Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Republicans don’t trust women.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Donald Jessica Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Come on, man.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

T R E 4 5 O N

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

The lights are all blinking red.

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    I was legit up a good bif of last night talking bout this trailer…and it’s not even a full trailer, it’s a freakn teaser trailer.

    My understanding is more to come at this years ComicCon and Disney film upfronts.

    By the by, the theme song for the teaser is from hip hop group Run the Jewels featuring Bernie Bro himself Killer Mike.
    Run The Jewels – Legend Has It (Official Music Video From RTJ3) https://youtu.be/vWaljXUiCaE

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    Open Thread?

    Humorous, in its own way.

    Although the narrator’s mispronunciations are irksome. Particularly egregious is pronouncing cognac as kog-nak.

    (Also included is one town with a name tailor made for the location of Republican party headquarters.)

  4. 4.

    geg6

    Is this the comic book Ta-Nehisi Coates is involved with? Not that I have any intention of seeing it, but good for him if it is.

  5. 5.

    Hal

    I can’t wait. This is only a teaser trailer too. My only complaint is the movie’s release is 2018. Boo.

  6. 6.

    Emma

    Seriously. I’ve never seen a single comics-based movie. But I would make an exception for this one. It looks downright sumptuous visually. Lord of the Rings sumptuous.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    The construction in the upstairs apartment continues, and Charlotte is currently wedged between my leg and the back of the couch so that if the Scary Noises come down here, they’ll get me first.

    I love our cats, but I have very few illusions about them.

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    Two weeks ago I mentioned overcoming my fear of Dell reliability and buying a laptop. Just received shipping confirmation it’s flying back to me from service sporting a new motherboard, so the equivalent of buying a new car and needing a new powertrain after two weeks. [Eyeroll]

  12. 12.

    lamh36

    @geg6: the current editions are written by TNC, but the comic character Black Panther has been a Marvel comic book since like 1966.. T’Challa/Black Panther was the first black superhero in mainstream American comics

  13. 13.

    Citizen Alan

    Say what you will about “Marvel’s commitment to diversity.,” but it’s astounding to me (in a good way) that they’re spending over $100mil on a movie with a mostly unknown, all-black cast (other than 2 white guys as villains) set in a fictional Afican nation that is both mire socially advanced and wealthier than the US.

  15. 15.

    Emma

    @NotMax: Only until my sister’s movie night forced it on me. Admittedly it was fun. And no, I didn’t know that either.

  16. 16.

    Jeffro

    Movies schmovies – I’m at the Train/O.A.R./Natasha Bedingfield concert right now with the Mrs. and well, if there are any single gents out there, you’ll not likely find a higher % of happy single ladies anywhere else on the east coast. I haven’t felt this outnumbered at a concert in perhaps ever.

  17. 17.

    Tenar Arha

    @Mnemosyne: G-d, can’t these a-holes talk to their mothers or sisters or girlfriends or wives or women friends before they stick their feet down their throats?

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    @lamh36

    Dell was most certainly a mainstreams American comics company, and Lobo pre-dated Black Panther.

    Before anyone says it is a western and shouldn’t count, Black Panther as created didn’t have any evident super powers either.

  23. 23.

    Corner Stone

    @Jeffro:

    if there are any single gents out there, you’ll not likely find a higher % of happy single ladies anywhere else on the east coast

    I think you have honed in on the key here. But maybe in the wrong order?
    “Single happy ladies”

  24. 24.

    lamh36

    So I woke up this morning with a sore throat. My throat was a bit scratchy Thursday evening and by yesterday evening it was a slight burning when I swallowed. By the time I went to bed last night, my tonsils felt swollen and swallowing was even harder.

    So I decided I’d better make a trip to my local urgent care clinic. Diagnosis, bacterial throat infection. So I’m on some broadspec antibios for next 10 days…woo hoo.

    As long as the inflammation stops I’ll be happy!

  28. 28.

    Gelfling 545

    Hoping to see Wonder Woman soon. I eagerly anticipate Black Panther. I find it odd that in the latter part of my 6th decade I developed a real appreciation of super heroes.
    Speaking of comic driven entertainment, eldest grandchild tells me she’s been watching Riversale. What she described sounds pretty grim to someone who grew up with the bland and innocuous Archie comics.

  30. 30.

    Amusing Ourselves to Death

    Setting the bar low for victories. Lose the nation….but we still have the occasional movie!

  32. 32.

    lamh36

    I was watching Disney’s Aladdin for awhile, but it’s done, so I’m back to re-watching John Wick 2. I got interrupted by the reveal of the Black Panther trailer and the twitter rabbit hole discussing it, but now since I’m waiting for this other thing to start, I can finish up John Wick 2

    Can I just say the greatest thing about the entire John Wick franchise so far is the non reliance on CGI. Just gr8 stuntwork!

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Vast majority of people rave about it. Always found it mildly amusing rather than funny and manifestly threadbare. Too, Jack Lemmon’s Daphne voice lands on my ears like the sound of fingernails on a blackboard.

  34. 34.

    JPL

    @Quinerly: When you read the transcript, it is more than lack of sleep, unless he was nodding off. Believe me, he was just saying words.

  35. 35.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    Yes yes yes. I think you and I established long ago that we have completely different taste in movies. I find it both hilarious and heartwarming, and one of Marilyn Monroe’s best performances. Plus Wilder managed to get some rare sincerity out of Tony Curtis, even when he’s lying.

  36. 36.

    Keith P.

    I think I’m scarred for life. While reading the @kellyanneleaks tweets, I came across a picture someone posted in the replies. It’s a nude Kellyanne Conway pissing on nude Steve Bannon and Vladimir Putin, who are holding marionette strings over an infant Donald Trump. I can’t tell of Bannon and Putin are also pissing on Trump or are jerking off because they’re being peed on.

  37. 37.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Let’s just say not anywhere near the top of the personal list of best Wilder films.

    For satire and farce prefer his One, Two, Three, even though it dangerously veers off into slapstick.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    Different strokes, etc. I know you love to be a contrarian.

    They’re showing The Lost Weekend on TCM tonight, possibly as part of The Essentials. That movie has what is probably the most fake “happy ending” I’ve ever seen, by design.

  39. 39.

    CarolDuhart2

    For those BJers who donated to my kitty fund, the drive is over. $600. Thank you so much. I’ve left a voicemail with the vet and I’ll be hearing from him/her on Monday.

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Nothing contrarian about it; honest, valid opinion.

    (At that point, Curtis would have done most anything to redeem his “Yonda lies the castle of my fahdduh” performance on the big screen.)

  41. 41.

    Oatler.

    The trailer hit my sweet spot for ominous percussion, whooshes, bangs and clangs…like every other trailer/commercial/promo video in this century.
    “Maaatlock!”

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    Nothing contrarian about it; honest, valid opinion.

    Honest, valid, and wrong. (insert “winky” emoji here — I’m on the laptop and don’t have access to my usual array)

    I have my own contrarian Wilder opinion: I don’t like Sunset Boulevard. I realize that William Holden’s character is supposed to be an unreliable narrator, but I feel the movie loses sight of that and ends up turning Norma Desmond into a villain.

  44. 44.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’m not a regular reader of Lawyers, Guns, and Money

    Glad you spelled it out, because Honest to FSM, every single time I see “LGM” I think “Little Green Men,” and it takes me for like ever to figure out that it’s a prog blog, not some science-fictiony thing I’m not interested in.

  46. 46.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes

    Let me chime in ONCE AGAIN for Guardians II.

    Any movie that showcases one of my favorite one-hit wonders (Brandy) that much becomes my fave….

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    I will be helping to inter the ashes of my late third-cousin-once-removed tomorrow afternoon so will be seeing Some Like It Hot at the Wednesday matinee. I’ve seen it many times, but honestly can’t remember whether I’ve ever watched it on the Big Screen. In any case, am looking forward to it. It’s been many years. Too many years.

  51. 51.

    Eric S.

    @Mnemosyne: a buddy and I went to see the Godfather on the big screen Wednesday. I’m not a big movie guy amd I’m not sure seeing it in the theater added much to what is essentially a character drama but it was cool to do and I had fun.

  52. 52.

    Peale

    Went to see The Mummy today. It wasn’t as bad as the reviews, but still a little bit forgettable. I had a difficult time suspending my disbelief over the archeological organization of the film. if the movie is to be believed, there is a very well funded group of archeologists at the Natural History Museum in London with a large armed security force. It reminded me of Inferno last year where the World Health Organization had not only private jets for its executives, but a full air force that could deploy armed health security forces anywhere a crisis emerged. (those forces just had to say “we’re with WHO” and the local authorities would just start following their orders.)

    Anyway, I wanted to make a list of other “on what budget line is that paid for?” Security forces. Have there been others?

  53. 53.

    Mnemosyne

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes:

    In case you didn’t notice, the movie is all about how toxic masculinity is bad and damaging for everyone, and males need to be willing to let go and be emotional.

    That’s the wisdom that having two film degrees gives you.

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I’m sorry you won’t be seeing it tomorrow for a sad reason, but I hope you enjoy it on Wednesday. It really is one of my all-time favorites and (spoiler alert for my upcoming essay) I really think it was Wilder’s most heartfelt direct homage to Lubitsch.

  55. 55.

    zhena gogolia

    @NotMax:

    I am normally immune to Jack Lemmon, but I think his scenes with Joe E. Brown, and his confession to Tony Curtis afterwards, are fantastically funny. And I’ve been amused by Tony Curtis’s Cary Grant imitation since I was a child.

  56. 56.

    Mnemosyne

    @zhena gogolia:

    They had to reshoot that scene with Curtis and Lemmon after the previews and add the bit with the maracas because the audience was laughing so hard, they kept drowning out the punchlines. The maracas give a little more space for the laughter to die down.

  61. 61.

    Quinerly

    @JPL:
    I know. Saw it in real time, plus read part of the transcript. The travel part was rather interesting. He needs to retire, though.

  63. 63.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @Iowa Old Lady: Ms. O and I saw Wonder Woman today too. Loved it. Comic book flicks are generally not my favorite genre, but this was excellent. Might go see it again.

  64. 64.

    Redshift

    @Quinerly: If anyone ever had any doubts how much the media love to give McCain tongue baths, that article should dispel them. I could certainly imagine jet lag contributing, but it wasn’t the whole story.

  69. 69.

    workworkwork

    @Tenar Arha: We saw it this morning. It’s weepy but in a good way.
    Can’t vouch for the military stuff but the relationship between Leavy and her dog is great.

  72. 72.

    Groucho48

    I really hope the movie is good, but, the trailer hit every cinematic trailer cliche in existence. Full of sound and fury but signifying nothing.

  74. 74.

    Aleta

    (Hedy Lamarr ) “had a brilliant, inventive mind that she rarely got credit for until very close to the end of her life. Working with composer George Antheil, she patented the frequency-hopping, or spread-spectrum technology that now powers wireless internet, cell phones, and GPS. While Hedy didn’t receive acknowledgement for the invention until 1997, her contribution is getting more attention these days, like in the documentary “Bombshell,” which showed at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Actress Diane Kruger, who narrated “Bombshell” and who’s working on turning the story into a television miniseries, talks to Ira about the inspiration she hopes Lamarr can offer young girls.” (Links also to the talk on sound cloud.)

  75. 75.

    Jado

    The “next big progressive blockbuster”

    ? Be serious. With all of their experience and talent, the big Hollywood guys KNOW that the only real money makers are the CisHetWhiteMale movies that feature explosions and are rated PG or PG-13. I mean, sure Deadpool made a huge amount off a reduced budget cause no one was sure an R-rated movie for grown ups would do well (The Hangover was totally not the same thing…Shut Up!!). And Wonder Woman doing well is obviously some sort of aberration, cause the last few Kate Winslet movies have done ok, but not great. And now we’re supposed to be excited about a movie involving Africa?

    The Experts in Hollywood are sure it will make an acceptable profit, but certainly not anything like Ant-Man. Ant-Man had white guys in it – obviously a much better bet, budget wise.

    This snark brought to you by the same people who thought Ben Affleck would be good as Daredevil and Nicholas Cage would be good as Ghost Rider.

    They obviously know what they are doing.

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