Uh, yes. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the people that are voting for Biden are voting him specifically because they intend to vote for “Generic-Wherever (D)“, and he’s the consensus establishment Democrat. Terminology aside, of course their vote can be taken for granted; they’re explicitly saying that they…

Have to say that my first reaction is “Oh crap. This is just going to hand us Biden as a candidate.” Which I don’t want, partly because I perceive Biden as serving my interests least. If, after all, your entire campaign pitch is “let’s return to the normal Obama years!”, I am forced to remember that the “normal” Obama…

It’s not surprising Michael Moore called Liz a “backstabber” like she’s the mean girl in high school.

It becomes easier to understand once you realize how much the press coverage of this literal non-event is an It’s Anyone’s Fault But Mine reaction on the part of the press. The article itself is like a throwback to Hurricane Katrina coverage: exact same pictures, telling a different story, that when put together…

My grandfather was in the IRA and I hate the UK tabloids for making me sympathize with the royals, but my leftist ass went so far as thinking that even if they’re born into privilege it still comes with a million more strings than the average rich kid has to deal with.

The relationship between the British press and their royalty is baffling, hilarious, and deeply creepy. “How dare our prince step back from his sacred royal duties of presenting awards, attending funerals and pretending to run charities! And just because we’ve been relentlessly abusing him and his wife for years? This…

This has absolutely no bearing on my life whatsoever and yet I am also pissed off by all of this. Good for Meghan and Harry, screw the tabloids, and the rest of the royals too for doing fuck-all about any of this. Even William couldn’t be bothered to stand up for his sister-in-law despite Harry defending Kate.

i think the andrew thing might be the last straw. they got thrown under the bus for years now and the pedophile uncle is the one who gets the full court press defense?

Hell yeah and if I were Harry I’d be fucking triply pissed, especially since it doesn’t seem like the Royals wanted to do anything about it.

Calling this “work” is a bit wrong. Calling it a poor attempt to confuse the gullible, perhaps.

I had a girlfriend die unexpectedly (age 38) of heart failure. She was dancing, having a good time, then slumped down. I thought she was joking around at first but it was quickly apparent that she was not responsive. Even me doing CPR, the police there is literally a few minutes and an ambulance not far behind there…

Sorry, I don’t think this is true. Even the quote from Ridley is vague and says “I believe Abrams did this.” This is the only source that Abrams wrote “drafts” for all three movies, which I don’t believe happened. Writing a screenplay is a huge undertaking and effort, there’s no way Abrams banged out two extra…

To be honest, there’s already some of that kind of in there (you just know had the First Order not been formed, Hux would have been all over the SW version of YouTube.)

If anything, I kind of thought that was a big part of where they were going with emphasizing how overall young most of the rank and file were compared…

Palpatine is way more monster of the week than Kylo, who’s character arc was built up over two movies pretty well. Palpatine is just the monster from a couple weeks back that got killed off and how is he back exactly? Dont think about it too much becasue he’s cool and popular with the fans.

I wouldve been much more interested in a more character / ideological focused final chapter than the mess we got. JJ erased the importance of the original trilogy in TFA by wiping out most of the resistance, RJ finished it off in TLJ, and this couldve been a story primarily focusing on Kylo vs Rey, and deepening the…

I’m not sure he walked back TFA though? He took the threads handed off by JJ and took them in an exciting new direction. JJ got scared because he has no original voice of his own, and fumbled them hard.

Agreed! I just completely disagree that Rian Johnson walked back on TFA. That movie set up way too many pointless mysteries. 

If this movie sucks ... it’s not because it walks back TLJ ... It’ll be because TLJ walked back TFA and TFA sucked to begin with.

Why can’t Kylo be the Big Bad of the last movie?

Can I just remind everybody whingeing about Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi that there’s no fucking way he could have told that story without the blessing of both Kathleen Kennedy and Disney? I’m really sure that if they didn’t like where he was going with his plot, they’d have either reined him in, brought in another…