TrueStoryBob

Who cares what MAGA adherents believe... you don't try to get the hard-core, brainwashed followers, they've already committed themselves. However, the undecided voter will see it as the GOP floundering, unable to govern.

Please shut the government down... please, please, please... while your party controls a mere one half of one of a branch of the government, please shut the government down during an election cycle. Please, please, please do it.

So glad the Europeans finally broke Apple and their ridiculous charger shenanigans. A coworker just got a new iPhone and asked me if I had an iPhone charger, I told them no all Ive got is USB C. They said they didn't know what they had and showed me the bottom of their phone and, sure enough, it's USB C. They had no idea that only Apple kept making their own charge connector and that basically everyone else had settled on one charger/data port like two or three standards ago.

Well, they can, but the cost will get more volatile... super oversimplified, it's the difference between drinking at home booze you bought at wholesale prices and keeping a running tab with a local bar/pub. You'll be subject to the bar and any price changes they (read: the currency markets) want to make.

I think what made that script work was they just threw everything at the wall and if it stuck it stuck and, if not, they moved along. There's like three spoken jokes and two sight gags per every five minutes of film; some of it hit, some of it didn't. Some of it was topical, especially concerning the films they were lampooning, the dramatic "Airport" series. Like the PA announcements in the airport scenes about abortion, that was in "Airplane" because there was a whole subplot about abortion in "Airport." In the dramatic film, it was as if the writers wanted to beat you over the head about abortion, so that specific joke in Airplane lands differently if you've seen and are a fan of the Airport series. Still... it's a real testiment to the skill of the screen writers that modern audiences, many who have never even heard of "Airport" still find "Airplane" hilarious.

All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy.

I have friends who's loved ones are in the GOP death cult, they ask "what's the point of all this immigrant and abortion stuff, they used to not care about this at all"

I simply reply: "The cruelty is the point. DJT isn't promising to fix anything really, he's promising to hurt the right people."

She's like 25, so there's not much time I suppose.

You couldn't make Titanic today because it wouldn't be believable... Leonardo Decaprio dating a woman his own age? Preposterous!

No, that's ballot. The balut is the person who is paid to park cars at hotels and fancy restaurants.

I've seen some analysis that points directly to home ownership as a predictor of the shift in personal politics later in life. Fewer Millennials own homes than older generations; that's mostly because of the 2008 Financial Crisis and it's knock-on effects to generational wealth. Home ownership can create financial stability (highly regulated commodity one can borrow against in hard times) and not having that leaves one more exposed to economic downturns. Economic downturns over the last fifty to one hundred years have been consistently due, in part, to the lacking of (or the ending of) regulations as well as lack luster or non existent government intervention. The one party that's been whole-hog on deregulation and haphazard/lackadaisical intervention for most of Millennials' lives has been Republicans, so they (rightly) get the blame.

There's also been the shift from traditional media to newer sources (both for the better and worse) and younger people are more likely than older to tune into those new media outlets. It's finances driving that shift in media consumption... for instance (anecdotally), I'm in my late thirties and I do not know anyone my age and younger who has a cable subscription. Most would say they don't need one, that it is undesirable compared to streaming services, but the general vibe is that it's too expensive for what you get (streaming services are seen as expensive as a whole, but the ability to pick and choose what you but into is seen as enough of a plus to either cut the cord or never have the cord in the first place). Meanwhile, I know tons of folks older than me seemingly addicted to cable news, which almost universally skews right-wing. Sure CNN is mostly centrist and MSNBC tows a liberal-center left line, but there's CNBC, Bloomberg, News Nation, FNC, and NewsMax all of which pull center right to far right... seemingly to chase that aging cable viewer demographic.

Looks like you're right, however it's darker colors mean solid and lighter colors mean lean or likely.