Look, it’s been 44 years since it’s release so I trust I’m not “spoiling” things (Ilsa flies off with Victor and Blaine and Renault disappear into the fog while La Marseillaise swells in the background). The big reveal in Chinatown is that Katherine is Evelyn’s sister and her daughter.
Ok, that says something about how twisted Roman Polanski is I guess and Ivanka is the daughter Trump would like to bang if he wasn’t her father, but that’s not my point. My point is that “Dog Bites Man” is not “news”.
It’s Chinatown Jake, what did you expect?
Likewise the Mississippi Senatorial election.
That the Republicans have nominated a bigoted racist is no surprise at all (it is mildly remarkable it’s a woman because they’re misogynists too, but it only goes to show that women can make bad policy decisions just like men do).
No, what’s interesting is what a very, very bad no good candidate she is.
If you have the stomach for it, here she is getting devastated in her debate with Mike Espy-
Now you would think a performance like that would doom her but…
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
Cindy Hyde-Smith touts work with imaginary GOP senator, mixes up election date in disastrous debate
by Frank Dale and Ryan Koronowski, Think Progress
Nov 21, 2018
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) is doing her best to turn a Senate campaign in a state that President Donald Trump captured by nearly 20 percentage points in 2016 into a close race — and Tuesday’s debate was no exception.
Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate in April after Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) stepped down over health concerns, made headlines earlier this month when she joked about lynching at a campaign event.
Mississippi was the U.S. state with the most lynchings of Black people between 1877 and 1950 — and Hyde-Smith’s Democratic opponent, Mike Espy, is aiming to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since the Reconstruction era.
At least five businesses, including Walmart and AT&T, have asked Hyde-Smith to return campaign donations in the wake of her comments.
Things didn’t improve from there. Hyde-Smith was subequently caught on video advocating for voter suppression, saying, “Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult” for Democrats “that maybe we don’t want to vote.” Then, a 2014 Facebook post from Hyde-Smith’s account resurfaced, in which she is pictured standing next to a member of a a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group wearing a Confederate soldier’s hat with the caption “Mississippi history at its best!”
All of this is starting to make the GOP very nervous about a potential repeat of last year’s Alabama Senate special election, in which now-Sen. Doug Jones (D) defeated accused child molester Roy Moore (R) in a state that Trump won by nearly 30 points in 2016.
“The race is definitely tighter than what it should be,” a “top Mississippi Republican” told Talking Points Memo. “Her performance has lately not been great.”
It’s unlikely that Republicans are feeling any better about Hyde-Smith after her performance in Tuesday’s debate with Espy.
Over the span of an hour, the GOP senator cited an imaginary Republican colleague, asked for voters’ support on the wrong date, and offered a cringeworthy non-apology for her racist remarks about lynching.
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After the debate, the Mississippi Republican skipped taking any questions from the media, sending Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) in her place.
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Hyde-Smith reportedly demanded that no press or audience be allowed at the debate.
It’s like a slow motion train wreck. You don’t want to watch but you do anyway.
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