I just thought it was just not done well. The white savior thing had little to no impact on the averageness of this film.

If you’ve got an issue with that, blame Oprah. She’s the one who spearheaded this, and Harpo studies made it. The writers are the ones she and they chose to hire.

I get highly annoyed when white savior is wrongly thrown out as a critique of a story.

Well, not all of her children. Apparently, some family members, including her daughter Deborah, are supportive of the project and worked as consultants on it. Others, including her oldest son, have the attitude you described. So there seems to be a rift in the family about this. Which is sad.

Recently Trump was in Wisconsin with Paul Ryan, whom he repeatedly referred to as “Ron”.

This is the speech pattern that grandpa has right before you have the uncomfortable conversation where you tell him he can’t live by himself anymore.

I think fundy women-hating pudding-pants Pence keeps a lot of evangelical baby Jesus lovers in the fold as well.

Sure some of them. I was mostly focused on the ones who are able to recognize that he has completely changed his tune on every campaign promise (or “campaign wilted word salad”). The truly die hard racists won’t ditch him until he stops killing brown people and deporting brown people. But again, that’s a different…

Nah. Unless the nukes hit the EPA rollbacks will kill half the rust belt PDQ.

The scary thing is, I know that even if his policies result in them being thrown out onto the streets, they’ll still support him because of the racism or because of loyalty to the Republican party. One of the things that stayed with me from reading about the Great Depression and FDR is that despite the Republicans…

The articles clearly outline two of the major forces in the GOP though. You have the selfish but moderately intelligent conservatives who are waking up to the fact that they helped a narcissist who doesn’t care a bit about fiscal conservative principles into the white house. On the other side you have the knuckle…

Because only Appalachia voted for Trump, am I right?

He’s going to outright manufacture a war to bump his approval rating up

Both atlrticles are right, tho. You have your subset of Trump supporter that is your everyday down the line -R voter who will support him so long as he isn’t a -D: older, wealthier white folks. And you have the other half (deplorables, if you will): the conspiracy breeding alt-right, Nazi white supremacist…

Just more evidence that American politics is less about ideas and beliefs than it is about tribalism.

It’s obvious to me, if not to reporters, that Trump’s supporters will stick with him so long as he doesn’t back off on issues of race. That’s the only thing his hardcore supporters care about. He backs off on immigration or the Muslim ban or fires the Nazis in his adminstration, like Bannon, and they’ll turn. They…

In the most recent survey I could find, his approval among Republican voters was 81% (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/28/us/politics/the-highs-and-lows-of-trumps-approval.html), and that’s before he got them all excited over dropping bombs and firing missiles. There may be some Trump voters who are turning…

they don’t care, really, they all live like hillbillies with out teeth, somewhere in the middle nowhere with their guns.

But this guy is not “his attorney.” He’s a friend who helped get his guilty murdering abusive pal off when he killed his ex wife and her boyfriend. Allegedly he didn’t make money off the case (make of that what you want).