Leaving aside how horrifying our government’s hanging the Kurds out to dry just after they’ve wrapped up a successful campaign against fucking ISIS, and the weirdness of his self-aggrandizement, because I really just can’t think of anything else to say on those:

One of them was slick enough to help with the Agnew conspiracy and Iran-Contra and came out of those without getting much on him. The other one could barely stop self-owning long enough to commit war crimes.

I thought they set up some rules back in the 90s, when Republicans were real into impeachment for things like “lying under oath.”

The really screwed up thing is that (from what I’ve heard) this event was the catalyst for a lot of the real intense voter suppression and other Jim Crow laws that sprang up at the time. So, not only is it extremely significant because “armed mobs overthrew an elected government and the rest of the country just went…

If they don’t look like pale Boss Nass, they can’t be trusted.

Can confirm, no part of this was taught in North Carolina K-12 schools while I was there. There was some information (with poor context) given on Reconstruction, and then they sort of handwaved a couple decades of state history and suddenly it was the 1920s.

God willing, this will be the dumbest thing any of us will read today.

It would be a WILD twist to say that. Like, it would completely negate every theme of every prior movie to say that maybe sometimes fascism is justified. I think I’d actually really hate that.

We’re three movies into a third trilogy. There’s surely a point at which we don’t need things to continue to be explained to “set up the next thing.”

I just weirdly hoped he might not give us Lost: Star Wars Edition, where everyone has always been inevitably, personally involved and the story does something besides whir along from twist to twist until he abruptly realizes he’s got to wrap it up. I’m fine with not getting a Paul Thomas Anderson movie or whatever, I…

I’m actually concerned now that we’re going to get handed a prequel-caliber Star Wars movie from Abrams. Not trying to say it’s going to retroactively ruin my childhood or anything, I just worry he’s going to spend a bunch of screen time making references to older movies, and not give us much that’s new or that grows…

The realists are mostly laughing at the idea that a centrist is going to win over any significant number of Republican or conservative voters at this point, and noting that progressive candidates have comparable poll numbers to Uncle Joe.

It really should be surprising that they’re going to raise hell over a 1% tax increase on their fucking genie treasure/dragon hoards, and assume that a lot of people aren’t going to then do the math and go “Oh, so, this will impact you less than when I give $20 to my local rescue mission so they can feed children,…

I feel you. It’s fully 95 a couple hundred miles south. Our plants are all screwed up - some are trying to drop leaves, others are just roasting and drying out.

That was one thing I found interesting and occasionally frustrating about The Flash. After about episode 4, the cops are out there, but if it’s anything more serious than a cat up a tree, they’re just keeping an eye out so they can alert the guy who can move at Mach 3 and ignore friction and physics generally to show…

D’aww, is the collection of facts harmful to someone’s worldview?

Yeah, it’s not like there are official government reports on it, or confirmation from the President and multiple administration sources, or anything. I mean, if those things were out there, how complete a dipshit would you need to be to characterize this as made up by a blogger?

It’s a wealthy guy, backed by wealthy guys, hiring someone to undermine protections that increase quality of life for people they don’t give a shit about so they can make more money.

It definitely is. There are widespread efforts to find and frighten this person, and I hope they don’t work. Leave aside that the Trump administration is a tire fire of corruption and wanna-be authoritarians, and imagine the damn bravery it takes to do this.

I would assume it’s jail. That’s usually what’s on the line with subpoenas if you don’t cooperate.