Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

This has got a good beat to it.

Believe you me, well over half the country is beyond furious, and much of the remainder are currently sobering up from their Kool-Aid binge. This house of cards has never wobbled more than it is now.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

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Patio of orange dicks

May be a minute before it’s widely available - it just premiered at Sundance earlier this year (I caught it at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)

I was able to recently see the filmmaker’s follow-up doc: 2000 Meters to Andriivke - harrowing

And for the love of god turn off motion-smoothing (called Xcelerator on Samsung) unless you want every show and film to look like a soap opera.

Congrats! OLED is a game changer, but it really shines with some calibration - factory/display room settings are terrible. I stay in Filmmaker display mode and customize settings by cranking Contrast to high and lowering Brightness to midway - really helps brighten things without sacrificing darks.

What comes next, Tom? Because I don’t see how the judiciary holds out with Trump v USA immunity. There is no way this entrenched loyalty web doesn’t back him whatever elections may say. This really feels like the worst case scenario for any future transfer of power.