Oh man. This is exactly what I’ve been saying ever since TLJ came out. Rian Johnson looked at all of the mysteries JJ Abrams set up and realized that the most interesting answer to literally every one of them is “Who cares?”

At least “you don’t recognize me because of my red arm” was supposed to be a joke. :)

Here’s a new thought: How about we stop arguing over whether movies are “good” or “bad”, which are entirely subjective and personal even in the presence of a common set of criteria which are rarely established, and instead talk about why we like or dislike a film? The reasons are always more interesting than any…

It also disregards the fact that it wasn’t exactly easy to make then, either. I know that ‘All in the Family’ bounced around a couple of networks because everyone got real twitchy about putting something “political” on TV.

Nah. He’s bound to get into legal trouble before then--Trump could get away with this stuff because he was rich and he could just pay people to go away, but the rest of the Republican party doesn’t have that kind of regular cashflow. That’s why supporting him has worked out so badly for so many of them.

Not if the state of New York has anything to say about it. **rim shot**

Um... have you read ‘The Twits’ lately? It’s one hundred percent about two people whose descriptions perfectly fit those of Eastern European Jews being described as horrible, gross, nasty people whose character shines out so clearly that it makes them physically ugly. The quiet part is said particularly loud in that…

Oh, I think it’ll be about six months before he’s caught taking bribes from whatever sleazy energy company operates in his district and he winds up in jail.

Are we REALLY still doing “the two parties are all just as bad as each other”? After 250,000 bodies hit the floor? After over 600 children disappeared in Trump’s concentration camps? After Trump funneled millions of dollars from the federal government directly into his own pockets through shady ‘expenses’ at his own…

I don’t know if it’s “expecting” so much as “preparing”. We want feet on the throttle all the way until the polls close, and if a few days of anxiety mean an utter fucking landslide for Biden, I’m good with that trade.

Basically, they’re falling victim to a cult mentality. Not just in a pejorative sense but in the clinical meaning of the term - they’ve created an environment in which adherence to the doctrine supersedes consensus reality, as enforced by an “us vs them” mentality where belief in the propaganda is rewarded and…

There is no legitimacy to the Supreme Court anymore. That ship has sailed. Then it was set on fire. Then it sank. The idea that somehow, if Democrats just keep playing by the rules then golly good gosh the legitimacy of the institution will somehow remain untarnished because only one side blocks appointments by their…

Oh absolutely. For example, my cat wants to grab food from my plate. Rather than swat her away, I engage her in a reasoned, intelligent debate over the merits of her position, the better to understand them.

HBO was practically begging them for more seasons, but they refused. Money and time was not their problem. Lack of interest in continuing was.

So if not for slavery, we never would have been able to end slavery?

I think that Roberts, at least, has no intention of fucking with stare decisis to that degree. I also think that there’s no real institutional will among the Republicans to overturn Roe v Wade because it’s far more useful to them as a perpetual rallying cry against the decadent left than it ever would be as an actual…

I think the reason people don’t like the sequel is because the first one had a happy ending, and the second one starts by tearing it up. And I’m not saying that’s a bad thing to do; sometimes yes, businesses fail and people are scapegoated for shit they didn’t do and relationships and friendships fall apart. But it’s…

It’s not that she can’t handle it, it’s that she handles it by strictly categorizing it. I’m sure one of her favorite pastimes is totaling up the points for the fictional characters in the shows she watches, figuring out which of the only two boxes in existence to put them in once they’ve finished doing all that…

You have to remember that Donald Trump’s only abiding philosophy is, “Fuck you, sucker, I got mine.” He’s not going to risk cramping his precious tiny fingers writing out a pardon for someone who isn’t useful to him anymore.

“You libs are so easily triggered.”