Is this a real theology?

That I can certainly agree with. The MSM has some seriously bad universal habits.

Hi! Political scientist, here.

Oh, I see. You're from the generation that ruined everything and patted themselves on the back the whole way.

Yeah. Trump will win because a few people used Leia and/or Carrie Fisher as a metonymic for their experience of feminism and female strength.

Silence you? Who's trying to silence you? Your complaints about "millennials" are starting to take on a bizarre paranoic edge.

Because instilling fear in the residents was key to getting them to start freaking out enough for hijinks and shenanigans. Casually kicking a dog into the sun out of frustration gives a pretty clear signal that whatever being did that really doesn't think about the value of things the same way a human does, and that…

Have you seen Damages?

My partner is a myrmiphobe. It's no joke.

Way earlier. I think I made it to episode six or so of the 1st season.

I may have to give this show another shot.

So…you require all portrayals of things and people and institutions you love to be flattering?

'Success' having the same number of letters in the word as 'failure' might be the root of your confusion. I think? Maybe? I can't explain all this any other way.

When there are enough examples in existence that a [link] codified trope exists, it's a thing. It's not that Pius and Trump are carbon-copies of one another. It's the idea that the protagonist of the story is a spoiler-out-of-nowhere political cipher who was just handed unimaginable power by desperate people.

It is now anti-Catholic trash to portray the church as a human institution filled with humans doing humany things?

Are the Rocky films considered action movies?

Wait just a goddamn second. John Hannah is in this?

That was the most ridiculous attempt at an excuse for his behavior I think I've ever read, and all in an attempt to relieve the people who chose to vote for him of the burden of the knowledge that they were voting for a person that said unhinged, bigoted, racist things all the time.

"They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."

I think his point was that Hitler aimed to kill a whole lot of people, and he did in fact actually kill a whole lot of people. By that standard, his own twisted one, Hitler was successful. Trump, on the other hand, will probably kill us all by trying to tweet with the Red Phone. Stupid and venal and ridiculously…