Gary Cooper > John Wayne

Best Western actor of that entire era, also the inspiration for Timothy Olyphant’s portrayal of Raylan Givens on Justified.

At least it’s not Nazis, although tankies are every bit as bad.

Mad Dog Mattis, the supposed most well known recent iteration of the warrior poet/scholar archetype, is probably pretty pissed while reading about this.

As a young Marine this guy was one of those guys you learned leadership examples from, I had the chance to hear him speak on several occasions while I served. It was pretty disappointing seeing him join the Trump administration, but made sense when you could plainly see that he and Trump absolutely did not get along, because Trump isn’t a real leader by any stretch of imagination.

Tuberville is just another ignorant know-nothing Chickenhawk piece of shit, with extra racism and potential treason thrown in the mix to make him an extra large pile of shit.

How do they think we’ve hit peak therapy? I can’t even find a therapist for my autistic son, and it takes months to find a therapist willing to take on new clients, mental healthcare in America is at least twice as broken as physical healthcare, with the exception of dental care, which is absolutely horrendous.

Lol, yeah but knowing the difference is important.

There’s a bunch of books similar to The Expanse, but not all of them live up to what makes _The Expanse great, the hard science, but here’s some that I’d suggest to itch that Space Opera itch you’re having trouble scratching:

• Vatta’s War
• Honor Harrington
• Children of Time (I haven’t read it yet but always hear how great it is.)
• Star Carrier series
• Heritage Trilogy
• Commonwealth Saga
• Foreigner Series
• Dune
• The Lost Fleet Series
• Star Wars Expanded Universe
• Star Trek Novels
• Battletech/Mechwarrior series
• Warhammer
• Halo Novels
• Clone Series
• Old Man’s War
• Frontline Series
• Foundation series

I’ve got so many others, I’ll update a little more as I remember authors or titles.

Here’s a pretty good list of stuff I definitely missed

OP mentioned TBP in the post so I left it off, also I just haven’t read it yet, but definitely have to soon.

Children of Time is probably the next sci-fi series I’m reading.

You’re not blaming the right people by blaming the voters, Trump was the Republican party’s Fault, he’s their Frankenstein’s monster, he shouldn’t even be able to run for office again after 1/6 yet here they are still letting him and protecting him. The Republican party has abdicated it’s responsibility to run quality candidates, they should have been the first check to balance the scales against someone like Trump, and they not only failed but through the work of Roger Aisles and Rupert Murdoch and organizations like the heritage foundation and the Federalist society along with the religious zealots have added fuel to the fire for the past 30 years.

So now they’re a Qult worshipping an aging Orange Joseph Smith that nobody seems fully capable of holding accountable, and his white supremacist/neo-nazi/pro-authoritarian facist friends.

They should have known what was coming when they hired a CEO who tweeted out his support for anti-LGBT politicians:

https://time.com/6221545/grindr-ceo-george-arison-tweet-conservative-politicians/

I bet this guy purposely tanks the platform and starts outing users to the public via “leaks” while also shielding known conservatives who use the app.

Or they’ll go the more traditional route and call it [lugenpresse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_press#:~:text=Lying press (German%3A Lügenpresse%2C,not based on careful research.) Like their role models Hitler and Goebbels did.