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Politicians were no-nonsense and sensible back then. Nixon's own party stood up to him because it was the right thing to do, and they knew something was up and didn't play around. They could have covered it up and dismiss it like Trump's echo chamber is doing atm, but they didn't. They put the constitution first and foremost as they so rightfully.

With this current era of government, I feel like even this wouldn't make Republicans stand up to Trump. Instead, they're scrambling around now to try and save face while all the alarm bells are ringing loud and clear for us all the hear behind them. Bells that started ringing ever since he refused to make his tax returns public.

Trump's administration continues to paint his party as the innocent ones and tries to shift the blame onto everyone else. I think the media and journalist is beginning to reject their bait, which is something I applaud because it's about kittenin time.

They can play dumb all they want for how long they wish. "Pede poena claudo". The truth will eventually come out.

Probably one of the saddest things to come out of this is that Comey found out he was fired through a TV playing in the background and laughed it off as a prank. Like, the notification letter from his own boss didn't even get to reach him first. The entire world knew of it at the same time he did.

suss?

Suspect. Shady. Lol

Still not over the fact that Hinata thinks knitting a scarf & flirting with a boy she barely knows is SO much more important than sAVING HER ONLY SISTER PFFFT

DO IT KISHIMOTO. You already done assassinated Naruto's character and his gorgeous hair. And Sasuke is probably still frolicking somewhere. It's like Brokeback Mountain again I swear.

 

Add in Sakura too. Save her from her miserable life as the domesticated, lovelorn, third-wheeling, secondary-character that she was never destined to be.

 

Listen my cynical words. Do something right in your life as a mangaka, please.

"Fainting" goats are still hilarious to watch.

 

It's a shame too, cause Sakura's father Kizashi has a great, loving personality. I could have seen him being sort of an uncle figure to Naruto (and maybe Sasuke?). He oozes lame dad-jokes and looks like he spoils Sakura with konpeitō and anmitsu on the weekends and burns his afternoon tea c'mon HOW did they pass up on THIS? Like bruh he's a guy with pink hair, I MUST know how his life went along with that. He must have been the most nervous new father EVER. Dumb father-daughter moments oh my GOD KISHI-FREAKING-MOTO.

Sakura is also a first generation shinobi amongst her classmates (Konoha 9) I should think. Some conflict must have risen with that decision as her career path, no? It's dangerous and they know nothing about it. Surely she must have been discouraged from being a shinobi at some point...

@neonranger

Yes: personality, relevance and backstory plays a huge role in a good character, not just secondary stuff like powerups. Sakura lacked 2/3 of these factors (backstory & relevancy, which she needed badly since she was a main character), whereas Hinata only lacked personality (for the most part). So I could see why fans liked Hinata > Sakura. Hinata just felt like a main character. But it always drives me up the wall at how Hinata was only destined to be Naruto's incubator and used Sakura as her life raft. It's deeply frustrating. (What I was sort of angling towards was the aesthetics of power actually, lol. But power means nothing if you don't use it anyways.)

And again, it goes back to Kishi failing to provide adequate development for both Hinata, Sakura, and all his female characters, I cannot preach this enough. Whether people liked Hinata or Sakura, NS or NH, everyone was let down in some way. He just doesn't know how to make a lead female, make a solid decision and to stick with it. The only real bond that's truly cemented is SNS, I've always believed that. They talk more to each other than their wives ffs.

I'm still upset at those phony interviews he constantly gives just to backpedal on his kitten ups and bad writing. Had Hinata been the heroine from the beginning? I probably wouldn't be here. Things would have been MUCH easier for me tbh.

(As for Orihime and Rukia, while I admire both girls and don't fuss about shipping in Bleach, I can't say much about them... I actually stopped watching Bleach when Aizen was defeated, so I'll just keep quiet about that, haha...)

True but the problem is that most of this stuff was from years ago when Naruto was in its prime and Toonami was on prime time instead of replacing Adult Swim. (Also Naruto now near the end of the scheduled instead of the beginning as it was when the new toonami started.)

Yeah, that's the flaw with my post. I still think people that started from the beginning to chapter 700 checked into Naruto out of either 1) habit or 2) hope/expectation for their ship. Other than that it's just mainstream notoriety. There is literally no other reason to be into Naruto post-Pein, cause the plot sure as hell went to s**t pass the glory days when the Akatsuki were still around.

Look at rukia from bleach she doesn't have big kittens but is the best character in the series.

The difference is, is that Rukia has more power. People are automatically attracted to people with power.

There're SO many pro-NH'ers/Hinata-wankers that think she can beat up Sakura and others just because of her magical Hyuuga/Kaguya linage. And it's the same with Rukia and Orihime. Orihime is weaker than Rukia, which is why people bash her a lot.

I've always wondered how people would feel if Sakura got a sudden power up treatment like Hinata, Naruto and Sasuke did. But ngl I feel like even if Sakura did had some sort of BS power up like three of them did, she'd still get bashed. Dare I say that in a way, she's like the Justin Bieber of the Narutoverse, ya know? It sounds so silly, but like no matter what they do and how much they've grown, they just cannot for the life of them escape their past embarrassments and screw ups. (All except Sakura didn't turn out to be an egotistical idiot.)

I think the popularity that Naruto has in the West that completely outweigh the one in Japan had something to do with the fact that the west had a more prominent and vocal fanbase.

 

Naruto garnered the attention of internationally popular stars such as Soulja Boy, who loves Naruto so much that he made an album cover inspired by Kishi's artwork:

 

 

and when he tweeted out:

 

that gain 30k+ retweets to this day.

 

EVEN SNOOP DOG POSTED THIS VIDEO as him dressed up in Naruto's clothes and called himself Snoopruto while smoking a blunt LOL...

 

Chris Brown is known to like anime as well. When making his Black Pyramid album lately, he was inspired by the language, culture and anime from Japan. Like him posing with samurai swords on his back (with people commenting about Naruto references), him painting anime, DBZ, Kuroko's Basketball, Megaman, Astroboy, Ninja Scrolls, more DBZ, DBZ ON HIS HOOD BRO CHILL. (There was anther IG post with his BP shirts and Naruto featured on in it & I CANNOT FIND IT asfjrfndizdjkf)

 

Rap is SO mainstream internationally now that just a shutout from mainstream artist like the ones above me can generate a lot buzz behind them. Hell, even all the 20-something year old dropout douches in my classes have no problem mentioning that they love Naruto, and wear Naruto printed shirts, skateboards, and gear around here. Like do you ever see this with Bleach? One Piece?

 

And it's just sort of a cool thing to like Naruto and certain other anime here in the states, so it's not a complete surprise to me that Kishi would overlook his fans in Japan to hear out the ones here since Japanese fans aren't too wild about Naruto. It's starting to show with Boruto as well, with him saying that his favorite food is hamburgers, an iconic western food that just screams 'merica.

 

Didn't Japanese fans say that the western fans ruined the series or something? Cause I don't doubt them at all when they say that.

The sad part is...there really is NO REASON why they should hate her at all and any reason they give just makes no sense.

They wanted Sakura to be with Sasuke....they did that...they hate her for it.
They wanted Sakura to push Hinata to Naruto....they did that...they hate her for it.
They didn't want Sakura to get attention...they give it to kakashi instead...they hate her for it.

I mean, really, these fans would have hated Sakura NO MATTER WHAT. Even if they made Sakura do everything they wanted her to do, they still would have hate her. So any hate they have is completely illogical.

It is so illogical, in fact, that you might as well made NS canon because "damn if you do, damned if you don't."

Again, there is NO REASON why Naruto and Sakura should not have been a couple and any reason anyone has for them not being a couple is either a completely biased opinions against Sakura and for Hinata or they are utterly hypocrites about it all.\

 

Also:
http://goboiano.com/...ll-time-part-1/

Naruto is not even in the top 100 of Japan's favorite anime.

 

100%. It's like a meme to hate on Sakura in the west. Everywhere she turns and everything she does, she is outright bashed for it. It's just awful.

Next chapter: an airplane comes out if nowhere and out lands Seto Kaiba to challenge Bolt to a duel while verbally dragging him about how lame his fake ninja cards are

How do you guys feel about post ending cheating fanfics? A fanfic that explored Naruto and Sakura still having feeling for each other and how it effected their current life and relationships would be a good idea. I think that type of story would be a good read. I wrote a few fanfics but they suck.

Not my cup of tea. Like other's have already said, it would be immature and out of character for Naruto and Sakura to do that. I could see them having second thoughts and regrets with so much left unsaid, but nothing to warrant an affair (especially with children involved). Both of them are too loyal for that. They would move on as they've already did, but would miss each other's company from time to time I'd imagine.

( In gaiden, Sakura convinced me that she would be a great single mother btw; headstrong and caring. )

Well Ria was able to find more things and one comment in particular peeked her curiosity so she sent it to me: 
 
 
Sumire: Is shy, likes Boruto, wears purple.
Fandom: CLEARLY SHE IS TOO MUCH LIKE HINATA. ONLY HINATA CAN LIKE UZUMAKIS AND WEAR PURPLE.
 
 
 
 
Praying to the Kamis for Sumire not to turn into the classic cliché pretty-shy-love interest and to actually have a character of her own
 
 
 
 
Now what she found from twitter: 
 
It looks like BoruSumi have already replaced BoruSara in my heart
 
 
BORUSUMI!!
 
You can ship borusumi if you want just dont force the parallels ( remember how narusaku made a fool of themselves with the parallels lmao )
 
 
 
Break away from twitter for a moment: 
 
 
Me:  "One NaruSaku is still a better pairing.. Two it had proper development and chemistry between the two characters.. Three Kishi just doesn't know how to write a good romance... I'm just saying when his side ships  like ObiRin.. MinaKushi.. ShikaTem  have better chemistry than   his canon main ships (NH and SS) were handled in the series 
 
 
Anyway back to twitter: 
 
 
This is why borusumi will never stand a chance since borusara has already been established in the brouto movie, novel and even the manga
 
 
"naruhina fans who ship borusara instead of borusumi are hypocrites since borusumi is more like naruhina and borusara is like sns/ns"

If I had a dollar for every hypocritical comment I saw from the NH fandom like the ones above me, I'd be able to run for president.

beautiful.....simply a work of art.

 

lmao im so triggered rn *smashes the like button*