Lucas W.

The King of England is talking about criminal charges for his own brother (for his association with Epstein) meanwhile America can't even get rid of Howard fucking Lutnick

On its own Space Seed is a pretty decent episode that TWOK vaults higher in retrospect.

The revolution's gonna be lit.

It's clear the ethos of our time is not to try to actually solve any problems but to get my bag and have enough so the problems no longer really affect me.

The major issue is less that people want to be gangsters, it's that they abrogate the known, accepted consequence when they get sent for.

Between the WSP being televised and bros deciding they're Matt Damon in Rounders, everyone watching The Sopranos and Breaking Bad et al and not getting the moral of the story, and the general public's reaction to the Dotcom bubble burst and the Recession being "more corruption and self-dealing"...

Well Stalin had become more pragmatic and had seen with the Italian/German situation that Greece was not a place to get bogged down. Especially since the UK/US had ample experience supplying its Hellenic allies. Plus he loathed and distrusted partisans, whereas for Tito it was his bread and butter.

Yuge.

I can't describe how happy I've been over the past year that my kid chose to get out of Dodge and go to Queen's College, Cambridge and is planning to stick around in Old Blighty to get a master's at LSE.

With this issue my brain always goes back to Erich von Falkenhayn's view of the 1915 offensive against Russia that "the East gives nothing back."

The Dems have had a terrible habit of throwing major resources -- esp social and political capital -- into fighting battles that give nothing back.

Unfortunately, Hegseth thinks he's too pretty *and* talented to be put in a corner out of the spotlight.

Fortunately, he's also somehow both dumber *and* more cowardly than someone like Wilhelm Keitel.

This may be the dumbest metaphor ever uttered politically. On pretty much every level.

But it also shows Vance is more awkward and bad at this than like Mondale or Dukakis et al.

Well it's a two-pronged issue. One is the border and the other is domestic enforcement/ICE (or lawless enforcement these days).
The American public, inc. a sizeable chunk of Hispanic communities, generally is in favor of largely shutting down the border to immigration.
But they HATE the ICE Cheka.

I was going to say... why am I so bothered that AI can't recognize a Dravidian name?

Yeah, O'Neill's retirement in '87 was a real inflection point for the intra-party politics.
I mean, hell, Tip once published a book called "All Politics Is Local." It'd be nice if people read it.
And yeah, Billy wielded the party well for *himself* then left an institutional basket case behind.

Part of me wants to say that as the party moved further left culturally (generally) it took on that left-ish preference for centralized, top-down organization. Especially after '92, but in general taking the wrong lessons after 1980. Like economics, trickle-down politics is a terrible idea.

Well you already said Top Gun, which I think is the most obvious, but these would be the two off the top of my head

I saw Child's Play when it first came out on VHS like 1989, and I was WAY too young to watch a movie like that especially living in Chicago where the movie takes place, and near the end my cat bats my foot from under the sofa.

And my doctor today wonders why I have chronic sinus tachycardia.

Look, all I'm saying is that the Cubs won the 2016 World Series and a week later Trump was elected. If the Bears win the Super Bowl then we're all proper fucked.

Not to mention Mike was a shitty architect. Who designs and builds a 3BR house specifically for their own family with 6 kids, even in 1968? They can afford a live-in maid but not another room?

No wonder his building collapsed on him during the 80s Christmas special.

Well, when his foreign policy has become basically a North American Napoleon we should expect nothing less.

The proto-Protestant affiliation is somewhat tenuous, but Savonarola would have been *amazing* on The Internet™

That's a big thing is that people confuse 92 and 96. Things were not good economically or socially in the early 90s, and then The Internet™ happened.
Reform doesn't happen during an economic boom, especially a boom largely unrelated to policy and more an accident of the arrow of time.

Such was the Solomons.

I once used an old school electric grill lighter on the tailpipe to keep the gas tank and engine block warm. INSANELY dangerous, but it worked.

Hmm. Must have been a *very* early model; VWs were mostly fuel injected by like '75-76. Kind of a miracle he even got it started (starting fluid or gas in the air filter?) but then broke the cardinal rule of not letting it warm up before taking off.

I think this is probably true.

I mean, I can remember some of those whacky wins in 2001 and 2006 and stuff, but this is different. Seems like the most important Bears win since January 1986.

I hate the Seahawks but I hate the Rams more 😩

You want to hand more control of the internet and free speech to THIS government?

I've been saying for like two decades now that Durbin is the most useless and out-of-their-depth D sitting in the north wing of the Capitol. Dude couldn't whip cream with an outboard motor.

Just retire.

And here I thought *I* was having a bad day... 😒