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I just laughed to myself at a bar. Thank you.
michael would have loved this
The fact that he watched this on PBS while he's trying to defund PBS is just 
I imagine someone at PBS like "Put on fucking Dirty Harry or something manly or whatever and maybe they won't cut us as much"
I love the thought that they just sit him down to watch a movie when they want him out of the way then he comes out like "i saw this movie and...."
it was PBS. I bet you ANYTHING some aide put on PBS to demonstrate the wasteful wokeness they're defunding and trump was entranced by clint
I think he's just old and watches PBS like old people do because modern media confuses him.
quick someone put on a documentary about communism on PBS, maybe we can achieve world socialism that way
They could play star wars and his takeaway would be to build the death star
Unlimited power, unlimited lasers, scary little British guys running around - and they still lose to a farm boy with a bowl cut and a dog. If I was running the Empire? Over in ten minutes. No Death Star explosions, no rebels flying into tiny holes - we seal the holes, okay? You get a guy, he seals it. Not hard. I know holes.
And Darth Vader - lot of people say I’m like Vader. Big presence. Deep voice. Very strong breathing. Incredible cape. We used to do capes in this country. We’re bringing them back. Space Force wears them first. Long black capes, red trim. You see that coming across the moon? You surrender. Immediately. We tested it at Mar-a-Lago - the waiters looked fantastic, folks.
Well that answers the question of "is this a cynical grift or just earnest stupidity?" I posed in the other thread.
Trump on the phone with the private prison company reopening the island "make the walls big, and high, very high, so Clint Eastwood can't escape." 
"I'm going to re-open this prison after watching a movie about three guys escaping said prison"
-A true brain-genius
What's the funniest thing PBS could air after this revelation?
A documentary about Mansa Abubakri, a 14th century Malian king said to have sailed west convinced there were lands there to discover; but who never returned. Immediately followed by Star Trek. With some luck it might convince him to leave earth.
Oh yeah this story is incredible. There is evidence that these expeditions made it to north America. iirc the word for spear in Taino is the same as the word was in Mali at the time, and there were spearheads found in Taino territory that had the same unique blend of three different metals that were used in Mali at the time. So the theory is that these Malian explorers made it to north America, traded with locals and eventually integrated into communities in North America long before colonizers showed up
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Haitian revolution documentary
French Revolution docu or Le Mis would be pretty funny.
Les Mie revolution is crushed by the state tho. Don't want to give him any more ideas.
I feel like it has to be some slop that caters to reactionary impulses still, but has a message he'd get obsessed with.
Maybe On Deadly Ground? Although that might just turn him eco-fascist instead of fascist.
Hellworld timeline also has funni moments thrown in here and there for your enjoyment.
Close enough, ~~welcome back~~ go back to hell Ronald Reagan
~~What does Ronald Reagan have to do with this?~~
Did some research, for those who don't know reagan tried to shove a bunch of cubans in there at one point
Reagan became very worried about glitches in the nuclear warning system after watching WarGames. He developed the SDI program, which was often nicknamed Star Wars.
Just saw your edit, that wasn't even the reference I was making, there's just a lot of layers and parallels between the two lmao
Reagan’s slogan was “Let’s Make America Great Again” at one point.
Which he stole from Thatcher, who came up with "Make Britain Great Again" because the pun actually works on Britain / Great Britain
A poster here literally fuckin called it. We live in the movie presidency
Did he watch that terrible end of the world movie Greenland before the who Greenland idea?
Greenland is so bad but its a nice guilty pleasure. It does not convey the actual panic and shit show that would ensue in that situation. The soldiers are just like "oh well the world is ending... lets help all the rich people escape and totally function better than we do in much less critical situations". Gerard Butler also causes a cargo plane of (rich) people to blow up. Its so bad but its so ridiculous in the way a disaster slop movie should be.
I tried to rewatch it with my partner the other night (hence why it was on my mind) and unfortunately the cargo plane that blows up is mostly full of desperate people. Gerard Butler tells all the 'selected' people to get off because he sees the fuel leaking and knows it's dangerous. They run off it and a bunch of desperate, zombie-coded masses run on before the gunfire ignites everything.
(yes I am wearing my 'genius at work' tee shirt, why do you ask?)
I don't mind the ridiculousness - I'm kind of an OG Roland Emmerich disaster movie defender - but I just found it very dull the second time around. We eventually gave up and rewatchrd Contagion instead which still more than holds up, even though it probably wasn't the best thing to watch when I have the flu.
Nah the US foreign policy ghouls have been going on about Greenland for quite some time.
I fucking knew it lmao
He watches PBS?
lmao
It'll certainly make the tours more adventurous
*Trump watches THX-1138* EXECUTIVE ORDER: SEX IS NOW ILLEGAL
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