"Rambling?!" Trump rally crowd listens quietly as Trump explains at length how he doesn't ramble
Excerpt: "I heard the other day – And this isn't anything, I'm just saying. They'll say 'he was rambling.' I don't ramble. I'm a really smart guy. You know, I'm really smart. I don't ramble. But the other day – any time I hit too hard, they say he was rambling. Rambling?
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"And I feel I have an obligation to speak, and speak in a certain way, and speak a little bit longer. You know, how would you like it, a guy's waiting with his family for three and a half, four days. They have a tent and the tent is set up. They have hundreds of them, and they wait. And then I walk in, speak for 15 minutes and leave. I don't know somehow, would that be okay, North Carolina? I don't think so. Right.
"They want me to speak all day. You know, when I leave – I did one, two hours and 15 minutes and I'm leaving and they're screaming, no, sir. More. We want to hear more. I can't, I can't speak more. What the hell else am I going to say? Our country is going to hell. That's all I can say. We're a nation in decline.
"You know, we were talking about that before. My phrases are copied so much, right? I use I use the term, often times in closing, we are a nation in decline. We are a failed nation. And I think it's a beautiful phrase. Although I don't like the topic very much, I don't like what it represents. But there's a certain beauty. All of a sudden all of these candidates, including Republicans, are saying we are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation. And I say, you know, what the hell do they have to copy me for? Right?
"But
they have a lot of words that they copy. Many of our words. We were in
the plane before coming in, and our people said we went through a list. I
think we're going to release a list, let's release it. But so many of
our phrases they copy. I should be really, that should be a nice thing,
not an insult. But crazy Bernie Sanders has said a lot of things…"
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The Onion resumes publishing on paper
And I've instantly subscribed. What The Onion does they do well, and it's funnier on paper.
Less than three weeks after using Twitter to incite violence, UK 'keyboard warrior' is jailed
Justice never moves that fast in America, even on those rare occasions when America has justice.
Riots in the UK were spurred by racist posts on Twitter. Experts warn of a repeat in the US.
Yeah, November is going to be mighty interesting, don't ya think?
Meet the Ballers: a team "by Oakland, for Oakland, and that will never leave Oakland"
At that click there's a long article about minor league baseball, but wow it's worth the time to read it.
Biden designates 1908 Springfield race riot site as national monument
The Springfield atrocity is what led to the founding of the NAACP, but you know that, right?
Capitalism is killing the planet – but curtailing it is the discussion nobody wants to have
Vance says "suburban women" don't care about abortion because they care about "normal things"
The Republican road to fascism:
• Deploying on U.S. soil: how Trump would use soldiers against riots, crime and migrants
• Secret tape: Project 2025 co-author says it's time to "rehabilitate" Christian Nationalism
• Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November
• Republican state Attorneys General push for grocery mega-merger between Kroger and Albertsons
• Ohio Republicans approve misleading ballot language to favor gerrymandering
Excerpt: The language approved on Friday, reportedly drafted by Ohio’s secretary of state, Frank LaRose, also says the measure would “repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering approved by nearly three quarters of Ohio electors participating in the statewide elections of 2015 and 2018”. While Ohio voters did approve anti-gerrymandering reforms in those years, Republicans ignored them when they redrew districts after the 2020 census.
• Texas sues Biden administration to prevent rights for transgender workers
• Far-right takeover of Georgia's election board could swing the election
Climate emergency:
• Climate change made last year's wildfire season so much worse
• Last month marked the hottest July on record, US scientists say
• How methane emissions are pushing the Amazon towards environmental catastrophe
... but there's money to be made, so la di da, la di da.
The Lord works in mysterious ways:
• Report blames church officials for ignoring complaints about priest who preyed on young boys
• She accused a New Orleans priest of sexual assault. The church quietly moved him out of state.
• Missouri lawsuits allege abuse by Catholic priests, nuns, and Archbishop
• Survivors of doomsday Christian cult testify against pastor and 93 associates
All cops are bastards:
• With 21 deaths so far in 2024, Los Angeles jails continue deadly trend
• Police believe strip-searching children can be effective, but suspicions of misuse remain
• Body camera shows how a 9-1-1 call for medical help led to the killing of Victoria Lee
• L.A. sheriff's deputy sentenced to probation for assault on woman with mental disability
⚡ LINKS FOR THINKS ⚡
• Why doesn't the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race.
• The press should explain its stunning double standard on leaks
⚰️ DEAD PEOPLE ⚰️
John Aprea
actor, The Godfather Part II
Eddie Canales
activist
Ruth Colvin
Literacy Volunteers of America
Alain Delon
actor, Rocco and His Brothers
Phil Donohue
talk show host
Mike Mageek
The Register, The Inquirer
Perez Denis Martinez
in county jail
Patt Shea
writer, All in the Family
Ebony Tyner
in county jail
8/20/2024
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There's a great documentary called "Nico: Icon" about the singer/actress, I remember catching it on IFC one morning back when that still stood for "Independent Film Channel." I remember showing up late for work because it was so engrossing. Nico had a child by Alain Delon that he refused to acknowledge. I mean he was obviously still alive when this was made, and he still refused to acknowledge this now-grown man. Nico was a globetrotting fashion model and a disaster as a mother anyway, so the boy was instead raised by Delon's parents. Delon's mother was in tears in explaining the suffering they went through on their son's account. Some eccentric Paris bohemian who is interviewed just dismisses Delon outright as a "pig" with the kind of pungent tone only a Frenchman can have.
ReplyDeleteToday I saw that Delon's dying wish was to have his (healthy and alive) dogs buried in his coffin. He loved them so much, his will read, that he wanted them euthanized and placed in his arms. Delon was a disgusting human being to the end but thankfully is no longer one.
I knew nothing of Delon except seeing a very few of his movies, but he certainly sounds like a hell of a schmuck. I do try to avoid bigotry, but Delon plays so firmly into mine I'm just going to embrace it:
DeleteHe was a man of ridiculous good looks, which has to have been a major factor in the development of his personality. Few people say no to an incredibly handsome man (or beautiful woman), so my guess (with zero research to back it up) is that life was easy. Never wanted a woman he didn't get. Never knew hunger, poverty, worries about the rent. Add in a career as a major movie star, with the wealth fame and worship that brings, and it's gotta be no surprise he was an asshole.
As for Nico and Nico Icon, yikes. to each their own, but here's my 1996 review.
Hm, you wrote "The camera is hand-held by a drunkard while everyone explains Nico's greatness."
DeleteI did not get that at all! For instance they interview James Young, who wrote "Songs They Never Play on the Radio" about his time touring with Nico, who says his book is about being a failure. Not him: her. And everyone around them. Most of the people in the film that I remember didn't like her. Even her ex-boyfriend is disgusted by the fact that she got her own son (the one with Delon) hooked on drugs. This was a guy who shot countless drugs with her, but that was still something he couldn't wrap his head around.
I actually liked it because almost everyone was pretty unflinching about a pretty strange woman. Quite a lot of them were filmed in circumstances that suggest they weren't doing so hot either. The ones that had kind of tender memories were people that knew her briefly, like Jackson Browne, quite a long time before she died.
I do agree the film was shot in with weird angles and titles and kept chucking words on the screen at you. It kinda fit given who was being interviewed, though. I actually think that approach probably would have helped the David Crosby doc shot a couple years ago, "Remember My Name," which was really conventional in appearance about very unconventional subject matter.
Honestly, I remember nothing about the movie except the excerpts from talking heads, superimposed on the screen. That really bugged me, but even now I can't say why. Maybe I was just in a grumpy mood that night.
DeleteBack then, watching movies in quaint old-fashioned theaters, then writing reviews when I got home, maybe I got the "camera is hand-held by a drunkard" wrong, too. It easily could've been days, even a week later before I got around to writing about the flick. Maybe it gave me nightmares and the nightmares are what I was reviewing.
Just one question, but seriously: Could Nico hit the notes? I'd never listened to her sing before that night, and never after either, but I *hope* I wouldn't write that she couldn't carry a tune if she did.
Hmmm. I'm thinking, everyone in the world seems to agree with you that Nico and the movie were both great, so it's likely that I'm full of shit. 1996 me is dancing on my shoulder saying, no, no, no, but perhaps I'll add Nico: Icon to the list for a critical reassessment.
Well, that's weird but not awful. "These Days" compels re-listening. Your comparison to Lou Reed seems right.
DeleteMaybe I hated it because Nico Icon was the third movie on a triple bill and I was out of gumption or patience for something so weird. Maybe I just wasn't ready. I will give the movie another looksee.