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The most devastating political ad I've ever seen. Huge "plot twist" at the end. Whoa. Didn't see that one coming, and this one did not come from the Onion. Rekt. (BTW, Paul Gosar is the Republican incumbent, and his opponent who is running this ad is the Democratic challenger; not that it is the point of the ad.) Another one:

Dubbed by Japanese Google Translate

So last night I helped some friends, Asian friends, sign up for AMC A-List. Then we headed straight to an AMC to watched The Meg. As we were leaving the theaters after watching the movie, we had an interesting discussion. "Oh yeah, another movie with the big manly white savior hero and his Asian female love interest. And this one was financed and produced by a Chinese company. What's with that?" "Well, the director and screenwriters are still white." "They are Jews. Jewish men love Asian women. Of course they want to make movies to promote and encourage Asian women to be with white men. It's a Hollywod conspiracy and propaganda, I tell you!" (i.e., to Asians, Jews are just a subtype of white people, like wood elves are a subtype of elves.) That is the sentiment among Asians with all these Hollywood movies that keep pairing up white men with Asian women - but NEVER the other way round. In fact, Hollywood does not even pair up Asian men with Asian women in movies. It does not fit into their agenda and narrative, I suppose. Except The Meg is not 100-percent completely a Hollywood production. It was financed and produced by Chinese, which really just made it worse because they could have taken a stand and made a difference and made a difference, but they did not. Instead they resorted to using that very stereotypical trope that is very insulting to many Asians. Which was especially disappointing. Oh well. Just saying. Does not mean I'm gonna turn Republican and go around yelling "Jews will not replace us!"

The truth about Star Wars is... the only good Star Wars movies were the classic trilogy and Rogue One. The prequel trilogy sucked. That is not a controversial opinion. The Force Awaken was above average. Maybe. Probably. It rehashed a lot of old stuff from the classic trilogy. Looking back with hindsight, I think the seeds for a lot of the problems in The Last Jedi were planted in The Force Awaken: i.e., Rey being a Mary Sue, Finn being a pointless distraction that serves no real narrative purpose, Kylo being a pathetic villain who does not scare or threaten anyone, The First Order being a senselessly powerful and well-resourced organization that came out of nowhere, etc., etc. J.J. Abrams, who has a track record of disrespecting and discarding canon of an established franchise to suit his visions, planted the seeds for the inevitable fall of the Star Wars franchise just as he had planted the seeds for the current ongoing disintegration of the Star Trek universe. So The Last Jedi was just so awful that it might have already killed the franchise. Solo was either average or below average. Honestly I am not sure. It was just okay, I suppose. It did not blow me away (like Rogue One did.) Given that Rogue One outperformed and was so well-received, Solo - being the follow-up "Star Wars Story" movie to Rogue One - should have done well at the box office. Yet it bombed. IMO, The Last Jedi was the reason for the loss of audience and fan interest in Star Wars. So really the Star Wars franchise only exists to continue to leech off the success of - and nostalgia for - the classic trilogy. The classic trilogy is really the only standout movies in the entire franchise. Everything else was just *meh*. Even the unexpectedly good Rogue One is directly tied/led into the classic trilogy. I am not boycotting Star Wars like so many angry/former fans are. However, after The Last Jedi, I have completely lost interest in Star Wars. After The Last Jedi, I find it hard to get excited for the franchise. I did not even want to see Solo. I saw Solo only because I had MoviePass and wanted to make the most out of the movie club subscription. Otherwise I would not have bothered with Solo. Nowadays, Star Wars to me is just like the DCEU, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, and MonsterVerse franchises. I really don't care for any of them. I rarely see any of them, i.e.: I have not seen Justice League, and I do not plan to see Aquaman or Shazam unless they get terrific reviews like Wonder Woman did. (I've seen the trailers for Aquaman and Shazam, but their trailers were not impressive enough to overcome my extremely negative opinion of DCEU.) I have not seen any Pirates or Transformer movies after the second movie, which was more than a decade ago. (However, I may see Bumblebee in theaters - because the trailer impressed me; I'll still wait for its reviews and Rotten Tomatoes score before I make a final decision. At least Bumblebee has my interest. I did not even care about Transformers 3/4/5/etc. enough to bother checking their reviews or Tomatoes score.) I have not seen the latest Godzilla or King Kong movie, and I do not plan to see anything else from the MonsterVerse. The trailer for the first crossover movie was so cheesy, the premise sounded so ridiculously stupid, that I think I won't bother with the movie. I have no plan to see Star Wars Episode 9. And, because the Rotten Tomatoes score was so wrong about The Last Jedi, I won't even go see Episode 9 if its Rotten Tomatoes score is very good - because I no longer trust Rotten Tomatoes on Star Wars. Disney and LucasFilm either is in denial or still has not realized. I think Star Wars Epsiode 9 will seriously underperform at the box office. By then, it will be too late to take corrective action and reverse course, and Star Wars will have degraded into another cheap franchise like The Pirates of the Carribean and Michael Bay's Transformers.

Democrats Strip Superdelegates Of Power In Historic Reform Vote i.e., Superdelegates will not get to vote in the first round; they will only get to vote if a second round or tiebreaker is needed. Finally. Superdelegates are conservative in nature: they are the party elders and power elites who want to conserve the power structure and old rules in the party. Now that they have lost power, they won't be able to stop radicals and socialists (who have become very popular among the party constituents but have been blocked by the elders, elites and super deletes in the party) from taking over. Expect to see the equal but opposite of Donald Trump in the next DNC primaries, who will throw out everything to win supports and the nomination: single-payer, free public college tuition, $15 minimum wage, etc., and there will be no more superdelegates to stop them.

Here is Jason Kessler, 34-year-old White nationalist, alt-right leader, and organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally: ... who is 34-year-old and still lives in his parent's home. Got busted when he got yelled at by his father (i.e., "I want this to stop! Get out of your room!") when he was live-streaming on YouTube: L-O-S-E-R.

We had the same President a year ago when the first Unite the Right rally happened.

The second anniversary "Unite the Right" rally was a total bust. It was... pathetic. Fewer than fifty people - conservatives, alt-right, far-right, neo-Nazi, White nationalists, whatever you want to call them - showed up to support the rally. Let me repeat: fewer than 50 supporters showed up for the "Unite the Right" rally. On the other hand and on the other side, thousands of counter-protestors showed up. Seriously, next year's "Unite the Right" rally (if there is one) should be renamed to "Save the Right" rally. The right is not "united". They are scattered like rats running away from a sinking ship. News inks: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/12/us/unite-the-right-charlottesville-anniversary/index.html https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/unite-the-right-rally-dc-2018-08-12-live-updates/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washington-readies-for-todays-planned-white-supremacist-rally-near-white-house/2018/08/12/551720c4-9c28-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html

It's interesting that Blindspotting, BlackKklansman, and Sorry to Bother You are in theaters at the same time. To some lesser extent, The First Purge also deals with the same subject and thematic matter. It is also in theaters.

Study: White Americans support welfare programs - but only for themselves. Link to the research paper (requires subscription): https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soy046/5002999 Link to an article that reports and summarizes the study: https://www.salon.com/2018/08/01/white-americans-support-welfare-programs-but-only-for-themselves-says-new-research/ “I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No!” "Those other people are just lazy, I actually need it." ... the libertarian mind disease that has infected America.

In case you've missed the last episode: Republicans... Truly America's Finest.

Glass. the sequel to Unbreakable and Split.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFrms2iEX4k

Opens tomorrow. Currently at 95% with 64 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes.

It will already be too late by then. Kennedy will retire by the end of July. The vacancy will be filled, quickly, within a couple months at most - before the November midterm election. Personally, I do not care about Roe vs. Wade. I think it is over: Roe vs. Wade will be repealed, and abortion will become a state issue again. It is a forgone conclusion at this point. I do not care about Roe vs. Wade because it is fundamentally unfair to men. I do not think it is fair that only women can get to decide if they want to keep the babies. If a woman decides she wants to keep the baby but the man decides he does not want the baby, he does not get a say but he will be forced to be financially responsible for the baby - for the decision made by the woman against his will. If I as a man do not get to decide, then why should I be financially responsible for someone else's decision? Since the fundamentals of Roe vs. Wade is gonna be unfair anyway, might as well get rid of it and burn everything down. LGBTQ rights will also be gone, which I also do not care about. Frankly, I think the whole LGBTQ thingy has gone a bit too far. Maybe a decade ago gays and lesbians needed protection, but nowadays they are just rubbing everything on everyone else's faces. It's at the point where if a straight man decides that he does not want to date or have sex with a trans-woman, he is now a "bigot". Now everyone else is being forced and shamed into accepting LGBTQ lifestyle or he is a bigot. So, yeah, let's scale that back a bit. Affirmative action will be banned. Frankly, as Asian I want it to be repealed. Asians are the biggest losers of affirmative action, so no. DACA will be repealed - as Dotard Joffrey Drumpf should have had the authority to do. I don't like him, but he is the President, and he should have the power to cancel an executive action. DACA was NOT a law passed by the Congress. It was supposed to be an executive order by a President, so another President should have been able to cancel or withdraw that executive action. Yet DACA is being litigated into a law. That sets a dangerous precedence because that means any President can use an executive order to bypass the Congress and effectively make a law, and that executive action will continue to stay in effect after the President leaves office - so it effectively becoming a law without the approval of the Congress. Everyone is losing their ****s over the Supreme Court's ruling on the travel ban right now. IMO the Supreme Court ruling is constitutional because the Constitution does give the President plenary authority to control and regulate immigration - including the authority to deny entry to any alien or class of aliens whom he deems detrimental to U.S. interests. The President can be a bigot and ban Muslims from entering the country - but he still has the plenary authority to do so. The only thing we could have done is to not elect a bigot as the President. IMO, RBG is gonna kick the bucket soon, which could happen before 2020. So, that'll be another Justice filled by Trump.

Here is how I feel about immigration as a liberal:

The restaurant owner Stephanie Wilkinson, before she kicked out Sarah Huckabee Sanders, had let her staff take a vote on whether or not to serve Sanders. So the restaurant owner was very democratic for a commie.

I wonder why the cop pulled over the boyfriend. The news never explains why. I had been reading about the news for a couple days, but none of the news reports mentioned anything about the boyfriend being black. When I finally saw the video, I totally did not expect the boy was black - but I was not surprised: "Aha, so that's all what this was about..."