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from one buttermilk baby to another this was 🔥

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🧈👶🏼

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the red wedding fucked me up for REAL. if we can bring back jon snowden can't we bring back KING ROBB?!?!?!

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OMG, SAAAAME! I was like screaming "Rob. Noooooo!!" It was right up there when they tried to SPOILER ALERT kill Jon Snow. I practically tossed my TV out the window when that hapepened.

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I just started watching GOT last week and am on season 6 now – can't believe no one ever mentioned how engrossing it is maybe it should get some emmys or something idk

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I changed the channel and am watching the 3000th season of Europe. Some great twists so far thanks to crazy Brit and French characters! Liking it much better here!

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That French show has some crazy jump cuts ala Jean-Luc Godard.

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THe subtitles are distracting, but, man, ANYTHING is better than this latest season of USA: The Return of MAGA.

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USA is also WAY over budget.

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European history is insane. I am deep into the 16th century but also circling back to the 12th.

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From now on I'll take all my political commentary from Mr. Dobrenko`

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Buttermilk PANCAKES. You forgot PANCAKES.

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And fried green tomatoes...

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i use buttermilk to make biscuits the way my mom taught me - that is, without a recipe. we just mix self-rising flour, butter (or crisco), and buttermilk into a dough, eyeballing the proportions. they turn out a little different every time. the reason we do it this way is because her mom did it this way, and her mom's mom did it this way. and they're delicious.

anyway, this biscuit anecdote isn't a metaphor for america or anything. also, don't forget about local & state races which matter very very very much too!

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I love your sour milk description of these events! Very poetic. It certainly is like watching a bad play where you want to leave and stay at the same time; while you reluctantly watch the drama unfold, you keep hoping for a glimmer of good to appear in the next Act, and when it doesn’t, you squirm in your seat, get up for a few minutes to do your thing during remission, and then hurry back into the crowded room so you can hope for that good to come in the next Act, only to be disappointed like everyone else in a very long stalemate…

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Where’s the pause button so I can take a nap or go to the bathroom?

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Excellent take on the saga. I'm in Costa Rica (american), watching this with a pit in my stomach- much like curdled sour milk. It seems so unreal that this pissing match is not going to stop. We can't be waiting for the next big episode or season until November- that's not how books or movies work. Some action needs to take place to break the tension, every writer and reader instinctively knows that. There's no movement with this impasse, no matter the brief moments of increased nail biting followed by more waiting and responding.

In writing when you give the antagonist the most lines, you know he'll get a win in the next big plot change. So let's make this about the bold and uncomfortable democraticly nspired decision to do what the majority of the public is requesting and ask our beloved leader to step aside for the good of the country. He'll go down in history for his willingness to bow out of the scene before tragedy ensues.

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He most likely won’t step down because he is on Fantasy Island where the occasional boat comes in bearing word gifts of to-to cards and enough “good job” praises to prop up the delusion of a grand win…

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Apologies in advance … I thought this would be a quick reply. It’s not.

My wife enjoys watching a lot of true crime murder and mayhem documentary type things … many, many of them involving violence (ie. Murder) against women, with the occasional “Snapped” palette cleanser of a woman murdering a (sometimes abusive, sometimes not) man. She’s not watching it ever … single … day … or anything like that, but I’d say she watches this sort of stuff … frequently. A while back I noticed a few female friends on Facebook also mentioning in one way or another that they also enjoy kicking back and relaxing with (my words, not theirs) murder and mayhem tv. This intrigued me. It was already pretty clear that the network(s) on which the shows ran were gearing these towards women, reinforced further by the content of the ads (ie. not Trucks built Ford TOUGH GRRRRRRRR, beer, E.D. meds, or Just For Men hair products). The ladies wanted this murder and mayhem. But … no, right?

So I curious and Googled something like “why do all the women I know love murder and mayhem shows” … and as best as I could gather, it boiled down to women have a somewhat instinctive sense of the danger posed to them by (of course, only some) men. Watching these shows act as a kind of simulation … offering them a safe opportunity to safely work through various scenarios and determine, like a flight simulator for pilots, how do I get out of a similar situation, should it ever befall me, alive? It seemed like a, quite unfortunately may I add, plausible and, to my uneducated-on-the-topic mind, probable explanation. Allow me to add I learned all of this in about 20 minutes at Google University, so it must be true.

I’m more of a book guy … but sure, I watched and mostly enjoyed GoT (S8 never happened, can we all agree?) and The Sopranos (there is one theory I’ve read, and it might have been directly from David Chase … that … this reply is already too long, but … oooh … *chef’s kiss* … anyway …), and I also enjoy spending time with my wife, and it’s difficult these days to read stuff that requires full attention while the television is on. Sure, I could go to another room, but I don’t want to, so while she watches that, I maybe watch-don’t-watch or I goof off playing with digital trading cards or wondering and investigating whether Roy White really was as valuable as Jim Rice. I then read in bed … so books take a while because, y’know … sleepy time.

The point of all this [crowd cheers] is I have been known to enjoy dystopian fiction … and not Mad Max kind of stuff … more common folk in common spaces in bad places, or alternative history (ooooh, what nightmare-ish hellscape would we be living in if *shudders* the American League hadn’t adopted the Designated Hitter rule in 1973 … or what if the Axis powers had won the war … or so on). And, yeah, it had occurred to me more than once that I was scratching at some fundamental concern that this freedom we enjoyed was, as much as we took it for granted, was fragile. Eight years ago I was not *excited* about a Clinton franchise reboot, but I was willing to watch it because, hey, it was gonna be on … so, sure … and then … uhh … yeah. Not the show I wanted. But still, I relaxed with the occasional dystopian novel (still simulating, I guess). Now though? I find my desire to read such things no longer feels escapist. I can’t. It feels like we’re already in the early chapters of one.

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Your wife and I are on the same page, and you couldn’t be more right about why women love murder. Allow me introduce you to my newsletter, Only Murders In The Inbox - so you can in turn introduce her to it!

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“Now idk about you but there ain’t much that says America like baked goods, meat, salad dressings, cosmetics, and cheese!”

We are full cheese right now! Only thing missing from this daytime TV is soap sponsors?

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You really captured my mood, and I keep changing the channels hoping to find something to at least distract. Damn, now I have the Springsteen tune "57 channels and nothing on" going thru my head. How quaint that 57 seemed outrageous back then, probably before you were born.

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I need a dragon!

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Thank you so much for the huge, amazing laughs you got out of me reading this, I literally cried, and I’m not even American so this is in fact a TV show for me (one that I tune in to escape from my far worst Venezuelan reality). I really needed to laugh today, I’m sorry if that is on your expense. I really do hope things result in the best for you all and for all the friends and family I have living there.

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As an Australian it is confusing to me why nobody ever mentions Robert F Kennedy? Seems to me like a Kennedy running would spice this stuff up even more but no one seems to care?

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Because he's an irrelevant crank. When your own family doesn't support you, people take note.

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I want to laugh, but I'm too busy sobbing. I was really invested in this show.

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