For some reason I did not know until just now that treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin was executive producer of Batman vs. Superman. I thought these guys were anti-abortion?

I think he divested but Mnuchin was also, at least at one time, the producer of that new King Arthur movie that just bombed hard and is going to force WB take a ~150 million dollar write-down.

Oh come on Sklansky you are cool to us you don't have to subtly drop your "girlfriend" into the conversation.

Appropriately, Mnuchin was executive producer of Our Brand is Crisis.

Go on.

wow 39 producer credits

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6518391/

ahahah

Didn't realize Sharkey was still kicking around on the internet. He used to be part of the old Retronauts crew for those into classic/retro video game/arcade podcasts.

I was hoping that would be good. I'm a bit of a Guy Ritchie slappy. But it's really not.

When do we get a Homeland season based off of Trump?

Seems like it was brewed in the Vat of Bad Hollywood Ideas.

Guy 1: Game of Thrones is hot hot hot right now! Medieval fantasy baby, this is what the public wants! Can we make a movie with medieval fantasy tropes like Game of Thrones?
Guy 2: but we don't own the IP to GoT?
Guy 1: aw ****! We're skunked. What do we do?
Guy 2: we could tell an original story?
Guy 1: lololololololol
::Guy 2 hauled out of the room by security::
Guy 3: well, can we mine the public domain for classic characters and stories the public is already familiar with?
Guy 1: it's working for Disney!
Guy 3: It's cheap too!
Guy 1: King Arthur?
Everyone: yay! Greenlight this bad boy, $250 mil budget, set up the whole franchise, maybe set up a whole medieval story shared universe with Merlin the Magician and He-Man. Game of Thrones meets Disneyified cultural sanitation, can't go wrong, we're done here, let us know when we're all billionaires

If only it was the Guilfoyle from Silicon Valley, now THAT would lead to some hilarious press conferences.

o snap

I'm stealing that.

very nice

That was upon her request. She says I sometimes steal her ideas.

The arguments against him doing that are too esoteric to persuade most people

These guys are so shameless.

FBI director: deserves an apolitical professional that will open up a big federal judgeship with a lifetime appointment
SCOTUS: the birthright possession of the Republican Party

The amazing thing is they seemed to think Garland was stupid enough to fall for it. They spend so much time living in their own stupidverse they forget there is a real world out there.

nah it's just freerolling + see we did something nice for democrats

But seriously David, the laptop thing was already public information due to America banning laptops on planes from the middle east

Obviously there was a bit more revealed, as evidenced that intel folks went ape**** and WaPo reported they were told to keep parts out of the story, but not told to keep the word "laptop" out of the story


I know, it's too esoteric. I don't even disagree. Low info, low intelligence people who have been conned are just going to use it to reinforce Trumpgoat is being smeared by desperate liberal haters. We need simple messaging. And more of it about how they're taking directly from the 99% to siphon into the 0.01%

Confirmed these senators are now going to... be very TROUBLED.

It's an effective semi-bluff.

Outcome 1) Garland stupidly takes the position and gives the Republicans what they want

Outcome 2) he doesn't take it, but makes the Republicans seem like magnanimous bi-partisans since their ploy requires a modicum of civic knowledge to understand and that's only possessed by like some small percentage of the population that has already factored in the GOP's utter and shameless self-interest and scam artistry. Tons of professional, elected Democrats were saying this was a good idea! What chance does the media or normal people have of seeing the ruse?

Now the GOP gets to appoint whichever Trump partisan bootlicking clown they want; they gave the Democrats a chance to get their guy in there, too bad they didn't accept the GOP's generosity and outreach

Like selling citizenship with the proceeds going directly and entirely to Trumpco

How did that not dominate everything? We were afraid the xenophobes were going to call us xenophobic?

Interesting Legal Analysis of Trump's Intelligence Disclosure

This may be slow pony, but a "Lawfare" blog has posted a longish (but very informative) analysis of the facts (and fallacies) surrounding Trump's disclosure of "code word" intelligence.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/bombshel...changing-story