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That thing's pathetic response to President Obama's Commencement Speech: (Original Post) catbyte May 2020 OP
Pot, Kettle is holding for you on Line 1. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #1
While I appreciate the sentiment... robbob May 2020 #19
That is correct. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #21
Yup, you've actually described the entire GOP robbob May 2020 #22
he is a tremendous projector! NRaleighLiberal May 2020 #2
just one of his buzzwords essme May 2020 #3
There was a 50's movie called "The Thing" As everyone knows... Stuart G May 2020 #4
Uh um- official representive of the THEM world wide fan club... lame54 May 2020 #5
ROFL malaise May 2020 #6
Now, now, now... catbyte May 2020 #7
About the movie ..."The Blob" Stuart G May 2020 #9
I'm partial to the original starring Steve McQueen & Andy Taylor's girlfriend. The remake was lame. catbyte May 2020 #12
The Blob...1958 Stuart G May 2020 #13
Aneta Corsaut, thank you! I couldn't think of her name for the life of me & was too lazy to catbyte May 2020 #14
He is parroting what Steve Schmidt said about Trump Kitchari May 2020 #8
Folks just simply need to understand. Wellstone ruled May 2020 #10
Agree n/t Kitchari May 2020 #16
That's all you've got, Cretin? Pffffttttt. Guilded Lilly May 2020 #11
everything he says about somebody else, is what he is. always. pansypoo53219 May 2020 #15
Exactly Kitchari May 2020 #17
Projecting again, you murdering thug? niyad May 2020 #18
Gross AND Grossly Incompetent. dalton99a May 2020 #20

robbob

(3,528 posts)
19. While I appreciate the sentiment...
Sun May 17, 2020, 07:27 PM
May 2020

“The pot calling the kettle black” is a case of 2 things with a shared attribute where one (the pot) accuses the other (kettle) of that attribute, not realizing that they share that same characteristic. So it would be more like tRump calling Nixon a crook. This case is more like tRump yelling insults at a mirror.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,683 posts)
21. That is correct.
Sun May 17, 2020, 07:30 PM
May 2020

But I think Trump projects his own awful attributes onto others. Crooks tend to think everybody else is crooked, too.

robbob

(3,528 posts)
22. Yup, you've actually described the entire GOP
Sun May 17, 2020, 07:39 PM
May 2020

They are all such selfish heartless crooks that they can’t even begin to imagine someone going into public service to do some good. They either believe it’s all fake sincerity (old joke; if you can learn to fake sincerity in politics you’ve got it made), or think they are hopeless rubes, trying to help their fellow man when they could (should) be feeding at the trough and lining their own pockets.

Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
4. There was a 50's movie called "The Thing" As everyone knows...
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:08 PM
May 2020
I am an official representative of that movie's world wide fan club. We take offense to comparing our hero, "The Thing" with anything that remotely resemble Donald Trump....Donald Trump is no better than the ..."giant insects (ants) in the movie..Them...Yes, Trump is stupid like the ...giant ants not like our hero..."The Thing".....in a moment a link to the movie..The Thing...

1951..The Thing from Another World

.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World

1982 John Carpenter version...The Thing
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

lame54

(35,287 posts)
5. Uh um- official representive of the THEM world wide fan club...
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:11 PM
May 2020

Taking offense

He is more like The Blob

catbyte

(34,376 posts)
7. Now, now, now...
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:13 PM
May 2020

I always refer to him as THAT Thing, which is completely different from "THE Thing." Would "The Blob" be better?

Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
9. About the movie ..."The Blob"
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:21 PM
May 2020

The Blob (1988 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Blob_(1988_film)

The Blob is a 1988 American science fiction horror film co-written and directed by Chuck Russell. A remake of the 1958 film of the same name, it stars Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Joe Seneca, and Del Close.

I have no idea what The Blob fan club says...But as far as I am concerned Trump is a fat ugly and stupid ........."BLOB".... ......and that is the size of it...

catbyte

(34,376 posts)
12. I'm partial to the original starring Steve McQueen & Andy Taylor's girlfriend. The remake was lame.
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:40 PM
May 2020

Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
13. The Blob...1958
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:46 PM
May 2020


Grossed $4 million. The Blob is an independently made 1958 American science fiction-horror film in widescreen color by De Luxe, produced by Jack H. Harris, directed by Irvin Yeaworth, and written by Kay Linaker and Theodore Simonson. ....Release date?: ?September 12, 1958 (U.S.)...more on The Blob

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob

The Blob is an independently made 1958 American science fiction-horror film in widescreen color by De Luxe, produced by Jack H. Harris, directed by Irvin Yeaworth, and written by Kay Linaker and Theodore Simonson. The film stars Steve McQueen (in his starring feature film debut, as Steven McQueen) and Aneta Corsaut and co-stars Earl Rowe and Olin Howland. The Blob was distributed by Paramount Pictures as a double feature with I Married a Monster from Outer Space.

The storyline concerns a growing, corrosive, alien amoeboidal entity that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite. It devours and dissolves citizens in the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, PA, growing larger, redder, and more aggressive each time it does so, eventually becoming larger than a building.

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Note that 4..million dollars grossed in the theaters is equal to 20 -30 million today. It cost 110,00 to make & 80 to 100 thousand to promote.....Profit...3.700,000. 90 percent profit..

(It is truly amazing what you can find on the internet without even getting up from your seat at the computer)

catbyte

(34,376 posts)
14. Aneta Corsaut, thank you! I couldn't think of her name for the life of me & was too lazy to
Sun May 17, 2020, 04:12 PM
May 2020

look it up. I only remembered she also played Andy's girlfriend on "The Andy Griffith Show."

I remember the theme song the most:

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. Folks just simply need to understand.
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:22 PM
May 2020

Trump is a total fake. If not for Putin and Comey,this sucker may well be in a State or Federal Prison at this time.

Donnie needs another Snort. His Drug use is becoming more prevalent with each passing day.

He will act out in public before long with his rage.

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