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The Popcorn Reel (http://popcornreel.com), attorney, athlete, film critic, writer, thinker, singer, podcaster, photographer, politics, sports fan, movie man, music man. San Francisco. London.🇬🇧 Medium(🎞): http://bit.ly/3SZIcED Newsletter: http://politicrat.substack.com Shop🛍: http://the-politicrat.myshopify.com Spoutible: http://spoutible.com/popcornreel TÁR Talk Film🎙: https://bit.ly/3QXRkcF THE POLITICRAT daily🎙: http://bit.ly/3XT81ZV Post: @ popcornreel. Fanbase: @ popcornreel. Twitter: @ thepopcornreel.

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REPEAT: To the @DNC @JoeBiden @BidenHQ—DO NOT ONLY make this about ONE MAN. You must ALSO make this about THE WHOLE REPUBLICAN PARTY and their AUTHORITARIANISM. The Supreme Court, these GOP state legislatures—ALL OF IT. I know you are institutionalists but the GOP MUST GO!

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As I’ve said before: @JoeBiden and @DNC must run against the ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY, not only Orange Thug. It is not only one person in GOP-controlled state legislatures who is doing damage to people in those states and courts—it’s an entire Republican Party in those places.

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FDR and President Truman often gave speeches against the entire Republican Party and its establishment. They made no bones about who caused damage to people across America. They didn’t limit their speeches to one opponent. They attacked the ENTIRE Republican Party for its evils.

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I get it—@JoeBiden is an institutionalist. But when you have an ENTIRE political party destroying US institutions you cannot afford to limit your attacks to just one person. Orange Thug is a SYMPTOM, not the CAUSE. The Republican Party has done damage to the US for 50 YEARS.

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You must emphasize that Orange Thug is the “logical” culmination of the last 50 YEARS of Republican Party policy and harms to the country. That’s the overview you must campaign on, @JoeBiden and @DNC, @BidenHQ!

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It is important to talk about democracy versus dictatorship—yes. But you must educate voters on how the Republicans AT LARGE are doing damage. I wouldn’t even say “MAGA Republicans”—almost all Republicans are cruel. Point out how GOP Congress passed 27 bills in 2023.

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You have to run a state-by-state race, @JoeBiden. By that I mean you must connect the dots for voters to all the damage REPUBLICANS AT LARGE are doing RIGHT NOW in many states. Make country-wide GOP harms a theme in every state you campaign in. Connect these dots—educate voters.

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Educating voters on what Republicans are doing to the U.S. at large will also help with down ballot races (state, local, federal)—which benefits you, @JoeBiden, because you need Democrats controlling all branches of Federal government!

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My overarching point is—that the @DNC, @JoeBiden , @BidenHQ must stop playing checkers and start playing CHESS. Look at and play THE LONG GAME strategy-wise. Democrats must do this. One thing Republicans do well (apart from fucking up the country) is play the long game strategy.

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It is all well and good that @BidenHQ is running clips about Orange Thug’s gaffes and heinous behavior etc. Good enough. But you MUST also HAMMER HOME DAILY to “passive” voters or otherwise “casual” observers YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Many people HAVE NO IDEA.

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Biden-Harris Accomplishments So Far:

https://tinyurl.com/mpubhvz2

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PREDICTION: Orange Thug will be convicted, and on most if not all of the counts against him.

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Diddy. This is heinous. Reprehensible. ADVISORY: Video contains graphic violence committed by Diddy against a woman. https://tinyurl.com/s3r4k8mv

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Ultimately white American voters at large must decide if they want democracy or dictatorship. White people make up 64 percent of U.S. populace. In 2 straight U.S. general elections a MAJORITY of white voters voted for authoritarian Orange Thug. How will white voters in the U.S. vote in November?

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What the fuck have Americans got to “make up their minds” about?
It’s democracy or dictatorship.
CHOOSE ONE.
It’s not that hard…. SMH
https://vote.org

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So how in the hell are Republicans supposedly better at handling the economy? IT’S A LIE. They AREN’T.

Here is the link to the full 2021 story by the Independent: https://tinyurl.com/4u7re25m

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How refreshing it would be for news networks to actually have in-depth, intelligent and sensitive conversations about misogynistic societies, sexual assault, rape and all other violence against any woman and a man’s role and responsibilities to be better—instead of trivializing...

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Re: Stormy Daniels—Yes, there was “slut shaming” (a term I despise—in part because the implication is that SD or ANY woman similarly situated is a slut, which is insulting enough)—AND I think what happened in court goes far, far deeper. Goes to patriarchy, values and systems.

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Age (western cultures, especially US, UK are ageist) played a role in Orange Thug’s (OT) trial this week. Or it may be a generational(?): An older woman on TV (Carol Leonnig) opined on “how painful” it was for OT to hear (younger) Stormy testify (what I think was rape) w/o reply.

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I doubt that if a 20 or 30-something woman was a TV pundit you’d ever hear them say “how painful” it was for 77-yr old Orange Thug to have to hear 30-something Stormy Daniels testify about what to me was absolutely rape. You’d never hear that from a 30yr old woman not on Fox…

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Age played a different role in the courtroom—you had veteran attorney Susan Necheles essentially as the patriarchal battering ram against a younger Stormy Daniels. Class issues came in, but my focus is age and GENDER. A 1950s attack on women, whether via pundits, lawyers or LAWS.

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There was a day where you had some women (usually but not always older and sometimes monied) defend male violence (because that is what this is: MALE VIOLENCE) either by voting for it by proxy (see Orange T) or by dismissing ANY violated woman who fought back in court as a “slut”

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Susan Necheles cross x of Stormy Daniels (SD by all accounts made SN look a pittance) reminded me of when Republican senators got older white female attorney to q Dr Christine Blasey Ford in 2018 (re Kavanaugh). Illusion of “go easy”—when all it did was emphasize patriarchy more!

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Bottom line is that the conversations must be far more fulsome, in-depth. They deliberately aren’t. The language that many of us, male or female (whether on TV or not) are using (and I definitely always include myself in this) is often sloppy, harmful, malicious and ill-advised.

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For all the time pundits and news folks spend in this opinion journalism world of news talking about Orange Thug—news programs would do well to actually talk seriously about the ISSUES of violence against women. And of MEN needing to be FAR BETTER. Much work and education needed.

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One of the other most problematic aspects is when violence against women (rape and other violence) is discussed at all it is done within a very narrow framework, and in between commercials on TV if at all. The conversations do not usually include SURVIVORS (as far as is known)

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Whether it’s Halle Berry assaulted by Adrien Brody live at the Oscars in 2003 or Jimmy Savile doing likewise to a woman on “Top Of The Pops” or Orange Thug “taking advantage” (aka RAPE) of Stormy Daniels—how these horrors are discussed is a disgrace and disservice to ALL of us.

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…And to think that 53 percent of white women voters voted for him in 2016

…and…knowing what they knew of that Orange Thug after four year where he polluted the White House, 55 percent of white women voters voted for him in 2020…

https://bit.ly/43QQHH4

Tells you everythjng

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I still believe that Orange Thug raped Stormy Daniels. She has said it was consensual. When you are talking about a room spinning, that you didn’t want to be there, that you felt faint, that he kept making advances, that she blacked out…come on now. You know WHAT THAT IS

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NYPD cop fired his gun inside Hamilton Hall while clearing student pro-Palestinian protesters out at Columbia University. https://tinyurl.com/yc69pz3p

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Some of those talking about the issue of antisemitism now were strangely silent when WHITE PEOPLE marched and FOUGHT on a COLLEGE CAMPUS (Univ of Virginia) in Charlottesville in 2017 shouting “Jews will not replace us”. Where were police then? Where was Mike Johnson on the UV campus calling for an end to anti-Semisitism?

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Don’t you dare say that voting doesn’t matter. In late 2022 in a recount Kris Mayes (who announced indictments of Rudy Giuliani and co today) won her election race for atty general by 280 VOTES.

VOTING MATTERS. Everywhere. In every type of election. State. Local. Federal. https://tinyurl.com/3muy3eze

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To understand what is really going on in the USA you must know what is going on in the states.

ESPECIALLY in the state legislatures. That…is where it’s at.

And….YOUR vote on every level (state, local, federal) is where it is at.

Check your voter registration and spread the word. https://vote.org

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Netanyahu wants to drag the U.S. into a larger scale war.

Netanyahu (already indicted) wants to stay out of prison.

Such evil—Netanyahu is willing to commit war crimes and escalate regional conflict to stay out of prison.

IN CHAOS, PEOPLE STEAL (AND ESCAPE).

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I don’t see any peace activists being invited on as regular pundits (or infrequent pundits) on CNN, MSNBC, (Fox—forget it) or anywhere else. Not an accident. Also no accident: retired military as pundits on same media. Military industrial complex represented.

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If an African nation had missiles launched against it by an adversarial country outside the African continent do you think the corporate news media here in the U.S. would be covering it in any extensive or really appreciable way at all?

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April 4, 1968. The front page of the Black newspaper The Chicago Defender. As shared by Roland Martin.

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Alabama’s gotten me
So upset
Tennessee made me
Lose my rest
And everybody
Knows about
Mississippi Goddam

—Nina Simone, “Mississippi Goddam”

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Who is the music artist or group who appears most often in your record/CD/streaming collection?

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Since the 1960s I cannot think of another solo artist who had five consecutive excellent albums.

I can think only of Stevie Wonder—a true genius and Afrocentric humanist.

1972–Music Of My Mind
1972-Talking Book
1973-Innervisions
1974-Fufillingness’ First Finale
1976-Songs In The Key Of Life

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@JoBlakely Back then those songs and albums stuck to me like glue. And they still do to this day, even more so. Stevie was phenomenal in that era. And as you said, the music was so meaningful. And despite having a vast music collection I still end up playing the Seventies Stevie Era more often than most (except jazz).

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BREAKING: UN Security Council approves in a 14-0 vote, a new resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza. US abstains in the vote.

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This was the only way that President Biden could have delivered this speech tonight. He wasn't kind or deferential. He was spirited, combative, hopeful and unwavering. Ever the optimist. I think the man does care. He must keep pushing for that ceasefire. 100.

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And now, for a series of seemingly unrelated posts (maybe four of them) to follow.

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When games get played in politics, media and daily life, does the average person recognize the play? More importantly—what is the average person’s proactive strategy or approach on how they will navigate/engage this cold-ass world, and, how savvy will they be politically?

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A portion of the population (of any place) is distracted—and this is aside from the daily challenges and stresses of life. Some of us do not know, or don’t care to want to know, about the role of civics and politics in daily life. Some of those folk literally drive while texting.

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We have a culture that says voting is not sexy but reposts, likes and trainwreck adulation are.

To put it somewhat cryptically: What is the focus? Our focus? And whose focus? What is an average person’s daily focus? Family? Changing the world? “Surviving”? Thriving? Educating?

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REMEMBER: As repugnant as Orange Criminal is, he’s the shiny object/distraction. It is the people behind (or in front of) the scenes—the Steve Bannons, Stephen Millers etc—who are truly dangerous. These are the people strategizing for camps, martial law, deportations etc. WAKE UP

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