So that second plot point is supposed to be a bad thing, right?

Well at least Richard Nixon's head. "ARRRUUUUUU!"

Would you do that for Billy Bob Thornton?

Compared to a single payer option yes it is "kind of" awful. The fact it took heaven and earth just to get ACA passed shows how completely insane this country is.

This is right here is why it's completely fucking nuts to have health care tied to the vagaries of employment. It's crazy you're having to deal with a situation like that.

To be fair, ACA is kind of awful too, since, you know, it was basically a Republican plan, too, it's just that this new Republican plan is pure, unadulterated evil.

The murders were finally over. And then the murders began.

Hmm, I can't help thinking that they would have made their point better if they had, you know, actually removed the books by the male authors.

Twitter makes money?

"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." - AV Club

Not to mention bitching about the dreaded "individual mandate" penalty. Which in point of fact the IRS has no power to collect on outside of taking your tax refund. Which I don't have anyway since I'm self employed (i.e one of the people actually affected by the penalty, if you're poor they give you a credit to pay…

Man I sure miss Nixon, Harding, Andrew Johnson, etc, etc. Yes Bush sucked, but that battle is over.

"Patrick Stewart, bald in his 30's. Sad!"

Wouldn't a pair of fuzzy slippers make more sense?

Which is what exactly? I mean, did you see this level of reaction when Bush was elected? Do you really think is was a good idea having someone this divisive elected? And that lost by 3 million votes? This isn't even a conservative vs liberal thing, I mean seriously, how in the hell could people vote for someone so…

Well fair enough. I mean honestly, I think even the Russian shit is probably overblown. There's plenty of other demonstrably horrible shit to be concerned with.

Yeah but if we don't keep actively hating this shit is gonna get normalized, see fucking speech yesterday, so he read off a teleprompter w/o saying anything too batshit crazy so "everything is fine now"

Because we've somehow managed to end up in the evil, goatee wearing alternate timeline?

Didn't look like it me but maybe I missed it. I suppose this would have turned into a horror movie gore fest if they'd really shown it realistically.

Little bummed by this and the last episode not really showing high G very effectively, but I guess there's only so much you can do given the limitations of not actually be able to film at high G, heck just the zero G stuff in Apollo 13 required a ridiculous budget. Although I wish the crash couches would have been…