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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2h

For clarification, that would be Sanders, the "MAGA GRIFTER" who has been out organizing opposition to Trump all along, while the Clintonite-right "Democratic leadership" alternate between professing their impotence in fighting Trump and actively collaborating with Trump.
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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · Feb 22

While the official "Democratic leadership" professes inability to do anything to resist Trump's effort to end the American experiment in liberal democracy, the real leader of the Democratic party is in red states and districts rallying opposition.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders brings his ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour to Iowa City

The senator from Vermont spoke to hundreds at Iowa City’s Englert Theater Saturday morning.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2h

...which was an outlandish lie--that's why Lewis backed away from it.

Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2h

I see...
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You don’t really know who Bernie Sanders was in the 1960s.

I reject this idea that who Bernie Sanders was in the 1960s is irrelevant. Who you are and what you do, what you fought for, and who and…

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 3h

Those "mid level DNC employees" were, in fact, top officials in the DNC, whom Clinton herself had chosen, and included the head of the organization. All forced out in disgrace.

Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 3h

Lewis himself later had an attack of conscience and walked back his disgraceful lie regarding Sanders.
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John Lewis: I did not mean to 'disparage' Bernie Sanders' civil rights activism

After saying he ‘never saw’ Democratic candidate during 1960s movement, congressman says he did not mean to voice doubt Sanders was involved

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 3h

Sanders' supporters booed John Lewis because Lewis came out and suggested Sanders was never any part of the civil rights movement but that the Clintons were--both outrageous lies meant to bolster Hillary Clinton with black voters in South Carolina.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 3h

The "Democratic leadership" under the Clintonite right has always been awful. A condensed history of their record over the last few decades, with a focus on the most recent:
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Zombies, Dinosaurs & That Definition of Insanity: Clintonite-Right “Democratic Leadership” & Its…

Last Summer — on Independence Day, no less — I began a Twitter thread devoted to a critique of the Clintonite-right “leadership” in the…

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 3h

To more precisely nail down one of these points, progressives--not the anti-progressive Clintonite right--are the Democratic party. A thread with some data on that.
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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · Jan 12

Meanwhile, in the real world, if one were to remove the progressives--the base of the Democratic party--from the Democratic party, it would more closely resemble the Libertarian party in size than a major political party.

LilirishDynamo @lilirishdynamo.bsky.social · Jan 11

Oh give your nonsense a rest. It is DEMS that get the vote out. Progressives are less than 2% of the Dem party which is why they don't get whatever they want whenever they feel like it. You have to pay your dues. And a few of those have lost their seats.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 3h

If Clintonite-right "Democratic" politicians don't want to be despised, they have the option of not being despicable. They've chosen not to use that option, so their only other is to STFU.

Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 3h

It doesn't matter if it does "help Republicans." It is what it is.

Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Any progressive watching that disgraceful performance was left with no doubt at all about what Clinton would do to get their votes: absolutely nothing. /3

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Clinton, instead, went on an entitled rant about how she was "WINNING," about how she was so much better than Sanders, how her "policies" were so much better than his and looked absolutely appalled that she'd even be asked such a question. Her malignant narcissism on full display. /2

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Toward the end of that primary, Clinton was interviewed by Rachel Maddow, who asked her what she's be willing to grant Sanders' voters to get them onboard with her campaign. Even a moderately competent politician could have knocked that one right out of the park. /1

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Clinton definitely wasn't "great with policies and a great politician." That's part of why she was so hated.

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horrorposterguy1.bsky.social @horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · 2d

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. 1970 Terrific debut from Argento put giallo on the radar. Smart, influential and a global success. Not bad for a new guy.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #italianhorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 2d

THE EVIL DEAD (1981)

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

"Join us..."

Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Don't assume that. The point of the exercise was to tilt the process in Clinton's favor/in favor of the party Establishment-backed candidate. To make sure no one else, whoever may challenge, had a chance.

Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

lol. Formald A. Hyde

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2d

Less than a year later, in fact, David F. Friedman had THE ADULT VERSION OF JEKYLL & HIDE on the screen, and more would follow in the decades since. But DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE is by far, the best of the lot.
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2d

This wasn't the first time a Jekyll/Hyde movie incorporated a gender-swap--that would (as far as I know) A MODERN DR. JEKYLL, a little-remembered lost film from 1908--and it certainly wouldn't be the last.
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2d

The film was written by Brian Clemens, one of the real undersung stars of late Hammer horror, and beside Stevenson, his riot of a screenplay also manages to work in both the Jack the Ripper and Burke/Hare killings.
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2d

Ralph Bates, as Henry Jekyll, manages to turn himself into "Edwina Hyde," the breathtaking Martine Beswick, who seems to be having an absolute ball as his evil alter ego.
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2d

Released on this day--17 Oct.--in 1971, Roy Ward Baker's DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE, Hammer's excellent gender-swapping riff on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella (the studio's 3rd take on it).
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 2d

That particular one marshals all of the (rather extensive) available3 evidence into one place and makes the case that yes, Sanders would have probably won.

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