Times change...and a big part of why we keep having this debate is the fact that, despite that, every year or so, someone decides “You know what seasonal song we haven’t run into the ground enough yet?”

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As a rule, I have no time or interest in the idea of being a truther for anything.

Having said that, if there is any one idea I would consider myself a ‘truther’ for, it’s the belief that Donald Trump’s seeming lack of a heart attack is due to some heart surgery he had in the past and paid big bucks to keep out of the…

‘Those who remain are fired up’ - the big question being, how many of them are the ones they bussed in/hired for this one?

I’m gonna be interested to see if we ever get a final figure of how much of his overall crowd-size was organic vs outsourced.

It’s genuinely sobering to think we may be several generations out before we can ever properly comprehend the full extent of the damage Roger Ailes did to this country.

I’m pretty agnostic all around, particularly with the notion of an afterlife, but people like him make me want to believe there’s a Hell and he’s…

...to be fair, your description of CHUDs DOES kind of line up.
It’s not perfect, but as far as many of them are concerned, they were being ‘forgotten’ by the govt, and now through a mix of said corruption and malfeasance, many have turned into genuinely kind of monstrous people who know longer feel the need to suppress…

I’d object to that simply because then that means the character of Brent was prepping the run way for the real, more obnoxious version.

(Yes, I realize Brent’s more like a pastice of different obnoxious dude sociopaths with some very obvious nods to Kavanaugh, but still...)

I see him getting SOME revisionist treatment. But it’ll be more like a fringe sector comprised of a lot of the pundit class now that are currently insisting he walks on water running the argument because they will sooner eat broken glass than admit a gaudy NYC reality TV star to whom morals and principles are…

To be fair, this may be a case of ‘absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’, particularly in light of the questions hanging over his physical.

I’m seeing it playing out more like the final scene in The Omen - state funeral, everyone’s filing out.

“Madame President, we have to go.”
“Of course.”

As Ivanka turns back to the crowd, a sinister smile slowly crossing her face as Ave Satani begins to play.

THIS.

Young Griff alone, especially in light of the prophecies of the three-headed dragon and warnings to beware the Mummer’s Dragon would go a long way towards making Dany’s transition into violent paranoia make a LOT more sense than the show’s rushed portrayal did.

I’m not gonna say your wrong, but I’m also not sure I can agree that there was all that much of a strong vision behind those movies. There’s some themes Lucas dabbles with, certainly, but there’s also far too many parts of those movies that seem to amount to ‘because reasons’ (see - a huge chunk of act 2 of The…

Correction - FOUR movies.

People forgot, Clone Wars beat Solo to being the first theatrically released Star Wars movie to significantly underperform.

Slight correction - Kurtzman AND noted 9/11 Truther Roberto Orci.

Cause fucking Hell, he got that all up in ST:ID

...the first thought I had here was ‘Bad Lieutenant in Mos Eisley’ and I’m kind of ashamed at how quickly my brain went “I’d watch that”

‘Sodium!’ remains one of my favorites of the Mike-era skit songs. Both on its own merits and Crow’s ‘oh you kids’ rambling at the end.

THAT was the day my childhood got a grim reminder.

Say what you will about CH, when Deodato got called on that crime, he owned up to it.

That said, over the course of my life, have seen it twice (once for the curiosity, once because I’m a masochistic bastard who saw a local arthouse was playing it as a midnight and…

There’s something so uniquely fucked up about how it’s become ingrained state-side though. Particularly when it gets paired with things like the Prosperity Gospel and essentially uses Jesus as a carte blanche for acting like a sociopath, because if God didn’t want it to happen, then obviously he wouldn’t let you win!
(I…

Oh, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. If ever there was a smoking gun that Leia being a Skywalker wasn’t always on the books, THAT was it.

and re: Lucas vs Expanded Universe - Hell, he even overwrote some of his own canon there (such as how his RotJ novel had Owen being Obi-Wan’s brother until AotC rolled around and he…

To cut your friend a LITTLE slack, there’s a rich tradition of the Star Wars fandom going all Rashomon on its own history - often to make things that make it mad in the moment seem like bigger offenses because they had NEVER been done before.

Which also kind of shows one of the big reasons Bombadil was cut - yes, part of it was the fact he’s a character who is just so much Goddamn larger than life that there’s almost no one who could even hope to play him properly - but a larger part is the fact that that would have added a sizable chunk of time to a movie…