Cool, you could have just said “I didn’t watch the clip.”

Possibly unpopular take?: It doesn’t feel like 2016 again, because IIRC there was a general sense then that of course Trump wouldn’t actually win and even he seemed surprised that he did.

Here’s the thing: reassuring your nervous supporters that the debate was “one bad night” shouldn’t be complicated at all. Just get the candidate in as many live, unscripted situations as possible to prove that he can still think on his feet and still has the stamina to campaign. Schedule a live, one-hour town hall…

The DNC is a dysfunctional mess and has very little power to actually do anything. If you’re looking for a broad conspiracy to produce the candidate you don’t like through the DNC, there isn’t one. Haplessness is a much better explanation for how things turned out than any sort of malice. The explanation for Biden…

Not news.

Unfortunately, the only thing that would do is secure the election for Trump, since his base is far less likely to jump ship no matter what.

Jesus Christ you are toxic, and you probably don’t even care about assault, trolling and flaming is your end goal.

I will be honest: we all have to be better than consuming terf media made by Boris Johnson’s sister. There could be something there, but I am going to do better than the Donald Trump Jr of podcasting.

In this very comment section, he’s already implied that people with autism are all rapists.

I am not really sure I have heard their accounts. I don’t know why you would stay in a relationship where you are having sex you don’t want to have and the person you had sex with is surprised and dismayed to find out you didn’t want to be having it. I am not hearing anything about him forcing anybody to stay in a…

“Overlap in their fanbases” is evidence of wrongdoing? What is wrong with you?

Tortoise Media, which as I write this is the only source for this story, is a far right podcast strongly tied to Boris Johnson, and best known for screaming about trans people. Neil Gaiman has been hugely critical of Johnson ever since he came onto the public scene, and is currently doing multiple projects with strong…

Yikes if true. I listened to the podcasts, they seem to be highly padded and most facts seem to be “corroborated” by third parties who were not present at the time of the accused actions. This outlet seems to specialize in very broad, thinly researched SA accusation serials. Believe victims but also, something smells…

Plenty of people in open relationships don’t commit sexual assault.  Not saying Gaiman is innocent but it’s this sorta attitude that gets innocent peoples railroaded as “sexual deviants”. 

The scheduling of each release was meant for readers to track the aging of the characters. The first book is geared for a kid around 11 or 12. Pretty solid marketing - how many other books had midnight release parties with thousands in line down the sidewalk?

Yep and the fact that kids that age didn’t have exposure to much good material at that point.

I think it just comes down to there being a ton of kids who are at least vaguely unhappy at school for various reasons. And the potter books combined many different elements of wish-fullfilment that really appealed to them.
You get to suddenly find out you’re special.
And get to spend time studying fun things (eg shapesh…

I’m sure Trump will say something like “We all love magic, don’t we folks” and evangelical Christians will flock to buy all the books.

“Inextricable,” maybe?

Man if there’s one thing you can say for JK Rowling it’s that she doesn’t rest on her laurels. Nope, she’s out there showing her whole ass all day every day.