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When I was a young lad back in my sailing days, I had the middle pic taped up in my berth. I always admired the beauty of the classic Hollywood gals.

You people and your obsession with this man’s widow. Jesus.

Not really. Whats becoming “obsolete “ i.e. more vulnerable, is ground vehicles. You still need guys with rifles in hand to actually take territory.

Ive been doing most of my streaming on Tubi and it doesn’t cost a damn thing. Commercial breaks are entirely reasonable too. Wife and I are talking about 86’ing Netflix anyway. This will only make that more likely.

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watched the pilot. Gotta admit, I was expecting more. It was boring.

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My wife and I liked Yellowstone until it went to crap, and loved Landman and Tulsa King. So she was eager to check this one out.

Nyet. Not even halfway, she asked to bail. Just found it boring. Should’ve known when they killed Kurt Russell off so early.

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It may not reach The Boys level of political hackery, but the villains will be MAGA inspired.

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The villain will be orange and say things like “That’s the best you’ve got? Sad. Sad. I’ve got a great army. The Best army”.

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Swan Song by Robert McCammon. I'm reading it right now for the first time in probably 20 years. Damn it's an unbelievable book that holds up after all these years.

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McCammon wrote a very good vampire book called They Thirst many years ago, but let it fall out of print because he didn't think it was up to snuff. I heartily disagree. He changed his mind and put it on Amazon. I recently re-read it and it holds up. It's just $3 bucks on Kindle so you can't beat the price point. We describe fun, entertaining movies that aren't Oscar-serious as "popcorn flicks". I'd almost describe They Thirst as a popcorn vampire book. It's good stuff. The standard tropes are there but they're well done. Lots of surprises too.

Western Europe is killing itself out if some stupid guilt trip, and becoming an Asian-African colony.

So apparently there's an insurgency in the Democratic Party, with two northeastern senators as the ringleaders: Chris Murphy of CT and Elizabeth Warren of MA. They are gathering strength and planning to cut Schumer's chosen successor (Brian Schatz of HI) off at the knees. Schumer isn't radical enough for them and they want more AOC's and Mamdanis in office.

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The Wall Street Journal, drawing on more than four dozen interviews with Democratic senators, candidates, current and former congressional aides, activists, and advisers, found widespread unease about the New York senator's grip on the party's direction. The report makes it clear that Schumer’s own colleagues increasingly see him as an anchor, slowing their response to President Trump, steering primaries toward centrists they don't want, and draining the fundraising pipeline that Democrats desperately need heading into the midterm elections.

According to the report, last month, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut met with progressive activists at a French restaurant in Georgetown. The conversation turned to what to do about Schumer. According to people familiar with the dinner, Murphy disclosed that some lawmakers had already been running informal vote counts to see whether enough support existed to remove Schumer from his leadership post. Murphy added that Schumer had enough backing to survive. But the fact that anyone was counting at all said something.

Murphy has since walked it back, carefully. "Could someone infer from that that someone was keeping a count? Maybe, but that's not what I meant," he told reporters. "I meant that he has the support of the caucus."

But Murphy’s backpedaling doesn’t change the reality. Murphy is reportedly part of a group of senators who have been actively canvassing colleagues about their frustrations with Schumer. This group, nicknamed “Fight Club,” (hey...) is a Signal chat group where progressives coordinate strategy around opposing Schumer's preferred candidates in key 2026 races. The Fight Club's grievance, at its core, is that Schumer is tilting the playing field toward centrists while an insurgent energy on the left goes untapped. The group includes Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and it appears that Warren has been initiating those conversations directly. Smith's advisers have gone further, holding discussions with other Senate staff about concrete scenarios to challenge Schumer's leadership.

The concern isn't purely ideological. It's financial, and that's where things get uncomfortable. Schumer's aligned super PAC, Senate Majority PAC, got outpaced by its Republican counterpart last year. Entering 2026, the Democratic super PAC had $36 million in cash on hand and $12.4 million in debt. The GOP's equivalent had $100 million on hand and zero debt.

In the money primary - the one that quietly decides Senate races before a single vote is cast - Schumer's side is getting lapped.

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Am I supposed to know who this is?

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Probably the biggest example of “Efff YOU, Daddy!” In a generation. Raised by church going parents, and as soon as she hit 18 her life story has basically been one new and exotic way to embarrass her family after another. She just gets paid for doing it on stage.