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The Biden campaign should revive Dark Brandon by having him drive a classic muscle car at the DNC convention. No guard rails protecting the lanyard crowds, either, now is a time when we need to show confidence in our president!

Watching the Democrats frantically trying to get the president to step down like a terrified family stuck in a car with grandpa driving as he veers in and out of oncoming traffic has warmed my cold doomer heart

Trailer (CW: Flashing lights, marvel slop) for the new Captain America dropped. No sign of Sabra, I wonder if Disney is too scared to promote the Israeli superheroine, but they're probably just holding her back to reveal in future teasers

Also extremely funny that the line "Global power is shifting" is played over a scene of the US president standing next to Marvel's apparent in-universe Xi equivalent

Edit: Just realized that the president (played by Ford) is Thaddeus Ross/Red Hulk in this movie. Probably gonna pirate this just to see a US president fight Captain America

It's even worse than that. The Acolyte has twin human characters both played by the same actress, and there are several scenes where it's obvious that they use a double facing away from the camera, even for dialogue. They really go out of their way to avoid having the adult twins both in frame, face visible to the camera at any given time. The Parent Trap had this figured out in 1998, but I guess that's a lost art to Disney!

Another funny thing to pick apart from this show,

During the Jedi visit to the tribe, which honestly feels like a liberal depiction of a police raid (ostensibly non-violent, just unwelcome and intrusive), the kids have an argument with each other. This tribe, that is depicted as social outcasts hiding on a remote planet to stay off of the Jedi Order's radar, somehow raises one twin (Osha) to be a total Jedi bootlicker, while her sister has the complete opposite attitude. I actually burst out laughing when child Osha blurts out "The Jedi are good!" What?? Her entire family and everyone she's ever known since birth seems, at best, extremely distrustful of the Jedi! We're given no snippet or anything like she read stories or something about Jedi doing heroic acts or whatever. She just inherently loves the Jedi for some reason, because the writers wanted to do a "one twin is drawn towards the light, the other darkness." It's such shitty, lazy writing.

Also, this show is hilarious for how each and every Jedi is a completely uncharismatic dork. I'm talking completely stiff, painfully uninteresting characterizations. But it's impossible to tell if the show actually intended that, or if they were going more for "serious, by-the-book guardians of justice" or w/e and just fell flat. I guess that's the problem with trying to depict warrior monks whose entire dogmatic religion is about not forming emotional attachments, lol.

This show is set ~100 years before the prequels. It's actually really weird, because the Jedi are depicted more or less as a police force, but it's very ambiguous what kind of jurisdiction they have, or who they are accountable to. I guess they serve the Galactic Republic, but they also have their own agendas? It feels like the writers just didn't think too hard about the whole thing, which is a shame because Andor fucking nailed depicting the Empire and its bureaucratic functions, and managed to make the whole thing interesting.

Star Wars slop for anyone interested: The central/starting conflict of The Acolyte is a disaster that is implied to be the fault of the Jedi making a visit to investigate a tribe/covenant of non-Jedi force users, that results in the deaths of everyone from said tribe save for two twin children that make it out alive. But the exact cause of the disaster is left a mystery, and the show seems to be barreling towards "this mustache-twirling Sith dude orchestrated it to pin on the Jedi, and also take in one of the kids as an apprentice." And then there's a bunch of shenanigans over one of the kids being drawn to the Jedi with the other taken as a Sith apprentice, but then they switch places

It's a shame, because there's a lot of interesting stories you could tell about Jedi from the perspective of questioning their institutional legitimacy and authority, but I think this show is just stuck in capitalist realism. Even the "rogue force users" stuff was interesting, we're shown what is basically a witches covenant but with force magic, that was aligned to neither Jedi nor Sith. But then they were all immediately killed off before we could learn anything more about them

These are the same people that openly and proudly live their lives pretending Biden is not directly responsible for the most live-streamed genocide in history. Biden could shoot a Palestinian child on live television and they'd find a way to scold people for using it as justification not to vote for him. ("Yeah well Trump would have made him bleed out! Biden made it quick and painless!")

Pretending Biden is not suffering from advanced dementia while he shits himself during a debate must be like easy mode for their reality bending.

non work related pins and buttons won’t be allowed anymore

But nothing about stickers? You know what you have to do!

Edit: and after they ban stickers, get a lanyard that has "Free Palestine" embroidered into it. Or just a kefiyah pattern lanyard if they do like a blanket ban on "anything political."

but it's passing on their way to/from the animal shelter

I was surprised at how much the media apparatus was finally admitting to what we've all known this entire time, but then I remembered that liberals have the memory of a goldfish, so ultimately I don't think Biden will drop out. MSM will simply stop talking about this within the next few days, until the next incident, and the next, etc etc.

Remember, Biden's handlers only let us see him at his best, so his performance was no surprise to them. These are the people who have to feed him and (likely) change his diapers. They know, better than anyone else, how cooked he is, and yet they have made zero moves to set up a contingency. There seems to be zero effort to set up Kamala or anyone else to take over the front of the ticket, why would that change now? They are so deep within the sunken cost of going all-in on Biden, they have left themselves zero alternatives. I guess DNC donors panicking and demanding it might be the one thing to make it happen, but I have a feeling they will simply ignore the problem until they can get people (including any nervous donors) distracted by something else. After all, this is the same party that shamelessly weekend-at-bernies'ed Diane Feinstein up until her last, wretched breath.

All that said, I do think there is a solid chance he croaks before the election. He's already known for his frequent falls (that we see), and the falls will only get worse and more frequent as his brain continues melting and he gets worse at catching himself before he slams his skull into the floor or a podium or something. If his handlers were at all half-competent, they'd at least put him in a wheelchair and try to revive the "FDR 2.0" schtick, but that comes with its own risks and I don't see the DNC going that route.

The r/politics debate discussion post is full of libs posting like Biden didn't even exist in this debate. Also, sorting the comments by controversial crashes the site, which I can only assume is intentional while feds work to keep the comments scrubbed