"There’s a gathering storm—everyone feels it, he feels it. His children are in jeopardy, and I feel that. I think, 'What if my children were in jeopardy?' I would do anything — anything — to get them out of trouble. So we should be afraid. That’s what I think."
Said Meryl Streep, quoted in "Meryl Streep on Why People 'Should Be Afraid' of Trump" (Hollywood Reporter).
"The Gathering Storm" is the title of the first volume of Winston Churchill's history of World War II. There are 2 films about Churchill with that title, one from 1974 starring Richard Burton and one from 2004 starring Albert Finney. Last year's movie about Winston Churchill, with Gary Oldman, was called "Darkest Hour." "Darkest Hour" is not the title of any of the WWII volumes. It's just "a phrase coined by British prime minister Winston Churchill to describe the period of World War II between the Fall of France in June 1940 and the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 (totaling 363 days, or 11 months and 28 days), when the British Empire and Commonwealth stood alone (or almost alone after the Italian invasion of Greece) against the Axis Powers in Europe."
At least Meryl Streep didn't feel that it's our darkest hour. It could be worse.
Meryl Streep is one of the all-time great movie actors. So was Richard Burton. Here he is agonizing over the gathering storm in "The Gathering Storm." He's in his jammies, so it's easy to view this as a visualization of Trump at 3 a.m. (in case you, like Meryl, are trying to do that and face an impoverishment of imagination):
IN THE COMMENTS: Ken B said: "What starlet was in danger from Harvey Weinstein, when Streep knew about him, and kept his secret? What about her 3 a.m.?"
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232 comments:
1 – 200 of 232 Newer› Newest»Meryl says - His children are in jeopardy, and I feel that. I think, 'What if my children were in jeopardy?' I would do anything — anything — to get them out of trouble. So we should be afraid. That’s what I think
Why should Trump efforts to extricate scare Meryl? Why should they impact her?
Is she projecting/predicting that President Trump will wag the dog by starting wars?
I guess this is another one of those two different movies moments. Personally I don't see any "gathering storm" around Trump. I heard that the MSM worked itself up to a fever pitch this weekend over what amounts to nothing of any real consequence for Trump as far as I can discern. I'm either completely missing something (which I concede is entirely possible) or these people are utterly delusional.
Will they ever get tired of the hysteria?
Amazing! I was just wondering:
"I wonder what Meryl Sreep thinks about our current political situation?"
I think, 'What if my children were in jeopardy?' I would do anything — anything — to get them out of trouble.
Sophie's Choice was just a movie.
I’m sick ofthe leftin all its incarnations. Satan has always used proxies to do his insidious work starting with the subtle serpent. The goods news is, I read the spoiler: the woman’s seed bashes the serpent’s gead in the end. And Ms. Streep should worry about that, not Trump.
...and...SCENE!
The leftists are out to destroy Trump and his family. This we know. This we see.
All for the sin of beating Hillary, the woman who is above the law.
Is Trump covered in Alar? That might make him dangerous.
What starlet was in danger from Harvey Weinstein, when Streep knew about him, and kept his secret? What about her 3 a.m.?
Flashback. Streep once glorified Weinstein as a "god".
Well, fortunately for Meryl, the president's powers are limited. There is only so much the head of the Executive branch can do to ruin your life.
[Nuclear war, sure - he can start one more or less by himself - but I incline more toward the Scott Adams take that Trump is a real estate guy and nuclear war is hell on real estate values, than toward the Megan McArdle take that Trump genuinely doesn't understand why we shouldn't use nuclear weapons if we have them.]
For the rest of it, thank God, not everything in our lives is controlled by the government, and not all the government is controlled by the president. Meryl and her compatriots work feverishly to change that state of affairs, as long as the president is on their side. So when we get one who's not, it's an emergency, an existential crisis.
The gathering storm is the leftists, who would, if they could, round up the deplorables and place them in prison camps.
He's in his jammies, so it's easy to view this as a visualization of Trump at 3 a.m.
I bet, in their visualization, Trump's pajamas have NIG on them.
Awww... Feelings sure are wonderful things to feel!
Imagine what Churchill could have accomplished if he'd had Twitter in that Darkest Hour!
The Oscars are fast approaching. Get your anti-Trump lectures and speeches ready.
I thought Althouse hated actors mimicking. Yet that is what Streep is most famous for. Take away her mimicry and how do you make her one of the great actresses?
Soap opera thinking from the actress who ruined Ricky and the Flash.
Such thoughts are common among people who have too much time of their hands because they have too much money.
Ken B:
"Is Trump covered in Alar?"
Wish I'd thought of that!
What's fun is that if you search for Meryl Streep and Alar, you find analyses polarized into Junk Science versus No, Alar really was dangerous and the deniers deny it just like they deny climate change.
Which seems inevitable now.
I would put up Meg Ryan in Joe Verses the Volcano against any performance of Meryl Streep's. Streep was best as an entitled movie star in Stuck on You.
Wasn't Streep that self important windbag at the Oscars a few years ago?
Yeah, no. Her opinions only merit interest because of her fame, not for their depth or intellectual heft.
"Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38)."
does Streep care?
Streep may be a great actress (not in my book but to each his own). But why does she feel she has to butt into politics? Which other "great actors" feel that compulsion so regularly?
I'm sick and tired of seeing Steep's face off screen.
Someone said that anxiety is the emotion that insists on its own importance.
Maybe Streep is just acting. There is a big difference in the Storms. DJT, who does not drink, is the one with the superior Military forces to Storm our enemies . Winston, who was drinking all day long, had no military forces left and was supposed to surrender when Hitler suddenly redirected his Military forces storm until he could take the oil fields of Odessa and the middle east.
I don't think I've seen Meryl Streep ever do anything but play Meryl Streep...with an accent.
I think her greatest talent, besides being a self important windbag and accents, is that of ROLE SELECTION. She never stretched herself by trying to play the female lead in 'The Accused" (props to Jodie Foster for at least trying that). She never did what Glenn Close did with Fatal Attraction or 101 Dalmatians.
Nope. Except for half of Sophie's Choice, she always seems to play dignified self important wind bags in 'important' (to the Literati) films.
I wonder how much money she and Robert Redford(another self important windbag) have lost on their films over the years?
I would imagine Trump sleeps easy for the fate of his family, knowing he has the pardon power.
Streep needs a better screenwriter - I can't tell what she is trying to say.
Remake all the Meryl Streep movies with Stormy Daniels.
Disagreeing with Leftists is always the end of the world.
I don't know why everybody's busting on Harvey Weinstein. I thought we'd moved past that.
"Meryl Streep is one of the all-time great movie actors."
Unless she has had some alterations made, Ms. Streep is an "actress". When someone has two XX chromosomes, that makes them female, and females who act are called "actresses". It's standard English, you could probably look it up in one or another of those dictionaries you are always quoting.
If you see A Harvey Weinstein Production flash in the title sequence you know it's a decent film.
Harvey spends the time to find the right actress.
Looking at her movies, it seems she does cameos for successful movies and has a run of low budget movies which middle aged middle class women flock to on name recognition...like Mamma Mia.
So generally her movies, which are small budget affairs, do moderately well.
But no matter how well the movie does, I don't doubt for a minute that she always gets paid.
Harvey spends the time to find the right actress.
In what universe was Rose McGowan EVER the 'right actress' as opposed to his finding her the right position?
She has closed her mind to the right but claims empathy with them?
"Blogger Dickin'Bimbos@Home said..."Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38)."
Good grief. Has anybody produced a list yet of all of the things Comey doesn't know/remember?
Please, Meryl, do not make implied threats against the children of the President of the United States. Lots of Americans don't like that. Not. One. Bit.
I suggest a role for her as a hard-hitting middle-aged district attorney who puts out. Weinstein could produce it.
@FIDO, then you concur with me that Streep stunk up the screen on "Momma Mia"?
"Streep may be a great actress (not in my book but to each his own). But why does she feel she has to butt into politics"
One has to exorcise one's guilt in some way.
And it can't be by attacking one's own field.
But the guilt remains because Hollywood is built on significant injustices and biases, constructed by illegal deals and behaviors that isn't allowed in any other business.
Those at the top sit on a pile of skulls and flayed skins of the countless many who were willing to give their everything for a little fame.
They feast on the blood of maidens and the flesh of young men.
So, they must point elsewhere and say, "Aha!"
Movie stars should be seen and not heard.
"I had the best words! I know more…than the generals!"
Like, a better speech writer than his speech writers? You know, like, Obama's arrogantly condescending selfoverestimation that comedians and actresses made fun of ad nauseam?
Anyway, I am surprised Polanski didn't come up. Like a true prog, Streep is more scared about Trump's possibility than she is horrified by Roman's rapy-rape's reality.
Suppose they do impeach Trump and convict him in the Senate. Now you have at least 1/3 of the nation utterly convinced that the government is not being run for their good and is illegitimate. Oh, and that they have been disenfranchised and elections are farces. Follow that up with persecuting Trump's kids and how do you think the 1/3 of the nation that thinks its disenfranchised are going to react? The really strange thing is how Trump's opposition is acting. Caught up in their worldview that they are the good ones and they are what is preventing Trump from instituting death camps, they can't comprehend that all that Trump has done is renegotiate some treaties, tried to enforce an immigration policy that both Clinton and Obama said they supported back in the day, work out a better trade policy with China, and try to denuclearize Iran and North Korea. Its astounding.
Shorter version. Streep is a hysteric and idiot.
People don't notice who the hero of Miss Sloane (2016) was. The male escort. The only one who knew what a man was.
Streep's obsession is starting to remind me of another great American actor -- John Wilkes Booth.
"'What if my children were in jeopardy?' I would do anything — anything — to get them out of trouble. So we should be afraid.'" Has Streep heard of the presidential pardon power? He doesn't need to have the army take over the DOJ to protect his children. He doesn't need to do "anything - anything". He simply needs to immediately, no hesitation, sign pardons for them for anything they are accused of. Impeach me if you wish; my kids aren't going to go to jail just because I have political enemies.
Everyone will understand, as Meryl Streep said she would understand.
"I'm scared. I'm scared by him, by his possibility.
And his "possibility" is based on...what? Her feverish imagination?
Of all the things Trump is responsible for, he's also to be held to account for what his enemies imagine about him?
There's pundits, actresses and porn stars, and actresses keep encroaching outside their talent region.
Actresses' opinions are idiotic, and they all look like your girlfriend with no clothes on naked. Stick with what got you there.
Why do people infused movie stars with some kind of moral authority. Yea, I like Meryl Streep on the screen. Great in Deer Hunter, Postcards From The Edge, and Doubt. But she's just one of a million opinions floating out there....nothing special in her take or her words. Just another political rant. Join the 100 others in my facebook feed.
@MikeR
I thought that too. But I recently learned that the Presidential pardon power can only be used for federal crimes. That's one of the reasons Mueller is referring people to a state court in NYC.
What Weinstein checked for was acquiesence. It works in filming too.
So Democrat party members are fearful, irrational and narcissistic to the point of derangement. Good thing America voted these dangerous idiots back into power.
She's great at overacting, maybe that's why I can't understand what she's trying to say.
I just read this post after watching this YouTube review of Vice. The reviewer noted that the Vice Director also did The Big Short and commented how his style likely made viewers angry in both movies. I suspect folks like Streep have recently screened Vice for the award season, and see in it "the game" that is mentioned by the YouTube reviewer, and think "the game" is one sided.
I was interested in politics as a kid. I had a great opportunity to work the 1992 GOP convention in my hometown Houston. I got a close hand look at "the game", and it turned me off. It is ugly but necessary, and often upsets average people who don't get it. And those currently losing "the game" can get very angry and forget it is a game. Streep is losing compared to Donald Trump, but she plays "the game" and is just as ugly for doing so.
Brendan Gleeson in The Guard (2011) was a nice blend of good-willed helpfulness combined with not giving an inch to PC. Another man who knows what a man is.
That's enough of your guff, Boyle. Apologise to the man.
Huh? Apologise for what?
For your racist slurs for one thing.
I'm Irish. Racism's part of my culture.
I'm scared for Meryl. I'm scared she may be too white to win another Oscar. That's what keeps me up at 3:00 a.m.
Speaking of movies about World War Two, I highly recommend the 2004 movie Ike: Countdown to D-Day, starring Tom Selleck as General Dwight Eisenhower.
Before I watched the movie, I thought that Selleck was a horrible casting decision, but he played Eisenhower superbly. This movie is really great.
Hey Meryl, don't you have another American industry to falsely accuse of poisoning children?
https://www.acsh.org/news/1999/02/01/an-unhappy-anniversary-the-alar-scare-ten-years-later
The apple industry hasn't recovered from your Alar smear to this day.
What a POS you are.
3am used to be for taking phone calls in the White House. Trump's been tweeting for an hour already at that time.
Good grief. Has anybody produced a list yet of all of the things Comey doesn't know/remember?
That alone would require 258 entries just from his testimony last Friday. It’s a good thing he wrote (and sold) his memoirs before suffering this severe memory loss! Kinda seems like Comey belongs in prison, instead of preening about DC like some seargeant Schulz character.
Ron Winkleheimer hits the nail on the head at 10:10.
At least she understands that the people on her side have no compunction about attacking the children of anyone who gets in their way.
Meryl Streep can sit down. She gave a standing ovation to a guy who raped a 13 year old girl in the butt after drugging her, and said Harvey Weinstein is a GOD!
Sounds to me like Meryl is getting all wee wee'd up. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But her ability as political prognosticator is somewhat suspect.
Original Mike said...Good grief. Has anybody produced a list yet of all of the things Comey doesn't know/remember?
You know what's super funny, though? Just a few months ago we were told we should believe everything Comey said because unlike others he kept meticulous notes and therefore his recollections (even of private conversations) should be the ones upon which we rely. It was a big deal--his memory was superior to others' because he was such a diligent note taker! Suddenly, though, he simply can't remember key details (strangely just the details that'd make him look bad) and the Media just shrugs. Oh well!
Check it out, though:
NYTimes: Comey's Memos Were A Product of A Culture of Note Taking
Newsweek: Comey Shows Why You Should Take Notes Too
Why James Comey's Obsessive Note Taking Is a Smart Strategy
Time: Why You Should USe James Comey's Note-Taking Habit At Work
Last year she had The Post press conferences to talk about the dangers of unchecked power and burnish her Hollywood image.
I guess Momma Mia! Here We Go Again and Mary Poppins Returns aren't sufficient vehicles so she's inventing her own scenarios in 2018.
Streep: There’s a gathering storm—everyone feels it, he feels it. His children are in jeopardy, and I feel that. I think, 'What if my children were in jeopardy?' I would do anything — anything — to get them out of trouble. So we should be afraid. That’s what I think.
Director: And... CUT!
Meryl Streep called Harvey Weinstein "a God" and gave a standing ovation to convicted child rapist Roman Polanski.
No wonder her tweets read like a LLR Chuck rant and a lefty call to action.
She (and more relevant to this blog, Inga) truly believe what they are saying. That's what I find scary.
These people still don't know how Trump got elected.
Hollywood is most afraid that Trump (and Trumpism) will be a success. Same with Reagan.
The greatest antidote for taking celebrity opinion as gospel or worth listening to was not watching Jane Fonda but Robert Mitchum in 1967 describing what we should do in Vietnam. https://youtu.be/zNawbuG4mTg Good grief. Hollywood actors, is there anything they don't know?
Why the fuck is everyone scared of Trump? What has he done that is so threatening?
What are the five worst things that Trump has actually done?
Thanks for those links, H.D.. Can Comey's work notes be subpoenaed?
What a drama queen.
I can't believe no one said it in 77 comments.
This brutally honest piece by Trump Hater T.A. Frank in Vanity Fair's Hive was highlighted a week ago by RealClear Investigations. Meryl Streep's fears should increase even more if she reads it to find out there's still no there there:
IS THIS IT?: A TRUMP-HATER’S GUIDE TO MUELLER SKEPTICISM
Mueller’s comportment suggests a man who’s fallen prey to the same state of mind that warped Ken Starr—namely disgust over the people you’re investigating and a desire to justify the sunk capital. Even if the special counsel presents one hell of a report, Democrats must ask: was it worth it?
"...Some of the news, such as a Guardian story that Manafort met three times with Julian Assange, seems to be based on nothing at all. But even the solid news turns out to be generally non-earth-shattering. As the journalist Aaron Maté has been pointing out, we already knew the timeline of Cohen’s Moscow efforts, because BuzzFeed had already detailed them in May, painting a picture of a bumbling duo getting high on their own supply. (As for the latest revelations, did Sater and Cohen really think a president of Russia would move into a free $50 million penthouse provided by a U.S. presidential candidate? You have to wonder if they were hitting each other on the head with bricks.) Those who hope that Mueller reveals a shambolic operation with a lot of rascals engaged in sleazy and embarrassing behavior will be happy with the fruits of his labors. But those who hope for an unveiling of indictments linking Putin and Trump in a grand conspiracy have no more reason to celebrate than they did a week or a month ago.
Certainly, Trump’s ethical standards are low, but if sleaziness were a crime then many more people from our ruling class would be in jail."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/a-trump-haters-guide-to-mueller-skepticism
We know who the storm is. We do.
The Storm is TRUMPY BEAR!
How could you not remember this? I'm so disappointed in all of you.
Blogger gahrie said..."Why the fuck is everyone scared of Trump? What has he done that is so threatening?"
This has been puzzling me for a long time. My best guess is it's a charade, meant to provide cover for acts they know are not justified by the facts (like violent protest and impeachment). If it's sincere, well that's really ominous because then they are nuts. I am scared of them.
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Blogger gahrie said..."Why the fuck is everyone scared of Trump? What has he done that is so threatening?"
By usurping the throne from its rightful heir, he has upset the Balance of the Universe and forfeited the Mandate of Heaven.
"What are the five worst things that Trump has actually done?"
1. Being born.
2. Getting elected.
I'll work on 3-5 later.
I have one very specific memory of Meryl Streep. Her face is suffused with joy and triumph. She jumps to her feet and applauds wildly. The memory comes not from a movie role but from her reaction to Polanski's winning of the Oscar.......Meryl and Hollywood are damaged brands. With the possible exception of the Pope and the Catholic Church, I can't think of anyone less entitled to offer moral advice.
What a drama queen.
I see Captain Obvious made a comment.
Next up, "Water is wet. I can't believe it took 20 comments for anyone to notice."
Winston Churchill was wrong about a lot of things, but he had that one magnificent year in 1940. He gets a lot of criticism for not realizing that the British Empire was over, but his courage and defiance was based on his belief in the endurance and ultimate triumph of the British Empire.........I wonder beer how long it will take for Meryl Streep to realize that Hollywood is not a land of tinsel and glamour but of sex and squalor.
Streep resorts to a tired old lefty trope: such-and-such a person is "scary," he scares me. Because if someone scares you, PRESUMABLY there must be a reason. Thus you can cast aspersions on that "scary" person without ever giving a rational basis for it. A very lazy & biased way of "arguing."
I think it would be interesting for Trump to try and do something completely unhinged just to see how the system reacts. Will anyone notice? What would it take for the rest of us to know something is seriously amiss? I mean it's not like he has direct access to WMD or something. He's not going to be out dumping weaponized anthrax into the nearest mailbox. He would have to work through others wouldn't he?
But this is an old ploy, the Republicans are crazy dangerous. They're going to blow up the world. Goes back to Goldwater at least.
Never have so many known so little about so much.
Well I'm guessing there were many lies in Vice, re interrogations the energy task force the whole yellowcake dossier matter.
By Shakespearean recall he relied on Tudor propagandists Thomas merton to sully the name of the plantagenets much like machiavelli did to any rival of the borgias
It’s the same with white nationalism and this ubiquitous plague of American Nazis that nobody seems to see anywhere but in the left wing media.
It’s an argument that goes back a thousand years at least:
Anselm defined God as "that than which nothing greater can be thought", and argued that this being must exist in the mind, even in the mind of the person who denies the existence of God. He suggested that, if the greatest possible being exists in the mind, it must also exist in reality. If it exists only in the mind, then an even greater being must be possible—one which exists both in the mind and in reality. Therefore, this greatest possible being must exist in reality.
I wasnt aware of the former toll I read Josephine tey, the latter I learned from nicholas straithern and Elizabeth lew.
I don’t look to actors for political insights. That said, Trump’s son is in far greater legal peril from the perjury trap than Trump himself, and parents do stupid things to protect their children — just ask Michael Flynn.
Over the meeting with the fusion GPS crew in trump tower, snorfle.
I feel exactly the same about the left. The horrible lessons of history have never been learned by them or most young Americans today. Some older ones believe the perpetual stupidity that their ideology isn't the problem, and they just need the right leaders. The horrors of collectivism and the fight it will bring, win or lose, is scaring me. Do we have enough lovers of freedom today to protect this experiment. I'm not sure anymore, but it's not Trump we need to worry about. He doesn't want to transform the greatest nation in history into something else or start a war to do so. The left clearly wants a disaster to blame on Trump, even if they have to cause it themselves. They believe in transforming everything, which means breaking things - even highly successful, uplifting things, just becuase they exist. They are like the worst toddler or puppy. They can't leave anything alone. They need to tear it up.
I'm surprised she is not calling child welfare services on Trump. It would fit with the border wall activism.
Drama queen.
"parents do stupid things to protect their children — just ask Michael Flynn."
I think he had no choice. The evil bastards would destroy anyone to throw some dirt Trump's way. From what I read, even the FBI agents said he didn't lie. He knew that, but he also knew who he was dealing with, and that the top assholes would do whatever they had to, including destroy innocent people.
Of course she's scared. The tweets are coming from inside the White House!
Streep, you think you're scared? Imagine being a Republican, chased out of restaurants, mobs in your front yard, getting shot playing baseball. You have no idea what you are squawking about. Get out of your bubble for a day.
I'm with FIDO. I don't care how many awards she's gotten. I've seen a lot her movies; lot of them were good/great (I even liked Mama Mia). She's a decent actress, but I cannot remember one where I forgot I was looking at MS. Also echo FIDO that she was less than brave in her role selection. Charlize Theron and Jennifer Lawrence are both more talented and take greater risks. In addition to FIDO's examples, can you imagine MS in Monster? Or in Mary Tyler's role in Ordinary People or J.Lawrence's role in American Hustle? I've been a movie fan for decades. Theron and Lawrence are once in a generation truly great actors, next to which MS seems like a character actor.
Maybe Trump will fire cruise missiles and kill a night watchman at an aspirin factory somewhere in Africa to get the scandal off the front page.
Blogger Earnest Prole said..."Trump’s son is in far greater legal peril from the perjury trap than Trump himself"
What perjury? Not arguing, just asking.
We went through all that to find that he paid Stormy through Cohen?
And now Preet Bharararara's SDNY can "indict" him
via an extreme interpretation of intrusive "campaign finance" laws that nobody really cares about?
Or the Dem leadership can "investigate" the whole affair, and then impeach him, while the Senate will not agree?
talk about a clusterfuck...
Another exhibit in support of FIDO. Is MS a better actor than say Clint Eastwood? I think not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpyT6ysZdB4
Streep should be ashamed for hogging all those roles
which could have gone to a transvestite of color
My god the privilege!
Meryl is correct. There is a gathering storm. Trump new AG appoints a Special Counsel. Hillary, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Power, Rice, Huma, Strzok et alia get indicted.
Trump burns down the Swamp. And he’s just the guy to do it.
Two can play the lawfare game.
They should be afraid. Very afraid.
Sigh. Meryl Streep lost all credibility with me when I decided I simply didn’t believe her claims that she was unaware of Weinstein’s behavior. In the same way Gloria Steinem lost credibility with her “just one grope” column defending Bill Clinton. Self-important bubbles are very sturdy.
I agree with her on The Rider...beautiful, heartbreaking, and very slow moving movie. However, it’s not Montana. It’s South Dakota, and the main character - the one brutally injured - is not Native American. Sure, it features his Native American rodeo rider friends, but they’re just friends like anyone else. It’s a tough life there no matter your ethnic background. So, her comments on that movie seem artificial to me.
Both that and First Reformed are very “arty”, difficult and slow movies. (I disliked First Reformed on first viewing but have softened on it It’s not really about the environment, though.) Maybe I’m cynical, but her choice of them seems designed to present her in a certain way. I’ve stopped buying it.
rhhardin said...
Remake all the Meryl Streep movies with Stormy Daniels.
First on the list; "In and Out of Africa"!
DT has been president for 2 years.
Remember how insane and butt hurt the left were during GWB? They were certain the dark wave of theocracy would cover the land.
It never happened, but - you know, they fear mongered and milked the easily gullible for 8 long years. I'm not sure why we give a pack of over-paid actors who live in mansions and drive fancy cars and private jets and live behind walls and gates so much credence and attention.
Artists and intellectuals don't have such a hot track record over the past two hundred years. Generals and diplomats are a tad better, but not by much. I look like to bankers and oil executives for reasonably sound advice, but they're far from infallible...,,..If I were the kind of movie producer who could make the cogs turn, I would commission a movie about John Wilkes Booth. Here's my take: he's so besotted by the applause he has received for his good looks and the authority with which he declaims dramatic lines, that he comes to think of himself as a brave hero. The movie would dramatize the hubris of those who successfully dramatize hubris. Here's the kicker. At the end of the movie, we see that the man sitting in the Presidential box is Donald Trump, and then the camera pulls even further back and we see that this scene is wet dream of Meryl Streep who's frigging herself vigorously as the murder takes place.
Anxiety and fear based on feelings rather than facts, definition of irrational.
Perhaps Ms. Streep is trying to convince Trump that he and his family are in grave jeopardy, so much so that the only responsible thing for him to do to protect them is resign the presidency. Clever.
Meryl Streep doesn't play characters, she plays Meryl Streep playing characters.
Begely - he better get cracking.
It's Streep-tease.
Yes it was as much cds as bds, Maher crying that an IED missed the former.
In the Peasants Revolt of 1380 the Brushwood people of France, the overtaxed peasants living brushwood shelters instead of houses, began to lurk in groups on woodsy pathways. They pulled the knights off their horses, got their armor off and then threw them, their wives and their children into the fire which was burning down their castle. In England on the other hand, the knights got down off their horses and tried to run away when surrounded by angry peasants. But the peasants put them up on their horses and ordered them to present the peasants' petitions to the King. The knights were the people's representatives in the feudal order. Now, in these days, we have a sort of king entity, the Sun King which is the Deep State as a whole, Sun King Inc. And we are still putting knights or representatives in Congress back into their Lexus and ordering them to present our demands to Sun King Inc. But Meryl seems sure that, like Macron, like Sun King the First, Sun King Inc. won't listen, only cares about the climate, hates deplorables because, says Sun King, deplorables hate ... well, she may be right. But as for what will happen when we know they won't listen, that I think depends on who the Dems run in 2020. I say it will be Hillary. If she could run over Brennan and Comey why does anyone think Pocahontas or Occasional could stop her? But some people are self-limiting and that's what I think is the dynamic around Hillary just as it was around Nixon.
Republican presidents are crazy and dangerous accusations go back to Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by a Democrat in good standing. I've yet to see a Democrat who condemns the actions of John Wilkes Booth, Democrat assassin.
EP and Streep read the same blogs and watch the same shows on CNN and MSNBC.
gahrie said...
"Why the fuck is everyone scared of Trump? What has he done that is so threatening?"
They are not even slightly afraid of Trump. They are afraid of the people who elected him. I just wish that fear were justified.
Streep, you think you're scared? Imagine being a Republican, chased out of restaurants, mobs in your front yard, getting shot playing baseball. You have no idea what you are squawking about. Get out of your bubble for a day.
Bagoh, this is a Streep attempt to up the assault threshold on citizens who do not agree with her and her ilk. It is A "we-need-to-kill-anyone-who-disagrees-with-us-DO-IT-FOR-THE-CHILDREN1" call to arms.
> Meryl Streep doesn't play characters, she plays Meryl Streep playing characters.
Exactly. And she isn't all that interesting.
Someone needs to give her a script with an accent to learn. Maybe she could star as George Soros in 'The George Soros Story'. I'll bet she could pull it off. Get Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay so that everyone walks around very quickly speaking urgent, short one-liners to each other while tending to things of worldly importance. Throw in a Harvey Weinstein character, but this time have her battling him and exposing (bad choice of word) him as real evil, as opposed to real life where she took part in praising him and pumping up his stature. I suppose there are some people who want to hear Meryl's thoughts on something. I just can't imagine where they live.
Actually, I can.
Out of Africa sucked.
Dave Begley:
"Trump burns down the Swamp. And he’s just the guy to do it."
Thank you for reminding me of my favorite "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode: Devil Fish (spoiler warning):
https://tinyurl.com/y8k544zw
Ron Winkleheimer said... @MikeR I thought that too. But I recently learned that the Presidential pardon power can only be used for federal crimes.
campaign for President is not Federal matter/crime ? I saw SDNY charging fraud against USA.
should it THEN be fraud against STATE OF NY?
Supreme court fun for the future.
Just another attempt to ramp up the hysteria, and justify the attacks on Trump and his supporters. It is clear by now, that the left hates DJT and his supporters. The next step is already underway-actual violence against DJT or his supporters.“ A culture in which everything can be said and shown will produce, as night follows day, a society in which everything, no matter how terrible, can be done.” Philip Rieff- 1968
Known Unknown said...
"Out of Africa sucked."
Sucked Out of Africa was better.
EP and Streep read the same blogs and watch the same shows on CNN and MSNBC.
I haven't owned a television since 1999.
What perjury? Not arguing, just asking.
Read his Senate testimony (pdf) and imagine you’re an unprincipled prosecutor -- you know, the kind of person who brought down Senator Ted Stevens.
These are the same idiots who screamed for eight years that Ronny Raygun was going to get us all killed!!!.
I ignored them then. I ignore them now.
Blogger Jupiter said..."They are not even slightly afraid of Trump. They are afraid of the people who elected him."
Hmm.
Blogger Earnest Prole said..."Read his Senate testimony (pdf) and imagine you’re an unprincipled prosecutor -- you know, the kind of person who brought down Senator Ted Stevens."
OK, I see your point.
Would Hollywood be scared if the ultimate corrupt money grubbing deep state power couple were at the helm?
NO.
Don't believe everything you think, sweetie.
Care to be a little more specific, EP?
If it were "The Oncoming Storm," that would be The Doctor.
campaign for President is not Federal matter/crime ? I saw SDNY charging fraud against USA.
should it THEN be fraud against STATE OF NY?
They can find things to charge people for in a state court. There was talk about the NY state AG investigating the Trump Foundation. I haven't heard about that lately, perhaps because it was suggested that the DOJ would start investigating the Clinton Foundation. Or perhaps it was the other way around. We're looking at some serious corruption, quite a bit of it bi-partisan. Both parties have large elements that don't want the swamp drained because then they would be exposed.
Will Herr Mueller make Trump choose between Ivanka and Don Jr.?
I've not seen the Gathering Storm movie, though I found just now that I had put it (the 2002 version) on my Prime Watch list.
You can also download the Richard Burton version from YouTube.
I did read the entire series via Books on Tape back in the 80s or 90s.
My recollection of The Gathering Storm volume was that much of the book was dedicated to Churchill's efforts to scheme the US into the war. FDR didn't need scheming himself, he was all in on the idea of the US coming in.) He was worried about the American electorate.
Wilson had killed a lot of Americans 20 years before in Part 1 and the American people were in no mood for a rerun. 70-80% of American's opposed our involvement right up until Pearl Harbor. FDR had a historic 3rd election to win so he had to keep our efforts under the table. He could help with things like money, 50 destroyers, bases, occupation of Iceland, air patrols over the North Atlantic and finally his "sink on sight" order to the US Navy to sink any German shipping. The press, of course, cooperated, and kept reporting of this to a minimum.
All this while we were still officially "neutral"
Churchill was positively giddy, in the book, when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, Even more so a few days later when the Germans declared war on the US.
As I recall, in the book he said something like "Reading the news of Pearly Harbor I realized that Britain was saved. America would have to come in." I remember thinking it pretty cold blooded and seeming to dance on American graves.
We had no interest in the European War yet FDR kept poking and goading Germany with increasingly warlike acts until they had no choice but to declare war on us.
There was no need for the war at all. Or even National Socialist Germany other than pathetic bungling on the parts of the various European powers.
Even after PH and an initial burst of volunteers, there was a lot less popular enthusiasm for the war than the press would have had us believe.
John Henry
Blogger Dickin'Bimbos@Home said...
Remember how insane and butt hurt the left were during GWB? They were certain the dark wave of theocracy would cover the land.
But Dickin, this time we really are seeing a wave of prudery. Tumblr tested the waters last week by banning all porn and adult content. I hadn't realized that they had anything else. Now Facebook is banning all adult content including pictures showing a woman's nipple. I read something about Twitter cracking down too, though I forget what.
They told me that if Trump got elected we would see a return to prudery and they were right! H/T Insty.
John Henry
Dave Begley,
I like the image of burning down a swamp. Swamps are wet and not susceptible to fire. But President Trump has such awesome superpowers that he can even make water burn!
That is one Hell of an image and I am going to steal it. I may credit you if I remember.
Headline at Drudge this morning "16,000 fewer federal employees in November"
Burn that water baby!
If he will just share the trick, I can fill my car from my garden hose.
John Henry
Will Herr Mueller make Trump choose between Ivanka and Don Jr.?
Genius.
Regarding the "Gathering Storm," a few observations:
It's very healthy (and wise) that Althouse made reference to the true historical "Gathering Storm" relating to Churchill and WWII.
In that gathering storm, real live Nazis invaded a buncha countries, and, the end result was 70 Million or so real deaths.
In this gathering storm, well, we have "mean tweets," we have bullshit "dossiers" used to allow spying, we have "process" crimes, for folks who allegedly lie to crooked, left-wing, deep state FBI agents (Stork, McCabe) and we have 1-night stands with an aged whore, Stormy (no pun intended) Daniels.
So, when Meryl Streep (loved her in the Deer Hunter, definitely shagable), a rich, privileged Hollywood liberal talks about a "gathering storm" because she spends a lotta time on the internet reading shit she can't comprehend or put into proper context, well, ya kinda mock it and/or ignore it.
The "Get Trump" Squad is active, they now have the House, and they want to win back the White House -- kinda like every election season.
“Good grief. Has anybody produced a list yet of all of the things Comey doesn't know/remember?”
I have a different theory, and that is that his deputy, Andrew McCabe, was the one operationally running the FBI on a day to day basis. I think that he may have been intentionally kept out of the loop on a lot of things. One example was the technician in NYC finding 600k or so emails on the Weiner/Abedelin laptop, when he was busted for emailing pictures his junk (again). A large number of emails involving Crooked Hillary were discovered by him. He told his superiors, and at some point, Comey was informed, probably in passing, in order to hide what had been found. A month goes by, the election is coming fast, and the technician diligently tries to make his higher ups aware of the situation. Peter Strzok, in charge of both investigations, tries to run out the clock (claiming that the Trump investigation was more important), and fails. Finally, Comey becomes aware of the huge tranch of unexamined Clinton emails and panicks. He tells McCabe, who tells Strzok, to check them out. Strzok first claims it impossible (earlier having accepted the 30k emails from Clinton in paper form, which eliminated the metadata that would have allowed easy de duplication). But then he claimed that 3-4 of them, in a pizza fueled binge over a weekend had successfully checked out the hundreds of thousands emails that Abedelin was involved in. He lied. They had, apparently, done some random comparisons, but hadn’t touched the vast majority of the emails. Nevertheless, Comey, having been told by his people that the issue had been properly handled, told the country “never mind”.
Care to be a little more specific, EP?
Like the vast majority of commenters you’re apparently incapable of thinking like your enemy. Read some Sun Tzu and try harder.
She was OK with Weinstein sexually harassing women - but multi-millionaire Streep is all worried about Trump.
What a Dumbo.
How great an actress is Streep?
I go back and forth on it. Sometimes she seems very "actressy" you can see the wheels turning.
Sometimes she's great.
She was at her weakest when she tried to be a femme fatele or a beauty that men fell head over heals on. Better as a character actress or a part where beauty is secondary.
I sometimes visit Reddit for laughs, and today, lo and behold near the top of the front page in the /politics Reddit there's a linked opinion piece from some site called The Observer predicting (wishcasting) that Trump is totally going to jail for "The Rest of His Life"(!!!!!!). How can anyone believe this? I can't really relate to this level of delusion, it's like they're completely untethered from any semblence of reality. It's a bit scary because there's apparently a whole lot of people who are sharing in it since it's near the top of Reddit.
"I feel exactly the same about the left. The horrible lessons of history have never been learned by them or most young Americans today."
Look at all the craziness on campus, or ANY place where the conservatives have been cleansed. It doesn't take long before it turns into a nuthouse.
that's because liberals - even the reasonable kind - have no stomach for fighting the Left. All their energy goes to battling the right.
Even when Stalin was on the march after WW2, the liberals big enemy was Joe McCarthy!
Let's see if he can curb progressive costs in medical care, short of redistributive change that threatens to force the infamous, renewable decadal reset.
Mass hysteria
What are the five worst things that Trump has done? In my book no 1 is ignoring the danger from climate change and failing to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide. I propose we defer debate on whether I am right or not for 30 years.
"There’s a gathering storm—everyone feels it, he feels it. His children are in jeopardy, and I feel that. I think, 'What if my children were in jeopardy?' I would do anything — anything — to get them out of trouble. So we should be afraid. That’s what I think."
I challenge you to identify her premises and argument that lead to the conclusion that "we should be afraid".
- you know, the kind of person who brought down Senator Ted Stevens.
Oh, so a corrupt lying prosecutor:
On the day in 2009 when the case against him was dismissed, Stevens addressed the court and expressed hope that “others may be spared similar miscarriages of justice.” He thanked the courageous judge who did not accept prosecutors’ representations that they had disclosed all evidence of innocence from the defense. He thanked new prosecutors who were appointed after the original prosecutors were held in contempt for not providing documents to the defense in violation of a court order.
"What are the five worst things that Trump has done? In my book no 1 is ignoring the danger from climate change and failing to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide."
U.S. carbon emissions are down.
Unless you get India and China to drastically change how they do things, sacrificing your own economy ability for some nebulous worldwide goal is foolish.
Oh, so a corrupt lying prosecutor.
Thanks, we're in violent agreement.
"In my book no 1 is ignoring the danger from climate change and failing to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide. I propose we defer debate on whether I am right or not for 30 years."
You're joking right? Let spend trillions to see if some half-baked computer models are accurate. And wait 30 years to do it.
Question for you Mr. uhr. In hurricane tracking, why have the European computer models proven to be more correct than their US counterparts? Second question, why are the two models different in the first place?
Blogger steve uhr said...
efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide.
There you go again. Why should we pay the least bit of attention to someone who can't tell the difference between a solid (carbon) and a gas (carbon dioxide)?
Did you ever take science in high school? Do you really not know the difference between the two?
As far as reducing CARBON DIOXIDE emissions, the US has reduced CO2 emissions by something like 4% just in the past year. The res of the world, for all their talk and treaties, has increased their CO2 output.
President Trump gets the blame for everything else, let's give him credit for achieving this.
And please, Steve, learn the difference between CO2 and Carbon. By peddling this myth of carbon pollution you are falling right into the propagandists trap and showing yourself as a dupe.
What next, you will start calling water "oxygen"?
Shame on you.
John Henry
"I have a different theory, and that is that his deputy, Andrew McCabe, was the one operationally running the FBI on a day to day basis. I think that he may have been intentionally kept out of the loop on a lot of things."
Well, maybe some things, but he knew of Crossfire Hurricane didn't he? (or did he claim he didn't even know of it's existence?) I think it's highly unlikely that he didn't sign off on that from the beginning, but for the sake of argument let's say he didn't. So you're the Director of the FBI and you learn your agency is involved in the surveillance of the Republican Presidential candidate. You don't wait for your underlings to "inform" you of the facts surounding the initiation of such a high-level investigation, you go find out for yourself.
In my book no 1 is ignoring the danger from climate change and failing to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide.
He's doing his bit by harming the Chinese economy.
Blogger steve uhr said..."I propose we defer debate on whether I am right or not for 30 years."
Since the climate modeler's own results say that even if we move heaven and earth we will only reduce the temperature by a small fraction of one degree, there really isn't anything else we can do.
If Trump isn't impeached but is indicted does he get Secret Service protection in prison?
If it's after he's left office, does he still get Secret Service Protection?
Do his kids?
"I challenge you to identify her premises and argument that lead to the conclusion that 'we should be afraid.'"
That would involve a logical mind-set. Ms. Streep is a "liberal." So, no. (Remember that Pee Pee considers himself "logical." And by "liberal" standards, he may be.)
"Meryl Streep called Harvey Weinstein 'a God'..."
And why not? What else would you call someone (or something) to which you sacrifice in hopes of receiving his/its blessings? To which you offer up virgin sacrifices to make sure it remains appeased? And this so-called god did, in fact, have the power to make and break careers based on how well (or how badly) you groveled (and by 'groveled' I mean, well, you know...).
Sounds like 'a god' of sorts to me.
"If Trump isn't impeached but is indicted does he get Secret Service protection in prison? "
Won't need it. The French have the yellow vest crowd. In the US, camo is uniform of choice.
It's OK for Bill Clinton to pay off Paula Jones - and he did. But if Trump paid anyone to keep quiet ABOUT SEX - why... illegal illegal illegal!
oh that's the fmr. puzzle palace official and naval war college fellow, who had a weiner situation, he's firmly in the two mensch category of crazy,
this myth of carbon pollution you are falling right into the propagandists trap
There are two proponents of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming and anthropogenic global warming, and each faction's stated goal is decarbonization of the economy. The latter are merely more patient and less extreme than the former, but their overlapping and converging interests are unmistakable.
In my book no 1 is ignoring the danger from climate change and failing to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide.
Much like those screaming about Ronny Raygun in the '80s, people like Steve were screaming about the coming Ice Age in the '70s.
So, what is the perfect temperature of the Earth, Steve? When did it happen?
And two, just what do you want Trump to do to the world's biggest polluters while the USA cripples its economy to meet some sort of standards nobody else has to meet?
Only the most arrogant of humans think we can alter the Earth's climate in any meaningful way. It's been changing for 4.6 billion years. Suck it up and deal with it.
The US has been reducing carbon emissions more than anyone, so what's your real beef on that steve?
It's OK for Bill Clinton to pay off Paula Jones.
It wasn't OK to Kenneth Starr, who thought his investigation into a 1979 Arkansas land deal should include Paula Jones' nondisclosure agreement with Clinton, which led to Clinton’s other sexcapades, which led to Clinton perjuring himself over sperm he deposited on Monica Lewinsky’s dress. It's Mueller's roadmap.
no that would be nuclear war, back then:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/isnt_it_time_to_move_past_the_khashoggi_killing.html
Earnest- but the media assured us that SEX with Bill Clinton is just NO. Big. Deal.
Lies from Bill about having SEX in the Oval Office with his intern - NO. Big. DEAL.
Consensual.
Bill had a pile of sex allegations going back decades, too. And some of those were NOT CONSENSUAL.
We are assured by most of the Democrat party that Bill Clinton is still an asset.
Is Streep worried about the damage that does?
People like steve uhr demonstrate that, to them, virtue signaling (e.g., remaining in the Paris Accords) is vastly better in his eyes than actually accomplishing anything (e.g., actually reducing carbon dioxide emissions, where we lead the world). Like Howard, steve uhr is an educated fool. And if those Russian scientists who study solar cycles are right, we won’t need thirty years or a hundred to know who’d right — within ten or fifteen we will be entering another “little ice age.”
well it wasn't sex, we're told, I guess that's why les moonves asked for it so often,
well Omidyar seems to be feathering his nest,
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/nevertrumper_peter_wehner_gleefully_announces_desire_for_revenge_against_trump_supporters.html
What are the pay per view rights worth for a Trump Trial on campaign finance charges?
It will make the OJ trial look like an episode of This Old House.
But what I wanted to say before I digressed, is that Meryl Streep frightens Hell out of me. She’s foolish and by her own admission she’s frightened. Foolish, frightened, people do irrational things that get people better than them killed.
The Paris accord is toothless. Pulling out is of no consequence. Other than it perhaps removes bogus financial obstacles, that again, would have amounted to nothing in terms of halting so called climate change.
Most the the largest polluters on earth are places like China, India, Indonesia, and South America.
Our biggest worry is Trump paying off women for some sex he had 10+ years ago.
I don't care for her performances
I saw Sophie's Choice years ago., Meh. Streep's fake accent was a big distraction,.
Kenneth Starr, who thought his investigation into a 1979 Arkansas land deal should include Paula Jones' NDA
No, Janet Reno gave him that investigation because he was already up and running. Jones was suing him because her experience as a state employee turning down sexual advances from her ultimate boss was considered sexual harassment by the law Clinton signed. NDA had nothing to do with it, except for Clinton trying to hush his bimbos like Monica by paying them off.
"What are the five worst things that Trump has done? In my book no 1 is ignoring the danger from climate change and failing to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide."
Praised with faint damnations.
Did you ever take science in high school? Do you really not know the difference between the two?
Of course not, John Henry.
Don't be ridiculous. To be a liberal today, all you need is an insufferable sense of virtue.
"What are the five worst things that Trump has done? In my book no 1 is ignoring the danger from climate change and failing to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide."
He didn't recite the Creed.
Ann, you have a tag "Trump Derangement Syndrome", but this is just a worse case of Bush Derangement Syndrome (coined, 2003), and the temporary Kavanaugh Derangement Syndrome; looking a lot like Romney DS, McCain DS, and then going back to Bush 41 DS (with his funeral, was ok to see how dishonest, even deranged, the Dem media was), and Reagan DS, and Nixon Derangement Syndrome.
It's more accurate to call it Democrat Derangement Syndrome -- since it's the Democrats who are Deranged about one Rep or another.
And it won't stop until US Universities stop their secret discrimination against hiring Republican professors and admin folk. I'd bet less than 5 of the last 100 people hired by YOUR institution are Reps.
"What are the five worst things that Trump has done?" Or not done.
1) Not going after Hillary.
2) Not disinfecting the DOJ.
3) Not having IRS go after his political enemies.
4) Hiring Jeff Sessions.
5) Reprising and revising Obama's Fast and Furious gun distribution program by awarding guns to all eligible US households
Meryl In Peril!
considering the long deferred honor bush sr. received last week, one recalls Meryl's streep in that classic artefact of bush derangement, the remark of the Manchurian candidate, in this outing, Manchurian refers to a Carlyle group type outfit, that has global designs, atop it is meryl as a brahmin Borgia, whose family is supposed to be very loosely based on the bushes,
in this outing the younger shaw, played by live schrieber is a Persian gulf war veteran, with a mysterious incident where he emerged a hero, which of course was a rationale for mysterious mind control experiments, the Sinatra role is played by denzel Washington,
100% chance the house impeaches Trump over.... Russian collusion.
Ooops - nope. over hush money for sex.
Emmm, alleged, and denied, sex.
Trump needs to take whatever Schumer and Pelosi offer tomorrow ($1.3 B), use it to build wall, not fence, however far that will go (from Pacific to Nogales?). Build it so fast our heads spin. Send invoice to Mexico. Build more wall. Until it reaches the Gulf.
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