I think the core problem here really is the extremely slow pace of the criminal justice system. It should not have taken 3.5 years for a case with such clear evidence to move from arrest to conviction.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, no way in hell Lucas would have made this movie. The first scene with Cassan makes the whole “Han shot first” issue look like nothing lol.

Maybe check out Pretty Deadly? (Its sort of a fantasy/supernatural western.) I had a hard time following the plot of the first volume & haven’t yet read the second, but Emma Rios has a lovely and unique drawing style. If you want something *really* heady and out-there, ODY-C is a fully-painted comic that’s a…

Yeah, it was a huge help after I had surgery a few years back. I’m glad I had it. But they were also..... well, I can understand why people get hooked on them.

Having taken it for a month or so post-surgery a couple years ago, I’m glad that I can’t easily buy it. I can absolutely see how people get addicted. This is really sketchy. Pain meds have an important role, but they’re also dangerous.

Sure. But if they follow him to DC, they’ll have to leave their guns in the car.

I put up with the guy being grossed out only because he’s a little squeamish and is grossed out by any blood. Guess who had to deal with the spring traps when we had mice haha.

I guess it depends on whether it was really meant to be lotion, or whether it was like the liquid equivalent of “bath salts”.

You were the one that moved the goalposts. Not me. But you’ve spent this conversation denying real-world facts, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you’re now denying the goalpost-moving comment you made at 11:21 this morning that I can see right now with my own eyes. I guess you’re just borrowing a play from…

Possibly roughly the same events but a darker overall tone? Despite everything, there was still a strong sense of heroism and it being for the greater good and “yay, we did it”.

Part of me, honestly, is like “fuck it, let’s do this”. Let’s have the East Coast and the West Coast be one country, and the Midwest and the South be another. See how they like them apples, once that they no longer have the blue states to leech off of, huh?

It makes me think of the ‘60s song (“Build me up Buttercup”). Clearly, these alt-right dudes are pining away for the left, lol.

Tarkin kinda triggered the uncanny valley thing for me. It was so close, and yet..... not quite. Creepy. But he was only on briefly, and being creeped out by a bad guy is ok, so it was fine. On the other hand, I think it would have been better to not show Leia’s CGI face - anybody watching this movie is going to…

And now you’re moving the goalposts, of course. Typical.

Last time I checked, DC does not allow anyone other than law enforcement to carry, open or concealed. So if they’re caught being armed in DC, they’ll get arrested.

I think she automatically does by virtue of being the former First Lady, everything else aside.

Impeachment (which is just the start of the process, like charging someone with a crime) requires a majority vote of the House. Convicting the president and removing them from office requires a 2/3 vote of the Senate. A few presidents have been impeached, but the latter has never happened. Even Nixon resigned…

I don’t think you stiff the guy with a gun who’s watching your back. You use that guy to help intimidate the people you are stiffing, the people who have less power than you and can’t do anything about it.

Lots of politicians over the years have had a private “security” force at their beck and call. Mussolini, for example.