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The Trickster God has never been a subtle scripter… but the Trump Regime could make a believer wonder if He’d been doing the bad intoxicants again, because it’s turning into a godsdamned Simpsons episode. This actually happened!



We all *wish* it were a hallucination. Wilbur also mocked car buyers & cheap American beer — but remember, the Republicans “respect” the white working class Heartlanders and their “patriotic values”…

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  3. 3.

    Josie

    It’s probably a good thing that I only read other people’s tweets and don’t write any myself. All I can think of to answer this sob are words that I should not ever put in writing. I hate these people so much it frightens me.

  4. 4.

    MattF

    Bear in mind that these are the people who are called on regularly to genuflect before Trump and sing his praises. And, based on what we’ve all seen, that’s not merely a metaphor.

  5. 5.

    Aleta

    Is this about punishing California? From LA Times:

    On the West Coast, steel manufacturers largely depend on imported steel from Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia. It is cheaper to ship steel over the ocean than by road or rail from eastern U.S. foundries.
    Last year, California imported almost $2 billion in iron and steel, a 6% increase from the previous year. The state imported $2 billion worth of aluminum, a 25% increase from the previous year. About 38% of imported aluminum came from China, according to an analysis by Jock O’Connell, the international trade advisor at Beacon Economics.
    Fontana-based California Steel Industries, the largest steel mill in the western United States, depends almost solely on imported semifinished steel slabs, usually from Mexico, Brazil and Japan. These slabs are usually about 35 feet long, almost 10 inches thick and weigh 20 to 30 tons.
    Only a handful of U.S. companies make semifinished steel slabs. And those companies make those slabs mostly for their own use, said Brett Guge, an executive vice president at California Steel Industries.
    The cost of bringing those slabs from the eastern United States to the West Coast is five times more expensive than bringing them from other countries.

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    “Sure, it’s going to cost average Americans a couple hundred dollars a year more. But I am a billionaire and don’t know any of them.”

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    @Corner Stone: At a 7-11 in downtown Washington. Maybe.

    Except we all know ol’ Wilbur sent a minion to go buy it. No way did that old codger do it himself.

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    After ZEGS touted his teacher friend saving $77 a year after they passed the tax cuts I am waiting to hear him address his teacher friend again now that the tariffs are going to cost her about 2.5 times that amount (roughly).

  12. 12.

    Corner Stone

    @Teddys Person: I’ll believe he actually bought it when Selma Hayek shows up on my doorstep.

    ETA, and that’s the small can. I was in Seattle recently and bought snacks at a convenience store there for comparatively less inflated prices.

  18. 18.

    Temporarily Max McGee (may or may not be a myth)

    @Corner Stone:

    Condensed and from 7/11? I believe it.

    I can get the same can at Meijer today for $0.75, but that’s the sale price. It’s regularly $1.25 for that can.

  19. 19.

    El Caganer

    Let ’em eat jellybeans
    Let ’em eat cake
    Let ’em eat shit
    Whatever it takes
    – Jim McMurtry, We Can’t Make It Here Anymore

  20. 20.

    Aleta

    @debbie: Someone who’s trying to get revenge on CA political leaders who’ve announced their opposition to his policies — environmental protection, climate change related policy and research, ICE abuses …. He’s hoping people will turn on them. And that voters in CA who’re thinking about switching to vote against Republican candidates will think twice.

  22. 22.

    jl

    I for one think the miserably corrupt, grotesquely callous and brutal minded, Wilbur Ross is a great public face and voice of the Trump administration. He would be a great ambassador to our precious youth. I hope to see a lot more of him,as the BS Trump trade war grinds on.

    Edit: the Trumpster brags about how any kind of war at all is easy to win reminded me of similar wise talk before the US Civil War and World War I. Those went just peachy, IIRC.

  23. 23.

    Brachiator

    Lemme see, now. Winter home. Yacht. The only thing missing was a supermodel sauntering by saying, “Wilbur, check out my cans!”

  25. 25.

    jl

    @Just One More Canuck: I vaguely remember a super villain named Pruneface. What that in Batman?

    Edit: Dick Tracy? Tracey? That comic was before my time, though I think it was still running when I was a kid.

    Edit2: or maybe still running today? Does anybody read newspaper comics anymore? They still exist, right?

  28. 28.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?

    @Brachiator: Eww. I just imagined Ross’ flabby jowls wrapping themselves around his head as turned to look at the SM’s cans.

  30. 30.

    Another Scott

    Jordan Peele just won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for “Get Out”.

    Excellent.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  32. 32.

    Mike in DC

    Wilbur Ross does not look like someone who has ever been 20 bucks short the day before payday. Let alone 200 short a week before payday.

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    LIke Trump, Nixon was motivated entirely by winning votes from what Nixon literally called “the constituency of uneducated people.”

    Remember “we looove the poorly educated!”? That and “two Corinthians… that’s the one you all like, right?” stand out in my mind as trump’s expressions of contempt for his own voters

  35. 35.

    mai naem mobile

    Wilbur Ross used to he a Democrat. He also used to be married to Betsy McCaughey . Yes, that Betsy McCaughey . He turned Republicans during Obamas term. A lot of rich Dems turned into GOPigs during Obamas term. Can’t quiremember put a finger on what exactly about Obama bothers them.

  37. 37.

    chris

    Wilbur thinks 7-11 is a grocery store? why am I not surprised?

    Have some good news from Texas.

    Breaking: in TX's 15 largest counties, early voting in Dem primary spiked 105% (!) vs. 2014 midterm, vs. just 15% in GOP primary. Enthusiasm gap should be major warning for GOP.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) 3 March 2018

  42. 42.

    Baud

    @chris:

    G. Elliott Morris??‍♂️
    @gelliottmorris
    Texas Democrats just cast 17,000 (or 4%) MORE EARLY VOTES than they did in 2016 (!) primary early voting. Meanwhile GOP votes declined 37% from their 2016 numbers

  46. 46.

    jl

    @mai naem mobile: Wilbur Ross also made a business of buying up bankrupt US steel and coal companies, and then IMHO, made money by dumping as much of the cost onto others as possible. I think Ross still has big stakes in a holding company with a bunch of semi-bankrupt coal mines, though I think he sold off the steel companies.

    Ross was also a high executive, maybe CEO, of Bank of Cyprus, which is reported to have been up to its eyeballs in money laundering of all sorts, including funds from Russian oligarchs. He’s been a long time sugar daddy for Donnie Trump.

  50. 50.

    Brachiator

    On Trump’s tariffs, coal subsidies, Georgia’s Delta/NRA tax blackmail, the new tax law, forced arbitration, and all the other ways today’s GOP is rigging and distorting their beloved “free market”

    Trump doesn’t believe in free markets. Never has. This is what makes him populist-in-chief. He’s a con man selling the fantasy that he is going to work a sweet deal for the American people by making the world bend to his will.

    This is the deepest fantasy of the Trumpian ignorati. You don’t have to know anything or understand anything. You just have to be tough enough to make the other guy blink and accept your deal.

    Yeah, it’s stupid. That’s Trump and the people he’s brought along.

  52. 52.

    Adam L Silverman

    @schrodingers_cat: He died in 1372. He was reanimated by a bokor in 1974 using the zombie cucumber and placed in charge of several multinational financial corporations.

  53. 53.

    NotMax

    Reminder, for any so inclined.

    A rare chance to sample some prime cuts of Josephine Baker on TCM. Monday at 2:45 a.m.Eastern, The French Way and at 4:15 a.m., Zou Zou.

  56. 56.

    Mnemosyne

    Just got back from a preview screening of A Wrinkle in Time. To answer some people’s questions, IMO you do NOT need to have read the book. It’s fairly faithful to the book, but simplified, so some fans of the book will probably be annoyed by how much got cut.

    Also, misogynists will be bringing their knives back out, because I have rarely seen a Hollywood action/sci-fi movie where a teenage girl is THE central character. The whole story and every other character — including the male ones — revolve around her. The phrase “Mary Sue” will get thrown around a lot by morons who don’t know what the term actually means.

    So, recommended. It’s no Black Panther, but it’s a really good movie for older kids (10 and up) and adults to see together.

  57. 57.

    Mary G

    Twitler talking about Xi demolishing term limits in China:

    "He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day." https://t.co/7c9ZqKx0kZ— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) March 4, 2018

    Quite literally over my dead body, Trump.

  58. 58.

    jl

    Here’s another clip of Ross. I didn’t watch the whole thing, but skipped through until I found a fun part where the miserably corrupt crony corporate capitalist spouts disingenuous populist corporate bashing BS, starting 20 minutes into the clip.

    I’ve been highly critical of US foreign finance and trade policy as being overly friendly to corporate interests. But I think what Trump is doing is stupid, will be counterproductive, and I would bet extremely corrupt, and obviously so if an when more details come out about the largely secret ‘investigation’ that produced the recommendation that Trump start a trade war over steel and aluminum.

    Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross On Tariffs And Trade Policy | CNBC
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrVADC083xk

    Edit: just because I think US international finance and trade policy has long been wrongheaded for welfare of US population, and also for workers around the world, even in lower income countries, that doesn’t mean corrupt dopes like the Trumpsters can’t be wronger.

  60. 60.

    Adam L Silverman

    @chris: And some bad news from Nevada:

  61. 61.

    Adam L Silverman

    Even at a private RNC fundraiser, they tape and leak. Also, this should surprise no one!

  62. 62.

    Brachiator

    @Another Scott:

    Jordan Peele just won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for “Get Out”.

    Cool. The mini scandal is that supposedly some older Oscar voters refused to watch the film or consider it worthy of being nominated for Best Picture.

    And all of these people are probably cousins of Wilbur Ross.

  64. 64.

    jimmiraybob

    @debbie:

    Who declares a trade war against his own country???

    Given that this is Trump what country do you have in mind that he might consider his own? Outside of his BS rhetoric. There’s no “trump” in America.

  65. 65.

    Adam L Silverman

    @jl: Bank of Cyprus, during Ross’s stint running it, was one of the banks that Manafort used.

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    @Brachiator

    Richard Hofstadter weeps. Please, let’s not demean the term populist nor stretch it so out of shape that it becomes meaningless. Dolt 45 is in no way, shape or form a populist, he is a publicity seeker.

  80. 80.

    Adam L Silverman

    @zhena gogolia: I’ve been following the story since Navalny ran the original video last month. I was waiting to see what, if anything, emerged as confirming information. I have no doubt she did escort duties, in all sense of the term escort, on Deripaska’s yacht. Whether she actually has any usable information that can be corroborated and actually advances our understanding of what happened with the Russian active measures is still, i think, an open question.

  82. 82.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Baud: From what little I’ve followed, it appears they’ve been caging the registrations of registered Democrats in Nevada under the guise of cleaning up the voter rolls.

  83. 83.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @Mnemosyne:

    a teenage girl is THE central character. The whole story and every other character — including the male ones — revolve around her.

    …so, pretty much like the book, then? I haven’t read it in about five years, but that’s definitely how I remember it.

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    @Adam L Silverman: President Xi is a very strong leader. And he’s going to be very, very strong on things that he needs to be strong about. Believe me. And that kind of strong, being strong, is what this country needs right now to be strong. Bigly strong.

  88. 88.

    germy

    The claim that Trump was banging porno stars makes me want to vote for him again more. Oh, not because it's a qualification, though in a way the way it is, but because it pisses the right people off. https://t.co/2NVsfvMdKs— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 3, 2018

    Pre-order my upcoming book Troll Nation, which is about how the right has lost the ideological argument, so all that is left now is trolling. https://t.co/CmI7cLXrOs https://t.co/ff4Z3v9kGO— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) March 3, 2018

  89. 89.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @zhena gogolia: The last I saw, Rybka was in Thailand, asking for asylum in the US. The Russian government really got angry at the people involved in Navalny’s report, but it’s not clear to me whether it was because it came from Navalny or because it revealed stuff they don’t want to be revealed.

    I follow a great many stories but post on few. One limitation is time. But I also like to feel that the story is reliable and significant. There are so many threads to Trump’s Russian connections, that I can’t follow them all. When I make a connection that I think is significant and well enough supported that I’m willing to publish it with my name on it, I’ll do that here. I did a bit of that in my post on the Saudi nuclear deal.

    One strong vibe I got from the Navalny tape was that it was primarily for the Russian presidential election, but he was hoping that the Americans would pick it up.

    Edited for clarification.

  91. 91.

    Corner Stone

    @germy: Except when Hillary says that it means she went to a rally for the activist group Black Panther. And they are getting ready to riot. “Where the white women at?”

  92. 92.

    Mnemosyne

    @(((CassandraLeo))):

    That’s what the first two books of the series are, but the previous TV movie attempt made Meg and Charles Wallace co-protagonists. In this, Meg is the sole protagonist. It’s all about her. That is a very unusual thing in a Hollywood movie.

  94. 94.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    Oscar prediction: Guillermo del Toro for Best Director, Jordan Peele for Best Original Screenplay.

    I agree.

    “Get Out” won the WGA award. If an upset, it will go to “Lady Bird.”

  95. 95.

    Adam L Silverman

    @chris: I don’t know. One of the major issues with vote caging, which is why it was illegal under a Federal court order directed at the RNC for a long time, is that it is often done in a way that the actual registered voter doesn’t find out they’ve been delisted (purged) from the voter rolls till they show up to vote and are told they’re not registered.

  98. 98.

    germy

    @Corner Stone:

    Except when Hillary says that it means she went to a rally for the activist group Black Panther.

    I wonder if J. Edgar Hoover has a file on her.

  99. 99.

    Adam L Silverman

    @germy: I’m sure my good friend and former colleague, the Public Affairs Officer at USAWC, cringes every time COL (ret) Schlichter tweets. I did notice he removed USAWC from his twitter bio a few months back. Given he spent one year there as a student, and that was almost a decade ago, kind of strange for it to have been listed like he had an ongoing affiliation.

  100. 100.

    Mnemosyne

    @germy:

    It depends on the kid, of course, but I think it should be okay. The most outwardly violent thing that happens is that a bully gets a basketball to the face, but there’s a fair amount of spooky something isn’t right here stuff that could scare a susceptible child.

  101. 101.

    Mike J

    @Aleta:

    Is this about punishing California?

    And Washington as a bonus. Boeing, which employs 175,000 people, uses aluminum.

  103. 103.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    it is often done in a way that the actual registered voter doesn’t find out they’ve been delisted (purged) from the voter rolls till they show up to vote and are told they’re not registered.

    Heh. I’ve had trolls on this very website tell me that this never happens, because people would complain to the press about it. They didn’t seem to get that by the time people know to complain, it’s too late to change the election.

  104. 104.

    Adam L Silverman

    @germy: My understanding from the reporting is that the majority of the older and whiter voting members of the academy didn’t even bother to and/or haven’t watched Get Out! So they voted without actually seeing the movie.

  105. 105.

    Mnemosyne

    @germy:

    I think the people who are getting pre-indignant that a Mexican immigrant might beat an African-American for best director have kind of lost the plot.

  106. 106.

    germy

    @Adam L Silverman: The Golden Globe people didn’t want to see Girls Trip. They finally sent one member who walked out after a few minutes. And then they asked Tiffany Haddish to present an award to someone else.

  107. 107.

    cthulhu

    Remember also, Wilbur Ross also spent years vastly inflating his net worth to the press. Yes, the original error was at Forbes (I believe) but Ross didn’t correct them and went on to keep upping the error.

  110. 110.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: When I got back from Iraq, even though I’d voted absentee in the 2008 elections while there, I made sure to go in and make sure they didn’t send any more absentee ballots to me at FOB Hammer. I did this ahead of the Florida primaries in Spring 2009. Between when I voted absentee in October 2008, my redeployment and return home at the beginning of November 2008, and my checking in February 2009, I’d been dropped from the rolls. When I asked how that happened, I was informed that a card was sent to me in Iraq shortly after the 2008 election to verify I was me, still alive, and where to send the 2009 spring primary ballots. When it was returned they had removed me. I let the person at the Clerk’s office have it with both barrels. Fortunately I caught it far enough before the primary to reregister.

  111. 111.

    Mnemosyne

    @germy:

    Yes, I know. But I have seen multiple people complain that Mexican immigrant Guillermo del Toro is just another white man, which is bizarre to me given the events of 2017.

  112. 112.

    Adam L Silverman

    @germy: I’ve never heard of that movie. But unless a movie is based on a comic book or an animated movie adapted from a comic book, I really don’t much care. With the exceptions of things like Hidden Figures. Or Moana.

  114. 114.

    Brachiator

    @germy:

    “Why should I choose a horror movie that made me think about race issues for Best Picture when I can choose a movie about f*cking a fish?” White on, Hollywood.

    Of course, The Shape of Water is also about race, and bigotry.

  115. 115.

    chris

    @Adam L Silverman: Quick look says they have to register 21 days before the election. This is not good, hope the Dems are on it.

    In Person: 21 days before Election Day
    By Mail: 31 days before Election Day.
    Online: 21 days before Election Day
    Election Day Registration:

    N/A

    Link

  116. 116.

    cthulhu

    @Adam L Silverman: It should probably be pointed out that the difference in Dem and GOP voters is not that the GOP is gaining but that both parties are losing registered voters and thus the differential is also shrinking. The only party to gain registered voters in NV in 2017 was the Libertarians: +236 voters total.

  119. 119.

    trollhattan

    @Mary G:
    I was wondering how long it would take Trump to float the idea, but figured he’d wait at least a week. Stupid me.

    Trump wants to join Xi, Putin, and such robust democracies as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Cuba and be crowned queen of all the Americas.

  120. 120.

    Mnemosyne

    @Brachiator:

    Yep. A disabled woman, a Black woman, and a gay man take on the establishment in the early 1960s on behalf of an illegal migrant from South America. It’s not exactly a politics-free movie.

  123. 123.

    Aleta

    @Mike J: I wasn’t sure about the vote in the other coastal states. I see that Washington state was Clinton 54.3%; T 38.1%; Johnson 5%. So Clinton got the state’s12 electoral votes, but 4 of the electoral voters defected.

    If CA and WA are buying steel overseas, because of transportation costs, I guess it must be true for their bordering states too, if they buy. And the prices of manufactured goods in any of the western states that use those metal parts, or buy steel that came from the Pacific.

    Do you think the administration’s deal with Boing that just went through (after a hold up of a year) was intended to soften the news about proposed tariffs?

  126. 126.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Mary G: “He’s now president for life. President for life. And he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll give that a shot some day.”

    Is that from his Gridiron dinner? Is that one of the traditions of a presidential comedy bit? Maybe Dennis Miller and the you might be a redneck guy helped him write it

  127. 127.

    debbie

    @Mike J:

    I wonder if there’s any legal recourse for those states. I can’t imagine the Founding Fathers envisioned a president bludgeoning states like this.

  128. 128.

    No Drought No More

    “Trump’s fundamentally distorted personality — which at its core is chaotic, volatile and transgressive — when combined with the powers of the presidency had to end poorly,” said Peter Wehner, a veteran of the three previous Republican administrations and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. “What we’re now seeing is the radiating effects of that, and it’s enveloped him, his White House, his family and his friends.”

    Pete forget to mention the republican party, too, is being effected by radiating envelopments, too. Sad.

  130. 130.

    Manyakitty

    @Mnemosyne: I saw a commercial and it looked like Calvin didn’t have red hair. Is that true? I feel petty for asking, but it’s a thing.

  131. 131.

    Citizen Alan

    People like Wilbur Ross are why I think the top marginal tax rate should be 90% on all income over a million dollars a year. Not because we need the revenue, although we clearly need the revenue since the GOP has effectively bankrupted us. But because at this point, I genuinely believe that sufficient amounts of accumulated wealth simply make people into irredeemably evil monsters. One of the reasons I love JK Rowling so much is that she’s the only person I’ve ever heard of who charitably donated her way out of the billionaire class.

  133. 133.

    Mnemosyne

    @Manyakitty:

    He does not, but honestly I had kind of forgotten that the character did until you said that. Mrs. Whatsit does have red hair — does that help?

    I was sad that Aunt Beast got cut from the story, but there just isn’t as much time for subplots in a movie. ?

    Eta: Also, the kid who plays Calvin is SO GOOD. He’s going to be a major teen idol.

  135. 135.

    Corner Stone

    @Mary G: From Sister Sarah Kendzior who some don’t seem to agree with.
    Trumpmenbashi: What Central Asia’s spectacular states can tell us about authoritarianism in America.
    The whole article is worth a read, link to TheDiplomat.com. Note this is from March 2016
    “So far, his (Trump) greatest asset has been the U.S. media – financially desperate, hungry for ratings, and eager to embrace a potential dictator to rescue their corporate model, subjecting their countrymen to unprecedented over-coverage of a single candidate in the process.”

  136. 136.

    Mnemosyne

    @Aleta:

    I will be a little annoyed if the director of Three Billboards wins for Best Director, because IMO he’s the easy (safe) choice. I will be perfectly content if either del Toro or Peele wins it.

  137. 137.

    Baud

    @Aleta:

     So Clinton got the state’s12 electoral votes, but 4 of the electoral voters defected.

    I hope the Washington Dems have fixed that problem.

  138. 138.

    Chyron HR

    If the 350-pound man with senile dementia wants to be “president for life” I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t even have to change the laws to accommodate him.

    (Or re-elect him, for that matter.)

  140. 140.

    cthulhu

    @chris:

    Quick look says they have to register 21 days before the election. This is not good, hope the Dems are on it.

    Having worked several elections in NV, I can assure you that the Dems are on it. In fact, this particularly purge may actually be beneficial. Voters in the Dem strongholds of Clark and Washoe counties are can be fairly transient – thus the SOS rolls at the beginning of the year will be more accurate than is often the case. There will be registration drives until election time. The GOP has more to worry about in the immediate term: “moderate” Heller so far seems to be running behind Tarkanian, a guy with a lot of name recognition but a poor track record in winning elections against Dems.

  141. 141.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    I hope those four defectors are interviewed right after the tariffs are imposed. I’d like to hear what they have to say now about the choice they made.

  142. 142.

    germy

    I asked @Disney if the first public screening of #WrinkleinTime could be in my hometown of Compton. They created a theater experience with fab sound + picture quality out of a community center since there are no movie theaters in Compton. I thank them. And these kids do too. pic.twitter.com/grzHoRJAHX— Ava DuVernay (@ava) March 2, 2018

    If I had this movie when I was a kid it would’ve meant so much to me. https://t.co/FbgXyflQi5— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 3, 2018

  147. 147.

    Chyron HR

    @Baud:

    They couldn’t in good conscience vote for someone who was responsible for the Iraq War. That’s why they voted for Colin Powell instead.

  152. 152.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @NotMax: Ha! I remember I watched that show when I was a kid, and its companion about the mild-mannered school teacher who was transformed into O Mighty ISIS (ISIS Isis isis isis….). I did not remember the animated council of Ancient Elders, Solomon and the Greeks.

  153. 153.

    Miss Bianca

    @germy: Man, we have a fine, fine crop of African-American directors, actors, and screenwriters coming up thru’ the ranks now in Hollywood. I think it’s going to have an amazing effect on todays’ generation of kids.

  154. 154.

    Another Scott

    @Adam L Silverman: Funny how that works. :-/

    Grr.

    Glad you caught it.

    Voting rights should be under explicit, detailed, federal protection. Games like those should be explicitly illegal with severe sanctions.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  168. 168.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    As Saturday movie serials go, above average. Have the complete series on VHS.

    What goes around, comes around. Actor who played Billy in the serial appeared in one episode of the TV series I linked to above.

  169. 169.

    Manyakitty

    @Mnemosyne: I’m still bruised about Daniel Radcliffe’s blue eyes in the Harry Potter movies, but I’ll be brave.

    Really looking forward to this movie.

  171. 171.

    Mnemosyne

    @Manyakitty:

    Like I said, the themes are much less adult than in Black Panther, but it’s a family movie that’s about kids, not adults. There were a lot of kids in the audience and they didn’t seem to get restless at all.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: They tend to be good about those things. They had Terri Hatcher play Erica Durance’s Lois Lane’s mother on Smallville and now have had both of them on Supergirl. As well as Linda Carter.

    They had the TV Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, Noelle Neill and Jack Larson, in Superman the movie and the latter again on an episode of Smallville. They had both Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder on Superman. They’ve had John Wesley Shipp play both Barry Allen’s dad on the current Flash TV show and play the real Jay Garrick the original Flash.

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    Miss Bianca

    So this has happened…

    I went to a Democratic Party caucus training, since we have caucuses coming up Tuesday.

    But wait, you might say, if you know that I live in Colorado. Didn’t your state just switch to primaries again – open primaries, because all those “independents” figured that it’s just *unfair* that they can’t pick the Democratic and Republican candidates for office just because they don’t want to register as a Democrat or Republican?

    To which I might reply, Why yes, sparky, we did just do that! But we stil have caucuses, for some reason.

    Is it to determine who goes on to the primary? NO! Is it to pick delegates for the state assemblies? NO! Is it to send a message to the parties as to which candidates we prefer? NO! Because the only “straw poll” that is even getting sent to the state level are the numbers for governor? Are we telling people that? NO!

    So, if it’s not actually doing anything useful except to, maybe, give the powers that be a sense of who is likely to be a viable pick for governor, why are we doing it? FUCK IF I KNOW! Fuck if anyone knows!

    Jesus wept.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @schrodingers_cat: Justice Democrats hope to receive an apology from Luján and a promise not to intervene in Democratic primaries going forward, according to Shahid.

    Kee-rist. The DCCC move in TX looks inexplicable and stupid to me, but the Berners’ obsession with public acts of submission, and theatrics in general, make me want to send money to a PAC named Establishment Democrats

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    schrodingers_cat

    @Corner Stone: I don’t necessarily disagree with her, but her all knowing negativity is tiresome. And I don’t think that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the ex-Soviet stans and the United States. YMMV.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It isn’t when you understand that there’s a sexual assault issue underlying it. So in the era of #MeToo, you can’t have a woman candidate whose husband was an executive at a company where a sexual assault took place and the company leadership tried to cover it up. That’s what the intervention was really about.

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    Miss Bianca

    @Manyakitty: I think I read somewhere that they wanted Daniel Radcliffe to wear green contact lenses, but that he just couldn’t do it, for some reason.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Miss Bianca:
    I don’t think it’s something they could or would have forced on a 10-year-old (Dan Radcliffe’s age when cast). If the colour of Harry’s eyes were all that important to the story, and I don’t remember that it was, they would have cast a green-eyed boy in the first place.

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    Miss Bianca

    @Amir Khalid: I also seem to recall that JK Rowling was given an unusual – one might say unprecedented – amount of say in certain decisions, like casting. From what I remember, she was the one who saw Daniel Radcliffe and said “that’s Harry Potter” – so, obviously, *she* didn’t consider his eye color to be a deciding factor.

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    Bill Arnold

    @Another Scott:

    Jordan Peele just won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for “Get Out”.

    Just saw Get Out this evening; excellent movie, worth seeing for anyone who’s missed it. (One of the best movies I’ve seen in a year or two.) For those who see it without spoilers, I envy you, and pay close attention.

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    Fred

    @NotMax: I bet Dick Tracy has a two way wrist nuclear reactor these days. All the stuff that used to be so impossibly amazing is now so everyday ho hum.

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    Manyakitty

    @Miss Bianca: I heard that, too, and he was so perfect for the role otherwise, so I understand. It’s just jarring when a physical characteristic is so heavily stressed in the book and simply ignored in the movie.

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