Eastwood isn’t/wasn’t a washed up actor, so much as someone who transitioned into directing (and has been reasonably good at it). Though I definitely agree that 2012 bit with him and the chair was fucking weird as shit, and thoroughly tainted my opinion of him.

And that’s neglecting the fact that Legacy admissions are a far worse thing in terms of denying qualified applicants to Ivy League schools than Affirmative Action ever was, too.

You want to know why Democrats keep going back to centrists?

Sorry, Bigfoot porn isn’t disqualifying for a Republican congressman. Denver Riggleman was elected to Congress as a Republican from a rural Virginia district, despite the revelation that he’d written Bigfoot porn.

He was trending up a little, largely when the peak of the racist panic over protests was at its feverish pitch - but even then, he was losing ground elsewhere in other critical states. And the trendlines have started pulling back apart again - Biden is back over 70% on 538, where at one point he’d briefly dipped into…

Yeah, there’s only so much you can get away with bald-faced lying (and enlisting your subordinates to do the same) before everyone who’s not drunk on the kool-aid catches on. It doesn’t even matter if one of the several things listed in the Atlantic story are really false, because they all -sound- 100% believable…

Remember, whenever Trump or one of his ilk talk about “America”, substitute out the “c” for a “k” (or a “kkk”), and it makes a whole lot more sense.

She can take the Trump Shuttle! ...oh, wait, that went bankrupt, just like basically all of Trump’s business ventures.

“Britain sent all its criminals to Australia, and its religious fanatics to America. Australia got the better deal.”

You can buy them in bulk!

It’s also been confirmed by multiple news outlets, including reporters from Fox News (that known source of massive liberal bias /s):

When those on the right whine about this article being based on anonymous sources, keep in mind that Trump is NOTORIOUSLY vindictive, and anyone who dared speak against him would wind up with their career a smoking ruin, just like LTC Alexander Vindman.

Yeah, much as I hate to believe Pelosi, this does sound a lot like a grudge/hit-job. Not that it’ll matter at all to the Trump Cultists of course...

Probably was a factor in at least a few votes. Not a MA voter myself, but it definitely reeked of an overweening sense of entitlement, especially since he couldn’t articulate a reason why the voters ought to replace Markey with him (other than maybe some nebulous argument about being younger? C’mon, you need way way…

Someone noted that it was the same thing that hurt Ted Kennedy when he tried to run for President. “Senator, why do you want to become President?” or such.

Ironically, the Stars and Bars itself isn’t nearly the racist symbol today that the Confederate Battle Flag is, mostly because while both come from the same origins in being symbols of slavery, only one of them has been a prominent symbol of white supremacy in the post civil war era. I expect most Americans wouldn’t…

Definitely, definitely stop at the end of season 6. It’s a good wrap-up point, and is also right around the spot before the writing went completely to hell.

They could have had time. HBO was happy to give it to them. What they wanted was to hurry up and finish so they could move on to the new deals they had lined up. 

Mine was Suprep. It was awful, but could have been worse. They told me I could mix it with Crystal Light, which made it... well, still terrible, but slightly less terrible. Oh was I glad to eat when all that was done. The number of breakfasts I ate that morning after the procedure would have left Hobbits in awe.

Some people just never learn.