Jar Jar Binks was a Powerful Force User?

Of course he is. He managed to take an all-time great trilogy and turn it's triumphant return into shite.

I used to be able to do a kip up.

You flop like a fish the first 1,000 times and then all a sudden you pull it off every time.

Jedi?

In any event this would be somewhat better than what we were given/accepted. However it's also likely the author is doing what the brain does best. Find a pattern where none exists

Damn it. Now I have to go back and watch the prequels

He did manage to get out of some pretty hairy situations. Maybe he is unknowingly using the force inside him, in spite of his clumsy, idiotic nature. It would be akin to an incredibly dumb person having inane raw musical talent, except in this case it is a matter of life or death.

This is awesome.

Can someone please kill this line of thinking? It is beyond idiotic.

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While I don't think this is legit, it certainly provokes some thought. It seems completely silly, but the more you try to discount or prove it wrong, the more circumstancial evidence pops up that could actually support it.

Jar Jar definitely pops into every relevant scene that shapes the SW galaxy as we know it, and he often is providing at least subtle momentum to move things to Palpatine's control/ the "Dark Side".

Most of all, it's able to fit; all you would need would be to add in a history of Binks and Palpatine knowing each other prior to Palpatine's rise to power. There's nothing that would contradict that, and then the rest actually works. Binks and Palpatine would be the 2 "real" Sith, who move and shape things at the strategic level, and Maul/Dooku/Grevious/Vader are just powerful pawns who are used, but replaceable.

If you go with this, then almost any and all remnants of the Jedi are gone by the time Vader and Yoda die, and Luke is a powerful but only partially trained Force user, who could be vulnerable to the subversions of an apparently idiotic (but truly extremely evil and skilled) Binks. And this time, you don't have even the slightest hint of an order that could resist them, within the Force.