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henrygandorf

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  1. just have some press conferences and get a friendly journo to ask if any of his recent behavior warrants impeachment, and have reps/senators all say, "man, i hope not, we want to keep him right where he is". a "please don't impeach him, we want him to stay" messaging campaign by dems would make him short circuit.
  2. the guy’s got good hooks. also…he’s reading.
  3. just overlapping subjects/comedy.
  4. ok, so in regards to megyn kelly, let's game this out. it sounds like her issue is one of semantics. the term "pedophile" should be reserved, in her opinion, to people with a vile sickness which makes them attracted to literal children (pre-teens or younger), correct? whereas people who are attracted to "younger looking girls" are not "pedophiles" by the/her definition of the term. they're just statutory rapists/serial rapists/sex-traffickers/and so forth (yay?). so now for the gaming this out part. i admit i am not super familiar with the nuances of these two groups. i worked for a scumbag who liked young, college-aged girls, but as i told a grand jury - he's a scumbag who did shitty things, but most of them were legal. the reason the underage case against joe ultimately failed was because they couldn't make the rico case that under-18 girls-on-camera was part of a concerted effort to do that. all evidence pointed the other direction, of sloppy oversight. it was the tax evasion and lawsuits that got him in hot water (and prison). this situation seemed purposely illegal in so so many ways, not a "she told me she was 18" scenario we joke about. so if we're saying that pedophiles - real pedophiles - have an actual chemically imbalanced sickness that they cannot control, and that this is not that. doesn't this, and hear me out, seem much much much worse? epstein (and possibly trump and certainly dozens of others) absolutely could control themselves, did not have any mental/clinical condition, and chose to do it anyway, forcefully and repeatedly, knowing it was not only sick and wrong, but totally illegal, punished by decades in prison for good reason. if we're just talking here, i could make the case that megyn kelly's argument actually makes it worse. if the argument is that these men were not 'sick', but just rich and powerful and knowing they could get away with anything they wanted, that makes them far worse than someone who should locked away in some sort of facility, something you may see in an svu episode or more likely a dark, british crime series (only 4 episodes), and possibly be chemically castrated or studied or whatever the fuck. from what we know about epstein and maxwell and any of the other shitbags on these lists and included in these emails, they should be locked under the fucking jail, and anyone who was complicit should have to answer for it as well. so thanks, megyn, for some clarity on the subject. *for the purpose of messaging, i agree that using the word "pedophile" is stronger and should absolutely be used in any type of political attack. there's an important midterm a year away, and hanging "pedophile protector" around any congressman or senator should absolutely be something that happens and is the only way they pay for this, since presumably trump cannot run again. using the term "rapist" or even "statutory rapist" is too confusing and ignores the ages of these girls. there are also people who love to conflate all of trump's rape charges/accusations with clinton's sordid history with women, and you absolutely know that's what would come next. this was merely an exercise in analyzing what she could possibly have meant, and as pointed out, where and when this trial balloon will pop.
  5. top 3 original series? larry sanders, the wire, veep. top limited series? band of brothers. top docuseries? hard knocks. top news/variety program? last week tonight.
  6. i wasn’t walking out of a starbucks i was moonwalking back into a starbucks. and i don’t know whose dog that is. yeah, i steal dogs.
  7. let's hit the meadowlands racetrack on the way home...
  8. how do we know they’re hungry? trump said they’re full.
  9. if you're at bur, guy's highball lounge has a great bourbon selection.
  10. you're thinking of the great muppet caper. understandable, as that movie is also strong. but the muppets take manhattan is a musical and it is fucking awesome. the songs have good hooks.
  11. the muppets take manhattan was is a cinematic masterpiece. i don't need anything more.
  12. good to see she got a new job. it's rough out there.
  13. you shush. everything is fine.
  14. there's baseball player dumb, then there's relief pitcher dumb, then there's what goes on in the mind of a closer. that's a deep, dark, place. someone should encourage rocker to run for senate.
  15. cheryl ladd is related to alan ladd (shane) and alan ladd, jr (studio head who greenlit star wars). diane ladd is not related to any of them, somehow.
  16. i like betty's character and her storylines are crucial the first time (or 3) that you go through the series. but yeah, when i rewatch, i want office shit. and when i say i like her character, i mean i like how it's written and played. you're not supposed to 'like' or 'admire' betty draper. she's an instrument. she's a reflection. she shows us who don is and to a certain extent, who roger is. what i really like in her character arc from s2-s3 is that she knows she's mad but doesn't really know why. she wants to be mad because she's quite positive don is cheating on her, but cannot prove it (finds only slogans on cocktail napkins in his pockets). that said, she's certain don is "hiding things from her" and she has that suspicion confirmed when she finds out he has a secret past/alternate identity/name/family, culminating in the gypsy and the hobo kitchen scene, which should've yielded every emmy imaginable. it's where she is able to turn off the snark "oh i know, you're a very gifted storyteller" to some real empathy "i always assumed you were a football hero who hated his father" and "i knew you were poor, i've seen how you are with money, you don't understand it." we also see this in the scenes with her family, notably her brother, played by the incomparable eric ladin. i actually really like the hofstadt storylines throughout s2 and s3 and could've managed more of it, but obviously s4 went away from all things betty. if i really put my women's empowerment hat on, i could even say that her s3-s4 arc is equally impressive, because it shows how strong and brave she was to want to get away from a destructive situation and actually act on it, whereas most women of the time would've stayed in an unhappy marriage because of 3 small children and all the money she could ask for. it's when she leaves to be with henry that we get a different pov on the whole thing. he will do anything to be with her - his character (underrated) always reminded me of sterling. a bit older, wiser, and willing to call a brat a brat. but like roger, he wanted what he wanted when he wanted it, and it didn't end well. don writes her a letter basically saying that if they split up, she'll move on and find someone, but he'll be alone forever. even if he meant that metaphorically (he had to), we know what he really means and how he really feels. don, surrounded by people, is forever alone. always on the verge of panic and running away, not caring what he leaves in his wake. one of my favorite story turns is how it doesn't take long for henry to tire of betty's shit, and that's the real moment that we know - she's the problem. betty is going to betty. she's incredibly consistent. her mother was a bitch and passed it on. her dad was a hardass who didn't make things better. everything wrong with sally is wrong because of betty. don, in comparison, is surprisingly empathetic and thoughtful, which is why he's such a piece of talent in the advertising space. don has the ability to achieve perfection, because donald draper is an entirely fabricated individual. and if you were going to invent someone, you'd invent someone with minimal flaws. he had a traumatic childhood, upbringing, young-adulthood. but it never happened. it will shock you how much it never happened.
  17. i mean, don't skip the betty scenes the first time you're watching it, obviously. maybe not even on a years-later rewatch. but once you're completely familiar, yeah, put them shits in the rearview asap.
  18. i assumed friendly fire incident. unreported.
  19. it was whatever they had in the storeroom, and often based on who their clients were. when my wife opened her office, she wanted a rolly bar and asked me to set it up to "look good and match", clearly not to use. i stocked it with bombay gin, stoli, and blanton's. it looks good, gets compliments all the time, and not a drop has been touched in 5+ years.
  20. yeah, he drank cc, both home and office i believe. "why is this empty?" "because you drank it all." roger liked stoli. bert didn't drink very often, but when he did he liked brandy. i think pete and peggy kinda drank what others poured them, but i wanna say gin was in the mix. and i think lane drank gin.
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