Open thread 5/7/2026
Ami Kozak is a genius. But to realize that, it helps to have seen the original interview:
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Ami Kozak is a genius. But to realize that, it helps to have seen the original interview:
Mark Hamill is facing major backlash after sharing a post on Bluesky depicting President Trump dead in a grave alongside the caption “If Only.”
The image, which was posted directly to Hamill’s verified Bluesky account, shows a seemingly lifeless President Trump lying in dirt beneath a gravestone reading “DONALD J. TRUMP 1946–2024.” Across the bottom of the image are the words “If Only.”
–“Mark Hamill Shares Photo Depicting President Trump Dead, Captioned “If Only”
https://thatparkplace.com/mark-hamill-shares-photo-depicting-president-trump-dead-captioned-if-only
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I’m betting Hamill has brought on himself some serious trouble. After three Trump assassination attempts, at least half the country is fed up and angry. We see how the left is stirring the hate pot for more nuts to come out of the woodwork to take a shot at Trump.
I doubt anything legal will come of it, though the Secret Service may have a few words with Mr. Hamill and I hope they do.
But Hamill has disgraced himself as the heroic, good Luke Skywalker and is likely now too radioactive to represent Star Wars and even Hollywood will know it.
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I saw the image and text posted by Mark Hamill, it represents Trump as having died in 2024, and the text expresses a wish that Trump live long enough to suffer the consequences of his actions, with the implication that Trump will one day rue that he hadn’t died in 2024. There’s really no way to get a death threat out of it or a wish for Trump’s death, unless one posits a time machine. I’m sure it was carefully constructed.
Which makes it worse, in my opinion, being so passive-aggressive and constructed to be deniable. Would be more honest, and braver, to just say you wanted him dead and take the consequences–which in all honesty won’t be all that negative as half the country will applaud–instead of being such a weasel about it.
Luke Skywanker never recovered after the drinking scene before Mary Sue came to his island exile.
Just another actor, Mr. Hamill has proven to be.
https://instapundit.com/795193/#disqus_thread
Huxley:
I wouldn’t be so quick to suggest that Hamill has gone too far for his Hollywood pals to support. The reason he continues to dig his particular rabbit hole deeper is because he has paid no price for it. Nor will he, unless he comes right out and threatens to personally act out his political fantasies on President Trump. Disney, which owns everything Star Wars now after having bought it from Lucas is a hotbed of anti-Trump, anti-American, pro-lgbtqia/dei/feminist zealots and would, I am quite sure put Hamill back in a Star Wars vehicle but for the fact that the “old” Star Wars has been abandoned in favor of the rebooted version in which grrlbosses are the main protgonists, not old fashioned male action hero types.
TabletMag, Peter Theroux, “Princelings of Persia [Barack Obama brought the children and cronies of Iran’s ruling elite into the United States. Now they’re being sent back.]”:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/iran-regime-cronies-deported
Brilliant. He portrays the self-promoting jester as he really is.