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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
I would add PEOPLE WHO PRETEND THE COMPUTER WAS ACCOUNTABLE SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHATEVER THEY PRETEND IT WAS ACCOUNTABLE FOR.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers
Stephin Merritt writing “Get Lost”:
I know that all the talk of whether the dog from Good Boy is eligible for an Oscar is marketing-talk and I haven't seen the movie yet but I want to remind everyone that in true Air Bud fashion there's no rule that says a dog can't be Oscar-nominated. In fact, there's precedent.
"A rave of a movie that acts as its own hallucinogen, best experienced on a huge screen with a state-of-the art sound system. If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat." My **** review of TRON: Ares. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...
Other, more serious countries, have actual constitutional/supreme courts. We, alas, have a 9-member super-legislature that doesn't even pretend anymore that it is following the law or constitution.
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
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The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Remember when the Kony 2012 guy had his brain so broken by social media he was found naked on the street doing weird sex stuff and vandalizing everything within reach? What if 13 years later we made the whole government out of that guy
Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.
Also an early OOP UK-only LE - Robert Altman’s teen comedy O.C. AND STIGGS - will now be released in US/CA as a Region A edition.
He's right that after he's gone all the political journalists who cover for him today will laugh about how bad it was and how "everybody knew"
You know, we could have easily been in a situation where Greg Mottola and Jon Hamm would be turning out Fletch movies every couple of years. What a great time we'd have had! But no. It's all AI and cryptocurrency for us.
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
There's a man in back of this place. He's the one who's doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream.
Me three months ago:
Belongs to a friend
Didn’t know they’re now making microwaves in CinemaScope.
Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled.
Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.
“Historically, when left to their own devices, states don’t necessarily do the right thing for kids with disabilities and their families,” a former director at the federal Office of Special Education Programs said.
With @idahostatesman.com
(Published May)
it's been quite a year
Hitler committed suicide. Mussolini was shot and then his corpse was attacked and hung. Pinochet died under house arrest, while facing criminal charges in Europe and in Chile. Idi Amin died in exile. The Shah of Iran died in exile. Pol Pot died under house arrest. Mobutu died in exile. Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad. Saddam Hussein was hung. The Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo was assassinated. The last Somoza dictator was assassinated in exile after being overthrown. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez all died in exile. Argentina's Jorge Rafael Videla died while serving a fifty-year sentence. Ferdinand Marcos died in exile. Only last winter Assad fled Syria; only last summer Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh. That hasn't been the fate of all dictators but for many of them the chapters after their power crumbled were not what they would have written. Nor is this reassurance that justice or democracy always wins or dismissal of the damage each of them did. I was just thinking and then decided to compile a list.
In a handicraft moment, I made this little list for you. I hope you enjoy it.
