Point of order: the British Royal Family is as Greek as they are British... i.e., ethnically/culturally not at all. The Greek royal family was a bunch of inbred Germans. We don’t claim them.

So much this. Energize and mobilize your base, rather than try to pander to win retrograde morons who aren’t going to vote for you anyway.

*are human nature. Whoops.

Sigh... probably fucking never. Tribalism and fear and hatred of the “other” is human nature. I mean, maybe we’ll EVENTUALLY be able to do away with the confederacy bullshit (if the US survives that long), but it will be replaced by something else.

That’s not alarming, it’s fucking fantastic. The goal of a terrorist is to incite terror. If the general reaction is “fuck, I’m going to be late to work,” the terrorist has failed. We want terrorists to fail.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but I’d be wary of the no true Scotsman fallacy.

There are plenty of areas of Brooklyn where the same shitty, ignorant, racist attitudes are prevalent.

Because, like most Republicans, he’s a divisive and opportunistic shithead, who wants to imply that it was a politically-motivated assault by one of us violent libs.

I agree that we shouldn’t all get too excited just yet, but the difference here is that Mueller is (hopefully) going to be procuring several indictments before he even makes a run at Trump ... you’d have to think (hope) SOMEONE will flip.

good lord, hadn’t thought of this, but that is depressingly accurate.

This is all beautifully said, but I’m not sure there’s an established causal link between Chad pulling out and the four soldiers killed in Niger. If we want to make it his Benghazi, though (i.e. bullshit that we pin on him regardless of facts), I am 100% ok with that.

Oh, he knows you can delete tweets.

Does dementia impact IQ test results? I doubt he cracks 100, tbh.

The USMNT failing to qualify is perfectly appropriate. What was supposed to happen (or should have happened) didn’t (failing to qualify/Trump winning), highlighting massive systemic deficiencies (electoral college and the repeated breaching of uncodified norms by DJT/shitty talent development).

Shit, if all Muslims are responsible for the acts of a few terrorists, it would stand to reason the law-abiding gun owners would be pissed when one of their own goes rogue.

Fair. Sigh.

he’s not; it was a primary

The idea of George with the whiteboard cracked me up. A friend of mine and I keep saying we probably won’t read the books when (if) they finish, but will check out plot summaries on wikipedia to see what happens with fake Aegon, Lady Stoneheart, etc.

Here’s the thing, though - would anyone read the books if Sanderson finished them? He’s a hell of an author, for sure, but the whole reasoning behind hiring another author to finish the series is so you get closure. If the show delivers that, then is there a need to do so in the books? I mean, I get that it’s weird…

GRRM told the writers how it plays out, in broad strokes. Obviously, they took significant liberties even when there was direct source material, so I’d imagine the book ending and series ending will diverge in a lot of ways (while hitting the same broad notes). That assumes, of course, that GRRM ever finishes the…