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Not enough hair there for him to sniff!

Mike Pence will crush him? Or are you referring to something/someone else? Didn't follow that statement.... In what I have seen of him so far, Mayor Pete (not gonna commit to trying to spell that last name accurately) seems to be minimizing the identity politics aspects of his sexual orientation and positioning himself more broadly as the candidate who is "just as progressive, but also much more practical" than Bernie, or Corey, or Kamala, or Elizabeth, etc., with a "plus, I'm a millennial, so I think like you" ("you" as in second largest voting bloc demographically) kicker, to separate himself from the other (older) candidates with executive office experience. I see his recent statements related to Pence's purported view of gay people as a framing mechanism for the pitch he eventually has to make successfully to the many Americans who are still uncertain in how they "feel" about homosexuals: the folks who 20 to 15 years ago firmly believed gay people were "perverts", equivalent to pedophiles, but who have come to discover in the last decade or so that there seem to be a heck of a lot of "normal" gay people. He has to convince those people that he's gay because that's how God made him, and while he is not ashamed or embarrassed of it, it is also just one of many components of the person God made him to be; it is not the animating "force" of what he is about, as a person or as a politician, any more than the fact that God made them heterosexual defines who they are.

Welcome to identity politics..... Mayor Pete is very intelligent, so it is sad (but it was pretty predictable) to see him sink into the mire of national politics like he is doing. The City of South Bend and him (professionally) have benefited immensely due to his previous relationship first with Governor(s) Pence and now Holcomb and the Republicans that pretty much controlled Indiana politics. It was amazing to see him work effectively and successfully in that environment. I had hoped he would avoid identity politics and point to his bipartisanship working with the other side, but he is falling into the role the DNC would like him to play - the alter-ego to Mike Pence - who will absolutely crush him if he continues this path.

Found it!!

I saw the 1st episode Season 1 when the series started just randomly browsing channels while sitting in a hotel room. I was hooked. Didn't have HBO (still don't) and have the first 2 seasons on DVD. When I found out it was based on books, I binge read all the books. May have had to wait on the last 2 until they were written. After reading the books, I lost interest in the HBO series when they started deviating somewhat from the books and just stopped watching. Having a free HBO preview this weekend, watched quite a few of the episodes from later seasons and found similarities with the books enough to follow everything. Watched Episode 1 Season 8 last night, now our free preview is over, so may have to wait until the next freebie to catch up from here. I highly recommend the books if you haven't read them. Several hundred pages each, just my type of book.

I am terrible with names from the show as well; except Danaerys...I remember her name.

Great opener for the final season. Now that SF is paying for the HBO Now service - I may go back and binge watch the series.......

Married with kids!

Better not go to the Wisconsin State Fair then. Or even worse, Iowa:

Is it gonna change to "Xaviers and Yvonnes, not Xs and Ys" instead of "Jimmys and Joes not Xs and Os?"

I'll take that as a yes. Enjoy.

Admissions Scandal Reveals Folly of Affirmative Action: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/admissions-scandal-reveals-folly-affirmative-action

Yep, more evidence to vote for a third party candidate instead of the uni-party. Or not vote at all.

I haven't encountered anyone at the national level in the past 30 years with a uni-party designation that I believed deserved my vote. When that person comes along I'll let you know.

Felicity Huffman and 12 wealthy parents plead guilty in college admissions scam: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/us/felicity-huffman-guilty-admissions/index.html Who here believes any of them will actually serve any time in prison?

Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Deserve Our Thanks for Making Governments More Transparent: https://reason.com/2019/04/11/julian-assange-and-wikileaks-deserve-our Spot-on commentary by Mr. Gillespie.

Yuuuuuge story!

It appears that Mr. Buttigieg isn't "gay enough" for some people on the left: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/pete-buttigieg-gay-diversity-white-male-candidate.html The insanity on the Left. He’s gay, but is he gay enough? He’s openly gay in an openly gay marriage, but is he gay enough? What else does he need to do, be dancing onstage during the debates in a tutu? Does the left want a mockery of a stereotype or something?

https://reason.com/2019/04/15/starve-the-tax-man/ Yes, one can hope. And a weaponized tax system is exactly the system we have.