Bearded Stoner

Happiness is over and the good times are gone.

The most charitable case for how Democratic leadership handles Trump is that they're holding their strongest rhetorical fire for a Real Emergency so they don't seem permanently hysterical. Meanwhile, they keep treating real emergencies as normal events, emboldening a tyrant and normalizing fascism.

We were hysterical. We were shrill. We were proved fucking right.

Republican Government Shifts Focus to Murdering Overseas

If you find rooting for someone's death distasteful, you shouldn't have helped to create a reality where that's the only hope for meaningful justice and significant consequences.

It's 2009 and we're looking forward, not back
It's 2020 and we're looking forward, not back
It's 2028...

Just another example of much-needed justice that will never happen.

Somehow I think the history of the past 26 years would be completely different if Sports Night had been the hit that made Aaron Sorkin famous and the West Wing had never existed.

Oh no! Sorry, just a bad joke.

Good a time as any to mention how much I HATE YOU.

It's worse. It's always worse. In any case where the situation is so dire that they could in fact make it better, they won't get there on time.

Before calling the cops about anything, ask yourself, "Will a scared bully with a gun and more creatine than brains make this situation better or worse?"

Can't expect anybody to stand up for you who won't stand up for themselves.

What if the state of the union is that it happens?

My brother and I watched this way too young and it made a lasting impression, if you couldn't tell.

"I want your eyes, pig!" Still more normal than cutting leftover pizza with scissors.

Extremely!

He'll always be the bad guy from Cobra to me.

Holy crap! And if I'm mathing right, Duchovny is older now than Davis was when the original series started. Time, man.

You see the vision.

LaKeith Stanfield in a burgundy blazer and crisp white button-down, looking like he liked your vibe and wants to buy you a drink.

Special Agent Fox Mulder, FBI

Duchovny as the cigarette smoking man. Anderson as FBI Director Skinner.

Now, would I drown before reaching for Gavin Newsom's soft, greasy, impeccably manicured hand? Don't worry about it!

Not enough people understand that a presidential election is two people each extending a hand to you as you drown. Which hand is attached to the person you trust more to save your life? You don't get to wait for an ideal hand to come along. You're drowning. These are your choices.

What if the state of the union is that it happens?

before he shits his pants?

How long do you think the president will speak tomorrow

ok i'm doing this too now

Anyway, it's got a big lovable dummy and a little rascally scamp and a solid swerve. It's funny enough to actually be a golden globes "comedy" but also poignant enough to make you care.

And the source material is such that it could run for several seasons and not want for content BUT ALSO the main characters have solid ends in the lore, so you don't have the GOT problems where they don't know where they're going.