Agree. I miss the park/real world contrast. There are more unexplored parks and I wish the show would move back inside them. The current plot structure and setting aren’t doing it for me and I see the storylines getting more and more unraveled as episodes/season(s) drag on.

Give NWA Powerrr a shot.

Not to get all Joseph-Conrad-Secret-Sharer-duality of man, but shadowboxing evinces just such concepts. You are your own opponent, and must create moves and counters to those moves on the fly. There’s nothing like slipping and parrying, pivoting, and getting off combinations while working on your breathing. It’s like…

Fuckin’ exactly right. As soon as Trump said “one day this will all just disappear,” I fuckin’ knew what the plan was: to declare victory no matter what. And yes, short of COVID wiping out the entire human race, I figured Trump would just wait for it to run its course, burn through however many dead Americans, and…

R.I.P., Bobby Mitchell. We love him here in DC.

“Of course they won’t get into the intriguing ramifications of the Dolores copies thinking, “Wait, I’m the real Dolores...what is this bullshit and why am I expendable suddenly?” (since they each have continuous consciousness and memories that insist to them subjectively that they’re “really” her).”

Desus & Mero is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment. Thanks for the writeup. Can’t wait to check this episode out.

The real outrage, beyond the bottomless grift and ghoulish disregard for humanity, is that not a single one of these motherfuckers will do a day in prison. Probably won’t even be indicted.

Good riddance. She was a shitty candidate and a shitty person, from her homophobia to her bizarre fetish for despots to her awful vote on impeachment to her culty religious beliefs to...could go on forever.

Seriously depressed and overwhelmed already. Work and younger children at home 24/7. I’ve heard/read stuff saying this could go on for a year or 18 months. Basically, kids are already at summer break and won’t be back in school until next year.

He’s not a human with the capacity for empathy? Literally?

Was just gonna say that. If God exists, he/she/it is a sack of shit. Or, at the very least—to steal a Pacino line: “He’s an absentee landlord! Worship that? Never.”

Pence was about to get run out of town in Indiana before Trump saved him.

Sorry, I misspoke. I’m a registered independent, so I can’t vote in the primary. But if I could—and if she were still in—I’d have voted for her.

Gen X’ers have always turned out to vote. They are second only to the oldest demographic of voters. If we say Generation X folks are anywhere from 40 to 54 years old (https://www.kasasa.com/articles/generations/gen-x-gen-y-gen-z), they have consistently ranked very high in voter turnout over the years:

I was ready to argue with you, but I reread your post and let it sit a while. Made me reconsider my position; thanks for that.

Maybe, but goddamn it could have gotten us out of a Trump presidency altogether. How about a basic high school civics-level exam? No chance he passes that. I’m just looking for a baseline competency, ya know?

I’m not smart enough to codify it, but I presume there’s a way to standardize and administer the tests fairly.

I dunno. You could be right. I’d chalk up any inconsistencies to the writing that doesn’t hew closely to King’s original work. I think they threw in a bunch of stuff toward the end to set up a second season, and so a lot of our comments/criticisms/questions are around the setup for a second season.

Talked with a friend about this, but I don’t support an age cap. I do think we should institute a series of testing for any presidential candidate—physical, psychological, and cognitive testing, etc.