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A better way of putting it might be, "If people continue to sucks this hard, we are well and truly fucked..." But time is quickly running out. The damage already done in six months will be generational to fix. And there remains no guarantees that any elections in 2026 will be free and fair at this point. When, because despite my above statement, I retain hope, but when Democrats begin to retake power in 2026, there can be no waiting to begin to excise the rot that Trump has planted within the government. There cannot be a lack of any consequences this time. Take things out by the root and stem and worry not about the other party doing the same should they come back into power. That's a problem for later.

Is it a feud? Seems like it kinda fizzled out. Musk, for all of his money and his amazing mechahitler, has little to no actual leverage to put up a fight with all of his government contracts. And every Trump action that moves forward, only to take a step back is only a probing action to see how far they can go. It isn't capitulation, it's regrouping. Correct.

I'm not going argue to overall point about MAGA, but this assumption right here...this is a dangerous train of thought. Just because evidence point to MAGA eating itself come the day we all wake up to the news that he's kicked the bucket...work must proceed as though they're going to continue right on trucking the way they've been. I suspect it could be worse. Do not make the assumption that MAGA splinters once he's gone because to do so will lead to a level of complacency that will backfire spectacularly.

I'm actually in that area frequently. I'm sure we've crossed paths then.

Did I know Rothfuss was in Wisconsin? Did I know you were in Wisconsin? Are you my neighbor and I didn't know it?

This season has certainly been up and down. The season opener and the fifth episode were solid, if not all timers. The third episode was odd, trying to resurrect the glory that was the Citadel episodes... Mortyplicity was an actual stand out episode of Season 5...but the Ricklantis Mixup is, to me, possibly the best episode of the entire run... I still think there is a ton of stuff to mine with this show, it's premise, and it's process, yet a lot of the steam went out of it when they chose to conclude the whole Rick Prime/Evil Morty/Citadel stuff snack in the middle of season 7, essentially concluding any real mystery to C-137...I mean, I get they couldn't drag it out forever, but it was so...random...in its conclusion. Which was probably the point...

Only could have helped the overall story.

Hold up here. Luke wasn't messed with much in TFA? The whole movie of TFA disrespected Luke Skywalker from the get go. He's the damned macguffin of the film and doesn't appear for more than sixty seconds and doesn't say a damn word. He's the Obi-Wan Kenobi character of the re-make that is TFA and he doesn't even get to be in the re-make! But then, I hold TFA in such utter disdain, I'm not bothered by TLJ disrespecting it.

Valiant, in its original form, was just so much fun. I dug so much of that universe and regret I didn't get absolutely everything that came out initially. But ultimately was an absolute 90s story of comic books.. Shooter was, whether one agrees or not, an absolute titan of the Bronze Age. When you look back and read about those times...just yowza... And it's another fallen figure of my formative years. It boggles my mind that these comic book figures I grew up reading actually got old too...

Finished The Devils today. As others said, highly enjoyable, if not the absolute best of Joe's work. But I'll be damned if I didn't walk away wanting more. The world building was intriguing enough that I wondered more about it. Even spoiled on a couple of the twists, I actually didn't care.

I went looking for this today at B&N, as this thread has encouraged me to give this story a look...couldn't find it anywhere and when I looked at the B&N website to help me out, it indicated the book wasn't being released until end of July? I missed something somewhere apparently...

The irony of TLJ being that it's set against the backdrop of the absolute slowest space chase ever conceived by filmmaker...

Exactly thr vampire on the fight on the ship, and now that you mention it, the inn also. He also didn't really seem to be a part of the illusionist's house either, though for that one Baptiste went in and was tucked into the illusion, but we never saw what she dealt with like Jakob, Vigga, or Sunny...

I'm still only halfway through, but this has been my observation also, that is all very busy...to the point where battles and fights are going on and we see what's going on with just about all the characters getting a viewpoint of what they're going through, except one...and never the same one...it's almost distracting...

I'm sure Bibi and Vlad haven't told him what it's going to be yet...

Jesus. We're gonna try to regime change the wrong country...

Five seasons is fine, even if it feels like a cheat since each of those seasons is only ten episodes and now this fifth season doesn't even get that! Sometimes streaming television suuuuuuccckkks...

Bluesky would want us to believe the parade was an abject failure, particularly in light of the success of the No King protets...I'm inclined to belive it...though the ultimate arbiter of how terrible the parade was will be how quickly it is no longer talked about...by Fox News...

Whether it's good or not, that the fourth season isn't even filming yet, the third hasn't been released...to announce a fifth and final season now, in a an even shorter run that what's being done now feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Zero good reasons to announce that now.

Marco Rubio's own mother wouldn't be able to find such a thing in her son...

It's not so much a distraction as it is a test. A probe. Like so many other things. They're going to see how far they're able to go without the people pushing back. And then they're going to try to go further.

This country's course was set the moment Booth shot Lincoln. That we've made it this far is remarkable.

Helping Young Jax (hey, the kid is 15 now, no longer "little") on his final history project...talking through things like the Fall of the Berlin Wall and trying to explain being his his age and it being so different than today...but me not really understanding exactly what was happening then...and how that's how he'll feel in 35 years about today...assuming we're all still here. (I didn't suggest that last part to him...)

Feels like some sort of washed to Macross story that never wore got off the ground, went into development hell, and got recycled...Just sayin'...

I still firmly believe Trump is out by the end of the year, either forced or paid off to, "retire", as that's what Project 2026 really wants. They needed Trump, his cult, his ability to just be chaos, to get back into power...it's a matter of they think they control him. Or he's simply uncontrollable. But he'll be out by Decmebr 31...