Daddy nuuuuuu! Dey onwy wittwe babbehs!

This could be the season where one or both of them finally turn against the Home Office. The arc of the show seems to be building to that.

If "protectorate" is defined as "using dirty tricks to install his preferred candidate who will in turn install an oil executive as secretary of state who will work to obliterate sanctions that stand in the way of Putin's personal enrichment", then yes.

The AV Club

If Palpatine rules without the consent of the majority, couldn't it, I don't know, lead to a… Rebellion, or something, that could cause him problems down the line?

Okay, if you want to talk purely in terms of cold practicality, here's one way in which it is advantageous to remind everyone that the system elected Trump more than the people did: it sends the message that those opposing Trump in flyover states need to be more involved — only about half of the eligible population…

If there's anything I've learned from history, it's that the best way to defeat an unjust system is to shut up about its inequities!

Just pick a few random letters in your sentences and write them backwards. I think that's all there is to it.

"You are the dead."
-Panasonic Flat Screen TV

That's like saying Bowie's admiration for the inventor of the guitar was his one fault. Bowie played some beautiful music on his instrument, but Bob's the one who strung it.

Mariah as Lysa Arryn… I could get on board with this.

Murphy ends up being a good officer by reconnecting with his humanity, bypassing the mechanical mindlessness installed in him by the state. Might be a metaphor in there.

"If you think that 'truth' is correct or intellectually rigorous, you are deluding yourself."

I may be tired of eating steak and eggs every night, but that doesn't mean I'm going to accept asbestos and dogshit as a substitute.

Just another pathetic example of ricewashing. There are a million qualified actors of Cumberbatchian descent who could have played the role.

The Republican Power Hour with GVS! Featuring John McCain, Reince Priebus, and all the rest of your favorites!

I feel like listening to just one track is the same thing as hearing the whole album. "Lazarus" is the only track from it in my Bowie folder and that seems to suffice.

One can hope!

Whatever issues people have with the Obama administration (and I do have a few myself) are going to look really fucking quaint pretty soon.

You're about two weeks away from taking a firearm to a pizza parlor, aren't you?