They need to go back to focus on the story. Storytelling is what made Star Wars compelling, not special effects. Storytelling relies on emotional appeal, pacing character development, and traditional cinematographic things like lighting and framing.

You have to ask -why- those projects were horrible. Who was involved?

It's not the topic, it's the content and the execution.

Kennedy has been intent from the start on injecting her personal ideology into the Star Wars universe legacy, and the result has been universally disasterous.

A better description would be anarchotyranny.

We've got ample laws, they're just applied tyrannically against the societal producers. Meanwhile, the criminal underclass of society preys on everyone.

And what - the last 4 years of consistently increasing economic hardship were due to Trump?

Let's be realistic. People at large make emotional decisions about their own personal economics: whether to raise wages, to hire, and things of that fashion. Having a President who is hostile to your economic welfare as Biden has been openly has had a very real chilling effect. The opposite was true under Trump. It had nothing to do with "Obama era policy".

Especially since the going thing since Clinton - every President has done it since, including Obama, Trump, and Biden - has been to put a bunch of roadblocks in place which will make the incoming administration have economic hardship/difficulty. IE, things like sunsetting tax discounts/incentives have been a big one.

The last 4 years and the 8 under Obama would like you to take a moment to reflect...

How's the middle class in America doing? How about Jeff Bezos?

If by "stop the democrats from winning again" you mean "only allowing citizens to vote, and requiring them to have ID", or "investigating and prosecuting election fraud" - then yes, absolutely. It will be, hopefully, much harder for Democrats to win.

Democrats have not had a populist mandate for 20+ years. That's been a big part of the problem. RFK Jr and Tulsi being rejected by the Democrat elite is perfect example of this. They are not the populist party they once were, and are instead the tyrannical party - just like the Republicans used to be. Tyrant and populist flip back and forth from administration to administration, it's not a D or R thing. But for the past 20 years, it's been the Ds. It's become a very small in-group of select elites who like to pretend they're populist. They've willfully embraced mediocre and even incompetent people on ideological grounds (DEI and otherwise) and the results have been disastrous for both the party and the country.

I'm hopeful that Trump's got Musk and his "Dept of Gov't Efficiency" and that he's enlisted the help of Ron Paul, of all people, to help with those efforts. There's nobody who understands the topic better. I'm hopeful that RFK Jr will do something for the health epidemic in this country by cracking down on toxic seed oils and sugar, and subsidization of unhealthy diet choices in general. I'm hopeful for a lot of things, but realistically it probably won't change much - there's a lot of bureaucracy which will resist all of those efforts, and Trump's neocon pics last term don't leave much room for hope.

We will see. Nobody expected the basement-hiding geriatric dementia patient of Joe Biden to win 2020, so stranger things have happened.

The reason this is happening is because there are going to be angry monkeys screeching and pointing in a couple weeks about election fraud, if their efforts to 'secure the election' fail to account for the people who are voting.

This article was part of the social primer for that activity. It's propaganda.

This is clear and evident climate change. Whatever we're doing here on earth, we clearly need to stop - it's impacting our entire solar system!

... as opposed to the real and verifiable facts that contradict the official FEMA narrative. They just lump them together.

This is effectively a categorical fallacy of false attribution - intentional or not. The presence of false statements doesn't negate that many of the inconvenient things are true.

FEMA has been spinning their lack of response hard - no presence for a week, some verifiable accounts of FEMA redirecting/confiscating privately provided aid to migrants, in conjunction with no aid, and claiming that loans with horrible terms are actually aid. Things like that.

This isn't really any different than the 'misinformation' (they called it 'fake news' then) about various other things related to elections and covid in the past 6 or so years: it's just Orwellian partisan hackery.

Let me help you, as apparently you're unable to think of second and third order effects.

* US defense contractors lobby the government.
* The US gives foreign countries military assets (old, or new)
* Those military assets are taken out of arsenal - they've been paid for, and were inventory.
* That inventory is kept and not fully mothballed or dismantled/sold off for the express purposes of planning around logistic demands: how many months of warfare across how many theatres can the US military sustain campaigns?
* Those now-depleted inventories have to be restocked.
* Bids are opened to restock with said US defense contractors.

New reactors don't cost $15bn. New, old reactor designs with existing regulatory requirements in place do.

Been kind of hard to compete against all the other power sources, which have significant subsidization for 'green' initiatives (yes, even coal and NG).

I'm talking about modern designs, like the Zeus 20MW nuclear reactor, which ships nicely in a connex container. It's small enough to be mass produced. Mass production means efficiencies of scale and fabrication binning. Even without mass production, they're comparable to unsubsidized solar in cost per installed kilowatt.

I mean, kind of. You wouldn't think the inventor of bitcoin, intended as a revolutionary disruptive technology to circumvent centralized powers, is backing establishment power money laundering efforts - which is effectively what the Ukraine and Israel conflicts are, to the US establishment.

They have a strong in-group preference.

As soon as you get an Indian in a position where they can influence hiring, the entire deck of cards starts to shift: they do 'staffing cuts' and hire indians; or they just start replacing people with indians via triage and new positions. Usually it's their friends and relatives, and the quality of code goes down substantially. I've seen it kill a number of companies.

I'm flabbergasted that you got a positive moderation for mentioning the elephant in the room about DEI.

It's intrinsically, inherently - by intentional design - racist against whites because it's foundational principle is that merit-based anything is racist. It assumes that women and "minority" races can't have merit, simply because whites excel in a merit based system.

Unbelievable.

The fact that polling can be, and is, used to influence results and consensus instead of simply monitoring them as often as not is a pretty damning in and of itself.

Anyone who 'trusts' the results from a poll which can be easily manipulated by any number of factors is a fool, and frankly, that's why they're still used.