Except there’s really no reason to take him. Hillary’s problems were largely down to her own inept campaign. Would’ve been a layup for just about anyone else, and I expect candidates in 2020 to know that.

Exactly. The democrats have been doing this forever, but typically that’s meant a flip to the right. Studies have shown over and over that the electorate is significantly more liberal than they believe it to be. Gillibrand, for whatever other faults she may have, seems to get that. My theory is that a significant lean…

The strangest line to me is where they say she changed her tune on immigration after hiring a consulting group that introduced her to activists. As though meeting activists isn’t something that could potentially change someone’s mind. It’s maddening.

See this is the thing to me. I’m a Bernie guy and a member of DSA. Was during the primary and voted for Hillary in the general because I live in a swing state and couldn’t have lived with myself if I didn’t. But I didn’t feel good about it when I thought she would win.

“I don’t expect to get where I’m going quickly just because I want to!” - a boat sailing against the wind.

Yeah, it’s tough. On the one hand, Wolff has a reputation for inventing conversations. On the other, I believe wholeheartedly that people in this administration are dumb enough to let him put this kind of thing on the record without a second thought. It would be nice to be able to look at it like the Iliad or…

We’re about to have a democrat running who will actually listen and pay some heed to her left wing and Daily Beast is already trying to fuck it all up.

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That was my guess too.

It makes perfect sense to me, but it also suggests that Kylo Ren is wrong or lying about them selling her for drinking money, and that was my main point.

See, that’s what I think you and some others are doing. This is a big, dumb summer blockbuster. Show don’t tell. If they show you something, believe what they’re showing you, its simple as that. They clearly mean to imply that whoever was on that ship is the person/people Rey wants to come back. There are a lot of…

And see, that’s what it come down to. Keep in mind that both could be true, that Johnson intended to have the scene shot and acted in such a way that it reads as true, all the while there are other plans on the horizon.

I just think people are reading too much into this. It’s a big stupid blockbuster movie. Nuance is not their specialty. If they show you a little girl yelling at a starship to “come back” then that’s what they mean for you to see. Now, what the explanation for that is we don’t know yet, but I think it’s gonna turn out…

It IS better that way, but I’m not sure that’s how the thought process behind big budget movies works. Again, we don’t just see that she’s abandoned. Unkar hauling on her arm to get her to go and her yelling at someone to “come back!” That someone appears to be a starship in the process of leaving Jakku. Whoever she…

Again, I just think that’s reading too much into the scene. This is a big, dumb summer blockbuster movie that’s all about show don’t tell, so if they show you something that prominently you generally should believe it.

Well like I said, I really do prefer the notion that Rey is a nobody, at least in the sense that she isn’t a Skywalker. The saga thus far has been basically the story of the ups and downs of the Skywalker family as they relate to goings on in the wider galaxy, and I really feel like we’re seeing an acknowledgement of…

I dunno, I think we might be reading too much into the psychology behind a big summer blockbuster here. I think a more plausible explanation is that she happened to see the ship as they were leaving and for whatever reason she associated that image with their leaving and it comes back to her. Maybe it comforted her…

But then how do you account for her watching what is presumably their starship fly off in the flashback in FA? Her parents sold her for drinking money and then what, went off to a bar on another planet or something? It doesn’t add up unless they’re just going to pretend that flashback never happened which, fine, worse…

He has to be lying. In FA we see the child Rey watching, presumably, her parents take off in a starship. Okay, so they sold her to the guy for drinking money and...went on an interplanetary beer run?

There’s the rub. My kid just turned two and I haven’t played more than a handful of video games since she was born. Finished maybe one, two tops. Well done.