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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 11h

"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 · 11h

"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 · 11h

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 · 13h

So horses have souls?

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 13h

"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 · 13h

"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 · 15h

"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 · 15h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

JESU2

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

John is a great artist and a nice guy.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

America's Renfield.

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 1d

Are they bringing back the word "swarthy"?

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

There's always a lead-up to Trump's illegal activities where toadies repeatedly claim authority he doesn't have. This is their justification and debate. That's why I think he will order troops to multiple cities in one fell swoop, basically Pearl Harbor by an American on Americans.

Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

GOP offers proof that antifa "street terrorists" threaten ICE employees at workplace.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

It's bad out there! Look at these photos from Portland!

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

It was clear in his 1st term that Trump was genuinely surprised he wasn't elected to be Louis XIV, and he resented it. But all those people who kept him from destroying democracy are not around for term 2. Only the vicious and opportunists remain.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure Walter Cronkite used to do that too. Probably everybody he interviewed was just Eric Sevareid in a different fake mustache.

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

One of the tedious parts of Trump is how he crowds out joy with dread. Like some German guy in Munich in 1933 "Oh I must tell Greta about the funny thing the cat did today. Oh wait. Hitler. sigh."

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Clay Griffith @claygriffith.bsky.social · 2d

Because the lure of seeing yourself on the tv is as powerful as power.

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