Ultimately, the rules work fine for what they were intended to do, which is prevent one branch of government from becoming much more powerful than the other two. However, they don’t work well against an entity like the Republican Party, which deliberately subverts multiple branches simultaneously. The rules against executive power have also been weakened over time due to congress ceding power to the president, something the founders hadn’t anticipated. They were prepared for greedy bastards that wanted to hoard power, but people giving power away to reduce their own responsibilities or achieve partisan goals was something they hadn’t even heard of.

Connery’s character is Lithuanian.

Oh, I know how that one happened. A rooster is also called a cock, though we don’t much use that word anymore, for obvious reasons. Probably didn’t know the word and checked Google Translate or something similar.

*Star Trek: The Motion Picture intensifies*

I remembering having a crush on Hermione. Emma Watson was also older than me, though, and I remember thinking that adults perving on her was gross.

He never retired, he just became irrelevant.

Hang on, I think I’ve seen this episode of, uh, everything.

It’s also how marriages worked in Europe for anyone who wasn’t a noble for centuries.

I think a bunch of people on here genuinely don’t know how to spell the word.

His character is actually Lithuanian, so he shouldn’t have a Russian accent. Not that Scottish is accurate…

Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.

Something something torment nexus something something.

They also had a chunk of the budget set aside to digitally un-recede Costner’s receding hairline.

It’s so corny that it wraps around to feeling sincere.

Don’t forget that there’s a whole hell of a lot of voter suppression going on in red states, too. Remember when Georgia voted for Biden in 2020? Or when Paxton said he was certain Texas would have gone to Biden in 2020 if he hadn’t prevented mail in ballots from being sent to certain counties? Republicans are actively preventing people from voting because they can’t win if everyone votes.

Officially, the British monarch can reject any bills that Parliament sends them, effectively vetoing it, but no king or queen has exercised that power since 1708.

Propoganda is a hell of a drug.

Which makes sense because even 1080p streaming is garbage compared to blu-ray.

Carrie Fisher said she had no memory of making that due to being high off her ass.

E.g.: the illogical irrational hyper-emoting vulcans.

Uh, Vulcans have always been illogical and irrational. This is partially because the writers tend to be bad at basic logic, but Trek has a looong history of Vulcans being pompous, racist assholes that are irrationally obsessed with tradition to the point they made it a de facto religion.

They are usually stone faced while they do it, though.