Ever since I graduated to adulthood, “because I said so” has never carried much water as an explanation for anything.

Probably for the hundreds of reasons that making a movie differs from making a Chrysler La Baron. My nephew is super-nice and does make-believe real good, but I don’t know if someone would want to provide him a $100,000,000 playground with the expectation other people will want to pay to watch him.

That movie sounds really boring.

Some people need to use mnemonics to remember things; some don’t. Some people will walk onto a playing field ready to go; others will need to do all manner of drills and exercises to get sharp. In the case of someone like Daniel Day-Lewis, who’s widely regarded as not simply a great actor but rather one of the great…

“...more like calling an Asian guy Jackie Chan.”

How so though? The idea behind the “Einstein” disparagement is he’s the most famous brilliant person, and you are ironically applying it to someone doing something very stupid. In this case, Pocahontas is the most famous Native American female person. And he’s disparaging someone by ironically applying it to someone…

“...it was a slur because Trump was using the name of a real person as a joke.”

You guessed it.

“the same misinterpretation of a perceived “lack of information,””

I mean, you could stop talking to me, or you could commit suicide. Both viable options.

So you’re just going to gloss over your abject “equivalence” fail? I mean, I may not be the mind-reader that you are, I may not be the spectral presence that you are roaming the hallways of Congress conveniently overhearing discussions so that you know exactly what’s been said, but I do at least know what words mean.

“What you’re doing is equivalent to that flat-earth nonsense that’s gotten popular online”

Yes, I’m sure you didn’t follow my point and this isn’t just about nitpicking grammar (it was a stylistic choice by the way- I was talking about what I didn’t know, and framing your perspective in relation to that; I understand the correct grammar is “people like you always know everything”) in order to once again…

Meanwhile in the year 1974, there was another man in a suit on a news program railing about the evils of pop music, and how a man in his 30s singing a long song to a 16 year-old girl was going to lead to things like adults cruising shopping centers for child brides.

You go ahead and retreat to your tactics of personal assault and belittlement of anyone who disagrees with you. Being the loudest, meanest asshole in the room is not the same as being correct or intellectually rigorous. You want to disagree, fine. I’m not the one telling you or anyone “you’re absolutely wrong (and…

Yes, maybe he did. But in the absence of quotes from Trump, quotes from the sources, and really any further context other than “that it was not authentic,” which is the complete extent to which these allegations are explored, allegations that are apparently so compelling that the actual primary subject matter of the…

Yes, people with principles are the worst. They make the Machiavellian types all defensive and exhaust their precious Outrage! energies.

My mother is dead. And since you are now an admitted necrophiliac, every opinion you have about anything has been discredited by the Impure Vessel property.

Yes person who made up a quote, assigned it to someone, and then smugly declared my point that someone with an agenda might do something like make something up to discredit an opponent “so fucking dumb,” you sure showed me.

“the tape isn’t authentic”