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I went from being in the office five days a week to remoting in from home every day. My actual job didn't change at all.

I loved it. Worked 100% remote, roads were way less crowded and I had tons more free time due to not having to drive to work. Bike riding was a lot better, too, since there were so few cars on the road.

I expect him to keep his word and not do it.

Around 9 but I didn't go to sleep for another couple hours.

Personally, I think Aloy looks fine. It all depends on the picture used, though.
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SomeGuyUO posted...

Look up xmanager Spotify

"Don't make us popular."

SauI_Goodman posted...

I rip my music for free with library cds. Suckers!

Been doing this for years. Started with all of my own CDs before giving them all away, now it's just borrow and rip.

DnDer posted...

Anyone who worked hard for and supported democrats in order to get them into office in order to shore up SCOTUS, or at least trust that SCOTUS would be treated like the impartial body it's supposed to be... and then got Mitch'd.

Look at anyone working in the last 8-10 years for good causes only to have the republicans cheat their way to power again and again making the fight kinda pointless, in some ways.

It's discouraging.

Also, Mitch 100% looks like someone who could be a sith lord. And Rush was Jabba sized, at least at one point. If not all points. Yeah. Evil wins. It's discouraging.

I can only speak anecdotally but everyone I personally know has not given up on anything, as bad as things like the current SC is.

Toonstrack posted...

Those aren't mutually exclusive, as the surviving jedi proved. They all had to fight at some point. They all took down dozens of troopers in the process. Kanan, Cal, Ahsoka, Ezra all did this. Asinine to suggest Yoda and kenobi couldn't. Heck, yoda had already taken out several hugh ranking clones by the time he decided to leave. He quite literally was just one shooting them in ROTS at the end there. Jedi are no joke and the troopers are no match. That's proven beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Ezra wasn't part of Order 66, he was probably only a baby then. Kanan was a kid and just ran. Ahsoka, skilled as she was, also just ran. She only fought them off when she had to. They were outnumbered by the clones they had just been fighting along side. Jedi are not infallible, they can be killed off by enemies that are not Force users, especially when they are numerous. ROTS showed us this.

Yeah. Their plan was stupid. If anything, fighting on the front lines would've made Vader distracted due to his personal beef with kenobi, and lessened the chance that he finds our about luke(which prior to Disney comics revealing we never actually learn how he found out)

Are you really trying to suggest that prior to the show we were to believe bail organa and kenobi had no communication about the statuses of rhe respective Skywalker kids they were supposed to be guarding? That's far fetched. He was going to alderaan likely for that reason. If anything the movie implies he'd been there before.

Again, it wasn't stupid. It was all they had. They lost, the Jedi were mostly dead and the clones were all hunting them. Yoda and Obi-Wan were highly recognizable and would be top of the Empire's most wanted list. Anyone who associated with them would be in extreme danger. This isn't opinion, it's a fact made pretty clear by the movies. In case you missed it, the rebels tended to stay low profile when they could.
I guess you weren't paying attention during the Kenobi series, either. He hadn't communicated with Bail in a decade.
"It's been ten years. I'm not the man I used to be."

His entire family lied to him. Owen, Obi Wan, even Yoda, and for no real reason. Thsir gamble that he was gonna raid the death star and bring his kid to him without Vader ever finding our and before he was ready was a pretty out there one. He didn't even have to tell him he did all that. He could've just said his dad lost his way, turned against them and was defeated.

He concocted a lie he had others perpetuate for the entirety of Luke's childhood. Not a chance Luke never asked Owen about him.

We know Luke asked, Owen told him his father worked on a spice freighter as Luke mentions to Obi-Wan later. We're only talking about Yoda and Obi-Wan and they only hid it since they didn't feel it was the right time to tell him the truth.

It was a lost connection that caused the issue. Not that there was one. Rey also lost a connection when she had to accept her parents were never coming back, and that they were no ones who abandoned her. That sort of thing could EASILY send someone to the dark side, and that is what kylo ren forced her to confront. Rey was at her lowest and most vulnerable moment and Luke knew it.

Luke was just worried about her power and the darkness. He wasn't interested in training her and really had no reason to because he had no idea who she was. Obi-Wan and Yoda did want to train Luke but were worried about losing him to Vader as they had an actual connection Luke was not aware of yet.

Even if I give you this, it doesn't change that Luke generally figures his way out of problems rather than planning for every eventuality. He has slip ups and makes mistakes. He absolutely did not plan to have to fight the rancor or he wouldn't have tried to negotiate with Jabba in the first place. He had assets to get him out if it but he wanted it to go over without a hutch at all.

"Even if I give you this". There is no giving me anything, what I said is true. It's not my opinion we're talking here, Luke was no longer the impulsive person in ROTJ that he was in 4 and 5. There's a reason he's warning Jabba at every stage, it's because he already has it planned out. And yeah, he has slip ups ad mistakes, things happen that no one can account for. The main thing to consider is how he handled these situations, and that was confidently. Whether that be the Rancor, the Ewoks or Stormtroopers on speeder bikes, he handled all of those. The only time he lost his cool is when he faced Vader and Palpatine and that's because he thought his friends were in immediate danger.

First off, yes there would be because he would be biased and have a connection compromise the master student relationship and blind him to problems and lead him to emotional moves... which is exactly what happened.

This is based on nothing. Nothing in the movies, the series or anywhere. Luke was not beholden to all of the old Jedi ways.

Secondly, how are you going to condemn Luke for doing the exact same thing you're defending kenobi and Yoda for doing? He was following in his masters footsteps lol. The difference is there actually WAS very little he could do. The resistance was barely a thing, there was no longer any jedi collective, and his presence would only exacerbate the first orders efforts. His beif absent was the only reason that the destruction of the republic didn't happen sooner.

You're just arguing to argue here as this has been explained to you multiple times. Obi-Wan and Yoda couldn't risk doing anything as it could screw up their plan. It's why Kenobi didn't want to come out of hiding to help Leia, he knew he was too high profile. All one has to do is see what happened when he did, Vader immediately started hunting him down and an Inquisitor found out about Luke, almost ruining the plan they set in place. And for anyone confused, it's clearly stated at the end of ROTS that they were going to be hidden until the time was right.
Luke's plan was to go and die, by his own admission.

DnDer posted...

That part makes a lot of sense, though?

Not to me.

Look how many young, idealistic people work hard for progressive causes, over and over, only to have them cut out from under them by evil.

Like who?

Toonstrack posted...

That doesnt really change what I said. The jedi are more than equipped to handle it.

Not when there are entire squadrons after them. The Jedi who survived Order 66 did so because they ran, not because they fought.

That's not true, even in the OT Obi Wan is familiar with the members of the rebellion including Leia. It is implied that Yoda has some knowledge of it at least, he seems familiar enough with their status against the empire to warn Luke. We know from rebels that he aided the rebellion as well.

Obi-Wan never mentions the Rebellion, neither does Yoda. All Obi-Wan said was that he was going to Alderaan. And although they probably had heard of it, as Luke knew about them, neither of them were going to change their plan.

I mean, thats also their fault because they lied to his face for his entire life about it.

They didn't lie to him his entire life. The only time Obi-Wan wasn't honest was when he mentioned he knew Luke's father and talked about him. Prior to that, he didn't say anything to him about it. I imagine it would be a bit off putting to mention he had left him for dead burning on a lava bank.

Why not? Luke had reason to believe Rey would falter because she basically infited the dakr side and explored it. It's not the exact same but its similar enough.

Because Rey didn't have the same connections that Luke did. Vader was Luke's father, discovering that the parent you thought long dead was alive is going to throw anyone off. Obi-Wan and Yoda knew this would be a danger, which is why they were so worried when he rushed off.

Im pretty sure Luke planned on freeing him without getting strapped to a sail barge and having to fight a rancor. Yes he had contingencies but it still went sideways.

The whole thing was planned. Lando was in place as a prison guard, Threepio and Artoo were "gifted", Chewbacca was "captured" by a "bounty hunter", Han was freed from the carbonite. Someone can't plan for every single contingency but all one has to do is listen to what he says to Han on the skiff: "Just stick close to Chewie and Lando. I've taken care of everything."

Things got tough before he left. Long before, he'd been struggling with Bens swaying emotions for a period of time. He stayed, violating his principles by even training him. It was only when he actually set off the domino effect that got all of his students killed that he became convinced that he was the problem. He thought his action was him presevjgn his loved ones.

There would be nothing wrong with taking on his nephew, especially if he was Force sensitive. And it doesn't address that he just leaves others to suffer for his mistake. The same person that was always willing to risk his own life to save friends and family and did so multiple times in the OT, can't be bothered to resolve a problem of his own making. By his own admission, he's there to die, so he's really just doing exactly what Kylo and Snoke/Palpatine want, only slower.

SAlYAN posted...

Honestly.

I CONSTANTLY see people break their back defending Luke's decision to draw his saber. And while I disagree with them, I can at least respect their read on the character (would that they respected mine, but whatever).

What I NEVER see is anyone give a compelling character-motivated reason for him to fuck off and mope while Han, Leia, Chewey, Wedge, all the rest of his friends, and the galaxy at large are systematically hunted down and exterminated by a mess that he made. That is SO far afield of his character thar it may as well be in another universe. There's at least justification for the lightsaber thing. But Luke has never been an abdicator. Certainly not when his loved ones are targets.

Yes I KNOW the whole arc in TLJ is to remind him of that. My point is that that's an arc that shouldn't need to happen, because Luke DOESNT FUCKING GIVE UP.

Fuck, even going the original RotJ route would be better. If he truly believed all this was the fault of him, the jedi, and the force, it would be more in character for him to go out and fight Kylo/Snoke/Palpatine to the death, with the intent of dying himself at the end, to end the whole mess for good. That would at least be more consistent than "I fucking give up. Have fun dying."

I think this is really what bothers the fans who didn't like Luke in TLJ so much, myself included. Not so much the pulling a saber on a sleeping kid but that his mistake led to people dying, his friends and family among those, and he refused to do anything about it.
Like, if you're planning on dying anyway, maybe do it trying to rectify your own mistake instead of letting everyone else deal with it?

Dark Awakening was good. It was retconned later that Optimus survived but initially it was a pretty good episode with a bit of a dark ending.

TheHoldSteady posted...

Matthew Fox dropped off the face of the earth after Lost ended.

He played a good part in Bone Tomahawk.

David Caruso returned to his TV role after a failed movie career.

I always drink the milk.

The removal of the endings Marriage with Father

<_<

Someone in NY with nothing to lose needs to take care of Merchan, wrote one commentator on Patriots.Win.

Imagine being so pathetic that you hope there's someone out there with no life so they can just throw it away to support a criminal. These people are sick.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

Nah.

At the end of the day, it's supplementary material not essential to the films.

Yeah but it's still considered canon by Disney, since the ongoing material has referenced it (Mandalorian and Ahsoka).

Scotty_Rogers posted...

Unless the film is a comedy or the scenes in question are played for laughs, no one wants to see awkward teenagers be awkward teenagers. That's just how it is. There was nothing funny about Anakin or his relationship with Padme; it was just cringe. A big part of the issue is also that despite his awkwardness and being a whiny brat for the whole film, Anakin still managed to make Padme, a politician five years his senior, fall in love with him, anyway.

The movie paints their relationship as some beautiful romance when Anakin was just a creepy, hormone-fueled brat and Padme was just looking for a stress relief from all the murderous attempts on her life by banging a handsome young boy-toy assigned to watch over her 24/7. Then, as society was collapsing at the dawn of war, she decided to marry him and have his babies because #YOLO. Of course, he agreed to it because he didn't know any better.

It also doesn't help matters that they first met when she was 14 and he was 9, either.

I've always felt it was a mistake to have Anakin be so young in the first movie. I see what Lucas was going for (even the bad guys are innocent kids at one point). But a lot of the issues with the movies could have been rectified by having Anakin and Padme be the same age in TPM so the romance would have started there instead of rushing it in AOTC.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

Non-canon.

Clone Wars is absolutely canon at this point. Pong Krell would be a good example of a Jedi who went dark. He was going to side with Dooku as he foresaw in visions the Empire that was going to rise afterwards until the Clones took him out.

Toonstrack posted...

Kanan, who was barely a fully fledged Padawan at this state. Thats only helping my case that jedi can handle these guys.

Kanan didn't really fight, just blocked some of Crosshair's shots. Hunter just let him go since he didn't get the kill order. Characters like Ahsoka were trained enough to defend themselves but even with that she was on the run most of the time.

There was a bunch they could do. The non jedi started up a rebellion movement almost immediately, one that would ultimately be the thing that takes down the empire. Jedi like ahsoka and kanan would go on to be massive factors in this rebellion themselves. Yoda meanwhile sits alone. At least now we know kenobi actually did take action to help thanks to the kenobi show. Prior to that we were to believe he also say on his ass.

So no there was plenty they could do. They simply chose not to. Ad the thing is that's fine but at least when Luke does it he has a reason.

I feel like you're just ignoring what the OT and PT spell out clearly for the viewers. There's nothing to misunderstand, the movies make it very obvious through dialogue why Obi-Wan and Yoda went into hiding and waited until Luke and Leia were older. There is no "They could have done this" because there was no Rebellion when they left. They made a long term plan and didn't deviate from it. As far as we could tell, neither of them were much aware of the Rebellion.

Same with luke and rey.

It's not the same. Luke's unreadiness wasn't only due to him not being trained enough but also that he wasn't ready to handle the truth about Vader. Even if he was a match for Vader, Obi-Wan and Yoda knew he would waver once that came out. And with him being young and impressionable, there was a possibility of him turning as a result.
Luke wouldn't have the same concerns about Rey as Obi-Wan and Yoda did about him.

Not true. Luke almost got himself killed in rotj by a rancor because his strategy was to bust onto Jabbas stronghold unfamiliar with the territory and having no real bargaining chips. Then all of them get captured and nearly die again. Luke just isn't that great of a plans guy. He kinda just runs in, and figures his way out. Thats always been his way.

So...did you pay attention during these movies? Getting captured was part of the plan. It's why Luke is so indifferent on the sail barge and reassures Han not to worry. He already had everything in place beforehand (Lando as a guard and Artoo on the barge with his lightsaber). Did you not pick up on this later when Threepio and Artoo were "gifted" to Jabba before Luke showed up?

I see him as someone with the same failings but more wisdom. Someone's whos empathy for the weight of his actions made him figure the best thing he could do was to not be there. Which again was an impulsive decision.

I saw him as someone who left when things got tough. Instead of owning up to his mistake and trying to rectify it, he left like a coward. Unlike Obi-Wan and Yoda, Luke had no plans other than to eventually die.

Euripides posted...

I love that "Luke draws his lightsaber on Ben" is under this much scrutiny while "Anakin goes from hating sand to slaughtering a room full of toddlers" is just "well, yeah..."

There was at least a precedent set for it, at least, when he slaughtered all the Sand People.

AceMos posted...

because she did not want to kill them

Yes, but she also needed to get out before she was overwhelmed.

Toonstrack posted...

Ahsoka and rex are the only two people to survive that. I'd say she did pretty ok.

If you call barely surviving okay, then yeah. Regardless, they weren't the only Jedi besides Obi-Wan and Yoda to make it through Order 66. Kanan and Quinlan Voss also made it, along with others. Obi-Wan runs into another random Jedi in his series but basically tells him to GTFO as he's hiding out.

Which i5s time to accept was a stupid plan, and a result of GL rushing all his characters into necessary plot points he already set up in the OT. The PT makes Yoda look straight up incompetent if not complicit in how this played put. We have zero reason to believe he should have been sitting on his ass for 20 years while some of his students were suffering and seeking refuge. Dagobah could have been a hidden haven for jedi.

As for Kenobi, it's fine enough that he wants to watch over Luke. But there's still a lot of jedi unaccounted for out there. None of this is addressed in ROTS, but expanded media has always confirmed this.

It wasn't a stupid plan, it was their only one. They lost and were being hunted, there was nothing else they could do at that point. Yoda didn't even know who or how many Jedi were still out there.
ROTS did address the remaining Jedi when Obi-Wan sent out the message for any that received it to stay away from Coruscant and to go into hiding. It was all they had time to do.

Luke barely made it to ROTJ alive ensures they were right. Luke was putting it all on a gamble. Just because the gamble paid off doesn't retroactively make the gamble a good plan.

He barely made it because he rushed to face Vader before he was ready. Both Obi-Wan and Yoda told him this in ESB but he ignored it. But they also knew he would find out about Vader if he faced him, so were also notably concerned about how that would go.

No it doesn't, because Luke has never been a character who just does the right thing the first time. Hes always been impulsive and foolhardy; he's always sought the fastest course for a solution. Hes impatient, this is the case in all of the OT movies. That was a trait he kept, and the failure was so spectacular he lost faith in himself. But his goodness, always wins out. As it does in TLJ

That would only be true of him in episodes 4 and 5. Luke had already learned from those mistakes by ROTJ. It's why he's the more calm and confident Jedi throughout that movie. The only time he comes close to that again is in his fight with Vader but he quickly realizes what's happening and stops himself.
I saw Luke in TLJ as someone who had completely forgotten all the lessons he had learned and thought it made the character look bad.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I thought Stranger Things was done

One more season.

Carbon_Deoxxys posted...

Hollywood has been abusing the "your favorite hero/action hero is now washed old and miserable and now they need someone young, annoying and that no likes to replace them!!"

I liked how Tron: Legacy did it. Sure, Flynn was old, beaten and not in the greatest place but he was still the original Flynn in a lot of ways and realized his mistakes.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

No it isn't lol. The person who cuts the foot up explicitly tells him they did it. It is only blink and you'll miss it if you sleep through the episode

I think it's people who are on their phone while watching something. I've never understood this behavior but I've seen my younger cousins do it.

Most of the times I've gone to the movies was by myself.

Toonstrack posted...

Yes they are, thats why the separatists were getting their asses kicked until Palpatine turned on team damage. The empire is not some snake in the machine its a clear and identifiable enemy. The jedi have always been able to handle that.

We see multiple Jedi taken out by assailants in ROTS. Even in the CW finale, Ahsoka held her own against a bunch of clones but it was clear that was only temporary as she got out as fast as she could.

Yes he could, and did. He was risking his life jsut being there. There were other jedi he knew about that could take a hold of things if he died. Like Yoda. Heck, obi wans plan was to just send him to yoda. He barely even trains luke in the end, Yoda does.

Obi-Wan: I will take the child and watch over him. Master Yoda, do you think Anakin's twins will be able to defeat Darth Sidious?

Yoda: Strong the Force runs, in the Skywalker line. Hope, we can . . . Done, it is. Until the time is right, disappear we will.

That was the plan, it was the whole reason they went into hiding. Most likely, they would have gone to Yoda together except for Obi-Wan "dying" and all. They weren't going to risk their lives until they knew Luke and Leia were ready. We don't even know how aware Obi-Wan and Yoda were of the Rebellion, Obi-Wan only mentioned going to Alderaan.

The first time they told him this was in ESB and they were right.

ROTJ shows us they were wrong.

Except luke knows he only walked out of there alive because he was lucky he was able to reach his dad. He not only nearly died but he nearly gave into the dark side. He knew what path Rey was taking and how dangerous it was. This is also exasperated by the fact that Luke watched Rey basicsllt embrace the dark side outright, and he also knew her lineage and how much power she had.

He had every reason to be trepidations.

It wasn't luck, he knew he could turn Vader. He felt it, he says it to Obi-Wan and Leia. The throne room arc in ROTJ is mirrored in ROTS when Anakin fights Dooku. Both times they have their opponent beaten and defenseless, Anakin gives in to his anger as Palpatine wanted. Luke does not and thus completes his Jedi training. To have him just give up after a mistake (and I thought pulling the lightsaber on a sleeping person was a crap move for the character, too) made his whole original arc look pointless.

Toonstrack posted...

Uhhh people got shot regardless. Jedi have the best defense against being shot.

Obi wan had no problem joining in the rebellion effort towards the end of ANH and dying for it. They could've used him immesley before that. Missions that would've been otherwise impossible could have been achieved with him.

As Order 66 showed us, Jedi aren't a match for long when there are multiple assailants. And Obi-Wan was keeping an eye on Luke, someone he saw as a last ditch effort to stop Vader and Palpatine. In ANH, we see he's ready to leave once he gets the message from Leia, as he immediately asks Luke to go with him. He was waiting for the right time. He couldn't risk his life before Luke was ready.

He didn't say he couldn't be redeemed. He knew it wasn't going to be rey to do it tho.

If anyone else had gone up to try and redeem Vader in ROTJ it wouldn't have worked. Vader could only have been saved by Luke.

Luke was simply telling Rey that she was inserting herself into a role that she wasn't prepared for; and it could've and nearly did cost her her life.

Yes, exactly as Obi-Wan and Yoda told him about Vader 30 years before. Vader was more machine than man, there is nothing of the good man he was left. These were told to him by people who had been close with Anakin. Especially Obi-Wan, who was like a brother.
I thought having this same person disregard someone else that is repeating the same belief they had made the character look really foolish.

Pretty sure it's ANH, with ESB a close second. Hard to say, I've seen all of the OT a bunch of times.

JaiCSC posted...

I was thinking of The Abyss by James Cameron. Underrated movie.

Fight! Fight! Fiiiiiiight! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!

Toonstrack posted...

There was an active rebellion brewing for years that both obi wan and Yoda were aware of, and that they could've supplied immense aid to.

They werent forced to hide. They chose to.

Yes, they were. They were vastly outnumbered and were specifically hunted for who they were, remnants of the old Jedi order. They would be shot on sight. There's a reason they went to such out of the way places to hide. Obi-Wan also had the duty of watching out for Luke.

Like didn't ignore it, he just knew Ben wasn't ready to make that choice and Rey was in no position to put Ben in a position to make that choice. He never said Ben couldn't be saved, he said "this isnt going to go the way you think"

It's the exact same situation he was in 3 decades prior., just on the other side. Everyone he spoke to in the OT about Vader were adamant that he could not be redeemed. And now when someone comes to him with the same claim, he ignores it. I thought that sucked. Funny thing is, RoS, garbage as it was, showed us he could be redeemed, so he really didn't know.

For point 1, there is a bit of difference between Luke and Obi-Wan/Yoda's situations. Obi and Yoda were forced into hiding due to being hunted by pretty much everyone. Luke just gave up, basically and despite still being needed, I'll add.
That also ties into points 2 and 3, as Luke seems completely oblivious to someone telling him the same thing about Ben that he was telling Obi, Yoda and Leia about Vader. Luke was the believer in the OT, nothing could convince him otherwise by ROTJ. He knew Vader could be turned, he felt it. And then he ignores the same from someone else when they repeat his own words back to him. I thought the idea was crap, whole thing left a bad taste for me.

There are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.

I watched TLJ last night, it was the first time I had seen it entirely since it released in the theater. I found it worse than I remembered. I don't think I could stomach RoS again.

ClayGuida posted...

Most super heroes there isn't a lot of imagination involved. Superman is basically perfect.

A lot of Superman's powers came later. Originally, he was just strong and bullet proof (no flying, no heat or x-ray vision, no super speed).

Barry did admit to one crime: felony forgery for using Suzannes ballot to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. I wanted Trump to win, he said, adding, I figured all these other guys were cheatin.

Your average Trump voter, I imagine.
"It's okay if I cheated since I figure they are, too."
Ridiculous.

No, always been straight.

LeoRavus posted...

The first one looked really good also. Couldn't deal with the combat though. Way too much button mashing that made my fingers tired.

I just started playing through the first one the other day and I feel this. The game really tires my hands out, I had to take a break from it.

Not a fly, at least I don't think, but I did swallow some bug that flew into my mouth while I was bike riding a couple years ago. It was a decent size as I felt it going down my throat. The weird thing is it had a sour taste, like a sour candy so it didn't really taste bad.

Transmog for the win, get the stats while looking good.

Don't know, don't care. Maybe I'll find out after I'm dead. Until then, I'm not going to worry about it.

Yes, I pay for YTP and extra drive storage.

Toonstrack posted...

Catwoman started off wearing a domino mask before black cat even existed.

She wore an actual cat head mask when she started (not even a joke, like a freaking cat head). The only domino style ones I can think of off the top of my head were in the 60s Adam West series. In the comics, she usually wears an all face mask.

Since day one, also have the PSVR2. Between this and my gaming PC, I don't want anything else. I do have a Series S but barely use it (only reason I have it is because it was a gift).

I'd get up early on Saturday to see it but it'll probably be cloudy here.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Yeah, much as I dislike Trump, I would give him a pass on this. My mom has called me by my brother's name a few times in the past.

IdiotMachine posted...

Hes the commander in chief. Whatever happens, its his responsibility. I would say the same for any president sitting in that chair. Own the issue and dont deflect.

That's an incredibly simplistic take on the US presidency. He doesn't control the SC, for example. There's nothing he can do if the previous admin put a conservative majority there (two of whom I would say are not even qualified for their positions).