Darth Vader’s taskmaster Admiral Piett, promoted under choking duress during the Star Wars Trilogy, bears an uncanny resemblance to a peculiar and unlikeable figure serving the current administration.

See if you can tell them apart.

That’s Piett in the Nazi-looking uniform. Miller, rhetoric notwithstanding, dresses a different part.

But let’s go to the tapes. Here are a few samples of Piett’s lines from the film classics:

I have my orders from the Emperor himself. He has something special planned for them. We only need to keep them from escaping…

…and…

Intensify the forward batteries. I don’t want anything to get through.

…and…

AAAHHHHH!!!!

No cause  in real time for that last gasp. Yet.

But with the turnover we’ve seen, it’s not hard to imagine.

RIP, WallMonger.

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