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Hunter Biden testified in Congress today, behind closed doors.
Ben Meisales is a favorite political vlogger.  Here he covers the testimony. 
I learned so much from this.  Well worth a listen.  My impression of Hunter improved a lot.
One might wonder when the GOP will stop, yet by now it seems they never will.
 

Tits up Gramma Boebert!
The sun will come out tomorrow.
..and even if your prospects are slim, your personal relationship with Jesus Christ will see you through.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Hunter Biden testified in Congress today, behind closed doors.
Ben Meisales is a favorite political vlogger.  Here he covers the testimony. 
I learned so much from this.  Well worth a listen.  My impression of Hunter improved a lot.
One might wonder when the GOP will stop, yet by now it seems they never will.
 

Tits up Gramma Boebert!
The sun will come out tomorrow.
..and even if your prospects are slim, your personal relationship with Jesus Christ will see you through.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Tits up Gramma Boebert!
The sun will come out tomorrow.
..and even if your prospects are slim, your personal relationship with Jesus Christ will see you through.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Facts have been very bad to you, I know.  Nuance and humor has been even worse to you I guess.
I don't think Bloomberg is fake news.  You're the fact-free cultist saying polls you don't like are fake news.
So let's try this again.  These are very simple facts.  Try hard, buddy.  Try hard.
That is from Bloomberg News, which YOU cited.  LMFAO that you are so hostile to facts that you can't even absorb facts from the websites and polls YOU cite.
But since YOU cited this website and YOU cited this poll, try to believe it, buddy.  Try hard.  Facts won't hurt you.
The race is "almost evenly split"  in Wisconsin and Michigan, according to Bloomberg.   That's means tied, buddy.  Not a landslide.  Not a victory.  A tie.
Here's another fact from the website YOU cited and the poll YOU cited.  LMFAO that you can't absorb facts from polls YOU post.
Again, that is from the Bloomberg poll YOU cited.
Like Biden, a majority of voters think Trump is too old to run.  The difference between Biden supporters like me and The Cult is Biden supporters, and in fact most Democrats and Independents, agree both Biden and Trump are too old.  The Cult can't admit that even to itself.  Let alone that a majority of voters think Trump is dangerous.
If you want to believe Trump has already won in a landslide, just like you want to believe he won in 2020, go ahead.  It won't change anything when he loses.
The numbers that explain the messy Michigan primary results
The fact that there's a poll right now that says Biden is "almost evenly split" is actually relatively good news for Biden, given how pissed a lot of his base voters are with him now over Gaza.  If Biden does lose Michigan, this will be why.
Trump and Netankillyu would be fine with paving over Gaza with the blood of Palestinian women and kids.  So it's far from clear how this plays out once that becomes clearer to voters who are pissed at Biden.  But if his base continues to say "Fuck you, Genocide Joe,"  which is what over 100,000 of them said on Tuesday, that could be fatal.  Bloomberg and all the polls have ZERO clue how that will turn out.  That's mostly up to Biden at this point.

this is what happens when party becomes too ideological and not pragmatic enough

Hunter Biden took on Matty Gaetz and pretty much destroyed and owned him. That was my favorite takeaway! 

Hunter Biden testified in Congress today, behind closed doors.
Ben Meisales is a favorite political vlogger.  Here he covers the testimony. 
I learned so much from this.  Well worth a listen.  My impression of Hunter improved a lot.
One might wonder when the GOP will stop, yet by now it seems they never will.
 

Hunter Biden testified in Congress today, behind closed doors.
Ben Meisales is a favorite political vlogger.  Here he covers the testimony. 
I learned so much from this.  Well worth a listen.  My impression of Hunter improved a lot.
One might wonder when the GOP will stop, yet by now it seems they never will.
 

https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-brand-shuts-down-boycotters-celebrate-2018-7
Hahahaha
 
Also, when was Hunter in the Biden administration?  When did he get 2 billion dollars and counting for selling out our interests to Saudi murderers?  

This article in Vulture suggests Harry and Adam never got together.  Interesting thoughts from Haigh.
 
The piece suggests the music is key to the story and represents  very personal references for Haigh's own life growing up gay.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I compare Saltburn to Barbie, how opinions were all over the map.  Some thought it brilliant and others were lukewarm.
I do see Greta Gerwig not getting a best director nomination as a snub.  Yet these award shows are such an enigma I don't get as invested in it as I used to.  
 

Glad you liked the film.
I read several interviews with the director, Andrew Haigh.  He wanted to leave what really happened open to interpretation, so that people talked about the movie after the movie.  He succeeded!  He also said one of the sub-plots he wrote into the movie is that Adam, thanks to Harry, was finally able to get out of his lonely world and find love - with Harry.  You can imagine that however you want to.  But ending the movie with "The Power Of Love" wasn't subtle.
Of the maybe half dozen articles/interviews I read, this interview with Haigh, and this article in Empire which quotes Haigh on key points, were the most helpful in elaborating what Haigh's intentions and subtexts were.  There's spoilers in both articles for anyone who hasn't seen the film.  I'll quote what Haigh said in the Empire article about whether most of the movie existed inside Adam's head:
So you can choose to view it however you want.  The feeling that resonated for me is that whether you think some of the people we meet in the film are really ghosts, or this is all just happening in Adam's head, Haigh said he wanted to make a "ghost story".  So Adam is haunted, one way or the other. 
In a different interview he said he could have had a much happier and simplistic ending.  But he preferred a more difficult ending, because that is how life actually is most of the time.  That resonated for me, too.  Certainly for someone like Adam.   That New York Times article I hyperlinked above talked about how this film, like many other recent LGBTQ films, provide a form of "emotional reparations" for Gay men who grew up in a world that was a lot less tolerant to Gay men than the one we live in today.  That works for me.  Andrew was a deeply wounded guy.   The point Haigh clearly wanted to make is that, in the end, there was healing and moving on for Adam.  He was able to find love.  But in a difficult way.
For me, the final plot twist with Harry wasn't the most interesting part of the movie.  I would have been fine with the simpler happy ending Haigh did not choose.  What resonated the deepest for me were the scenes with Adams parents.  Because that is a form of haunting I feel, and I think many if not most Gay men feel.  I think what you said is correct:  you can share nothing with your parents, and then it's too late.  But I think Haigh made it more complicated than that.  Even if you do get to share, in the ghostly way Adam got to, it's still not ever going to be quite right.  Here's what Haigh said, which I'll quote extensively.  Because I think he really nailed it.
I was sobbing during that scene.  Because it brought up all the feelings with my own Mom and Dad, when I came out to them as an adult.  My Mom was textbook correct, in saying, "We love you any way you are."  Then she asked me if there was anything else I needed to tell them.  Which I'm pretty sure meant, "Are you telling us this because you are dying of AIDS?"  All I said is, "I'm fine.  I'm healthy."  My Dad took having a Gay son very hard.  He read and thought and came around.  Sort of.  So my point is that is was definitely okay, and maybe even good.  But it was never great.  And, like Haigh, it was easy for me to be in an empathetic space, even though I was still the kid that was strange and seeking acceptance.  I don't think my parents, lifelong Catholics, could every completely embrace the idea of having a Gay son.  But that was okay.  Like Haigh said, it's complicated and messy.
One of the best sets of experiences I had with my Dad was the last five years or so of his life, when my Mom was in a nursing home with dementia and he deeply missed his lifelong partner in crime.  I spent a lot of time with him, just bullshitting.  And the nice thing is at that point it had nothing to do with being Gay, or sexuality.  It was just about love and caring between a father and son.  Even if there were elements of it that were better left unsaid.  Haigh said in one of those interviews that his own Dad, who died of dementia, at one point forgot that his son was Gay.  Haigh said that didn't really matter to him at that point, either.  I can relate.
It was a really beautiful, wise, and deep movie that captured a lot of my experience about growing up Gay.

Probably not going to be on Netflix when it begins streaming.  However, it is not streaming yet, and probably not for another month.
 
I am looking forward to watching.  The cast looks great!

Sorry if I'm a little slow but did Adam really make love to Harry or did most of the movie exist inside Adam's head. 
I want to watch again while staying a bit more alert.
I sense that we were fed a lesson.  You can stand still and share nothing with your parents until it's too late. 
You might have a sweet guy available to you, yet decide to take the safe route and stay in your comfort zone, and never get another chance. 
Whatever the case, it was a remarkable movie for me.   
 

It's a total disgrace.  Nothing like the world has every seen before, bigly.  
All GOP patriots returning to their checking accounts to forward the remaining funds.

 


 

Did Matt Schlapp sneak a feel with any innocent young men this time?   
Leave it to the GOP to ignore the big gay elephant in the room and blame the victim.

 
 



 

Polish farmers are blocking border crossings on the border between Poland and Ukraine.

The inscription on the poster: “Putin, restore order in Ukraine and in Brussels, and in our government.”

Poor desperate thing.
It hurts real bad to be unloved, doesn't it?  Poor @Moses.  How bad does it hurt to be hated?
Spotlight on Poland: Negative Views of Russia Surge, but Ratings for U.S., NATO, EU Improve

Poland and its Jews lived through - or died during - Hitler's genocidal nightmare.  So they don't want a repeat with your genocidal sadist.  That is for sure.  They hate Putin.  They see him for the genocidal monster he is.  
The Trump/MAGA crowd has no principles and is willing to throw Ukraine and Europe under the bus.  And pretend to make peace with a genocidal sadist who is committing mass murder right now.   Thank God for the Polands of the world, who are close enough to the genocidal bloodbath and don't want Putin's genocide in their borders.
They hate you.  They just hate you.  And they always will.  This is what Putin, your genocidal sadist, has done to Russia.  The world hates you.  And Poland in particular would love it if Putin's Russia just went to hell.

The list omitted Trump.  What allied defense secrets has he shared?
 
 
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver-white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

 

Perhaps Biden might stick Trump in Gitmo now.   Presidential immunity should clear the way.
 

 
 

Perhaps Biden might stick Trump in Gitmo now.   Presidential immunity should clear the way.
 

 
 

And everything I said is true.
Trump is a fake populist.  So is Cruz.  They want to cut taxes for the rich, like they are, and take away Obamacare.  Trump parades around as a populist while he breaks the law and rapes and sexually harasses and cheats and goes bankrupt.  And you send him money to bail his criminal and crooked ass out.
Some populism!  What a fighter for the people!
The thing people remember fondly about the Trump era is lower prices and no inflation.  So he will run on that.  Even though inflation hit hard all over the world after COVID, and was actually lower in the US than most of the industrialized world.  Had Trump been President, he would have had the same or worse.  But let him run on inflation.
We'll see how it goes when Biden reminds people how Trump's big victory for the working class was cutting taxes for billionaires like himself, and trying to screw people by taking Obamacare away.  Trump gutted Roe V. Wade.  2 in 3 Americans want to send aid to Ukraine and Trump is undermining that.  Trump is a rapist with women and a devoted cock sucker with Putin.  
All true.  Trump is despicable, criminal, and crooked.  He leads a cult.  His MAGA populism is phony as can be.