wild turkeys will fuck you up, you’re lucky to escape alive 😅

when I watch Stewart now - not very closely, I’ll put him on when I’m making dinner or whatever - he makes me think he probably knows he failed as well. historians will look back on the era as one of despair, where we hired comedians to tell the news because it was unremittingly grim for decades.

for his part, at least, trying to thread that awful needle seems to have proven a genuinely harrowing ordeal for Trevor Noah, who may not be the deepest policy thinker but has come away from the experience of carrying that water unambiguously chastened and haunted by failure. it’s a bad model.

he’s taught me everything I know about the Power Rangers

it works! it’s the formula for making people love your characters: show them as underdogs for as long as you can without making them out to be chumps. Claremont made us love them for their struggles.