There will always be Team Negative One's version of Star Wars.

Or Harmy's Despecialized Editions. IIRC for Star Wars he started with the Team Negative One version and just cleaned it up. For Episodes V and VI IIRC he did more extensive restoration work.

(Note that I am deliberately calling the first movie "Star Wars" and not episode IV.)

But I guess for Splash everyone is just S.O.L.

You're the kind of stupid fuck that " only heard what you wanted to hear" in what I wrote.

I do run a business. I don't want the airlines to fail.

What I want is an end to the stupid fucking Republican partisan rhetoric when the Dems want to do something that the Republicans actually do all the time.

But I guess that doesn't fit your narrative though.

Well, if they saved it and had a giant cash balance on the balance sheet – waiting for a day that might never come – and the share holders would be screaming about that.

Or they could have paid bigger dividends. But that doesn't make share value go up like stock buybacks for the 1%er CxOs and the institutional investors that just want the share value to go up and don't give a shit about long term viability of the company.

Or they could have lowered the cost of tickets or paid their employees a teeny bit more. They could have hedged fuel costs for when fuel prices went up. This things also don't necessarily make share prices go up.

They could have used the giant cash balance to buy out a competitor or two, and laid off the redundant back office operations people.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't! (And I'm just playing the devil's advocate.)

Well, I was talking about the Republicans droning on endlessly – partisan rhetoric – about just how bad it is that those evil Dems are spending, taxing and spending, etc., etc.

They want a "loan" but if they don't pay it back they don't want to end up with the federal government owning large tranches of their stock?

And this is the deal that this so called "Great Negotiator" is agreeing to?

Is this the kind of thing you learn when you get a degree from the Wharton School?

Jeebus. AFAIC a degree from the Wharton School isn't worth the paper it's printed on. I almost feel bad for all the other Wharton grads.

What a freakin' dumpster fire.

And maybe some day, if the shoe is ever on the other foot, and the Dems are in control when something like this "needs" to be done, the Republicans will remember this day.

Oh, who am I kidding. Of course they won't.

Pence is not okay, he's an asshole. He's a different kind of asshole than Trump, but he's still an asshole.

Don't kid yourself. You do not want this man to be president.

Not quite. If Trump dies, Pence takes over and appoints a new VP.

If Pence dies, Trump just appoints a new VP.

Either way Pelosi won't be president. AFAIK both would have to die together, or close enough together that there wouldn't be time to appoint a replacement.

If both Trump and Pence somehow both buy the farm at the same time, it'll be Nancy Pelosi.

But I suspect the odds of both of them kicking the bucket are pretty slim, and the odds of them going down within minutes are even slimmer.

If there was a God in Heaven, he'd have already struck both of them down, so I'm not holding out for any divine intervention here.

Yeah. That's exactly what I meant when I said that's how averages work. People who made it to 20 years old, i.e. out of infancy (look it up) had a pretty good chance of living to 60, 70, or even 100.

I haven't heard anyone use scores since about 1863 or so. What planet are you on where they still use scores?

I'm guessing you probably still measure distances in furlongs.

Yeah, that's average. If you survived infancy your chances of living to 60 or 70 was pretty good. That's how averages work.

1100 years earlier it wasn't entirely uncommon to live to 100 years old. There are gravestones from Roman era Britain for people who lived to be that old.

Crossing North America in a covered wagon was pretty risky too.

E.g. some people waited too long to cross the Mississippi and died when they fell through the ice.

All the settlers in the first colony in Virginia died.

Everything was hard back then. And human life was cheaper too.

It's almost like comparing apples and oranges.

A mild case? I guess that remains to be seen.

Karma baby. It's a bitch.

I've never really liked the way we've highjacked the words virtual and virtually to mean "nearly." (Like nominally, which just means "named" amount, but now usually means a _small_ amount.)

Regardless. I'm guessing those of his staff who have had contact with him aren't very happy right now.

Further proof that just because you're a doctor, doesn't necessarily mean you're very smart. Kentucky would be smart to be rid of both of their senators.