It’s not explicitly political, but I have previously argued that, in light of the last few years, I have my doubts the ending to Stephen King’s The Dead Zone can work anymore.

I mean, for the sake of sanity, I want to believe it can - but after all the shit Trump has gotten a pass on, I feel like Stilson using a baby…

Memory serves, didn’t Portman even say at one point she was worried the films would kill her career?

Luckily didn’t prove to be the case, but given the amount of shit she was getting for her performances in them, I can see why an up and comer would think “...welp. I’m fucked.”

...conversely, by his logic, she’s also Umbridge, Voldemort, Lestrange...

You know...shitty people with shitty ideas about how people different from them should be treated.

Going to assume Graham didn’t think this that far through.

Moments like this I’m glad that he only had a small bit part of Darkplace and so I can…

Part of the problem is, for a lot of them, they don’t actually want ‘small government’

They mean they just want government that doesn’t ask anything of them specificallt. It lets them do what they want, when they want, how they want, and ideally never asks them for taxes.
...by comparison, check out the Venn Diagram of…

There are days I do genuinely wonder if history will acknowledge the role Mark Burnett had in getting us to where we are now by his part in convincing a large enough swath of Americans that Donald Trump was a sound, intelligent captain of industry rather than doltish trust fund baby coasting on artifice and overseas…

This.
There’s also something to be said for the state of gerrymandering in KY, but it’s worth remembering - McConnell has been in office since 1985. He holds the record for longest held senate seat in his state.
And he didn’t really start getting too much notice outside of his party until roughly sometime in the 2010s…

That foundation is, if we’re being honest, part of why I’d be more concerned about Trump than Jones in the long run - cause you know with the levels of anger and hatred Trump has fed on, it wouldn’t be ‘We’re all going to die’, it would be ‘We’re gonna take them all with us!’

Maybe this is just the cynic in me talking, but I have to wonder if the bigger concern in this case might be if the police decide some retaliation is in order.

Again, it sounds cynical, but it’s not like they haven’t already decided they’re this far above reproach, so...

“Imagine that the beloved family film Home Alone landed a hard-R instead of a PG, because little Kevin McCallister’s scampish booby-trapping drew geysers of blood.”

I said it in another thread here, I’ll say it again.

Idiocracy is the seemingly easy answer, but it’s not the correct one:
-One of the most powerful people in the country is a thin-skinned, sadistic game show host who treats life and death like reality TV to keep people baited on the line
-The country’s economy went to…

Human pride’s a fucking vicious drug.
People would rather stand behind a monster with the intellect and emotional maturity of a stunted child than admit said same stunted child played them.

Likely find a new social media platform.
The guy’s hooked on the idea of constant praise, and without rallies to give him that fix, social media’s been his mainline feed.

and unfortunately, something like Gab would probably welcome him with pretty open arms.

Here’s the thing about that - speaking as someone who grew up in an ostensibly pretty damn blue state, you don’t take that safety with a grain of salt. Like, the idea of the ‘safe’ protest vote is a pat on the back if you’re absolutely sure you’re the only one who’s doing it.
But if enough people all figure it’s safe…

Memory serves, didn’t Rush actually get someone killed by pulling that crap?

Just gonna also take a moment to point out - this movie’s prologue talks about the US economy hitting the skids in 2019.
Yeah, it was a little off, but I still maintain we’re far more The Running Man than we are Idiocracy, and that’s still pretty fucking disturbing.

Also, gonna remind people - that film DID predict deep…

‘Warning People in 2010 that Mark Zuckerburg and Julian Assange will both emerge as right wing mouthpieces and enablers’ has been steadily climbing on my ‘to do’ list if I’m somehow sent back in time.

This.
Thinking about this more, I remembered the director’s cuts for Watchmen and Batman v Superman.
And how the problems those movies had in the theatrical cuts were...still there in the director’s cuts. In a couple of cases, even moreso.

Honestly, the little tells of how sickly his complexion is under all that spray tan are the one thing that keeps me going with having to see that jowly mug on the news.

Him nothing - a large chunk of the right wing machine is projecting.
There’s a reason why you’ll hear all manner of nonsense theories about Soros paying off protestors with very little then being said about how the Kochs helped fund/organize the Tea Party.

For as much of a dumpster fire as he was, I sort of cut Harding a little slack here in that the general upshot as I understood it was he was just too damn naive to realize all the shit his buddies were getting up to behind his back.
By comparison, Trump’s the one getting up to a lot of the shit himself.

That said, yeah…