SAO Progressive Anime Green-lit:

 It looks like we're not quite done with the SAO franchise.  The Alicization storyline is over, but the Progressive storyline is yet to begin.  By the time Progressive is animated, perhaps Unital Ring's arc will be animated, or maybe more Gun Gale Online will come out, or who knows.  The point is the franchise is alive and well.

Progressive is also written by Reki Kawahara so it will be excellent material to work with.  I've already read the books and like them.  They're more fun-loving and comical than the mainline series, though of course there are some dangerous moments too.  The only fault is that Progressive's storyline has barely even begun and isn't likely to ever be finished, so an anime will have to cut off at a cliffhanger.  I guess we should be used to that when it comes to SAO though.

With this new anime announcement, the SAO anime retains its claim to the #1 anime of all time ranking.  However, this will degrade the value of the novel franchise, because there's less use in reading what can be watched instead.  Fortunes rise and fall.

Meanwhile, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is finally dead.  I hope Trump promptly nominates and the Senate promptly confirms a new conservative judge so we finally have a trustworthy conservative majority on the Supreme Court.  This could reverse the judicial activism of the past 50 years.  However, there's plenty of evidence that too many Republican senators are too timid and weak to actually use their constitutionally vested authority and will instead simply hand the vacancy over to the upcoming Biden administration or Schumer senate majority.  It's very pathetic.  Democrats believe in their cause and act to further it, but Republicans are always guilty and ashamed of themselves, never acting on their own behalf.  So even with a 53 seat majority in the Senate even now we can't get anything done.

I predict the vacancy will remain until the next term and I hope dearly that Republicans win or we'll have willingly foregone yet another golden opportunity.  Perhaps our last opportunity at constitutional governance.  What should have been great news feels like just another example of how weak and worthless Republicans really are.

In the end it isn't the Republican party that will save us, but confident white nationalists who believe in themselves and forge their own path.  A new nation could have any law code we wanted, we wouldn't have to quiver in fear of the latest court ruling because we would be the law.