I’m glad I’m not alone in that lol

If you were given a blank check to use towards adapting something (either as tv/movie/liveaction/animation, whatever you thought fit the source material better) what would you adapt?

I cannot fathom how a person like that exists. Im just sitting here slack-jawed, my brain is not computing

I see you’re not Turtle enough for the Turtle Club
(my mother HATED this movie with the passion of a thousand suns)

Could a more moderate candidate have done better? We’ll never know, because none of them could win a primary. Just as easily they could’ve lost by more, because there’s no definitive answer to a hypothetical

This is unfortunately a common take amongst moderate commentators on the TN special, even the Bulwark. Drives me bonkers. The moderate candidates all flamed out in the primary! As much as people like Bazelon wish it werent so, primary voters chose who they want to be their candidate

Totally get where you’re coming from but just be careful because if they’re federal loans they can and will garnish your wages if you go too long (9 months) without paying

the best part is that he is actually genuinely really mad about this, because Cuellar has broken the golden rule of Trump deals: he gets to stiff you, you don’t get to stiff him

Whenever a list of Dems who voted on something terrible goes around, I know without looking that Josh Gottenheimer will be on the list. Without fail, he always is

liberalism is going to require something martial and vicious and somewhat fanatic if we want it to survive. it won't be the liberalism we grew up with. it will be an uglier, harder thing for an uglier, harder world.

A million Joshua Chamberlains are needed for the trying times ahead

it is a hell of a thing to ask, like, liberal arts college cultural studies majors to become the nation's inquisitors. but, we are being faced with genuine evil. I do not see another way past it. we either accept the internal conflicts of what we must become, or fail

I think the scenario where Paramount or Comcast buys them would’ve been worse, but definitely not great lol