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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Going back to Trump and him dropping out of the race, slim-to-none chance of him doing so.
Even if he gets primaried (which is highly unlikely), he will likely threaten to go third party for the general if the RNC doesn't announce him as their candidate, despite the primary votes, and will go third party if the RNC doesn't.
EDIT: Senator Steve King held a town hall at Grundy Center, Iowa. Only two people showed.
Edited by tclittle on Aug 17th 2019 at 11:47:59 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Another thing to keep in mind is that you can't leave the US, but you can theoretically leave the EU.
Leviticus 19:3420 Texas state departments were hit with a ransomware attack.
Edited by tclittle on Aug 18th 2019 at 2:08:59 PM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Not sure if this goes here, but Art Spiegelman, best known for "Maus", which is his father's memoirs about living in the Nazi Germany, Animal Farm-style, has pulled his Marvel Folio Society intro after Disney demanded that he does not criticize Trump.
In response, Disney/Marvel demanded that Spiegelman redact his essay, removing references to Trump. The corporation said that it was trying to be "apolitical...and is not allowing its publications to take a political stance."
Spiegelman refused to make the change and instead severed ties with the project.
The unedited essay is to show up in The Guardian's latest issue.
This seems like an odd way to bash political scientists.
The EU doesn’t qualify as a state under the declaratory theory of statehood either. It doesn’t have sole authority over its territory. States that are part of it remain sovereign states on their own, unlike the US.
The constitutive theory isn’t really that useful as a meaningful description of what is and isn’t a state, because states can recognize (or not recognize) anything as a state. It ceased being useful as a practical definition by itself a long time ago.
Edited by archonspeaks on Aug 18th 2019 at 3:24:18 AM
They should have sent a poet.
That was when he was Brainwashed and Crazy by the Red Skull and it was a Take That! at Trump's supporters electing a fascist.
It's just that no one wanted it.
Spencer's Captain America: Sam Wilson was awesome.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I forget, was that the one where Sam Wilson fought a group of strawman college students with progressive ideas that presumably happened after the author read The Coddling of the American Mind and took it for serious scholarship?
Edited by math792d on Aug 18th 2019 at 2:00:07 PM
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.I think that was a failed attempt at balance, even then I think that story actually did well as Sam Wilson saves Kelly Conway's Expy from being murdered for all of her hatespeech....only to have her proceed to continue to tear into him as a terrible Captain America and carry on her vile speech.
Reality Ensues and all that.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Honestly I never got the fuss over Hydra Cap. It was a simple arc. Dozens of superheroes have been turned evil.
He was always the antagonist, never portrayed as positive. And in Secret Empire he got a well-deserved beatdown.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianMy understanding is that the writers were insisting they wanted it to stick. Everyone else either didn't believe them or thought they were crazy.
Leviticus 19:34I think there were valid complaints to be made about that story. From an entire city being destroyed by fascists, to Marvel claiming Hydra weren’t nazis, to the climax involving all minorities being erased from existence (they come back but still), to Marvel trying to convince comic shop owners to dress up as Hydra members (who are totally not nazis, we promise) for viral marketing.

Edited by MarqFJA on Aug 17th 2019 at 7:34:40 PM
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