The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

ha was abt to post that

would have cushioned those falls for sure

Literally every lefty on Twitter looks like a fucking idiot

oh pleeeeeease girlfriend

confirmation bias

Variety reports:

Universal Pictures has canceled the release of its upcoming thriller “The Hunt.” The film was previously set to hit theaters Sept. 27. “While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign for The Hunt, after thoughtful consideration, the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film, ” a spokesperson for Universal said.
“We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.”

So we have the prez and his hordes effectively censoring the film biz now.

frankly sounds like The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and its frequent remakes.

the synopsis made it sound like a right-wing fantasy movie frankly

likely!

Epstein's death was undoubtedly a bipartisan project.

I’ll just say this re: Epstein

If the sudden death under custody of an insanely wealthy sex trafficker with verifiable connections to many of the most powerful and influential people in the world, including a former and current president, isn’t enough to at least give you pause then wtf is wrong with you

yep

Xps not even just notorious criminals. Acquaintance of ours killed themselves in prison, also on suicide watch. They were in for relatively minor crimes. In the UK, at any rate, suicide watch does not mean they are being watched all the time, might only be checked once every couple of hours at night iirc.

otm

He was taken off of suicide watch, is the thing

it's very hard for me to believe that someone who spent his life cultivating powerful connections and getting away with crimes would think, even at this point, that his situation was hopeless and there was no way to wriggle out of serious consequences.

I’ll just say this re: Epstein

If the sudden death under custody of an insanely wealthy sex trafficker with verifiable connections to many of the most powerful and influential people in the world, including a former and current president, isn’t enough to at least give you pause then wtf is wrong with you

― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Saturday, August 10, 2019 3:48 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don’t find it implausible that a man in his position would be suicidal. He’s being left out to dry by the people who made him in the first place.

You don’t need an elite hit squad to off a dude in that state, you just got to give him the opportunity to do it to himself.

*uncomfortable lol*

[irrefutable evidence that the american ruling class ran a sex trafficking ring and held secret gatherings on a private island]
it is simply not credible that a man was murdered in a prison

— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) August 10, 2019

The Hunt looks OK (surprisingly decent cast), but it doesn't exactly scream "wide theatrical release".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8IifEu67yU

I hope it at least pops up on Amazon Prime.

tons of these movies play multiplexes, isn't this a Blumhouse prod?

"right wing fantasy" kinda unlikely given the Lindelof co-write imo

weirdly even more insulting to me than the video game argument

lol i have literally read about two sentences about the plot, don't mind me :)

"Did anyone see what our ratfucker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."

it's very hard for me to believe that someone who spent his life cultivating powerful connections and getting away with crimes would think, even at this point, that his situation was hopeless and there was no way to wriggle out of serious consequences.

narcissists don't, as a general rule, kill themselves

lol trump retweeted this, let's gooo https://t.co/idYqVN4VKG

— ordinary guy (@icedteacommie) August 10, 2019

Trump's desire to see the clintons hang is so strong he keeps shining a light on a case in which he is a fixture. kind of amazing

Speaking as a person who has been on the receiving end of MANY eyerolls at social functions when mentioning conspiracy theories of any kind, it’s a pretty wild goddamn time to be alive.

— Kate Hagen (@thathagengrrl) August 10, 2019

yeah, this might be the most immediately widely disbelieved official story of my adult life.

i believe the murderer of epstein, in a strange twist, was david icke

https://media.giphy.com/media/zCT9KnlY1JNhS/giphy.gif

yeah, this might be the most immediately widely disbelieved official story of my adult life.

weapons of mass destruction?

hence "immediately" and "might be". iirc it took a little while for everyone to come around to calling bullshit on that one

F u morbs

2015

In a Public Mind poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University released Wednesday, more than half of Republicans — 51 percent — and half of those who watch Fox News — 52 percent — say that they believe it to be “definitely true” or “probably true” that American forces found an active weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq.

Trump's desire to see the clintons hang is so strong he keeps shining a light on a case in which he is a fixture. kind of amazing

My thoughts exactly when I saw that tweet. I do not--not even close--have a conspiracy mindset. But it is very difficult not to at least lean in that direction in the immediate aftermath of this. Or at least, not that there's necessarily a conspiracy, but that it wasn't suicide. It's just too puzzling and too perfect on three different fronts: that he managed to do it, that it happened just before trial, and that it's the day after all those other names surfaced. Trump's tweet would seem to be exactly the kind of clumsy and clueless and panicked preemptive distraction I would expect of him.

Retweet, not tweet.

(Me waving the wait flag--I've officially sunk to such clarifications.)

white flag...

WMDs is a good example but necessarily took longer to be "widely disbelieved" bc of the lack of social media. and to Sanpaku's point, many still believe WMDs were found. if anything, Epstein's death has united people across partisan lines more than anything else in the modern era.

Have fun with yr tin foil dudes

when Rod Dreher and AOC both think the official line stinks...

Let’s go shoot some pumpkins together

Oh and I guess a white supremacist bomb plot was foiled today

Like literally fuck everybody

Epstein's death has united people across partisan lines more than anything else in the modern era.

When does the modern era begin?

Have fun with yr tin foil dudes

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes)

we know the FBI tried to get MLK to kill himself, we know about Iran-Contra, we know about WMDs, we know about COINTELPRO, the MOVE bombing - why is it necessarily "tin foil" to question official stories?

lol Tom I meant to say the Trump era xp

anyone who's been following the case with any level of attention has said aloud at least once "they won't let him testify / this trial get very far"

i was “i cant imagine how this plays out,” but tbh i did and i truly wish this was not how.

Republican and Democrat lawmakers reach bipartisan consensus that Jeffrey Epstein was “a troubled man” and “that’s why he shot himself seventeen times in the back”

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) July 7, 2019

^ July 6

Lol wow billionaire can’t imagine himself spending rest of life in prison wtf mkultra

might be time for a separate poll thread / safe space for the tin foil crowd (incl me)

anyone who's been following the case with any level of attention has said aloud at least once "they won't let him testify / this trial get very far"

― Simon H.

Exactly

Time for some wars against info