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Trump as POTUS at age 85 or 86?
My experience with it and my assessment of it could not be more different than that.
Cf. All of "Andor" was done in two 12 episode seasons. It's not the format that's the problem.
What is wrong with the President of the United States, other than being delusional and reckless?
Japan was a defeated nation by September 1945.
"You despise me, don't you?"
"If I gave you any thought, I probably would."
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Peter Lorre as Ugarte is only on the screen for a couple of minutes, but his character's interaction with Rick is fabulous.
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"What right do I have to think, huh?"
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Such quick exchanges add so much to the movie.
Pete Hegseth reposted Lockheed Martin 2 @LockheedMartin X.com We have agreed to quadruple critical munitions production. As a result of President @realDonaldTrump's leadership, we began this work months ago with @SecWar Hegseth and Deputy Secretary Feinberg. x.com/PeteHegseth/ st... Pete Hegseth • C @PeteHegseth. .4h Donald J. Trump Y @reaDonaldTrump We just concluded a very good meeting with the lardest US. Defense Manufacturina Companies
There’s something jarring about a defense contractor having to praise the president when they make announcements clearly for his benefit.
“As a result of President @realDonaldTrump's leadership, we began this work months ago…”
It's as big as Alaska and has lots of mountains. Just Tehran has roughly 10 million. It's no place for an outsider to try to fight a war.
Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"
DS9 had an array of unmistakable villains: Dukat, Winn, the head Founder. My favorite:
It's not coincidence that so many alien worlds bear a strong resemblance to locations in and around Los Angeles.
This is who our President is...
So much winning.
Can't stand her but, at times, I'll note her effort to spin his insanity into something that at least sounds reasonable.
Strong evidence that he's in over his head and things are not going that well.
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
Plot-driven trash that insults the intelligence of its audience.
Caleb and Mama Mir haven't seen each other since he was 6 fifteen years ago. But he knows everything about her and how she'll react to things.
Putting mines across hundreds of light years is silly.
P.S. Ake shouldn't feel guilty.
It's the, "Well, you put it there" phase.
What does matter is that IRAN is has gained access to info to be able to knock out several THAAD radar systems that run something in the range of $1 billion to $1.5 billion each.
Not cheap at something like $1.4 billion each.
He will also deny that anything he does is bad or can have adverse consequences. If the surveys show his actions are unpopular, well then the surveys are "wrong," "rigged," etc. He won't be consciously lying. He's so ill that he can't admit being at all wrong. It's just not his nature to do that.
He is physically incapable of acknowledging that things he does could have adverse consequences.
That attacking Iran would affect the world's oil market and boost gas prices never occurred to him, so, by reflex, he *must* deny it.
He's both very stupid and very ill.
So it now appears based on many media reports that we bombed a girls elementary school and killed 175 people, and right after that Hegseth was beating his chest in a press conference saying we weren’t going to worry about “stupid rules of engagement” anymore.
The early sequence between Rick and Ugarte is gold.
Howard Koch wrote most of it, but he worked with Julius and Philip Epstein who added the sizzling wit.
"Where were you last night?"
"That's so long ago, I don't remember."
"Will I see you tonight?"
"I never make plans that far in advance."
That's the most elegant "fuck you" I've ever read.
Don't waste your time.
It's the maximum amount of compassion of which he's capable.
To the families of the fallen, his message is, "What are you looking at me for?"
