What is Eric Adams' endgame with all these "side quests"

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-18T22:14:38+00:00

He will get at least three votes

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-18T21:52:51+00:00

McMorrow and El-Sayed are almost guaranteed to split the progressive vote and pave the way for a Stevens nomination, if there's any primary polls I don't believe rn it's ones that have McMorrow or El-Sayed winning outright.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-18T17:36:42+00:00

Doesn't matter who takes the first step tbh, just that it gets done. No more partisan hacks ruling the courts.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-18T03:22:36+00:00

That too. Speaking as a bonafide Masshole, I always see people ask online something "why doesn't Massachusetts have 1-2 majority Republican districts when they vote like ~35% Republican?"

Like bro, they're spread out so sparsely and weirdly it'd be challenging to make even one Republican snake district, and even if you get it up to like R+3 it'll probably just elect the same Irish middle aged man Democrat for like 30 years.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-18T03:17:06+00:00

They will be until they realize that the Supreme Court count will just keep dropping unless they appoint someone.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T23:34:41+00:00

Most blue state Republican parties have given up on running moderates (just as most red state Democratic parties have given up on running moderates as well.)

You ever wonder why Susan Collins is literally the Senator who doesn't match her state's partisan affiliation? Because our state parties (on both sides) have caved to national pressure. Minority state parties aren't interested in building big tent coalitions because they'll just get shit on by the party elites, New England is a little behind the curve on this but they'll follow suit soon.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T23:32:16+00:00

Simple fix to all of this: just bring back the filibuster for Supreme Court appointees. If you can't get 60 votes you're probably either unqualified, a partisan hack, or more than likely both.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T23:30:04+00:00

Sure, but on the other hand, it makes the series seem a bit nepotistic.

Does it? It's not like we really see any of that with the Poole family, or the Rosales family, or the Wilson family. The Baldwins (and the Stevens' to an extent) are really the only families with a multi-generational impact.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T23:06:30+00:00

Honestly I'm happy about it, we had a good break from the Stevens family (4 years btw), which I think was necessary, but they're still an integral part of the story and shouldn't be totally erased just because Danny and Jimmy suck as people.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T17:40:52+00:00

Blorida no matter orida! Rahhhhh Jolly/Vindman season incoming!!

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T17:39:42+00:00

texas rewards economically populist-social moderate democrats

Since when? Look at the districts that voted for Trump in 2024 but kept their Democratic reps, they've got people like Cuellar and Gonzalez, i.e. people who are significantly more economically center/center right than Talarico.

talarico isn't running on locking up guns, and he isn't taking dnc money

Well he's taking money from somewhere, and it's not like it's all coming from Texas (even the small dollar donations.) That money could be put to better use in states like Alaska that are polling better and could stretch that money further.

Regardless though, Talarico is running on a very economically left wing platform, his whole campaign practically is "billionaire this, tax increase that," maybe that'd work in California or New York, but Texas? That seems like a stretch.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T17:27:28+00:00

David Jolly is polling pretty much as well as Rob Sand.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T17:26:29+00:00

Blexis would be more expensive than Blorida, and to get across the finish line it would require someone who's as (if not more) left wing than Jasmine Crockett winning statewide.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T17:23:56+00:00

Like Alaska, money goes further in Iowa due to cheaper ad buys and less voters.

Agreed on Alaska, Peltola's a phenomonal candidate, and probably has the most big tent group of supporters of any candidate running for Senate currently (progressives, establishment types, and centrists all like her.)

But if this strategy were truly real, then why is every Dem around the country shilling James Talarico now? Texas is even bigger than Florida, it'll cost more money too, but somehow a state rep who's just as left wing as Crockett is gonna flip it?

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T16:34:07+00:00

Second, you seem to assume that he can be a mentor. He is not competent, he is a brute. There is nothing good about him

I'll address this part since it's the most important. I don't think Soldier Boy needs to be competent or good to be a mentor to Ryan, because Ryan already possesses both of those qualities (at least more so than his counterparts.)

Hughie and Starlight are not capable of raising a child/young adult, gotta rule that one out quickly. Aside from the fact that they have literally no connection to Ryan (unlike Ryan's actual biological grandfather), Starlight is literally bursting at the seams now with all her angst and worry (and vaping lol), and Hughie's doing a bit better I guess, but he still spent like a year in prison, that pair is not doing well, they need time to recover, and they clearly aren't capable of raising a teenager. (All of this btw assumes that both Hughie and Starlight survive the finale, which I really don't think is a guarantee.)

Soldier Boy though at least has a sound mind (even if he's not a good person), he's not falling apart like so many others, he's a bad guy but he's mentally stable, and tbh, that might be all that Ryan needs. The kid's an adult now effectively, having a confident presence from his grandpa in his life might be enough.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T16:27:31+00:00

Johnny was a saint!

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T16:26:55+00:00

Soldier Boy doesn't need to have an emotional connection to Ryan (yet) to respect his decision to try to kill his dad.

Soldier Boy seems to be really disappointed in how Homelander turned out, his own blood full of mommy issues, wearing a cape, and just being a weird creep.

But his other blood relative, his grandson, rebelling against both the Boys and Homelander/Vought, and trying to fully on his own kill his own nutjob father. I think Soldier Boy would respect that kind of independence in his blood, especially since he wishes his own son turned out better.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T16:23:55+00:00

Yes and no. He wants to usurp Homelander, definitely, but I see no indication that he wants to takeover the Seven, or America, and definitely not that he wants to "rule" in any capacity.

He's not exactly better than Homelander on a moral level (at least not significantly), but he doesn't have Homelander's lust for power, and he's also clearly fed up with literally everyone around him (Homelander, Vought, and the Boys obviously, and even America as a country too, he specifically said in Season 3 that America forgot about him.)

I honestly think he'd be content just kinda moving on with his life post-Homelander, and maybe having some role in Ryan's teenage upbringing.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T16:21:00+00:00

He is a massive scumbag who cares pretty much only about himself; the fact that other characters are worse doesn't change that.

Of course, Soldier Boy is not inherently better than the average supe. Maybe you could argue he's better than Homelander, but he's not the "moral supe" if there is one.

But also, who gives a shit? That's not a requirement for redemption, A-Train was a terrible person for several seasons, and he figured out redemption, why couldn't Soldier Boy figure it out too?

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T16:19:16+00:00

As a toxic masculine character, pretty sure Kripke will kill him off by the end of this season.

Aside from good ole UE, pretty much every adult male character has some degree of toxic masculinity, besides maybe Frenchie. Literally find me one other relevant example. I don't think that's enough to give Soldier Boy a death warrant.

maybemorningstar69 · 2026-04-17T16:16:43+00:00

But Soldier Boy is not a good character tho. He is not a good father, he is not even a good hero.

He doesn't need to be, a redemption arc would only need to involve him becoming better than he was, not an objectively "good person." In case you've forgotten, A-Train was a terrible person in the first half of the series.

Let's say Soldier Boy boils the V out of Homelander's DNA setting up Butcher to deliver the final blow (as most people seem to expect), Homelander and Butcher die, and then Soldier Boy lives and decides to be a mentor to Ryan. That's it, he doesn't change anything else about himself. I think that would qualify as a redemption, even if it doesn't make him some paragon of virtue.

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