(Also, "Here comes the General" in the context of Hillary Rodham Clinton makes me want to juxtapose her with General Leia Organa... which gets even funnier when I remember just how much the plot of the Star Wars tie-novel Bloodline reminds me of the 2016 elections, with Leia in the role of Hillary: incredibly qualified, competent candidate who gets undercut by sensational political machinations masterminded by a combination of her political rivals and agents of an historically hostile foreign power? Yep, yep, and yep. People are even snarky about her husband's checkered past.)
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Date: 2018-10-04 01:07 am (UTC)(Also, "Here comes the General" in the context of Hillary Rodham Clinton makes me want to juxtapose her with General Leia Organa... which gets even funnier when I remember just how much the plot of the Star Wars tie-novel Bloodline reminds me of the 2016 elections, with Leia in the role of Hillary: incredibly qualified, competent candidate who gets undercut by sensational political machinations masterminded by a combination of her political rivals and agents of an historically hostile foreign power? Yep, yep, and yep. People are even snarky about her husband's checkered past.)