Valid.

Why not? Every Sociopathic Oligarch is starting their own. I’m sure they’d love to enslave have you.

Gerrymandering allows those in rural, low population areas rule over far larger populations, giving the conservatives an advantage, even when they are in the minority. It isn’t fair to the majority of voters, and has to end. These conservatives want to have computers and AI do everything but draw political districts.

The people VOTE for it, but Big Business bribes all the politicians to defy the vote of their constituents and give them what they demand.

IF we ever get out of this mess, we have to make some major changes to our system, do that these corporations and politicians understand that they work for US, and they will do what they are told.

There is no such thing as the Republican Party any more. The current party in power does not follow the basic tenets of the Republican Party - lower taxes, smaller government, family values, personal liberty, etc. - and are not Republican. The Republican Party has been fully replaced by the MAGA Party.

Democrats should make it official that they no longer recognize the Republican Party, and only refer to their opposition as the MAGA Party. Make the Republicans understand that “The Party of Lincoln” ended on their watch.

The J6 Insurrectionists have insisted that the J6 Traitors were unarmed, and the bats, cattle prods, chains, spears, flagpoles, etc. weren’t weapons, so that made J6 a “peaceful” demonstration.

Perhaps we should give them a taste of their version of a peaceful demonstration.

You can’t mix your First and Second Amendments? That hardly seems fair.

Aw, the mean little old lady pushed the big, friendly ICE agent? Should we call a WAH-mbulance?

Better to say that they could drone strike him anytime he’s golfing. Then the Secret Service wouldn’t let him golf, and his life would be ruined.

If Trump were assassinated, I would celebrate, and donate to the assassin’s defense fund. I don’t care if MAGA Nazis consider me a terrorist. Fuck them and their treasonous, corrupt ignorance.

“He’s one of the good ones,” is how people have always explained liking a minority that they know, while still being prejudiced against the rest of their race.

I did the math as a teenager, and yep, I travelled down the aisle.

Every Sociopathic Oligarch wants to buy his own political party.

Oh, you mean they fucked up their primary mission? Big surprise.

Nothing has exposed the hypocrisy of the Establishment Democrats than David Hogg getting into the DNC, and Zohran crushing the Chosen Democrat in the primary.

The Tea Party had to take control of the Republican Party before it could evolve into MAGA, and the Progressives are going to have to take over the Democratic Party before they can establish a true Constitutional government.

“The poor get all the breaks!” - Mr Burns

I’ll definitely check it out, thanks!

Y’know, I’ve always followed politics, but it is really getting to me these days, and I’m looking for other outlets for my energy, just to keep my sanity. Guitar has been a big help, but it might be fun to go down a harmless Star Trek rabbit hole for a while, and make it a safe place to escape to.

If you really pay attention, it’s not as brutal on the cast as you might think. Only a relatively small amount require the entire crew over an entire hour. Many crew members, even high level ones, have little or even no parts in many episodes, but occasionally they’ll have an episode that focuses on their character, often in tandem with another character.

Theoretically, if there are 10-12 episodes that only include 2 or 3 characters for the most part, they can shoot many of them simultaneously, using different crews.

There might be a quick establishing scene here and there that requires other cast members (sending them on the away mission, in the transporter room, Picard barking orders, etc.), but the costumes and sets are fairly static on the ship, so if they have the scrips early, they could shoot a bunch of establishing scenes in a single day, and then edit them into the appropriate episodes.

Much of movie making is simply logistics.

they’re arrogant idiots who thought deporting tens of millions of people would be an easy thing to do

Most of these people in this administration have never done any real Work. They are Sociopathic Oligarchs and Aristocrats who think that pointing and telling others what to do is the equivalent of actually performing the task, and they don’t understand why results don’t happen the instant they give the order.

Exactly, and it won’t just be immigrants. The Secretary of Agriculture today said that Medicaid recipients can replace immigrants for picking crops.

That’s the future for Americans - if you want government assistance, you will have to live in a slave labor camp and work for your basic food and shelter. No welfare, SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, unemployment, etc. unless you work for it.