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Weeks removed from the season two finale of The Mandalorian, Star Wars fans are still talking about the big sequence in the end of the episode which saw the return of Luke Skywalker. Peak in his Jedi prowess, Mark Hamill’s character makes quick work of the evil Dark Troopers that were on the way to crush the title bounty hunter and little Grogu. Even though composer Ludwig Göransson created some epic music to accompany this moment that viewers have been waiting for for decades, but YouTuber bugzkilla has made a minor change to the musical selection by adding Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” to the scene to hilarious effect.

Produced for the 1984 movie Footloose, “Holding Out for a Hero” would have had no place in a Star Wars movie but you can’t argue that it doesn’t fit into this scene both in terms of editing and in the underlying message of Luke’s return. This sequence had fans cheering in their homes and even had the creative minds behind it celebrating since it didn’t leak online. “It was very tricky because it’s very hard to keep a secret nowadays, especially with Star Wars, because people are so curious about it,” creator Jon Favreau previously told Good Morning America about Hamill’s top-secret Star Wars return. “There are so many people involved with the process, with visual effects finishing, making it, filming it, the studios, everything.”

Because “every piece of casting leaked” ahead of season 2, Favreau added, “We were so scared right up until it aired that our surprise cameo was going to leak too.”

“But we started off the whole series with the Baby Yoda reveal, with the Grogu reveal, that was a secret that everybody was really blown away by,” Favreau said of the Mandalorian’s (Pedro Pascal) first meeting with the Child at the end of the show’s premiere episode in 2019. “Part of that is not telling too many people, not having merchandise that’s being tooled up and announced and that kind of thing.”

It hasn’t yet been revealed if there will be merch of Luke’s apperance in the series.

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When asked by Vogue in 2016 what piece of information she’d like to go back and tell her 19 year-old self, Taylor responded: “You’re gonna date just like a normal 20-something should be allowed to but you’re going to be a national lighting rod for slut-shaming.”

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter, a native of Turkey, was officially sworn in as a U.S. citizen on Monday after legally changing his last name to “Freedom.”

After all the hardships he has gone through, he was ecstatic to finally become a citizen of a free country.

Just hours after being sworn in, Freedom appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to talk about his experience. The NBA veteran was proudly wearing a shirt with the words “U.S. Citizen” written above an American flag.

“I can just easily say that this is the greatest day in my life,” Freedom said. “You know, it was my dream the first day I stepped into America.”

Enes Kanter Freedom celebrates becoming a US citizen with Tucker Carlson: “It is the greatest feeling that I ever had.”

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 30, 2021

Freedom said he received a green card about six years ago. Since then, his home country has not made things easy for him.

“You know, after I got my green card, obviously it’s been a rough six years because [the] Turkish government revoked my passport and put my name on [the] INTERPOL list,” he said.

According to CNN, Freedom has been a vocal opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Since speaking out, he said he has faced death threats and seen his father arrested.

He told Carlson that his first experience with liberty in America was a shocking change.

“I remember [the] first time I came to America. … It was back in 2009,” Freedom said. “One of my teammates criticized the president. And I turned around and I told him, I was like, ‘Dude, what are you doing? They’re gonna throw you in jail.’

“And he told me, he started laughing and said, ‘This is America, don’t worry about it. You are not in Turkey anymore.’ I was very shocked.”

Freedom said earning U.S. citizenship was “the greatest feeling that I ever had.”

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In addition to becoming a citizen, he decided to change his last name to Freedom to celebrate his new country.

Freedom has also been an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party. He has taken particular issue with their treatment of Uyghurs, as well as citizens of Taiwan and Hong Kong.

“There are so many, you know, athletes, so many actors, so many celebrities out there who are scared because if they criticize China, obviously they will be affected,” he told Carlson.

“You know, their endorsement deals, their contract or … their money will be affected. And they’re scared to say anything. But to me, you know, human rights, democracy and freedom is way more important than everything they can offer me.”

Throughout the interview, Carlson was grinning from ear to ear with visible happiness for Freedom. In a time when negative stories seem to dominate nightly news, a star athlete proud to become an American was clearly a welcome change of pace.

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Comedian Bill Burr, who became a target of the cancel culture during the recent Grammy’s awards show, says he refuses to apologize for his comedy.

Burr was attacked in March after he was hired to present some awards to Hispanic artists during the pre-Grammy ceremony on March 14. During his stint on stage, Burr joked about the “feminists going nuts” because a “cis-white male” was doling out the Latino awards. And at one point during the presentation, Burr admitted that he was unsure of how to properly pronounce the name of one of the Hispanic winners.

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Bill Burr the GOAT Lolol
Rare comedian that will joke about stuff like this pic.twitter.com/Aq5dzKva0E

— alyoshka.eth (@_ThomasT) March 14, 2021

Burr was right about the faux outrage. Cancel culture leftists revved up the attack machine as soon as he hit the stage. Burr, though, was unapologetic at the time. And he is still telling the cancel culture to take a leap.

In an interview on Tuesday, Burr again blasted the left for its attempt to destroy the careers of comedians whose jokes they dislike.

Speaking to the hosts of the Pat McAfee Show, Burr noted that the extremists — both left and right — only make up a small part of the country, and they should be ignored.

“These people that are on the extreme right & left only represent about 15% of the population.. the other 85% are just wondering when mom & dad are gonna stop arguing with each other,” he joked.

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“These people that are on the extreme right & left only represent about 15% of the population.. the other 85% are just wondering when mom & dad are gonna stop arguing with each other” ~@billburr#PatMcAfeeShowLIVE pic.twitter.com/cGBT1JJlun

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) December 1, 2021

Burr added that he doesn’t think he is above criticism and said has apologized in the past after going too far for a joke.

“I’m not saying that I ever haven’t made mistakes,” he told McAfee. “There’s times I’ve, you know, pissed somebody off or made somebody cry, and if they come up and they have a legitimate thing, then I’ll apologize to them. But I’m not apologizing to a bunch of fucking people because I told a joke that they weren’t at. I told a joke at a show you weren’t at. Like, all right, so, like, how is that my fault?”

Burr has also been a harsh critic of the media for how unfairly it has covered President Donald Trump.

In July, for instance, Burr slammed CNN, MSNBC, and Fox for obsessive coverage of Trump, and called the news outlets “treasonous, un-American piece of shit.”

During his July 15 podcast, Burr called the media “fucking morons,” and added, “They’re doing what they did the first time to get this guy elected by giving him all this free coverage while they act like they allegedly don’t like him. I don’t buy it. They are a corporate news channel,” Burr ranted, ultimately dismissing them as “fucking treasonous un-American pieces of shit, just like Fox News, MSNBC, just like all of them.”

Burr also attacked Disney for firing actress Gina Carano just because she had posted a few conservative-leaning messages on social media.

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Ignore those pictures of the Afghan army that our military senior leader geniuses spent 20 years and zillions of dollars on disintegrating in the face of a pack of glorified mountain banditos from the Seventh Century – the real story is that, finally, America’s fighting men and women are fully aware of the urgency of accepting and validating the trans experience. And it’s even better if said trans people are BIPOC. Plus differently abled. 

Our broke, woke armed forces would be a hysterically funny punchline if the joke wasn’t, “The greatest military in human history walks into a bar, puts down trillions of dollars and buckets of American blood, and asks the bartender, ‘So, what would it look like if all the generals and admirals sucked-up to the garbage establishment that has totally failed the people of the USA?’”

Yes, it is a joke, a sick one. Fire all the generals. Invite a few back, maybe a dozen. Clean out the Pentagon. Can all the “Diversity Consultants,” “Equal Opportunity Officers,” “Climate Change Mitigation Specialists,” and every other strap-hanging oxygen thief who doesn’t contribute to the only thing the military should be focusing on right now – putting Chi Coms in graves.

Yeah, there’s been a strategic failure of epic proportions by our civilian establishment. We need to fix that at the ballot box by tossing out every Democrat and every Liz Cheney-esque combat tourist who delights in sending our young people overseas to get ground up in idiotic wars designed to enrich their cronies. Hardest hit at the end of Afghanistan: Haliburton, Raytheon, KBR, and a hundred other contractors you never heard of. Oh, and the Afghan people, but they never really figured into this calculus except in the abstract idea that we were going to convert a nation of savages into Lil’ Vermonters living the Norman Rockwell dream of community democracy.

Twenty years of failure. Twenty years. How far and fast we fell. I was there thirty years ago, in VII Corps main, contributing my car washing skills, when the greatest military force in human history annihilated a country’s entire army in 100 hours and barely broke a sweat doing it. Amazingly, we did it without giving a single thought to our alleged privilege – to the extent cracking over reeking half-barrels in wooden outhouses in the middle of the desert constituted privilege. 

Look at us now. Look at the generals, in their stupid throwback uniforms from the Forties that are supposed to make the gender studies seminar we call the US Army think it’s the same force that broke Hitler. It’s not. A serious organization does not alternate its designation of America’s most serious threat between the weather, “racism,” and other Americans who dissent from the generals’ bosses’ political priorities.

The Navy is busy smashing ships into each other, or letting them burn, but it will tell you it’s the most effective, lethal fighting force ever. Baloney. It’s glided along on its WW2 legacy as well for going onto a century. It imagines that its glorious naval tradition is going to compensate for the fact that the Chinese are actually building combat-ready ships and learning how to use them. The Carthaginians were like that too – fat, smug, and eager to sacrifice their children to Moloch, just like our garbage elite. The Romans, who had no naval tradition, took one of their boats and copied it. Sound familiar? Then they built a navy. Also ring a bell? Then the Romans cleared the seas of Carthaginians and went on to rule the world for another 500+ years while Carthage’s field can still provide for all your sodium chloride needs.

By the time you read this missive, there will probably be little or no Afghanistan left unTalibanned – its capitals are getting grabbed up faster than the blueberry muffins at a Vindman family reunion. That guy represents everything wrong with our military and our elite – a mediocrity who stabbed his boss (and the American people) in the back by taking it upon himself to make foreign policy rather than help the guy elected to do so – is held up as an exemplar by our pathetic ruling caste. Recently, he posed (cringingly) with another disappointment who was tested and found wanting, the withered and wrinkly Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold the action hero is now just a grouchy old man with barely the virility to sex pester his maid anymore. That’s our military folks – the tough image hiding a pathetic reality. Like The Impregnator when he botched governing California, our military botches its one job when it fights anyone not willing to just roll over.

We saw the root cause when we watched those generals, bedecked in medals from their failed campaigns, sitting before Congress and defending their stupid reading lists consisting of the kind of stupid books that vapid, frigid Chardonnay junkies from Santa Monica read, not combat leaders. Move over, Sun Tzu – Henry “Ibram X. Kendi” Rogers has some insights into why the country you swore to die for sucks. That should motivate that 19-year old paratrooper from Omaha to take that hill! Thucydides, who we need more than ever right now, gets out of the way – here comes “Dr.” Robin DiAngelo to explain how everyone is racist, especially you. So wait, your job is to give your life…for racists?

No wonder we lose. We’re not a serious military. It’s now a jobs program for semi-employable field grade and flag officer failures to time-serve in until they can retire and get a sweet, sweet gig at Boeingrayheedynamics.

Who got fired for losing Afghanistan? No one (and don’t say David McKiernan, a solid officer who was politely asked to leave, not relieved, purely for show). 

And no one ever will. Accountability, the garlic to the vampires of our failed ruling caste, is just as foreign to the American military leadership as it is to our civilian leaders.

We will lose the next foreign war, which will most likely be with China. Thousands of Americans will die when their ships go down to PRA hypersonic missiles, and, after much soul-searching, the members of our establishment will determine that the fault lies with everyone else but them – especially you.

But the next war will probably not be a foreign one. Our lousy general officer corps got the message – the new enemy du jour is us. The dissenters. The deplorables. The ones they expect to breed the next generation of soldiers for them to play with – why, you couldn’t expect young Kaden from the Upper West Side to choose to be one of those dirty Marines instead of going to Dartmouth!

But on the bright side, when they try to turn the American military on the American people (“Kurt, you’re being crazy again. Also, it’s good that unarmed conservative vet Ashli Babbit was shot for trespassing and I support the Australians sending their army to make sure every kangaroo jockey downunder has a towel wrapped around his Foster’s hole.”) don’t worry too much. There’s no reason to believe that whatever remains undeserted of the two million or so active and reserve troops we have now will be any more effective here in CONUS against 100 million armed patriots with a significant number of vets of America’s military from when it didn’t suck than it was against those patient tribesmen in the Hindu Kush.

There’s hope for a rebirth – as a hierarchical organization, the military responds to what its civilian leadership demands. The current crop of lap dogs understood that President Asterisk wants wokeness and weather panic, and he got it. President DeSantis, after he fires just about everyone 07 and up (and a lot of O6s) must tell the remaining guys who will need to re-do the post-‘Nam rebuild that their focus is warfighting, warfighting, and more warfighting, and that the enemy is not racial hustles, the climate, or American patriots.

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