Pop-Country is just bros from suburbs dressing up like farmers and listing things that make WASPs go "yes", and it's been that way since at least 9/11. It's the closest thing White America has to a unique culture, and it's just Christianity plus consumerism.

equally hilarious that they think they can compete when all they bring to the table are, like, megachurch praise bands and beer-commercial country and AI slop about slain podcasters

I guess Canada's becoming part of the USA after all.

It's worth remembeing they've got a golden parachute through all this ("become a FOX News legal analyst")

Khanna named, US businessman Leslie Wexner of Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch and Bath & Body Works fame; Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem; and Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, and Nicola Caputo.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social listen the fuck up

The nannies, on the other hand...

I'll save you the time: it's a concentration camp.

Now stop futzing around "looking for answers" and shut it down.

on your knees in worship at the Bone Temple

Hope nothing happens with your seat selection, in-flight meal, and departure time!

Not to undercut Jamelle because it's a good joke and I trust he came up with it independently, but the "JD got traded/sold for percs" trope has actually been floating around for a bit.

yeah you're gonna have to be more specific.

both/and

Portland ME tired of being outdone by Portland OR

I'm all for burly dudebros becoming outspoken leftists, but Fetterman was a reality-check and Platner gave me a bit of that vibe even before the Totenkompf thing.