John

Do these people think the violent Weather Underground style radicals in One Battle After Another are depicted positively?

Need a "You know nothing of my work" from Alan Moore here.

Well, yes.

and obviously this still exists in Black churches in the US.

Bismarck is in the Russ Vought role here.

Father...Dowling?

Like mother like son, I guess

I am not sure what the exact messaging should be, but they shouldn't just say unlawful spending without congressional appropriations is fine.

She'll never get it now after stealing his Nobel Prize.

I'm not sure how I would stop paying taxes.

The Germans were still deep in Soviet territory after Stalingrad. They hadn't yet reached the pre-war Soviet border at the time of the Normandy invasion.

Rubio probably right below this, or maybe he should be on there. Oh, and Musk. And Vought.

This is not a map of the Germans having been pushed out of Central Europe

Just to be clear, the frontlines on June 6, 1944, are the frontlines prior to the offensive depicted on this map (i.e., the periwinkle areas were still under German control at that point)

My current list of first order offenders is Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Bondi, Kennedy, Noem, Miller, Homan, Lyons.

Suggesting that Dems immediately roll over on this is actually suggesting that they be more spineless than Prussian liberals in the 1860s.

A rift caused by disputes over money can usually be solved by application of a sufficient amount of money.

Later made explicit, as Felicia is talking about the same girl here:

Yeah, they'd be terrible together. Why settle for one kind of bland lesbian couple when you can have a toxic one *and* a toxic straight couple?

Felicia has been canonically bi since the 80s, btw. There's a story where her "best friend" randomly shows up, disguised as an old man, and it is about as clear that this is Felicia's ex-girlfriend as it is that Northstar and Cap's childhood friend Arnie are gay (which is "extremely clear")

MJ should get with Felicia. Peter/Spider-Gwen is so deeply fucked up that you could get years of soap opera out of it.

Well, very briefly (1945-1948) it was. But yeah, should have said ex-Communist Europe.

Definitely the most western place in the Soviet Bloc aside from East Germany. But then the former East Germany has terrible politics and so does the next most western place, Czechia.

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

Is there any former Soviet bloc country that has normal politics? Slovenia, maybe?

Marvel should hook up Peter Parker and Spider-Gwen in a deeply problematic way for soap opera reasons

This is the way. Getting back to my rule of thumb for comic book soap opera drama: WWSED (What Would Steve Englehart Do?)

Yes, I know that was discussed in the thread, but none of the things I said (until just now) were related to that.

So I think he'd probably do what he has said he would do if it came down to it, but I don't think that means anyone has to particularly trust him, and I would be quite happy if Sanders retired in 2030.

To actually address that: Scott has said he would appoint a Dem caucusing independent to a Bernie vacancy (and a Dem to a Welch vacancy), and I think he likes his political career and wouldn't want to permanently destroy it, which is what he'd do if he appointed a Republican.