I don't know if it counts as optimism but I don't really think there's anything that Donald Trump could do or have happen to him that would make people who don't already like him want to vote for him. There is no more known quantity on earth, he can't change, and he is for sure not getting better.
This summer I will be supporting the Mongolian Olympic team because this is their uniform and it is a thousand times better than anything Nike has ever made.
the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me
So it sounds like Pop isn’t some dementia-addled old geezer barely able to complete a thought after all, huh? Wow. What a complete surprise to everyone who hasn’t spent the last few weeks shamefully pissing their pants like toddlers after too many juicy juices.
…is a society which tries to keep us all supported.
And that is precisely what Republicans and conservatives are trying to destroy.
So Do Not Let Them.
in all the (appropriate) memorializing of Shelley Duvall as a performer in the work of male auteur directors, spare a thought for her own auteur work: Faerie Tale Theatre was one of the few actually good media products aimed at children in the 1980s, but because it didn't sell toys it's forgotten
An unnamed House Democrat who wishes Biden would step aside texts Axios and NOTUS: "The dam is holding."
To Axios: "As someone who wanted the reckoning and is disappointed that it's over, trust me: it's over."
To NOTUS: “They’ve outflanked us with the CBC and others ... It feels closed for now."