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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.

Stop right there. The problem with Mueller wasn't that he couldn't prove the case. It was that he insisted that making such judgements wasn't his job (but was rather that of Congress, who of course were singularly unwilling to do so).

I hate it, too, but I don't really doubt its truth. The only piece I question is how many more people failed to vote for Harris than were already going to fail to vote for Biden (especially over the war in Israel).

There's no doubt that there's going to be several rounds of "what if?" to be played in the coming era, but I really don't see an option where Biden stayed in the race as long as he did that would have come out any differently, no matter what the DNC did before settling on their candidate. It was...

Strictly my own opinion, but having heard so many people decry the two party system, but say that they would vote for some third party candidate if it weren't a two-party, winner-take-all system (as it is nearly everywhere in the US), I see the point pretty easily. Imagine three candidates. One...

I sure don't see how that makes what he's doing any MORE legal....

While it's entirely possible that a lot of people voted by mail for the first time because of the pandemic, most people who vote by mail have been happy to do so for reasons that have nothing to do with pandemic-adjacent health concerns.

This much is obvious, but it's long past time more people started asking "why not?"

Wooden stakes. You really need the wooden stake.

They gave Gears a toy-accurate head, but couldn't be bothered to do the same for Bumblebee?