The Traitorous Captain America And The Wrong Side Of History

There’s a scene in Ocean’s 11 when Rusty and Danny are putting together the squad and going through their options. They need drivers and the following exchange goes down: “I talked to the Malloys yesterday.” “The Mormon Twins?” “Yeah, they’re both in Salt Lake City, six months off the job. I got the sense that they’re having trouble filling the hours.” Immediately it cuts to a scene of the twins, played by Casey Affleck and Scott Caan. Caan is in a monster truck racing against Affleck’s remote controlled truck. The scene ends with Caan swerving over and destroying the remote controlled truck, just because he had nothing else better to do. Fam, our peoples over at Fox News and Breitbart? I think they’re having trouble filling the hours. They got nothing else better to do. Fresh off the release of Captain America: Sam Wilson #1, written by rising star at Marvel, Nick Spencer, and drawn beautifully by David Acuna, the new(ish) comic book found its way into the deep end of the conservative conspiracy pool. Which is like when your problematic uncle traps you in the corner with talk about how things aren’t how they used to be. And then you just tolerate the shit cuz he’s family, supposedly, and you bet on the fact that he will eventually tire himself out and move on. And then, all of a sudden he’s comparing the prospect of gay folks being able to get married to bestiality and you wake up inside the conversation like, WAIT HOW THE HELL DID WE GET HERE UNC?!?! We talkin’ about comic …