He really wasn’t. He had been out of the writing process for multiple seasons, they had him recording off site

The cracks have been showing for years now, I won’t deny he has an energy to his voice acting, but the replacements are fine. The problem is the writing

Ironically, that would probably end up with a different season of slop

The writers haven’t been subtle, though the episodes they’ve been directly saying they don’t know what people want from them and they keep getting told to be more like season 1

Well, we got something like season 1. The characters undid their character development and the episodes are aimless riffs off of classic sci-fi and cosmic horror

I think I’d just get the writing staff off of social media and pay them to hang out in a comfy room until they have an idea they’re excited about again

I refuse to believe it was not both of them until I see evidence of something even more damaging

He’s tried every other argument, now he’s trying reverse psychology again

It’s because he likes the spotlight. He’s said a ton of very sus things to reporters over the years just to be the Epstein whisperer

That’s what Concord looks like??? In my head it was way more brutalist

The way he responded to this was really good. He got up there and said “I’m only surprised it took this long for Trump to come after me, bring it on”

Pretty much. It means give maximum output, which can easily be over 100%.

And that means burn out

Oh, they tried to talk him out of tarrifs. But he personally loves them, because they make other countries come to him and kiss his ass and make “concessions” that were already in place to get them removed

Geopolitics works on several layers, getting progressively less public as you go down

If their objective was to strike back hard enough to be a deterrent next time they’re attacked, why would they announce their intentions before they had the missiles ready?

This announcement does a few things. It reassures the Iranian people that they won’t let strikes on their country go unanswered in the future. It is a show of strength towards Israel, because they know that the global political climate will protect them from war with Israel for the near future

And possibly most importantly, it’s a departure from nukes. They’re announcing the intention of pursuing alternative means of defense

The timing of this makes me think they’ve negotiated their way back in from the cold. This might have been planned all the way back at the strikes on their enrichment sites - they were strangely accommodating of that whole event, but it would make them look weak if they immediately said they were giving up their nuclear ambitions

Well that’s a misleading title

Same as it ever was

Lol. Come on, keep your dreams in the realm of possibility

Trump will die never facing consequences for his many crimes. But it will be soon

They will go to unimaginable lengths to learn the wrong lessons, don’t get me wrong. And they’re doing their very best

They’re testing literally everything except being more progressive… Everything from working with MAGA and bringing out Obama

But none of their bizarre mixing and matching of everything imaginable, including testing fucking Hunter Biden for a presidential run, have paid off at all

I just think it’s finally obvious, and urgent, enough that the leadership is going to turn over. At the end of the day, the leadership might be willing to go down with the ship over this, but the rank and file won’t

Did you see the part where the defacto leader of the party didn’t show up to his own press conference, so the reporters asked Bernie (who was just watching from the back) if he’d answer questions?

The Democratic establishment fought Mamdani (and progressives generally) along with Trump and the oligarchs and lost massively. Both parties are in chaos right now, because it’s obvious that money is no longer enough to win elections, even safe ones

They’re all going to be quiet for a while before the other shoe drops, hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence

The more popular plan among them seems to be this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

If you read through it you’ll find a lot of the things in project 2025 that came out of nowhere (like taking Canada, Greenland, and Panama) are actually goals of the movement

Oh, and Elon’s Grandpa was in the movement, and the heritage foundation was started by the same group

You have to be shitting me…a separate vote?

They’re strong to the weak and weak to the strong

This was a huge show of strength. This is going to make the infighting absolutely explode, they’ll be busy for a while

Yes, but you’ve also separated the money and put it under the care of a third party. And presumably, you’d do this as a matter of state law

When the IRS comes knocking, you can say “sure thing, your money is over there, as according to local laws”. The IRS can then sue you, but you followed the law and set the money aside - clearly you weren’t attempting to avoid paying

Which realistically means the federal government needs to sue the state, either to overturn the state law or collect all the money

They really should just play the Howard Stern interview, Trump admitted to so much sick shit