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'An evil family': Sacklers condemned as they refuse to apologize for role in opioid crisis
House committee is investigating Purdue Pharma and billionaire family’s role in epidemic that has killed almost 500,000 Americans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/17/sackler-family-purdue-
pharma-congressional-hearing-apology
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Quote:The irony of her calling anyone a nut.
Originally posted by THG:
José Andrés responds to Ann Coulter calling him 'some nut foreigner'
Celebrity chef José Andrés responded to criticism directed toward him by conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who called him "some nut foreigner" after he advocated for stronger hunger relief programs in the U.S.
"I'm so proud you called me a Nut," Andrés replied to Coulter. "Nuts are fruits where the ovary walls become hard so I can be Protector of my people and everyone else. Nuts like me? energy-dense,nutrient-rich, what we need to feed USA. Nuts? You right girl, 'foreigners' like almonds+pistachios!Happy holidays!"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jos%C3%A9-andr%C3%A9s-responds
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Quote:The Rich minority could not destroy America if the majority would stop believing in the magical powers of confident men. There certainly are many Americans that believe Rich and Confident men such as Donald Trump have magical powers to solve the nation’s ills. This idea presented itself to me while reading about a high school scene in a documentary. The Confidence-Man was being discussed in an American classroom.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Sign that reads: "The only minority destroying America is The Rich"
“The Confidence-Man” 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confidence-Man
In making his movies, Wiseman explained, he’d witnessed both immense kindness and unbelievable cruelty. “If somebody asked me for a generalization about human behavior, I’d say, ‘Watch my films,’” he went on. “If you can say in 25 words or less what they say about human behavior, well, good luck to you. I can’t do it.”
Which, I suppose, also applies to any attempt at summarizing what his films have to say about the life of the American institution. I thought of the bracingly dark lecture on Melville delivered by a high school English teacher in “Belfast, Maine” (1999), which had a funny moment along the lines of those Morris loves, when the teacher, recounting to the stunned-looking teenagers a horrific drowning scene from “Moby-Dick,” seems to be confronting his own existential abyss. Then he moves on to another Melville book, “The Confidence-Man,” a bizarre, difficult novel and a surprising choice for a high school English class. To Melville, the teacher explains, everything in America is a confidence game. “They’re always telling you to believe,” the teacher says, “but anytime you believe in anything, it’s only setting you up to be the fool, to be the gull, to be the victim of the game.” He tells the class the title character of the novel was a huckster on a steamboat selling people what they wanted to hear. (Trump is that huckster.)
“What does this tell us about the American dream?” he asks.
“It’s false!” one of the kids responds.
“It’s false,” the teacher repeats. “It’s a confidence scam.”
The scene comes more than three hours into a four-hour film, which, to that point, seems to have been a complicated but sympathetic portrait of a quaint coastal town near where Wiseman bought an old barn in the early ’70s, and where he frequently spends summers. The lecture changes the atmosphere, forcing the viewer to rethink everything that’s come before and all that remains. When I brought up the scene with Wiseman, he told me “The Confidence-Man” was one of his favorite novels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/magazine/frederick-wiseman-document
aries.html
Download a free copy of “The Confidence-Man” at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21816
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I hope no one finds this too controversial...
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Republicans strategize for next elections: 'Their plan is to make it harder for voters to participate'
Backlash following the 2020 election underscores how severely the party is willing to cut off access to the ballot amid signs of a changing electorate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/19/republicans-strategize
-future-elections-harder-to-vote
“I am not at all surprised to see this happening in Texas and Georgia that I think are on the cusp of a big shift,” Pérez said. “You have some dinosaurs who are not going to stay in power much longer trying to suppress votes.”
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