It was Yale’s fault then too, for not recognizing her inherent…

The unevenness of the present storyline is all worth it for Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis and theother incredible adult actresses in those career best roles

Well, I guess now we know why Van isn’t paying her bills. She’s got no spouse or kids that we know of for her creditors to come after, so why bother?