OAITW r.2.0
OAITW r.2.0's JournalCan't all Democrats find a common floor?
Every Democrat running should be sequestered together for a day and hammer out: Common Democratic Floor for Key Isues?
My Top 5 Key Issues
1) Vote Integrity
2) Trump
3) Organized Crime Party (aka RNC/GOP
4) Immigration and Climate Change
5) Decentralized, labor intensive wind/solar solution for localized energy distribution. Fuck ME dependence on climate destroying HC's
Dr. Strangelove
The movie is played on TCM tonight. Bloody Fucking Brilliant and just as good, maybe better, with every watching.....at least a dozen times over the decades. I think this is worthy of GD because the core idea is timeless. Nuclear war is insane. I think this was released in Jan 1964....only month's after JFK's assassination and when the Cold War was at it's realest.
This movie exposed the absurdist notion that a nuclear war could be winnable.
But the Cast!
Peter Sellers is brilliant (I personally think this is his best work - the Pink Panther / Mouse that Roared /The Constant Gardener considered). 3 roles!
1st as Col. Mandrake the hapless RAF XO for the psychotic USAF Gen. Ripper (Sterling Hayden!) who jump starts the whole mess.
Then President Merkin Muffley <oh, I do love name- appropriate characters!> a nice guy chump that is in over his head. A liberal Donald Trump, I think.
Finally, as Dr. Strangelove. I'm thinking this was a nod to the entire US / German technology transfer that started in the early 40's. A little Hitler, a little Himmler, a little Goebbels. A totally crazy fucking dude as it turns out
Side note: I suppose if you were playing a part, you get totally immersed in the character to maximize your acting-nes. But Sellers. played 3 different/distinct characters. On a single movie set. I suppose the filming was done around Seller'd characters - I mean, could you do all 3 characters in a single day and pull it off?
The Russian Premier....we never met him, but we had a mental construct of who he was - and his transforming emotional change from a party hardy and corrupted/corrupting Head of State into a Holy Shit moment of personal and impending annihilation. But this is all understood through us listening to President Muffley, desperately trying to connect with this dude. Bloody brilliant thread throughout the movie.
George C. Scott as Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson...the "we fucked up but we gotta take advantage of the situation".
Keenan Wynn- Col. Bat Guano A by-the book dude who was concerned about preverts and oblivious to the WW3 threat. Just a great scene with Sellers.
The whole crew of the B-52 Slim Pickens - (Pilot and BombRider),James Earl Jones and Frank Berry - (the loyal, competent crew).
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Here's a brief dialog (just read this on IMDB) - I have missed this in all the times I have watched the movie.
General "Buck" Turgidson : Hmm... Strangelove? What kind of a name is that? That ain't no Kraut name is it, Stainesey?
Mr. Staines : He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwürdigliebe.
[the German word for "Strangelove"]
General "Buck" Turgidson : Well, a Kraut by any other name, uh Stainesey?
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Final Note: I think this film had a huge impact on my parents generation,,,,WW2 was their war, less than 20 years removed. But I think this movie helped to catapult us out of the RW paranoid HUAC McCarthyism into a sober real politic of MAD. I know it impacted me when I watched it in 1967 in my Freshmen HS English Class.
Until We Meet Again! Thanks Mr. Kubrick!
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OK, here's my thoughts on TB12.
Keep him. $50MM/2 years. BUT, make him OC / player. Why not? He knows the system because he executed it. He takes his knowledge base and implants in a clone. A guy under the radar, but has the attributes to be a great QB like the GOAT.
Do heavy boots impact your driving with manual transmissions.
I notice the difference.
I'm pretty sure Trump views his Presidency like reality is "the Apprentice" and he's in control.
Pretty much if you don't suck up, you're off the show.
The Apprentice was his training for how he'd run this country when the electoral college gave him the win.
You know this criminal moron in the White House is not nearly as powerful as he seems to think.
Without Barr, McConnell, and Graham....this idiot would be on the fast track to Federal Prison. That is his firewall.
If I were Biden and Warren -
[Reposted from GD]
I'd be announcing, ASAP, that they would run together as a team.
President Joe handles international triage on our reputation. That will be a full time job, right there.
Vice-President Elizabeth works with Congress to develop a budget that reflects the present reality - one that demands serious economic change and restructuring.
Joe could/maybe should be a 1 termer, but if Sen. Warren can get the economy going in the right direction, I can see her as invincible in 2024.
This would be a solid, economically progressive Democratic team.
If I were Biden and Warren -
I'd be announcing, ASAP, that they would run together as a team.
President Joe handles international triage on our reputation. That will be a full time job, right there.
Vice-President Elizabeth works with Congress to develop a budget that reflects the present reality - one that demands serious economic change and restructuring.
Joe could/maybe should be a 1 termer, but if Sen. Warren can get the economy going in the right direction, I can see her as invincible in 2024.
This would be a solid, economically progressive Democratic team.
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