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Who is seeing Dune this weekend?
@theinspectorst it looks great, but I’ll probably wait for the stream. Too much hassle getting to the cinema for above PG movies at this point in my life.
It’s good, certainly worth seeing when it’s streaming. Although I think in a few ways it felt less ‘epic’ to me than Part One - which is counterintuitive given the parts of the story it covered. Part of it may have been that a lot of things felt a little rushed, including literally condensing the timeline of Paul’s time with the Fremen.
I am getting increasingly frustrated with the NY Times coverage of the US 2024 election.
Joe Biden was old yesterday, he is old today, and he will be old tomorrow. At this point every person on the planet knows he is old. But, it seems that is all they care to write about RE: Joe Biden.
Not saying it’s not something people should be worried about - it’s NOT a good thing for a President to be in his eighties. But the NY Times seems to totally gloss over the fact that it’s the people he surrounds himself with that are 100% better than the alternative and are not geriatric.
/end rant
@theinspectorst McConnell endorsing Trump is just the cherry on top for his career of putting party over country. Remember when he denied Obama’s supreme court nominee “because it was an election year”, but when Trump was president, in an election year, rammed Coney Barrett’s confirmation through?
McConnell created a monster he couldn’t control, and now he’s been beaten into submission by it. He’s spineless.
His career will end and be remembered as enabling Trump and MAGA.
