And here I thought Republicans were supposed to be all Blue Lives Matter. Seems like as soon as anything that could be mistaken in bad light for a shoe (in this case, consequences for shutting down state government being mistaken for militaristic, adversarial policing experienced by millions of Americans) gets…

That actually would be a solid move. The Favored Enemy is too hard to predict, too, unless your DM will just say “We’re gonna show/fight a lot of X, Y, and Z.”

Wu would be a good Lan. I could see Bill Nighy as a really good Thom, but he might not want to get into a long-running action series at this point.

Or, many public libraries have audiobooks available for free. And I think you may have just given me a way to finish the draggy portion of this story.

I always saw that as an overcorrection to a long-running problem - Jedi who have poor emotional control often become superhuman kill-monsters who commit atrocities. Can’t help but imagine a couple millennia of records that say “So, they got too involved, their emotions got them carried away, and they got into the Dark…

There’s also her implication that people who aren’t “in line with the founders of America” or whatever can’t possibly people with whom we share values. It paints them as essentially destructive to our moral well-being, and anyone who doesn’t have a problem with them as being in opposition to “moral Americans.” Either…

Odds are 30-40% of them won’t deserve it, but they’ll suffer for the untempered foolishness of the rest.

Don’t forget threatened war no less than twice now! Once with a nuclear-armed power.

Shit, at least Biden’s actually pushed for cancer research. That’s kind of an “I invented the Internet” way to say it, and I’m not a Biden person, but at least there’s some truth to it.

An egotistical hyper-nationalist who’s a big believer in nepotism, holding rallies outside of political campaigns, pushing wartime rhetoric and threatening to curtail the free press, making impossible promises that are clearly not intended to be kept, threatening actual war on apparent pretexts, acting to isolate the…

They spent decades going after her (starting in the 80s!) because she’s a competent, intelligent, and ambitious woman.

#2 is really something. They’re already failing to give people will intellectual and developmental disabilities services. The state runs a managed care model that had a minor scandal a couple of years ago when it came out that almost a billion dollars were being held in reserve as services were being cut. #3 is also…

Hey, there’s no way we could know what he meant by that! He might might the “S” in BDSM. Although I don’t know that they’re necessarily seeking control...

Nothing says “Everything’s going great” like a ruthless internal purge over bad news.

He really took that bad advice he got after being bullied as a child to heart, and ran with it for a very long time.

I think the worst you can say about them is that they’re fairly conservative, they’re definitely incrementalists, and they’ve got a touch of the ol’ hubris. But they’re also a group of people who devote their lives to trying to preserve peace and justice the best way they know how, so I’d class them as generally good.

They think they can knock Iran on its ass without too much risk. NK has mostly-functional ballistic missiles that can reach several allies (at least - probably parts of the U.S., too), a handful of operational nuclear weapons, a relatively massive conventional army that can also threaten an ally, and China to back…

Successful military operations in the books are often a fast track to electoral success. If nothing else, if they commit some soldiers, they probably think they can demand to know why people aren’t supporting the troops, like Republicans did ca. 2004.

So, this is clearly just a harebrained plan to launch some low-risk air strikes for the “rah-rah” factor here to help with the next round of campaigning and maybe get some more of those sweet, sweet War Powers, and maybe kick off a regional proxy war, right?

A lot of them clearly remember the last time this happened very well, and aren’t trying to go marching to war on the word of a proven liar and a bunch of the same people who set up the last one of these we had. Which is good, but I’m not really sure how we (the U.S.) are going to get these chickenhawks to give up…