slickgoat
The Tea Party was the prototype of what the GOP would become. The party believed that they could control the radicals for their own purposes. They should have stomped them down. Instead they ended up in a hostile takeover situation. Now the GOP politicians are terrified of being deselected in their own electorates so they must engage in theatrical MAGA performances.
The Tea Party never went away, they evolved like a successful virus.
Elon Musk: “Move fast and break things”.
All going according to plan.
I agree that his style is dated nowadays. Fair comment. But in the 90s his humour chops centred around absurdity and it was fresh. You needed to have seen him with 90’s eyes to see how well he fitted the times. I watch reruns of him now and he often seems flat. His observational style has moved on and the times don’t suit him anymore. But please don’t make the mistake that back in the day he wasn’t a comedy superstar. Of course, Larry David in his corner didn’t hurt.
Kinda mean making this personal just for having a different opinion to you, but this is the internet, I guess.
Anyway, I’m an old fart and used to watch him before re-runs, ya know. It’s possible to form an opinion on tv shows without running around asking folk beforehand. If you don’t agree that at a certain point in time JS was good, that’s fine too.
A couple of verified facts:
“A favorite among critics, the series led the Nielsen ratings in Seasons 6 and 9 and finished among the top two (along with ER of the same network) every year from 1994 to 1998. Only two other shows—I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show—have finished their runs at the top of the ratings.”
Also…
“By its third season, Seinfeld had become the most watched sitcom on American television. The final episode aired in 1998, and the show has been a popular syndicated re-run ever since. NBC offered Seinfeld $110 million—a record $5 million an episode for a 22-episode tenth season—but he declined.”
But, yes, tell me again how unfunny Seinfeld was back in the day. My entire point was at that period he was comedy gold, and no amount of revisionist snottyness changes that fact.
I believe that he committed contempt in two separate tranches and at the second series he still hadn’t been warned of jail time at that point. He has now been so warned.
As to why the judge hasn’t yet thrown his arse in jail - Trump always appeals, nowadays, always, as a delay strategy. The judge wants to limit every appeal element so as to keep things moving. Some of Trump’s appeals have only lasted 20 minutes because of this.
I’ve been following this trial very closely. Trump is the problem. He demands that his lawyers challenge everything very aggressively. He is enraged if his counsel accepts even trivial facts that make no difference either way. The bigger question is why they put up with his tantrums.
Money, probably…
I was there at the birth of the interwebs, also a very early adopter. Still, I never considered it to be a force multiplier for stupidity in the way things worked out. I went the other way, believing that it would harness humanity’s genius.
I tend to be wrong a lot.
The comments couldn’t get more American if it was a competition on making American commentary.
I understand both side of the argument, but at the same time I get neither. American cultural identity in relation to firearms is unique in the Western world. Guns have transcended rights and wrongs. People hunt. People use guns recreationally. People cosplay warriors. Some people use guns for bad reasons. Most people never cause the slightest harm. But in any event, culturally, guns occupy a political position not usually seen in the first world.
I’m not even sure what I am trying to say? I do know this, the debate will never end because the two different positions are completely contradictory and all compromise is effectively lost. I’d be interested in hearing a solution that both sides could live with. It would be a doozy.