He wants his Germania. He realizes that since DC literally has no federal representation, it’s easier to just do whatever, so he’s doing it there. I’m surprised half the metro hasn’t been bulldozed to make way for the Donald J Trump museum or the Museum Of Communist Crimes or whatever.
Less obvious is the red-bellied woodpecker of North America, which has a large cowl of red on its head, but is named for the rusty brown-red belly, and should not be confused with the red-headed woodpecker which has a solid red head.
Bikes aren’t immediately an identifier of social status. You can look at the sort of car someone drives and immediately know how they stack up against you in the hierarchy of capital. Can’t do that as readily with a bicycle.
I believe it was Clarke that mentioned that Heinlein’s political beliefs depended on who he was having sex with that month.
Rorschach is basically the Punisher - it’s only luck that he likes to kill and torture “bad people”, and he shows himself that he’s pretty flexible on the definition of “bad”.
Toast, sausage, AND an egg? Orange juice that’s not in a carton with an expiration date of two months ago? An egg and a sausage that don’t look like they came out of a box? This is practically paradisical compared to half the shit a lot of US public schools do.
As I’ve pointed out before, Trump dying probably spares us the worst of the MAGA heads, but where Trump wants to lead with charisma and a charged base, I feel like Vance is actually content with keeping power via use of arms. The guy is craven at the thought of having power.
Depending on what you mean by “destroy the planet”, you’re right. If you mean “render every square inch uninhabitable”, not really. If you mean “wipe out enough of humanity and the rest of the biosphere through immediate destruction and long-term effects”, then yes.
Which is what all of US transport runs on (yes, almost all trains too because railroads decided that electrified overhead looks ugly and needs more maintenance), and is largely the main driver of everything getting more and more expensive.
And the DOGE checks we were supposed to get after DOGE was gonna save us trillions of dollars.
Not just him - the ideal is that MAGA will simply collapse without their leader. The issue with that is we’ve already cemented a LOT of power into the executive in just a few years. Trump could drop dead tomorrow and despite having the charisma of an open can of surstromming, I think Vance would be able to hold onto power just through an overwhelming tide of repression. Trump’s caught up with people loving him - Vance, I think, doesn’t care if people hate him.
Allegedly one of the only books he reads is a collected copy of Hitler’s speeches.
Somewhat, yes - reliable public transit was also still incredibly common into WWII (and beyond in some major metros). Even if your job was downtown and you were living outside the core, you could reliably expect bus or train service within a block or two of your house, and a reliable enough network with enough stops to let you walk to your office or whatever with fair ease.
Fun fact: Torgo was blasted out of his head on LSD for the entire filming.
Ah, but the trick is that A) Trump doesn’t care and B) the treaty says nothing about selling the moon off to corporate entities. I could definitely see this admin selling mining rights, that’s why Isaacman wants a moon base as opposed to an orbital station (which was the initial plan, as a launching point for future inner and outer system exploration).
Literally just more recalls. This is what happens when DOGE cuts tons of oversight, and then HHS decides to cut effectively the rest.
There’s also the fact that for a good chunk of these kids in a lot of places, that school lunch might be the most substantial - or the only - food they get that day.
JD Vance had this too. You can’t even get up onto the street where his house is when he’s home now, because he’s so scared of protestors in front of his house that he’s had the Secret Service lock the entire street down just to feel safe.
Very much had this a couple years ago in KY. I was totally planning on driving through and hoping that the storm wasn’t gonna roll through where I was working, but when I got back to the car and saw just how fucking green the sky was, something inside me said “hey how about we listen to the nice security guard who’s offering shelter in the plant”.
Tornado didn’t even come close to me (about 20 miles south), but it was a wild as fuck storm.
There was a building NOT THAT LONG BEFORE that nearly collapsed due to fire, One Meridian Plaza.