Mooney is at least better at it than the endless iterations of it on Adult Swim, but better in this case means I stayed with thw bit 10 seconds longer before tuning out.

So they are, what, imitating the Hezbollah flag?

My first thought.

A bit OT - when I watched AHS Cult a couple of years back, I was surprised by how many people reacted negatively because, “well people that smart and successful would not join a cult.” Anyone who says such a thing knows nothing about cults. 

I am going to wait until I have a couple of hours of free time before Googling that.

The Fremen were Buddislamic - Zesunni and Zen Shia. Dune is awesome.

Billy Meier has made a cult out of it in Switzerland. Of course his aliens are Aryan. Warning - do not go down that rabbit hole without a stiff drink handy.

That was my reaction. “Huh, Deen is on Fox now. That fits.” As for “And while Paula Deen has found a new job among “her kind of people,” somewhere in Brooklyn” - there is just so much awfulness going on in just those few words. BTW - when I clicked on the links about her - so, her language was the least of her…

A disturbing thought occured to me. Is Alex jones Hotep-adjacent. Most of those theories are things he has been promoting for a long time (Jews, Bilderburg, drinking strange crap to prevent disease). Then again, maybe it is just another example of a white man stealing ideas from a black man and making a lot more money…

As you pointed out earlier - these are not grass roots protesters. These are white-supremacist terrorist-organized “protests.” We are not a failed state where one needs to carry a gun around. This is no literal war zone (yes, I know about crime, but I mean an ongoing war, like the War Against Southern Treason) in the…

First, that is the first time I saw a photo of Geddes herself, and she is about the Karen I imagined she would be.

I am deeply sorry for your loss. Please understand that people deal with loss in different ways. Arguing over Star Wars is a diversion, for some of us, from the insanity around us these days, and from the losses that surround us.

Maybe not a film, but Babylon 5 was planned out start to finish in the major arcs in the 1990s. JMS largely kept to it, save for having to use a few trap doors when key actors left the series for one reason or another.

TBH, the “canon” on the originals changed from ANH to ESB. “Oh, I did not mean Vader “literally” killed your father!” “Oh, Leia and Luke are siblings!” If you have ever read Splinter of the Mind’s Eye (the first sequel before Lucas was sure he would get a bigger budget), NONE of that was true. The problem is that SW…

I watch the Mandelorian and think, “This is where I had hoped the sequels would go.” In tone, imagination, and writing. I was hoping to see something new, and while I liked the characters, there was just too many retreaded story points (ANOTHER big starbase? Revisiting every trope in Campbell? A force family…

And how many of these people decried Obamacare as “socialism.”

There was a train engineer in LA who tried to ram the hospital ship with his train. Too five seconds google his rantings and see it was a QAnon “theory.” Then again, this guy tried to ram a ship. On the water. With a train.

I saw a cartoon changed to say this, but I thought it was a random joke. Not surprised to find out people take it seriously. After all, Cheetolini is still president.

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Why they are neccessary to combat the “Chinese virus.” I saw one of their “leaders” interviewed who claimed that once they told the people to go back to their cars and observe social distancing, and the crowd complied immediately. Sure, I believe them. I am sure that happened. Seriously, these reckless, lying morons…