Yeah. God.

I mean he devised a way to start with something, remove everything, and then prove that he was left with the same amount he started with. It is actual sorcery.

Uhhhhhhhhh

I hate to have to say it, but you know, there’s still two and a half years to go. Things are going to get worse. I hope that all causes opinion and momentum to move.

The other piece of this, deeper down, is about how to marshal a party of governance toward aims of reconstruction in the wake of Trump, and that’s a vital question. But it starts, can only start, with driving republicans from power, which brings us back to that first paragraph.

Good piece, worth reading, and if you don’t have time, the first paragraph is the text in this post, and it suffices as well.

You know, my consistently held position is that bullying is bad full stop but the thing here is that something that might elsewhere take the form of bullying (lol you’re a coward) is, in this case, simply an evaluation of job-relevant qualities.

These fuckers are dressed like cosplay soldiers but on D-Day they would have been like “hey General Eisenhower I know you told us to go to the beach but it looks like there’s a lot of shooting so we’re gonna wait until that dies down.”

And maybe I’m getting too worried there, but I think the conditions where people having that perception isn’t a big enough thing to worry about are ones where broad consensus has formed that Trump and the GOP need to be expurgated, and that means shit has gotten BAD.

I think this is a straightforward academic question to answer and (potentially) a devilishly difficult political one, given that doing what needs to be done will appear to some as simply doing the same thing Trump did for different partisan ends.

Yeah, and when Whitaker started doing compressions he was like “oh no not again” and I was like “oh this is going to be him getting a chance to save someone” and no, it was just awful.

At the end I was just like…why did that happen? Like in a story sense, why did it happen? What resonance did it have? It was just horrible. But like, in this setting, sometimes stuff is just horrible.

Just watched S1E8 of The Pitt, and man, it simply destroyed me emotionally.

Mental patients taking a day trip to a baseball game, get separated from their doctor. Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Steven Furst, Peter Boyle.

The very same!

I really only meant to drive at the thing deeper down, which is that some superficial process rules don’t mean dick in the face of broader obligations that attempt to use those process rules as a shield. You’re right that the analogy isn’t terribly precise otherwise.

The idea that any privilege is absolute (in a moral/ethical sense) over the contents of what the privilege shields is so absurd.

lol, Look Who’s Talking (and talking about it with my wife and kids), and asking whether it had a drug/crime subplot, is what brought this to mind.

Careful out there, among them English.

This guy’s worse than stupid—he’s a clown. He’s demonstrating his willingness to get paid for saying absurd shit in public, to prove that there is nothing he won’t do to kowtow to power.

“If there’s public interest in evidence proving a corporation has been systematically stealing its employees’ wages—correspondence between executives, falsified pay stubs—the choice of whether to release it is for the corporation, not an individual leaker.”

But like they also get the heroin and have to deal with that at some point, right? It’s been forever since I’ve seen it.

For a little while my dad and his neighbor were buddies with the guy who played the baddie in Kindergarten Cop, lol.

It’s a surprisingly common mode in otherwise lighthearted comedies that must have had writers’ rooms coked out of their gourds.

They coulda been taking the subway and gotten separated by a press of a crowd! They’d have to have a series of misadventures to explain how he couldn’t find them but that’s a lot easier without cell phones!

3 men and a baby? Three guys trying hilariously to take care of a child and also a mixup where the child was supposed to be heroin, which also showed up I think?

It’s wild how every comedy in the 80s required an unrelated crime/drug subplot. Like The Dream Team: these mental patients are in the city and get separated from their doctor. How? They get on different trains or something? Nope, the doctor gets beaten within an inch of his life by drug traffickers.

I’m sure I’m gonna be bombarded with counter examples and that’s fine, but truly this seems like him driving headfirst into a brick wall in a way that nothing else has for the last decade.

Kind of wild but it seems like Iran is the first major (person/institution/country) with the power to draw blood that Trump has picked a fight with that doesn’t have the incentive to be like “eh let’s kind of humor him and wait it out until he’s gone.”

Fuckin thing SUCKS.