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David Simon
@AoDespair
Author, journalist, and TV writer/producer. Angriest Man in Television is faint praise indeed.
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RT. The problem, when you view this movie trailer, is that once you stand back and take in the scope of the greed and cynicism, you don't know whether you're going to see a drama or black comedy. Either way, #WGAStrong
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@StephenKing @pattonoswalt @neilhimself @AoDespair @AOC @jimmykimmel @jimmyfallon @StephenAtHome @jayleno @ConanOBrien twitter.com/Kleb28/status/…
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RT for any members or sympathizers. It's always sunny on a picket line in Philadelphia. #WGAStrong
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Replying to @AoDespair
Since your followers would care-- the WGA East is picketing at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia *right now* (Comcast owns NBC) -- people should go give them some support!
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Fucking Pinkertons.
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Law Enforcement Warns Strike Supporters Outside of Warner Bros. About Excessive Horn Use deadline.com/2023/05/wga-st
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If you have nine, take a torah out of the ark and kick the vicious little squib down the stairs.
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Replying to @AoDespair
you know?.. If he showed up to make a minyan.. I'd ask him to leave; and if we're one short, God would understand.
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Put on the skinny jeans this morning and they fit, kind of. Found my Wayfarers under the sofa. Left the coffee shop with a yogurt and no coffee cake. Feeling like I very much want to walk a picket line but I am in Baltimore. See you Monday in NY, brothers and sisters. #WGAStrong
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You're a shanda for the goyim, but even saying so, unless I'm the Vilna Gaon with an angry bet din behind me, I don't get to declare who is a Jew and who isn't. You're a fecal-flecked moral pygmy, but regrettably, shitbird, you still count toward a minyan.
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Bernie Sanders is approximately as Jewish as a ham sandwich topped with shrimp on lard bread twitter.com/Ostrov_A/statu…
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Sen. Sanders grew up in Brooklyn, a son of Jewish immigrants. His father, Elias, emigrated from Poland in 1921 at 17. Sen. Sanders learned during an appearance on the PBS show Finding Your Roots that he had family killed during the Holocaust.
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My brain works. It's a burden that you will never be made to endure.
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How such a wonderful writer van bs so childish in his opinions, I don't know.. twitter.com/AoDespair/stat…
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Mook, this wasn't an interview. It was a format in which handpicked supporters were arrayed to affirm and cheer proven falsehoods and slanders, sponsored by a news organization that delivered an ethical pratfall where fact-checking and truth-to-power are supposed to reside. twitter.com/clintsmoker/st
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Embarrassing from Cooper. I'm aware that countering the American lurch into fascism is a prolonged and exhaustive battle, and I accept it will occur on many platforms. I can also abhor a platform that indulges and coddles that fascism -- and all those who draw pay from such.
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The next frontier for the upper house of the American national legislature is this: Can we possibly, with a great expenditure of cash and partisan fervor, elect anyone more relentlessly imbecilic to our institution? I daresay, they may have finally met their omega moron.
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What the actual hell?
GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville is doubling down on his view that white nationalists should serve in the military: “White nationalists, what the heck is that? We all got different beliefs. You know I’m a Church of Christ, Catholics, we got different people...We… Show more
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In defense of my cotton-mouth, it was hot out there on Monday and I was really thirsty. But otherwise, these guys asked questions that gor to some of the key points in this job action.
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David Simon, the creator of The Wire, says he’s on strike to protect new generations of writers and make sure they aren’t exploited by studios.
He also explains how studios are cutting jobs to please shareholders and making TV shows almost impossible to run. cc @AoDespair
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You incredible submenial, stumblefuck. Haven't you realized that the first rule of Twitter is never waste more than one quick insult on a useless troll. Life is short and morons aplenty. Mock, block and roll.
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Replying to @jtrav56m @RichGuineaPig and 2 others
Your boy David got his shit pushed in like the bumptious boomer buffoon he is
Typical leftist tweeting an insult and then blocking ppl because you can’t win arguments
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Always go with the union label. #WGAStrong
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Replying to @AoDespair
A beautifully articulated description.
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At least I'm not writing about them credulously in the present tense, you born-yesterday, ahistorical squib.
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Replying to @AoDespair
If you don't like them, DON'T LISTEN. no one is forcing you to watch, you painfully dumb, self-centered boomer.
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You gibbering submoron. I also think Father Coughlin should not have been given a radio show, and Julius Streicher did not rate a newspaper column. De-platforming the assholes doesn't censor anyone.
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Replying to @AoDespair
“He’s a fascist!” unironically says the elitist who wants to censor him. 
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Can't speak for other showrunners, but when this strike ends one day, and it will, fuck if I'll ever hire a scab actor or director to read or shoot a page. I'm a union man, a Hebrew and a Baltimorean. I remember every grudge.
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Replying to @AoDespair
They won't be able to shut down the productions that are currently or even moving to shoot abroad, and now sadly it will accelerate, at least they will try to rely on them to stay afloat, as the CEO of PrAMAOUNT SAID. timesofmalta.com/articles/view/
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Dept. of Credit Where Due: I learned yesterday that while HBO suspended my deal during the strike, they are presently paying our company's support staff. These are hard-working people living paycheck-to-paycheck; decision is class. Now back to the barricades. #WGAStrong
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There is a reason the oldest profession is that. #CNN
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While running for President in 1968, Nixon appeared in question-and-answer broadcasts paid for by his campaign. Directed by Roger Ailes, they featured a friendly moderator (Bud Wilkinson) and carefully-chosen studio audience:
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That pen-is-mightier stuff? Yeah, so we can turn a phrase and tell you the difference between a verb and a gerund, but fuck that shit. I work with gangsters and commandos.
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When I did the job, I'd imagine being a decent line reporter at a Fox outlet, or the WSJ, or NY Post and having my best work adjacent to miserable editorial stances and choices? What, I wondered, might compel me to resign? Well, If I worked at CNN today, I would quit. Honestly.
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This is solidarity. And I believe the #DGA membership hungers for such and understands that if the entertainment guilds ever stick together for a single negotiating cycle, our industry would be transformed for the better and for all of us. Would that all had real leadership.
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To be clear to dual DGA/WGA folks that may have questions, the WGA is specifically asking the dual DGA/WGA members not to perform those "a through h" services.
It's understood that this is a move of solidarity which will make the strike go faster.
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I take solace in your mother, who is relentless and giving. And your father, who gives me half the cash back if I allow him to watch.
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Replying to @AoDespair
Keep crying
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You're full-on gibbering. The odd ejaculate of capital letters is making it worse. Try sitting, head between knees and breathing into a paper bag for a few long moments. Relevancy and coherence are not for everyone, and just breathing is, for some, a measure of accomplishment.
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And the usage of "guaranteed".
The gun lobby has zero ethics and will say the most bullshit stuff, but even they wouldn't try to use "guarantee" having a gun-- you have the RIGHT to own a gun, not a GUARANTEE OF HAVING a gun.
Do you understand how any of this works?
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Christ, this bespittled gibber is so clogged with rando, catchphrased boogiemen that I don't understand why you haven't paid $8 for a blue check? Nonetheless, le bloque, c'est moi.
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Replying to @AoDespair
Can you define fascist such that Trump fits the definition but Biden doesn't?
Biden has Wall Street, Media, Intelligence apparatus all working together to advance the agenda of global elites. Trump had those forces working against him.
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Press conference this week. He dragged 'em ok. So fuck all you trying to imagine such. It just happened.
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Explain the statute that guarantees any individual the right to a prime-time gathering of like-minded supporters and a neutered, passive host to lob softball questions? Which Amendment in the BOR covers that bit of platforming?
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Replying to @AoDespair and @jaysbookman
"relentlessly naive and destructive"
Idea "this time" we can ignore laws, creating exceptions to what we agree is fair b/c of a unique situation, is a perfect definition of flexible ethics.
Your flexible ethical approach is "relentlessly naive and destructive" to democracy.
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"relentlessly naive and destructive"
Idea "this time" we can ignore laws, creating exceptions to what we agree is fair b/c of a unique situation, is a perfect definition of flexible ethics.
Your flexible ethical approach is "relentlessly naive and destructive" to democracy.
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He's a fascist who refused to peacefully relinquish power, provoked coup and constitutional crisis. Addressing this within the normal construct of our political contests is relentlessly naive and destructive.
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Replying to @AoDespair
This is the process. He's a former president and the leading GOP pres contender by a mile. He should be questioned by voters and the media on a national stage. If it's a shitshow let everyone see. We shouldnt want some executive deciding who we are and are not allowed to hear fro
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It is the people's declamation. It belongs to the people.
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“Christ in a Chrysler” is so much more evocative than my Christ on a cracker. I plan to quote/use this. Thanks.
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North. Shore. Leader.
Christ in a Chrysler, we live in an age of gracelessness.
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Here is the piece by @migold and @gr_ashford that started the long saga of George Santos, the congressman who's being taken into custody this morning for wire fraud and money laundering nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyr
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It was reporting by the North Shore Leader, a small local newspaper in Long Island, that initially questioned George Santos’ backstory.
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Another showrunner with integrity. #WGAStrong
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P-Valley, which is filming its third season, has postponed its production in Atlanta. Creator and showrunner Katori Hall said, “We will not be filming until a fair deal is reached” deadline.com/2023/05/writer
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"Frank's Place."
I fucking loved that show.
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"Soros globalists" earns the immediate block, you dumb shitsack. Why don't you just say "Jews" and embrace the raw, submoronic anti-semtism as you so very much want. twitter.com/ericbroder2/st
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This selfish, miserable tripe is what has devoured the American middle and working classes and transferred astounding wealth to the top .025 percent. Unions built the American economy and consumer class and we will have to learn the 20th Century all over again. twitter.com/bbbowie/status
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My god. 13.1 % means they've only solved a handful of domestic murders and those caught on a camera somewhere. And not even
all of those. Those wondering why our city's murder rate is at historic highs need only note
this stat. They've made murder legal in Baltimore.
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13.1%!!!!
Must not have been very many white victims. twitter.com/conarck/status…
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Buddha says one should never wish for what one cannot have. Unless that shit is a stolen buddha, in which case, go Old Testament on a motherfucker or two.
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Replying to @LauraMLippman
Stealing a Buddha is some bad bad mojo.
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Bless the allies. #WGAStrong
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“I believe all unions should be in solidarity. No one should go back to work until everyone has got an equitable fair wage and dignity to their lives…” Mandy Patinkin and Bob Odenkirk tell Deadline in NYC #WritersStike
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I'm a Baltimore guy --no residential or narrative connections with this Hollywood of which you speak -- so please understand that is natural for me to now advise you to eat a bag of stale, unsalted dicks, you flat-brained, paper-thin shitsquib. #WGAStrong
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Replying to @LeBatardShow and @AoDespair
I feel bad for these Hollywood guys man. They have it rough
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