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I'm doing this with breaking bad at the moment. Just approaching the end of season 3. But I'm only letting myself watch it when on the exercise bike so it's having a good effect at getting me exercising more

The wheel of Time, season 2. Just dropped on Amazon. Top show

Honestly don't think democrats should bother with a Bernie candidate until they can win enough senate seats to kill the filibuster, add a couple more states and abolish the electoral college.

Josh Shapiro and Jared Polis would be decent picks. Klobuchar and Buttigieg also high profile moderates that would be worth mentioning. but that said I've been happy with Biden's policies and would be enthusiastic in voting for him in 2024. He's delivered a huge amount for a president with a very precarious congressional balance, with Manchin the deciding senator.

The challenge for democrats is finding a candidate that will win Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona, all of which are about 6 points more conservative than the median voter and constantly on a knife edge.

Yes they are all pretty undeniable. But the process moves slowly. I don't want would reach the point of sentencing before the next election.

All 112 million of them.

very strange 24 hours. Seems like he overestimated how many key players would take his side, and then cut a shitty deal to save himself. But Putin looks bad from this... He announced publically there was no coming back from this for Prigozhin, then 6 hours later Lukashenko brokers a deal with all charges dropped and Putin is nowhere near it...

Some big developments in the last 12 hours. It seems the head of Wagner Group has turned his forces on the Russian Ministry of Defence and has advanced back into Russia into Rostov on Don and taken control of the Southern Military District headquarters. Fighting is now reported between Wagner and Russian troops in Voronezh indicating they may have pressed on beyond Rostov towards Moscow. Best guess from pundits seem to be that he's trying to oust the Minister of Defence and military command, rather than against Putin.

Yeah, he'll never be able to make a compelling case of anti Trump. He's still too scared to take him on. His attacks on Disney are part of what wins him support. Tbf a lot of people do hate the wokeism that DeSantis is pretending to tackle head on. His press spin his tokenistic legislation or policy as a success, regardless of the fact it will not get through the courts. The rival press spin it as a loss, and spin his book bans as Hitler 2.0. He needs the mainstream press against him to have a chance against Trump. Most well educated conservative voters would likely consider him a neocon in disguise and vote for him knowing he'd do the usual thing of make noise about culture wars to satiate the mouth breathers whilst implementing tax cuts and deregulation.

Unfortunately not enough Republican voters care enough about the issue to change their votes

What you're describing is roughly what happened in Australia after our right wing party lost the election last year. Despite all the seats lost belonging to moderate MPs, and being lost to left wing candidates the remaining MPs and Rupert Murdoch's media empire settled on the root cause being that the party wasn't conservative enough.

His voice sounded pretty "it's a me! Mario!" to me.

Saw the Super Mario movie. 10/10. Made me feel like a kid again. Absolutely loved it

Working my way through Cunk on Earth, and finding it thoroughly amusing.

Such a costly error.

I don't know if any others, but if there are any I'll definitely need to watch them with the kids. They loved this Encanto one and have watched it a bunch so far

It might be easier to get 5 sane Republican votes for Hakeem Jeffries rather than 16 insane Republican votes for McCarthy.... Possibly if the dems swapped Jeffries with John Kasich or a Cheney type Republican.

I had no idea that was allowed. What a terrible law. I'm sure it would be stamped out in most other countries but will have no hope in America

Ages 7 and 4. The 7 year old is keen to watch it, but the 4 year old is playing the veto card at this point.

Agree. They really use the lighting and special effects very well. It's not common for them to do a live show like this... I reckon they might have been testing the waters for doing an Encanto musical, as they did with the lion King, etc.... That'd have potential imo. It's got a great score, and the Latin flair makes it colourful, and fresh for the average viewer.

I've wanted to watch this for a while but my kids have seen the first 5 minutes and deemed it too scary... Is there anything specifically scary in the movie or just the everyone's a skeleton aspect?

Just watched ENCANTO LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL. Shocked how good it was. Must watch if you have kids that like Disney movies. https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/encanto-at-the-hollywood-bowl/7CUSfUjGHZW3?sharesource=Android

It's really fucked. This will be big news throughout the country and play in the banks of the minds of many parents considering whether they'll take the family to a game, or consider it too dangerous.

Yep. Exactly right mate. No doubt the executives were all hyped up on a promotional slide deck based around analogies to the FA cup at Wembley and AFL Grand final at the MCG. there's a great deal of fan concern about it. But only the clowns that ran on will know whether the decision to invade the pitch was spontaneous and based on anger about the flare seen coming towards them, or was a planned event they'd come up with earlier in relation to the protests... I hope the former.