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Yeah, Biden didn't take the threat at all seriously. He had the ego that of course he would be elected again, and the hopeful dream that Trump would never be elected again, so we could just sweep it under the rug and pretend it was okay. He could have put a ton of guardrails in place but didn't.
I like that they had to use AI to create a fake imaginary liberal with rainbow hair to mock that they could put up against their equally fake dudebro.
Yeah, Biden didn't take the threat at all seriously. He had the ego that of course he would be elected again, and the hopeful dream that Trump would never be elected again, so we could just sweep it under the rug and pretend it was okay. He could have put a ton of guardrails in place but didn't.
That's only 88% of the population, whose gonna notice.
I'm pretty sure the military parade was malicious compliance. They HAD to do a parade for the president's birthday; they didn't have to do a good job. They played no energetic music, few flags, and walked OUT of step, which is actually harder than walking in it because you naturally match rhythm.
Nope, complete blank!
It looks vaguely familiar, but I don't remember anything about it.
There were also 18 comics from SLG about a decade back, 12 main issues and 6 issues of Badguys, that Dynamite just reprinted, that also continue the story from the show.
There's been a couple series so far in teh new Dynamite run. 12 issues of just plain "Gargoyles" (direct continuation of the show) 5 issues of "The Quest" (the follow up to that) 6 issues of Dark Ages (flash back) 5 issues of Demona (currently issue 3 is out) and a halloween special!
I did know that actually!
I'd like to think in the event of such an emergency, states that can go either way, states like GA or AZ, which went blue in 2020, would lean towards *not* the end of everything.
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"Elon rigged the election!" is just as silly as when they claimed Biden did it. Again, power they don't have, just propaganda. If they had perfect, untraceable cheat powers, across thousands of independent districts, without a single accomplice squealing? Why didn't they also take congress 60-40?
They keep doing the big scary things to seem invincible and unstoppable and get folks dooming and giving up in advance. But they DON'T have that power. They have a 6 month window left before they have to start playing nice before midterms, and a year before the power likely breaks entirely.
4) The figurehead holding it all together is senile, old, and in bad shape. Trump isn't going to be around forever, possibly not even this whole term. Even if he lives another three years, the party is going to collapse on itself as they fight to fill the power vacuum when he's gone.
3)Even if the entire military agreed to carry out an illegal martial law against their own citizens, they don't have the troops. They could maybe, MAYBE hold two cities. The entire country? Impossible. The numbers just aren't there.
2) If elections are paused, senators automatically lose their seats at end of term and are replaced by state appointed temps. In the event of such a crisis, blue states would certainly send in 100% blue, get the majority, and end it instantly.
Anyone that's saying "they're just going to implement martial law and cancel the elections" is falling into the "all powerful" traps. Some things that might reassure: 1)Elections are held *by the states*. The big government can't pass any sort of sweeping order to stop them unilaterally.
Yeah....
I also haven't had to look in a decade. I dunno if I could put up with all the same strains and annoyances at 40-something that I did at 20 or 30-something.
Yes, definitely different for women, who get flirted with constantly and get constantly deluged with shallow crushes. That IS unfair and dumb. I had my luck with image-neutral message boards so personalities actually popped off first... but definitely different for women.
It SUCKS and it's hard but clicking with the right person means you get pulled in all the same. Assuming you're actually getting signals and not just misinterpreting something for flirting.
As someone that failed at it a couple times and succeeded at it a couple times, it boils down to the fact that the internet opens up the field for you to be able to find THE weirdo that really matches to your personality, rather than someone sort of acceptable who happens to live in your city.
You can *almost* skip from ep 22 to 35 and it flows decently in terms of the plot and pacing, but it's not quite a smooth transition because it wasn't designed to work that way. You need some of the island stuff, but like 10 eps, especially the 2 Africa episodes, are entirely skippable.
Yeah. It's why the animation quality plummets at that point, they had no budget for 13 moreepisodes (and why one is a clip show). It's also why the pacing with Nadia's brother is so weird. He's teased around episode 18?, introduced in episode 22, and then not mentioned again until episode 37.
The desert island stuff was never supposed to be in the show. It was commissioned for 26 episodes, and was a HUGE hit, and they were asked to expand it to 39. Which is why it hits that obvious stretch of filler that grinds the story to a halt... and why Anno just stopped at that point.
Depends entirely on the identity of the shooter.
Like the prequels were haaaaaaaated by anyone that grew up on original Star Wars and was over the age of 20 when they came out. Now they're beloved by the generation that... actually grew up on them. (And also watched the tv show) Same will probably happen to eps 7-9. Give em a decade.
I can pull out examples of corporate tie ins for decades with this franchise. Countless low quality novels and comics with no oversight, thousands of characters pushed just to be toys, Family Guy tie in, Pizza Hut commercials, THE HOLIDAY SPECIAL... It stopped being about the story after Empire.
It makes perfect sense if he's helping Russia instead of the US.
This is from when Lucas was in full control. Star Wars turned into a corporate product the day Lucas realized the toys would make more money than the movies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQLp...
For which he didn't get fined, serve jail time, become ineligible to run, or lose his ability to travel. Those are an asterisk. He is a *convicted felon, but in practice that means nothing... and all the other cases against him that were stalled for years were called off after he won.
Is Tara Strong posting on twitter about how Bill Gates used chem trails to create covid and give her parkinsons?
He mentioned the health problem months ago and nothing happened. He's been fired because he's posting insane anti-vax conspiracy theories, not because he's sick. Like "Bill Gates created covid to give me parkinsons" kind of crazy.
He mentioned the health problem months ago and nothing happened. He's been fired because he's posting insane anti-vax conspiracy theories, not because he's sick. Like "Bill Gates created covid to give me parkinsons" kind of crazy.
He mentioned the health problem months ago and nothing happened. He's been fired because he's posting insane anti-vax conspiracy theories, not because he's sick. Like "Bill Gates created covid to give me parkinsons." kind of crazy.
He mentioned the health problem months ago and nothing happened. He's been fired because he's posting insane anti-vax conspiracy theories, not because he's sick. Like "Bill Gates created covid to give me parkinsons."
He mentioned the health problem months ago and nothing happened. He's been fired because he's posting insane anti-vax conspiracy theories, not because he's sick.
He mentioned the health problem months ago and nothing happened. He's been fired because he's posting insane anti-vax conspiracy theories, not because he's sick.
He mentioned the health problem months ago and nothing happened. He's been fired because he's posting insane anti-vax conspiracy theories, not because he's sick.
"Fun" bonus fact! Renaming the department is going to cost a billion+ dollars to change out all the signage and stationery worldwide, for literally no benefit or reason. Congress doesn't have to allow it.
Nope, games unlock in the mornings, not sure what time. After business hours begin. Somewhere between 8-10AM.
It's not that they've seen too many adaptations, it's that they've seen none at all! This also applies to characters like Robin Hood, Peter Pan or Tarzan, who get new films occasionally, but those always try to reinvent... when we haven't had straightforward adaptations since Disney animated ones.
Arguably the next best known one is the Mel Brooks parody, Young Frankenstein, and that was released in 1974! No one, aside from classic film aficionados, has seen any of them, and certainly hasn't read the book. They only get the pop culture parody version where he's just a dumb monster.
The problem is that while the monster gets referenced in pop culture all the time, the last actual adaptation was "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein" in 1994... and before that black and white one everyone knows was 1931, and Bride of in 1935. And some hammer Vs. films in the 40's.
He goes on camera, announces "The doctors say I have maybe ten minutes to live, so I just wanted once to say..." and proceeds to perform George Carlin's 7 dirty words routine perfectly and with fantastic comedic timing. Applause. "And also one more thing...." Then he uses the N-word 47 times.
Heck, it *was* up to maybe the 1980's and its just been going backwards as the boomer elected generation has just... been there for decades now. Outside of Obama we haven't had a president born before 1941.
It's not that people got more conservative with age... it's that the conservative party sloooowly inched forward in progress until it met wherever your starting line was, maybe 30 years behind. But it's been stuck in the 1950's for a while so that's happening less.
His only response was to dismiss her with "you're a chick." No facts, no clever retorts, no counter argument, just... dismiss her entirely on national television by saying "you're a woman" as if that's enough to make everything she's saying meaningless. What a tool.
That's pretty common, especially if commentaries have multiple people. Accommodate different schedules and fills in dead space when no one is saying anything. The LotR commentaries are loaded with obvious cut and pasting because some actors will just be silent for an hour at a time.
White hat, jus in shadow from the overhang. You can see it's brighter on the bottom.
Because they don't pay attention to or understand the details of what they're voting for. They vote for the party that claims to be religious and hates those dark skinned folks, and loves tradition just like them.... And don't notice the policies have been against them for decades.
I tried the final boss three times, got through all 13 phases to his last form, and just... couldn't deal with it and didn't feel like grinding for hours to get my levels higher when I'd been fine up until that point.
What? It's been years and years since I played the game, but I don't remember any party members dying? I made it to the final boss. (I did give up there because being unable to control the party members made that hell, especially when they got mind controlled and full healed the boss)
No, he shouldn't be. But you can't hold that to just Bush. Basically every single US President in history is a war criminal or did horrible things. Even the ones you like. Yes, even that one. Also, Bush had *overwhelming* bipartisan support after 9/11. Both parties screwed up there.
Then I will ask again. What's your suggestion on how to counter the seat theft going on in Texas? If you have a better answer, I will immediately start pushing your solution going forward. Before the midterms. With the votes we have. Not hypothetical years from now. Denying quorum didn't work.
They haven't managed it with He-Man or Thundercats, so probably not. Franchises that have good stuff in them but also insist on bring the dumbest stuff forward.
It's doing *something*, which is more than most D's have done for the last decade. It's a lousy something, but better than just going along with everything like it's normal. What's your suggestion on how to counter the seat theft going on in Texas?
Like look at Al Franken. He was a decent senator. He got kicked out for a photo of him *pretending* to grope a woman. Maybe he did worse in his time, maybe not, maybe the photo alone was enough, but D's still *actually* had a bit of principle and cleaned house when we had someone gross.
"What if Clinton was also guilty of Trump's crimes" is constantly used as some kind of gatcha, and the response is ALWAYS "then lock him up too." Every liberal I know says "get rid of the bad ones" regardless of party. We don't give a shit about Clinton. We don't even think about them most years.
Bush got out of the spotlight and just lives on his farm and does bad paintings. He doesn't make the rounds endorsing new R's, he doesn't comment, he's just silent and easy to forget and ignore. If he was still a public figure he'd be more widely criticized still.
Because the only thing people know about him is he's fighting back, and trolling Trump. And that's an energy we need right now. He's a good attack dog, not a good candidate. His horrendous track record and policies aren't well known. Support will dissolve instantly in primaries, or if Trump dies.
They also call themselves "the party of Lincoln" when the parties switched on basically every major issue in the 70's, when they decided embracing racism was the path forward.
No one in this thread is saying "Newsom for president." They're saying "let the loud guy fight and get us a win on the midterms... and then have primaries like normal where he's not going to get past the first round." Newsom is terrible, but he's good for the one exact thing he's doing.
So we're having two completely different discussions. You don't have to like them, or endorse them. You can even hate them, for incredibly valid reasons. But if they're useful *right now* for *one specific thing* that NEEDS to be done, you can still make use of them. We need fighters.
None of whom have his "charisma". They don't have the cult or the fear. If we fail the test again in the midterms, yeah we have a problem, but declaring defeat three and a half years in advance? And conceding all the years after, without even fighting? Is absolutely doomerism.
There was a window where you could say "okay, they did something outlandish and bad, but laws are going to hold in place, just hold out through this rough patch and things get back to normal, let's keep the moral highground." They... need to win at some point or those ideals go nowhere.
There was a time and a place for "they go low, we go high." When Dems were SO convinced that Hillary was going to win in a historic landslide because how could she possibly lose to Trump, so they didn't even try to fight it when Mitch McConnel stalled, and then stole a supreme court seat.
Read my initial post again. I said let the loud guy fight the other loud guy and bring attention to the midterms. I didn't say "make him president." But the opposite. He's not going to be relevant in three years (neither will be Trump), that's not what we need to worry about right this minute.
If one side is blatantly cheating and you insist on sticking to the performative speeches, you lose. Dems haven't fought like things were actually at stake for way too long. It should be a 5-4 liberal supreme court right now, but D's were so overconfident, they never even fought that battle.
Cutting up California to *balance* what's being done in Texas? Not even gain an advantage, just balance? And it has to be voted on by the citizens? And has "short term" built in AND expires? We have to do SOMETHING about the midterms, not just roll over and give up.
Sure you can. You fight with every tool available or else you're just giving up.
Diet Trump is what we need *right now* for the midterms. Don't worry about the dude being electable until 3 years from now during primaries. "Diet Trump" is good for fighting Trump, it's not good for organizing a base. And Trump may be dead by then. 3 years is too far out to judge anything.
3- Have you seen a picture of Trump in the last week? He's not living 3.5 more years. And Vance doesn't have the charisma or the cult. The scaremongering of "he's never leaving" and "there's not going to be any more elections" is giving up in advance and scaremongering.
Can probably get 218 House seats temporarily under those circumstances. 2- If he declared "Martial Law"... and used every single soldier in the military, and every soldier went along with it, he could lock down maybe two cities. 1.4M are not anywhere near enough troops to hold the entire country.
1- Elections are statewide, not national. EVEN IF he was somehow able to "stop the elections", congress would automatically lose its appointments in January, and the states would then get to appoint temporaries until elections could be held.
There are quite a few tools to remove him. But his party decided he's a good figure head and to not use any of them.
Guy could have a great personality and maybe convince two women at the same time. It happens, if everyone is friends and allowed to roam, so it's unserious light commitment all around. But no way you get to 3+. The *instant* you refer to them as a "harem", every single one of them is out.
I did not remember that. Regardless, it's an easy question to answer if you aren't a ___phobe.
Okay cool. Which rep in which state is going to counter the gerrymandering going on in Texas? Name some names, and show me what they're doing about it.
First of all, that scene is like 3 seconds long. Second, no kid is going to actually ask that during the movie if they even notice. Third... is "they adopted" really that hard to get to? The movie was bad and wasn't worth the time, but the blink and miss it gay couple wasn't the reason for it.
We need to actually win midterms right now. Anyone fighting is someone fighting, and encouraging others to fight. We can be picky about who is running for president three years from now when that actually starts being a race.
Depending on when Trump goes, he'll have a very narrow window before the midterms. And if its *after* midterms he's starting as a lame duck with no time to set an agenda and the clock will be runnable. The big issue is if they force some of the SC to retire *before* midterms.
Vance is terrible and will push all the same policies being shoved in front of him, but he doesn't have the cult. No one is afraid of him, and congress *might* decided to claw their power back from him, and he has to at least pretend to care about the people if he wants a second term.
The coal lobbies that paid heavily into his campaign are probably also a facotor.
Not really, because California is *already* mostly blue, 43-9. This isn't magically switching over 52 seats that were previously red, it's just enough to counterbalance what Texas is doing and maybe a little extra, but not enough to singlehandedly counter multiple states doing it.
"He's begging for forgiveness and wants to do better" is good PR to put out front of his base for when the Epstein files finally leak and say he was doing what we all know he was doing.
$500/day fines that as of now can't be paid from campaign funds or from funds designed to pay for expenses during the walkout. Overtime billed by DPS officers "in pursuit" of quorum busters. All for a job that pays $600/month.
Well it *is* too short. That's missing the first ~16 volumes of the story that Dragonball tells and it's missing all the characters meeting, growth, and context around it. It's objectively not the whole story. But it's also too long given all the filler padding that drags it the hell out.
Animated characters shouldn't die with their VA's, or else we'd no longer have Bugs Bunny or Scooby Doo or Batman or the Muppets. Just let them retire as a plan, with trained successors, rather than sudden death, like the tragedy of the new King of the Hill relaunch.
Or, they do what Japan does with it's longrunners like Sazae San orDoraemon or anything else that's been running for decades... and have a final episode with the *entire* cast, take the week off, then start with new voices. For *everyone*.
"For some reason this standalone 45 minute OVA they spent a year and a half on looks better than the 24 minute tv series they produce every week. It must be because of the perverts."
Please note that this format has character limits, so some times accuracy and nuance is sacrificed for the sake of brevity.
Yes. Because it's been gerrymandered it is currently very likely to be a red seat. The options were either a Dem-in name only, or an actual Republican. Manchin blocked everything but at least voted on party lines *sometimes*, a full R would not, and would have ended the slim 50/50 majority.
And then what? One of them says "I'm switching parties" (which Manchin eventually did) and gives the majority to the other side? They were D's from red states. They were better than nothing, but not by much. As the swing votes they had ALL the leverage and they knew it.
He did try. Machin and Sinema blocked it, along with a bunch of other things. College credits and environmental stuff too. He didn't have the votes.
The "fun" part is Project 2025 was so straightforward and so obviously evil, people swore it was just made up. Because no one could be so evil as to just announce in advance that they wanted to do all of THAT in book form. Except the R's aren't ashamed of their agenda... they're proud of it.
It's still 10M more than Clinton had in 2016, and 10M more than Obama in 2012, and 6M more than Obama's record turnout in 2008. Second highest D turnout ever. It wasn't necessarily a drop in D numbers, but more 2020 was an artificial inflation from the pandemic.
Voting night, when initial tallies came in and all votes weren't counted, it was 15 million. After all counting, Harris had 75M votes. Which is less than Biden's 81M (but still more than than Trump got in 2020, sadly not enough in 2024) 6M drop is still unfortunate, but nowhere near 15M.