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Quote:Was Joker murdering his Mother too artistic for you? That was Academy Award Winning acting. I can remember when you were 6ixStringJoker. You made it crystal clear you were Joker. Joker, the movie, was playing out your fantasies of fighting back against a cruel world and finally winning! Just like Trump was winning! Until Trump was losing and Joker was back in Arkham Asylum, which is as nice as Mar-a-Lago Asylum for criminally insane ex-presidents.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are an idiot. Your opinions are meaningless. Your opinions echo exactly what Vox and MotherJones told you anybody who thought Joker was a good film is.
I said it made me extremely uncomfortable, and the first words I said after it was over was "I'm exhausted" to my Dad.
Here is the evidence that 6ixStringJack was once 6STRINGJOKER
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Someone who's clearly been on the Trump Tilt-a-Whirl too long is Sen. John Cornyn of Texas. The poor man is staggering about, wondering why the earth is spinning.
On Monday, in an analysis of a Politico story on Biden's media strategy, he tweeted this about President Biden: "The president is not doing cable news interviews. Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional. The public comments are largely scripted. Biden has opted for fewer sit down interviews with mainstream outlets and reporters." Cornyn said he was worried about whether Biden was "really in charge."
Whoa. What makes him think that? Does Cornyn really miss the last four years of presidential Twitter? Does he not remember the insanity and toxicity that former President Donald Trump unleashed every day on social media?
Does Cornyn really think it's a problem that the current President is being "conventional" -- that is, steady, stable, normal and grounded? Biden has been in office for 79 days, and he hasn't attacked the appearance of anyone's spouse, nor linked a senator's father to the Kennedy assassination. He has not called American soldiers who died for our country "suckers" or "losers." He has not sucked up to dictators or derided our allies.
Kinda makes you dizzy to revisit all that, doesn't it? And through every twist and turn of that barf-inducing Trump Tilt-a-Whirl, Cornyn hung on. He even praised Trump for firing tear gas and pepper balls at peaceful American citizens demonstrating across the street from the White House last June. "The president is sending a strong and correct message," Cornyn said.
Attacking Biden for being stable, attacking baseball, Coke and others for supporting voting rights, opposing Biden's popular agenda, these moves have put the GOP further behind the Democrats than any time in almost a decade. According to the latest Gallup poll, the Democrats' advantage, usually four to six points, has swelled to nine. Only 25% of Americans now consider themselves Republicans.
This is what comes of riding the Trump-a-Whirl too long.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/opinions/trump-a-whirl-cornyn-mcconnell
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Was Joker murdering his Mother too artistic for you? That was Academy Award Winning acting. I can remember when you were 6ixStringJoker. You made it crystal clear you were Joker. Joker, the movie, was playing out your fantasies of fighting back against a cruel world and finally winning! Just like Trump was winning! Until Trump was losing and Joker was back in Arkham Asylum, which is as nice as Mar-a-Lago Asylum.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are an idiot. Your opinions are meaningless. Your opinions echo exactly what Vox and MotherJones told you anybody who thought Joker was a good film is.
I said it made me extremely uncomfortable, and the first words I said after it was over was "I'm exhausted" to my Dad.
What an idiot.
Check my posting dates under the alias. WAYYYYYYY before the movie Joker was even announced.
I changed it because after a firefox update it was warning me that login info on this site wasn't secure, so I made a burner email with the burner alias. I never remembered the password for either account, so when I had to rebuild the PC I lost access to them and just said fuck it and used this one again.
My name is not Jack. It's a Jack from a deck of cards. I just picked Joker because I thought King would be too gauche.
Although 6ixStringKing does roll off the tongue.
You're projecting idiot Vox and MoJones movie reviews onto me again. My praise for that film sounds nothing at all like any of the bullshit you post when you bring it up.
How about you tell me how I couldn't vote for George Washington again so I can kick your tiny brain in... again?
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Brian Seltzer interviewz a former Australian PM about Rupert Murdoch.
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Quote:Arthur Fleck really wants to be the center of attention. That’s it.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What an idiot.
Check my posting dates under the alias. WAYYYYYYY before the movie Joker was even announced.
I changed it because after a firefox update it was warning me that login info on this site wasn't secure, so I made a burner email with the burner alias. I never remembered the password for either account, so when I had to rebuild the PC I lost access to them and just said fuck it and used this one again.
My name is not Jack. It's a Jack from a deck of cards. I just picked Joker because I thought King would be too gauche.
Although 6ixStringKing does roll off the tongue.
You're projecting idiot Vox and MoJones movie reviews onto me again. My praise for that film sounds nothing at all like any of the bullshit you post when you bring it up.
How about you tell me how I couldn't vote for George Washington again so I can kick your tiny brain in... again?
Arthur goes from a timid, put upon loner into a full blown murderer.
When Arthur says he’s not about politics in the film, he’s lying.
A mentally unstable person becomes an overnight political statement.
Poor little Arthur Fleck, the man who is not respected.
He puts on the clown makeup and goes on a rampage, killing those who don’t see Joker as a superior man full of talent and deserving success.
Trumptards are similar in that they don’t get the money and respect and easy life they feel their superiority deserves.
Joker is their movie: The Trumptards Strike Back.
Trump feeds Trumptards’ fantasies about about being powerful and respected individuals.
That’s directly from Texas Trumptards, not from Joker.
In the Joker, there is no Batman to beat some sense into Arthur Fleck.
The Trumptards dream of an America where no Democrats are beating them up.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Like a Paul Verhoeven John Carpenter Apocalypse Movie
So was a curfew implemented, people were putting gasoline in their car when the United States had Martial Law?
https://twitter.com/GoddesstheMuse/status/1383245332557959168
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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better Future
by Paul Krugman.
In 2020 America came through something close to an existential social and political crisis. That crisis is now understood by large parts of the Democratic Party not as an unforeseeable shock, but as enabled by the forty years of ‘fiscally responsible’ Democratic administrations failing to address inequality and handing the game to the utterly unscrupulous Republicans. With the pandemic still running through American society, and the midterms looming in 2022, the most irresponsible thing to do would be to risk electoral disaster of the sort the Democrats experienced in 2010.
Paul Krugman’s latest collection of essays, Arguing with Zombies, first appeared in January 2020. Not only was it quickly buried by Covid, but he missed out on a thing all too rare for a pundit: the opportunity to declare victory. A year later, in Joe Biden’s Washington, Krugmanism rules. The gigantic scale of the $1.9 trillion Biden rescue plan, and now the proposed $2 trillion infrastructure investment programme, are testament to a rearrangement of the relationship between economic expertise and politics in the Democratic Party, a rearrangement which Krugman anticipated and for which Arguing with Zombies makes a powerful case.
In the 1990s the lines were clearly drawn. The Democrats were a party of fiscal rectitude and trade globalisation. They had the weight of academic economic opinion behind them. Krugman was one of the cheerleaders and enforcers of that dispensation: the job of brilliant economists with a quick pen was to guard the true knowledge against deviations to the left and the right. It isn’t by accident that Jed Bartlet – the fictional president in The West Wing, the TV fantasy that sustained liberal America during the dark Bush years – was a genial economics professor and Nobel laureate. It was a fantasy. The synthesis of brains, wisdom and power embodied in Bartlet didn’t stand up to 21st-century realities. Today, Krugman tells us, ‘everything is political.’ He has come to accept that ‘the technocratic dream – the idea of being a politically neutral analyst helping policymakers govern more effectively – is, for now at least, dead.’
Breaking with the technocratic assumptions of the Clinton era and the early Obama years has been an attritional process. In Krugman’s case it is the end of an arc that spans half a century. He is no longer at the height of his influence, but he still has huge reach through his New York Times column and on Twitter, where he has a staggering 4.6 million followers. For critics on the left it can be infuriating to watch high-powered centrists inching their way towards seemingly obvious political conclusions. But when they do, it is consequential. By tracing Krugman’s itinerary, we can shed some light on how we arrived in our current situation, with three centrists – Biden, Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell – undertaking an experiment in economic policy of historic proportions. . . .
America had, after all, been here before. FDR’s New Deal too had been hemmed in. It had delivered far less than promised, until the floodgates were finally opened by the Second World War. The Great Depression, Krugman wrote, ‘ended largely thanks to a guy named Adolf Hitler. He created a human catastrophe, which also led to a lot of government spending.’ ‘Economics,’ he wrote in another essay, ‘is not a morality play. It’s not a happy story in which virtue is rewarded and vice punished.’
‘If it were announced that we faced a threat from space aliens and needed to build up to defend ourselves,’ Krugman said in 2012, ‘we’d have full employment in a year and a half.’
You might argue that in Covid we have found an enemy of precisely the kind Krugman was imagining. As far as Europe is concerned, an alien space invasion isn’t an implausible model for Covid. It didn’t take a new world war to flip America’s economic policy switch. All it took was an election.
More at https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n08/adam-tooze/the-ga
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Krugman is insufferable.
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Quote:Facts really make your brain hurt, don't they?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Krugman is insufferable.
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Welcome to Day 91.
Today in one sentence: Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for killing George Floyd; Biden suggested that the evidence against Chauvin was “overwhelming”; the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general declined to investigate what role the Secret Service played in the clearing of peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square in June 2020 so Trump could stage a photo op; Biden will pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by 2030; and a dozen megadonors contributed $1 in every $13 raised for federal candidates and political groups since 2009.
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