Is this all scripted?
No, you're just an intelligent person in a world run by really, really stupid people.
The moment Soros changed his story on China was the last straw. These people are literally Surprised Pikachu grade stupid.
No, it's the APPEARANCE of status.
Take your typical pre-crash scumbag land developer. Drives a Ferrari, has the wardrobe of Leisure Suit Larry, inevitably dating a hot blonde...
Owes three banks money and is under investigation by the feds.
Like, suppose you're a software engineer minimalist. You make 150k but you have a tiny, economy apartment or starter house, cheap beater car and don't spend much on clothes. Maybe you have one or two hobbies you splurge on (gaming rig? minifigs? crypto speculation?) but to outside appearances you look poor unless someone saw your balance sheet.
That ain't hot.
No.
You need to watch some Aaron Clarey. HAVING money does not make you more desirable. SPENDING money does. This is why the dudebros who are the most popular with women are usually borderline or actual frauds with sub-500 credit ratings.
George Lucas sold them a cash cow
TBH Disney grossly overpaid for Lucasfilm.
The situation was that they paid 4 billion for Marvel Studios. But the difference was that when they bought Marvel, they were actually buying a production pipeline. Marvel had a over a dozen scripts being worked on, and a couple films in production. They were buying a movie making machine that frankly didn't need anything from Disney to keep printing money. That was worth 4 billion.
Lucas refused to sell for less than Marvel. But they had NOTHING. Clone Wars was winding down, and they had nothing new in the pipe and no screenplays anywhere close to being ready for preproduction. That 4.05 billion bought them a brand and nothing else. No production infrastructure, and nothing they could immediately put into action.
"you know maybe having Luke be a grumpy hermit that does nothing might not be the best thing"
Hamill and Fisher were only willing to return if Ford did. It was a polite "no" because they knew Harrison Ford would never do another Star Wars movie.
Then Disney offered to kill off his character and he signed.
So really, the lesson is, never count on others.
So the skip never sweeps
Aye.
In a sense it's a bit like the designated hitter in baseball, so the pitcher can focus on pitching the game. The skip is the one "playing" against the other skip, hence why they throw the last stone. They tried to call the preceding stones to make a situation they can work with.
Which Norm MacDonald?
Pre-woke 90's version who was funny, or post woke soon to be dead version who wasn't?
I'm old you bint. I remember SNL in the 80's. If I say the name Belushi you probably immediately think of the crap imitation version.
Yes.
But what differentiates mass murder through abortion from mass murder through war?
I remember Bush Jr and his contrived war with Iraq. It will take decades of clean behavior by the GOP before I give them a pass on having the moral high ground to call other people murderers without hypocrisy.
Because above all, I despise hypocrites. Not murderers, not SJWs, not communists... it's hypocrites. They're the worst sort of people.
(Shrug)
Going after abortion without tackling the larger economic problems is counterproductive.
You may not like it, but abortion does have SOME effect against poverty, despite its equal effect in facilitating bad decisions and risk taking.
What's particularly galling is that Republicans have repeatedly FAILED eliminate the more expensive incentives for people to act irresponsibly, like welfare. Abortion, for better or worse, "costs" nothing to the taxpayer, while housing assistance, food assistance, and direct payments cost quite a lot. I take a dim view of attempts to own the libs by killing abortion because it's an easier win than going after the money or fixing trade deficits.
Politicians screeching about dead babies does not reduce my tax bill, and I resent that the christian right has been able to monopolize conservatism for my entire lifetime over something so tangential to the actual role of government.
I DON'T CARE. If the cost of moving on to tackle real issues is dead babies, then so be it. That's why Trump was such a great Republican president, because his entire stance on abortion basically amounted to "appointing anti-abortion justices" and leaving it for the courts to sort out.
Know why the country went to shit?
Because we won WWII without any adversity, overbuilt with 60's technology, ran unreasonably high corporate taxes about 20 years longer than we should have, gave foundational industry jobs away to other countries to keep them in our sphere of influence, enacted LBJ's handouts, and spent patriotism in stupid fucking wars we shouldn't have been in.
Also McCarthy went after Hollywood when the real threat came later in academia.
Abortion is not a cause, it's a symptom. The decline enabled it.
Republicans who think they can stop the slide by stopping abortions could be outwitted by a fucking whack-a-mole machine.
I don't see anything wrong with his comments beyond political naivety.
"We're living in the age of cellphone cameras. Fuckups ain't tolerated!" -Smiling Jack, Vampire: The Masquerade
People this dumb need to get Darwinned out of politics. I am sick of our best hope for liberty resting on people who are too fucking stupid to understand that virtually everything that comes out of their retarded pieholes can and will be taken out of context at every opportunity.
You can have an opinion on abortion but there is no reason to share it to the press. Only go on the record for recorded votes, and offer no reasoning for your recorded votes.
MI Gov Candidate Attacked For Saying We Shouldn’t Encourage Rape Victims To Seek Abortion
Where does the GOP keep finding these fucking one-issue knuckledraggers?
The country is going to shit and Gen X is just repeating the Boomers obsession with abortion.
Yes; well, sort of.
Okay so Taiwanese politics are between the DPP and the KMT.
The KMT was in charge since the civil war, and it's supporters are old people. They were supportive of some ties with China. Because of this, their support collapsed among young people.
The DPP is the new top dog.
They are woke as fuck. But also nationalist as fuck. Their supporters are young, progressive, pro-America and extremely anti-China.
Basically, the DPP is the Democratic party with a MAGA foreign policy, and the KMT are literal Rinocons (and proud of it). That pro-China 25% are old KMT voters who remember 90's China.
This is all true.
But anyone who believes that China could invade Taiwan as easily as Germany invaded Czechoslovakia is mistaken. They have to cross a hundred miles of ocean, being in range of the Hsiung Feng III the whole way, MLRS rockets half the way, and guided Paladin fire the last third.
The sheer volume of guided anti-ship fire they'll soak up trying to cross that water will be like nothing that has been seen in the history of war ever.
Why would that scare you?
The only reason they're in charge is because only somebody that stupid would want to be in charge. We only get competent leaders when the stupid fuck things up so badly that intelligent people decide that the downsides of being in charge are outweighed by the downsides of letting the stupid remain in charge.
Which is what is starting to happen now. We'll get a couple good decades and then it'll go to pieces again.