I gotta admit: I would pay money to read that.
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I gotta admit: I would pay money to read that.
And he's gonna send the garbage to outer space, right Sonny? 🙃❤️
🎯 The weasels who blow with the wind are scarier than the really crazy ones in a lot of ways.
We won't be out of the woods by a long shot, but Vance has the charisma of a dead skunk. He won't have the hold on MAGA that Trump did, and it's going to be easy for them to blame Vance when the wheels come off the wagon. There will be some openings there for the left to make moves.
Sounds like quite the rumpus.
I vote for a cute bulldog with a bowler derby and a monocle. The more adorable, the better.
🎯 Vance has the charisma of week-old fish, and none of the cache that Trump has/had with the cult. It will be very easy for MAGA to blame Vance when, say, the economy goes to pot. "Trump wouldn't have let this happen" is a swift psychological out.
This will never not be freaky-weird to me: they pulled a Weekend at Bernie's on the same weekend as Weekend at Bernie's.
That movie hits so hard these days.
Right? It's not like it's hard to find.
Choose your fighter
Honestly, if they have to wheel him out and put him through unnecessary stress and pressure to prove he's alive, it's all been worth it.
We need a Bat Signal or something.
NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE
The Giuliani thing reads like Dr. Evil's origins in accident report form. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO3p...
I like to share this story about a campaign stop he made down the road from me in '24... when he quite literally stranded his followers at a horse manure farm. (He stiffed the bus company, and they refused to come back.) I'm 99% certain they all voted for him anyway.
❤️🎺 www.cbr.com/king-of-the-...
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
RIGHT?! We're in some kind of Jacob's Ladder fever dream at this point.
I seriously cannot get over this: they're Weekend at Bernie's-ing him... on the weekend in Weekend at Bernie's.
They're pretty much doing the classic Weekend at Bernie's now -- which is bizarrely the same weekend as the movie -- so it's either AI or a really bad body double next.
History is going to do a number on 'em.
One cone in each hand. ❤️
OK first of all, everyone knows that the best Bond movie is Octopussy...
The idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark shows up in Solo, so there's precedent.
"It's all right; it's only the feminist porn..."
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
I am so sorry for the thread hijack, @gwensnyder.bsky.social , but you hit on something that I’ve been dealing with for the last few years of my professional life, and it really resonated. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 12/12
They don’t like, say, Black people or LGBT+ people in their snuggly room, except in certain carefully curated roles. And they feel so entitled to it that… *gestures at all the awful*. 11/
Grown-ups understand that; middle-aged children do not. So a beloved franchise changes – becoming more representational, for instance – and that pulls them out of their snuggly room. 10/
And that’s not Back to the Future’s fault... in context. But it’s okay for other generations to have their own Cool Things. More than okay; normal. That can even be something like Star Trek or Star Wars, both of which have transcended their roots and become multi-generation properties. 9/
I’m reminded of your earlier thread about managers freaking out over work-from-home conditions. Same thing, same behavior 100%. “Don’t take me out of my snuggly room, mom! Back to the Future’s on!” 8/
It’s huge among my peers. Middle-aged white guys who like to think they earned it on the merits, and never really stopped playing that Atari. 7/
And it’s exactly what @gwensnyder.bsky.social said. They loved being snuggly in their rooms with their VHS tapes and video games, and mom bringing them grilled cheese sandwiches. They didn’t have to deal with grown-up realities, and applied the entitlement to their grown-up lives. 6/
Then 53% of us vote for Trump, and clap like trained seals when the likes of Hulk Hogan and Sylvester Stallone start openly goose-stepping. Too many of my people are unreliable. I’m so sorry. 5/
Furthermore, Gen-Xer’s were force-fed 50s culture by nostalgic boomers in the 80s, and resented it so much that we pretty much collectively swore a blood oath never to do that when it was our turn. 4/
In this case, it’s Atari and MTV and Joe Dante movies on HBO. The irony is, for all their often-problematic content, most 80s pop culture was crystal clear on the subject of fascism. (And had some strong feelings about Russians too.) 3/
That disrupts their ‘member berries about the 80s being so much better than they actually were. There's nothing wrong with nostalgia. I was a professional Star Wars expert for 4 years, so I literally made a living on it. But the right equates all that with fascist myths about the glorious past. 2/
The truth of this hits hard, and please forgive the thread. I'm a Gen-Xer and a movie/TV critic, and I see it all the time in EVERY legacy property as part of my job. It’s why they freak out when, say, a Black woman is the lead in a Star Trek show. 1/🧵
I would not clap this long for someone who pulled me from a burning car.
He looks like something the killer would wear in a slasher movie. Pumpkinface.
He looks like something the killer would wear in a slasher movie. Pumpkinface.
Don't forget Mike Johnson, who would be exactly one impeachment from the Presidency if/when Vance takes the job.
not to be overly optimistic or anything, but tillis and ernst both clearly think there will be elections in 2026 and that Rs may well lose them. fwiw.
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He kicked Elvis in the shins in 1963, and has been making movies ever since. That's 62 years. ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIEr...
CHP steps up. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Actors recognize the value of an enthusiastic dress rehearsal.
The 1989 movie Weekend at Bernie's takes place over Labor Day Weekend. Just a fun little factoid to go with any WH announcements over the next couple of days.
Yeah, final numbers on the Why You're Going to Hell-O-Meter, are Sloth 90 million, Wrath 77 million.
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I believe it was also the first time the "killer goes into therapy" trope was used. The Sopranos and Analyze This used the same shtick.
the first dem to look right in the camera and say "i'm glad the fucker's dead" is going to win
Tom Petty on King of the Hill. "We've all messed up and given away the plot of something. Take it from me, 'fire' ain't the worst thing you can yell in a theater. It's 'Bruce Willis is dead!'"
If doesn't go golfing on a three-day weekend, something's wrong. That feels like a reasonable bar.
This got posted when Kissinger died, and it holds a lot of wisdom.
OMG, right?! They're exactly who those two characters should be with each other.
It's a little on the nose, but what are ya gonna do? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0W...
Honestly, it's worth it for the sheer bloodlust on display. ❤️💀
lol, just grabbing random hypos and shooting up would explain a lot.
I'm here for the sheer bloodlust tonight, come what may. Thank you all for daring to dream together in this moment.
🤞🤞🤞🤞 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOQP...
Honestly, if the top of his skull flipped open on a hinge and a teeny little flying saucer popped out, would anyone be all that surprised?
Honestly, the deathwatch humor on Bluesky RN is worth it just on its own.
You, madam, owe me a new cup of coffee. 🙃❤️
No lies detected. 😆
I have to admit, that would explain a lot.
OMG, this is so true it hurts.
Vance is going to get eaten alive...
It's going to be very easy for them to blame Vance, Johnson, et al for the fallout of all of this. "Trump NEVER would have tanked the economy!" feels like an easy out for the MAGA faithful.
I know it's an obvious choice, but...
And Vance has the charisma of a dead skunk.
He is going to get eaten alive.
Troma always tries too hard, there I said it.
Only the really horrific ones. That and a lot of Bob Seger songs.
If you want to know where we are on autism, I was just interviewing a child psychiatrist for a piece who told me that parents are afraid of getting their kids an autism diagnosis because they are afraid of the stigma and RFK Jr.'s talk about an autism registry.
Wow, I remember that. The 80s evangelical scandals speak volumes about the political right in this country. They clearly never had a problem with sick behavior from their leadership.
I feel like he's seen his last Christmas. That's kind of the timetable I'm working/hoping with.
It won't survive in its present form, I don't think, though it might still be called that. We're not going through all of this just to get to "2016, but if Hillary had won." We need some serious course correction, and the old guard is not up for that job.
OMG, it all makes sense!
He was in active decline during the campaign, and the media whitewashed it. I'm hoping he's seen his last Christmas.
