Still 1000x better than the prequels. Although I’d be happier if everyone forgot the prequels, Disney movies, TV shows, and video games that stretched the vague world-building of the original trilogy way past the breaking point. I did like Rogue One, I have to admit.

“Look, I like Warren, but I just don’t think she can beat Trump” was a nonsensical, self-fulfilling caution. We can argue all day long about whether it was misogyny or not that propelled that argument, but, at the end of the day, there wasn’t any logic to it. She had great plans, backed up her opinions with data, and…

I didn’t say “Bloomberg caused Sanders and Warren to fail”. If anything, ensuring that Biden doesn’t stumble now that he is the frontrunner is a further incentive for Bloomberg to withdraw. I said Bloomberg’s investment is now secure, with the implication being that Sanders and Warren had failed. 

That . . . is a surprisingly refreshing review of the attitudes of a low-information voter. That’s not a disparagement.

Have to agree. Bloomberg is pulling out of the race for one, and only one reason: because his investment is now secure. The Democratic Party believes it has successfully scared the humps into line, and all is now right with Bloomberg’s financial future.

Speaking as a Warren voter, Bloomberg’s overperformance was still the biggest punch in the gut of the night.

Also, 99% of all political commentary as well.

I don’t disagree at any particular point. But I’d note that so long as we’re in Pelosi’s headspace, it’s probably going to end being six-of-one/half-dozen-of-the-other as far as which one of us wins. At the end of the day, Pelosi is a company woman, and she came to power both with a certain mindset of what the company…

“First of all, they don’t have a process,” Brazile declared. “They are canceling primaries. They have winner-take-all. They don’t have the kind of democracy that we see on the Democratic side.”

Fair retort. My guess is that there’s a lot of second-order implications coming out of this baseline misunderstanding of the voter base: the fewer rabblerousers there are agitating in the super-safe districts, the less headache she has running cover for the Ben McAdams’ of the caucus. Which in turn, she sees as…

Statistically, it’s because both Democratic and Republican congressmen dramatically overestimate the conservatism of their districts.

Also, Rise of Skywalker was just fine. Yeah, it was weird, non-sensical, and gratuitously fan-servicey at times, but really, that’s just what Star Wars kind of is. It’s truly a Herculean effort to find people who shit on Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.

It is dumb. It’s also par for the course with Disney live-action remakes. There’s a weird skew to their attempts to “fix” the problematic elements of their films, in that they’re happy to fix stuff that people weren’t even complaining about, if they think it will head off criticism and allow them to perform…

Your shoulder okay there, buddy? I’m not a boomer, but I have to admit, as someone who is no longer a spring chicken, if I’d clapped myself on the back as hard as you just did, I’d probably dislocate mine.

That the masters’ tools cannot be used to tear down the masters’ house.

There’s actually a worse possibility: it’s Bernie who gets the plurality, but Biden who gets the nod.

My own (liberal, civil rights marching, lifelong lgbtq+ supporting) mother has stopped calling herself pro-choice because a couple of younger cousins were trying to get her to agree that abortions are a great thing. My mom doesn’t think they are great: she hopes that no one every wants or needs an abortion, but she…

It’s been half an hour, and I’m still clenching muscles I didn’t know that I had an hour ago.

That’s essentially my response as well: much like you can make a joke about tragedies if the punchline of the joke is that something was tragic, or that someone who was guilty of something terrible should be punished, I have no objection to what is essentially a Quantum Leap-ing dog.

But I was curious, given that coronavirus is all over the news and all anyone can seem to talk about in recent days, how CPAC attendees are squaring their love for Donald Trump with the reality of Trump’s bungling of the response to coronavirus so far. So on Thursday and Friday, I asked a few people a simple…