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Cinemaniacal organizer of Chicago Film Discussion Group and former co-host of the Director's Club Podcast.

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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 17h
The Democrats' job is to follow the whims of their donors and LIE TO THE POPULATION that the only alternative to Republicans is for voting for them and shutting up, and to send their insults and energy on candidates threatening to actually DO SOMETHING for people.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 17h
Also Brooks: "Don't call Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile - he's my PedoPAL!" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New York Times columnist David Brooks appears in latest Epstein photos
Brooks, who dismissed Epstein scandal as ‘stupid story’, wrote column expressing lack of interest in developments
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 20h
The weekend after the 2024 election I filmed a tattered American flag flapping upside down in a blustery parking lot - it evoked the sense of oncoming disaster I was feeling. I'm astonished at how EVERY FUCKING DAY since his inauguration has been worse than what I felt in that moment.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 20h
"Orange Crushed"
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's debatable we'll get to a "day one".
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As fuel prices continue to increase, someone needs to go down for the Iran War Debacle, and at some point they're going to tire of trying to pin the blame on a woman, black person, immigrant, or Joe Biden and finally assign it to the guy who actually started it.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Zoolander" also accurately depicts their treatment of the gas situation.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What's the chance someone gets arrested for this? Because what else are you supposed to do with an "enemy"? (also note he wouldn't get so angrily insistent if everyone kissed his ass - at least some people told him, "we're not renaming an established tech just because Humpty Trumpty says so.")
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As if they haven't already wrecked the ideals of the Enlightenment, now they're destroying the use of language itself! Know what "socialism" means to Republicans? It means "BOO!". Same with "DEI", "CRT", "9/11", ad nauseam - a collection of mouth noises that provoke a fear response, nothing else.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the best things that could happen would be for this technology to be damned by having it publicly called "Trump Intelligence". Let's make it happen - have some reporter ask him next time, "Why not 'Trump Intelligence'? Are you saying your intelligence isn't super enough?"
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trumpy Dumpty has the same belief as his equally fat and fragile cousin Humpty in "Alice in Wonderland": "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less. The question is who is to be master - that's all."
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tax them at 99% after some amount of million dollars. Because if those billions don't give you dignity, self-respect, or any segment of a spine, they'd be better off somewhere else.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We don't have to imagine - because he won't. In what would (hopefully) be the apex of his postmodern destruction of this country,in 2020 he said Obama committed the crime of 'ObamaGate', which he NEVER DEFINED, answering questions of WTH it was with, "You know!" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
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What is 'Obamagate' and why is Trump so worked up about it?
The US president spent Mother’s Day diving into the rightwing fever swamps and unleashing a barrage of tweets and retweets assailing his predecessor
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alito is a Christofascist thug, but Roberts looks like he actually cares about the Prestige Reputation of the Supreme Court, which is why if we get to the other side he should be brought out and his robes literally get stripped off his body as he's expelled from the judiciary.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes - complete with collection of lickspittles around him silently nodding at everything he says. They may as well be a collection of jack-in-the-asses, I mean, jack-in-the-boxes.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People in this country have more than enough reason to "not be OK" even if nothing happens on election day and he drops dead the day after. A goon squad running amok, stock market on an A.I. precipice, surveillance everywhere, foundations of education and science destroyed. What's supposed to be OK?
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Vought is such an unassuming bureaucratic dweeb that even though he's most responsible for destroying the country, he's also the most likely to escape prosecution. For once I'm glad Trump can't shut his fucking mouth - now let's keep the spotlight on him!
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He looks like a sketch of Christopher Walken that someone hasn't finished erasing.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rarely have I been so happy he can't control his F'n mouth. Vought is a tireless, nondescript bureaucrat, not a clownish reality show freak, which is not only why he's been so effective at destroying the US, but looks anonymous enough to sneak off if any reckoning comes. Thanks for the spotlight!
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There's got to be an entry on the betting markets as to how many days before he says "n****r", right? Here's his brain decay depth chart looking so far: "Low IQ" "Nasty" "Piggy" "Fat" Giving the finger "Ass" "B*tch" <-- You Are Here "AY-rab" "F**k you" Obviously soils himself "F****t" "N****r"
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He'll never see it when it happens and is probably just extra paranoid since it's all he's concerned about besides making money, but I still get a thrill thinking in his diseased brain is a smidgen of self-awareness for how much he's despised and how for all his money he can't stop what's coming.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I recall some magazine cover at the time titled,"The Girls Of Scandal" with pictures of Hahn,Donna "Gary Hart scandal" Rice and Fawn "Ollie North Contra Scandal" Hall. Maybe even an SNL skit or two.The society-wide refusal to acknowledge any validity (or existence!) to her rape charge is astounding.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dare to dream! It makes me so happy that he has the smidgen of awareness of how he's despised & his efforts doomed. My dream is for someone to tell him, "You know, if your buddy Elon doesn't put your body on a rocket to Mars, there's no place it'll be safe from the tsunami of piss coming its way".
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If he's not removed from power, he's going to order Americans to get shot, he's going to push the button, and Vance will do neither of those things. Easiest decision in the world, even before the fact of Vance has something like -100% of his authorital prescense and -7000% his charisma.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was Very Important because Biden finally cost the military industrial complex money by withdrawing from Afghanistan, plus as a Dem he might raise taxes on rich people or regulate corporations, while Republicans would never do either. So Ds get this endless scrutiny while Rs get an eternal pass.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Such an upstanding, principled choice by Republicans to have Nixon resign instead of having the Presidency taken from him and he taken to prison. So the people could 'move on' - people like, say, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, they could go on with their lives. THAT worked out well, didn't it?
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, both of whom worked for Richard Nixon, and partly thanks to Nixon resigning instead of stained with conviction and imprisonment, managed to work in the subsequent Ford administration.  Thank goodness their career paths weren't further impeded, huh?
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Moore is trash,but like the ''talking'' about "polarization", repeatedly and loudly braying powerful white men are the real victims with no regard to reality is a strategy that works. (In fact, what's so impressive 50 years ago about picking a stooge for VP who'd pardon Nixon? OOH, SUCH INTEGRITY!)
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't know what's more absurd: Ben SHAPIRO jumping aboard promoting ICE in 2026, or SHAPIRO thinking they won't come for him (Daily Wire lost so much biz to anti-Semites already). Maybe it's All About The Himjamins with him, but still a really shortsighted strategy on many levels.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So our economy is being propped up by something that's being promoted using the same argument as "These amps go to 11!" from "Spinal Tap"?!?!?
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Spinal Tap: Volume Goes to 11
ALT: Spinal Tap: Volume Goes to 11
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They already have a right: to silent remains. (Mortanda's Law?)
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He looks like a cross between Wolfman Jack and Jimmy Buffet. He looks like the guy who airbrushes a picture of a wizard fighting a dragon on the side of your van who a) puts his own face on the wizard, and 2) didn't ask you beforehand.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Take all their money. If you have billions of dollars and you're still a supplicant coward, what good is all the money and power assigned to you? It's an obscene misallocation of limited resources away from the basic needs of billions squirreled away for 50,000 spineless assholes?
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Ho ho! Picture a landslide Democratic victory - can you imagine what will happen?!?" Yeah, I can imagine: nothing. I can also indulge in a fantasy the bad guys get got and the country works again, but there's simply too many cases of the Dems wimping out for me to not think the former's happening.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck TIME magazine if they cleaned out a damn word. It would be years past deferring to him even before that lawsuit they filed against "60 Minutes" for 'selectively editing' Harris. Print every stupid thing he said the babbling way he said it and post audio of the whole thing online.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nothing on Earth is drier than the powder Democrats claim to have but must forever keep away from moisture.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's be fair - if anyone was going to be "master of their domain", it's going to be a guy named "Palmer Luckey".....
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Category error. The GOP not only wasn't certain, they TOTALLY DIDN'T CARE. The only 'certainty' they had was that 'working the refs' is incredibly effective, and if you couch your opponent in unflattering terms no matter how accommodating they are, it works a ridiculously large amount of the time.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lots of fun, but honestly few things cheer me up like watching them treat the military like shit. Because barring a catering truck accident, that military's going to be ordered to shoot Americans, and with antics like these it's going to be difficult for even the most rabid to follow that order.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I will give $100 to the first member of the White House Press Pool that yells out, "WAKE UP!!!"
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you watch the encore of the "Let There Be Rock" DVD of their 1979 Paris concert, you actually see Angus go backstage to do just that. (you completely get it too - it's astonishing to see how much energy he was expending on that stage even in his 20s!)
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's the closest to irony the band got (sorry, "Big Balls") to have that song with that title. Not just the cannons but the descending chords and otherwise dirge-like nature make it perfect for recognizing in salute a great rock experience ("For Those Who Have Just Rocked (We Salute You)"?)
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The key plot device was a MOOD ring, but they were looking at it upside down.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Data point" #138,427 that the Democrats are a Potemkin farce of a party propped up to be a voting alternative.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess we're 'lucky' he's not going to do it, then. I think the key phrase out of his babble is how "Democrats" will "have no money, because there'll be a depression". Because there's no way he thought that himself - other people told him about THIS economy and he's projecting a la "Crazy Nancy".
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Barring a catering truck or escalator accident, martial law is going to be declared, he will order to open fire on Americans, and he'll be dragged (in some form) out of the White House.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He doesn't even think of spewing words for self-preservation anymore - doesn't he have the vaguest recollection that news involving some "Strait" was making him look bad and he should avoid being associated with it? But no - "There's my name! Yippee! Hooray!"
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
110%! The stuff coming out of his mouth is just the acoustic version of the ink spewed out by a squid when it's treatened, and for the same reason - to obscure things enough so it can get away.
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Octopus Squirts Ink at Diver
Alt: Octopus Squirts Ink at Diver, doing an impression of the latest Trump statement on, well, anything.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To be fair, two months was like, what, 17 Watergate-level scandals ago? To say nothing of the half-dozen ongoing scandals (Epstein, his stock trading, his crypto rug-pull, pardons for bribes, Venezuelan takeover, and ship murders) that make Watergate look like a parking ticket.
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When this country falls into total ruin, on top of its tombstone should be a graven carton of eggs. "Oh god, these eggs cost so much! They used to be $2, and now they're $5! That's why we need to put the crazy imbecile who got a million people killed during a PLAGUE back in charge!
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cinemal2001.bsky.social @cinemal2001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey CNN, MS-NOW, and Politico, since your legal teams and fellow press poolers fought so hard to get your access back, why not do something with it besides worthlessly repeating whatever BS he says and just go, "What's with the hand? What're they injecting you with? How much time you have left?"
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