The theory goes that if only that Nasty Woman Hillary hadn't locked down the superdelegates, Comrade Bernito would have sailed easily to victory over Der Trumpenfuhrer.
This theory is... well, problematic. But let's leave that for another day. What I want to focus on is the argument, apparently, that Hillary locking down the superdelegates was some sort of foul underhanded play.
It assumes that this was cheating? I guess? Like the Electoral College, which apparently nobody knew about prior to Election Night 2016. The Democrat primary system was this arcane thing that nobody bothered to study.
Only... Bernie Sanders was running for the Democratic nomination. If he didn't study the rules, then he didn't, you know, do his homework.
Friday, June 23, 2017
Sunday, June 11, 2017
WONDER WOMAN
So as longtime readers know, my favorite James Bond film, and one of my favorite movies ever, is On Her Majesty's Secret Service, a 140-minute opus that features an athletic lead whose acting abilities received some criticism, begins with a fight on the beach, features an obviously doomed relationship, and has a story wherein a spy and his band of unconventional allies must stop a plot involving chemical/biological weapons.
Since Wonder Woman is a 140-minute opus that features an athletic lead whose acting abilities received some criticism, begins with a fight on the beach, features an obviously doomed relationship, and has a story wherein a spy and his band of unconventional allies must stop a plot involving chemical/biological weapons, it has some really, really big shoes to fill.
It mostly succeeds, although it did kind of lose its stakes when Diana got buried under a building and walked it off during the final fight. A-.
It's also, before I get to the spoiler section, astonishingly conservative. Consider that Wonder Woman was invented by a BDSM enthusiast who used his swimsuit-clad heroine as a siren song for the matriarchy, and then consider that this film sees Diana leave her liberal feminist (hinted lesbian) paradise to go fight a war against an enemy her mother/queen insists does not actually exist (he does), using enhanced interrogation techniques and a massive sense of gung-ho interventionism along the way.
Oh - and I couldn't place him while I was watching the movie, but Field Marshal Haig, the guy in charge of the British war effort, is Lord Commander Jeor Mormont. Just throwing that out there.
Spoilers below.
Since Wonder Woman is a 140-minute opus that features an athletic lead whose acting abilities received some criticism, begins with a fight on the beach, features an obviously doomed relationship, and has a story wherein a spy and his band of unconventional allies must stop a plot involving chemical/biological weapons, it has some really, really big shoes to fill.
It mostly succeeds, although it did kind of lose its stakes when Diana got buried under a building and walked it off during the final fight. A-.
It's also, before I get to the spoiler section, astonishingly conservative. Consider that Wonder Woman was invented by a BDSM enthusiast who used his swimsuit-clad heroine as a siren song for the matriarchy, and then consider that this film sees Diana leave her liberal feminist (hinted lesbian) paradise to go fight a war against an enemy her mother/queen insists does not actually exist (he does), using enhanced interrogation techniques and a massive sense of gung-ho interventionism along the way.
Oh - and I couldn't place him while I was watching the movie, but Field Marshal Haig, the guy in charge of the British war effort, is Lord Commander Jeor Mormont. Just throwing that out there.
Spoilers below.
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