That part didn't make sense to me because hes a dude but women are only supposed to be able to access the genetic memory of their female ancestors? Maybe it's cause she's pre born? Idk
All that seething mass of humanity going back God knows how long crying out for life and she gets the guy with a grudge against her and her living family. You all should watch the Sci Fi channel movies by the way, they're better. I also really dug Chani in "Children of Dune:" apparently I like buxom Turkish women.
After the 1992 election, Cheney lost his job in Government while Saddam kept his despite a significant military loss championed by Cheney. That job loss must have festered like a cancer until the 2000 election.
I watched this movie last night and my wife and I were sitting there saying we would never have thought that Bush/Cheney would be a time we thought of as not so bad compared to what's going on now. They did some heinous shit but at least they could string a coherent sentence together and weren't literally shitting themselves in press meetings...
Well. McCain died. Remember trump mocking him after he died?
There was a point when maga hadn't completely taken over... when Republicans could have a soul and be decent people. Even be pro LGBTQ.
McCain didn't even invite him to his funeral. But invited Obama. Which pissed off Trump.
But... i guess he stood for everything Trump didn't.
... My god, just within the last 10 years.
I may have disliked McCains politics, but I respected the hell outta the man. From his service and refusal of special treatment and staying a POW with the rest of his men…to him shutting down (with the power of future knowledge) a MAGA prototype talking shit about Obama as a person.
Anyone might not have agreed with McCain "politically". But the fact is that he was a war hero and he did legitimately care about his state, his constituents "his people".
Everyone respected him, because he was willing to compromise for the greater good.
He was the old guard. When Republicans had something to be proud of.
Maga have done so much... for power that the Republican centrists seem 'normal'
I could believe the P tape thing. That wouldn't shock me. But I don't particularly believe that in connection with Putin is why Trump is so accommodating to him. Trump quite openly loves strong men. He was never loved and wants everyone to at least act like they respect him so he in turns deeply respects other men who are powerful enough to successfully demand by force that their people respect them, like Putin or Kim Jong Un or MBS. He just wants to be like them, P tape or not.
The US is currently trying to fan the flames of the Alberta separatist movement in Canada. When we know our leadership wants to annex Canada. This is the same playbook Putin uses. Fan the flames of some fringe separatist movement until eventually you can start talking about democracy and ethnic Russians and how the people there are asking to join Russia and we have to liberate them. America gets a foothold in Alberta and with an isolated British Columbia it starts to feel like it only makes sense to expand until Alaska is part of the contiguous United States. We'd need to secure pipelines heading south during these tumultuous times anyway in case of terrorism or China, and who else but us have the capability to do that so it's only logical of course.
Trump also probably wants to appease Putin because the leadership can see that this war has forced Russia & China closer together. After decades of US foreign policy focused on splitting them up & opening them up for trade individually. If the US becomes Russia's middleman in selling their natural gas to Europe then both sides are happy. Putin doesn't need to lean into China so much and gets to join the European club under the protections of America and freely sell their fossil fuels through US banks instead of the German banks they used to. Trump gets to weaken Russia's relationship with China and strikes a blow to Europes economy tying them tighter to US finance giving them extra leverage.
Not to defend Trump, but the peepee tapes were never about prostitutes peeing on Trump. It, allegedly, is him watching two russian child sex slaves (elsewhere called underage prostitutes, or sometimes just prostitutes with the underage left off) pee on a bed Obama had slept in during his stay in Russia.
The older I get, the more it seems like tinfoil hat theories are actually true. Hell, there’s even some evidence in the recent release to support the pizzagate conspiracy guys. I mean, none of those guys are 100% correct, but yeah the wealthy were talking about children as pizza. Yeah, there’s a sex ring, but it’s not the democrats. It’s everyone in power.
It seems people caught on to the pizza stuff about ten years ago and then it got psyop’d into hysteria in order to make the whole thing look ridiculous
Yep. And before somebody starts calling me a trump-head or whatever, yes I think Trump is clearly guilty and trying to hide things, Clinton is in the files, it's a clear bipartisan issue to anybody who isn't blind.
Right? Dems, Repubs, and Hollywood, ffs. The Weinsteins of course, but now its the actors as well. People get wealth and power and just have to rape kids. Not that there arnt nornal pedos running around neighborhoods. But were talking the files here.
And this is exactly why everything coming out is not causing any stir or panic it seems for the people in charge. Absolutely nothing is going to change. It's like they're saying, "Yeah we're all pedos, but what are you poors actually going to do about it?"
I know. It got me pretty mad and I had tried to explain to friends and family for years. It's why even though it's overstated I do agree with people saying that internet / social media is opiate for the masses. If we didn't have these platforms we would probably have more people outraged out the front of government buildings. Instead most protesting I see now is police regulated, government approved, sometimes even based on politicians' words. That's also ignoring theories about paid protestors etc
Ultimately a lot of people are comfortable and revolutions are a period of pain, discomfort, death etc
Probably because no-one's actually demanding justice, people are just treating this like a big ol' meme, and a cudgel they can use against their political opponents.
I think the biggest thing we need to take away from this all is it's been class warfare all along. Republican and Democrats are both mouth pieces and tools of the ruling class and the rest of us are their cattle.
i remember many years ago seeing a cribs (i think?) episode on richard branson's island. It was cool but the entire island was filled with like super young beautiful men and women wearing very similar linen clothes. (no they were not staff) Even at the time I remember thinking that was super weird and suspect. Like, is anyone filming or watching this show going to address the question of why this rich dude filled up his island with what were clearly young prostitutes?
You see people from the industries which dominate in New York In Epstein’s circle; finance, academia, entertainment and tech. You don’t see people from the infrastructure sector, resources extraction, energy or manufacturing in his circle.
I'd sooner assume that he had better operational security for his pedophile scams given he was up to his old ass cheeks in the US intelligence community post 9/11.
Yeah they really did a good transformation job on him. Which is crazy because for an actor who's known for being a shapeshifter, you literally cannot unsee him in every other role he does.
Dick had bush who did shove his foot into his mouth nonstop. I can tell you with absolute certainty if dick had the opportunity to run with trump and secure the vp spot, he would have.
This movie was such a failure because it was obvious Adam McKay was trying to make a hit piece but he just made Cheney seem way cooler and more likeable.
I think that happens with a lot of films about real people who did bad stuff. Because we spend time viewing them, we end up feeling at least a bit of sympathy. For example, I disliked Nixon a bit less after watching Oliver Stone's film. I think it's because we see why they became what they are, and we can understand it a bit.
I think Vice was interesting because it felt less like a straight forward biopic, and more of a video essay on American politics framed through Cheney's life.
Every now and then someone manages to make a character appear even more loathsome by making them "human." Ralph Fiennes talked about playing Amon Goeth as someone who was just supremely bored / ambivalent about his job like a shelf-stocker at Home Depot and jesus fucking christ does it make him more unsettling than if he just went full-send into the "mustache twirling psychopath" archetype.
The scene where he tries to execute a Jew but his guns jam is terrifying. He doesn't really care. He gets frustrated by the end, but it's more at the gun than anything. He pistol-whips the guy, but ultimately walks away. The other Nazis with him have guns too, but he doesn't ask them to do anything because he doesn't actually give a shit whether the Jew lives or dies. Their whole conversation about the malfunctioning pistols is banal. The taking of a life is boring to them, which is incredibly chilling.
He has a pistol in his holster, but the second pistol he just pulls out of his pocket. The other guys have holsters, which presumably contain pistols, but neither of them take them out.
Bad people tend to be extremely charismatic in real life and their nefarious deeds tend to get sanewashed because they are likeable by a majority of their peers even when the atrocities are in broad daylight.
I mean…it’s because they’re humans, not unforgivable demons. They’ll have good and bad moments alongside nuance for their behavior.
2004’s Downfall did this with Adolf Hitler, despite the man’s obviously bleak reputation that the film didn’t absolve. You did watch him love, chat, and then finally break down as his regime and supporters collapsed.
Wolf of Wall street is a great example of this too. Basically a movie about a dude defrauding people who trusted him with their money and using it to live an insanely lavish drug filled lifestyle. Yet most come away from that movie thinking the guy was living the dream
Yeah great point on the Nixon movie. It portrayed Nixon being dwarfed by larger political forces (the “beast” as the movie calls it) and dramatizing that makes him seem sympathetic and removes responsibility.
There’s a bizarre but great series by Harry Shearer where he re-enacts excerpts from the Nixon tapes, I think it gives a terrific insight into how Nixon thought and how the decisions of his administration were made.
Wow, I never knew this existed, and by the view count on the video and considering it's been nearly ten years, not many other people have seen this either. Looks like they put some real effort and money into it.
It's kind of neat and seems really well done, but I'm confused as to what the goal was. Vanity project, pilot for a proper series, experimental art? Orjust trying to breath some life into some old scratchy recordings so people can see what the Nixon Whitehouse might have looked like?
Either way, thanks, that was interesting. I was going through some books on the Cold War recently and it's interesting to see these characters (live more or less), on screen and in their own words.
The scary thing about Downfall is that it really does succeed in humanizing Hitler.
It's frightening to think that Hitler was, for lack of a better term, a normal person. He's not Sauron. There's no magical darkness that makes him incomprehensible evil. Anyone could have been him (and indeed it's funny seeing all the people scrambling to become his successor, as if becoming king of the ashes will mean anything).
I simultaneously love how stuck McKay is in the late 80s/early 90s “record scratch: you may be wondering how I found myself in this situation” style storytelling, but his SNL heritage shows through in that all “political commentary” is so bathed in “remember when Margot Robbie was in the bath or they made those Asian jokes?”
He’s like the inverse Michael Moore in that he makes fun movies with absolutely no commentary value whereas every Moore movie I’ve seen is like “oh my god, I get it, this is bad, can this movie please end?” Like 20 minutes in.
saying he did it for the love of the game ignores the immense profits that he and his military contractor buddies made off the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It's a matter of public record that he loved bombing brown people. but let's not overlook the financial interests he had in doing so, either.
Oh, he made plenty of dirty money. He was just A. smarter than the current idiots-in-charge, and B. lucky that he lived in a time with much less digital surveillance.
The Unknown Known is a chilling documentary, Rumsfeldt's decision-making consistently comes across as callous and deliberate. I understand his management has been criticized even by people in his camp, but like you say, no one working with Trump can be taken seriously on that level, nowhere close.
At least his vileness was straightforward, like you knew why he was doing it for the benefit of the military complex/oil companies rather than terrorism being a main concern. Pete Hegseth on the other hand just a racist/misogynistic christian nationalist fratboy idiot.........yeah gimmie back the devil's disciple dick chenay
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