Notices by Rod Hilton (rodhilton@mastodon.social), page 4

This November, you have the power to make Elon Musk waste 180 million dollars.

It really shouldn't surprise me at this point but I am still stunned that the same people who said masks were uncomfortable and looked stupid and that I was in a cult for wearing one are walking around on television with maxi pads taped to the sides of their faces.

Democrats celebrating that Trump's RNC speech was so bad that he's dropping in polls like it gives Biden a chance, forgetting that there's also a DNC and Biden is going to give a speech too.

Man it's just such a mystery what Musk's political alignment is and what his motivations were for buying Twitter.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201567/trump-shooting-ap-photo-copyright-x-twitter-hashmoji

Stripped away from all other thoughts as a bullet struck his ear, adrenaline pumping, logic and reason gone, fight or flight mode, all his brain could think of in that moment was "fight"

Fight what? The shooter? He's dead? The democrats? Guns? It was meaningless, just a thing to say, and his basest instincts told him "fight" was the thing to reach for.

In the immediate aftermath of violence, all he could think of was more violence.

This whole attempt on Trump's life reveals so much about his personality.

Instantly, he recognized that this was a photo opportunity, and a chance to look strong. He is always TV-ready (that's why he has the orange makeup, he looks healthy on certain kinds of TV cameras), and always mindful of the cameras the the PR opportunities afforded by visual media.

And he knew he needed to say SOMETHING when he was fist-pumping in defiance. What did his instincts tell him he should yell? "Fight"

The Left: "Ha ha, the right has set the bar so low for Biden all he has to do is stay awake and he'll look great! The fools!"

Also The Left: "Trump is completely incapable of avoiding hostile insults and rambling, incoherent diatribes and will probably poop himself on stage."

The second debate between these exact two guys was only 4 years ago and Trump did "great" just by not insulting/interrupting nonstop. And the CNN rules for mic muting recreate that environment by force.

My real prediction for the debate, based on how confident each side is that the other side is going to poop their pants on stage and pass out from all the drugs they're on, is that it will be boring and uneventful with both sides getting in a decent barb or two but overall everyone feeling like their guy did pretty well overall.

"He can't help himself!"

Literally was able to help himself only 4 years ago, we all watched it.

And he doesn't have to help himself, the debate rules are doing it for him.

I dunno why people think this debate is going to go so poorly for him, it's taken away all the rope for him to hang himself with.

George specifically said, in interviews, one of the reasons he sold Star Wars was that the fans hated the prequels so much. The fans bullied Ahmed Best to near suicide, and Jake Lloyd left acting.

I'm not defending George or the prequels. They are really quite bad. What I'm annoyed at is suddenly pretending they were always great and only the Disney stuff is bad. Most of it is pretty bad all around.

This Goyte parody came out the year AFTER the Disney sale:

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

The discourse around #TheAcolyte is truly unhinged.

People flipping shit because they had to retcon Ki-Adi Mundi's age like it's some slap in the face to George Lucas's Vision.

Can't stand these fans that are acting now like George Lucas is some messiah. I distinctly recall when the prequels came out and fans hated George Lucas.

And I remember it because I was one of them, and still think they're bad. Here's Patton Oswalt fantasizing about killing Lucas with a shovel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snfOVpFV0d4

The inept bad guy screwing with trade and allowing the dark forces of the sith to take over the galactic republic is named Nute Gunray.

Why? Because Lucas couldn't decide which Republican he hated more to name the villain after. So he's named after Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan (Ray-gun/gun-ray).

Literally look at this man's filmography. Does THX 1138 strike you as pro-government? Does "Red Tails" not strike you as woke?

He wrote 4 movies about punching Nazis.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nute_Gunray

And the entire notion that "Disney made Star Wars woke!"

Listen up, Youngling.

The original trilogy, EXPLICITLY, is about the Viet Cong as the rebels and America as the empire. Biggest blockbuster on earth, theme song played at every July 4th, is intentionally an anti-America movie by authorial intent.

Anakin says "if you are not with me then you are my enemy" in Revenge of the Sith b/c that's what George Bush said about the war on terror. Obi-Wan calls Bush a Sith.

https://nypost.com/2014/09/21/how-star-wars-was-secretly-george-lucas-protest-of-vietnam/

Don't get me wrong. I'm not arguing the Disney Star Wars era is Good, Actually. Nor am I defending the prequels.

My point is, this revisionism where Disney is bad and everything Lucas did was great is insane.

Most Star Wars things ever produced are breathtakingly bad.

Disney did not ruin Star Wars, they bought it ruined.

Here's a comic where the elderly "it does not exist in our records" librarian from Attack of the Clones fights Darth Vader and the Grand Inquisitor with a lightsaber. Canon.

By the way if you were to read the outlines George had in mind for HIS sequel trilogy, all these whining fanboys would have HATED it.

Almost every aspect about Luke from The Last Jedi that they hate so much was straight from Lucas's ideas. Grizzled, angry, alone, in exile after his student turned on him. Straight from Lucas, haters.

Yeah I'm sure they'd have loved diving into the microbiotic world of midichlorians & focusing on The Whills. That was the pitch.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/10/21005059/george-lucas-star-wars-sequel-trilogy-plot-characters

"All we wanted was Mara Jade, Disney!"

Well I don't see how Disney is going to work the Mara Jade storyline into the official canon without including the clone of Luke named, I am not even joking, "Luuke Skywalker".

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Luuke_Skywalker

Even the criticisms that Disney's sequel trilogy is a "slap in the face" to the established lore is bizarre coming from people that almost universally love the EU content.

"hur hur somehow palpatine returned, what trash" hey guess what there's an entire storyline called The Dark Empire that was considered canon where Palpatine was reborn into a clone body.

"Luke would never abandon the Jedi!" oh I assure you he did, in Dark Empire he becomes Palpatine's apprentice.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Empire

"Hey George can we bring back Darth Maul, the guy who got cut in half in Episode 1?" SURE

"Hey George should we give Anakin an apprentice during Clone Wars even though him not being a Master is a major plot point?" SURE ACTUALLY THAT'S MY IDEA

"Hey George maybe Boba Fett survived somehow?" HIS ACTION FIGURE IS POPULAR SO YES.

This man couldn't give less of a fuck. He put AT-ATs on Hoth in Star Tours and when asked how that makes any sense he said "who cares?"

https://insidethemagic.net/2011/05/spoiler-filled-review-star-tours-the-adventures-continue-report-featuring-binaural-full-ride-audio/

"Respect the canon!"

Stop pretending George Lucas gives a shit about canon. Leia wasn't Luke's sister until he decided to stop after Episode 6.

He named the guy that tried to sell Obi-Wan death sticks "Elan Sleazebaggano"

The entire race of alien bad guys in the prequels are called Neimoidians because it's a joke about Leonard Nimoy.

Obi-Wan is canonically from 'Stewjon' because Lucas was asked what Obi-Wan's home planet is called during a Daily Show appearance.

https://gofigure.toys/elan-sleazebaggano-action-figure.html

I've seen so much about how offended these "fans" are that Charlie Barnett is in The Acolyte and said in an interview that "Anakin blew up the death star"

Like what the shit are you talking about, do you think Harrison Ford has any idea who the fuck "Anakin" is? I'd be shocked if he could name both droids he costars with.

He was asked if he was a force ghost doing press for Rise of Skywalker and said "I have no fucking idea what a Force ghost is"

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/harrison-ford-han-solo-force-ghost-star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-a9338686.html