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But my people are well-off, you know
So, yes. My state for unfathomable ass-headed reasons of its own re-elected Charlie Baker governor of Massachusetts because I guess "Well, he's not a Nazi" is enough of a platform for some people, but at least we held the line for trans rights: Yes on 3 passed. Otherwise, looking at the midterm results, I have been saying that it's not what I hoped for, but it's not what I feared, and that's not nothing. Especially against the gerrymandering, the voter suppression, the murderous fearmongering, it's not nothing. I didn't expect so many House seats to turn over. I didn't expect so many new Democratic governors. I hope they make a difference. We'll aim for more in the next round. That feels like more of a possibility than it did two days ago.
In the meantime, it looks as though I will be spending tomorrow evening at a rapid response rally in support of the Mueller investigation against 45's interference with it. It may not be incumbent upon us to finish the work, but when do we ever get the time to desist from it?
P.S. Will somebody please tell TCM that especially with FilmStruck imploding, now is not the time to fall down on the streaming of hard-to-find classic film? I waited months to see Ida Lupino's Outrage (1950) and Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) and despite both of them airing on schedule this morning and early afternoon when I was out of the house due to doctor's appointments, neither appears to have gone into the on-demand buffer, which means I don't get to see them. The same thing happened this weekend with Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper (1952). I am really disappointed. I may console myself with Dorothy Arzner's The Bride Wore Red (1937), which did make it into the buffer, but one female director is not interchangeable for another, you know?
In the meantime, it looks as though I will be spending tomorrow evening at a rapid response rally in support of the Mueller investigation against 45's interference with it. It may not be incumbent upon us to finish the work, but when do we ever get the time to desist from it?
P.S. Will somebody please tell TCM that especially with FilmStruck imploding, now is not the time to fall down on the streaming of hard-to-find classic film? I waited months to see Ida Lupino's Outrage (1950) and Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) and despite both of them airing on schedule this morning and early afternoon when I was out of the house due to doctor's appointments, neither appears to have gone into the on-demand buffer, which means I don't get to see them. The same thing happened this weekend with Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper (1952). I am really disappointed. I may console myself with Dorothy Arzner's The Bride Wore Red (1937), which did make it into the buffer, but one female director is not interchangeable for another, you know?
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The gerrymandering was IMMENSE, and the press is kind of soft-pedaling it, except for Rachel Maddow and some people on twitter. A lot of really huge victories in the teeth of that. -- I am absurdly infuriated with Trump for not letting us have even 24 hours of rest and at least relief. Someone said "there were all these pieces about how now he has 'brakes,' and he had to prove he didn't." That seems as likely as anything else passing through those tiny fizzing neurons.
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"It was only a little ax murder! And it happened so long ago!"
I don't understand it on the charisma front, either. I understand the existence of awful people who just look splendid so long as you just pay attention to the medium, not the message. That's not Baker. He looks like your standard-issue middle-aged WASP—his family is old New England Colonial, like
The gerrymandering was IMMENSE, and the press is kind of soft-pedaling it, except for Rachel Maddow and some people on twitter.
I just saw it in the Guardian.
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And people should let you have old films, what are they all thinking??
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Thank you!
And people should let you have old films, what are they all thinking??
It's just such bad timing! And such bad films not to represent! It's not like I can just walk down to the library and pick up a box set of Ida Lupino. I've tried.
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Yes. I was very frightened that Massachusetts would repeal its previous assertion of trans rights as human rights and not only would it make my state much more difficult to live in, it would set a precedent to be followed eagerly by hate groups in other states. And that did not happen. I don't like that it was a two-thirds split rather than a no-brainer sweep, but I like it much better than the alternative.
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Yeah. Yesterday was supposed to be a rest day for me, after canvassing Monday and phone banking Tuesday; instead I was leaving messages on my congressmember and senators' answering machines, and rearranging my plans for tomorrow and Friday so I can be on Boston Common at 5 today.
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Yeah.
(Thank you for the canvassing and phone banking.)
*hugs*
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It's REALLY ironic that we're going off to protest the being-asked-to-leave* of an ultraconservative rat-eater like Sessions; but I'll be at the one in Waltham.
* For anyone unfamiliar at the term: it is fairly common at non-state schools in the UK to deal with pupils whose behavior has been problematic by Asking Them To Leave. That way, the pupil doesn't OFFICIALLY have an expulsion on their record, the school can say that they haven't expelled anyone in X years, publicity is (hopefully) avoided, and the parents can't sue the school.
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I don't think we're protesting the departure of Sessions. We're protesting the transference of oversight of the Mueller investigation from Rosenstein to Sessions' successor. Nobody has to be sorry to see Sessions go.
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I know. I just wanted a governor I didn't have to persuade! It's an energy sink.
I plan to be vigilant in contacting him about what I want. So I guess his staff will have another four years to learn how to spell my last name.
Amen. I don't ever expect them to learn to spell mine, but I'll keep up the postcards.
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