We don’t have enough children, our birth rate is too low. Yet allowing young immigrants to come in? Terrible idea for some reason.

Maybe I’m explaining the joke, but Jon is supposed to be an Everyman.

I’m a huge long-term fan of the Garfield comics. Lyman basically ditches Jon with Odie. It’s never explained in detail because it’s a 3 frame comic. More optimistically, and “cannon” Jon was enthusiastic about inheriting Odie while Lymon left for unexplained reasons. Jon thought owning a dog would help him meet women.

As for the quote you referenced. Garfield has thought bubbles. Jon talks. Lyman exists because he can talk while Garfield can only “think”. Jim Davis originally thought it would be confusing to have thought clouds and talk bubbles interacting. Like how does a cat talk with a person? But that quickly became the norm in the comic. Once talking and thinking could interact, Lyman no longer needed to exist.

Rare appearance of Jon’s friend Lyman, who doesn’t appear in hardly anything after 1980.

Or when you’re on the treadmill and then one of your steps is an inch too far to the side.

Prior to Trump it was mostly fringe candidates like Storm Thurmund (1948), George Wallace (1968), David Duke (1988, 1992), Pat Buchanan (1992, 1996).

In terms of major candidates, there are some questionable endorsements for candidates like Nixon and Reagan. But you have to go all the way back to Woodrow Wilson to find a president who was openly happy about receiving those endorsements.

I call it, “Billy and the Cloneasaurus.”

It’s how people spoke in May of 2021. It was a different time.

Falling Down (1993), Freeway (1996) are two that I saw fairly recently and the 90’s were jumping off the screen.

Pauly Shore had 90’s career. Encino Man (1992), Jury Duty (1995), Bio-Dome (1996). His only movie of the 2000’s was Pauly Shore is Dead (2003) which was about no one caring about him anymore.

They just named it after the place they were from and put “new” in the front.

Reminds me of Futurama, “we all have commercials in our dreams” scene.

Leela: Didn’t you have ad’s in the 20th century?

Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!

Trades once per hour? But that would be fair for everyone, can’t have that. People pay thousands or millions to get stock prices 30 seconds faster, because there are fortunes to be made with 30 seconds of advantage.

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That’s just normal left.

That’ll never happen. He’d be in that celebrity jail they send people like Martha Stewart.

Even 30 days would be great. I just wanna feel like he got punished slightly for all those laws he’s broken.

Why do you think immigration is only a huge deal in election years? No one even talks about it unless there’s an election coming up or unless it’s Fox News complaining about Dems.

I wouldn’t call that centerist because you’re not claiming to be in the middle on any issues. Too many of these “ideas from both sides” are at complete contradiction to each other. One of the parties is overtly racist and says diversity is bad. Being a racist pro-choicer doesn’t make you a centerist.

Also about news bias, it should be the default to be least biased in my opinion. The news should be boring and should just tell you what happened without telling you how you should feel about it.

Yeah would be great. That sort of reporting died a long time ago.

There is no political center between the current left and right parties in the United States. For example, one is pro-choice the other is pro-life. There is no middle on that issue. This is the post-truth world and we are now in different realities. You can’t believe half of the Q stuff and then believe half of the Bernie stuff. If you don’t follow politics enough to have an opinion you wouldn’t call yourself a centerist.

Describing yourself as a “centerist” in today’s conditions usually means you support Trump but are too embarrassed to say it out loud/you know you’ll receive backlash for saying it.

Those work with the Sabre Pyramid.