Jul 14, 2026 · 1 hr 51 min · 10 segments
This week The Doctor & Bunny Rose fight through the heat wave to bring you Pt 03 of "A History of the Galaxy According To George Lucas" This week we discuss Sheev Palpatines rise both in politics and…
Bunny RoseHost[laughs] So up until this point, we have been covering war after war, and the history of the galaxy was pretty much mirrored, has pretty much mirrored our own history in terms of tyrants trying to gain power and bureaucracy trying to stop it.
Only, like our own history, the bad guys realize open warfare isn't the way to go.
Instead, they use the rules of the bureaucratic republic against them, relying on slow, heavily debated bills and emergency protocols to gain power.
It's the ultimate villain pivot, trading a laser sword for a filibuster, and pretty much, uh, Israel are pretty much pulling from this.
... doing whatever the fuck they want, while the rest of the world are like, "No.
[laughs] So up until this point, we have been covering war after war, and the history of the galaxy was pretty much mirrored, has pretty much mirrored our own history in terms of tyrants trying to gain power and bureaucracy trying to stop it.
Only, like our own history, the bad guys realize open warfare isn't the way to go.
Instead, they use the rules of the bureaucratic republic against them, relying on slow, heavily debated bills and emergency protocols to gain power.
It's the ultimate villain pivot, trading a laser sword for a filibuster, and pretty much, uh, Israel are pretty much pulling from this.
... doing whatever the fuck they want, while the rest of the world are like, "No.
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