Landman is one of my favorite shows right now. It’s also one of those rare cases where the reviews are terrible but the viewership is massive, which is the funniest kind of cultural data imo
Landman is very clearly made for people who still enjoy watching a world where things are allowed to be... OBVIOUS
Men protect and provide for the women in their lives, the women are hot and feminine, there’s family loyalty, God, hierarchy, responsibility, money, unapologetic beauty, *competence*
Texas aesthetics, oil, boots, trucks. The whole thing is unapologetically American!
And modern critics hate anything that depicts competence without also inserting a lecture about how competence is secretly problematic
This "they/them" dialogue is just further proof that audiences want reality back
People are sick of being forced to pretend they don’t have instincts or being told their pattern recognition is “hate.” They’re sick of the weird social pressure to act confused about things that *aren’t confusing*
So watching a character respond like a normal human being was refreshing as fuck.. which is a crazy sentence to write about basic common sense, but that’s where we’re at
Landman isn't a perfect show but at least it remembers what normal looks like
Curt Cignetti on #iufb playing in the cold and QB Kurtis Rourke:
"I hope it snows a foot and a half, we have a Canadian quarterback. Did you see him throw the ball against Purdue?"
The prosecutor is a politician who promised to nail Trump.
The judge’s daughter is a Democrat operative who literally *raised $$ from the trial* while her father presided over it.
The jury instructions said they didn’t have to agree on the crime to convict.
This will backfire.
Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw. This won’t stop Trump. He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first. But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world. Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family.
Today’s verdict represents the culmination of a legal process that has been bent to the political will of the actors involved: a leftist prosecutor, a partisan judge and a jury reflective of one of the most liberal enclaves in America—all in an effort to “get” Donald Trump.
That this case—involving alleged misdemeanor business records violations from nearly a decade ago—was even brought is a testament to the political debasement of the justice system in places like New York City. This is especially true considering this same district attorney routinely excuses criminal conduct in a way that has endangered law-abiding citizens in his jurisdiction.
It is often said that no one is above the law, but it is also true that no one is below the law. If the defendant were not Donald Trump, this case would never have been brought, the judge would have never issued similar rulings, and the jury would have never returned a guilty verdict.
In America, the rule of law should be applied in a dispassionate, even-handed manner, not become captive to the political agenda of some kangaroo court.