Ha! I just watched this movie again!
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San Andreas was on TV here yesterday. I hadn’t seen it before, and it looked like a terrible outcome for everyone who wasn’t The Rock or a member of his family. 
The day before that, the feature was the first two parts of The Hunger Games trilogy. 
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Was San Andreas the one where the city lined up all their emergency vehicles to form a dike against the oncoming lava? No better use for emergency equipment than that! 
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I believe that was Volcano, where Tommy Lee Jones became the Greek god of glowering and stared at Hephaestus until he ceased trying to destroy California.
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I just kinda assumed that happened at his birth. Or maybe when he was in kindergarten.
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True. I just did some research and found this infant photo of the happiest TLJ has ever been.
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No, it’s the one where LA and San Francisco are destroyed by quakes. A helicopter rescue pilot from LA rescues his soon to be ex-wife from a building that I think was full of people before he picks her up from the rubble. 
They observe the chaos from above, and I thought it was weird they didn’t rescue anyone else for most of the movie.
When their ride breaks down, they use a truck, a plane, and a boat to find their daughter in San Francisco. Along the way they dodge huge fissures, scary looters, debris from falling buildings, and a tsunami. They also spend time discussing their relationship issues after discovering her new boyfriend is the absolute worst/completely unreliable in an emergency. They do help several people from getting squished by buildings near the ballpark in SFO, and in the end they save the daughter and her new boyfriend, who spent the movie saving each other from nearly being crushed, struck by debris, drowned, and etc. It’s a love story, really, full of vehicles just large enough to only hold the people closest to your heart.
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There’s all sorts of oblique attacks there, too, including a bunch of stuff like this:
The Promote Child Thriving act establishes a $500 tax credit per child for a mother and father filing jointly and is escalated to $1,000 if the child was born after the marriage of the parents.
Another Republican Oklahoma state senator, David Bullard, introduced a similar bill that would offer a $2,000 child tax credit per child only for married couples with biological children from the marriage.
What’s interesting is that so much of this may have been explicitly intended as ways to attack queer families, but it’s also anti- blended families, foster parents, adopted children… I’m not sure how much of that is collateral damage to unintended targets (because these people are idiots) and how much is deliberate (because these people are also monsters in multiple ways).
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These are the same evangelical types who talk about outlawing abortion in favor of adoptions, so to come out with explicitly anti-adoption policies would be… yeah, completely on-brand. Monstrous hypocrisy is their brand.
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Damnit, Il Douche will find out about this and think it’s a great idea.
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TLDR: Cop killed unarmed, innocent African American accused of shoplifting. Cop sentenced to 3 years in jail. 3 days into his sentence, his sentence is commuted by our Trumpian Governor, Glen “POS” Youngkin.
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off-off year elections next year. Our statewide nightmare could be over, if we can get the fascists voted out en mass.
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Make it so, fellow Virginians.
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PS. The VA governor’s election is this November 4.
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Crap, you are correct. I am struggling with the whole “2025” thing. My brain just rejects it. For some reason. 
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This is the old D&D “forget the treasure inside, steal the priceless adamantine doors from the Tomb of Horrors” trick translated as literally as possible into real life.
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I feel for the affected families, I’m sure it’s very shocking and hope the thieves get their just desserts. But also I can’t say I’m terribly sad over someone’s ostentatious display of wealth even in death being pillaged. It’s a long time tradition, just look at the pyramids.
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