Mrs. F will always go Nazi (or rather, authoritarian and arch-conservative. But it fits well enough and I didn’t title the essay)

They don’t need to. All they have to do is have power, then wait for the people without it to scramble over each other to be “one of the good ones.” Once they’ve gotten their foot in the door, they’ll fight tooth and nail to protect the status quo

There is a moral polarization in this country, politics is just the name we’re comfortable giving it so far

What a coward. I know I shouldn’t be, but I am astounded that the Republicans could walk out of yesterday with even the slightest feeling that this vote was a good idea

Cartman making racist generalizations about Token is not new ground, even if they’ve updated the reference. They’ve altered it enough to be able to tell the same jokes they always have been, but the world has changed and satire has evolved away from “look at how racist Cartman is being” or “Randy sure is sexist, but…

This episode seems like it was written in 2004. It’s one thing to rip off your own storylines or bring up a bunch or real world events without really having anything new to say about them, but the jokes aren’t even funny. I watched this happen to The Simpsons too, it’s a real bummer when a show you loved gets too…

Well said

He wasn’t the best part of Community but it was a well written character, even when Pierce became outright villainous and cowardly as the show went on (which looking back was probably a reaction to Chase’s behavior on set)

I have no idea if the “spend the competition out of existence, then turn the screws on the consumer” strategy will end like Amazon or MoviePass, but I think we can all agree that this Quinn dude would be fun as hell to tell that you had gotten headhunted with a much better offer.

“Deserves to be heard” is becoming the condescending phrase of the year. Like they’re willing to take some time out to make her feel better by letting her vent, as you would with a child who had a bad day at school

Authoritarians can’t capitulate, their power is derived from people who embrace them for their perceived strength. Facts and narratives can be rewritten on the fly, but showing weakness or giving any ground to the appointed opposition undermines their supporters’ confidence and, by extension, their loyalty

It’s Blitzwing not Starscream, but the movie still looks dope (relative to my lowered expectations)

43 days until midterms. Vote, even if it’s just to say you made the gesture and nothing more. Bring a friend if you can, ask them to do the same.

Jake Johnson, because I find his humor lazy and condecending, and Jimmy Buffet because he makes terrible music that my worst boss ever loved playing every shift

It reminds me of older comedians complaining about how audiences are too sensitive or they won’t do colleges anymore. Obviously if a roomful of people aren’t laughing at your jokes, they must be the problem. Sure buddy

I don’t think it tanks the episode or insults my intelligence, but I didn’t care for the ending either. Bojack might be too self absorbed to notice a room full of lizards, but no one intervened even when he was messing with their relative’s casket?

“please don’t contact me, live your life as if I don’t exist anymore,”

“Chickens”

Politico had an article about some rumblings of a Russia investigation document dump Trump was cooking up for mid-October, part of me wonders if someone looking to get Kavanaugh out of the headlines going into another weekend didn’t decide to leak word about McCabe’s memo early. The obvious contradiction would be the…

That’s not a Twitter mob, that’s the audience (the same one the advertisers are paying for access to). The cultural landscape has definitely shifted, but not being willing or able to shift with it just means Buruma was no longer qualified for the job he had