Comments on: Open thread 6/26/24

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:38:01 +0000

coupled with the circus her SS detail would bring
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Some cabinet secretaries have a security detail and some do not. Do not believe it is provided by the Secret Service.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:27:24 +0000

The best marvel was under the paramount umbrella umbrella ironman to avengers sony had the x men whose dynamic is misunderstood magneto is not malcolm but more menahim begin according to the creators i guess that makes xavier ben gurion

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:13:02 +0000

Follow-up on lying Yellen. Sec treasury claims she goes to the grocery store every week. I find that a little hard to swallow as I would expect her schedule would preclude such time consuming activities coupled with the circus her SS detail would bring. She seems to eat out a lot.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:43:47 +0000

Regardless of your opinion on the Dead Pool movies, they are not childrens’ fare.

Rufus T. Firefly:

No, they are not! They are hard-R films and they like it like that.

Yet Deadpool III is about the only upcoming money-making proposition this summer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — the MCU or as some prefer, the M-She-U, since like everything else under the Disney umbrella, it’s gone female and woke.

The strength of the Deadpool movies is that they ridicule all the superhero tropes and there is a certain amount of fun to that — unlike most superhero fare these days.

But definitely not for children.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:19:36 +0000

Yesterday I saw an ad for “Dead Pool III” on Disney+. Regardless of your opinion on the Dead Pool movies, they are not childrens’ fare. I can’t imagine what Walt Disney would think if he knew a movie like that was being sold with his name.

Disney studios didn’t always turn out quality entertainment, but everything they did was family friendly, and that reputation built a tremendous amount of goodwill for the company. If it was Disney it was entertaining for the whole family. That was their main product and it had tremendous value from nearly a century of consistency to that ethos.

Walt and Roy founded Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:04:02 +0000

Re: Acolyte viewings

From what I can tell, YouTube critics are watching and reporting on the episodes, but most people are content watching those reviews rather than ponying up for Disney+ to watch for themselves.

There is a curious jubilation among former Star Wars fans. They’ve moved through their stages of grief, anger to bargaining to depression to resignation to apathy and now mockery.

Mostly they are laughing at the Acolyte, cataloging its stupidities and having a grand old time doing so.

For instance, there’s finally a climactic lightsaber battle, but it is literally in a dark forest and all one can see are giant glowsticks waving around.

BTW, this project cost $180 million, which works out to $1 mil per minute. It’s hard to see where that money went. Everything looks like subpar. Some have suggested the Acolyte is a money-laundering operation.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:09:24 +0000

Its like ed wood films but he had no pretense to art or principle

No one is doing anything but hate watching like modern marvel

By: boxspeed

boxspeed — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:08:29 +0000

I’m going out on a limb and say the Murthy non-decision portends much better (more conservative) results for the *next* two days. Roberts likes to bend over for the left sometimes if he’s got to issue something else the left will really hate.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:54:17 +0000

“What’s going on there?” [re RFK Jr]

My first guess is that the MFM has decided his candidacy hurts Biden more than Trump so he must be disappeared.

“Might as well be Jill Stein or Cornel West”

Not taking votes from Trump either.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:44:41 +0000

Yes, “The Acolyte” most likely is horrible, but somebody or other is reporting about each episode online as it comes out. When was the last time any show has been this carefully watched, episode by episode? “Game of Thrones” maybe after they had an episode of particularly bloody butchery?
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Another week goes by without any news of RFK, Jr.

What’s going on there?

He might as well be Jill Stein or Cornel West.