R. Scott Rogers

I don’t much care for Conan as source material, and I haven’t thought much of Arnold as an actor in decades, yet I’m excited for this.

It’s up there with Shane for me on the list of films that are significantly better movies than their sources are novels.

I know that objectively Tom Wilson deserves every iota of the hatred I feel for Brady Tkachuck, but I’ve been cheering for the Caps with Wilson for so long now that he’s just another player on my team. This is a warning metaphor for things that matter more than professional hockey.

“Technology shouldn’t be used to avoid civic duty” is a sentence Democrats need to commit to memory, because it will come in handy when speaking to and about Elon Musk. Also every other bro in the tech industry.

Q: "You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school…but you're the only person in your government saying this…Why are you the only person saying this?"

Trump: "Because I just don't know enough about it."

A food you enjoy despite your feelings about one or more of its ingredients? (Or equivalent art, or drink, whatevs)

Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.

Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/

This, all day.

It's not that people think Dems are "too progressive." They perceive them (correctly!) as "too weak."

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Sure but building a bear that takes so long to build that it delays me from building my bear, which I will build by morally righteous standards of off-the-shelf generic simplicity? RUDE.

Heck Bugs Bunny’s carrot is an example of that. It’s a parody of Clark Gable munching on carrots in the movie It Happened One Night; rabbits don’t actually eat carrots.

Exactly. Physically dead for 50 years, culturally gone for 30. So as relevant today as Al Jolson was in 1980. As a kid in 1980, I absolutely did not get the occasional Al Jolson jokes in Looney Tunes cartoons.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Also, he is what Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson told everyone Biden was. Their silence now is deafening. And damning.

2 things from my childhood that I remember clearly but left so little trace that I’ve at times questioned their existence: 1) The 1982 Washington Monument bomb standoff; 2) The 1996 offkilter drama Profit.

Usually, his accusations are confessions. This time, his confession is a confession.

An equally valid test today would be to ask who won the 2020 presidential election.

Though Elvis had a bit of a lingering, mostly joking afterlife of people claiming to have seen him still alive. That was still a reasonably common joke in the 1990s. I can’t think of another celebrity with that kind of lingering cultural relevance.

Elvis has been dead today as long as Will Rogers, Amelia Earhart, and Calvin Coolidge had been dead when I was a kid. I don’t feel like it’s a new thing that a once-famous person is not relevant to young people 50 years after their death.

I feel like this is the setup to the punchline, The Rise of Skywalker was OK, actually. Which I think is actually true of the film is not judged on the basis of expectations/hopes for what it would accomplish in light of prior films in the series.

It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.

Same with spending money or collecting revenue. Do so without prior authorization from Congress, face personal criminal liability that outlasts the next president.

We need to reform federal criminal law and the UCMJ to make individuals personally criminally liable for the deployment or discharge of any weapon, or transmitting orders to do so, absent overt, specific statutory authorization from Congress. Statute of limitations not less than 12 years.

Send Andrew whatever-you’re-calling-him. On the one hand, he’s exactly the right Brit of royal birth to meet our president, in terms of honor & dignity. On the other hand, maybe he’ll stay here and he’ll be not your problem anymore.

This is interesting. The complaint alleges that the Section 122 tariffs Trump imposed after losing the IEEPA case are illegal because the concern they were enacted to address is no longer economically possible.

Meanwhile Texas is denying Muslim schools the ability to participate in the state’s new school voucher scheme.

In case anyone’s wondering how “education freedom” is going down there or what it’s really about

Also, importantly, I think posing the ideas as you’ve done here is important and interesting even if I’m not persuaded by your thesis.

And! And you’re here proposing a test of moral righteousness far beyond your earlier claim to want to test for general or civics knowledge. We’ve gone from “Jim Crow, but for good” to “Stalin’s New Soviet Man, but actually exactly that.”

If something has always happened when a thing had been tried, it’s not fatalism to assume it’s is likely to happen if the thing is tried again. Rather it’s naïveté to not look for the structural reasons that have rendered it inevitable so far. “A few voters are racist” isn’t it.