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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 11h

LeCornu stops by to finish clearing out his office and someone pops in "Hey, the President wants to see you for a second."

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 12h

I assume Trump won't say the troops don't deserve their back pay like he did with federal workers. Angry meat inspectors at USDA probably won't parachute onto the White House grounds.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 13h

There's a bit in Richard Lester's underrated movie Cuba:
Why were those people shot?
They tried to escape.
From what?
From being shot.
How did you know they were rebels?
Because they tried to escape.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 14h

I like it, but could you cut Act 2 down a little?

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 15h

GOP 2026: Don't Talk Back to Me!

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 15h

This is a "I'm getting ready to fire a bunch of you people so help me figure out who" memo.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 17h

When you're a Jet you're a jet all the way.

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 19h

The govt shut-down will likely continue into next week meaning the military will miss a paycheck. When I taught history I would tell my students that if they ever become a dictator Rule #1 is "Pay Your Army."

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

"Hey, it's me. I just want you to know I went into Portland to get your aspirin but all the pharmacies were boarded up. How about some crack?"

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

"Hey, it's me. I just want you to know I'm cool with your white supremacy."

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

This cease fire won't last as long as it'll take to gas up Air Force 1 to fly to the Middle East.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

So horses have souls?

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

"Hey, it's me. Just want you to know you don't need healthcare. Just say my name 3 times and I'll show up. Like Candyman."

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

"Hey, it's me. I just want you to know if you need to praise a child rapist in my name, that's totally cool."

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

"Hey, it's me. I just want you to know I'm about to bust down this door and zip tie your kids."

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to Cameron Crowe's interviews w/Billy Wilder. I hear - We did this and that and bang, Sunset Boulevard. And I think I can't write. Then I hear - We wrote 10 pages & tore it up or We sat around for 2 weeks no idea how to proceed. And I think I'm just like Billy Wilder! #scriptsky

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's better. You open with an empty screen and "Jesus" slowly appears on screen one letter at time like the original Alien title sequence. Then suddenly the middle S flips to a 2 with a big dramatic note.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

JESU2

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

John is a great artist and a nice guy.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's rationale for sending troops to Democratic cities is like a movie where someone is tortured for information they don't have, and the torturer knows they don't have it, but the torturer keeps asking the questions because that justifies the torture.

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

They're at the point where they just say anything. Trump says "Portland is a ruin" and Mike Johnson comes off like a contradictory 5-year old when asked why he refuses to swear in the new Dem representative. No one can stop them so they just pantomime the functions of a real government.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

America's Renfield.

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

It's like the lobby of the Hyatt at DragonCon standing up to fascism.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

Well of course. Everybody would rather hear "the Inhumans lived in the Great Refuge in the Himalayas until it was shattered by the voice of Black Bolt etc..etc.." rather than "My grandmother's people were Longs from Granville County and she married a Pearson from up around Rocky Mount..." YAWN

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm not following the day to day on that."
The new "I was just following orders."

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