You’re aware that the Biden administration actually made significant domestic policy gains, right? Industry, infrastructure, loan forgiveness, etc.?

Oh, but it’ll totally work out better for us, cuz we’re American, we’re naturally great, and we have hot dogs n’ fireworks! Easy peasy!

You see this horseshit?

You’re right that Biden’s biggest selling point is “the alternative to absolute fucking armageddon” and... that’s not much.

The rest of the trip was in silence, while I was wondering exactly how f-ing stupid 50% of Americans are.

so a win for them becomes less about improving the future and more about making it worse for the people they hate.

Yep. When a society coasts on a nebulous definition of exceptionalism, and does not even *attempt* to understand or quantify how any of our “exceptionalism” happened, you get this.

Said it elsewhere, but this sort of thing is just par for the course now. As a country? We’re dumb as shit, have no widespread appreciation for or knowledge of actual history, have minimal intellectual curiosity, zero foresight, and we love our stories.

I dug it.

Yep.

That’s all these festivals are anymore, by all appearances/accounts.

I honestly think a lot of it is “Eh, yeah, he kinda sucks, but I’ve hated the Democrats my entire life, and I’m not stopping now.”

Looks to be correct, though the figure may include all states with total or near-total bans, still trying to suss that one out.

Yep. I’d have a similar reaction to, say, revisiting The Avengers this way. It’s like...“but y’all already did this, barely a decade ago?”

Yep. All to achieve an effect that, at least in Beowulf, amounted to “Eh, kinda neat.”

Imagine how badly WILSON has aged by now!?

Yep, this.

Ah. Another long-form Zemeckis tech demo.

Yep, sure did, as well as the linked material.

The important thing is that (American-style) “Christian” hegemony will be implemented and maintained!