At this point I've made peace with the fact that the "moderate" Republicans will be "deeply troubled" by the bill before folding like a bad hand and voting for it. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and the rest of the fanatics will decide that being able to kill some poor people is better than none, and voila, this shit bill will…

Assholes expecting everyone to be like Jack at the end and shit…

Yeah, I know, post-racial America is awesome! Turns out all we had to do to reverse 400 odd years of racism and systemic oppression was elect a black president!

It's not even like he was the only man to survive either. Turns out the combination of racism and libel is a pretty vicious combination

I doubt Saudi Arabia would kick us out of the base, but if they did we would be mighty hard pressed to find another friendly nation, apart from Turkey, and that has been a tenuous relationship.

Eh, I enjoyed this season of Fargo, ambiguous ending and all. That eternal struggle between good and evil continues. Admittedly, when I think of it, it always makes me think of Spaceballs "Now you see, evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

This season ended up bringing it all back home for me. Maybe started off a bit slow for some people but by the homestretch it brought it all together for a satisfyingly ambiguous ending. Damn fine stuff.

Damn, he does sound like a cool cat, and his story shows how far reaching the effect of presidential statements, even this president.

Oh, don't get me wrong Qatar is no innocent angel, but it's hardly alone in being a nominal ally funding extremists in the Middle East. It's one of the reasons we should at least, as a country, take a step back and evluate what our objectives are in the region, and what strategy we should take to accomplish them,…

You flatter me! As to the implications regarding free expression, I'm guessing it would would bring it in line with the Middle East regarding civil liberties, which is to say it would be terrible. I'm hard pressed to think of another nation in the area who would pick up that particular mantle. Saudi Arabia and Iran…

If the GOP told Trump supporters that sawing off their own arms would piss off liberals, there would be severed arms strewn across the land, and cackles of depraved laughter, secure in the knowledge that they had really stuck it to the snowflakes.

Their demands reminded me of those made by the Hapsburgs of Serbia after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. An unacceptable list in an impossible time frame. Thanks to Trump falling for the Saudis flattery, it kind of ties our hands to intervene in the problem.

Why thank you! I love the books absurdity, and since I'm no Yossarian and Clevinger, while a more accurate representation in my estimation, was a tad too obscure, I settled on one of the most absurd characters in a book full of them.

This episode left me saying "goddamn" at the television multiple times at varying volumes. To me, it's the mark of great television that in the moment Chuck was tearing apart his house, I felt empathy and sadness at his rapid decline where just a few scenes before I was angered at his callous indifference towards…

I can't disagree with that. I wish to hell that I could, but I can't shake the feeling that Trump represents the end of the old order, that even if we walk away from him relatively intact, we'll still be irretrievably diminished. Granted, it was always inevitable, and it's been a long time in the making, to have him…

Yeah, that is definitely a problem any popular word encounters, being used and abused until it's almost meaningless.

I would also have to do that. I'll be damned if Gaslight isn't coming up this morning on tcm.

Myers is really adept at these precise, compact takes. They're like a smaller version of the deep dives that Oliver does.

Too true, especially in regards to the vacuum Trumps presidency has created. It's a slow moving disaster whose impacts will be profoundly felt across our country and across the world. Global relations are a delicate arena, and we have released a particularly ill tempered bull into the china shop.

I'm not quite sure, gaslighting as a phrase has gotten away a bit from the plot of the film. As you and an earlier poster on the thread also pointed out, gaslighting would involve premeditation, and I don't think Trump and company qualify. Which is to say, they aren't purposefully trying to drive us insane, it's just…