Astronaut version of when the new guy at work microwaves fish on his first day.
The name was Grace Rohloff?
Really?
Only source seems to be this Slate article:
In respect to that specific Slate article, Snopes had some issues with it and labeled the story as “unproven”:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians/
The Snopes article does a nice job of pointing out the Slate article’s issues.
Honestly, good on that local news director and crew for not interrupting or cutting off that guy’s account.
At some point you get so used to the local news just sharing coverage of riot police lines with the sounds of drum beats and incoherent bullhorn noise—sometimes with a short clip of the local police chief and/or campus administrator, but rarely any kind of coherent synopsis of the protestors’ position by a level-headed and reasoned individual.
If anything, those news crews more often run footage of an exasperated, emotionally hijacked protestor who comes across to a passive news audience as “easy to dismiss”, particularly when juxtaposed against the footage of stoic police lines and prepared statements by administrators and officials.
When you see a protestor’s account, like from this guy, I think the passive news audience may actually have enough balanced information to form a thought or opinion beyond “police good, noisy kids bad”.
It’s also an already, almost-completed Japanese movie of its own called “Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic”.
They will be spending the next two years modifying the character likenesses of Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad, building them over their respective counterpart models of Imajin, Mama, Lina, and Papa.
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic takes place within a book with an Arabian setting, so I am willing to bet Super Mario’s Bros 2 is going to feel distinctly different from the first Super Mario Bros Movie.
One last interesting fact, the first Super Mario Bros Movie was shot in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. Alternatively, “Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic” movie was shot in a 1:2.39 aspect ratio, making it more of a “vertical” aspect ratio, complimenting the movie’s focus on the main characters lifting, carrying, throwing, stacking, and climbing objects; and incrementally scrolling the screen upward when reaching the top.
I bet it won’t even feel like a Mario Movie at first, but in the long run people will remember it fondly.
Thing 1: “Sweetie, did you pack the camping throw pillows?”
Thing 2: “No”
Thing 1: “Did you pack the oriental rug?”
Thing 2: “No”
Thing 1: “Where is the camping banner we hang in our camping doorway?”
Thing 2: “I have no idea”
Thing 1: “You haven’t packed a single thing for our camping trip!”
Thing 2: “Of course not, the camp concierge, camp valet, and camp bellhop handle such things. Now please, you are disturbing my authentic Tibetan Champagne Colonic”
Is his campaign manager Vince McMahon?
In context, Jon made it pretty clear that he considered the possibility of a second Trump presidency as an overwhelming threat—he was simply asking if running a man who is (objectively, in the sense he is currently 10-years past the actuary table life expectancy for his demographic) old.
I think it is very reasonable to question a party’s candidate. We operate in a 2-party system. We have never determined the most meritorious candidates from our populace, just the selected candidates from the political parties.
If the Democratic Party genuinely believes a second Trump presidency would be a threat to America, her allies, and interests, then the “selected” party candidate in a 2-party system should be exceptionally qualified—ideally with little question or doubt. Anything less than a “perfect” candidate, when facing a significant national threat, would seem irresponsible.
Joe Biden may, in fact, be the best candidate to run. If nothing else, the two current candidates reveal the problems of allowing political parties to, in effect, select each president with a 50/50 chance of success—in a population of 335 million.
Jon said an 81-year old candidate is old. And he made it quite clear, that yes, for a human he is objectively old. It isn’t an attack on Biden, it is a raised concern for how the Democratic Party approaches a national threat.
Hux
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It may sound alarmist, but it is fair.
Trump represents the US on the world stage, and arguably, the President has more direct power in influencing international policy than domestic policy.
In some ways, the American people’s democratic election of Trump is a more devastating trespass against foreign nations than it is against their own nation.