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Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:00 PM

Ted Cruz: "Have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys?


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yock
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Feb 1, 2021
Hi, @SenTedCruz, Watchmen writer/producer here. Literally what the fuck are you talking about?

Jason Campbell
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Sen Ted Cruz: "Have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys? Whether it's Thanos or go to 'Watchmen.' The view of the Left is people are a disease"
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Reply Ted Cruz: "Have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys? (Original post)
soothsayer Feb 2021 OP
Zoonart Feb 2021 #1
nattyice Feb 2021 #2
Zoonart Feb 2021 #4
Midnightwalk Feb 2021 #25
Thomas Hurt Feb 2021 #3
Make7 Feb 2021 #5
Blue Owl Feb 2021 #6
NCjack Feb 2021 #7
ProfessorGAC Feb 2021 #10
NCjack Feb 2021 #12
ProfessorGAC Feb 2021 #18
Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2021 #8
DFW Feb 2021 #9
underpants Feb 2021 #11
Iggo Feb 2021 #15
genxlib Feb 2021 #13
Eyeball_Kid Feb 2021 #17
Iggo Feb 2021 #14
Towlie Feb 2021 #16
PufPuf23 Feb 2021 #19
Ohiogal Feb 2021 #20
Vivienne235729 Feb 2021 #21
TruckFump Feb 2021 #22
struggle4progress Feb 2021 #23
Mike 03 Feb 2021 #24
Aristus Feb 2021 #27
tanyev Feb 2021 #26
Duppers Feb 2021 #28
dansolo Feb 2021 #29

Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:02 PM

1. So, Ted... you cannot distinguish between reality and fiction?

Got it.

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Response to Zoonart (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:05 PM

2. You mean Ghostbusters wasn't real?

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Response to nattyice (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:06 PM

4. LOL... ask Venkman.

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Response to nattyice (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:49 PM

25. Cruz is an expert on slime.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:05 PM

3. you ever notice how that is less often than...

radical Islamists
far right extremists
brown skinned drug dealers
Russians
Bikers
Gun runners
organized crime families

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Response to Thomas Hurt (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:06 PM

5. Corrupt politicians. ( n/t )

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:08 PM

6. Hey Ted did you ever notice the floor of the movie theater is sticky

Just like your slime trail?

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:11 PM

7. No Sen. Qruz, I have not noticed that. But, I have noticed from the John Wayne

era to now, US Senators are portrayed as craven and purchased.

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Response to NCjack (Reply #7)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:13 PM

10. Go Back Further

We can go to Jimmy Stewart when Wayne was not close to that star level!

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Response to ProfessorGAC (Reply #10)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:16 PM

12. I accept your correction. Thanks.

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Response to NCjack (Reply #12)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:32 PM

18. Not A Correction

An add on, only!

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:12 PM

8. What in the name of ass??! That's quite a logic pretzel. If Hollywood is as "leftist"

as he's claimed his entire sorry career. Wouldn't the environmentalists be portrayed as the heroes??!..... i know... I know.... don't look for sense where there isn't any....

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:13 PM

9. I sure did

"Avatar" had such a sad ending (if you are a Republican).

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:16 PM

11. Thanos? Environmentalist?

Cruz is an idiot.

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Response to underpants (Reply #11)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:19 PM

15. Thanos was the biggest litterer in the history of the universe.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:18 PM

13. Did you ever notice...

Some people have trouble distinguishing fiction from reality?

Even if his point were true (which it isn't), all that does is tell you that screenwriters have presented it that way. It says nothing about actual reality.

One of the worst books I have ever read was "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. The bad guys in it are laughable eco-terrorists. Crichton was a right wing tool who argued against climate change and wrote a book with awful strawmen characters just so he could show the world how bad they were. What a hack that guy was.

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Response to genxlib (Reply #13)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:31 PM

17. Screenwriters are just storytellers. n/t

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:19 PM

14. You ever notice how many times it's corrupt right wing politicians?

(Credit to Make7. 😎👍?

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:21 PM

16. In movies any sort of "rabid" character will be a bad guy, even if it's a senator.

 


for example

And people are a disease - a life-threatening skin disease that Planet Earth has contracted. The biggest threat to our way of life is our way of life.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:35 PM

19. Hey Ted, that may be the movies but you are a bad guy in real life

and hopefully you will lose your office, go to jail, and be mentioned in the talk of American history as Benedict Arnold.

Go find shit stains to eat.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:40 PM

20. Why do I keep hearing people say

“Ted Cruz is very smart”?

More likely he’s a stupid man’s idea of a smart man.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:41 PM

21. You dumb piece of shit! They are the ones WARNING everyone before the disaster happens

While everyone is ignoring them. Jesus on a pogo stick! CRUZ is just heinous. I feel like every time he opens his mouth, it’s a crime towards humanity.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:45 PM

22. Yeah, I noticed that immediately in...

...Erin Brockovich.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:45 PM

23. "Everything I know about America, I learned from movies!"

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:48 PM

24. Throw this in his face

How white supremacists wield environmentalism to mask racism

Fascists like Brenton Tarrant weaponise environmentalism in service of white supremacism and the strategy is gaining popularity in mainstream politics.

“I am an Ethno-nationalist Eco-fascist.”


https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/how-white-supremacists-wield-environmentalism-to-mask-racism-25376

Or at least, we should keep this handy to fight Repukes who try to caricature environmentalists as left wing nutjobs.

Ted Cruz is a walking cliche, a flaccid mush of indecipherable ignorance.

To his point, I can only think of one feature film with a "rabid environmentalist" who is a villain, and practically nobody saw it. It is Night Moves, a low-budget film starring Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning.

It is actually a good movie with rookie mistakes (the camera is always too far away from the actors' faces--or the director doesn't like close-ups for some aesthetic philosophical reason) that suffers from the limitations of that low budget and a third act that goes a little bit haywire. But it is a movie that I've recommended to people who like offbeat movies.

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Response to Mike 03 (Reply #24)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 06:22 PM

27. In "Ghostbusters", the EPA guy was the bad guy.

That was the Reagan Era, the only era in history in which trees caused pollution, to hear him tell it.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 06:14 PM

26. Ted Cruz probably thinks Julia Roberts was the villain in that Erin Brokovich movie.

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Response to tanyev (Reply #26)

Wed Feb 3, 2021, 07:19 AM

28. Good one. He may.

He's such a dumbass.

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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

Wed Feb 3, 2021, 07:28 AM

29. How many movies with smarmy politicians as the bad guy?

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