Hyper Realistic CG Sci-Fi Short (W/ Unreal Engine): "FLITE"

Hyper Realistic CG Sci-Fi Short (W/ Unreal Engine): “FLITE”

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It’s a demonstration of the latest Unreal rendering engine, but it stands on its own merits as a wildly entertaining short film as well.

Using state-of-the-art virtual production techniques comes one of the most technically impressive sci-fi shorts of recent memory. From Oscar-winner Tim Webber of Framestore and starring Alba Baptista comes FLITE.

In London 2053, a world champion hoverboarder finds herself imprisoned in a luxury skyscraper apartment by her controlling manager. With the help of a well-meaning stranger she engineers an ingenious high-rise escape but soon finds herself riding for her life.

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FLITE
Dir. Tim Webber
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“FLITE is a film I’ve been eagerly awaiting for much of 2023. Rare is it that a short film trailer drop feels like an event, but, back in May, FLITE got that treatment from the Hollywood Reporter, and in-depth writeups in specialized industry publications soon followed. This is not the norm, but not every short film can claim an Oscar-winning VFX Supervisor as its director, someone whose fingerprints are all over several of the most beloved and acclaimed films of the 21st century.

Tim Webber is that director, and also the Chief Technology Officer of the VFX powerhouse Framestore. The former Oxford Physics student has pioneered some of the approaches we now bundle under the umbrella of “virtual production” in his career, perhaps most notably on the 2013 Alfonso Cuarón film Gravity, and now applies that expertise to his own turn in the director’s chair” - S/W Curator, Jason Sondhi

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*CAST:*
Alba Baptista
Gethin Anthony
Daniel Lawrence Taylor

*CREW*
Written & Directed by Tim Webber
Produced by Simon Whalley & Diarmid Scrimshaw
VFX Supervisor - Theo Jones
Realtime Supervisor - Nestor Prado
Visualisation Supervisor - Francisco Pacheco Beltran
Animation Supervisor - James King
Compositing Supervisor - Wouter Gilsing
Editor - Daphne Tychogiorgou
Original Music - Harry Escott
Sound Designer - Ben Goodal
Colourist - Jean-Clément Soret

Animation & VFX by Framestore
Colour & Finish by Company 3

Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.

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72 comments

HRH Stanley Sea Jan 7, 2024 • 2:29:36pm

If you have never seen this, I highly recommend. Storm of the Century.

https://t.co/Movfo84VEa

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 7, 2024

I cannot wait to re-watch.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 7, 2024 • 2:34:13pm

Not Hostages

Nerdy Fish Jan 7, 2024 • 2:38:29pm

From downstairs:

re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter

Term limits for the presidency are probably a good idea — the position has evolved into something so powerful that anything else would be a true danger for the survival of a democracy. At a lower level — mayors, governors, it’s not as much an issue. But for the person who commands the military and our nuclear arsenal — that is a very different story.

The amazing thing isn’t necessarily that Trump is trying to become a dictator for life, but that it took so long for someone to try it. (FDR notwithstanding.)

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 2:52:17pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs:

The amazing thing isn’t necessarily that Trump is trying to become a dictator for life, but that it took so long for someone to try it. (FDR notwithstanding.)

I think that the stresses of running the Executive Branch prematurely ages most people. Prime ministers can last longer but not by much. While Thatcher lasted almost 13 years, the average is about 5 years, the maximum length of one Parliament.

Trump is an exception because he really never did any stressful work.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 7, 2024 • 3:06:36pm

re: #4 silverdolphin

I think that the stresses of running the Executive Branch prematurely ages most people. Prime ministers can last longer but not by much. While Thatcher lasted almost 13 years, the average is about 5 years, the maximum length of one Parliament.

Trump is an exception because he really never did any stressful work.

Except for his last couple months in office when he was working overtime to overthrow our government.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 7, 2024 • 3:14:37pm

Would they be ‘hostages’ if they broke into Mar-a-Lago: Ex-Trump aide on Jan. 6 rioters

Stephanie Grisham worked briefly as Donald Trump’s press secretary, but she spent the majority of her time working with first lady Melania Trump’s office. She was there on Jan. 6 when the U.S. Capitol came under siege by MAGA fans who tried to stop the Electoral College count finalizing the winner of the 2020 election.

On the weekend of the third anniversary, CNN’s Jim Acosta couldn’t help but notice the new Republican Party talking point to refer to those in prison for their crimes on Jan. 6 as “hostages” rather than convicts. Grisham suspected it’s a new talking point that Republicans are being urged to use to refer to rioters.

“I have a feeling we’re going to hear the word hostages more which is a very perplexing word to choose for me,” Grisham said.

She asked what it would be like if the script was “flipped.”

“These are people who went to the capitol, broke windows, broke in, had Democrats and again Republicans scared for their lives,” she said. “Police officers were injured. People died that day.”

She asked what would happen, hypothetically, if the script were flipped.

“And I would just think, you know, what if [Joe] Biden encouraged people — which I am not saying he should do — I want to be very clear,” Grisham prefaced with a hefty disclaimer. “What if Biden encouraged people to go to Mar-a-Lago or to Republican congressional offices and they broke windows and broke into Mar-a-Lago and took things and stole things and had people scared for their lives?”

She asked what Republicans would be calling those people.

“I wonder if the former president would be calling those people, you know, hostages after they were convicted in a court of law, as they should be if that were something that happened?” she asked.

MSNBC commentator Tristan Snell pointed out on Saturday that after three years, questions remain: Who planted the pipe bombs, who disabled Vice President Mike Pence’s key card, who removed the panic buttons, and who shared the location of the non-reinforced windows in the building?

On Jan. 6, out of the blue, Pence’s team was locked out of their offices. So while the Capitol was under attack, they had nowhere to hide, while other staff in the Capitol were crouched in locked offices. While there is speculation about who could have cut the keycard access, nothing has been revealed publicly.

As for the panic buttons, that comment comes from Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s staff (D-MA) who spoke to The Boston Globe on Jan. 13.

“As people rushed out of other buildings on the Capitol grounds, staffers in Pressley’s office barricaded the entrance with furniture and water jugs that had piled up during the pandemic,” said the report. Sarah “Groh pulled out gas masks and looked for the special panic buttons in the office.”

“Every panic button in my office had been torn out — the whole unit,” Groh said. The report explained “they could come up with no rationale as to why. She had used them before and hadn’t switched offices since then. As they were escorted to several different secure locations, Groh and Pressley and her husband tried to remain calm and vigilant — not only of rioters but of officers they did not know or trust, she said.”

Finally, as Snell points out, two windows and two doors were targeted by rioters on Jan. 6. They were among very few that weren’t reinforced.

“I don’t believe in this kind of luck,” wrote Esquire’s Charlie Pierce when the information became known.

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retired cynic Jan 7, 2024 • 3:26:49pm

Dangerman Jan 7, 2024 • 3:26:53pm

re: #4 silverdolphin

I think that the stresses of running the Executive Branch prematurely ages most people. Prime ministers can last longer but not by much. While Thatcher lasted almost 13 years, the average is about 5 years, the maximum length of one Parliament.

Trump is an exception because he really never did any ~~stressful~~ work.

KingKenrod Jan 7, 2024 • 3:28:14pm

The new budget bill is out and it’s no surprise what the GOP gets to cut: the IRS and Covid spending. Priorities…

Nerdy Fish Jan 7, 2024 • 3:29:29pm

re: #9 KingKenrod

The new budget bill is out and it’s no surprise what the GOP gets to cut: the IRS and Covid spending. Priorities…

So the tax cheats get the last laugh. Again. Fuck me.

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 3:32:25pm

re: #5 Hecuba’s daughter

Except for his last couple months in office when he was working overtime to overthrow our government.

As I remember, though, most of that work came at the end of a phone call, likely between holes at the gold course. Overthrowing the government is easy when you have a ton of conspirators to help do the dirty work.

As Biden pointed out in his speech on Friday regarding Trump:

He promised he would right them — right them. Everything they did, he would be side by side with them. Then, as usual, he left the dirty work to others. He retreated to the White House.

As America was attacked from within, Donald Trump watched on TV in the private small dining room off my Oval — off the Oval Office.

The entire nation watched in horror. The whole world watched in disbelief. And Trump did nothing.

Trump incited the crowd, said he’d be there right along with them, sent them on their way and then slinked off to the White House, not to apear for 4 hours. Always leaving others to do the sdirty work.

🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Jan 7, 2024 • 3:34:53pm

re: #11 silverdolphin

As I remember, though, most of that work came at the end of a phone call, likely between holes at the gold course. Overthrowing the government is easy when you have a ton of conspirators to help do the dirty work.

As Biden pointed out in his speech on Friday regarding Trump:

Trump incited the crowd, said he’d be there right along with them, sent them on their way and then slinked off to the White House, not to apear for 4 hours. Always leaving others to do the sdirty work.

He was going to be there. Secret Service put a lid on him.

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 7, 2024 • 3:39:17pm

Mastodon

(this is a good description of MrBWS…)

Belafon Jan 7, 2024 • 3:40:26pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs:

The amazing thing isn’t necessarily that Trump is trying to become a dictator for life, but that it took so long for someone to try it. (FDR notwithstanding.)

Because every prior president was a politician within the system. Trump, from the outside was willing to break it.

Eventual Carrion Jan 7, 2024 • 3:41:25pm

re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth

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(this is a good description of MrBWS…)

He’s retired, gives him something to do

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 3:44:58pm

re: #12 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

He was going to be there. Secret Service put a lid on him.

As I recall, the Secret Service did try to find a path for him to get to the Capitol. There was supposedly a scuffle in the car because they would not drive him immediately but they called the Capitol police to ask for roads to be blocked off for his motorcade. The CP said no way and that was the end of it.

Trump likely knew that there was little chance of getting such an improvisitional path set up. He could not work with them beforehand because he knew that would look like a conspiracy. I really believe he thought he would get off by NOT being there.

nines09 Jan 7, 2024 • 3:45:38pm

re: #6 Joe Bacon ✅

Look up “inside job.”
No Republican in office in this timeline can be anything but a traitorous piece of shit who should have happen to them what they wished for the ones they targeted.

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 7, 2024 • 3:46:33pm

Mastodon

nines09 Jan 7, 2024 • 3:49:43pm

re: #18 Backwoods Sleuth

“WHERE’S ME STOUT WENCH?!??!!!!”

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 3:50:05pm

re: #17 nines09

Look up “inside job.”
No Republican in office in this timeline can be anything but a traitorous piece of shit who should have happen to them what they wished for the ones they targeted.

Yeah, it is the loss of access by Pence and his staff that is very worrisome. As well as the panic buttons being disabled. Makes we wonder if there is a real danger to national security if the real facts are released. Did the DOJ decide that there would be a Constitutional crisis that would break the nation if the culprits were revealed? Hope not because that would be a mistake.

Unabogie Jan 7, 2024 • 3:52:48pm

re: #16 silverdolphin

As I recall, the Secret Service did try to find a path for him to get to the Capitol. There was supposedly a scuffle in the car because they would not drive him immediately but they called the Capitol police to ask for roads to be blocked off for his motorcade. The CP said no way and that was the end of it.

Trump likely knew that there was little chance of getting such an improvisitional path set up. He could not work with them beforehand because he knew that would look like a conspiracy. I really believe he thought he would get off by NOT being there.

Trump’s MO is to get other people to do illegal things and then rely on “loyalty” to keep them quiet. Yet anyone who looks at his actions on Jan 6 can clearly see he was up to his eyeballs. That he organized the mob to be there, and cheered them on in the hopes the Congress would crumble under the assault and he could do the next part of the coup plan. Every last one of the GOPers who feigns confusion about this is a treasonweasel, as Lawhawk so eloquently puts it.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 7, 2024 • 3:54:42pm

re: #16 silverdolphin

As I recall, the Secret Service did try to find a path for him to get to the Capitol. There was supposedly a scuffle in the car because they would not drive him immediately but they called the Capitol police to ask for roads to be blocked off for his motorcade. The CP said no way and that was the end of it.

Trump likely knew that there was little chance of getting such an improvisitional path set up. He could not work with them beforehand because he knew that would look like a conspiracy. I really believe he thought he would get off by NOT being there.

No — I believe he really wanted to be there, standing at the head of an army of devoted followers. He would have been convinced that the CP would not be willing to stop them with him as the leader.

nines09 Jan 7, 2024 • 3:55:54pm

re: #20 silverdolphin

My personal point of view is the rot is deeper than you want to know.
Things run in cycles, and the fascists are rising around the world, with help from the very people who stood next to Trump.

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 3:56:35pm

NYT Board: Reelecting Trump Will Endanger The World

Mr. Trump does not offer voters anything resembling a normal option of Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, big government or small. He confronts America with a far more fateful choice: between the continuance of the United States as a nation dedicated to “the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” and a man who has proudly shown open disdain for the law and the protections and ideals of the Constitution.

I am thunderstruck the NYT would be so open this early. Are they going to stick with this over the year or flip flop? Of course, I think this is really part of the billionaire’s push for Nikki than any real support for Biden. If she gets the nomination I expect the NYT to be supporting her 24/7

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 7, 2024 • 3:56:48pm

Greetings from tomorrow! Another par day.

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nines09 Jan 7, 2024 • 3:59:03pm

re: #24 silverdolphin

Probably a typo.

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 7, 2024 • 3:59:12pm

Mastodon

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 7, 2024 • 4:00:21pm

Thai lunch, by popular demand (well, one person…)

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 4:04:01pm

re: #21 Unabogie

Trump’s MO is to get other people to do illegal things and then rely on “loyalty” to keep them quiet. Yet anyone who looks at his actions on Jan 6 can clearly see he was up to his eyeballs. That he organized the mob to be there, and cheered them on in the hopes the Congress would crumble under the assault and he could do the next part of the coup plan. Every last one of the GOPers who feigns confusion about this is a treasonweasel, as Lawhawk so eloquently puts it.

Heck, a big reason he failed was because he had incompetents doing the work for him. These guys planning their comspiracy never took into account that any of those opposing them would have any agency - that a single officer would lead the mob AWAY from the floor of the House; that the undermanned Capital police would hold back the crowd for so long; that the Members would be so effectively and safely moved out of the Capitol; that Pence would suspect everyone and refuse to leave; that members of the mob would actually try and prevent violence being done by the Proud Boys; that after all the chaos of the day the counting actually continued; that a number of Republicans were not traitor weasels and voted to support the Constitution, knowing it would be the end of their career.

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 4:05:42pm

re: #26 nines09

Probably a typo.

More likely an NYT intern asked the ChatGPT or Bard the wrong setup statement and it was not caught by his supervisor.

Nerdy Fish Jan 7, 2024 • 4:08:08pm

re: #29 silverdolphin

It’s a big reason why their Project 2025 is building an army of loyalists to Trump specifically to take over all the levers of power if they should win. They know what they have to do now; they know where they have to put the right people in order to prevent the transfer of power.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 7, 2024 • 4:11:01pm

re: #24 silverdolphin

NYT Board: Reelecting Trump Will Endanger The World

I am thunderstruck the NYT would be so open this early. Are they going to stick with this over the year or flip flop? Of course, I think this is really part of the billionaire’s push for Nikki than any real support for Biden. If she gets the nomination I expect the NYT to be supporting her 24/7

But one of their sentences in the editorial misrepresents his evil:

Mr. Trump’s forays into foreign affairs remain dangerously misguided and incoherent.

There was nothing misguided about them: they were and are deliberately designed to further the interests of Putin and other tyrants.

Nerdy Fish Jan 7, 2024 • 4:14:44pm

What disgusts me is that they think the righteousness of their cause is worth literal treason. They compare themselves to the Founding Fathers, but instead of wanting to build a better tomorrow and cast aside the iron yoke of a distant and uncaring King, they want to make slaves of all of us who aren’t them. They think their god will reward them for making this country the most bigoted country on earth, a shining beacon of extremist hatred. But from the standpoint of someone who is so deluded, so unmoored from reality that they genuinely believe that they are Crusaders, it actually makes sense. If I’m convinced that the Constitutional remedies to all my country’s problems are no longer an option, what else can I do but rebel, even knowing it will likely cost me my life?

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 4:17:07pm

re: #31 Nerdy Fish

It’s a big reason why their Project 2025 is building an army of loyalists to Trump specifically to take over all the levers of power if they should win. They know what they have to do now; they know where they have to put the right people in order to prevent the transfer of power.

Yep. And they might succeed if he wins. But, I still think that the people they will pick will, as a group, be horribly incompetent. That may work fine since their main purpose is to break the government. But it also makes it more likely we can find ways to route around them. The epistemic closure of so much of their thinking may well doom them.

But they could do a lot of damage. WHich is why we need to destroy the GOP before the election. Keep the pressure up.

Eventual Carrion Jan 7, 2024 • 4:17:20pm

re: #27 Backwoods Sleuth

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Here is my little Freddie on this cold, wet night. He’s not so little anymore tho’.

No Malarkey! Jan 7, 2024 • 4:17:31pm

Good thread about a Virginia house which was continuously inhabited for nearly 250 years, and contains relics spanning the breadth of American history.

This is what the outside looked like at the beginning. pic.twitter.com/w9aIrCVSwT

— The Civil Rights Lawyer (@johnbryanesq) January 7, 2024

nines09 Jan 7, 2024 • 4:20:52pm

re: #36 No Malarkey!

Good if you have a Shitter account.

Fuck X

Goodnight.

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 4:35:32pm

re: #33 Nerdy Fish

What disgusts me is that they think the righteousness of their cause is worth literal treason. They compare themselves to the Founding Fathers, but instead of wanting to build a better tomorrow and cast aside the iron yoke of a distant and uncaring King, they want to make slaves of all of us who aren’t them. They think their god will reward them for making this country the most bigoted country on earth, a shining beacon of extremist hatred. But from the standpoint of someone who is so deluded, so unmoored from reality that they genuinely believe that they are Crusaders, it actually makes sense. If I’m convinced that the Constitutional remedies to all my country’s problems are no longer an option, what else can I do but rebel, even knowing it will likely cost me my life?

Every day they are demonstrating why they should not be allowed to retain any power at all. Their culture is collapsing at an increasing rate and their connection to reality becomes ever more tenuous.

I believe our culture is rising and that we will rapidly work around any barriers they put up. But they can still do a lot of damage and kill a lot of people.

Essentially, the Pacific War was over after Midway but it still took many months and thousands of lives to prove that. Essentially, the Civil War was over after Gettysburg but it took many months and thousands of lives to prove that. Hope this does not play out the same way.

sagehen Jan 7, 2024 • 4:39:06pm

re: #28 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Thai lunch, by popular demand (well, one person…)

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for which I thank you, it looks delicious.

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 4:46:08pm

God Made Trump Paul Harvey Ad

They are simply nuts if they believe any of this. I thought it was parody but Trump reposted it.

sagehen Jan 7, 2024 • 4:46:24pm

re: #33 Nerdy Fish

What disgusts me is that they think the righteousness of their cause is worth literal treason. They compare themselves to the Founding Fathers, but instead of wanting to build a better tomorrow and cast aside the iron yoke of a distant and uncaring King, they want to make slaves of all of us who aren’t them. They think their god will reward them for making this country the most bigoted country on earth, a shining beacon of extremist hatred. But from the standpoint of someone who is so deluded, so unmoored from reality that they genuinely believe that they are Crusaders, it actually makes sense. If I’m convinced that the Constitutional remedies to all my country’s problems are no longer an option, what else can I do but rebel, even knowing it will likely cost me my life?

They thought Handmaid’s Tale was an instruction manual.

There’s only the occasional reference to how it all came to be, not even flashbacks, but we know it started with an assault on congress and a massacre, and enough of the military was with them…

Decatur Deb Jan 7, 2024 • 4:46:51pm

Freep is running two threads on the budget agreement. The long one is “Vacate The Seat”.

7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jan 7, 2024 • 4:47:55pm

re: #33 Nerdy Fish

What disgusts me is that they think the righteousness of their cause is worth literal treason. They compare themselves to the Founding Fathers, but instead of wanting to build a better tomorrow and cast aside the iron yoke of a distant and uncaring King, they want to make slaves of all of us who aren’t them. They think their god will reward them for making this country the most bigoted country on earth, a shining beacon of extremist hatred. But from the standpoint of someone who is so deluded, so unmoored from reality that they genuinely believe that they are Crusaders, it actually makes sense. If I’m convinced that the Constitutional remedies to all my country’s problems are no longer an option, what else can I do but rebel, even knowing it will likely cost me my life?

The question to me has always been, “Where do they go to NOT bother us?” Where?

Charles Johnson Jan 7, 2024 • 4:52:43pm

re: #40 silverdolphin

I have a feeling Paul Harvey might not actually have been this positive toward Trump. But it’s repulsive to exploit his memory like this. Typical MAGA shit, repulsive grifters.

At this point I’m considering anyone who still supports Donald Trump to be basically a Nazi. He’s made his views very clear and nobody can plead ignorance now.

jaunte Jan 7, 2024 • 4:56:29pm

re: #40 silverdolphin

Truly insane. If the languid Trump was actually that hard-working he would already be President for life.

jaunte Jan 7, 2024 • 4:58:11pm

America needed a president to spend more time on the golf course than any other, so God Made Trump.
seattlemedium.com.

Decatur Deb Jan 7, 2024 • 4:59:01pm

re: #45 jaunte

Truly insane. If the languid Trump was actually that hard-working he would already be President for life.

No matter which wins, our next president is likely to be President for Life.

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retired cynic Jan 7, 2024 • 5:06:15pm

re: #24 silverdolphin

NYT Board: Reelecting Trump Will Endanger The World

I am thunderstruck the NYT would be so open this early. Are they going to stick with this over the year or flip flop? Of course, I think this is really part of the billionaire’s push for Nikki than any real support for Biden. If she gets the nomination I expect the NYT to be supporting her 24/7

Both papers are coming out pretty strongly.

Three years later, beware dangerous revisionism of Jan. 6
By the Editorial Board
wapo.st

(gift link)
The third anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob comes amid troubling indicators about public opinion on that event. A Post-University of Maryland poll published this week shows a sizable share of Americans accept lies about the 2020 election and the insurrection that followed on Jan. 6, 2021. Only 62 percent say Joe Biden’s victory was legitimate, down from 69 percent two years ago, and far lower than after the contested 2000 election. One-third of U.S. adults say they believe there’s “solid evidence” of “widespread voter fraud” in the 2020 election. Regarding Jan. 6 itself, 28 percent say former president Donald Trump bears no responsibility, 21 percent say the people who stormed the Capitol were “mostly peaceful” and 25 percent say the FBI probably or definitely instigated the attack.
These are minority views, but that’s cold comfort. Disproportionate numbers of Republicans hold them, showing just how corrosive Mr. Trump’s repeated lies, amplified by a right-wing media echo chamber, have been. The devotion of the GOP base to this alternative history helps explain why Mr. Trump has avoided meaningful accountability, why he is still the front-runner, by far, for the Republican nomination — and how dangerous he could be back in power. Already, he promises “full pardons” and a government apology to many Jan. 6 rioters, plus “revenge” and “retribution” for unnamed others.
The truth must be told. Mr. Biden won the 2020 election, fair and square, and no credible evidence has emerged of widespread voter fraud. Mr. Trump, despite knowing that he lost, summoned supporters to Washington ahead of the certification of the election and told a crowd on the Ellipse that he’d go with them to the Capitol and that they needed to “fight like hell.” Mr. Trump relished watching on television as his supporters attacked the Capitol for 187 minutes and resisted pleas to stop them. As Vice President Mike Pence said later: “His reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day.”

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 7, 2024 • 5:08:24pm

re: #39 sagehen

for which I thank you, it looks delicious.

It was.

Dangerman Jan 7, 2024 • 5:23:10pm

Fist once again I was talking to myself downstairs.

Sirius moved my fave deep tracks to some channel over 300. My 20 yo car radio doesn’t go that high.

Meanwhile, cribbed this:

According to the Washington Post the agreement between Johnson and Schumer is for the same spending numbers that McCarthy and Biden negotiated back in May/June as part of the debt ceiling deal - and protects spending levels for both domestic and military programs.

It is also certain that Johnson is going to face a rebellion from the hardcore portion of his caucus. It will rely on Democratic votes to pass (Cue the calls for a motion to vacate….)

So Johnson didn’t win anything really .
And still might find his neck on the block.

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 5:28:52pm

Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions:

I wonder just how useful this might be? The one I found most interesting is that of the Beast coming out of an area with 10 horns, and 7 heads representing 7 hills. At the time of the post, there were 7 named Trump Towers. And it one counts the antennas on top they add up to 10!

Or this one:

“… a despicable person will arise… a man of contempt… to whom the royal honor has not been rightfully conferred. He will slip in when least expected and will seize the kingdom through flattery and intrigue.”
Daniel 11:21

This is actually BS but should be impactful to a Bible believer.

Someone needs to make a counter ad with all of these signs he is the anti-Christ.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 7, 2024 • 5:29:46pm

re: #51 Dangerman

I got a feeling Speaker Jesusbot doesn’t like being in the spotlight and having the light shine on his kinky background and he wants out.

So who will be the next victim to sit in the Speaker’s chair…🤔

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 7, 2024 • 5:31:17pm

re: #52 silverdolphin

Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions:

Answer—Nope.

They don’t realize that the Antichrist was already President.

RONALD = 6
WILSON = 6
REAGAN = 6

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 7, 2024 • 5:33:01pm

re: #52 silverdolphin

Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions:

I wonder just how useful this might be? The one I found most interesting is that of the Beast coming out of an area with 10 horns, and 7 heads representing 7 hills. At the time of the post, there were 7 named Trump Towers. And it one counts the antennas on top they add up to 10!

Or this one:

This is actually BS but should be impactful to a Bible believer.

Someone needs to make a counter ad with all of these signs he is the anti-Christ.

If there’s such a thing as the antichrist, trump is it. Full stop.

Charles Johnson Jan 7, 2024 • 5:34:16pm

Hoopla is one of the few new web services (like Bluesky) that doesn’t totally suck.

Charles Johnson Jan 7, 2024 • 5:35:14pm

Have I mentioned lately how great Hoopla is? I’m still working through their Joe Lansdale category, reading the graphic novel “Extreme Carnage” with their excellent web app. You just need a digital library card from any major library. Can recommend. 13/10

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 7, 2024 • 5:35:33pm

He’s drunk again. Really needs to go to the nearest AA meeting!

‘100% Satan’: Rudy Giuliani comes out against ‘money’ after bankruptcy filing

rawstory.com

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani declared that money was “100% Satan” after filing for bankruptcy.

Giuliani made the proclamation during his Sunday WABC radio program with longtime girlfriend Maria Ryan.

While discussing U.S. immigration policy, Ryan suggested problems stemmed from money.

“It becomes about money,” Ryan chimed in. “This is how I feel our government is. Like they look at money and we, you know the old adage, money is the root of all evil?”

“I believe that, and I believe they put money as their god,” she remarked. “Money is now their god.”

100% Satan,” Giuliani agreed.

“I believe it is good versus evil without oversimplifying everything,” Ryan added. “It’s money and power has become everything for them instead of the American citizens and the America as a country.”

The remarks about money come after Giuliani was hit with $148 million in fines for defaming two election workers. He has declared bankruptcy and could owe as much as $500 million.

Well, Screwdy…you need a lot of Satan right now, don’t you????? 🤣

wrenchwench Jan 7, 2024 • 5:37:05pm

Mastodon

Charles Johnson Jan 7, 2024 • 5:37:45pm

re: #58 Joe Bacon ✅

This is not Rudy’s finest hour. He’s now the FAFO poster boy for the MAGA movement.

7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jan 7, 2024 • 5:41:19pm

re: #46 jaunte

America needed a president to spend more time on the golf course than any other, so God Made Trump.
seattlemedium.com.

He cheats at golf. This should be a constant message.

darthstar Jan 7, 2024 • 5:42:32pm

re: #60 Charles Johnson

This is not Rudy’s finest hour. He’s now the FAFO poster boy for the MAGA movement.

I’m okay with watching Rudy suffer publicly for a while. I hope he finds some cathartic release in bringing down everyone he conspired with in an open, public, forum…he’s got nothing left to lose, and it could bring him some modest appearance fees…or he could pull a Santos and whore himself out on Cameo for $200 a rant.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 7, 2024 • 5:43:35pm

re: #61 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

He cheats at golf. This should be a constant message.

And as my brainwashed Jesusbot relatives post…

“God uses imperfect vessels to achieve victory for His People…”

darthstar Jan 7, 2024 • 5:46:23pm

re: #61 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

He cheats at golf. This should be a constant message.

I usually play golf by myself, so there’s no point in cheating. I have, however, given myself a mulligan on a 9 hole course if my drive went off the reservation…and played ‘best ball’ by driving two balls and taking the better shot. But as I’m a very intermediate golfer, I don’t consider that cheating, as I note all these exceptions on my score card.

7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jan 7, 2024 • 5:46:55pm

re: #63 Joe Bacon ✅

And as my brainwashed Jesusbot relatives post…

“God uses imperfect vessels to achieve victory for His People…”

For those who are going to view this through that lens, I get it. I think there are a lot of people who are inherently grossed out by cheating at golf (or disc golf, my sport). When I ask people if they would like him on their card in a tournament I get grossed out reactions.

darthstar Jan 7, 2024 • 5:47:04pm

re: #63 Joe Bacon ✅

And as my brainwashed Jesusbot relatives post…

“God uses imperfect vessels to achieve victory for His People…”

God likes his people dead, apparently.

Vicious Babushka Jan 7, 2024 • 5:49:05pm

re: #41 sagehen

They thought Handmaid’s Tale was an instruction manual.

There’s only the occasional reference to how it all came to be, not even flashbacks, but we know it started with an assault on congress and a massacre, and enough of the military was with them…

In the Atwood book, and I think also alluded to in the first season of the Hulu series, that the Gilead Revolution happened during a worldwide infertility pandemic. Trumporrhoids of course may even believe there is a threat to the world’s population but in the OG HT it was real and in our timeline it’s a fake moral panic that not enough WHITE PEOPLE are reproducing because:

1. Too many people are gay.
2. Too many people are trans.
3. Too many white women are dating non-white men.
4. Too many women do not want to date an incel.
5. Too many women getting too many abortions!!

Eventual Carrion Jan 7, 2024 • 5:51:59pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

Have I mentioned lately how great Hoopla is? I’m still working through their Joe Lansdale category, reading the graphic novel “Extreme Carnage” with their excellent web app. You just need a digital library card from any major library. Can recommend. 13/10

Cool. It knew my library. I just entered my library card number and created an account. Nice.

darthstar Jan 7, 2024 • 5:53:36pm

Quarterbacks are like horses…they both count with their feet.

teleskiguy Jan 7, 2024 • 5:54:49pm

Mastodon

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 5:58:06pm

More on the post about Trump being the anti-christ. How about this one from Daniel:

His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the area surrounding the temple, so that they can set up the abomination that leaves the area empty.

And by smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will be strong and take action

Daniel 11:31-32

Damn. We all remember how he cleared out the “sanctuary” near the temple. Franklin Graham loved what he did. The pastor of the church, one he never attended, was furious.

silverdolphin Jan 7, 2024 • 6:06:58pm

re: #66 darthstar

God likes his people dead, apparently.

Nowhere in the Bible does it actually say that. There are thoughts about broken earthen pots being reused, etc. But in almost every case where one can call the person imperfect, they repented their weakness. Trump has not done that.

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