Enlightening the US public that they were being lied to might have been a just cause. Leaking the identities of hundreds of German and UK national security staff resulting in danger and loss of jobs for so many regular hardworking people, without aiding his cause at all was just a sh*tty thing to do.

Hero.

she just finished a media tour explaining to everyone how healthy she and opening jars of pickles. you can’t really brush off video of her fainting as inconsequential.

Trump was also in a full suit and body armor, so what’s your point?

Hillary Clinton meanwhile made a speech promising to really stick it to oil and gas companies.

Technically, what she did was illegal. She and other protesters tore down a privately owned fence that was blocking off private property and then crossed onto privately owned land. That’s exactly what trespassing is. The land was not Native owned land. It was next to Native owned land.

Isn’t all of North Dakota a rural county?

In terms of broad public/cultural appeal, I’d say that Star Trek peaked back in 1994 when TNG went off the air. After that, it slowly shifted back to being a “niche” franchise until the Kelvin timeline reboot.