That empathy extended well beyond his films. Rob was a passionate advocate for children and for civil rights — from taking on Big Tobacco, fighting for marriage equality, to serving as a powerful voice in early education. He made California a better place through his good works.

If this were France there would have been 20 million people in the streets and a general strike about 20 minutes after the Doge cuts were announced. The real real America is actually not angry enough.

One reason this happens is because we're simply not a serious country & don't hold our leaders accountable. The other, however, is institutional. There are no mechanisms aside from impeachment or fixed elections for no confidence votes in the chief executive.

Tl;dr: Juan Linz was right (again)

In the real world, man's in the mid-30s, underwater by 20 pts, and strong/somewhat is even more brutal. There are two dozen voters in the whole country who are like "hmm, I dislike Trump, but impeachment is going too far," and all of them have newsletters exclusively read by the DC political class.

You're right. These are the same tired talking points, but I can see how they thought they could get away with it forever - voters rewarded them with a govt trifecta just 1 year ago.

lol - in order to fool Trump/Maga, Fox News has gone with Green Up Arrows for bad news.

The Simpsons already did this.

At a certain point, American officers, analysts and policymakers are going to start fielding questions like ”Do you agree with the official position of the NSS that my country is being mongrelized by immigration and may be expelled from NATO for being insufficiently white?”

Obviously, some 19th century presidents spoke in openly racist ways like Trump did today. But I was trying to think of a similar example of such a publicly racist & xenophobic statement by a sitting president in the modern presidency era, & couldn't come up with one.