It smells like Steven Miller. I’ll concede Trump isn’t that bright.
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If you meant “born” at 40 years old, my condolences, and heartiest amazement to your mother.
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Me, too!
I love that movie.
Apologies if this has already been posted, but this person is fantastic:
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I found this
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Damn spell checker.
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I am glad that is what you remember most clearly. There are good people in this world, more than not.
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Because he said so. And for many in the media, that’s all that matters. There need be no substantiation with fact. The people in power write the history. And the Right will write it however they want because there’s no one to stand up to them and say ‘enough’.
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“Of course I love you, Baby. That’s WHY I have to hit you.”
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Could I interest you in a little KristallNacht?
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Yes, this.
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The most terrifying book for me was The Painted Bird.
I thought it was beautifully written, so I tried to read it again a few years back, but I couldn’t. I had to stop.
I so want to see Václav Marhoul’s film, but I’m also afraid.
ETA: Interesting side trivia - Jerzy Kosiński was supposed to be at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate’s home on the night of the Manson murders, but he missed his flight or lost his luggage in NYC or something.
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LBJ-We shall overcome.
Trump-I came in a porn star.
Indeed - Everywhere
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There was a PBS show about the civil rights movement in the '60s; they showed the horror at Edmund Pettis Bridge. Anyway they had the guy who was mayor of Selma ‘then’ and he seemed like a nice reasonable CALM person. HE blamed all the violence on Sheriff Clark who he said was ‘out of the norm’ and that he as Mayor had no control over.
Anyway they showed him THEN saying Martin Luther Coo…KING and I ‘knew’ that the only way they referred to the Rev Martin Luther KING as Martin Luther COON all the time, but ‘mostly’ in private. THAT was The Mayor ‘then.’
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Indeed
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“I know better than the rocket scientists.”
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Well I can see your point, but not being able to watch slasher movies generally, I can’t speak to whether or not they are all bad theatre. I imagine they are – though I did stumble into watching the original Halloween one late night at home alone – I was drawn to it as if watching a cobra dance – and while I imagine you’d put it in the pile of bad theatre, it haunted my sleep just the same, and it stayed with me a very long time. Months and possibly a couple of years.
But real life events of course also figure in the evolution of my sense of terror. I’ve read that a whole generation of women were affected by Psycho for life, and I have no doubt that seeing Psycho at a tender age left its mark. But as I mentioned, Richard Speck also fed that fear significantly, as did the murder of Kitty Genovese, particularly horrifying to me in that no one responded to her screams.
And in the end I suppose that there’s simply something particularly brutal to me about stabbings. Serial shooters are obviously horrifying too, but stabbings somehow seem more awful, perhaps because you don’t die until you are repeatedly hacked.
As Hitchcock so brilliantly taught us.
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Barr might well be the chief ”agent provacateur.”
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1266794154790699009
I might add that the fact that Barr is already spinning it is indicative of complicity and getting out in front of the news.
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Totally does not make sense. I have been here since 71 and high school. (Actually born here, but military brat, it took a while to get back). It has always been clear to me that it was going to flip. Just the natural process of things. I am not threatened by it, but I have been poked at by people periodically who think I should be. I have a friend and co-worker (though that may have changed), who lived in the same area, went to a similar school. I worked with him for years. I know his crowd and from his childhood years it was always diverse. A good portion of that crowd worked together all those years. They as a group were hell raisers and very close knit in a familial way. But a few years back, he started asking me questions and making statements that never made sense. He was becoming a very unhappy man, quit the job eventually (He had good reason) and moved out to and isolated his family in the Texas country side. I know he is a MAGA hat wearer now. I am still befuddled what actually shifted his perspective to the point of advocating for someone who clearly discriminates against his friends.
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