Everything is Political

[kanafani]

You just forgot to quote your entire sentence, so I fixed it for you.

[rischka]

shouldn't u guys be watching the stupidbowl

[kanafani]

I am. See post in what are you listening to thread.

[Lencho of the Apes]

shouldn't u guys be watching the stupidbowl

Why, aren't we stupid enough already?

I never quite figured out the rules of football, watching it is very abstract for me.

[Holymanm]

shouldn't u guys be watching the stupidbowl

the rules of football

you foot the ball, then spend 3 hours on the phone with your insurance company later to get them to reimburse you

[kanafani]

https://twitter.com/KhangXVu/status/1358897201586597888

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That's actually not horrible, on paper... 100% ghostwritten

This guy is the freaking Drake of international diplomacy

[rischka]

omg ya boi in hanoi

[Holdrüholoheuho]

https://twitter.com/MockbustersPod/stat ... 87365?s=20

[Monsieur Arkadin]

I laughed at that video, but I used to televise the mayoral debates for a small rural town of 4,000, and this triggered some PTSD flashbacks about the "travesty that occurred with our monthly newsletter".

[Holdrüholoheuho]

i guess (i haven't seen it yet) we have here a local comedy of this "genre" called OWNERS (Jiří Havelka, 2019)...
https://letterboxd.com/film/owners/
https://youtu.be/mbL-z9wPE34

[sally]

oh cool! more more of that ilk!

i have:
merveilles à montfermeil (jeanne balibar, 2019)
the garage (eldar ryazanov, 1980)

anything else?

[sally]

https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/statu ... 4243862529

[rischka]

i know 'idpol' is bad and everything but i'm loving POC taking the lead in what should be an open and shut case at the impeachment trial

not that i'm watching it, this is why i love twitter trump should probably hire that cat lawyer though

[kanafani]

https://twitter.com/hjessy_/status/1359546879197986818

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Wtf??? Context????? Some Usfice references up in here?????????

[rischka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91XUyg9iWM

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 00575.html

ironically named senator john kennedy (R-LA) was apparently referencing this vintage (and extremely sexist) SNL sketch

what's Usfice

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WTF

Never stop being impressed by the references they casually throw in in this show

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P13ApHECCyY

[Roscoe]

Anybody remember James Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander, who inspired that give and take that Curtin and Aykroyd parodied so well?

[rischka]

looked them up and nope. i did remember dan rather though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cESACuuh6kM

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/statu ... 26565?s=20

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that..... james kilpatrick....... was america already that busted in 1978??

[rischka]

that was the malaise that led to reagan's morning in america he won 45 of 50 states in 1980

there's some evidence reagan's people made a deal with iran not to release the hostages in the american embassy until after the election. they were released on reagan's inauguration day. GOP electoral skullduggery has quite the history

[rischka]

one of trump's lawyers is arguing that when he tweeted 'send in the calvary' -- he did not misspell cavalry but was making a biblical reference.

all those typos? plausible deniability. brilliant

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Cool. But calvary is golgotha is it not? Meaning the place where the romans executed Jesus? Is that better? lol.

[rischka]

yeah sending the calvary for mike pence seems blasphemous

[rischka]

57-43 GUILTY. not enough to convict but the most bipartisan impeachment trial in history

7 GOP senators voted guilty -- 17 were needed. some retiring still refused to convict.

no surprise but damn

burr, cassidy, collins, sasse, murkowski, romney and toomey will have to imagine trump's insane attack tweets

also twitter (at least) has made clear trump's ban is PERMANENT

[Holdrüholoheuho]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ablo-hasel
Angry protests as Spanish riot police arrest rapper at centre of free-speech debate

Riot police entered a university in the north-eastern Spanish city of Lleida on Tuesday to arrest a rapper who had barricaded himself inside the building to avoid serving a prison sentence for glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty and the police in his lyrics and on social media.

The arrest of Pablo Rivadulla, known as Pablo Hasél, triggered angry protests and clashes with police in several Spanish cities on Tuesday night, including Lleida, Barcelona, Girona and Valencia.

...

In 2018, Hasél was given a two-year jail sentence and a fine of almost €30,000 (£26,000) after Spain’s highest criminal court ruled that his lyrics and comments went beyond the limits of free speech and were instead expressions of “hatred and attacks on honour”.

The court noted that Hasél had referred to the former Spanish king Juan Carlos as a “drunken tyrant” and a “mafia capo”, praised Eta and other terrorist groups, called the national police “murderers” and accused the Guardia Civil of torturing and murdering migrants.

The sentence was reduced on appeal to nine months, and Hasél was ordered to report to prison at the end of January. But on Monday, the rapper sought refuge in the university, saying he wanted “to make things as difficult as possible for the police” and to highlight “a hugely serious attack” on freedom.

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His case has fuelled the debate on freedom of speech in Spain and on the country’s so-called “gag law”. Last week, more than 200 prominent Spanish cultural figures, including Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodóvar, signed an open letter expressing their solidarity with Hasél and calling for a change in the law.

https://www.catalannews.com/society-sci ... imprisoned
The tweets and songs for which rapper Hasel was imprisoned

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Hmm my ideal life has already been lived, in Spain. Nothing new under the sun I guess

[rischka]

Why are they dragging ted cruz for going to cancun when they should be dragging him for being a fucking traitor who tried to overthrow democracy????? More than 30 capitol police being investigated. I don't see how we have bipartisan investigation on this shit. I'm coming around to your view guys: burn it all down!! it's rotten to the core

[nrh]

Why are they dragging ted cruz for going to cancun when they should be dragging him for being a fucking traitor who tried to overthrow democracy?????

b/c cruz going to cancun, leaving his poodle snowflake in a freezing house, and then blaming it all on his daughters is really funny. cruz being this totally hateful man who has somehow given up all of his humanity and gotten nothing for it (as others have pointed out his family had to fly coach) is great theater. cruz as one of many subservient voices to trump's is no news at all.