While Obama's approval did yoyo some especially in his first term when he dealt with a lot of flak for some bs polarized/racist reasons and also the politically inexperienced way he pushed a paradigm shifting health care reform( people will always resent change while the ACA wasn't perfect for me personally it grew to…

I know it's frowned upon to give Republicans a pass here but I don't know what I would do in his shoes. There is no way he expected that to be Maher's answer.

The immediate pressure to normalize or move past an incident like this can spread like wildfire because it relives the tension of the moment for everyone especially when the audience is on the set of the transgressor's show("his turf").

I would say I'm shocked but let's be honest I'm more shocked Maher hasn't said something like this more recently. He is just an asshole who thinks he gets a pass.

The fact that we can point to a reason as to why he is outlier means relationships will be much easier to repair.

His approval rating is plummeting. His disapproval rating is skyrocketing( which is key because he isn't making people feel lethargic about things but actively angry) If he somehow doesn't fall into impeachment proceedings over Russia than the mid terms will get him hamstrung. If unemployment stays high in the rust…

I'm not sure what to think about Arcade Fire's obsession with trying to write that 5 minute epic yet dancy pop tune that serves as a thesis statement for an album which tries encapsulate and explain the fallacies of American culture.

I wouldn't say Swag is aimless in NXT though. Perhaps the booking was unimaginative but the booking in WWE and NXT( American audiences in general) seems to be a slave to booking their rematches all in a row so they had to get Joe his heat back for a rematch 3.5 months away. Same issue with Roode as well.

I think part of it is style. But also that match with Zayn was a war, the matches with Joe were wars( slower because that's how Joe works but still really good). He also had two underrated matches with Aries and Balor imo, they suffered because Nakamura was clearly gonna win. Nakamura still uses 90% of his NJPW move…

So you bring up a point I want to discuss a little bit. I have seen this opinion that Nakamura seems to be less than he was in NJPW and I am wondering if you could articulate as to why you think that is. Aside from Ziggles all of his big matches have more or less been in the same style as his NJPW big matches. He…

I can't wait until they let Joe go on the mic. He is genuinely the most terrifying guy when he is cutting "Angry Joe promos". An angry Samoa Joe vs Brock Lesnar would be one hell of a match and promo build up.

Yeah occum's razor points to the Revival but dammit this is wrestling so I can hope.

Because Neville is still feuding with Aries and likely has a one off feud with Akira Towza before WWE breaks the glass on the emergency "Kalisto challenges for crusierweight title" storyline case.

I'm sorta hoping for a stealth return of the World's Greatest Tag Team. Shelton was gonna return to WWE last year before they discovered he had a bum shoulder that needed surgery. I think he was cleared a couple months ago to wrestle. Haas is out there and is one of the guys keeping the tradition of retiring then…

Thanks, cool story bro.

So this is where your book perspective will help me out. From what show version of Mr. World has shown he sorta encompasses the ideas of globalization, capitalization, and money. Idk if that's what they are shooting for but if it's not a Gordon Geeko style asshole would fit in great as a New God.

People don't worship that? In terms of "worship" laid out by Media( attention is worship) I think it would. It might be to on the nose and cute though.

The point about TV makes sense but with the tabloid industry, Hollywood, Entertainment News, this site,every individual entertainer's own fan sites, and reality tv it seems like the need to idolize fame and notoriety is a potent field to mine for devoution.

Yeah it's hilarious that the atheist is visited by the closest thing she devouted herself to that could be related to a God. I could almost imagine Anubis drawing the assignment to escort her to the afterlife and being disappointed that this is best he gets as "follower" anymore.

I'm a non book reader and haven't been spoiled besides the general outline that Mr. Wednesday gives the detective here( it's sorta crazy how long they kept that kind of exposition from any true non readers because it's a lot to digest).