Yeah, the first boating reference in the piece had me thinking “What? That phrase has nothing to do with boats”, but I (naively, as it turns out) kept waiting for the part where it was all made clear. As you note, it never was; it was just a weird interpretation. DeSantis’ entire point was that Trump’s followers are a…

Delusional loser squandering away the future of his state for nothing. The real trick is convincing Republicans you are the big bad wolf who will slap around the undeserving poor, Black people, gays, trans, immigrants and women. Youngkin, Desantis and the rest of the pathetic pack are poor micmics of Trump. They just…

Knowing Ted, he called them something like ‘denim slacks’.

Doesn’t help that his jeans are brand new either. 

You might enjoy Andor, if you haven’t seen it already.

You can only raise so much money in a two-month election campaign - much better to milk the cow every day.

Given a pike is also a type of fish ... maybe?  Something coming down a pike could mean “fish poop”.

It is their loss if they don’t want to watch Rebels. Just pity them.

Been a long time since I went to a Sizzler. They have probably gone downhill.

I think it’s a kind of hard sell in this particular case because Clone Wars very much did start as a kids show. Rebels too, but to a lesser extent. 

Wait, it’s August 2023 and we are having a presidential candidate debate NOW? Oh to have a European campaigning system that limits this stupidity to 6 or 8 weeks. As a Floridian, I can’t believe I have to pay for this fool’s perpetual electioneering.

Can a listless vessel be affected by something coming down a pike? Is the pike flooded?

*Donald Trump Jr defense lawyer fund

Ah, thank you. Well, maybe DeSantis did mean listless then, in the sense of them all acting in lockstep. He’s still dumb as a sack of hammers.

Fucking caucasity of it all...

Then again, any vessel, passenger or cargo, ought to have a manifest. A vessel without a list of what’s on board could be a bureaucratic inconvenience...

Indeed. “Listless” is the opposite of “listing” and would be a very good thing on a boat — although, etymologically, the list of listless has absolutely nothing to do with boats (“list” meant “desire”, so “lack of desire” is the meaning of listless).

Right? It’s actually an example of building on previous story/lore in order to heighten possibilities moving forward. It doesn’t explain or retcon; it recontextualizes.

Is a live action series about a cartoon clone wars character trying to find a rebels cartoon character a hard sell for non star wars nerds? I am trying to tell people how good the series were but many just are not cartoon fans.