I think the reason people don’t like the sequel is because the first one had a happy ending, and the second one starts by tearing it up. And I’m not saying that’s a bad thing to do; sometimes yes, businesses fail and people are scapegoated for shit they didn’t do and relationships and friendships fall apart. But it’s…

It’s not that she can’t handle it, it’s that she handles it by strictly categorizing it. I’m sure one of her favorite pastimes is totaling up the points for the fictional characters in the shows she watches, figuring out which of the only two boxes in existence to put them in once they’ve finished doing all that…

You have to remember that Donald Trump’s only abiding philosophy is, “Fuck you, sucker, I got mine.” He’s not going to risk cramping his precious tiny fingers writing out a pardon for someone who isn’t useful to him anymore.

“You libs are so easily triggered.”

They don’t care anymore. They know that everyone inside the bubble will believe any bullshit they yammer out, and everyone outside the bubble is onto them, so why take the extra time and effort to craft plausible lies? Just say “fake news, Soros, lizard people lizard people lizard people” and move on to the next grift.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I’m pretty sure the majority of these judges’ “lifetime appointments” will be cut short by their arrest, conviction, and impeachment on corruption charges. The problem with filling positions with utter scum is that they don’t have the same charmed life that their scumbag leader…

Oh, I love Donny Osmond. I remember seeing him live in ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’, back in the 90s, and he really blew the doors off of those songs. But Gladys Knight is on a whole other level even from that.

In fairness, the first season they had Gladys Fucking Knight on there, which... respect is due, is all I’m saying. I think the rule seems to be that the older the singer is under the mask, the more likely it is that they’re a legit legend trying to show that they’ve still got the chops.

“[Rich person] would be better off not trying to take personal control of a process they know very little about just because they love using their money to buy power” is one of those truisms that rich people never listen to.

Frankly, I think scaring the piss out of multi-billionaires should be a fucking prerequisite for office.

Ewww! How could anyone defend that? It’s fucking creepy and inexcusable, and I know you already know that but I can’t help saying it because ewwwwwww!

I love the way you connected this metaphor back to the show, where Chidi was literally pulled into the hole by his efforts to help the toxic person. :)

I always think of Steve Martin hosting the Oscars one of the years Polanski was nominated yet a-fucking-gain, and pointing out into the crowd. “So many famous faces tonight. There’s Roman Polanski... GET HIM!”

I’d say it went pear-shaped in the first place because they never did the thing that was essential for all the others—they never convinced them that they didn’t belong there. That was absolutely vital for Eleanor; she needed to know, deep down, that the only reason she made it into the Good Place was because she was…

Although Bob Murray did lose a dozen miners in an accident caused by loose and shoddy safety standards at his mine. It just, y’know, wasn’t that particular mine.

After a certain point, money is only useful for buying control over other people’s lives. When you have enough money, you start to become completely accustomed to the idea that other people say and do and even think what you tell them to, and anything that punctures that comfortable bubble of solipsistic power becomes…

But again, he can’t just cut a huge check to an existing foundation to eradicate malaria. He needs to make sure it’s the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, run by his hand-selected people utilizing his ideas for what would be best for malaria eradication. He wants malaria eradicated, I’m sure, but first and foremost…

Oddly enough, shitting yourself doesn’t make you any more interesting.

Because people like Gates always want control. Always. He would be happy to give that money to a government he ran, but fundamentally he wants the power his money creates even when he’s spending it philanthropically. Just giving the money away and never seeing it again means that the people who have it aren’t beholden…

If he wanted to give away the bulk of his assets, he could do it. Charity Navigator is a thing. What he wants is to set up the bulk of his assets in such a way that his ideas for social change are promulgated eternally, with the money to force competing ideas out of the marketplace so that he and only he (and his…