I don’t throw this out lightly, q: into the storm may deserve to end up standing as the greatest full bodied work of journalism from this era. it is a requisite touchstone for future historical reference. the unraveling it accomplishes is a feat that should have been impossible
I followed this shit in realtime & knew the players & the game not as well as some but far better than is probably healthy. I knew the lineage, the events, the connections. but actually *documenting* them *and then weaving them together coherently* is an entirely different animal
and my god the perception and foresight to have been pointing cameras at these people from the outset. beyond remarkable. miraculous even. the reveals are airtight, the new info shocking even to those who were looped in already.
haven’t finished it but was absolutely astonished how great the first half was. it’s so good the obviously unfinished and rushed shitty cgi actually seems like a charming birthday card of scribbles a five year old gives you
the four hour thing seemed ridiculous but it really plays like a bunch of half hour serials stitched together and if you can overlook the fight-shit-from-a-portal arc the story is good! really good! actually works!
I now have a conspiracy theory the snyder cut thing was not organic and was kickstarted by people inside warner bros who lost a fight about the direction of the movie and knew the original concept
if this illustrates anything, it’s that trump committed one of the most egregious political errors of all time in stonewalling a second big recovery bill all last year
biden is pretty much just mopping up all the easy rebounds trump left on the court and running up an insane score
what happened here is trump applied his usual idiot mobster “dealmaker” playbook - I have something you want, what will you give me for it - completely oblivious to the fact that just passing a second giant covid recovery bill alone was the thing he could have won on
don’t think the already highly questionable integrity of these polls holds up much longer than an hour so I’m just gonna observe the results here are pretty wild & a good clue why republicans can’t lay a hit on biden
bananas stuff here, would kill to see this run as a real national poll
I’m now fascinated with this. not because I’m judging anyone who got the answer wrong (it was right at the end of bush’s last term) but because of how obama opposition retconned history by launching “thanks obama” as a response to every bit of bad news right out of the gate