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You Want It Darker

If you liked the first Joker movie I would see the new one. Forget the reviews. If they didn’t like the first one they would like this one. Fickle finger of fake.

This one is more about the soul of Arthur Fleck. The face behind the facade.
Lady Gaga is very charismatic even charming in a criminally crazy way. Aside from the love affair it is thoroughly dark and unrelenting with non stop degradation and debasement but it is a interesting and thrilling character study.
If you are looking for a blockbuster DC movie you will be disappointed. This is not that movie. But it is something else.

A throwaway line of dialogue out of the blue that had someone yelling Arthur Milligan. That was a good one.


Roman Polanski could have made this movie. It mines the darkness of the mind of a beaten defeated dangerous man who sings as a way to communicate his feelings while masking his inner fantasies.. It is the quintessential tale of the sad clown - singing Put On A Happy Face while being crushed inside under the weight of his despair.
Dark can’t always be happy go lucky. Won’t get you to put on a happy face.

About movies in general - movies that are not intended as slop and cost 100 million to make are usually very worthwhile despite the critics. They want to keep their livelihood. I firmly believe that. They like to carp and re envision or try to make the movie in their own image or flat out tear it down. They are not as smart as they think no matter how interesting and poetic their pitter patter is. They are excellent writers but the substance of most of the reviews is didactic hogwash.

The Joker must be looked at for what it is intended to be and on that level I find it to be extraordinary. And the intended subject is unique and at times spellbinding.

If you get and understand the premise and appreciate it as you should then you can dig into a mind bending and mind hunter of a flick.

5 stars A+ and the 2 leads are as worthy of an Oscar as anyone this year.
10/10/2024 12:08 PM (edited)
Before Trump ( B.T ), Trump supporters disliked even despised the very rich and powerful but now they want to give the multi millionaires and billionaires gigantic tax cuts Again. I guess they will do anything if they can promote racism with Presidential encouragement and make it the American way more then ever before in modern times.

From the MAGA crazies to Trump : Gooble Gobble we accept you one of us one of us we accept you.

That kind of sums up their adulation.
10/13/2024 3:59 PM (edited)
It’s the amazing economy, stupid.
10/15/2024 2:14 AM
Haitian people throughout the country are in fear of violent attacks and vandalism by republicans ( it sure isn’t from democrats ) because of the horrible and inconceivable lies by Trump and Vance.

Just like how he got republicans to attack asian people. It wasn’t democrats doing that.

In what universe could such a contemptible ( evil to be precise ) individual be 50 50 for president.

In a recent rally the self proclaimed protector of women said that a woman who was protesting should get the hell beaten out of her.

And people respect that guy and show him love.

May they get poison Ivy in their privates and a pie in the face on their way to work every day and twice on holidays. And IRS tax audits.
10/15/2024 3:57 PM (edited)
I Will Be Your Protector

1. Forcible sex described as rape by his wife in her book and divorce. She did not like it.
2. Grab em by the What’s new pussycat. It is perfectly permissible for famous people.
3. Sexual assaults against many women that have come forward including being liable for rape against E Jean Carroll.
4. Ended Roe v Wade -total devastation for millions of women and girls and even death for some who are not permitted medical care because it might be called an abortion but it protects women who would never get an abortion.
5. Women should be punished for getting an abortion - mission accomplished.
6. The misogynist in chief - insults the appearance and intelligence and honesty of women and mocks them from sea to sea and at rallies says that a woman should get the hell beaten out of her.
7. Serial cheater even right after his wife gives birth.
8. Talks about a women he wants to have sex with and says that she reminds him of his daughter who he could have sex with.
9. Says that all women are happy that there is no Roe v Wade anymore. And everyone wanted that.
10. Separated immigrant women from their young children and puts everyone in cages as if they are animals. Some of the children became orphans.
11. Buries the wife he raped once on his golf course.

Thanks but no thanks.
10/16/2024 10:07 AM (edited)
Trump is falling a bit in the polls and he feels a lil pain.

What’s with Macho trump men listening to Villiage People at rallies. You would think that the American Hitler ( not my words blame JC Vance for that moniker ) would play some Wagner.

But no he is doing a wedding line dance with whoever will join him strutting and looking enthralled.

Dont tell any of the macho Trumpers but their potty mouth leader seems like a lil wuss.

It reminds me of the time that me and a friend of mine and his father in law were in San Francisco and as music lovers we bought a Judy Garland cd. I mean when in New Orleans we got Al Hirt music. My friend and I were big Sinatra and the rat pack fans and fans of the great American songbook so we were driving through San Fran windows open playing loudly Judy Garland. We had no idea how much of a gay old time we were having.
Et tu Trumpe.

BTW Trump is no American Hitler but he is an American Putin.
10/16/2024 9:27 PM (edited)
If someone has an IQ of 100 or over are they allowed to be a member of MAGA?
Under 2025 will it be illegal to not carry a gun in public?
Will MAGA fly the hammer and sickle along side of the American flag?
Would Trump send military aid to Russia in the war against Ukraine?
Would Trump get the USA out of NATO and into a similar pact with Russia and North Korea?
Will Melania do a brand new nude pictorial?
Will Trump get Liposuction or a stomach staple? ( gastroplasty)
Will Albania start a war with the USA?
Will 2025 mandate a Bible and Mein Kamf be in every public school classroom?
Will people that are black and white be alliowed to call themselves Black or White under 2025?
Will JD Vance’s wife be called white or Indian?
Will lobotomies become popular again if Trump wins?
Will American history become American X?
Will JD Vance be sent to Siberia?
Will racism be taught in public schools after the Department of Education is abolished?
Will deregulation be the law of the land?

Inquiring mind would like to know the answers to these and other questions.
10/18/2024 1:05 AM (edited)
Another question :
Will project 2025 change the words of the pledge of allegiance from one nation under God….. to - one nation under Trump indivisible and with injustice for all.
10/18/2024 10:25 AM
Israel vs Iran

It has always been the goal of Israel to topple the Iranian regime so that it could be replaced by the people wanting a secular democracy which is actually most of the Iranians.

Israel did not want the Iranian ballistic missiles aimed at their cities but as a result Israel has an opportunity to hit Iran very hard which it could not do unless they were days from the nuclear bomb.

Anybody interested in what is going to happen should go to the Drudge Report as they have a link to a tremendous in depth article from a British leading daily publication.

Israel is saying that the retaliatory strike will be severe but also a surprise and they think that the regime will topple. Then Israel wants a peace treaty like there is with Egypt or a peaceful acknowledgment with significant cooperation like there is with Saudi Arabia.

I think that Israel will send planes with munition to fly low enough that radar will not see them. And I think there will some type of attack from within like what happened with phone bombs in Lebanon. Those two things could be shock and awe. Some type of shock and awe is planned.

I can’t imagine that the attack will not be coming soon.
Maybe electric grids and energy infrastructure will get demolished plunging the country into a crushed tech Stone Age without electricity or some facsimile of with the hope that the country will rise up holding the regime responsible and topple it.
10/18/2024 10:43 AM (edited)
Hair Today and Gone Tomorrow

I heard some women saying that even though they despise Vance that he is a handsome man. I don’t see that round face future double chinner as attractive.

But it got me to thinking about facial hair presidents and VPs.
There has not been a president with facial hair since the beginning of the 20th century - Taft,
I did not research it but there has been no VP since at least Eisenhower ran and I don’t know before that,
Of course Nixon was on his way during that debate.

And how would the modern presidents look ?
FDR - like a professor
Truman - like a guy too lazy to shave
Eisenhower - a thinker
Kennedy - mustache only - like a standup comedian
LBJ - like a happy guy at a bar drinking everybody under the table
Nixon - mustache only - like a used car salesman
Ford - like a civil war enthusiast
Carter - like a Sunday school teacher
Reagan - like a wood cutter and forester
Bush 1 - like a grandpa
Clinton - like a poet
Bush 2 - like a guy working on the wharf with a flannel shirt of course
Obama - goatee only - a hipster jazz musician
Trump - like a lecherous drunken slob
Biden - like your friendly next door neighbor
10/20/2024 11:15 AM (edited)
There is a very interesting and important case starting in Louisiana. Some barnyard bozos want to forcibly mandate the display of the 10 commandments in every classroom. There is already a fight going on in Oklahoma where the bonkers boys are mandating religious bibles in every classroom and teachers will be suspended if they do not comply. DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!!!!

About the 10 Commandments why not just do this - 1-5 obviously must go. They are 100% religious and do not denote anything of a criminal nature in todays American society ( yet ). Hopefully stoning for breaking those commandments will not return.

So just have 6 and 8 and 9 and call it the 3 commandments.
6 - don’t murder
8 - don’t steal
9. don’t commit perjury

Call it the Louisiana 3 Commandments with a citation for the entire Louisiana penal code.
10/21/2024 9:33 AM (edited)
About 345 hours.

stupid is as stupid does.
shame on military people active and veterans for voting for someone that called men who died in war for our country suckers and losers SUCKERS AND LOSERS and he said it to a GENERAL and his chief of staff.

And shame on police officers and their families after he let a badly outnumbered group of officers who refrained from shooting people he let them
be pummeled he let them be beaten and suffering the risk of death for 3 hours AND HE REFUSED TO HELP POLICE OFFICERS STAY ALIVE.

I hate to say this but military people and their families and police officers and their families who vote for a man who is evil and pro Putin are dumb. They are part of the group of dumb people who are ruining the country.
10/22/2024 12:47 AM (edited)
Under My Thumb ( Putin's Song )

Under my thumb
The GOP who once had me down
Under my thumb
Is the party that once pushed me around


It's down to me
The difference in the things they say
Down to me, the change has come
They are under my thumb

Under my thumb
Is a well trained dog that has had its day
Under my thumb
Is a USA puppet that worships my ways

It's down to me, yes it is
The way that Trump does just what he's told
Down to me, the change has come
He's under my thumb

Under my thumb
Is a bark bark dog de jure
Under my thumb
He's the most dutiful pet there is in the world

( chorus )
It's down to me
The way Trump talks when he is spoken to
Down to me, the change has come
They are under my thumb

Ah take it easy Jake
Yeah, it feels alright
Take it easy Jake
10/23/2024 2:07 PM (edited)
Lots of Trump Hitler News Today

Trump has praised Hitler with almost same way verbatim that Louis Farrakhan has said:

1990 Vanity Fair article says Trump would read Hitler speeches to learn how to lie big and use propaganda.
The German Trump thought he could learn a lot from Hitler. Trump never reads anything but Hitler material yes he will read at bedtime.

Hitler I mean Trump told John Kelley that he wanted generals like Hitler’s generals.

All Trump needs to do is get some white nationalist guys in the military and advance them up to generals.

JD Vance is next in line if Trump wins and then cannot serve.
10/23/2024 12:41 AM
What Does America Mean To Me

The Ugly Americans

If someone running for president says he will be a dictator then believe him.

They May know shoot about policy but when it comes to fascism and autocracy they are summa cum laude.

White hoods voting for Trump are pro life but they are not pro wife.

If Trump gets life in prison then I will be pro life.

He is a proud German but he has written that his people are from Sweden. But no matter, what he knows is a thing or two about loyalty and obedience and discipline and anti intellectuals in the father land.

The word we are looking for is plutocracy. It fits for a fascist who has no true policy agenda other then adopting what his base wants and then making believe that he is the leader for that agenda. In a Trump plutocracy the only agenda is power power and more power.

It is black magic, satanic shiit. “Paulie Walnuts”
Give me fascism or give me death.
The to be MAGA national anthem - The Blitzkrieg Bop.

It is a foregone conclusion that the once proud country based upon the great American experiment is now shown to be a dumb mentally retarded country - that is an absolute fact. I round up one half to one.

Back in the USSR again.

What happens to Ukraine aid on day one? What military aid ? Anyone aiding Ukraine is a traitor subject to execution as a terrorist and enemy combatant.

What happens when you make Jeffrey Clark or Eillen Cannon or Cash Patel Attorney General ? Their answer is Your wish is my command. I will charge your political enemies with crimes and put them in jail pending trial. Let them take it to the stacked Supreme Court.

You get what you deserve and you get what you pay for.

What do you know what do you say - Paulie Walnuts
10/23/2024 1:38 PM (edited)
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