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Christianity Today sees surge in subscriptions after calling for Trump's removal
"A stereotypical response is 'thank you, thank you, thank you' with a string of a hundred exclamation points"
Mark Galli, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, the prominent evangelical magazine founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham, said Sunday that the magazine has seen a surge in new prescriptions since it published his blistering editorial calling for President Trump's removal from office.
"A stereotypical response is 'thank you, thank you, thank you' with a string of a hundred exclamation points — 'you've said what I've been thinking but haven't been able to articulate, I'm not crazy,'" Galli told MSNBC, adding, "We have lost subscribers, but we've had three times as many people start to subscribe."
Galli and his magazine were condemned by nearly 200 evangelical leaders following his editorial, which argued Trump's removal was "not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments."
The op-ed was published shortly after the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. At the heart of the charges are accusations that Trump withheld nearly $400 million in military aid for Ukraine to pressure that nation to launch investigations into his potential rivals, including Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, ahead of the 2020 election.
In his editorial, Galli didn't just criticize Trump. He also called out the president's devout Christian base.
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"To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve. Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior," he wrote.
In an interview Sunday with CBS News, Galli defended his call to remove Trump from office and explained that he was not making a "political judgment" but rather a "moral" one.
"It strikes me as strange that people who take the teachings of Jesus Christ seriously, the teachings of the Ten Commandments seriously, that we can't at least say publicly and out loud in front of God and everybody, that this man's character is deeply, deeply concerning to us," he said.
Galli again acknowledged that the president has delivered many victories to the evangelical community with policy decisions on abortion and religious freedom, but added that he doesn't believe evangelicals can "in good conscience" continue the "trade-off" of accepting Trump because of his policy positions.
"He gives us what we need on pro-life, but he's got this bad character. The fundamental argument I'm making is: We crossed a line somewhere in the impeachment hearings, at least in my mind — that balance no longer works," Galli said.
Galli's editorial prompted outrage from Trump, who condemned Christianity Today as a "far-left magazine," as well as a statement from Rev. Franklin Graham, who claimed his father would have disagreed with Galli's position.
"It's obvious that Christianity Today has moved to the left and is representing the elitist wing of evangelicalism," Graham said. "Is President Trump guilty of sin? Of course he is, as were all past presidents and as each one of us are, including myself. Therefore, let's pray for the President as he continues to lead the affairs of our nation."
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Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump stand their ground over impeachment
So much for holiday cheer.
President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exchanged tweets on Monday over her holding up delivering articles of impeachment to the GOP-controlled Senate until a fair impeachment trial can be guaranteed.
Trump kicked off the exchange when he criticized the California Democrat for conducting an unfair impeachment investigation in the House.
"Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so," Trump posted on Twitter. "She lost Congress once, she will do it again!"
Pelosi then weighed in on Trump's tweet.
"The House cannot choose our impeachment managers until we know what sort of trial the Senate will conduct. President Trump blocked his own witnesses and documents from the House, and from the American people, on phony complaints about the House process," the speaker wrote. "What is his excuse now?"
Pelosi is temporarily holding up the two articles of impeachment the House voted on last Wednesday after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was coordinating the Senate trial with White House lawyers and declared he wouldn't be an impartial juror.
"We would hope there would be a fair process just as I hope they would honor the Constitution," Pelosi said of Republicans in the Senate during her weekly news conference last Thursday.
McConnell, appearing Monday on "Fox & Friends," said he's in no rush to get the articles.
"She's apparently trying to tell us how to run the trial," the Kentucky Republican said. "You know, I'm not anxious to have this trial. So if she wants to hold onto the papers, go right ahead."
Until then, he said both sides remain deadlocked.
"Look, we're at an impasse. We can't do anything until the speaker sends the papers over, so everybody enjoy the holidays," he said.
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Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump stand their ground over impeachment
So much for holiday cheer.
President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exchanged tweets on Monday over her holding up delivering articles of impeachment to the GOP-controlled Senate until a fair impeachment trial can be guaranteed.
Trump kicked off the exchange when he criticized the California Democrat for conducting an unfair impeachment investigation in the House.
"Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so," Trump posted on Twitter. "She lost Congress once, she will do it again!"
Pelosi then weighed in on Trump's tweet.
"The House cannot choose our impeachment managers until we know what sort of trial the Senate will conduct. President Trump blocked his own witnesses and documents from the House, and from the American people, on phony complaints about the House process," the speaker wrote. "What is his excuse now?"
Pelosi is temporarily holding up the two articles of impeachment the House voted on last Wednesday after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was coordinating the Senate trial with White House lawyers and declared he wouldn't be an impartial juror.
"We would hope there would be a fair process just as I hope they would honor the Constitution," Pelosi said of Republicans in the Senate during her weekly news conference last Thursday.
McConnell, appearing Monday on "Fox & Friends," said he's in no rush to get the articles.
"She's apparently trying to tell us how to run the trial," the Kentucky Republican said. "You know, I'm not anxious to have this trial. So if she wants to hold onto the papers, go right ahead."
Until then, he said both sides remain deadlocked.
"Look, we're at an impasse. We can't do anything until the speaker sends the papers over, so everybody enjoy the holidays," he said.
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Doug Jones says impeachment must be above electoral politics
"Everyone wants to talk about this in the political terms and the political consequences term. This is a much more serious matter than that."
Doug Jones, the most vulnerable Democratic senator up for reelection, on Sunday dismissed concerns that a vote to remove President Donald Trump from office would cost him his Senate seat.
"Everyone wants to talk about this in the political terms and the political consequences term. This is a much more serious matter than that," the Alabama senator told Martha Raddatz, co-anchor of ABC's "This Week."
"This has to do with the future of the presidency and how we want our presidents to conduct themselves. It has all to do with the future of the Senate and how the Senate should handle impeachment and articles of impeachment that come over. That's how I'm looking at this," he added. "If I did everything based on a pure political argument, all you'd need is a computer to mash a button. That's just not what this country is about. It's not what the founders intended to do."
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Jones was asked if he might be one of the Democrats that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believes will defect from the party and vote to acquit the president. "I have no idea what Mitch McConnell's talking about these days," he said.
Jones said he needs a "full and complete picture," including documents and testimony the White House has blocked, to decide.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said he wants both sides to have a fair chance at making their case before a vote in an impeachment trial.
"We can obsess on this impeachment. We can obsess on the trial. But what I'm trying to do is — I'm trying to get the American people the truth of what all happened," the Wisconsin Republican said. " Something very strange has happened. You got 40, 45 percent of the American public that completely support the president. That support is strengthening. Forty, 45 percent that really don't — obviously, you know, he's not their cup of tea, let's put it that way. Ten to 20 percent of the American people in the middle are just asking what was going on. I'm trying to answer those questions."
Jones said he is still waiting to "see if the dots get connected" on Trump withholding military aid in Ukraine in exchange for investigations into his political rivals.
"If that is the case, then I think it's a serious matter and it's an impeachable matter. But if those dots aren't connected and there are other explanations that I think are consistent with innocence, I will go that way, too," he said.
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Doug Jones says impeachment must be above electoral politics
"Everyone wants to talk about this in the political terms and the political consequences term. This is a much more serious matter than that."
Doug Jones, the most vulnerable Democratic senator up for reelection, on Sunday dismissed concerns that a vote to remove President Donald Trump from office would cost him his Senate seat.
"Everyone wants to talk about this in the political terms and the political consequences term. This is a much more serious matter than that," the Alabama senator told Martha Raddatz, co-anchor of ABC's "This Week."
"This has to do with the future of the presidency and how we want our presidents to conduct themselves. It has all to do with the future of the Senate and how the Senate should handle impeachment and articles of impeachment that come over. That's how I'm looking at this," he added. "If I did everything based on a pure political argument, all you'd need is a computer to mash a button. That's just not what this country is about. It's not what the founders intended to do."
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Jones was asked if he might be one of the Democrats that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believes will defect from the party and vote to acquit the president. "I have no idea what Mitch McConnell's talking about these days," he said.
Jones said he needs a "full and complete picture," including documents and testimony the White House has blocked, to decide.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said he wants both sides to have a fair chance at making their case before a vote in an impeachment trial.
"We can obsess on this impeachment. We can obsess on the trial. But what I'm trying to do is — I'm trying to get the American people the truth of what all happened," the Wisconsin Republican said. " Something very strange has happened. You got 40, 45 percent of the American public that completely support the president. That support is strengthening. Forty, 45 percent that really don't — obviously, you know, he's not their cup of tea, let's put it that way. Ten to 20 percent of the American people in the middle are just asking what was going on. I'm trying to answer those questions."
Jones said he is still waiting to "see if the dots get connected" on Trump withholding military aid in Ukraine in exchange for investigations into his political rivals.
"If that is the case, then I think it's a serious matter and it's an impeachable matter. But if those dots aren't connected and there are other explanations that I think are consistent with innocence, I will go that way, too," he said.
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McConnell All But Declares There'll Be No Movement On Impeachment Until After Holidays
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled on Monday there would be no movement on impeachment until after Congress returns to session in January.
Speaking to reporters in Kentucky, McConnell was tight-lipped about impeachment proceedings and how the Senate intends to handle the articles once they come over from the House, pointing local reporters instead to a "Fox and Friends" interview he gave on Monday morning.
"I think we'll find out when we come back in session where we are," he said, signaling that there'd be no decision on a Senate trial until after the holidays.
McConnell also jabbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for delaying the transmission of the articles. Pelosi has indicated she would send the articles over once she knows how the Senate plans to conduct its trial, so she'll have a better idea of how many impeachment managers to assign to the task. Republicans have seized on this delay as a sign of Democrats getting weak-kneed about their case.
"We can't take up a matter we don't have, so hopefully they'll be on the way over at some point," he said.
When asked about how impeachment proceedings might impact his next election, McConnell was honest: "Who knows," he said.
Last week the leader of the upper chamber told reporters that he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were at an impasse over how to handle impeachment. Schumer sent a letter to colleagues on Monday, saying he wanted four witnesses to speak at a robust Senate trial and requested documents relevant to Ukraine be provided as well. McConnell has indicated he doesn't want Democrats or Republicans to call in witnesses, but he says his caucus has not quite reached a decision. That indication appears to be in contrast with what President Trump has publicly claimed he'd like to see.
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McConnell All But Declares There'll Be No Movement On Impeachment Until After Holidays
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled on Monday there would be no movement on impeachment until after Congress returns to session in January.
Speaking to reporters in Kentucky, McConnell was tight-lipped about impeachment proceedings and how the Senate intends to handle the articles once they come over from the House, pointing local reporters instead to a "Fox and Friends" interview he gave on Monday morning.
"I think we'll find out when we come back in session where we are," he said, signaling that there'd be no decision on a Senate trial until after the holidays.
McConnell also jabbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for delaying the transmission of the articles. Pelosi has indicated she would send the articles over once she knows how the Senate plans to conduct its trial, so she'll have a better idea of how many impeachment managers to assign to the task. Republicans have seized on this delay as a sign of Democrats getting weak-kneed about their case.
"We can't take up a matter we don't have, so hopefully they'll be on the way over at some point," he said.
When asked about how impeachment proceedings might impact his next election, McConnell was honest: "Who knows," he said.
Last week the leader of the upper chamber told reporters that he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were at an impasse over how to handle impeachment. Schumer sent a letter to colleagues on Monday, saying he wanted four witnesses to speak at a robust Senate trial and requested documents relevant to Ukraine be provided as well. McConnell has indicated he doesn't want Democrats or Republicans to call in witnesses, but he says his caucus has not quite reached a decision. That indication appears to be in contrast with what President Trump has publicly claimed he'd like to see.
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How to hack the color of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge lightsabers
When you go to the Star Wars parks at Disneyland or Disney World, there's a place where you get to craft your own lightsaber for the not-low-at-all price of $200. You get to build the hilt and choose your kyber crystal, which Star Wars geeks know determines the color of your blade.
Officially, you're only allowed to pick from the four colors seen in the movies: blue, green, purple, and red. Unofficially, you can actually make it any color you want.
Gene Chorba, a developer at Riot Games, tweeted Friday that those kyber crystals actually house a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag that determines the color of the blade. With the right technology, you can actually rewrite the RFID to get a different color.
Riot Gene :So the Disney build your own lightsaber system uses RFID codes to tell the lightsaber what color to display.
Which means if you have an RFID read/writer you can swap through all the colors without buying each crystal.
That's right, you can get colors that aren't even seen in the movies.
All you need is an RFID reader/writer, which can be found online for as low as $20. If you want to see how to do it yourself, this video is a helpful tutorial on how to use an RFID reader/writer and how to change the color of the blade.
While Chorba tweeted out codes for two extra colors, orange (3074) and teal (3077), YouTuber Kyle Bridges lists a few more codes to make your blade white (3072) or yellow (3075) as well as the standard colors red (3073), green (3076), blue (3086), and purple (3079).
I neither have one of these lightsabers nor an RFID reader/writer to test this out, but the video proves that it works and isn't too difficult to do at home.
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How to hack the color of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge lightsabers
When you go to the Star Wars parks at Disneyland or Disney World, there's a place where you get to craft your own lightsaber for the not-low-at-all price of $200. You get to build the hilt and choose your kyber crystal, which Star Wars geeks know determines the color of your blade.
Officially, you're only allowed to pick from the four colors seen in the movies: blue, green, purple, and red. Unofficially, you can actually make it any color you want.
Gene Chorba, a developer at Riot Games, tweeted Friday that those kyber crystals actually house a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag that determines the color of the blade. With the right technology, you can actually rewrite the RFID to get a different color.
Riot Gene :So the Disney build your own lightsaber system uses RFID codes to tell the lightsaber what color to display.
Which means if you have an RFID read/writer you can swap through all the colors without buying each crystal.
That's right, you can get colors that aren't even seen in the movies.
All you need is an RFID reader/writer, which can be found online for as low as $20. If you want to see how to do it yourself, this video is a helpful tutorial on how to use an RFID reader/writer and how to change the color of the blade.
While Chorba tweeted out codes for two extra colors, orange (3074) and teal (3077), YouTuber Kyle Bridges lists a few more codes to make your blade white (3072) or yellow (3075) as well as the standard colors red (3073), green (3076), blue (3086), and purple (3079).
I neither have one of these lightsabers nor an RFID reader/writer to test this out, but the video proves that it works and isn't too difficult to do at home.
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Sabtu, 21 Desember 2019
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By the time The Rise of Skywalker introduces Poe's presumed ex-lover Zorii Bliss, who looks like the ferocious spawn of Catwoman and a Power Ranger, he's ready to say the quiet part out loud and ask to kiss her (denied), and straight up proposition her with a raise of his eyebrow at the end of the movie (also denied, which is kind of hot in its own way). Thank god for that, because without Poe's suggestive nodding, there's almost nothing else horny about this movie.
It seems impossible that the same film that makes Reylo canon — Reylo, for christ's sake — has so little to offer on the horny scale. Flash back to The Last Jedi, which charged Rey and Kylo Ren's almost–hand touch with enough ambient horndoggery to launch an entire genre of fanfiction (Force sex! It's a thing now!), and compare that lusty subtext with The Rise of Skywalker's Reylo smooch, which is sandwiched between both kissers literally being dead in a coliseum filled with smushed-up monks. Sure, it's kind of biblical, but not in that way. No points awarded, and everyone involved should be ashamed.
Finally, and this is what zaps every last trace of horniness from The Rise of Skywalker, there's Palpatine. Crusty, musty Emperor Palpatine and the horrifying news that he absolutely fucked. Regardless of how anyone feels about Rey being Sheev Palpatine's granddaughter from a story perspective, the facts of human reproduction require ol' Palpy to have canonically banged his way to natural fatherhood — the same Palpatine who appears in the movie as a dessicated corpse and whose whole aesthetic since The Phantom Menace has been "caftan-wearing creeper Nazi."
Just to clarify that visual: Rey was born in 15 ABY and her flashback dad doesn't look older than 35, so that's Revenge of the Sith–era Sheev Palpatine laying groundwork for his senatorial takeover by day and laying pipe to some random space lady by night. With whom was Palpatine getting down to pound town? Was she nice? Was it freaky? A lot of the Sith-adjacent folks in the extended media have a whole fetishwear thing going on so that's why it might have been freaky. He colonized her Unknown Regions. Explored her Outer Rim. This is awful. It's negative horny and Star Wars can't come back from this, even if Palpatine did.
Not even Poe Dameron's smoldering stare can outweigh the fact that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's biggest twist only happened because Sheev Palpatine had unprotected sex. The simmering horniness of The Last Jedi was a one-time miracle of the Force, and it's Palpa-turtles all the way down from there. The Force might be balanced by the end of the movie, but The Rise of Skywalker's horny scale is wildly and forever skewed towards the dark side. Thanks a lot, Sheev.
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By the time The Rise of Skywalker introduces Poe's presumed ex-lover Zorii Bliss, who looks like the ferocious spawn of Catwoman and a Power Ranger, he's ready to say the quiet part out loud and ask to kiss her (denied), and straight up proposition her with a raise of his eyebrow at the end of the movie (also denied, which is kind of hot in its own way). Thank god for that, because without Poe's suggestive nodding, there's almost nothing else horny about this movie.
It seems impossible that the same film that makes Reylo canon — Reylo, for christ's sake — has so little to offer on the horny scale. Flash back to The Last Jedi, which charged Rey and Kylo Ren's almost–hand touch with enough ambient horndoggery to launch an entire genre of fanfiction (Force sex! It's a thing now!), and compare that lusty subtext with The Rise of Skywalker's Reylo smooch, which is sandwiched between both kissers literally being dead in a coliseum filled with smushed-up monks. Sure, it's kind of biblical, but not in that way. No points awarded, and everyone involved should be ashamed.
Finally, and this is what zaps every last trace of horniness from The Rise of Skywalker, there's Palpatine. Crusty, musty Emperor Palpatine and the horrifying news that he absolutely fucked. Regardless of how anyone feels about Rey being Sheev Palpatine's granddaughter from a story perspective, the facts of human reproduction require ol' Palpy to have canonically banged his way to natural fatherhood — the same Palpatine who appears in the movie as a dessicated corpse and whose whole aesthetic since The Phantom Menace has been "caftan-wearing creeper Nazi."
Just to clarify that visual: Rey was born in 15 ABY and her flashback dad doesn't look older than 35, so that's Revenge of the Sith–era Sheev Palpatine laying groundwork for his senatorial takeover by day and laying pipe to some random space lady by night. With whom was Palpatine getting down to pound town? Was she nice? Was it freaky? A lot of the Sith-adjacent folks in the extended media have a whole fetishwear thing going on so that's why it might have been freaky. He colonized her Unknown Regions. Explored her Outer Rim. This is awful. It's negative horny and Star Wars can't come back from this, even if Palpatine did.
Not even Poe Dameron's smoldering stare can outweigh the fact that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's biggest twist only happened because Sheev Palpatine had unprotected sex. The simmering horniness of The Last Jedi was a one-time miracle of the Force, and it's Palpa-turtles all the way down from there. The Force might be balanced by the end of the movie, but The Rise of Skywalker's horny scale is wildly and forever skewed towards the dark side. Thanks a lot, Sheev.
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How horny is 'The Rise of Skywalker'? Not horny enough.
This post contains deeply weird spoilers for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Read at your own risk, for at least two reasons.
It's been two years since The Last Jedi shocked the world by being the first Star Wars movie to be horny on main. Shirtless Kylo Ren Force Skyped Rey in the middle of the night to seduce her (to the dark side, but still), Maz Kanata casually insinuated that she banged a "master breaker," Luke did some weird stuff with milk, and John Boyega entered the movie naked and leaking in a see-through rubber suit. Now that The Rise of Skywalker is here, those who saw The Last Jedi's sexual supertext must be wondering: is this one horny too? And if so, how horny are we talking?
Not horny enough, to be honest. The Rise of Skywalker is sure to stir up discourse on what Star Wars means to fans, how well it stuck the landing, and a host of other topics everyone will surely debate in a calm and civil fashion, but there's very little in the movie that will make anyone wonder "was that scene horny, or am I disgusting?" It's disappointing, really. The Rise of Skywalker aims for horny, falls short, and then...well. Then it ruins everything. But first, the good news.
One great thing The Rise of Skywalker does is put the bulk of the movie's horniness on the square shoulders of its strongest chemical asset: Poe Dameron. Poe knows the galaxy might end in a matter of days and pursues saving the world and getting laid with equal romantic abandon. Part of the reason nearly all of his interactions read as horny is because Poe is played by Oscar Isaac, who could steal your wallet and call it flirting with zero pushback, but the other part is that he's just...actively generating pants-stirring situations the whole time.
Poe gets in a verbal spat with Rey that could just be two strong personalities clashing, but also, what if they kissed? He falls into a sand cave inches away from Rey's face and you know what, they could have kissed then, too. The good Ship FinnPoe is unfortunately scuttled in canon, but that was never going to stop Poe throwing long, fiery looks at his BF(F) and holding every hug with Finn for as long as the audience needs to get the message.
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How horny is 'The Rise of Skywalker'? Not horny enough.
This post contains deeply weird spoilers for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Read at your own risk, for at least two reasons.
It's been two years since The Last Jedi shocked the world by being the first Star Wars movie to be horny on main. Shirtless Kylo Ren Force Skyped Rey in the middle of the night to seduce her (to the dark side, but still), Maz Kanata casually insinuated that she banged a "master breaker," Luke did some weird stuff with milk, and John Boyega entered the movie naked and leaking in a see-through rubber suit. Now that The Rise of Skywalker is here, those who saw The Last Jedi's sexual supertext must be wondering: is this one horny too? And if so, how horny are we talking?
Not horny enough, to be honest. The Rise of Skywalker is sure to stir up discourse on what Star Wars means to fans, how well it stuck the landing, and a host of other topics everyone will surely debate in a calm and civil fashion, but there's very little in the movie that will make anyone wonder "was that scene horny, or am I disgusting?" It's disappointing, really. The Rise of Skywalker aims for horny, falls short, and then...well. Then it ruins everything. But first, the good news.
One great thing The Rise of Skywalker does is put the bulk of the movie's horniness on the square shoulders of its strongest chemical asset: Poe Dameron. Poe knows the galaxy might end in a matter of days and pursues saving the world and getting laid with equal romantic abandon. Part of the reason nearly all of his interactions read as horny is because Poe is played by Oscar Isaac, who could steal your wallet and call it flirting with zero pushback, but the other part is that he's just...actively generating pants-stirring situations the whole time.
Poe gets in a verbal spat with Rey that could just be two strong personalities clashing, but also, what if they kissed? He falls into a sand cave inches away from Rey's face and you know what, they could have kissed then, too. The good Ship FinnPoe is unfortunately scuttled in canon, but that was never going to stop Poe throwing long, fiery looks at his BF(F) and holding every hug with Finn for as long as the audience needs to get the message.
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