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Indeed, he'll simply follow the 2016 and 2020 playbooks, pointing out that he HAD more than 50%, and then Democratic shenanigans (what sane people call "counting all the ballots") happened over a week after the election took place.

Definitely not. If the trend is anti-incumbant, it might even have been worse....

No question: Gavin Newsom is utterly reviled by a lot of people (and not just hyper-conservatives). He'd have the lefist base, but he'd have an uphill battle winning over enough of the rest of the nation to be elected. I don't say it's impossible for 2028, but if he ran this year (especially if...

So far as I know, Musk's kids aren't the problem....

I agreed with the first part of your post, but disagree with these parts. I'm convinced that Kamala's being a woman, despite the very real sexism still present in this country, wasn't much of a factor against her. She lost far more due to the anti-incumbent feelings sweeping the nation (and...

Literally anyone who said that V is the low point of the movies... by definition.

I've already said some things that make known I don't agree here, but I will absolutely say that, when I assert that having opposing viewpoints is still okay (certain people's statements notwithstanding), this is the kind of thing I'm talking about. You're actually engaging the discussion.

You can voice other viewpoints, but if you fail to acknowledge reality, it won't get you anywhere.

All I hear is someone arguing for false equivalences. That's not okay.

In a related vein, I'm getting tired of folks saying (in essence) "stop calling us names. That's why we didn't vote for you." I can acknowledge that people don't respond well to being told they're awful people without agreeing that, when certain people (especially the leaders) are awful, no one...

Honestly, my takeaway from this is less that people want "populism" (of either ideological stripe) and more that they want "radicalism." Folks are upset with how things are, and are apparently willing to take drastic measures just to make sure things are different (this also means that, when the...

Did I really have to add "and won the election" to that? The point is that "mandate" is not a well-defined term. It's a thing that pundits like to talk about, but there's no clear definition.

I really don't think so. Sarek came to Kirk expecting that Spock gave Kirk Spock's katra. Sarek certainly had no expectation that Spock could be revived.

Did we finally win the vote (I missed it this time, if so), or did they finally realize that Transformers deserved induction no matter what the polls said?

My understanding was that, anytime a candidate gets 50%+ of the popular vote, that's a mandate. We now know that Trump will have won the popular vote, but it might still be a mere plurality if third party candidates got enough.

Not me, but it's never not a good thing to keep pointing out that the Republicans are disingenuous about this, and that 2020 wasn't won (or lost, if you're GOP) by fraud, either.

You deeply misunderstand the purpose of leaving the katra. It was never intended to be rejoined to Spock's body (and they make this explicitly clear at the end of the movie when they point out that the procedure to do so hadn't been done in ages). The katra was to be returned to Vulcan. You're...

The responses so far have only proven the original post's point, IMHO. But, seriously, congrats to the staff on the streamlining!

I have to agree with a bit of that (it was Trump's side that was truly rude, and indeed did things for the sole purpose of making their opponents angry so that they could mock said anger), but there's really no denying that they reacted badly to being considered... well, all the things that...

Heck, that's been reality of the past decade or so, let alone what we might expect for the future.