The main reason the ending was unpopular isn’t because favored characters got a raw deal, it’s how nonsensical it all was, because none of it was explained in any way that showed some semblance of logical progression.

Yeah, hence the “or whatever tarnished shred remained” remark. :)

Yes - it’s not like there’s anywhere you can necessarily go and see what you owe. They just ask you to attest, “under penalty of perjury”, that all your court debt is paid up. I’d say it’s kafkaesque, except trying to prevent ex-felons from voting is the entire point. It’s even more insidious and evil because if you…

It’s not that she’s unintelligent. No, it’s that she has no moral compass or spine whatsoever, and has figuratively sold her soul (or whatever tarnished shred of it remained) for a position as one of Trump’s lackeys. Trump has made it very very clear that he doesn’t value intelligence or the ability to think, he…

I mean lying is pretty much all they’ve got to offer anyone, short of a mix of blatant hate/racism and dystopian levels of plutocracy.

This is a great step, and I’m glad they did - but they shouldn’t have needed to in the first place. The state of Florida even straight up admitted in court that they can’t identify who needs to pay, and how much they need to pay. Their entire point of passing this law wasn’t to collect money (the fact that Florida…

My money is on dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House by Secret Service/Federal Marshals/etc. At least, one can hope.

Pence can’t pardon him for state level crimes.

I’d be really curious to see just how their traffic to Deadspin is doing now versus how it was before.

What’s really interesting is to consider how the price of AAA games is something that has been remarkably inflation resistant, compared to most things.  Games cost around $50 as far back as 30 years ago. Few other things have seen that stable of a price - if anything the price of games has effectively been falling…

I’m mostly surprised it got through a Republican controlled state senate.

It’s also entirely ineffectual against anyone who isn’t already a true believer. They tried this shit before in 2018 and in my state’s gubernatorial elections in 2017, and guess what? It failed miserably.

Ex-Federal employee here (DHS, though non-LE). I am so fucking glad I’m nowhere near that mess. I got out well before Trump was president, so I can’t claim it was for purely moralistic reasons, but it still sickens me to see agencies that I worked for/with being twisted to this racist shithead’s evil ends.

I’m so looking forward to seeing him dragged kicking and screaming out of the white house and arrested for trespassing.

Let’s be honest, it’s not like inherently contradictory ideas are a problem for diehard Republicans. These are the same people that simultaneously believe that the Federal Government is inherently bumbling incompentent lazy morons, and also fiendishly clever masterminds conspiring to take away their…

Yeah - the thing to remember about Biden is that he’s never out in front leading, but he’ll move left without hesitation as the consensus/Overton window/etc does. While that may not be ideal, it’s certainly something progressives can work with - especially since the real roadblock will be what can pass the Senate. Any…

It’s well past time for teams to get their sh*t straight. If you want to see an example of how to do things right, consider the Florida State Seminoles, who actually have a very strong relationship with the Seminole Tribe, and work hand in hand with them to make it a celebration of the tribe and its culture/history.

He’s also the same dipshit who thought it was a good idea to post attacks on Biden over a family photo of him holding his son, that Biden had posted on Father’s Day (captioned with musing on the importance of being a good father).

The answer is that they (and by they I mean individual recruiters) are always in a cutthroat competition for recruits. If you’re a recruiter, your evaluation (and thus career advancement) depends on how well you do, and that is measured in the number of soldiers you enlist that ship off to basic, with some…

Speaking as a veteran, the fact that the recruiters are master bullshitters is pretty much common knowledge in all the services.* If you tried to count the number of enlisted who had a “my recruiter lied to me” story, it’d be damn near 100%, and the only ones who didn’t would be the one that had someone already in…