Matt the Bruins

Trump: Constitution should be terminated due to "massive" election fraud
 
It's out in the open now. Who he really is, what he wants, what all of his supporters are actually working towards.
 
Every Democrat legislator and candidate has to publicly hammer this home, until Trump and MAGA are buried.

I hate the term "Both sides" but I'm rather pissed at the Democratic Party (or at least Biden) right now because of their treatment of the potential rail strikers. The GQP? I expected it from.
 
 

Sometimes being blindsided....really isn't all that bad.
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/29/senate-same-sex-marriage-protections-00071141

America needs a lot more convictions like this.

MAGA cultists have demonstrated a nearly limitless capacity to deny reality. Nearly.

Getting away from the perpetual dumpster fire that is American politics, the November 19, 2022 issue of The Economist has a rather interesting article on what's happening in Indonesia -- as it says, the most important country in the world that one hardly ever hears about. But it's the fourth-most populous country in the world, very large geographically, with large stocks of resources that will become terribly important in coming decades. Its politics are also getting on a more democratic footing while staying out of current superpower rivalries. All in all, a healthy reminder that the rest of the world still exists even when the West isn't looking at it.
 
Dean Shomshak

That's a hell of a breath weapon!
 
 

Then they ought to either make it their strong suit, or stop using it as a talking point to deflect from how they simply block anything the Democrats try to pass, whatever its merits.
 
[Sigh] That may have come out too harsh, and if so I apologize to you, Tom. But I get frustrated by arguments that sound like they're characterizing the Democrats and the Republicans as two sides of the same coin. They aren't, at all, and their own words and actions demonstrate that. This isn't about liberalism versus conservatism -- that's a legitimate political discourse, with valid arguments on both sides. But in Congress it stopped being about that years ago. This is about democracy versus fascism, and the GOP are trying to shroud that reality in smoke and mirrors.
 
[Deep breath] Apologies again. I guess that rant was building for a while.

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Golden/Silver Age Dr. Fate had flight/super-strength/limited invulnerability even without using the helmet's active mystical powers, but I never had the impression that they were near the level of Black Adam or Sabbac. I distinctly recall him being put in the hospital by a villain collapsing a brownstone on him in the 1970s. In that respect the movie was pretty faithful to the source material.
 
Of course, through the Helm of Nabu he also had command of magical/cosmic forces that have been both called out on panel and demonstrated to be greater than Darkseid's. The character's only real weakness was that they go away if you can yank his helmet off. I can see why the movie went for somewhat nerfing him to make him a good but ultimately outmatched fight for Sabbac rather than having a supporting character able to defeat the villain with a snap of his fingers but just choosing not to do so. Movie not titled Dr. Fate, after all.

Alberta has a new premier.  They didn't elect her, she just slipped into the job via a party convention.  So for at least the next seven months Albertans will have a premier who:
1.  Declared that the unvaccinated were the most discriminated against minority in her lifetime.  
2.  Declared her intention to keep schools from mandating masks.  
3.  Declared her intention to keep businesses from requiring masks for entry.
4.  Declared her intention to ban vaccination requirements for employment.  
5.  Announced that she was going to pardon all the people arrested for the protest that cut off the flow of goods across the border creating shortages and costing billions.  The premier has no pardoning authority.  
6.  Announced that she's going to fire every competent professional in the provincial health service so they can be replaced with crackpots pushing dewormer.  

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2022/10/24/gain-of-function-experiments-at-boston-university-create-a-deadly-new-covid-19-virus-who-thought-this-was-a-good-idea/?sh=22703e8f5ca3
 
I guess they never heard the expression, "curiosity killed the Human race."

Well, there's a big range between "having no freaking clue" and "Marvel superfan." As they readily admit, Feige and the other producers at Marvel Studios are the superfans, and they have oversight, so they can maintain what they consider character integrity, and supply whatever background info the directors and writers may need that they lack. But I believe there's also integrity in their position that, since they're adapting these characters for a new medium in a new era, they benefit from fresh perspectives.
 
(Although I readily admit, as someone for whom comic Thor is his favorite superhero, Waititi's perspective upsets me.)

My only concern is that Gunn may move DC too far in the opposite direction from dreary and grim.

No, that would require selling to Amazon (Lex Luthor) or Facebook (also Lex Luthor).

Or Twitter (Lex Luthor played by Jesse Eisenberg).

What I see is one side proposing various controls, and/or an improved mental health approach, which may or may not work; while the other side either doesn't want to talk about it all, or their answer is to put guns in the hands of even more people.

I can see what y'all are saying, but speaking from the point of view of this movie, Dr. Fate isn't the lead character. If it was his movie, or comic, you would expect him to win, but it isn't. Black Adam and Sabbac are both legitimate threats to top-tier DC heroes, and I have no problem with Fate losing to them if in the process he's treated with respect. IMO Dr. Fate was respected in this movie.

Valid point. Kent Nelson mentioned in the movie that, thanks to the Helmet of Nabu, he'd already lived over a century.
 
I have read widespread interest among the fandom for a Dr. Fate prequel movie starring Pierce Brosnan. Personally I'd be very down for that.

I'm pretty sure the movie Dr. Fate was based on the Ultimates version.

The post-Zero Hour Hawk God one probably could, and I think that recent Hawkman series retconned Barbatos as one of Hawkman's incarnations, so...  As far as classic superhero versions of the character, though, no. Comics seem to go back and forth on whether he's just a regular guy using weird science and magical gear or has innate superhuman qualities as well, but even in the latter cases he was never one of the heavy hitters.
 
That said, I think what the movie did with him worked extremely well, and they needed someone who was able to go toe-to-toe with Black Adam in a physical fight, even if at an advantage. Hodge's performance felt more in-character for the Carter Hall I remember than any live action adaptation I've seen previously, even if the particular details of his superheroics deviated from the source material.

The post-Zero Hour Hawk God one probably could, and I think that recent Hawkman series retconned Barbatos as one of Hawkman's incarnations, so...  As far as classic superhero versions of the character, though, no. Comics seem to go back and forth on whether he's just a regular guy using weird science and magical gear or has innate superhuman qualities as well, but even in the latter cases he was never one of the heavy hitters.
 
That said, I think what the movie did with him worked extremely well, and they needed someone who was able to go toe-to-toe with Black Adam in a physical fight, even if at an advantage. Hodge's performance felt more in-character for the Carter Hall I remember than any live action adaptation I've seen previously, even if the particular details of his superheroics deviated from the source material.

Kevin Costner was actually fantastic in the last two movies I saw him in: Hidden Figures and Draft Day.

I see some validity in your point, Hugh, but I would say that the Marvel movies, at least through the first two Phases, stuck to the core of who their characters were as people, whatever other details were changed around that. Tony Stark was a cocky super-rich genius whose view on his life changed when confronted by the consequences of his actions. Thor the arrogant warrior god-prince was forced to learn humility and compassion for others. Bruce Banner was a good man with a raging monster inside him, always at risk of coming out. Captain America was physically frail but an heroic idealist in mind and heart, granted a body to match his spirit. And so on.
 
Most of the changes to the characters were superficial details which didn't change who they are, in some cases making more sense. I mean, the feats we see Captain America perform in the comics, there's no way a "peak human" would be physically able to pull off.