Ever since President Obama’s 39-year-old deputy national security advisor for strategic communication spilled his guts and upended his career.
Now, though we can't read the president's mind, we think we know what he was trying to say. We haven’t heard much from Ben Rhodes recently.
There is, according to the Star Wars Wikia, something called a "force meld" or "Jedi meld." It's "a technique where a number of Force users joined their minds together through the Force, drawing strength from each other." Jedi knights, from Star Wars, are of course known for their mind tricks - "a spectrum of Force powers which influenced the thoughts of sentient creatures, most commonly used to coerce into agreement by suggestion through voice manipulation, or to cause one to reveal information," as the Star Wars Wikia says. The mind meld, as Trekkies will tell you, is a technique "that allows a Vulcan to merge his or her mind with the essence of another's mind purely by using specialized contact fingertip-points." North Korea talks opened, Trump pardons Black boxer Jack Johnson. One of the best thing about the Trump presidency is that it has exposed what failures and idiots we suffered through for eight years. It is now clear that Rhodes is no Rhodes Scholar. OK, at the risk of being deluged with messages from Star Wars and Star Trek fans but in the hope we can provide a little saber light, we'll enter this risky territory. Obama hired Rhodes because they had a mind meld on foreign policy. Obama's national security team has always exhibited a. "Pres Obama Mixed Metaphor of the Day: The 'mind meld' is not a Jedi tool from Star Wars, but a Vulcan ability from Star Trek." This is often discussed in terms of a 'mind meld' between Obama and Rhodes, but it's actually easier to understand in institutional terms.