I'm waiting to see how many people leave/what kind of people will come with Kinja before making any sort of "I'm finished here" plan. I am going to miss all my upvotes (over 200,000!) and the commenters that are definitely leaving with Disqus.
I'm waiting to see how many people leave/what kind of people will come with Kinja before making any sort of "I'm finished here" plan. I am going to miss all my upvotes (over 200,000!) and the commenters that are definitely leaving with Disqus.
The few actual details we know about the Afghanistan strategy—which did not come from Trump's speech—is that there will be a 4,000 troop surge. Trump said he plans to get India involved in Afghanistan, I guess as a counterweight to Pakistan, but that could easily backfire and push Pakistan to further embrace the…
I'll give Kinja a shot—I was here pre-Disqus, without nested thread, so I'll see how Kinja goes.
He just followed Jessica.
As I mentioned above, I haven't watched "Iron Fist," but I see what you're talking about—Danny was a huge dumbass this episode, but it sort of worked because there were other main characters to call him a dumbass, and take on the plot in non-dumbass ways. On his own, with only supporting characters to meekly protest…
Didn't Elektra slice bullets out of the the air when she attacked that guy in Jessica's apartment?
This analogy works for real life privilege as well.
One of the writers on some Star Wars thing—I think it was the Clone Wars tv show?—said that when they had characters in the show call Jar Jar Binks annoying, the audience liked the character more. This seems to be the same dynamic.
This was basically Danny's idea: https://frinkiac.com/gif/S0…
Matt was tracking Jessica, Jessica realized she was being followed and doubled back to see who it was and started following Matt, who decided to call it a day and ninja out of there.
Yeah, Danny's plan seemed to be to just barge in there in tell the Hand that he's coming for them. Not sure why he "needed to do it alone," but that was the gist of it.
Luke Cage busting through the wall with the RTJ soundtrack was badass. Between this and the Black Panther trailer, I guess RTJ has the MCU rap game locked down.
Doesn't help that Jessica basically had the same "track down the shell company" idea within like 30 seconds.
I haven't seen Iron Fist, but is Danny Rand always that much of a dumbass? He's been flying around the world on a private jet, karate fighting magic ninjas, and needed to be literally reminded that he's rich to realize he could just ask his accountant to look at the shell companies?
I was the reason they switched to Disqus!
Bannon uses big words and occasionally namechecks philosophers, so he's a genius, even if all his ideas are dumb, crazy, and racist.
Bannon has said he's on the warpath against Trump's enemies. The plan is for Bannon to use Breitbart to expand Trump's base; it's not a good plan—it's not like Breitbart turned into Reuters while Bannon was in the White House—but that seems to be it.
Bannon likes to think of himself as a "bomb-thrower"—destructive force, burning down the system. That's what he wants to do, that's his skill set. In the White House, he can't do that—he has to advocate for something, to build something; and he has to work with other people to get these things done, instead of…
The party line Republicans are the source of his rock bottom approval ratings, but still a pretty good shot they'd vote for him again today as long as he still ran as a Republican.
Bannon going back to Breitbart will either calm them down, or blow up everything