Won’t happen. They’d drag out the impeachment proceedings long enough for Pence to nominate a VP, someone relatively bland and inoffensive, and Pelosi would let them be confirmed because she doesn’t want to look like she’s doing all this for personal gain. We would wind up with President Marco Rubio before we wound up…

It absolutely is. There is no substitute for the President’s direct, personal, and immediate outreach to his followers of literally anything on his mind at that second. Yes, he can call press conferences, yes, he can put out press releases, but there’s nothing that has the same ability to disseminate his point of view…

Honestly, that’s been the problem with the sequels in general. They’re supposedly about this new generation of rebels (as opposed to Rebels) taking up the fight where the old heroes left off, but the films have been so concerned with giving the classic trilogy characters a big send-off that Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, etc…

Rian Johnson. He clarified on Twitter that you need a ship of nearly-equivalent mass to pull this stunt. So the Rebellion couldn’t just hyperjump a capital ship into the Death Star and call it good, for example.

And a lot of people on the Internet unironically use “not allowing diversity of opinion” to describe moderating their stupid-ass bullshit. I know which I’d rather be.

So you think a ship that has no fuel can jump into hyperspace? Is that now something that requires less energy than traveling through real space? I mean, sure, the mechanisms for hyperdrive haven’t been absolutely established, but I assume that the laws of thermodynamics still apply and you require energy to do work.

Psst. When you have a numerical superiority and bigger guns than the other guy, why would you waste your big ships on kamikaze attacks when you can just, oh... shoot them?

Oh, I’m sorry, Rando From the Internet. Did you somehow think that “I categorically find your opinions not worthy of wasting my time on them” was something that entitled you to give me homework assignments? Because there’s a diversity of opinion on that, and I’m fully allowing myself to laugh at you.

Oh, absolutely. This is a man who has moved so far outside the realms of someone reachable by logic that he might as well be a serial killer for the effect he has and the ability we have to affect his belief system.

I completely buy the story that a cop walked into a random room without paying attention, saw a black person existing, and immediately shot them for the crime of “getting all up in my business”. Hell, Tamir Rice got shot for being in a public park in the presence of an officer. It doesn’t take a conspiracy with these…

I mean... I’m sure he doesn’t want to, it’s just that when he’s forced to confront the dichotomy between his ideology and reality, he finds it easier to retreat into a comforting fantasy where he doesn’t have to choose. He knows that Abortion Is Bad, but he also knows that it’s unavoidable as a medical necessity. The…

They are at great risk of personal embarrassment by making the faux pas of assuming someone’s gender incorrectly! I mean, thankfully this child erred on the side of masculinity, which is always the correct thing to do in the case of any confusion, but this teacher could still have seemed less than authoritative in…

A useful tip for folks going online: The second someone unironically uses the phrase “diversity of opinion”, you can safely dismiss anything else they have to say on any topic. That’s code for ‘Do you let me spout just as much of my bullshit as you do your common sense?’

“Selling Women’s Bodies ..We’re Not Buying It.”

Psssst. They have fewer capital ships than the First Order. That’s why they didn’t use this tactic before.

“Scientists lie and say that everything is part of climate change!”

Oh, I’m sure they’ll bring back Hopper eventually. He was too big a part of Seasons 1-3 and we didn’t see a body. I just... don’t really care if he lives or dies after Season Three? Harsh, I know, but the showrunners really did a great job of killing off any goodwill I had for the character and salting the earth…

“Humanity has a garbage track record when it comes to manipulating the environment”

Jeremy Bearimy, baby. She’s bound to have died somewhere along the line.

I’m hoping it’s Brenner. This season tried way too hard to simultaneously a) foreground Hopper as the hero, and b) foreground Hopper as a violent, chauvinistic asshole with a huge sense of entitlement to Joyce’s affections and absolutely no redeeming qualities. I’m of the opinion that you can do one or the other but…