That was the whole of his last administration.

“What he’s done is just awful. It must stop. This is the last time.” For four years.

I’m just going to spend the next four years treating it like comedy. Nothing else I can do until the mid terms.

Yeah, maybe I didn’t make that clear. I don’t think 90% of Trump voters are fascists. I don’t think being a Nazi is necessary to be concerned about immigration, but assuming it’s not sheer racial hatred my question was what was driving this concern about immigration?

Fascism has a clear definition, however there’s a bit of nuance between that definition and saying a person is a fascist. Like I think Trump only gives a fuck about himself. I don’t think he is motivated by fascist belief. But if it’s in his self-interest to advance a fascist agenda, which he then does, he’s enacting fascism, which makes him a fascist even if maybe you could dissect his psyche and say but he doesn’t believe in fascism!

Fascist is as fascist does. But it takes a pattern of behavior and at each step you have a few more people agreeing it’s fascism. At what point will history agree he’s a fascist? I don’t know. He’s clearly not literally Hitler, but if he does stuff Hitler would do, how much makes him a Nazi? That’s for future historians to pointlessly debate. The fact is he does an uncomfortable amount of fascist stuff.

I get that lots of people here think every last trump voter is a fascist and white-supremacist, but I think in truth it’s probably well less than half. So why are almost 90% of them concerned about immigration?

I get Florida and southern border countries. Old people fucking hate to hear Spanish. Why do Pennsylvanians and Ohioans care about it?

Show me on the map where the brown men hurt you.

Trumpets don’t value knowledge. They value commitment and loyalty and the ability to blame others.

This is an insane take. No, the military isn’t going to coup over this. If the generals were getting executed, perhaps, but they’re just being retired or shuffled off to other duties.

I can identify with a lot of that. She was a recent divorcee, though, and I was supposedly the one with my shit together.

But I will say that there was a point in my late tens or early twenties where maybe I was going to go a different path. I could’ve turned bitter had I had to deal with loneliness at the time.

I was doing a lot of work on myself and it was messy, trying to figure out who I was. So I guess maybe I feel a certain amount of sympathy for young men in that situation. But also I’m really beyond such things at this point. It just struck me as something that gets attention but sufferers from fundamental flaws (like either they are going to find the one and have sex anyway, or they just aren’t all that interested in sex with men to begin with and this is just a way to sort of turn their lack of interest into leverage).

But I’m just not twenty any more. Times are different. Kinda glad I don’t have to navigate it.

I didn’t love the prequels, but like you say with the right team he can make magic. I think he could be like creative director or something over someone doing the grunt work, so his influence would be strong, but not have him be fully, directly in charge.

I think that would work.

I feel like a person would know, or at least could know. But I guess you have a point. I have a much different perspective on dating at fifty than would have at twenty.

I’m not really looking at it through the lens of fairness, I think, other than maybe sympathetic. I’m just not sure it addresses the problem. Seems to be the biggest issue for liberal men who wouldn’t date a conservative woman. And they aren’t likely to be the problem, nor is creating a rift the solution.

But I can 100% see a woman who is simply unwilling to risk pregnancy in this environment regardless of partner.

It makes sense to me to not date men who won’t stand up for your rights, but that’s not my read of 4B.

I’m not following the logic here. The only thing I can see is it would drive a wedge between feminists and sympathetic men. Seems like the sort of thing that would only make sense to someone uninterested in men or withdrawing from the guy they are with.

If someone has a take I’m missing, I’m all ears. I’m married 15 years and I don’t have a dog in the fight, so if I’m wrong just explain how.

Pretty sure it’ll get worse, but let’s see. Maybe Israel has achieved maximum misery from which things literally can’t get worse. I’m betting not, but we’ll see.

Sweet. Let’s boot him. I wonder how many months we could go without a functional House. 48 would be ideal.

So naive. Let’s see what happens.

Oh it’ll get worse. Let’s watch. Can’t do anything else at this point.

Jesus fucking Christ. Just stop. Fire all the fucking bean counters. Fire anyone who would say something like “She is the most valuable cinematic asset, in some ways maybe the only one, Star Wars has right now.” Fire anyone who talks about writing the New Testament of Star Wars. All of you are blights on the ass of cinema.

Just tell a story about rebelling against stylish evil space wizards and gangsters. Tell a story about family. Just not the Skywalker family. Tell a personal story that resonates on a galactic level. Tell a story about how very different people come together for very different reasons to fight the same enemy. And don’t be afraid to make it an allegory for real world things so that it resonates.

I’m not going to pretend it’s easy, but every story I read about the future plans is worse than the last. You fuckers are going the wrong direction. Just shut the fuck up and throw money at someone passionate and visionary. Someone who is going to respect the original trilogy, but has something more to say within that massive setting.

On the bright side, I’m not brown and I don’t have to protest anything. On the other hand, I have empathy. So I’ll be just fine other than my mental health.

edit: apparently I said that a little too obliquely.

Clearly you mean escalate.

You don’t have to be a citizen to get a license in a lot of places. I actually don’t know of any that do but clearly I’m not fully informed.

In which case she obviously didn’t do enough to reach out to conservatives, because every single swing state went red.