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Every day I come across a post that reminds me of Lobo.

Plus Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston. "It is based on The Bureau a French espionage show created, directed and produced by Eric Rochant. It initially had the title of The Department."

100% this. Combine it with the fact that there's no urgency to watch everything because it's all on Disney+ just sitting there and there are no "event" movies coming out soon. Up through the Avengers movie, it was extremely easy for non-comic fans to keep track of it all. Even up through Endgame/Infinity War, it was still fairly easy for the casuals, and you could skip movies centered on individuals and still be okay when you watched the main Avengers "event" movies, because you still knew the main characters. And I would toss in that Deadpool/Wolverine was the last "event" movie, and it brought in the casuals because they didn't have to know much - they knew who Hugh Jackman's Wolverine was and Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool, and there was comedy, and that was enough. The Multiverse stuff, combined with a lot of spinoff shows and dozens of side-characters was way too much for the casuals though. Shit, even I got burned out on it and I grew up reading this stuff and liked the movies. I will say that I'm rewatching the MCU with my middle-schooler, and he hasn't really had a problem with anything, and even the "filler" movies/shows weren't as bad as I remembered. But we are not racing through the movies either, because again, they are all just sitting there on Disney+, and there's nothing coming out in theaters in the near-term that makes us think we have to race through it and/or be ready.

Russia still hasn't kicked the Ukrainians out of Kursk, and Russia is now relying on thousands of North Korean troops to backfill various places along their border or in occupied areas (to free up Russian troops to go elsewhere). Russia is not in as good of a place as they may seem and Europe is pushing more and more modern hardware into Ukraine while Russia is getting 60 year-old tanks out of storage. Yes, we've said that before, but Russia is literally bringing in over 10,000 Norks, and they aren't hiding it. And North Korea has a fairly small population of 25 million. While every man and woman of a certain age has to serve in the military, Lil Kim is a paranoid fucker and may not give up too many of his soldiers to Russia. One other situation you didn't mention on the election front - a Harris win, if the R's retain control of a chamber, could see the R's automatically opposing anything she pushes, which could mean an end to a lot of Ukrainian aid. With that said, Texas's very own John Cornyn is publicly complaining that Biden/Harris haven't done enough to support Ukraine, and Cornyn could be the Republican Senate leader. And who knows how they Norks fair on the open battlefield - they've literally had it drilled into their brains that they are the superior force, and they are about to find themselves getting hunted down by cheap drones.

And the number of companies who care. And aggy probably lowered their standards to bring in all the online students.

It needs to be done by Apple TV as a series, similar to Foundation.

When Trump loses, there will still be a few issues for the GOP: Trump won't go quietly in the night. He could announce he's running in 2028. At the very least, he's going to hand-pick his successor and he will fuck over anybody who goes against him. Think of Abbott and Paxton here in Texas primarying any Republicans who voted against them or weren't on board with their programs, only at a national level. Trump will still control the RNC's purse strings through Lara Trump (she was just elected to the RNC co-chair in March of this year), and will continue trying to funnel any and all money into his PACs/campaign, or at the least, will use the RNC coffers to power his lawsuits that go nowhere and drain the RNC. Lara has many more years as RNC co-chair, and you'd have to convince a chunk of the 168 RNC committee members to vote her out. Hundreds of millions of dollars flowed into Trump's PACs instead of to other Republicans, and Lara made it clear the RNC is there for Trump. This could be the easiest money Trump has ever made and he will not give it up. Those PACs aren't going away either and if the RNC committee boots Lara out, there could still be a lot of Republican money flowing into Trump's PACs. Trump doesn't feel like he owes the GOP anything - he was a Democrat for decades, and the GOP was just a vessel to get him elected. He has the ability to make things even worse for the GOP as long as he has his hands on the rudder and Lara's hands in the RNC piggy bank. I'm leaning towards what I think @tx 3 putt said - Nikki Haley is probably waiting in the wings with some BMDs ready to take on the RNC leadership if Trump decides to hang around the RNC/GOP for the next four years. Yeah, I know, they can't win without MAGA, but if they aren't winning with MAGA, then either the country club Republicans join the Democrats and try to get some power for themselves, or they take control of the RNC by swaying a large enough chunk of the 168 voters to boot Lara out, or they take their ball and start a new party. They ain't going to sit on their asses for another four years while Trump drools on himself and anoints Donald Jr. as his successor, all the while RNC coffers continue to empty into Trump bank vaults.

But they aren't in power, and the most they can do is decertify/toss ballots from red states which...lowers the threshold for Kamala. And given how many attorneys learned that MAGA stands for "Making Attorneys Get Attorneys", Trump's probably going to be relying on parking garage lawyers.

Was hoping it would turn into this NSFW

The thing about the Tea Party is that the GOP subverted it fairly quickly, through Dick Armey/FreedomWorks and all that Koch Brothers money (while also using the Tea Party to steer the GOP). A whole lot of Republicans who switched over to the "grass roots" Tea Party never thought about the money behind all of those rallies, speeches, the Glenn Beck bullshit, etc. "Grass roots" does not pay for the kinds of shindigs they had. Ironically, FreedomWorks shut down earlier this summer.

What about Trish Regan, who was fired from Fox Business News in 2020 over COVID conspiracy bullshit?

Rogan will make more money from MAGA being upset and listening to him/calling in to him. Grievance pays well. But that's assuming Rogan understands that concept.

I think we all came down on the same side in the Hall & Oates restraining order debacle.

Damn, that Daredevil is going to be amazing.

As somebody who has a major illness and surgery in the past year and had to get way too intimate with medical imagery, and who has watched Grok, Tesla, etc. the past few years, there’s no fucking way in hell I would ever trust his software for something like that. Because I could see feeding it some images and having it come back recommending some treatment called “Aktion T4”.

It would be different if I happened to know a lot of people who were aching to do roofing jobs in Texas in August, or were looking to spend their days walking farm fields, but even with my East Texas relatives, I don’t. I can’t imagine how much prices would rise, and I really can’t imagine what would happen to the Texas economy. Well, I can imagine that a lot of businesses would go under, and there’s a chance that many would not come back.

You’d be surprised how many people truly check out on politics until the 2-4 months before an election when they can’t avoid it because of advertising, social media, and mainstream news coverage. There’s also a shitload of people who got invested in 2020 and then checked out, thinking Trump was finished. In our friends’ case, they’ve got three kids under the age of 12, including a toddler, their weekends are devoted to soccer, baseball, scouts, and church. They don’t sit around on message board.

They've spent money on focus groups and polling and this ticks some boxes for the boomers and the incles, more than immigration does (the anti-Haitian rhetoric did not go the way Donnie hoped it would). Plus, LBGTQs are the last people they can truly and openly demonize without the media coming down on them too hard. The LBGTQ are extremely vulnerable politically and personally as we've seen in Texas with Texas Republican leaders going after them. I'm honestly surprised some MAGA dipshit hasn't killed a bunch of LBGTQ folks recently.

For somebody angling to be the top Republican in the Senate, he makes some interesting comments that will send some Republicans into a tizzy. https://x.com/JohnCornyn/status/1850522448380195309 Biden-Harris Legacy on Ukraine: "True, Kiev remains independent. Recall, though, that Biden’s first instinct was to offer Volodymyr Zelensky safe passage to exile. Zelensky said no thanks, he needed ammunition instead. And while Biden has supplied Ukraine with weapons, aid carries a price. Biden slow-walked transfer of critical platforms such as Patriots, ATACMs, Abrams tanks, and F-16s. He continues to impose restrictions on long-range firings. Promising to stand by Ukraine as long as it takes, Biden has refused to do whatever it takes to help Ukraine stop and repel the invaders. The war grinds on, with no end in sight, draining the West’s political will to assist Ukraine’s righteous cause. Biden’s fear of Russian nukes grants Putin escalation dominance. No one is safer." https://www.commentary.org/articles/matthew-continetti/biden-foreign-policy/

We've got friends that are Puerto Ricans here in Austin (both of them are here because of work), they were born and raised in Puerto Rico, met and married there, and their kids were born there, and they go back every chance they get. We've known them for five years, have camped with them, done a lot of kid-related activities with them, and I've never heard anything out of either one of them about politics. A quick peek at the husbands Facebook from the past 5 years or so shows nothing political. That changed in the past 24 hours. He's furious, he's calling on a lot of his relatives and friends to vote against Trump, he's reposted the video, he even posted the Vance video, and he's getting a lot of responses (and his wife has said her piece). They are even bringing up videos during the hurricane response, etc. That's just one couple, but I imagine that there are a lot of these conversations happening right now among a lot of Puerto Ricans. Is it enough to have an impact? When you have some of the top Catholics in Puerto Rico and the head of the Puerto Rican GOP calling on Trump to personally apologize...I have to think that carries a lot of weight.

A little flashback. Second video picks up immediately after the first. The next Senate Republican leader tangling with Kamala.

Imagine being so clueless that you think your wife will do what you tell her to do.