He thinks rhetorical style peaked in the King James Version of the Bible, most likely. Pseudo-religious trappings are intended to lend weight and credence to his words, and may be effective among his target audience, who also generally believe that the King James Version was directly written by God.

Thanks for fighting through! Hope you feel better!

You are a wise person.

I get that, too. I’ve gotten other nearby area codes spoofed, too - I get 910, 919, 704, 336.

There’s a Yakov Smirnoff statement in there somewhere. Someone on this site can find it. I believe in you guys!

That’s how I imagine it would go. Driving home one day in traffic, I lean over to flip on the A/C, and the seatbelt latch trips the patented “James Bond Jr. Anti-Theft System” on the fob. I’m hauled bodily back from the steering wheel even as my car screeches to a stop on the busy highway, then suplexed into it…

Driving there? Nothing. Getting in to a town hall to speak? Pre-registration, address verification using IDs, doing multiple, smaller meetings to make it less shout-y, doing them by submission of written questions in an open manner (i.e. not how my senators do it, which is to have staffers cherry-pick questions in…

You’re saying you don’t believe in the coming of Miguel O’Hara to protect us from the rise of the megacorps?

Oh, well, if you have a middle-aged Indian acquaintance...

I will have to disagree with you regarding referring to people as “browns” in most contexts, but you do you. However, it is a far cry from “Black Lives Matter” to “the blacks.”

So, you’ll probably want to reconsider the use of “blacks” and “browns” as general descriptors for people - it requires a little effort, and it’s easy to slip up, but worthwhile. But leaving that aside, yeah, no, he was cited more than once for racial discrimination at properties he’s owned, and routinely spoke to…

I’ll give you the interpretation of the Ferengi (though I think it can also be read as commentary on 20th Century American greed), but I honestly never got Middle Eastern stereotypes out of the Klingons - not that it’s a lot better, but I generally read more of a general Asian/Soviet/Red Menace in limited viewing of…

I remember watching it over the summer as a 12 year old and even then being kind of shocked at how Moonraker seemed to just not give the slightest semblance of a fuck.

Don’t worry, I’m sure they’re working on doing it in the cruelest way possible. It’s just where their M.O. usually leads them.

How many of those are government-run? I’d imagine most of those are intrinsic to our OS or browser, which are things we choose to use (or at least to not actively avoid by running Linux or privacy-enabling apps and systems).

Well, not to burst your bubble, but our “that guy” was absorbing life force out of a glowing orb with a couple of high-ranking Saudis last week (I think they’re going to be playing the Looney Tunes in basketball to enslave them for Danny Devito?) at the opening of an electronic surveillance program meant to monitor…

Depends. Was the American political scene a shambolic shit sandwich run by a dumb, mean-spirited former reality star with Russian backing?

Racism and misogyny in the same sentence? Good Lord, do you have any redeeming qualities at all, or are you just a vile turd all the way through?

I’m waiting to see some Congressional and WH IP addresses on there, honestly.

“He has served you, my lord. Served you badly.”