r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/palmerama 1d ago

Now the plot of Civil War doesn’t seem so far fetched.

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u/Faux-Foe 1d ago

The biggest far fetched idea in there wasn’t the movie, it was which states were aligned with each other.

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u/Emblazin 1d ago

That was by design so the right couldn't complain about being the bad guys.

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u/cosmicosmo4 1d ago

I see it as being because they wanted the movie to be about journalism during war, not about the political situation that led to the war. So they did their best to make it not make sense in today's actual political climate, but it's still super fucking clear that the divorced-from-reality, staying-past-his-term, FBI-dismantling white guy is more Trump than he is anyone else.

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u/Emblazin 1d ago

Agreed. Which I think is important because it humanizes journalists who have been demonized since the advent of the internet and Russia's psy-op on the liberal world order started under Putin. Of course journalists have been demonized before then as well, but the same consolidating of power after the 1999 apartment bombings (Google Ryazan Incident) is possibly coming to America under Trump, or we move closer to the reality in Civil War...

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u/cosmicosmo4 1d ago

Unfortunately, your post is more interesting and contains more actual insights on the state of journalism than the movie does. It had great sound design, though.

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u/Emblazin 1d ago

I'm glad someone else noticed that. I saw it in theaters and I was blown away at how DEAFENING the shootout scenes were front to back. I want a movie version of Robert Evans' It Could Happen Here Season 1 podcast.

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u/cosmicosmo4 1d ago

Good news, just stay put for like a couple years and you get to experience it with unparalleled realism.