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RomaVicta

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  1. Saw Conclave. Fabulous cast and solid scenes. Dull movie for me. I never gave much of a shit about who becomes Pope, the violence outside of the conclave didn't really connect to anything for me, and the mystery of Cardinal Benitez probably should have been explored earlier to give it more dramatic impact. I hope the other other obscure Oscar nominees are better.
  2. I write. That is fantastic. Any writer can benefit from that tape. Thanks.
  3. Maybe these are just bank robber movies, but they should never be overlooked: Bonnie and Clyde Dillinger (Warren Oates) (such a cast) The Outfit (Robert Duval) Charlie Varrick Scarface They're elite.
  4. They took enormous risk when they moved against the king of England. Jeffereson knew the cycle of governance lined out by the Greeks. There's never stasis although we (me for sure) assumed we'd hit the sweet spot and evolved to the ultimate goal. I've never been a communist or even a socialist. Now, at last, I get it. But who could have predicted such tame complacence? I'm sure that I grow tiresome. I'll step back. My points have been amply made. Back to detachment, my friends. At least for awhile.
  5. According to Trump, it was huge and great. According to local experts, it was bad.
  6. Hey! I've seized the top of this page like Elon seizing the Treasury! Donald, I'm ready! Appoint me!
  7. Man, Surly has steered me to some good shows. I'll take the guys above running shit rather than Elon's coterie.
  8. Or drag them out of the buildings and hang them from any convenient lampost or leftover gallows from Jan. 6? These guys seem like enemies of my country to me. The lives of real enemies are less than nothing to me. We're a banana republic, we will likely have to resort to banana republic means. Where does the Army stand? Is the Constitution being attacked? Should the Army move to defend it. Where's the American Ataturk?
  9. What do you expect from a political party operating through an established political system when confronted with someone who won't play by the rules? Compound that with the complicity of the opposing "political party" that backs every anti-democratic move. Let's all sit down and have a policy debate! May the best idea or compromise win! This is a ruthless power grab carried out in plane sight and this electorate cannot even manage to fill the streets with protest. No national strike. Likely little discussion among the common voters and acquiescents. This keeps rolling until it hits the point that the above begins to happen. I have no idea when or if that moment will come. Hell, a large majority of pundits, panels, and smart people still don't get it. In the stadium, some people are playing and watching football. Outside the stadium, the world changes. Back inside the statdium, they think a better playcaller will impact what's outside. Paradigm shift. Or maybe I'm an idiot. Or maybe both.
  10. Does an angry mob righteously defending democracy and pillaging the home of traitors qualify? Used to. Musk busting down the door at Treasury or USAID might qualify under the being loud at a secure government operation law or maybe misdemeanor damge to property. Elon's is shaking in his boots, I'm sure. The United States of Impotence and Ignorance
  11. Irrelevant to my point and what you quote. You're addressing my quote as if I stated a high standard was the norm. I invoked a molecule of it as hyperbole, but it's really not terribly hyperbolic considering the shitstain calling the shots and making appointments at the preseent time. You're point suggests that some liar in the past qualifies Gabbert. That's way below your standard. Frankly, the name-calling is beneath your standard, as well. That said, your usual standard of decorum is higher than those addressing you. Maybe you're fed up. Written respectfully.
  12. Any appointee of Trump deserves suspicion at the very least because his every nominee is primarily chosen to be a stooge. Some stooges are relatively qualified if the reference points are RFK Jr. and Hegspeth. They're merely dangerously incompetent or crazy. Take a look at Patel, and you have a candidate who is not qualified to run the FBI but dangerously competent to abuse it. Gabbard? She's probably better than those guys. I don't need to see her testimony to know she has neither the experience or any proven qualities to be considered for DNI in any administration operating with even a molecule of good faith. The big picture of the assembly of this administration is pretty much all the evidence you need to reject these nominess out of hand should you be one of the minority in this country that care about or even have a mild understanding of the republic. When the overall theme is dishonesty, corruption, and abuse of power, why quibble on the choice of minions?
  13. Remember what the Dotard said about future elections? Oops. Fumbled his last-ever vote.
  14. Hasn't he seen the current 2026 rankings?!? Besides Oregon, only two of those other schools are in the top 20! The writing is on the wall. Sleeping giants! Everything being cyclical! Elk time in the Station! Get aboard young man while you still can!
  15. Wow. Haven't thought of this in decades. Heard it my freshman year at Texas. Bravo!
  16. I can't believe that it's only now occuring to me that his followers have actually found a way to make a virtue of dishonesty.
  17. They'll call them WMDs (Weaponized Mexican Drones) to further inflame the cult and acquiescent. Then we'll get into the business of blowing up Mexican weddings and family reunions just like we've done in Afghanistan, Iraq, and anywhere else the USAF can strike a gathering of dark people. Here come the planes. They're American planes made in America.
  18. I'm sure we can find a law that he's maybe breaking to dither over for several years while the point becomes moot. Maybe we can use the ol' interfering with a government process or loitering or something. This is like using the courts to cure cancer.
  19. Thanks @Willfully Horn I can only browse this now as I'm still trying to maintain complacency to ward off the anxiety of (political) impotence. I will give this the attention it deserves soon. Bernie speaks out in an honest way about the obvious which will likely be completely ignored or marginalized by the self-neutering legitimate press of America. Trump is moving like Saddam in Iraq and other tyrants of the last century. It's astonishing to observe the speed. Such is the look of handing over your government to an enemy of your republic. Thank you for the new word. If the US is being devoured by the coprophagous, what does that make this country? To see what we're up against, visit TexAgs Politics. I did for half an hour this morning. In this way, this only way, have the Aggies found their way to the mainstream. It's a journey into the formidably idiotic and unjustifiably certain viewpoint that elected the Shit-eater-in Chief.
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