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Daniel Smith-Rowsey
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PhD. Writer of books (Bloomsbury, Palgrave). Instructor of Film and Media (St. Mary's College, Napa Valley College). Maker of videos (see YouTube). Website: bestlovedfilms.com. Just finished hisfic novel. Working on AI certs. Pro-capitalist liberal.
MAGA ❤️ assymetrical warfare. E.g., Netanyahu’s 50 to 1 ratio of dead Gazans to dead Israelis, or Putin’s ratio of 1000 to 1 kidnapped children.

So if DJT was forced into court for a week, 50 Dems must be put in prison.

I assume if the wife of a MAGAn slaps her man, she gets beaten like a piñata
August 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Novel opinion: #FantasticFour needed Ben Grimm to be the movie’s Rocket (Raccoon) as he was for much of Lee-Kirby. Not so haunted yet.

We needed flashcuts of Ben at Reed and Sue’s podium jawboning or wisecracking about Reed’s latest plan (esp warps/teleportation)
August 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Not sure why the liberal media is upset that DJT is accusing BHO of “treason.”

From what we know of Trump’s treatment of the treasonous, he’s probably getting ready to change the name of a military base to Fort Obama
July 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sure. True.

Also, hearing DJT say “get over it!” is like hearing Batman say “let’s kill all those kids.” It goes against everything he says and does. All DJT does is litigate the past and persecute “enemies.” Like Obama.

We’re in Trump’s ballpark now, he just doesn’t like this game
You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.
July 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Reposted by Daniel Smith-Rowsey
So, the SDPD is punching people in the head and kneeing them in the side while they’re face down? This is ridiculous. I’m so tired of seeing videos like this of cops abusing their power.
July 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“I’ve been sitting here so long
Wasting time
Just staring at the phone”
- Phil Collins, “One More Night,” 1984

****Phil knew****
July 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The pitch:

DEXTER is in Los Angeles taking revenge on all the studio executives who never offered any non-Dexter roles to Michael C. Hall
July 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Daniel Smith-Rowsey
This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode deficits

3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.
July 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The most heartbreaking moment in pop music, because of context, is in “Woman,” when the music rises an octave as John Lennon sings,

“So let me tell you, again and again and again…I love you…now and forever, I love you, now and forever”

I break every time
July 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Stuck in the middle without Michael
Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill” made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s films, has died. He was 67.

This post replaces an earlier post that was deleted because it reported Madsen was 66.

apnews.com/article/mich...
Michael Madsen, 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Kill Bill' star, dies at 67
Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill” made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s films, has died. He was 67.
apnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
After AI lets you do (non porn, non violent) videos of famous people, I assume the first such viral video will be Jeff Bridges, Jeff Daniels, Jeff Goldblum, and Jeff Probst in a restaurant kitchen saying, over and over in cuts, “Yes, Jeff!”
June 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
We’ve seen this movie before

It’s Die Hard, when Holly says “after all your pretty speeches, you’re nothing but a common thief”

Only in this case, the thief is DJT, and after a lot of pretty speeches, he’s stealing America’s future, via more debt, more war, more dead Americans
June 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Stage 1: high profile political assassination

Stage 2: people on X rush to blame the left

Stage 3: they’re quiet for a week because they see they made no sense

Stage 4: back to 2 (e.g. “liberals shot at Trump”)

So let’s all enjoy Stage 3 now while we can
June 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
First post on bluesky! Hope it's a good one. It's the ten year anniversary of when they started canceling "cancel culture." Thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/danielsm...
Ten Years Since the Week That Broke “Woke”
The week that Americans began to cancel "cancel culture"
open.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM