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On Immigration, I checked: Schadenfreude is spelled the same in Spanish. Catching Bowser in her hypocrisy is wonderful. Biden isn't doing nearly enough on The Wall. "At least AOC won't have to commute," is priceless.

I truly wish someone would tell us just how often Biden is given meds. Daily? Twice a day? Special suppositories if he speaks after 5:00? My God, what a wretched Presidency.

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I like the "more stuff to read" links. If it catches your attention, it's worth a look. And a properly snarky comment.

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The most popular Monroe quote, among 20-30 something females, is "if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best." I don't know if this is an accurate quote or not, and I don't care to look it up right now. What I do know is that is one of the most hideous thing a person can say. Maybe you at your worst is drinking and driving, running over a cat and then crashing into the house. NO, I can not handle that, sweetheart. Or maybe you at your worst is smacking the kids around, taking drugs, and shooting guns into the night sky. Or maybe you rob banks and sleep with the neighbor. I don't know. But I know that you at your worst is you being a bad person, and if you can't control your base impulses, then count me out. That's just how I see it.

I don't care how hot you are, you don't get a pass for rotten behavior... and as the beauty of youth fades, all you are left with is your character.

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"At least AOC won't need to commute."

Treacher, you magnificent bastard. I read your Tweet.

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"They keep propping him in front of the camera and juicing him up to keep him awake enough to read his lines"

I have this feeling Biden's sliding toward something like Weekend at Bernie's with DOCTOR "Edith" Jill "hugging" him from one side, mouth obscured by the mic, his "voice" streaming in from some underground bunker in Western Maryland.

Like that episode of Star Trek TOS where the crew have to extract Gill who's been turned into the Nazi Party mouthpiece but they've got him all hopped up on a sedigive, so high he can't speak. They have a big microphone in front of his face so you can't see that his lips aren't moving. Playing a tape nearby.

Hey - they thought they could just go, "It's not a recession *Jedi Mind Trick, gawdammit!*" and we'd be all, "So say we all!" I think they're going to try it anyway, any minute, even if they know that we know that they're lying.

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I listen to you, Jim. I pay hard-scammed dineros to LISTEN to you.

Cast griping about Yet Another Marilyn Biopic? How about pooping over the next season of "Picard?" They both seem equally relevant to me.

...Back to Korean sitcoms.

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I don't care about Lady Bond being a thing, I for one would be fine with Lady Bond being a femme fatale who seduces and spies her way through boy toys and Rocket Engineers. I think Idris Elba would also be a great Bond. Too me, Bond is a SPY more than a sex. Bond has to be a British Spy with a license to kill, drinking Martinis shaken not stirred. Bond is action, charm, and deadly intent.

Historical people should be cast as closely as possible to the actual person as possible, representing them as accurately as possible or what's the point?

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I love Idris Elba but when he was cast as the gunslinger in The Dark Tower it threw me off. He still did fine, but after reading a novel you get an image in your head and when the casting goes too far afield it’s disconcerting.

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Ana de Armas sounded fine in the trailer. As for the movie itself, I think I'll skip it. We don't need another "tragedy of fame/woman in peril" picture. (Geez, wasn't it *ever* fun to be Marilyn Monroe? Ever? Just a little bit...?)

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