I mean, look, generally speaking agreed but, I mean, are you seeing this?  

First, create a disaster: for example, a severe economic downturn as the result of Brexit. Make sure to short and hedge and be ready for the disaster before you cause it.

Yeah, well, so would a lot of things, but writers have feelings too man!

But that’s my point. The lines along which any deal have to flow do not intersect. As you say, the Tories don’t have the votes to pass a bill without some chunk of the hardliners, who just want to watch the world burn.

I think this is less about civility and more about the fact that dropping an f-bomb on primetime network television is not cheap.

Beto: Fucking immigration man!!!! Like, Trump sucks bro!

I mean, that’s not exactly the MO for this sort of period piece though.

I mean yeah. Another way to think about this is to imagine the collective heart attack the market would have if Apple announced they were spending as much on R&D as their gross revenue for a given year.

fEh, that’s probably not quite the picture.

I’ll watch this, but not in theaters.

Unlike many others here, I’ll definitely grant that Corbyn’s associations matter, but come on, be serious. Corbyn’s anti-Semitism is not going to manifest itself as Naziism. At most it might mean the UK moves more towards the rest of Europe in that sense. Not great, but the alternative is ....

But Johnson or someone like him was made inevitable by the fact that there is no deal that could plausibly be constructed that will please enough of the parties that have to consent to it. There is no intersection point between those lines, no matter how close to infinity you manage to get.  So anyone trying to bridge…

To me that starts with something that polls rarely try to measure, which is how much a person’s approval/disapproval of a given policy stance is likely to impact their actual voting. I think foreign policy shakes out pretty low for the vast majority of voters.

Denny’s comment is less about foreign policy consensus and more about voluntarily giving up executive power.

The polling has indicated war on terrorism weariness for a decade or longer now.

Eh. I’m unconvinced by that particular argument.

But even if you remove Johnson from power, Johnson didn’t just swoop into power through shenanighans or dictatorship.

I mean, in a lot of ways, the current division of power in the UK means you can compare them.

I’m not saying the Queen should send her Royal Guard down to the Palace of Westminster to chain the doors and burn the place to the ground the next time Parliament meets in order to reinstall the monarchy, but it’s sort of ludicrous to me that you’d have to sit and have a good hard think to figure out if the next 2-5…

Yeah I miss mine too. They lived in Michigan and we lived in Texas, but we’d go spend 2 weeks a year hanging out with them in the summer in August, which was the perfect time to escape Texas. They lived in rural Michigan, but not too far from Lake Michigan.