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Yesterday Trump was praising Saddam Hussein as a great leader based on the number of people he killed.  That's much worse than Hillary Clinton participating in the routine deceit that all elected officials engage in.

Trump is already fading.  The latest ABC poll has him down 12 points, and that's with the Bernie Bros still showing as undecided.  This could be a blowout so bad it would make Alf Landon blush.

Trump is willing to take the RNC's money.  They've established joint fund raising committees.  He gave up his self funding pledge as soon as he clinched the nomination.  Problem is that many of the standard GOP donors won't give for him.

The West Wing did a nice job of presenting a balanced argument regarding children's suffrage.

When in doubt, blame SkyNet

Some of the Bernie Bros will stay home or vote smaller party.  Some may even go for Trump.  The overwhelming majority will vote Clinton.

Trump is busy going back on almost all the things that made him popular to begin with.  He's taking money from all the big GOP donors, including people like Adelson that he previously trashed.  He tried to walk back the Muslim travel ban, going from hectoring "We have no choice" before South Carolina to meekly saying it was just a "suggestion".  He's distanced himself from his own tax plan, now saying he wants tax increases.

It goes to the House, not the Senate, if no one has a majority.

This was Sanders' only shot.  He'll have the same difficulties running as a third party that we discussed about Trump.  Sore Loser and Simultaneous Registration laws would keep him off of the ballot in almost all states.

Marvel has pushed back the Captain Marvel movie in favor of films with male leads twice already and probably will do so more times.  They don't appear particularly eager to make movies with female leads.

Season 5 only has two Kromagg episodes: Strangers and Comrades plus Requiem.  Season 4 was where they were overused.

She wasn't born into money the way he was, but she is bought and paid for.  Saying Trump is bad doesn't mean I'm saying Clinton is good.  I'm almost sure to vote for a smaller party candidate.

You should investigate the smaller parties.

Another thing about Jill Stein the Greens, ballot access has been severely restricted since 2000.  Right now they're on the ballot in 18 states.  At best they'll get to 25 or 26.  Nader was on in 43.  Part of the reason we haven't had any serious competition for the older parties recently is that they've manipulated the laws to prevent it.

"The War of Northern Aggression" is the preferred phrase around here.

The Bernie Bros will come around just like the PUMAs did eight years ago.  Clinton didn't drop out until Obama had the nomination locked up, in June.  Why she would expect any different from Sanders is puzzling.

Sanders needs to stay in just in case Clinton gets indicted (which is unlikely, but not impossible).

I just don't know who you're going to vote for if...

...is a deal breaker.

In The Empire Strike Back, only a few minutes after the Millennium Falcon appears to take off from the asteroid field Needa tells Vader the ship could be "on the other side of the galaxy by now."

Really, though, all the ships move at the speed of plot.

Essentially two days.

C-3PO and R2-D2 escape one day.  Luke buys them and cleans them up then R2-D2 runs while he's eating dinner and whining about having to stay when all his friends are gone.  Luke looks a little, but it's too dangerous to go after him at night with all the Sand People.

Early the next morning he takes C-3PO and goes hunting for R2-D2.  The rest of the movie up to the destruction of the Death Star and return to base takes place that day.

The medal ceremony at the end is probably a different day, if that matters.

How hard can lightsaber fighting be?  Finn held his own with Kylo Ren for a good while with no training and no force sensitivity.  Nobody seems bothered by that.

How did I get here?  I was doing research for a fanfic and ran across Earth Prime, which led me here.

Wade is more commonly male than female

Quinn is sometimes female

Maximilian is always male

I've never heard of a real person whose first name was Rembrandt

Maggie and Diana are always female

Colin is always male

Jerry O'Connell: Stand By Me

Sabrina Lloyd: Sports Night

John Rhys-Davies: The Living Daylights (JRD has made a lot of crap in his career)

Cleavant Derricks: Moscow on the Hudson

Kari Wuhrer: Eight Legged Freaks

Charlie O'Connell: The only other thing he's done that I remember is Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep

Robert Floyd: Cold Hearts

Tembi Locke: Eureka (I've liked her in just about everything I've seen her in)

Libertarians have no influence in the GOP.

Many of the rank & file Republican voters have no problem with government programs as long as they're able to benefit from them.  They don't like welfare and food stamps and similar programs because it's only available to some of the people, the one's they see as lazy.  They love medicare and social security, which is how you get to them carrying signs saying "keep the government out of my medicare" and the like.  That seems silly on its face, but what they're really saying is "don't politicize my health".  If universal health care was put up for referendum it would pass overwhelmingly with majorities of both parties.

I don't see how that makes him preferable to Kasich or Rubio or Jeb.  None of them are Hillary Clinton either.  Trump is actually closer to being Clinton than any of them are.

Garland certainly isn't very liberal.  When the GOP loses the senate and the presidency they'll be wishing they had confirmed him when they had the chance.

It's definitely unusual.  It is almost unprecedented, in fact, for the senate to not hold hearings on a nominee.  It last happened in 1844 after president John Tyler was renounced by the Whigs and both parties were determined to undermine him.  Anthony Kennedy was confirmed in an election year.

It's mostly the Republicans who have pushed the dysfunctional government narrative, and they're often responsible for delaying and/or obstructing when it occurs.  Witness their unwillingness to even consider meeting the president's nominee for the supreme court.

The American populace has always been politically ill informed.  Nothing new about that.

He doesn't need to eat or sleep, so he doesn't really need a home.  I'm sure phone companies would be all over themselves to give him a phone with whatever internet service he needs, just so they can advertise that he uses their service.

I thought Reeve was good even if the movies were mostly bad.  He was a better actor than the Supermen who have come after him.

As for being physically wrong, Superman shouldn't be huge and muscular.  His strength doesn't come from his muscles.  Having essentially unlimited strength means there's no real way for him to work out and make his muscles bigger.

Trump an "outsider"?  HA!  He was born into money and has had deep political connections his whole life.