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This isn't an American problem specifically, Second. This is the human condition.
Hell... this story plays out in great video game franchises like Final Fantasy, specifically Final Fantasy X and X2 (one of the few games in the franchise that had a direct sequel). The people of the world in the first game were unified under the global threat "Sin" and lived relatively meager existences under the tyrannical oppression of this beast that nobody could escape. But when it was vanquished at the end of the first game the world was able to make many advancements both technological and cultural and by the time X2 came out, two of the female lead characters from the first game that helped save the world from Sin had become Pop Stars. The world had become soft without the everpresent threat of Sin and was ripe for the picking when a new threat emerged.
These games and the stories behind them were written and created solely by people in Japan.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Trump’s Legal Theories About Stormy Daniels Are So Bogus Even Walter Sobchak From The Big Lebowski Sees Through Them
https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/stephen-colbert-trumps-legal-theorie
s-are-so-bogus-even-walter-sobchak-sees-through-them.html
It’s not every day that you can demonstrate that the president and his legal team don’t have a leg to stand on with a 3-second clip from Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 film The Big Lebowski, but every day of the Trump administration brings new surprises. On Monday, Stephen Colbert took a look at Trump’s reported plan to prevent CBS from airing a 60 Minutes interview with adult film star Stormy Daniels, and noticed that Walter Sobchak, the irascible Vietnam veteran played by John Goodman in the Coen’s ode to slacking around Los Angeles, delivers an impassioned explanation as to precisely why Trump and his lawyers are full of shit. Here’s what Sobchak has to say:
"The Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!"
It’s worth noting that in the context of the film—Sobchak explaining to an angry waitress that he has the right to holler, “Forget about the fucking toe!” regardless of what she or the other patrons might think of it—his legal theories are not entirely accurate. But in the previously unimaginable context we’re living in right now—a presidential candidate allegedly paying hush money to an adult film star, then becoming president, then trying to prevent a TV network from airing an interview with the adult film star in question despite well-established legal precedents that make that an unlikely prospect—well, sometimes there’s a man for his time and place. Still, as satisfying as this Trump-related-Walter-Sobchak-from-The-Big-Lebowski coincidence is, it will pale compared to the inevitably approaching day when Robert Mueller sits Trump down and asks him, under oath, “Is this your homework, Larry?”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:And I suppose second also spends much time reading up on how Mercury is so diligent in his daily travel duties.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I suppose your explanation why you spent so much time reading up on Gates inventing 1s and 0s, Flat Earth, algore inventing the Internet, Oswald being Lone Gunman, the falling sky, and Betsy Ross, Susan Anthony, Hamilton & Franklin being the Greatest Presidents give insight to why you're so gullible.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Although you say you are not a Republican, all Republicans in Texas say they don't read propaganda written by Democrats. If you did read, that would have been solid proof that you are definitely not a Republican. Then your assertions that you are an "Independent" would be more believable. Essentially, 6ixStringJack, you are wearing a tee shirt that says "Independent" on the front, while the back of the shirt, the part everyone but you can see, says "Republican".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No shame at all in admitting that I don't read propaganda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Maybe you should put your shirt on backwards? It won't look any stupider than you look now.
Is that why you refuse to attribute your posts, so 6ix will think what you plagiarized is your original words, and read the drivel you copied?
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Quote:Project Veritas? Sorry. You'll need a credible source.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
NYT editor was caught on hidden camera targeting the President of the USA, and denying any sort of objectivity.Quote:So much for the objectivity and sanctity of the "free" (corporate) press!
While talking about being objective at the Times, Dudich replies candidly, "No I'm not, that's why I'm here."
Dudich considers himself an important player at the New York Times, telling the Project Veritas Journalist "my voice is on... my imprint is on every video we do."
Dudich goes on to explain what he might do to target President Trump:
"I'd target his businesses, his dumb fuck of a son, Donald Jr., and Eric...
"Target that. Get people to boycott going to his hotels. Boycott... So a lot of the Trump brands, if you can ruin the Trump brand and you put pressure on his business and you start investigating his business and you start shutting it down, or they're hacking or other things. He cares about his business more than he cares about being President. He would resign. Or he'd lash out and do something incredibly illegal, which he would have to."
When the undercover journalist asks Dudich if he could make sure that the anti-Trump stories make it to the front, he replied, "Oh, we always do."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-10/okeefe-takes-aim-nyt-records-
editor-admitting-targeting-trumps-buinesses-his-dumb-fk
I'll post this in a thread where it really belongs, but just put this here to counter THUGR'S off-topic post.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:Do you spend much time reading about Stormy Daniels? Secrets worth paying north of a hundred grand to keep could be powerful tools in the hands of foreign governments or domestic special interests. Is Daniels the only woman Trump has paid off? Have his other secrets been successfully kept from other interested parties? Who has leverage over the president, and what are they using it for?
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
And I suppose second also spends much time reading up on how Mercury is so diligent in his daily travel duties.
From the public’s standpoint, the key issue isn’t Daniels’s story — it’s the circumstances surrounding the payoff and how many similar deals are out there. The problem with a powerful public official having valuable secrets is they can be exploited for more than just financial gain. Nobody with this kind of exposure to blackmail or manipulation by special interests or foreign intelligence agencies would be able to get a high-end security clearance.
The president is exempt from the normal security procedure rules on the grounds that the voters rather than the security bureaucrats should be able to decide. But that simply underscores the fact that the voters deserve to know the truth about the scope of Trump’s secrets and the lengths he’s willing to go to keep them.
Steve Bannon said Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz, “has gotten him out of all kinds of jams. Kasowitz on the campaign — what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them.” There could be 100 more Stormy Daniels out there, all paid to be quiet about Trump's secrets. 100 National Security risks.
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House Intel Republican contradicts panel, says Russia tried to help Trump in 2016
Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Monday that "there is evidence" showing the Russians attempted to help Trump during the 2016 presidential election, contradicting a draft report from the panel.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-intel-republican-contrad
icts-panel-says-russia-tried-to-help-trump-in-2016/ar-BBK90R3?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:No shame at all in admitting that I don't read propaganda.
Originally posted by THGRRI:Quote:Exactly right again second. Jack is another one who does this, and not the only one either. To Jacks credit, he at least admits it.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Wow yourself, JewelStaiteFan. You didn't read the paper, did you? But you couldn't stop yourself from giving an opinion, could you?
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
wow. That series of flawed arguments is so unfounded as to be boggy. Good example of dreaming up evidence or rationalization after forming the conclusion.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:And I suppose second also spends much time reading up on how Mercury is so diligent in his daily travel duties.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I suppose your explanation why you spent so much time reading up on Gates inventing 1s and 0s, Flat Earth, algore inventing the Internet, Oswald being Lone Gunman, the falling sky, and Betsy Ross, Susan Anthony, Hamilton & Franklin being the Greatest Presidents give insight to why you're so gullible.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Although you say you are not a Republican, all Republicans in Texas say they don't read propaganda written by Democrats. If you did read, that would have been solid proof that you are definitely not a Republican. Then your assertions that you are an "Independent" would be more believable. Essentially, 6ixStringJack, you are wearing a tee shirt that says "Independent" on the front, while the back of the shirt, the part everyone but you can see, says "Republican".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No shame at all in admitting that I don't read propaganda.
Maybe you should put your shirt on backwards? It won't look any stupider than you look now.
Quote:Stormy Daniels? Stage Name for Stephanie Clifford?
Originally posted by second:Quote:Do you spend much time reading about Stormy Daniels?
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
And I suppose second also spends much time reading up on how Mercury is so diligent in his daily travel duties.
Is this your flimsy attempt to deflect, or are you really this dense?
Stormy Daniels is not a Mythological entity, even if she is a resident of your dreams.
You demanding that 6ix read every possible bit of Mythology just to gain credence in your view has no bearing on your favorite porn Starlet.
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Quote:The Man Who Knew Too Little
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Stormy Daniels? Stage Name for Stephanie Clifford?
Is this your flimsy attempt to deflect, or are you really this dense?
Stormy Daniels is not a Mythological entity, even if she is a resident of your dreams.
You demanding that 6ix read every possible bit of Mythology just to gain credence in your view has no bearing on your favorite porn Starlet.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-man-who-knew-too-little/ar-BBK5575?ocid=
spartandhp
GLOUSTER, Ohio — At first, the experiment didn’t have a name. Right after the election, Erik Hagerman decided he’d take a break from reading about the hoopla of politics. Donald Trump’s victory shook him. Badly. And so Mr. Hagerman developed his own eccentric experiment, one that was part silent protest, part coping mechanism, part extreme self-care plan.
He swore that he would avoid learning about anything that happened to America after Nov. 8, 2016.
“It was draconian and complete,” he said. “It’s not like I wanted to just steer away from Trump or shift the conversation. It was like I was a vampire and any photon of Trump would turn me to dust.”
It was just going to be for a few days. But he is now more than a year into knowing almost nothing about American politics. He has managed to become shockingly uninformed during one of the most eventful chapters in modern American history. He is as ignorant as a contemporary citizen could ever hope to be. – James Comey. Russia. Robert Mueller. Las Vegas. The travel ban. “Alternative facts.” Pussy hats. Scaramucci. Parkland. Big nuclear buttons. Roy Moore.
He knows none of it. To Mr. Hagerman, life is a spoiler.
“I just look at the weather,” said Mr. Hagerman, 53, who lives alone on a pig farm in southeastern Ohio. “But it’s only so diverting.” He says he has gotten used to a feeling that he hasn’t experienced in a long time. “I am bored,” he said. “But it’s not bugging me.”
The fact that it’s working for him — “I’m emotionally healthier than I’ve ever felt,” he said — has made him question the very value of being fed each day by the media. Why do we bother tracking faraway political developments and distant campaign speeches? What good comes of it? Why do we read all these tweets anyway?
“I had been paying attention to the news for decades,” Mr. Hagerman said. “And I never did anything with it.”
Much more at www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-man-who-knew-too-little/ar-BBK5575?ocid=
spartandhp
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Too little? It sounds to me like he's got it all figured out.
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“I had been paying attention to the news for decades,” Mr. Hagerman said. “And I never did anything with it.”
That about sums it up for nearly 100% of American's who can't bring themselves to tune out. None of it matters.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:You didn't understand the article, did you? Mr. Hagerman can safely tune out Trump only because Mr. Hagerman is tremendously wealthy, which insulates him from Trump's failures. More money equals more personal safety and freedom. More insulation from the foolish American President's troubled life.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Too little? It sounds to me like he's got it all figured out.Quote:
“I had been paying attention to the news for decades,” Mr. Hagerman said. “And I never did anything with it.”
That about sums it up for nearly 100% of American's who can't bring themselves to tune out. None of it matters.
Hagerman got wealthy by using his head. The same brains that made him rich made him conclude that: “It’s not like I wanted to just steer away from Trump or shift the conversation. It was like I was a vampire and any photon of Trump would turn me to dust.” Trump is a bad President, to simplify the message being clearly sent in the interview with the successful Ohioan who is now retired.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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