Politics Thread

But are those issues prevalent in other Blue states? That’s what Dracula is asking. This might not be a Democrat issue but a California issue. Arnold Schwarzenegger was your governor until 2011. Did all these issues pop up after he left or did they exist during his tenure?

There are a couple of factors involved.  The first is that Democrats tend to have far less embarrassing candidates, while Texas is saddled with morons like Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert who say something stupid at every opportunity.  The others are social issues and justice reform.  As someone who works in a courthouse, I can attest to how over policed minority neighborhoods are.  I see the results every day.

ARE YOU SHITTING ME?

Ha, the day Texas goes for Biden is the day California goes for Trump.

While I do think that Texas is eventually going to move purple, it's a slow process.

This fourth Hammer Frankenstein is one that takes a slightly different and perhaps not advisable approach. Dr. Frankenstein himself is more on the periphery of the film than usual and it instead focuses heavily on an assistant of his who has a crush on this one girl but then gets framed for a crime and gets executed and then his girlfriend kills herself and this inspires Frankenstein to transfer the assistant’s soul into the girlfriend’s body and then re-animate her, but then he/she starts trying to kill the people who framed the assistant. That is a hell of a lot of setup before it actually gets to anything really supernatural or Frankenstein-like and when it does finally get going you’re basically just dealing with a normal looking woman rather than a stitched together corpse which is really not what you come to these movies for. Beyond that the whole soul-swapping thing here really doesn’t make much sense; is it the assistant controlling her? Is the assistant speaking to her? And why bother tranfering this particular soul? The rules are never clear and neither is the movie. The movie isn’t nearly as provocative as it could be with the female Frankenstein’s monster thing and this generally isn’t the Hammer Frankenstein anyone should go to at first.
**1/2 out of Five

There is some debate in the world of horror fandom about the morality of supporting the Jeepers Creepers franchise given that their writer/director was a convicted child molester who served a prison sentence prior to making the film. It’s a debate I would feel more inclined to engage with if not for the fact that there’s nothing in this, his most famous film, to suggest he was even a big enough talent to be worth the fuss. I’ll give it this; the central monster looks kind of cool, especially when he’s got that long coat on and is sort of cloaked in mystery and I sort of do like the fact that you never entirely know what his “deal” is. But the human characters here (including a pre-Apple Justin Long) are pretty insufferable and the movie just as some really odd elements to its story like the integration of “Jeepers Creepers” the song and this old lady who shows up half way through to talk about picturing the whole thing in a dream or something… it’s all rather weird. The film occasionally makes self aware jokes, as was the trend in horror movies at the time, but to little effect and I found a lot of the camera work to be less than stellar. There are moments here and there that point toward a more interesting and better realized movie having been possible, but this ain’t it.
*1/2 out of Five

I was already voting, but now I have the urge to jerk off in the voting booth too.

Dude, no. They'll think you're jerking to Trump and join in.

Sometimes I think about hardcore right-wingers giving an angry tug to AOC and have myself a good laugh.