If there’s one thing that’s great for revenue, it’s sneaking expensive narcotics into bags of candy that actually looks (and certainly tastes) quite different, after having somehow secured and resealed an unspecified number of bags, and then randomly distributing them.
Oh, and somehow getting it onto shelves with neither the manufacturer nor retailers having any idea it’s going on!
“Hello, is this cartel? It is I, an innocent child. I saw your ad in the Yellow Pages. I have swallowed a non-lethal yet addicting number of non-chewable pills thinking they were candy they look nothing like. I now seek more. Do you take American Express?”
There is no conversation to be had about forced birth. There is no conversation to be had about my husband and me having equal protection under the law. There is no conversation to be had about the summary execution of Black people at the hands of police officers.
The Republican Party and its base are animated by a noisome combination of bigotry, hatred and insatiable greed for hegemony over the rest of us. I reject the shopworn and dangerously disingenuous call to have a friendly dialogue with such people. To hell with all that.
They are ~actively engaged~ in dismantling every apparatus of American democracy. They are making no effort to hide it. There is no “middle ground” between there and me.
I have never felt such a strong and extreme combination of excitement and trepidation. Because I absolutely love the graphic novel and think this looks amazing, but my deep aversion to horror on screen makes me worry this will be more than I can take.
Seeing The Corinthian in illustrated panels? I can take it.
Seeing The Corinthian carrying out the same horrors in a live action television show? I... am not so sure.
A few people have mentioned the 24 Hours issue, and I fully agree that even if I’m able to stomach The Corinthian somehow, there’s no way I could watch that.
First of all, “as a heart surgeon” may as well be “as a fry cook,” given that cardiothoracic surgery has zilch to do with pregnancy. There is no medical basis for his statement, which is a complete reversal from his previous public statements about Roe.
I would vastly prefer a fry cook become the next Senator from Pennsylvania over Mehmet Oz.
"As a heart surgeon, *five unbroken minutes of fart noises*