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  1. It was the weakest season.
  2. I agree it was the weakest season. The doomsday clock felt very contrived, even more so than The Food Critic device of S3. Tina was completely sidelined by the "cook-a da pasta fasta" arc which is kind of an insulting thing to do to an Emmy winner, and it didn't even make any narrative sense. She was too slow until she wasn't. That's it? They don't show us how she got faster or why. Just, she talked to some foreign dude (working for no pay by the way) and it magically helped her get faster. Wow, what a story. Syd's arc about choosing where to go was not interesting at all, and if it hadn't been for the mini-arc surrounding her Dad's brush with death, I would even say her character was an overall liability to the show's quality. Just a complete waste of Ayo's talents. Every other minor character was either Flanderized or window dressing, a tell tale sign of a writer's room that has no idea what it wants to do anymore or how to do it. Carmy's relationship with his mom and revealing that he'd gone to the funeral, that was better storytelling and could not have been acted better but at the same time I don't feel like it had the impact on me that it was supposed to have. I think part of the reason why is that this was a ten episode season that really could have been done in six. Lots of filler scenes, lots of characters just sort of staring at each other, lots of lectures. So all that sizzle ended up diluting the steak, so to speak. It felt like they overdid those callbacks, fan services, and vamping tactics to the point where the tactics themselves stopped working as effectively and their overuse detracted from the parts of S4 that didn't need to be covered up with extra seasoning. In spite of all those criticisms, The Bear remains a very good show and I don't regret watching Season 4. I didn't hate the Syd episode as much as some other posters seemed to have hated it, but I agree that the Wedding episode was by far and away the best one, although getting JLC, Brie Larson, and Odenkirk on loan is a bit of a cheat code in an episode that already has Oliver Platt, Josh Hartnett (very underrated in this show), and John Mulaney. Also loved Rob Reiner and the franchising arc. Holds a lot of promise for S5.
  3. I think Minix is currently on a 2-Way
  4. Newsom should disregard these impostors
  5. Epstein needed these files to exist or the implied blackmail threat doesn't work. The files got seized during his first arrest, presumably, and Trump 45 could have destroyed or altered them. People have speculated that Epstein didn't commit suicide because powerful people had a compelling motivation to keep him from revealing who's in the files. Biden of course did nothing useful with the files. Trump 47 campaigned on full transparency, but now the files "don't exist."
  6. Elon already blabbed that Trump and Bannon are on the list
  7. Live look at their lawyer:
  8. This blogger is reaching. Calling Abbott and Dan Crenshaw threats is free speech, not "actions as a medical provider." Yeah, her facebook post was ill-advised and of course she got fired over it, but I'm not going to pretend I'm more outraged at her than I am at the people who actually got those innocents killed.
  9. I'm worried Talarico is not mean enough. Good orators aren't gonna get the job done.
  10. Bumping this: We are here: One thing I'd neglected to mention is during this month the far-right strategists will begin testing out different counternarratives on friendly media then instructing their surrogates to coalesce around the one that sticks. We already saw Charlie Kirk go with the "DEI Firefighters" narrative, and Trumpworld is trying to go Full Orwell by commanding people to disregard their eyes and ears because this was the greatest and best federal disaster response of all time. Honorable mentions to "liberal cloud seeding" and "nothing could be done against a 1000 year flood" but as of right now I don't see a clear frontrunner yet. Stay tuned because there will be more trial balloons now that the "this is not the time to do politics" trope is fading away.
  11. https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/sports/details-emerge-from-quinshon-judkins-domestic-violence-arrest/
  12. yeah I'm sure it's more like protesting the CAD, most people who do it tend to be wealthy
  13. Flagg is good, but I thought he would be better
  14. This is how it was supposed to've been done.
  15. Hey when Hannity comes a-callin' what kind of person turns that down?
  16. Ever watch that movie Bernie? Wouldn't shock me that the most popular dude in town, who has helped hundreds of people and would give you the shirt off his back, could also be capable of a shady dealing or two. Humans are multifaceted.
  17. Did we give weapons to these guys? This is such a poor argument dude
  18. At a certain point you are either deliberately ignoring the glaring differences or fundamentally incapable of understanding. But in either case, you've demonstrated that further engagement will not help you, and the only reason anyone should respond is if they're in a public forum and you need to be made an example of for the onlookers who, unlike you, aren't deliberately ignoring or incapable of understanding how "both things" are not meaningfully comparable. Thing One: Releasing people who have served their sentences or have posted bail is not an abuse of state power. The policy "failure" is one that could only be "fixed" by changing the rules of "releasing" people who have committed less serious crimes so that the rules operate under the assumption that undocumented people are predisposed to commit a "bigger crime" that can only be prevented by keeping them in jail. They ignore the thousands of immigrants who aren't predisposed to commit crimes either because they're racist or because they are profoundly misinformed. Thing Two: A clear and unconstitutional abuse of state power. The policy failure here is obvious, as are the blatant racism and the grotesque historical parallels to ethnic cleansing projects. These abuses are the obvious consequences of appeasing the idiots who "scream about" Thing One by indulging the assumption that undocumented people are predisposed to commit crimes. The thousands of peaceful immigrants (and non-immigrants that aren't white) who are being rounded up are being collectively punished for crimes that a tiny fraction of immigrants committed. Moral of the Story Anyone who juxtaposes these "things" and says "both are wrong" looks like a fool. Learn the difference between an ethnic cleansing project beginning with widespread abuses of state power and anomalous crimes being signal boosted by racist media figures. Be on the right side of history.
  19. He saw Kerr County yesterday but by the next day Rosie O'Donnell is on his mind
  20. Punative?
  21. Way to misquote me.
  22. I didn't realize our Congresscritters from both sides of the aisle were doing photo ops with Sudanese leadership and sending billions of my fucking money to them so that they can bomb hospitals and set up a firing squad for starving people looking for food
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