There are something like 400k churches and a lot of them have fewer than 75 people in them. The average churchgoer does not attend anything resembling a megachurch.

On a relative-to-expectations basis in 2022 some of them did.  Hopefully that trend continues into 2024.

I mean I’m definitely joking here but that’s the politics some people want. They want Democrats in shaky states to get behind actions that their states and districts won’t support, without any real analysis about how to sustain the majority after the action occurs.

I guess my point is that playing “Power Politics, nothing is off the table” hard ball isn’t necessarily a good way to play at politics in a country where anyone’s votes still count at all.

Let’s give an honest assessment of the result of the right’s “success” there? One that doesn’t catastrophize and allow us to construct a declinist narrative.

Or, or, and hear me out on this, Democrats could get a tiny majority in both chambers, ramrod a court expansion and a bunch of justices through long with all my other favorite legislation, shove all of the pet cases I want through the court system, and assume that the result will be perpetual electoral bliss because I…

Are you saying I don’t get to decide that because a bunch of online weirdos think I don’t?

I mean yeah, of course there’s nothing sacred about 9 the problem is building the political will to do it.

Move over Tomato, I’ve got a new favorite commenter and it’s this guy.

How are they not roasting her over letting their batshit father have a say in their names?

I will never not understand how the ending could have been anything other than them heralding back to their purpose being “the family business”.

Inevitably detractors will argue that, because Calip does not explicitly say “I would like to press my open mouth against Tauro’s,” this isn’t a confirmation of anything. And sure, there is no direct confirmation of Calip’s feelings for Tauro, but that is prose. That is the way you write about someone you long for.…

Naw.

I mean, do you see lots of grandparents rocking bikinis and speedos on beaches or do most of them behave like non-online weirdos and wear swimsuits that are better at containing their increasingly droopy bits?

To be equal opportunity about this, I also think old men shouldn’t wear speedos.

“Grandma Demi Moore,” so says Page Six, wore a bikini on Mother’s Day, and this made headlines. I wish more grandmas wore bikinis on Mother’s Day. Go off and strip, baddies.

Yeah he was arrested dozens of times for how he acted out, including for a pretty serious assault of an older lady. Dude had no business being on the subway in the state he was in.

Naw, Neely was acting out, which creates an unstable and chaotic situation. Mix in even just one person who won’t measure the force they use to respond very well, be they a cop or a vigilante, and that’s all you need for a tragedy like this to happen. When someone keeps acting out as often as Neely had, eventually…

And, finally, fuck you to New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for saying that a white man murdering Jordan Neely on the subway proves the need for forced mental-health hospitalizations. The housing crisis is right there, bro.

Similar. I didn’t let my 8 year old stay up but I did make sure it was pre-loaded and ready to go and when he woke up at 4:45 this morning I let him go ahead and get started playing before school and he’s looking forward to playing after school as well.