Couirey Eckmayer

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@VHSDVDBLURAY4K If you were having a caption contest, I'd submit: "Epstein bros 4 life!!!"

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@VHSDVDBLURAY4K I was thinking A Perfect Storm. 😂

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

A day into vacation, with my brain healing from being (mostly) offline, I’ve been meditating on one thought: In many controversies, multiple things can be true at the same time. In the Platner situation, all of these things seem true:

- Platner represents a unique threat to elite power and therefore the elite and its media machine are subjecting him to the kind of scrutiny that the elite do not subject themselves or their political puppets to, in order to try to get him to drop out/lose.

- Some of the accusations being hurled at Platner are uncorroborated and come from politically motivated sources, and others with similar political motivations are trying to amplify the accusations not because they are genuinely morally outraged but because they have political/ideological goals.

- The same political and media class that ignored/buried the Epstein scandal is now pretending to be genuinely mad about the substance of the Platner allegations/revelations — and their pretend outrage is patently ridiculous and inauthentic.

- Some of the corroborated revelations and uncorroborated allegations about Platner are serious and should be taken seriously — and should be weighed against his explanations, contrition and denials.

- Voters being exposed to new revelations/accusations can have legit concerns about them and about Platner, and having those concerns does not make those voters corrupt or dupes.

- Elections are leaps of faith. We don’t know what people will do once in office. We do know that those who control the political system do not like letting anyone near power who didn’t climb the traditional political latter.

- Platner volunteered to risk his life in combat for his country — multiple times. He then volunteered to run for Senate when no other major challenger was willing or able to step up and give Maine voters a serious choice in competitive primary. These decisions reflect a form of character and courage.

- Who is given grace and who is ostracized from politics remains selective. America extended grace to John McCain and allowed him into politics despite his — ahem — quite messy post-combat lifestyle and behavior. The Senate that threw out Al Franken also extended grace to Brett Kavanaugh and confirmed him despite allegations of sexual assault. Voters extended grace to Donald Trump for all of his horrors and elected him president. The fiery debate over whether voters should extend Platner — a combat veteran — grace or ostracize him proves that we still have no collective set of mores about forgiveness.

All of these things are true, and there’s one more thing that’s true: saying these things does not make one a Platner shill, a misogynist, etc. People hurling those insults and insinuations aren’t operating in good faith. They are trying to halt any conversation and shut down the democratic discourse — likely because they are politically motivated.

I am now going to (try to) log back off.

[Umbrella @UmbrellaEnt]

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[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@diabolikdvd I own the DVD. I bought it almost immediately after seeing the movie at @CinemaArts like 25ish years ago. It felt like nothing I had seen before. It was like each scene was one upping the bizarre of the last. By the time we're in the milk filled kitchen...Just wild.

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@diabolikdvd I thought it was one of those cancer/smoking subway ads I used to see up all over NYC once upon a time.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Trump gave the rich a giant tax cut — and that gift is being paid for by a tax increase on the working-class.

Pass it on.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

Master Plan producer Laura Krantz read Mandate for Leadership so you don’t have to.

It’s a 1980 conservative blueprint for reshaping the federal government and expanding presidential power.

One chapter is literally titled: “What The President Can Do By Executive Order.”

We played a game ⬇️

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@diabolikdvd As great as @ArrowFilmsVideo is, I don't know how they could Two-Up an already existing release. 😉

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 CNN just accidentally said the quiet part loud on live television:

“We’re not showing you that because the Israeli government doesn’t allow us — or want us — to show where that may have come from.”

A major American news network just admitted on air that a foreign government is controlling what you see.

Not suggesting it. Not implying it. Confessing it.

Speaker Johnson calls Islam a misguided religion from the House floor. The CIA arms Kurdish militias for regime change.

And now CNN confirms Israel is managing the visual narrative of a war American taxpayers are funding with their lives and $220 million a day.

You are not seeing the full picture. By design.

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@diabolikdvd I'm really hoping for a release of Boorman's The General. Brendan Gleeson's so fun to watch in it.

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@DeafCrocodile @Kickstarter I already did. Went with the OG VHS slipcover too. Really like the new art though too.

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@GhouliesVHS @KLStudioClassic Yes, with a shotgun disguised as a lamp.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: AIPAC is now reportedly directing its donors to send money straight to political candidates through backchannel methods instead of routing funds through the organization itself.

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@dawnofthediscs @KLStudioClassic Damn. I just bought the first two in the last year on Blu-ray... 😔 I'm not saying it's the best one, but I'm most partial the Ninja III: I watched that movie so many times as a kid.

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@imprint_films I'm sure it's not, but "you'll shoot your 👁️ out" immediately popped into my head upon seeing this image.

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

This Is Exactly the Right Time for Democratic Infighting, by @corbintrent https://t.co/khWejB7WeF

[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@ArrowFilmsVideo 🐢!!!

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[Couirey Eckmayer @cae758]

@krystalball @SenatorSlotkin Great job, @krystalball to you and @esaagar for not letting her off the hook. Her pause regarding @esaagar question about @AIPAC registering as a foreign lobby is fucking brutal.