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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:what did it say? "Elizabeth Warren would bring a whole new meaning to Commander in “Chief”." he was trying to own the libs, forgetting they are his entire twitter audience lmao
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Feb 10, 2019 06:40
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oh noooo lmao
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Feb 10, 2019 09:18
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:"Elizabeth Warren would bring a whole new meaning to Commander in “Chief”." But my  ???
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Feb 10, 2019 09:33
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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lol, it's not even as clever as the burns trump stole from one of his staff.
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:"Elizabeth Warren would bring a whole new meaning to Commander in “Chief”." god drat this is just amazing tear that veil rob
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Feb 10, 2019 17:56
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i say swears online posted:oh noooo lmao Did we not talk about how Rob Lowe is a total poo poo, famous for being "conservative" even back when you could get away with it in Hollywood as long as you were quiet about it?
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Feb 10, 2019 18:58
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I remember watching this show as a kid that didn't know any better and was like "wow these are well-meaning people that want to do good, I guess this show is all right" until I reached one of the Israel episodes and it made me puke
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WampaLord posted:Did we not talk about how Rob Lowe is a total poo poo, famous for being "conservative" even back when you could get away with it in Hollywood as long as you were quiet about it? the citations needed episode brought it up, how he is far to the right of his co-stars real life politics. so all the WW fans on twitter assume he is a good liberal like whitford or sheen and they react predictably whenever he does tweets like that.
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Feb 11, 2019 00:28
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https://twitter.com/owenrumney/status/1097572552279347200?s=21
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Feb 18, 2019 22:58
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lol yeah i saw this sad. low-energy. TAKE MINE, BERNIE, STAND TALL
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Feb 18, 2019 23:35
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quote:The Newsroom, HBO’s acclaimed political drama, is rumored to be making a huge comeback, and the times couldn’t be more perfect for it.
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Feb 18, 2019 23:59
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On the official podcast, one of the cast members admitted that once they were all having dinner together and Sorkin said "I'm just gonna take a picture of us and say we're talking about a possible reboot of The West Wing" and they all played along even though there was literally nothing in the works. Hollywood is loving weird.
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Feb 19, 2019 00:19
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just a quick reminder that rob lowe committed statutory rape. well, bye!
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Feb 19, 2019 03:38
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 Hello welcome to season two! and thank you for coming along with us! We're mostly rambling about Television in this episode because the political side of the rootin-tootin' poorly-shootin' attack on the administration is not well fleshed out.
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Feb 23, 2019 01:11
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Multi-track drifting?!? E: VVV Now I want an anime version of that scene. Anime Ron Butterman makes shocked face and we get speed lines as he yells "BLUE BLUE BLUE" WampaLord has issued a correction as of 02:20 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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Feb 23, 2019 01:15
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it just popped into my head when you were talking about six-lane u turns lol
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Feb 23, 2019 01:22
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Lol at Democrats not knowing what they’re for or against.
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I think you guys previously kind of tackled the idea, when discussing the liberal fascination with the force of personality; but I've been finding it kind of funny how the show romanticizes how some politicians who are Destined To Become Great Leaders possess "It". The flashbacks depict Governor Bartlet as having "It" while Senator Hoynes does not. Hoynes was simply a guy Lyman worked for, not a guy he believed in. Later on, the show has Lyman using his metaphysical It-detecting abilities again and asks Matt Santos to run as an alternative to all the empty suits. Like, I guess it's fine in liberal comfort food fiction. Competent staffers can immediately gauge the personality of someone and decide if he or she isn't a total Jeb. The attempts to draft Obama for president were heavily reliant on this trope, how he was uniquely able to inspire a new generation, blah blah blah. I kind of get it. I liked Obama back in 2008. But it's just more jarring and hilarious now seeing lanyards project onto Kamala or Beto. And then seeing these lanyards explain to the unwashed masses why these guys are the leaders we didn't know we want.
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that's another part of the time capsule effect too IMO, the information just was not available, or rather I think the better word would be "accessible" (lol) as it is today. the gatekeeping of "Oh josh has to take a bunch of time off and literally fly to a place to observe a man carry himself and talk about issues in person" is hilariously opaque to people who aren't wealthy / political operators. i think the lanyard thing is wholly a product of people angling, via the newly available platform of popularity contests writ large across tweets, for getting noticed by senpai and given a cushy job.
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Echo Chamber posted:I think you guys previously kind of tackled the idea, when discussing the liberal fascination with the force of personality; but I've been finding it kind of funny how the show romanticizes how some politicians who are Destined To Become Great Leaders possess "It". The flashbacks depict Governor Bartlet as having "It" while Senator Hoynes does not. Hoynes was simply a guy Lyman worked for, not a guy he believed in. Later on, the show has Lyman using his metaphysical It-detecting abilities again and asks Matt Santos to run as an alternative to all the empty suits. Also telling that basically any time a campaign is going badly for Our Heroes, the solution is always a rousing speech or "winning" a debate or something and never a big new policy push. I think this is something that the lanyards who got their political inspiration from this drat show believe, that you can just charisma hard enough to win over anyone without actually offering them anything.
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Feb 23, 2019 06:41
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I'm going to give this a whirl, it sure as hell beats watching The West Wing
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Feb 23, 2019 06:46
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WampaLord posted:Also telling that basically any time a campaign is going badly for Our Heroes, the solution is always a rousing speech or "winning" a debate or something and never a big new policy push.
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Great episode as always. I'm glad you guys started the second season without a break, thank you for this content. I'm especially looking forward to finding out in a few months that my personal favorite episode, Noël, was actually always bad. Highlight of this episode was you describing someone's face as they "try to Numbers Fuckstein their way out of this".
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Feb 24, 2019 23:26
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projecthalaxy posted:Great episode as always. I'm glad you guys started the second season without a break, thank you for this content. I'm especially looking forward to finding out in a few months that my personal favorite episode, Noël, was actually always bad. Hey, thanks!  My memory of Noel is that Josh's subplot is a fairly good examination of PTSD for network TV, but I'm sure there's some very dumbass politics in there as well. Also I really like the actor they get to play the therapist and he makes a cool return in that one episode where Bartlett has trouble sleeping. WampaLord has issued a correction as of 23:46 on Feb 24, 2019 |
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Feb 24, 2019 23:43
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i think im going to stop watching the episodes along with the podcast. i hate this loving show and you guys do a great job hitting every issue and plot point anyways. aaron sorkin can eat my rear end in a top hat
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Feb 25, 2019 00:24
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hell yeah im rewatching this all on digital rips that my wife pirated from the library so aaron sorkin doesn't get his $0.0002 per play on Netflix suck it hollywood libs thanks for the nice feedback y'all
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Feb 25, 2019 00:29
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:i think im going to stop watching the episodes along with the podcast. i hate this loving show and you guys do a great job hitting every issue and plot point anyways. aaron sorkin can eat my rear end in a top hat Let us suffer the torture so you don't have to! 
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Feb 25, 2019 00:31
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oh boy, TIES I love not winning, BUT NOT LOSING! Lots of that in this episode for y'all as the title of this particular slice of the west wing canon could literally have been "The Democrats!"
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Great episode but one small bug report. You seem to be describing the radio reception scene as bad when according to my notes its actually [heart eyes]This EPIC canceling of a DRUMPF radio star with THEIR OWN LOGIC will make you feel YAAAAS #resistance[heart eyes]. Please resolve promptly.
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Tangentially Sorkin-related https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/1101504111680372736
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Echo Chamber posted:Tangentially Sorkin-related can verify that rich white winemom libs are creamin jeans over this show so naturally it will destroy and consume any other iteration of it why loving bring that poo poo to the stage at all I mean ok I guess but... do a new thing, maybe?
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Gunshow Poophole posted:do a new thing, maybe? Sir, this is America, not some sort of leftist utopia where people come up with new ideas. I mean, we're talking about a guy who's most genius idea was to re-litigate news stories from a few years ago. I'm sitting at my desk looking over the movies coming out from now through the end of summer and more than 2/3rds of them are sequels and/or remakes. Probably there are more that I'm just not recognizing. It's very depressing when people complain to me about there being so few original films as if I should call up Hollywood and tell them to knock it off.
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is it that time already? yes indeedy! It's time to consider... AFRICA NAAAAANS NGONYAMAAAAAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsINANZ6Riw
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big mood right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNisipxnp58
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My guess is that oil was found in that African cuntry and some corporation bankrolled the rebels.
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MonsieurChoc posted:My guess is that oil was found in that African cuntry and some corporation bankrolled the rebels. Oh for sure. I 'love' the way Bartlet lectures them all about the situation as if he's dealt with this sort of thing a hundred times and it's just the sort of thing that happens in those sort of countries; of course with no relation to his lovely policies and the lovely policies of all the presidents before him.
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well yeah what else are you gonna do if you're Germany late-game in rocky terrain those stacks of doom don't maneuver themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A
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MonsieurChoc posted:My guess is that oil was found in that African cuntry and some corporation bankrolled the rebels. Sure, but even just narratively it would have been nice for this to get a little setup before the payoff. An aide coming in with a note and whispering in his ear, then he looks nervous and says to the pharma dudes "sorry, I just heard word that rebel activities are increasing, please continue with your discussion of how we can't save my people because you're not making enough money" For those of you who don't watch the episode before listening (and gently caress, I can't blame you at all, that's why we do our best to summarize everything important) I can't stress enough how OUT OF NOWHERE the final twist comes of "oops, your country is in chaos, because, ya know, AFRICA" like it's not only white_boomer_view_of_africa.mp4 it's just awful writing for a television episode, it's basically a deus ex machina. Acinonyx posted:Oh for sure. I 'love' the way Bartlet lectures them all about the situation as if he's dealt with this sort of thing a hundred times and it's just the sort of thing that happens in those sort of countries; of course with no relation to his lovely policies and the lovely policies of all the presidents before him. Bartlet as paternalistic all knowing God-Dad-President is going to be a big theme of this season, culminating with Two Cathedrals where he swears at God in unsubtitled Latin
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