...just saying.

This is mostly true, but they've also made it worse. Additionally, every time you think they can't possibly make it worse they find a way.

Was that the Trump that kicked him out of his properties permanently and never associated with him again?

Let's note that a certain former president was a REGULAR RIDER of the Lolita Express (and not just from FL to NY like Trump), and that last I checked, nobody in Democratic admins was even interested in Epstein files release.

Hey, I fully agree the files need to come out. I don't give a shit if Trump is on them; if he's implicated he should be tossed into a wood-chipper like the rest.

Unlike Democrats, I disapprove of "Minor Attracted Persons".

By all means let unregulated billionaires execute projects with globe-impacting potential? Is that what you're going with?

I'd love to hear about these "systemic" injustices.

Are they in the room with us now?

... On the eponymous "George Lucas effect" .

That is, when you become so successful that nobody cares tell you no, so your creative output suffers due to the lack of common sense input around you. "No George, a Steppin-fetchit analogue does not belong in your film"

"Do YOU know how to do math without a calculator?

Do YOU know how to use a map?"

A) I think the idiomatic use of "you" indeterminate 2nd person plural as a proxy for "people in general in your opinion" is clear

B) to your more specific examples, no, people are indeed generally losing the ability to do simple math in their heads. Next time something costs 19.50 and you have a 20something cashier, hand them a $20 and 50 cents.... Watch their eyes spin.
And in the pride+shame dept, my 4.0 college graduate daughter, 32 act, economics degree called us specifically to recount how she and her friend were a long way from their hotel in Venice, phones dead, and late at night she'd managed to navigate their way back BY PAPER MAP. She was genuinely happy and her whole friend group all admit they probably couldn't have done it, now essentially treats her as their Sherpa.

That's a bit like being on a cruise where the breakfast buffet offers only eggs prepared a 1000 different ways, and you're telling someone who is allergic to eggs "if you can't find something good, maybe lower your standards". For the record: I do like eggs.

"inclusive"? Would the clouds somehow let different amounts of sun in for different races?

...what (should be) the problem? Isn't that what a credit score is (supposed to be) for - indicating how good a credit risk you are?

A tiny handful? The problem is that they pretty much dominated the Blockbuster niche for the past decade or two. The kind of movie many of us turn to for a few hours of dumb escapism: usually with a simple but solid plot, some explosions and eye candy, uncomplicated characters, but big ticket actors and good production values. For those of us who enjoy that sort of thing, but dislike the premise of superheroes, it has been woefully slim pickings the past years.

Brilliant 'memetic judo'. Whoever is on their marketing team should be CEO, I hear the position's open.

FWIW what I found interesting is that if neither of them had reacted at all to being on the kiss cam (or reacted normally) we wouldn't even have heard about it.

I knew you'd get the ritual beating reaction here, lol

You are of course right though. Life is much simpler, safer, and happier if you only have sex with your own spouse.

He'd also donated to Democrats.
In fact, he appears to have been barely political at all.

I'm going to guess you're a leftist, so that makes it funny to criticize priests fucking altar boys, given how hard the left has tried to normalize pedophilia for the last half dozen years.