it really is government by a bunch of bull connors. basically walking into traps set for them by their opposition. connor also did not understand that beating the hell out of demonstrators was *what they wanted*

I be showing a lot when I'm "joeking it"

--Bing bing wahoo, Imma save da princess

--But Mario, what about democracy

Pointing at Mario's red hat: Shameful

It's fundamentally unknowable, but I cannot see a world where Trump is more forcefully prosecuted by a Democratic president and then the prosecution is not treated as a bigger scandal than Trump's crimes. 2024 was baked with inflation, the only real path was having 67 Democratic senators in Jan 2021

none of you people can read can you? bsky.app/profile/thei...

Found the quiz and it's a rich tapestry of median voters (derogatory)
www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

Just finished and really enjoyed it! Thank you for another excellent movie, @rianjohnson.bsky.social ! In the past two, both included references to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow -- were there any in this that I had missed?

“Oh my god I’m worried Trump is going to ignore a Supreme Court ruling” say people arguing Biden was a wimp for not ignoring Supreme Court rulings.

Yeah, the inconvenient reality is Biden's DOJ didn't let Trump go free.

Voters did.

Republicans may have run interference, but the DOJ got TWO indictments against Trump (one after the SCOTUS immunity ruling) and voters simply didn't care enough to keep him out of office despite having the ability.

She launched her career trying to get professors fired in the name of academic freedom. Her website publishes a firehose of conservative propaganda in the name of open debate. She is now censoring factual information under the guise of journalistic accuracy.

Gender infesting our cranks like it's The Flood

While she stayed for the Hitler and "Are Jews fundamentally evil" discussion, it wasn't until the others began to target her community that she walked out