The Cole one was modeled on an actual actor they hired specifically for the role and the new one looks nothing like him. It’s “more realistic” by not resembling Aaron Staton’s actual face

I mean it’s not exactly a smart move to do so though if you need that person to support you, especially if you are trying to lead the Republicans, the chief party of religious nuts in this country

I mean they already voted him out. The democrats gave him a chance to grovel and he blew it. And then he pissed off the entire House by making them come out of “vacation”. The Democrats might in some ways benefit from the House constantly going through Speakers because the Republicans won’t even get the appearance of…

It will probably be like any other desperate job - the doctors you do get will be desperate and/or couldn’t get jobs anywhere else due to not being that good at their job or being shady. Or they’ll be crazy fundie types

Most people relocating are younger, not postmenopauasal. Female doctors don’t want to worry about their own abortion access and men with female partners (which is most of them) also will have problems with that. And those places aren’t exactly great for LGBT rights either 

These kids were through surrogates so that makes it harder. Also, they might not necessarily be using her eggs for all of them which would make it even worse. It’s why unless you dot your i s carefully with same-sex parenthood you can have difficulty proving you’re the parent

He likes them as tools/pets. Infants are the best stage for him because a nanny can do all the hard stuff and he can just project onto them without them disagreeing. Once they get older they start getting “opinions”

Yeah it’s freaky how casual they are about it. Surrogate pregnancy can be valuable for some people who need it but it seems like the super rich just use it to casually have more kids instead of the incredibly important decision it is for most people given the cost 

Yeah especially when she didn’t even like him enough to marry him, which would have at least made it easier to guarantee she’d have parental rights. If you don’t like someone enough to marry them, you don’t like them enough to have a baby with them

Apparently there was some nonsense about them trying to shove a cart into him? I think at the very least they’re idiots who don’t know how to deal with a dog. None of the other presidential pets had this many problems (though there was a bulldog who also bit people though it was so long ago that it was basically…

Yeah I mean I find her character vaguely creepy because all of her lines come off as disingenuous. But the jokes seem wasted on her- I wish someone like Leslie Grossman had gotten the part instead, she would’ve killed it

NYC was great, I really liked it. It was really moving and had some great actors that were a lot better than some of his normal choices

He looks a bit malnourished. Maybe his diet is weird?

I put his sexism as kind of like Eminem’s - they both seem to be mainly playing a part to be “funny”, but the sexism in their work still influenced how people thought even though there seem to be some elements from the way that people talk about them that make them seem not so bad personally

Stern’s divorce was apparently “amicable” and although he started dating new wife a year after the divorce he didn’t get married until 8 years after the divorce. Also he’s been married to new wife since 2007 so the marriage is now 16 years old, approaching as long as his marriage to the first wife. It seems like a…

Planned Parenthood usually tries to discourage counterprotesting near them since it’s still disruptive to the patients. Howeeever you could always “protest” with open carry outside some of the crisis pregnancy centers

Stand Your Ground is useless unless you’re the right kind of person and often then applies in ridiculous cases like “unarmed person argued with you”.  Part of gun control is that it’s wielded as a tool of right wing and fascistic power. If you are the “right” kind of person, you get to behave in ridiculous ways like…

Yeah- I mean I do think wearing crocs while performing sounds like a recipe for more injury but the tour manager sounds like a nightmare and Lizzo was responsible for hiring her. It seems like she was making some very toxic decisions as an employer

Yeah but theoretically if someone gave a shit they could also still talk about other topics sometimes. I don’t care if my doctor discusses baseball with his colleagues as long as he properly diagnoses and treats whatever illness I have. Dark things are shocking to people who never encounter them but they get less…

In the book, life is slowly dying on Earth and the main religion is centered around a bond with animals. The ‘electric’ animals, just like the androids are just subtly different enough that they don’t have true empathy and you can’t connect with them the same way. The electric animals don’t count as much because…