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David Lo-Pan retweeted
Patrick Stewart's stories from DUNE are pretty great. There's a whole thing about how David Lynch was disappointed when he showed up because ... well, I won't spoil it. And then this, on his first conversation with Sting, is quite funny:
Patrick Stewart was amazing, a bygone sort of actor with working-class ethics and classical aesthetics. One of the most generally beloved men in Hollywood. Could play a nasty villain! Great actor, he will be missed. thebulwark.com/p/patrick-ste…
David Lo-Pan retweeted
Wil Wheaton telling Hitler's anal polyp to fuck all the way off back to Adolf's shithole wins the internet for me today
David Lo-Pan retweeted
"Putin will wage war. I don’t know when, but he will. And you, Europeans, will be surprised to discover that this war is aimed at you, too... You think that what is happening in Moscow has nothing to do with you—that it’s our problem.
Putin hates people like me, certainly. But through us—in Russia, or through the revolutionaries in Ukraine or Georgia—it is you he hates: your democracy, your society, your freedoms.
Do you think his regime is merely a threat to us? Your awakening will be brutal."
Anna Politkovskaya, in Paris, 2005.
She was assassinated in the lobby of her apartment building on October 7, 2006—Putin’s birthday.
David Lo-Pan retweeted
This would normally seem obvious, but given current trends I see on this app it might as well be said:
Be like Jean-Luc Picard. An articulate, thoughtful, responsible, assertive commander who wakes up every day thinking about the wellbeing of the people on his ship and their mission.
Not Anakin Skywalker. An emo, selfish, violent person who couldn’t for the life of him articulate what he’d do ahead of time or why, and asks for more power. The fact that he’s trending now says something about those trending him.
David Lo-Pan retweeted
Jean-Luc Picard remains the single most compelling vision of progressive politics I am familiar with — secular, rational, compassionate, egalitarian; a believer in progress & abundance but also duty, hard work, and a constant battle for self-improvement and improving the world.
David Lo-Pan retweeted
This is possibly the reason the White House stopped posting the transcripts of Trump's remarks.
If you read them, you realize very quickly that he is out of his mind.
David Lo-Pan retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed: “The worst of the Big Ugly Bill hasn’t even hit yet. They knew it would be so disastrous to working people that they didn’t actually make it take effect until after the midterms. In January, Medicaid cuts, ACA subsidy cuts, all of that is gonna get worse. It’s about to be a nuclear bomb that goes off on our healthcare system”
David Lo-Pan retweeted
Host: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: In the '70s I was too young to get go to South America for the Jonestown massacre, so this is as close as I'll get. There's nothing like seeing a cult up close.
Host: Alright, maybe this is not a Trump supporter
David Lo-Pan retweeted
Fox: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
David Lo-Pan retweeted
Trump: "Golf balls soar through the holes at high speed and hit unexpecting Golfers—including a White House staffer who was, sadly, hit violently in the chest ... The driving range should NOT be a threat to life and limb. The current condition of the golf course is a National Disgrace, but we will make it a WORLD CLASS PUBLIC Golf Course"
David Lo-Pan retweeted
Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia (USMA 1994) has a Purple Heart, two Valor ("V") devices, a Presidential Unit Citation from the bloodiest fighting in Diyala Province, cleared IEDs in Helmand and led the brigade that broke ISIS in Mosul. Hegseth does pushups on TV.
David Lo-Pan retweeted
“The United States, by yielding to Putin, is betraying the Ukrainians who are fighting for freedom and democracy," - Obama 🇺🇦
Yeah we are, all those American values that I grew up with, remember those? 🇺🇸
David Lo-Pan retweeted
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."