If you want to know how RealPolitik government works (& have a laugh instead of crying)

two movies nail it:

In The Loop
The Death of Stalin

Both by the same director, shockingly

This oughta sell most of you on it 😂

Malcolm Tucker is the definition of D33p State

Unelected behind the scenes, bullying, blackmaiIing, abusing everyone including the poIitician he’s “serving”
When the politician aka his “boss” decides he’s going to take a moral stand on something, this is what Malcolm says:

“I will marshall all the media forces of darkness to hound you to an assisted suicide.”

Hilarious when I first saw it... Sound like a joke now?
In short, if you’re interested in a parody-but-highly-accurate representation of how power “happens” & it is used

In the Loop
Death of Stalin

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More from @BroStreetJoy

8 Dec
Watching “They Live” for the 1st time

Then “The Thing”

Catching up on some John Carpenter
So far the economy of language is exquisite
I’m a writer

“They Live” was based on a short story

Makes me want to revisit that form

I want to write anonymously

I just haven’t yet
Read 6 tweets
5 Dec
Just had a vivid nightmare

Can’t describe it all

A bridge had collapsed; a bus crashed thru it. There was chaos & a party among the chaos

Then a war began. Children running away from captors by the thousands
I joined many in charging in across a highway & river to join a massive battle. We helped children thru barbed wires onto slide-like escapes

I kept having to retreat to different battles, taking multiple blows to the head & body,
then back into the fray
Then I had to jump down a cliff from thru barbed wire & iron girders until I richocheted into a metal bar & was knocked unconscious & sank under water for 20 minutes

The current drew me back up & over

I woke up gasping for air
Read 5 tweets
22 Nov
1/ Seeing the awesomeness that are @GlennYoungkin & @WinsomeSears

I’ve stepped back & taken a 40k-foot look at how the journey looks so far,

& a picture has emerged

We had specific expectations of 17 (especially timing) - often.

That’s on us - & it’s a bad habit.

Peep this:
2/ If Trump had been put in publicly for Round 2

Nothing would’ve changed

“But that’s good!”

Short-term, yes. I’ve written threads on strategic thinking here before.

For that, you’re thinking decades or even a century down the line

Most people don’t even plan a year out.
3/ What do Youngkin & Sears have to do with this?

Everything.

As I & others have said,

this stage was about waking the the most unmovable - yet still saveable - citizens

(Not the 4-6%)

We’ve seen the few remaining percentage points of Liberals come around to important points
Read 9 tweets
20 Nov
Whoa

Kubrick has another layer hidden in The Shining that I never knew

4:25 evidence with the magazine - & knowing the depth to which Kubrick went - is pretty crazy all on its own

Danny & The Bear

For anyone who wants another incredible analysis of Kubrick spilling the beans on [their activities]

you MUST read this thread by @SeekerOTL (who also might love the above video)

Disclaimer, I’m only halfway through it so maybe it goes off the rails lol

Read 5 tweets
7 Nov
1/ Quick Thought Exercise

We’re seeing [their plan] being attempted before our eyes

Define “precedent”

Did Trump replace hundreds of Federal judges around the country?

What happens if [attempted laws] are struck down? Can they be attempted again?
2/ Critical Question: would these attempts have happened if Trump was visibly running things?

Could Trump stay in office & protect us forever?

Define “preventative measure”

Define “strategic planning”

Define “shad0w Presidency”
3/ What happens when the best President in history is immediately followed by the worst?

Why is the incompetence & eviI so apparent - even to rational liberals - this time around?

Why are people like Psaki so bad at this? Why isn’t the media succeeding?

Define “Awakening”
Read 5 tweets
7 Nov
1/ I saw a recommendation to read “Trust Us, We’re Experts!”, an exposé on how powers manipulate public opinion

22 pages into a 300+ book my mind is already blown

especially for a book written in 2001

Things have definitely gotten worse since then

Let’s take a walk, shall we? Image
2/ The 1st rule *real* PR people operate under is

The public must never know they’re being influenced

Example: Big Tobacco wanted women to start smoking, which was “unfeminine”

The “Father of PR” achieved this by reframing it as a feminist right

The “torches of liberty”; wow. ImageImage
3/ The 1st *method* of this 1st rule is

Make Your Words Come Out Of Other People’s Mouths

If EvilCo wants to get legislation passed

or

Politician Psycho has a scandal

how credible is it if they argue their own case?

You need credibility

which needs

Appearance of Authority
Read 44 tweets

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