She’s not alone, especially in the South. “States rights” is always said to be the reason; they just don't mention it was the right to own people. She was simply clumsy in her bullshit.
Yet she never said, “states rights”, which of course meant their right to keep enslavjng people without moral or legal or economic consequences. So I think she had prepped her response. She thought she was being slick. I’ve had it with these slime bags. All of ‘em.
You can hear the echo of the "states rights" argument every time there's an issue like abortion or medicaid expansion and Congress or the Supreme Court decides it's better addressed at the "state level."
Also, about Ohio and Kansas codifying abortion rights into the state constitutions. We want states’ rights!!!!! Not like that! FFS! These trumpanzees are troglodytes!
Mike, I admit their answers to some questions were clumsy, they were ill prepared for the hateful grilling they got from the racist Stefanik, who has touted the “great replacement” theory. I honestly believe those U presidents were trying to walk a fine line between not infringing on free speech, while at the same time not condoning threats of physical violence.
What is it when a candidate for POTUS calls immigrants vermin that are poisoning the blood of our country? imo speech like that is dehumanizing certain ppl & that always makes it easier to justify committing violence against those ppl- as we have, in fact, already seen
I was born and grew up in Virginia (hence my name, but that's another story), where we were taught never to call the "unpleasantness" the Civil War. We had to call it the War Between the States. We were told that it wasn't about slavery; that it was a dispute about states' rights. And folks never said the word Yankee without preceding it with the word Damn. So Nikki Haley's word salad answer to the question came as no surprise to me.
Because they're a party of opportunists, they always have been. They’ll still call Lincoln a “tyrant” in their own company but call themselves “the party of Lincoln” publicly. If you really want to get under their skin, point out that the Grant Presidential Library sits in Mississippi.
Same and as Professor Robertson at Virginia Tech would say in his southern voice that made lectures like story time with grandpa, the southerners did not view slaves as people so they argued about commerce and states rights. Because, emotions! Northern Aggressors!
If able, every person in this nation needs to take themselves to the Whitney Museum, just outside of New Orleans, and spend time with the memorial that tells the story of 107,000 people held in bondage in Louisiana from 1719 to 1820.
She’s always had their number. It’s a theme that's run through many of her books, including How the South Won the Civil War, To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, and her most recent, Democracy Awakens. I've tugged on many of those threads she exposed and read many books by other authors on those subjects. Still, I think it's fair to say that she understands and can explain this uniquely American “conservatism” with roots in the South, as well or better than any.
Yes, without the list, that was what I was what I was referring to. I still have to finish How the South and ..Awakening. Too many hours on tooooo many Substacks, all very important. It's11:30 and I still have four more to go plus Rick Wilson's podcast "The Enemies List".
A dear friend turned me on to Heather some years ago and I joined her Substack as soon as she told us about it. It was down hill from there. Four Substack recommendations a week until, good grief, there goes all my beer money and it's cutting into my campaign contribution source.
With all the great and active folks following Heather, it is a potentially powerful force that can mobilize actions. If only half of them would write letters, for instance, to the five or so biggest environmental organizations asking them to, instead of asking for more money to save this or that beautiful whatever, scream as loudly as they can to all on their lists of thousands:
"Save Our Democracy Now!"
They must be made to understand that unless we save it, there will no US Government Congress or agency to address their issues and take any actions necessary. They are wasting time and precious money that could moblize their thousands of commited activists to focus on the greatest threat we have and each of them to mobilize many others.
I could babble on and there are so many other issues too, but Heather's and the followers of other serious Substackers can be a formidable force. Whew! Got to get back to finishing my reading. Take care and Happy New Year, Dean.
Professor Richardson is an amazing wealth of knowledge and information. I never miss reading her columns, along with Jeff and Jay Kuo, just to mention a few of the people that are keeping me from going completely crazy! Happy New Year!
Nikki Haley is being vague perhaps because Republicans are the party of Apartheid. God forbid she mention the U.S. Civil War being fought about slavery while her party fights to make women legal property and not human beings eligible for life saving health care. This is the party on a tirade against trans individuals like myself, who yes did serve so fuck off with your thanks GOP, but specifically the “children they protect”. The GOP will always be about the patriarchy and enslavement, Nikki knows she can’t say that, and it’s why she continues to be on the bad side of history. If she wants to write her story, drop the republicanism and get out of government. Sure the person who can’t admit to her states well documented slave riddled past should be involved in decision making like continued Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Netanyahu is obviously a Trumper based on his military actions.
I remember back in the '70s that "Women, children, mules and other property" was described in a section of the Oklahoma State Constitution. Can't emember if it was ever removed.
Way before the 60s. The Oklahoma Constitution was a serious legal document that may have within it, ( I haven't googled it) as in other states, the criminalization of abortion.
The only typical is the patriarchy, as in all religions where God is created in the image of men, to control women.
Seems like hypocrisy is a genetic necessity to be in the republican camp,along with some other mutations,lying,adultery,larceny,etc,etc. Dr Faucci could probably help them with these aberrations ,but alas he’s a fraud.
Who wants to be a member of a club that past evidence shows they wouldn’t want you as a member of that club because of the color of your skin? Nikki Haley should look in the mirror.
She should but won't. As Haley will continue to sidestep questions that should have only one normal answer, she'll further sweet talk to the demented MAGA GOP base and promise to pardon the main perpetrator of much of this insane bullshit.
Perhaps Clarence Thomas has an opinion🤷🏻♀️. I do believe he thinks his acquired wealth will save him and his skin color from the GOP project 2025 🤦🏻♀️. Because Thomas failed to bother learning history. Thomas is after all the most likely motivation for ‘Clayton Bixby’
If this goes bad for us in Nov I don’t think we’ll see the need for Clarence and the Misses in the future ! Nazi regime,you know bad propaganda , mixed marriage thing just doesn’t fit in with the Arrian superiority requirement of the 4 th reich ,it just wouldn’t fly with the team spirit that they hope to kindle in the next 1000 year game plan, sorry Clarence , you and your slut can have 1st choice of bakeries to warm up in thanx for your support you dim witted sub human chump! Next!
“this is what Republicanism has become. you can’t speak out for what’s right, because your own bloodthirsty base will slap you down.”
Not just what is right in a moral sense, but what is actual fact.
Weird.
Facts are not beliefs. There are not “alternative facts”.
Sometimes facts are inconvenient, embarrassing, distressing, distasteful, appalling, horrifying, terrifying. They are still facts. Deal with it.
Just like the facts of the Civil War and slavery.
And yes, if you have to hem and haw about slavery, Nazis, separation of children from parents, razor wire death traps, and draconian laws preventing half the population from accessing appropriate health care, you are on the wrong side. And if you shrug and laugh and stick your fingers in your ears (lalalala) about a presidential candidate who has publicly stated and then had someone write out a detailed plan of how he would rule as a fascist, then yep, you are so far over on the wrong side that you might just fall off the planet. We can hope it is soon.
But that's just it. When facts can be "alternative" there is no truth or honesty.
Accountability, decency, and shame don't exist. There's no such thing as hypocrisy or projection. The rule of law cannot exist. It is the very definition of fascism.
You can't reason with this and there will be no compromises. We either defeat it or are defeated by it. IMHO
Agreed. So to all those that don’t like the democratic candidates for what ever reason, you have to grasp the existential threat of the Republican Fascist Party, suck it up, and vote blue up and down the ballot.
Nikki is a craven bitch. How can she run against Donny Fuckface and kiss his ass at the same time? Other than Christie, they're all pulling the same bullshit. There's a stupidity epidemic in the USA.
Know the enemy. The MAGA backers are only interested in gaining Executive power so they can implement Project 2025. Haley is their back up candidate in case the craven rapist fails them. They will turn on Trump in an instant with a mass mediated bait & switch operation if needs must. Hence her weasel words.
It’s MAGA violence they’re afraid of, and it’s real. A mother who drives her son and his gun across state lines to mess up people who think Black Lives Matter is the emblem of this GOP.
Of course they prefer being on the wrong side because Darth Vader is cooler than Luke Skywalker or something according to Steve Bannon.
Of course none of these folks were ever cool during their school days and millions of people need to suffer now so these treason weasels can feel cool.
Luke Skywalker is way cooler than Vader and Kylo Ren. Bannon has probably never watched one Star Wars movie or any of the subsequent series on Disney+. If he did, he would have known that Vader turned away from the Dark Side to save Luke. Now if all of the MAGAts would fall in line with Darth Vader, we could all be Luke. 😁
Here's to hoping that the blue wave is a tsunami this year.
Bannon is just an ignorant slut who should be banned (bannoned?) from using metaphors that he doesn't have the brain power OR moral belief system to comprehend. Also, he could not be cool if his life depended on it.
I would also like to state for the record that Vader/Anakin the Force Ghost was def cool by the end of Return of the Jedi -- I mean, he was even hanging out with the other Force Ghosts and all -- and Kylo Ren earned much coolness (and lost much of the creepiness) by the end of The Rise of Skywalker... but agreed, Luke is by far the coolest of the three. I got chills when he came sweeping in and saved the Mandalorian and Grogu from certain death with a gesture (and not just because the CGI was so good lol).
I would say that Kylo's creepiness took a turn to uncreepiness (is that even a word? 😬) towards the end of The Last Jedi and was back to his former self, Ben Solo.
And Bannon is a blitering idiot like the rest of them. Common sense and reality doesn't exist in their tiny little warped minds.
You're right -- for some reason, in my mind, a lot of what happened in The Last Jedi got moved into the Rise of Skywalker. There were even hints that Kylo might be redeemable in The Force Awakens... probably need to watch all three movies again -- I've watched 4, 5 and 6 often enough lol...
I may be old but I feel like the first time I watched Return of the Jedi, the Anakin ghost wasn't there or was a different person before they inserted Hayden from the prequels.
I am old too and in the original showing of Return of the Jedi, Anakin's ghost was the old man who played him not the younger Hayden Christensen like in the remastered version.
you know, if those dumbass dipshits knew how to read, their own hallowed documents contradict their convenient talking points: at least half of the states that seceded also wrote up and published their REASONS for secession, which were all about protecting the institution of slavery because states' rights and similar shit. Oh, and God-given sovereignty & more similar shit. They did this IN WRITING, via proclamation, either in a separate list of reasons they seceded or in the declarations themselves. South Carolina (the first state to secede) was one of those states. I have personally read each and every one. (It's not difficult -- they're even published verbatim online and mostly findable with the google machine.)
If this isn't just more Nazi bullshit, it must be that they can't (or don't) read because a) they're complete and total dumbasses who couldn't find said asses with both hands and a flashlight, and b) conservative education is all about anything BUT education (see point a) for details.)
It's the same with the "militias" and individuals who are all about the 2nd amendment right to hear arms, but ignore the parts of this same amendment that they don't like. Admittedly, some have only a dim understanding of those parts, but they figure all the more reason to forget about them.
I’m in my 70s, raised in south Texas & I distinctly remember being taught that the Civil War was fought over States Rights & “economic reasons”; like the North was trying to ruin the South’s cotton production. LOL
And exactly how was it that they were going to ruin the cotton industry???? 🙄
They can, and will continue the bullshit excuses. Not to mention the "south will rise again" shit, and all the Confederate flags along southern highways. We know, AND they know the TRUTH/FACTS. The fight goes on 😡😡😡
I have this recurring wet dream , alls well ,Joes re-elected, and he’s gonna get some good old fashioned payback for the misery the Magats have caused to the country!Goes like this oohhh! I love ❤️ wet dreams ! few and far between nowadays!Anywho smokin Joe goes dictator ,just for one day,it’s only FAIR! The supporters of the insurrection in Congress are all rounded up by Presidential Order of Clear and Present danger to the nation,oooohh ! It’s getting gooder ! Not yet! The traitors are held at Rikers Island in NYC.and painted orange like thier beloved leader the devil incarnate Herr Rumpster,Mikey Moses is the Chaplin,oooh! Oooh! There’s the gallows from the Capitol insurrection!Right in the prison yard , the horned Shaman is on it holding a sign! It reads you are all found guilty of treason for seizing for no reason the sanity of humanity in the appointed court of last resort ,Clarence Thomas Presiding !I ooooh almost there , You who have disgraced the people of the USA are about to sway ,you have no say ,for that is how you Nazis play! One by one they are hung ! They Save Pig 🐷 boy for last ! Mikey Moses asks “ Any true words you’d like to have heard ? Just that this is not fair it’ll muss my hair ,I’m the Prez !is what I sez ! You people ain’t my equal, you don’t rate to Judge my fate ! It’s not my day I won’t pay ! Over the trap door on the gallows floor the 🐷 pigs bowels let go upon the traitors below,yes,yes it’s soooo,good!ooohhh!He falls though the air crying this ain’t fair ,I was so near!! Six feet down covered in brown from his leaky old ass , lies he of no class the piece of shit named Donnie the Trump in the shit from his rump,it’s oh so fitting that his dead ass is sitting atop the traitorous scum who loved kissing his bum ,it’s just not Fair is the last that we hear from Donnie the trump the fucken sump pump, he was to be king 🤴 but in the end he did swing! Oooh that was sooo good G’ nite all !
Her answer was the trumpet call announcing the official death of the party. No one remaining the party is worth spit. The stank is forever.
She’s not alone, especially in the South. “States rights” is always said to be the reason; they just don't mention it was the right to own people. She was simply clumsy in her bullshit.
Yet she never said, “states rights”, which of course meant their right to keep enslavjng people without moral or legal or economic consequences. So I think she had prepped her response. She thought she was being slick. I’ve had it with these slime bags. All of ‘em.
You can hear the echo of the "states rights" argument every time there's an issue like abortion or medicaid expansion and Congress or the Supreme Court decides it's better addressed at the "state level."
It’s only “States Rights” when it benefits republicans. They are appopletic about the states of Colorado and Maine removing trump from the ballot.
Also, about Ohio and Kansas codifying abortion rights into the state constitutions. We want states’ rights!!!!! Not like that! FFS! These trumpanzees are troglodytes!
As clumsy as the presidents of the ivy league schools trying to answer if calling for genocide on college campuses violates the first amendment.
Mike, I admit their answers to some questions were clumsy, they were ill prepared for the hateful grilling they got from the racist Stefanik, who has touted the “great replacement” theory. I honestly believe those U presidents were trying to walk a fine line between not infringing on free speech, while at the same time not condoning threats of physical violence.
What is it when a candidate for POTUS calls immigrants vermin that are poisoning the blood of our country? imo speech like that is dehumanizing certain ppl & that always makes it easier to justify committing violence against those ppl- as we have, in fact, already seen
Nikki Haley refused to get rid of the flag until the horrendous church massacre in her home state.
I've been hearing a lot of people lionize her for the fact that she removed the flag, but then I remember the events that preceded it...
disgusting she is.
I was born and grew up in Virginia (hence my name, but that's another story), where we were taught never to call the "unpleasantness" the Civil War. We had to call it the War Between the States. We were told that it wasn't about slavery; that it was a dispute about states' rights. And folks never said the word Yankee without preceding it with the word Damn. So Nikki Haley's word salad answer to the question came as no surprise to me.
"the war of northern aggression"
I never heard that phrase as a kid in the 50's. But then, I was a second generation Greek kid and the adults in my family were still mad at the Turks.
Ha.
Exactly. Conveniently forgetting that the war was started by soldiers from the Citadel attacking Fort Sumter.
And a Southerner told me they HATED Lincoln in the South, but now they’re all for calling themselves the party of Lincoln? Hypocrites.
Because they're a party of opportunists, they always have been. They’ll still call Lincoln a “tyrant” in their own company but call themselves “the party of Lincoln” publicly. If you really want to get under their skin, point out that the Grant Presidential Library sits in Mississippi.
Same and as Professor Robertson at Virginia Tech would say in his southern voice that made lectures like story time with grandpa, the southerners did not view slaves as people so they argued about commerce and states rights. Because, emotions! Northern Aggressors!
It's slavery, stupid.
If able, every person in this nation needs to take themselves to the Whitney Museum, just outside of New Orleans, and spend time with the memorial that tells the story of 107,000 people held in bondage in Louisiana from 1719 to 1820.
indeed. HCR was the source for the confederate vice president's quote I used here
Professor Tiedrich,
You and Professor Cox Richardson are my bookends.
Love your very useful coinage:
❤️lindseygrahmed❤️
i.e. giving in to fascist bullying.
urinary incontinence is a symptom.
being invertebrate is a sign.
Heather warned us long ago about the South's intentions for our future. I have to finish reading that book too.
She’s always had their number. It’s a theme that's run through many of her books, including How the South Won the Civil War, To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, and her most recent, Democracy Awakens. I've tugged on many of those threads she exposed and read many books by other authors on those subjects. Still, I think it's fair to say that she understands and can explain this uniquely American “conservatism” with roots in the South, as well or better than any.
Yes, without the list, that was what I was what I was referring to. I still have to finish How the South and ..Awakening. Too many hours on tooooo many Substacks, all very important. It's11:30 and I still have four more to go plus Rick Wilson's podcast "The Enemies List".
A dear friend turned me on to Heather some years ago and I joined her Substack as soon as she told us about it. It was down hill from there. Four Substack recommendations a week until, good grief, there goes all my beer money and it's cutting into my campaign contribution source.
With all the great and active folks following Heather, it is a potentially powerful force that can mobilize actions. If only half of them would write letters, for instance, to the five or so biggest environmental organizations asking them to, instead of asking for more money to save this or that beautiful whatever, scream as loudly as they can to all on their lists of thousands:
"Save Our Democracy Now!"
They must be made to understand that unless we save it, there will no US Government Congress or agency to address their issues and take any actions necessary. They are wasting time and precious money that could moblize their thousands of commited activists to focus on the greatest threat we have and each of them to mobilize many others.
I could babble on and there are so many other issues too, but Heather's and the followers of other serious Substackers can be a formidable force. Whew! Got to get back to finishing my reading. Take care and Happy New Year, Dean.
Damn, now it's noon.
Professor Richardson is an amazing wealth of knowledge and information. I never miss reading her columns, along with Jeff and Jay Kuo, just to mention a few of the people that are keeping me from going completely crazy! Happy New Year!
Yes! And S. C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic (about the final year of the war).
Nikki Haley is being vague perhaps because Republicans are the party of Apartheid. God forbid she mention the U.S. Civil War being fought about slavery while her party fights to make women legal property and not human beings eligible for life saving health care. This is the party on a tirade against trans individuals like myself, who yes did serve so fuck off with your thanks GOP, but specifically the “children they protect”. The GOP will always be about the patriarchy and enslavement, Nikki knows she can’t say that, and it’s why she continues to be on the bad side of history. If she wants to write her story, drop the republicanism and get out of government. Sure the person who can’t admit to her states well documented slave riddled past should be involved in decision making like continued Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Netanyahu is obviously a Trumper based on his military actions.
I remember back in the '70s that "Women, children, mules and other property" was described in a section of the Oklahoma State Constitution. Can't emember if it was ever removed.
Yup, typical thinking pre-1960.
Way before the 60s. The Oklahoma Constitution was a serious legal document that may have within it, ( I haven't googled it) as in other states, the criminalization of abortion.
The only typical is the patriarchy, as in all religions where God is created in the image of men, to control women.
They have to protect the children because adults won't hook up with them on Tinder.
lolololololol but depressing...
****snort****🤭
Seems like hypocrisy is a genetic necessity to be in the republican camp,along with some other mutations,lying,adultery,larceny,etc,etc. Dr Faucci could probably help them with these aberrations ,but alas he’s a fraud.
Who wants to be a member of a club that past evidence shows they wouldn’t want you as a member of that club because of the color of your skin? Nikki Haley should look in the mirror.
And let's not forget, Nikki isn't actually her name.
Actually very few Republicans seem to go by their names. It's almost like this is a big red flag.
Need anglicizing to attract the red meat. See also, “Ted” Cruz
Yeah I was gonna name-drop Rafael but I figured anyone who cares already knows, y'know?
Yep and there’s also Ronna Romney who had to change her name to appease Chump
That would be Teddy Boozecruz?
Please, I prefer not to see T, you know who, Cr_z! 🤬
Just sent Colin Allred some more cash ,he’s the guy to stomp that miserable prick out of Texas
Me too!! I’m making a monthly donation to Colin, I want Raphael, religious fanatic, out of our govt.
She should but won't. As Haley will continue to sidestep questions that should have only one normal answer, she'll further sweet talk to the demented MAGA GOP base and promise to pardon the main perpetrator of much of this insane bullshit.
Haley and Deathsantis already have stated they will pardon the wannabe fuhrer for” the good of the country.” Wtf???…..
Can women be members of the club?
Perhaps Clarence Thomas has an opinion🤷🏻♀️. I do believe he thinks his acquired wealth will save him and his skin color from the GOP project 2025 🤦🏻♀️. Because Thomas failed to bother learning history. Thomas is after all the most likely motivation for ‘Clayton Bixby’
If this goes bad for us in Nov I don’t think we’ll see the need for Clarence and the Misses in the future ! Nazi regime,you know bad propaganda , mixed marriage thing just doesn’t fit in with the Arrian superiority requirement of the 4 th reich ,it just wouldn’t fly with the team spirit that they hope to kindle in the next 1000 year game plan, sorry Clarence , you and your slut can have 1st choice of bakeries to warm up in thanx for your support you dim witted sub human chump! Next!
As long as they know their place. 🙄
“this is what Republicanism has become. you can’t speak out for what’s right, because your own bloodthirsty base will slap you down.”
Not just what is right in a moral sense, but what is actual fact.
Weird.
Facts are not beliefs. There are not “alternative facts”.
Sometimes facts are inconvenient, embarrassing, distressing, distasteful, appalling, horrifying, terrifying. They are still facts. Deal with it.
Just like the facts of the Civil War and slavery.
And yes, if you have to hem and haw about slavery, Nazis, separation of children from parents, razor wire death traps, and draconian laws preventing half the population from accessing appropriate health care, you are on the wrong side. And if you shrug and laugh and stick your fingers in your ears (lalalala) about a presidential candidate who has publicly stated and then had someone write out a detailed plan of how he would rule as a fascist, then yep, you are so far over on the wrong side that you might just fall off the planet. We can hope it is soon.
But that's just it. When facts can be "alternative" there is no truth or honesty.
Accountability, decency, and shame don't exist. There's no such thing as hypocrisy or projection. The rule of law cannot exist. It is the very definition of fascism.
You can't reason with this and there will be no compromises. We either defeat it or are defeated by it. IMHO
Agreed. So to all those that don’t like the democratic candidates for what ever reason, you have to grasp the existential threat of the Republican Fascist Party, suck it up, and vote blue up and down the ballot.
I’ve voted for those I did not originally endorse. It’s not that difficult. I didn’t vote kicking and screaming. I voted for the good of all
Yes, exactly! Thank you. This is what grown up responsible citizens do!
Well, the Earth is flat, so there’s that.
Yes we can!
Nikki is a craven bitch. How can she run against Donny Fuckface and kiss his ass at the same time? Other than Christie, they're all pulling the same bullshit. There's a stupidity epidemic in the USA.
Know the enemy. The MAGA backers are only interested in gaining Executive power so they can implement Project 2025. Haley is their back up candidate in case the craven rapist fails them. They will turn on Trump in an instant with a mass mediated bait & switch operation if needs must. Hence her weasel words.
Spot on.
It was ever thus and will ever be...
they are all vying for VP
Indeed they are, especially Ramalamadingdong.
I’m laughing out loud while at the pool and people are looking at me funny! Your name for that smarmy dude is spot on!
Is he or is he not the most annoying individual in the country??
lol
Stupidity has been the retrumplican mindset since 2016…. The epidemic continues. And we thought COVID was bad.
We cannot go gentle into this horrible dark night!
If you're voting Republican, you're on the wrong side!
It’s MAGA violence they’re afraid of, and it’s real. A mother who drives her son and his gun across state lines to mess up people who think Black Lives Matter is the emblem of this GOP.
Of course they prefer being on the wrong side because Darth Vader is cooler than Luke Skywalker or something according to Steve Bannon.
Of course none of these folks were ever cool during their school days and millions of people need to suffer now so these treason weasels can feel cool.
Great. Just great.
Luke Skywalker is way cooler than Vader and Kylo Ren. Bannon has probably never watched one Star Wars movie or any of the subsequent series on Disney+. If he did, he would have known that Vader turned away from the Dark Side to save Luke. Now if all of the MAGAts would fall in line with Darth Vader, we could all be Luke. 😁
Here's to hoping that the blue wave is a tsunami this year.
Bannon is just an ignorant slut who should be banned (bannoned?) from using metaphors that he doesn't have the brain power OR moral belief system to comprehend. Also, he could not be cool if his life depended on it.
I would also like to state for the record that Vader/Anakin the Force Ghost was def cool by the end of Return of the Jedi -- I mean, he was even hanging out with the other Force Ghosts and all -- and Kylo Ren earned much coolness (and lost much of the creepiness) by the end of The Rise of Skywalker... but agreed, Luke is by far the coolest of the three. I got chills when he came sweeping in and saved the Mandalorian and Grogu from certain death with a gesture (and not just because the CGI was so good lol).
I would say that Kylo's creepiness took a turn to uncreepiness (is that even a word? 😬) towards the end of The Last Jedi and was back to his former self, Ben Solo.
And Bannon is a blitering idiot like the rest of them. Common sense and reality doesn't exist in their tiny little warped minds.
You're right -- for some reason, in my mind, a lot of what happened in The Last Jedi got moved into the Rise of Skywalker. There were even hints that Kylo might be redeemable in The Force Awakens... probably need to watch all three movies again -- I've watched 4, 5 and 6 often enough lol...
LOL! We just recently re-watched all of them and that is the only reason I remembered. 😆
I may be old but I feel like the first time I watched Return of the Jedi, the Anakin ghost wasn't there or was a different person before they inserted Hayden from the prequels.
I am old too and in the original showing of Return of the Jedi, Anakin's ghost was the old man who played him not the younger Hayden Christensen like in the remastered version.
That's what I thought. I knew they changed it at some point but I couldn't remember the original setup.
I have the original version on DVD, but I think that the CGI version is pretty cool too.
you know, if those dumbass dipshits knew how to read, their own hallowed documents contradict their convenient talking points: at least half of the states that seceded also wrote up and published their REASONS for secession, which were all about protecting the institution of slavery because states' rights and similar shit. Oh, and God-given sovereignty & more similar shit. They did this IN WRITING, via proclamation, either in a separate list of reasons they seceded or in the declarations themselves. South Carolina (the first state to secede) was one of those states. I have personally read each and every one. (It's not difficult -- they're even published verbatim online and mostly findable with the google machine.)
If this isn't just more Nazi bullshit, it must be that they can't (or don't) read because a) they're complete and total dumbasses who couldn't find said asses with both hands and a flashlight, and b) conservative education is all about anything BUT education (see point a) for details.)
It's the same with the "militias" and individuals who are all about the 2nd amendment right to hear arms, but ignore the parts of this same amendment that they don't like. Admittedly, some have only a dim understanding of those parts, but they figure all the more reason to forget about them.
I’m in my 70s, raised in south Texas & I distinctly remember being taught that the Civil War was fought over States Rights & “economic reasons”; like the North was trying to ruin the South’s cotton production. LOL
And exactly how was it that they were going to ruin the cotton industry???? 🙄
They can, and will continue the bullshit excuses. Not to mention the "south will rise again" shit, and all the Confederate flags along southern highways. We know, AND they know the TRUTH/FACTS. The fight goes on 😡😡😡
Dog whistles are getting pretty loud. Wait til they go into the booth to vote and find out her real first name is Nimarata.
Who B you ?
Well said Jeff! These moron maga-jerks need to wake the fuck up or move to Russia!
I have this recurring wet dream , alls well ,Joes re-elected, and he’s gonna get some good old fashioned payback for the misery the Magats have caused to the country!Goes like this oohhh! I love ❤️ wet dreams ! few and far between nowadays!Anywho smokin Joe goes dictator ,just for one day,it’s only FAIR! The supporters of the insurrection in Congress are all rounded up by Presidential Order of Clear and Present danger to the nation,oooohh ! It’s getting gooder ! Not yet! The traitors are held at Rikers Island in NYC.and painted orange like thier beloved leader the devil incarnate Herr Rumpster,Mikey Moses is the Chaplin,oooh! Oooh! There’s the gallows from the Capitol insurrection!Right in the prison yard , the horned Shaman is on it holding a sign! It reads you are all found guilty of treason for seizing for no reason the sanity of humanity in the appointed court of last resort ,Clarence Thomas Presiding !I ooooh almost there , You who have disgraced the people of the USA are about to sway ,you have no say ,for that is how you Nazis play! One by one they are hung ! They Save Pig 🐷 boy for last ! Mikey Moses asks “ Any true words you’d like to have heard ? Just that this is not fair it’ll muss my hair ,I’m the Prez !is what I sez ! You people ain’t my equal, you don’t rate to Judge my fate ! It’s not my day I won’t pay ! Over the trap door on the gallows floor the 🐷 pigs bowels let go upon the traitors below,yes,yes it’s soooo,good!ooohhh!He falls though the air crying this ain’t fair ,I was so near!! Six feet down covered in brown from his leaky old ass , lies he of no class the piece of shit named Donnie the Trump in the shit from his rump,it’s oh so fitting that his dead ass is sitting atop the traitorous scum who loved kissing his bum ,it’s just not Fair is the last that we hear from Donnie the trump the fucken sump pump, he was to be king 🤴 but in the end he did swing! Oooh that was sooo good G’ nite all !
Great dream Robert, kudos for the rhyming