One of the weirdest cases of Wrong Bird I can think of is the CGI robin in one of the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies. It was an accurate robin, that made accurate robin noises - but it was a North American robin, instead of the European kind.

Would Lake Le Homme Dieu maybe be a little too niche even for Minnesotans?

And I see the stakes as being pretty high, 'cuz aside from the anti-Walz stuff? The crop of GOP candidates skew very Trumpian, burn-it-all-down types.

IDK, maybe the best thing would be to focus on keeping House & Senate majorities.

Not happy seeing Klobuchar's name thrown around . . .

NGL, I do kinda like the magpie that looks like - I dunno, a chicken nugget hewn out of wood? 😆

Yes! I always figured if, she was actually having visions/psychic episodes, then the specific form of her fortuneteller doodads wouldn't matter so much - it'd just be whatever worked for her.

This might be a tangent, but the "My Little Pony is nerd stuff" from a couple seasons back felt *off* in a similar way.

I was there for 80s MLP. They were toys for 5-year-olds! Lots of little girls love unicorns! It felt like the writers were extrapolatong back from 2010s bronies.

And not only that, but he's got more or better health care than any of us.

After that stupid COVID stunt on the White House lawn, I realized the potus doctors could probably reanimate a corpse for a few minutes of camera time, if need be.

It's got me pondering - I know "average American" has always kinda been a dogwhistle term, but are they doubling down on it now to try & shift the narrative away from the fact that people don't like them and their base are weirdos?

That's the thing, though - I've seen people who were definitely intelligent still fall for that stuff. I suppose it could be ego, or an intellectual blind spot on their part, but I get the feeling this shit *could* happen to anybody.

I sorta figure it's because the thing in human brains that makes outrage addictive is still there, waiting, regardless of politics.

My mind boggles at "small-town America," too. Everything I remember about the locations from this film screamed "California suburbs."

I'm trying to decide which would make me feel like a bigger sociopath: punching Flipper or punching a child character. 😆

I guess it's less weird beating up Dennis the Menace when you are also seven?