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I’m not sure why that’s being seen as some ridiculous exaggeration. I even read an article after his win about how he briefly quit the industry at some point. It may not seem to you that his career had stalled, but he had a string of flops at one point and was not getting the kind of roles you’d expect an Oscar winner to get. After Predators flopped his career was basically kept afloat by supporting roles in Wes Anderson movies, tv appearances, or movies straight to DVD/streaming.

You really don't see the contradiction, do you? You want to claim that the Democrats are playing monkey see, monkey do by copying Republicans' hateful behavior. According to you, that makes the Democrats immature, like junior high schoolers. And, yet, you want to turn around and act like you had no choice but to show an astounding lack of empathy because those mean, mean Democrats were so mean to you. Wouldn't that make you just as immature as you're accusing the Democrats of being? While I don't agree with your characterization of the Democrats, I would take in a heartbeat the junior high behavior over the heartless sociopathy of the current Republican party. But your post doesn't make sense. You didn't have to wait 12 years because Obama and Biden's presidencies weren't back-to-back. First of all, Congress doesn't vote on executive orders. The president just does those. Secondly, I already know the answer to this, but were you this incensed about decorum when years ago, someone shouted, "You lie" at Obama at a joint address to Congress? Have you said anything about Margorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert or any of the other MAGA idiots' embarrassing displays during Biden's tenure? Were you also aghast and upset at Republicans who refused to stand up or cheer for the Capitol police who saved their lives? If the answer to those is no, it makes any so-called righteous fury you display seem hollow. You're right. Appearing on TikTok is soooo embarrassing. They should save their embarrassing antics for when they're performing sex acts in front of children at public events like Lauren Boebert Or they should save it for being drunk on the job like Pete Hegseth. Or having DUIs like Mike Johnson's chief of staff. Marjorie Taylor Greene's whole existence is one giant spectacle. You don't have the inclination because you know you have no proof that any of the heinous acts listed about the FIC are false. Democrats are not without faults, and they make mistakes. That is true. But there will be no meeting in the middle because Democrats are not the side who want to treat immigrants like they're animals. Democrats are not the ones trying to erase transgender people from existence. Democrats do not champion their criminal leaders in power and put them on a pedestal. Democrats did not look the other way and elected someone convicted of 34 felonies. Democrats have not supported someone who wants to turn his back on the Constitution. Democrats have not turned a blind eye or enthusiastically supported a bunch of cabinet appointments for people who have no qualifications and have no business leading some of the most important departments in the country. Democrats are not supporting a sociopath who is an adjudicated rapist. Democrats are not supporting an egotistical narcissist who is threatening to take over and invade multiple countries. I'm not meeting in the middle with a party who is okay with all of that and more.

I guess the one instance of a close right race - recently - not being determined by the more popular film is Brendan Fraser winning over Austin Butler. The Whale did win more Oscars than the zero Elvis got, but Elvis was nominated for Best Picture, and The Whale wasn't. I agree that Timmy didn't deserve to win (I'm honestly not sure he deserved the nomination), but I assume he came in second because he's the only actor who beat Brody at one of the major precursors. Even before the movie came out, people acted like Timmy was a lock for the nomination. Once it debuted, most of the pundits I watched declared it was a two-person race between TC and Brody. It helped that ACU was inexplicably being showered with nominations from all the major guilds.

It feels like a coincidence rather than it being a path to Oscar. I remember seeing a lot of pundits wondering if the nude/sex scenes would hurt ES and MM. Obviously it didn’t, but it was a concern. Thinking of the last few Best Actress winners before ES, I don’t think there was a lot of nudity - not for Michelle Yeoh or Frances McDormand or Renee Zellwegger.

I caught the show late because I had some nominated films to catch up on. Today, I saw Sing Sing and Wicked. I missed I'm Still Here but caught all the other BP nominees. Many dislike Emilia Pèrez, but my least favorite was A Complete Unknown. I'm baffled by why awards shows and so many guilds went so ga-ga over it. I'm especially puzzled that James Mangold received nominations for best screenplay and director. After watching Nickel Boys this weekend, I would have easily swapped Monica Barbaro for Aunjanue Ellis. My main hopes for the night were that Kieran Culkin would win and that anyone but Timothée Chalamet would take Best Actor. Only one of those was a sure thing. After seeing Sing Sing yesterday, another mystery for me was why the Best Actor race was seen as a two-man showdown between Adrien Brody and Chalamet. It should have been between Brody and Colman Domingo if it were a two-man race. For me, it's a toss-up over who was better. I wouldn't have been upset if Domingo had been a surprise winner. But I think Brody is more than deserving, and I was happy he won. Would I have preferred a shorter speech? Sure. But it didn't bother me. His speech could have been double the length as long as I didn't have to see Chalamet's yellow monstrosity or hear him thank his reality show PDA partner. I'm really hoping his SAG win wasn't enough fuel for him to think that his aggressive campaign is the way to go in the future. Also, please, for the love of God, shave that mustache off now.

I don't think the nudity/sex scenes had anything to do with their wins. It feels like you're assuming the majority of Academy voters are just horny men. Emma Stone already had one Oscar (which I didn't think she deserved) for a role with no nudity whatsoever. I believe that the sex scenes in Poor Things and Anora could have been scaled way back, but there is more to both movies (and those performances) than just sex. It's hard to judge a film and call it porn when all you've seen is clips. There's nudity and multiple sex scenes, but Anora is not porn.

I like the acting tributes, but I do prefer clips. I wonder if this is a change in reaction to the Karla Sofia Gascon controversy. I remember seeing an article that mentioned they were doing the acting tributes again. A few people I watch on YouTube joked about who would get the short straw honoring KSG. They might have just decided to skip the awkwardness and do clips instead.

I’ve followed Timmy for years, and have always liked him, but I have to agree. I’ve found him increasingly annoying during this whole press tour/award campaign for ACU. His thirst for the Oscar I think would make even Bradley Cooper and Leonardo DiCaprio cringe. I know it was a comedy bit, but his complaining in his SNL monologue about losing awards was off-putting to me. This speech was even worse. If Oscar voting was still going on, I do wonder how that speech would have played to many voters - if it wouldn’t have overshadowed the win. And, why did he look so annoyed at the end of the night? At the end of Ralph Fiennes’ speech, they showed a shot of the ACU cast and Timmy looked liked he was so over it. I know the ACU cast lost the ensemble award, but the rest of them didn’t look so dejected. If I hadn’t known he won best leading actor, I would have thought he had lost. I am praying anyone but him wins at the Oscars because if he becomes the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner, his arrogance might go off the charts.

See, there you go again, not willing to acknowledge reality. There are not my facts and your facts. Facts are just facts. It's really sad to me - and bewildering - that your side has somehow forgotten that or wants to pretend alternative facts are an actual thing. I'm not putting words in your mouth or nitpicking. I'm taking your words exactly as you present them. I'm "busting your ovaries" over you wanting to gaslight us by pretending that your blatant defense of the FIC and Musk is not exactly what it is. Don't tell me that you're not doing something when I can see for myself that you are. I'm not harassing you; no one is forcing you to post here. If you don't want to engage in a debate or defend your positions, then don't. You gave me your odd definition of dignity, and I gave you my thoughts and feelings. I think it's sad that you can't acknowledge that other human beings deserve dignity simply because you don't like how they got here. That was part of the conversation. You continue to act like you care about respecting laws when you don't seem to care about the laws that the felon in the White House has been broken and convicted of. 75 million people didn't care, which is an enraging and depressing moment in the country's history. But those 75 million people aren't here talking about how wrong it is to break laws while defending a convicted felon.

So you won't acknowledge facts if you don't believe them? No, I don't know that as well as you do. You're not being pounced on. People are countering your posts with facts and calling out some of the things you say. It has nothing to do with you acknowledging the reality of what you're doing by using the word "defend." Word usage is important since words have meaning. Dignity means treating human beings like they're human beings, not like subhuman garbage. It's about providing these people with water and food instead of denying that to them. It's not denying them the rights they have by shipping them to a prison or using them as slave labor. And, once again, the cognitive dissonance of you complaining about breaking laws being disrespectful while you constantly defend the FIC and his merry band of lawbreakers. It honestly boggles my mind that the only thing you seem to care about is the money - when you don't care about the wasteful spending by people like 45 - and can't even admit that immigrants - those who are here legally or otherwise - deserve to be treated with dignity.

This isn't about making me feel better. It's about whether you're willing to acknowledge facts or not. For some reason, you don't want to admit you're defending these people even though the facts and literal definition say otherwise. Yes, the guy you keep defending is treating ALL immigrants like they're animals. He doesn't differentiate in any of his speeches. He acts like all immigrants are gum on the bottom of his shoe. And why should non-compliant immigrants be treated like animals? Even if you think they came here the wrong way, why should that mean they aren't treated with dignity? Why would I want to look up Fox "News" articles about anything? Fox is home to "journalists" who say one thing on the air and another behind closed doors. The network has had to pay millions because of the lies they've told on air. LOL. Was that image supposed to be related to violent protests or the looting that you brought up? Because it wasn't. The caption shows exactly what it was about. It was about a lawful, peaceful gathering of people protesting Musk and his band of stooges getting their hands on all of our private information. I'm much more concerned about that than the so-called misuse of funds at USAID.

We aren't taking in thousands on a daily or weekly basis. Oh, please, yourself. Many are fleeing poverty and war-torn nations. Don't trivialize it because you have no compassion for these people. If immigration has been down, and I'm certainly not taking your word for it, it might have something to do with our current sociopath leader dehumanizing immigrants and sending them to Guantanamo. No, absolutely not. We do not agree to disagree with the definition of words and facts. One of the definitions of "defend" - speak or write in favor of (an action or person); attempt to justify. This is exactly what you do every time you justify why it's okay for the FIC to commit copious crimes or to treat immigrants like they're animals. I only listed some examples of what some government workers do. The people who work from who can do so because their work can easily be done from home. We do not pay for people to go into offices. It's about the work being done. If they can do that from home, why does that bother you so much? What you said is an assumption. It is not a fact - unless you've done or read some legitimate research showing that people working from home are watching Netflix all day. It would be nice not to see memes and actual articles. If you can pull up non-Fox, Newsmax, or some other Conservative "news" articles. Pull up articles that aren't from years ago during legitimate protests where some violence broke out in a few places. If you posted something funny, I might actually laugh. And, yeah, forgive so many of us that we don't find a lawless sociopath trying to remake the government in his image and putting our lives at risk a barrel of laughs. Meme or letter, it was offensive garbage, either way. I think you asked for it to be removed or deleted it yourself, but I would love to post it again to show exactly the kind of things that you thought were funny. You are not a victim here. First of all, I'm not a mod, so I can't tell you what to post or not to post. Secondly, that's not what I said. What I said is if you're going to post a meme, then stand by it instead of doing what you do. Which is as soon as you get any pushback, you throw up your hands and say, "Well, I didn't write it." That's not the point. If you're not posting memes representing views you're willing to stand by, why are you posting them? You can continue posting memes, but when you get called out on the content, saying, "I didn't write it," isn't a defense.

First of all, he has not gotten to the bottom of any fraud. That's just a fantasy. Secondly, "the left" was "crying foul" long before he was elected because we knew he'd do exactly what he was doing - which is not finding fraud but gutting important work that we're doing overseas, putting all of our lives in danger with his firing of important people working on cures for diseases, controlling air traffic, etc. And he's doing much of it illegally in defiance of the Constitution. But, please, tell me again how law & order is so important to you. Right after the election, you posted a really gross letter basically gloating about the FIC's election win and how much conservatives were looking forward to getting back at liberals. When you were called out on it, suddenly, you announced that it was just a letter you found somewhere else and posted here. But why bring it over here in the first place if it didn't represent your views? It's the same thing with these memes. It doesn't matter that you didn't make the memes. You brought them over here because they represent your views. Otherwise, why post them here in the first place? You have control over what you post. Don't post them if you don't want people to think the memes you post represent your viewpoint.

We are not taking in entire countries. Please, get serious. This is a nation of immigrants, so we've managed to help people long before either of us was born. It would be great to see people like you as concerned with billionaires not paying their fair share and how the poor continue to get screwed when these idiots get tax cuts as you are with the cost of helping people fleeing certain death. Please look up the word "defending" because you don't realize what it means. Every time you stick up for one of the FIC's deplorable policies or Musk's idiotic BS, you are defending them, and you are defending their actions. What negotiations are you talking about? All politicians lie, but they don't all lie about the same thing, and they certainly don't lie as easily as they breathe like 45. The sooner you are willing to admit this and deal with that reality, the better it will be for everyone who continues to be screwed over by the idiot you are constantly defending. They don't have one accomplishment to list? Seriously, who do you think are the people who keep parks running and do research on diseases and all the other important jobs these idiots at DOGE keep questioning? For someone who gets offended when people make assumptions about them, you sure are making a lot about the people working from home. Not everyone who worked from home did go back to work because it wasn't necessary for them to do that and do their job. Working from home does not mean people do nothing but watch Netflix all day. That's such a simplistic way of looking at things. Biden did not run a lawless country. That's not backed up by any evidence. There was no looting countrywide. But it's not surprising that, yet again, you can't actually deal with the topic that you're quoting. Do not pretend to care about law & order when you once again are defending someone who commits crimes, ignores the law at every turn, and pardoned a bunch of people who wanted to kill the vice president. Two nonsensical memes back-to-back. Impressive. It's on brand that you think that the only way to defend the FIC from Hitler comparisons is to go, "See, he hasn't killed an entire race yet." He never lowered our taxes, and he's done a hell of a lot more than hurt people's feelings. Sexual assault is just one of his litany of crimes, dehumanizing so many groups of people and killing people with his disastrous handling of a pandemic. I could go on, but of course, you'd ignore all that because Biden pardoned his son, and that's the biggest crime of all. What exactly are the Democrats getting exposed for? Do you have anything to back up that claim that's not Elon Musk's Twitter feed?

No. They have not been transparent with all of their findings. And they have already been caught in lies about some of their BS claims. Innocent until proven guilty is for the courts, not for us looking at the information we can see and calling a spade a spade. A background check can’t catch everything. Psychos come from all walks all of life. Even someone who came here legally can commit a crime. It doesn’t mean we paint all immigrants as violent animals. First of all, why is “daddy” in quotes? Biden’s pardons don’t bother me because I understand why they happened. The crimes that Hunter Biden was charged with most likely wouldn’t have resulted in jail time. He had a plea bargain, but conservatives couldn’t let it go. They continued to try and use him to hurt his “daddy.” When you have a sociopath elected to the Oval Office, who has a hit list with your family’s name on it, yeah, you pardon them. It has nothing to do with them being guilty of anything. The FIC and conservatives don’t care about that. They wanted to go after them no matter what. Exactly. I can only form an opinion based on the things you post. And based on what you post, you seem to only SELECTIVELY care about law & order, which is why you continually dismiss the crimes 45 was found guilty of and charged with. It’s why you continually ignore - including just now - the laundry list of the FIC and conservative’s crimes. And, I’m sorry, but you can say until you’re blue in the face that you’re not defending anyone’s actions but your posts clearly show otherwise. I don’t care about 60 Minutes editing an interview because they do that with ALL interviews - including that idiot felon’s interviews. It’s not quite on par with the defamation and lies that Fox, Newsmax, and other conservative “news” organizations have spread. I don’t trust many in the mainstream media anymore, but there are still plenty of trusted sources and Elon Musk’s Twitter feed isn’t one of them.