#R Pitt

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 21, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

DEC 22, 2023

The Washington Post editorial board today wrote that “the battle for democracy will be fought—and won” by “explaining to the world why freedom matters to everyone, every day.” So, on an evening when our power has finally been restored, but too late for me to do a deep dive on anything, let’s see what that might look like from today’s news: 

For years now, the U.S. right wing has admired Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, who has overturned his nation’s democracy. Orbán claims that democracy weakens a nation because it allows immigration—which he calls “a poison” to a nation and says “poses a public security and terror risk”—and requires equal rights for women and LGBTQ+ individuals. The U.S. right wing claims to admire Orbán for what they see as a defense of traditional society.

But the logical evolution of Orbán’s “illiberal” society became clear last week, when the Hungarian parliament approved a new law designed to punish Hungarians who oppose the government. A new “sovereignty protection office” will intimidate and punish those who do not share the views of the ruling party, claiming that they are working for western governments and entities. The U.S. ambassador in Budapest, David Pressman, explained: “This new state body has unfettered powers to interrogate Hungarians, demand their private documents, and utilize the services of Hungary’s intelligence apparatus—all without any judicial oversight or judicial recourse for its targets.”

The U.S. State Department said yesterday: “This new law is inconsistent with our shared values of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law.”

Also today, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who has said that immigration is such a national crisis that House Republicans will not pass a bill providing supplemental funding for Ukraine to help it fight off Russia’s invasion without significant changes to the nation’s border policy, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to make those changes himself through executive action.

Biden has asked Congress for new legislation to address migration at the border since his first week in office, but Trump and his loyalists have demanded extreme measures that Democrats have, in the past, refused. With Republican refusal to fund Ukraine, Biden has said he is eager enough to get funding to Ukraine that he is willing to negotiate, but Johnson sent the House home until January 9 without a deal. 

Now it seems Republicans don’t want their own names on any such deal, likely recognizing that such an outcome would take away an issue they hope to exploit  in 2024. They want Biden’s name alone on any new policies or, failing that, to be able to blame him for not taking unilateral action.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre today reminded reporters that the White House has been negotiating with senators to come up with a bipartisan deal despite the absence of House members, and that Biden has been negotiating with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to address the border situation. 

In the next few days, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall will all travel to Mexico to meet with President López Obrador to discuss border challenges, all in the spirit of the 2022 Los Angeles Declaration for Migration and Protection, an agreement between 21 Caribbean and Latin American nations, including the United States, to strengthen international frameworks to make migration safe, orderly, and humane. 

Also today, Craig Mauger of The Detroit News reported that on November 17, 2020, on a phone call with Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County, Michigan, Board of Canvassers not to sign the papers certifying the 2020 presidential election in order to overturn the election’s lawful results.

Trump told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann that they would look “terrible” if they signed the documents. “We've got to fight for our country,” Trump said. “We can't let these people take our country away from us.” McDaniel, too, urged the pair not to sign and promised, “We will get you attorneys.” 

Palmer and Hartmann did not sign the papers, and the next day they tried to take back their votes in favor of certifying, filing legal affidavits saying “intense bullying and coercion” had led them to vote as they did. 

Lawyer Chris Thomas, Michigan’s elections director for more than 30 years, told Mauger it was unfortunate that Republican leaders offered to give the two legal protection for not doing their jobs. "Offering something of value to a public official to not perform a required duty may raise legal issues for a person doing so," Thomas noted. Legal analyst Joyce White Vance pointed out that “[o]ffering an official something of value (services of a lawyer) in exchange for withholding official action (certifying the Wayne County vote) sounds like a classic case of bribery under Michigan State law.”

Trump is currently facing four criminal counts for his attempt to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election. His attempts to stop Michigan from certifying Biden’s victory are part of those charges. 

After the story dropped, Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state, wrote that for her, “the absolute lowest moment in the post election battle we endured to protect Michigan’s accurate and legitimate election results in 2020 was not when armed protestors stormed my home. It was the night of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting.” 

Benson said the board knew about the pressure not to certify and were prepared to fight in the courts, but also knew that such a delay would “create enough doubt and uncertainty to enable the Trump campaign to push Pennsylvania, which was certifying the next week, to delay as well. And we knew other dominos would fall after that. How could we overcome the pressure of the then–President of the United States on local and state officials? Were the facts and law not enough?”

“Well,” she wrote, “then something I’ll never forget happened.

“Hundreds—hundreds (!)—of citizens showed up to the meeting of the Wayne County Canvassing Board to remind them of their duty under the law to ensure their votes counted. Their voices mattered. Their votes mattered.

“In my view that turned the tide. Citizens and election officials in Wayne County and statewide didn’t flinch, stood firm, and demanded their votes be certified as required under the law.

“And in the end, the Wayne County Canvassing board fulfilled their legal duty, followed the law and certified the election.

“What started as the lowest moment of the post election melee became the most inspiring. 

“The voters won. Facts and the rule of law carried the day. 

“Democracy prevailed.” 

Finally, tonight, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy less than a week after a jury awarded election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss more than $145 million for defaming them by accusing them of election fraud as part of his attempt to overthrow the country’s democratic system.

The Washington Post’s editorial board wrote that “the world’s democracies should create a system to fight back that can speak plainly and consistently about the inherent advantages of democratic systems, while admitting the imperfections, and use creative ways to illuminate the flaws and depredations of authoritarian regimes.”

To be honest, it doesn’t seem that hard. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters from An American #Heather Cox Richardson #democracy #TFG #House Speaker do your job #Election 2020 #Election 2024 #R Pitt

[hkthatgffan]

Former Gravity Falls Director Joe Pitt posted a bunch of Behind the Scenes photos and videos from the Gravity Falls offices during season 1 on Instagram! Given how many he posted, I've archived them all over on Imgur. So, if you wanna take a look at what the people behind our favourite show were doing while making it, link's below!

Behind the Scenes Gallery

#gravity falls #10 years of gravity falls #alex hirsch #joe pitt #gravity falls season 1 #dipper and mabel #gravity falls mabel #gravity falls fandom #grunkle stan #dipper #mabel #dipper pines #mabel pines #behind the scnes #gravity falls behind the scenes #ian worrel #michael rianda #these videos are hilarious #these guys made gravity falls while playing with toys they bought at toys r us #look how young they all were #we're getting old #2012 was 10 years ago already

[sarcasmic-skies]

st. andrew’s school magazine, winter 1989

#here we r my friends! #dps stans come get yall juice #ty posts #dps #dead poets society #dead poets #dps fandom #neil perry #todd anderson #anderperry #charlie dalton #welton #steven meeks #gerard pitts #knox overstreet

[celestialmega]

Fringe - Everything in Its Right Place by J. R. Orci, Matt Pitts, David Fury.

#tv series #tv shows #tv show #tv #J. R. Orci #Matt Pitts #David Fury #fringe #fringefox #fringe fox #fringe 4X17 #altliv #alt liv #bolivia #fauxlivia #anna torv

[cemyafilmarsiv]

Se7en directed by David Fincher

#Se7en #cinematography #david fincher #cinema #photography #crime thriller #Brad Pitt #Morgan Freeman #Kevin Spacey #Gwyneth Paltrow #Andrew Kevin Walker #R. Lee Ermey #John C. McGinley #detective movie #26

[bradpittlady]

#brad pitt #margot robbie #they r so cute #brad pitt on instagram

[iconzandwallpapers]

Interview With The Vampire 1994 & Young Brad Pitt Wallpapers

Requested By Anonymous 

Requests Are Open

#wallpaper #wallpapers #requests are open #requests #lockscreen #request #lockscreens #reqs open #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire 1994 #interview with the vampire wallpapers #iwtv 1994 #brad pitt #brad pitt wallpapers #r

[domquixotedospobresblog]

Se ela me deixa assim sem ação,eu a deixo sem palavras,se ela me deixa sem poder fugir,eu a mantenho presa em meus braços,ela acredita no amor e eu também, vamos ser felizes enquanto o tempo deixar.

Jonas R Cezar

#micro crônica #jonas r cezar #paixão #lendas da paixão #brad pitt #julia ormond

[moviehealthcommunity]

Fight Club (1999)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Fight Club has heavy strobe effects during the opening credit sequence, which depicts synapses firing with bright flashes of light, ending as the music fades and the narration begins. There are scenes with spinning-style emergency vehicle lights at night, which create a moderate to strong strobe effect. A brief scene with loud neighbors involves flickering lights. A scene at the hour-24-minute mark shows the flicker of damaged film. There is a rapid succession of explosions in a late scene that create a brief strobe effect.

A few dream sequences use highly-disorienting camera angles.

Flashing Lights: 6/10. Motion Sickness: 4/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: A man vomits on-screen while witnessing a violent act. The violence in this film is especially intense, realistic, and graphic throughout. A late scene depicts a suicide attempt in a graphic way.

Image ID: A promotional poster for Fight Club

#Movie Health Community #Health Warning #Actually Epileptic #Photosensitive Epilepsy #Seizures #Migraines #Motion Sickness #20th Century Fox #Fight Club #October #1999 #Brad Pitt #Edward Norton #Helena Bonham Carter #Meat Loaf #Jared Leto #David Fincher #Rated R

[baynton]

so fucking based.... so real..... chris is a fucking blessing to us all and should, indeed, be lovingly thrown into a bin

#bluntbeard #my friends r so based #chris pitt goddard

[celestialmega]

Fringe - Everything in Its Right Place by J. R. Orci, Matt Pitts, David Fury.

#tv series #tv shows #tv show #tv #J. R. Orci #Matt Pitts #David Fury #fringe #fringefox #fringe fox #fringe 4X17

[spacephobos]

tua art requests wip :p

#i start working tomorrow so no clue how long these r gonna take ne #but feel free to drop some more anyways #cause like its nice to have ideas i can just go back to #the umbrella academy #lila pitts #diego hargreeves

[sewerwclf]

bro i can’t wear a low ponytail because i look like a knockoff louis de pointe du lac

#louis de pointe du lac #iwtv 1994 #iwtv #louis de pointe #like girl u r not brad pitt take that OUT.

[ilovehimbos]

more more dps as quotes from me and my friends in honour of my exams being over this time so yall get an extra long one, also without context

cameron, rocking back and forth, on the verge of tears: please, please, please, stop singing radio hits from 2016

charlie: so baby pull me closer, in the backseat—

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meeks: i want to send you a voice note of me just screaming but i fear it would spook the townsfolk

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knox: girl you have different types of cheese?

todd: what i'm french

knox: the yellow one

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pitts: guys! wake up! new government assigned ewoks just dropped

pitts, two secs later: i gave knox the busted looking one

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charlie: see i was gonna send "damn why yoda dummy thick" and i didn't

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cam: i don't want your feet charlie

charlie: i don't need this fucking shit from you cameron, i go out of my way. and i'm not appreciated. i'm sick and tired of your shit. i'm leaving tomorrow and i'm taking our kids with me. you can speak to my lawyer about it. or go speak to your intern, stephanie. yes, i know about her. you aren't exactly sneaky when you sneak off to "work" with her at 3 fucking am. i'm not stupid and i'm tired. goodbye.

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neil: if i jumped do you think it would be...?

todd, with finality: it's enough.

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pitts, answering the phone: hello?

meeks, launching himself towards the phone: he did Not pee in the pool

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cam: you know what, it shows that y'all weren't raised in a family of gamblers

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neil: an emptiness where time feels endless but also like the end of the "good" times is close. a panic mixed w the hopelessness of a never ending expanse of time.

neil: that was pretty deep considering the last thing i sent you was a feet pic.

#cheeses r divided by the way you cut them fight me on that #wtf do you mean different types of cheese #dead poets society #dps #dead poets #todd anderson #neil perry #anderperry #richard cameron #charlie dalton #incorrect dps #incorrect dead poets #incorrect dead poets society #knox overstreet #steven meeks #stephen meeks #gerard pitts

[reelvibes91]

Bullet Train is a very interesting idea. Pit a bunch of people against each other with a money filled briefcase as their sole objective.

However what happens in the movie is a slow descent into the weird, wild and downright wacky. After about 45 minutes there are so many moving parts to the story that it is hard to make sense of as it unfolds.

By the time this movie ends you are wishing about 30 minutes of the run time could have been shaved off. The last act was a complete train wreck (pun absolutely intended) of nonsensical action sequences that defied the laws of physics. You cannot have both in a film. You can't spend an hour establishing grounded action and then try to do things that defy physics. It just takes out the overall idea of it all being believable in any way.

There were a couple things I did like about this movie. Brad Pitt was great as an assassin trying to be more zen and balanced. Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor Johnson were superb as "twin" brother assassins. Henry was especially funny as he likened everything back to Thomas the Tank Engine, a show his character of Lemon credited as teaching him every life lesson he needed to know. The banter between them and Pitt was what kept the first 45 minutes of the film flowing nicely. It was when all the other elements started being added that it just stopped working. Sometimes beauty truly lies in the simplicity of it all. It works well in film so much of the time.

Bullet Train just completely misfires on a larger scale. It does have a fair few smaller moments that are really cool, but they are lost among the larger picture. This film just tried to do too much. It tried to be a big Hollywood action film when it should have taken a more culturally appropriate tone, and it would have been much more cohesive and fun. It should have been more niche instead of aiming for R Rated mass appeal.

#bullet train #Brad Pitt #brian tyree henry #aaron taylor johnson #r rated #Action Movies

[ballisterboldheart]

so this film was Not a good illiad adaptation. but was it a good movie regardless? um. also no <3

#s.txt #sorry mr pitt u r Not that good of an actor #amen. god bless. #troy #in my humble opinion. watch fall of a city instead.