It absolutely represents both Trump and MAGA.
What this is is MTG seeing the potential writing on the wall and slowly trying to sneak her way into more normal speak so she doesn't get fucking tossed out the door on her ass with the rest of them if Kamala wins and the "normal" republicans begin to purge their party of MAGA losers.
She's essentially thinking "I'd better start toning down my shit, just in case."
Fact checking would be piping up to correct the record things like spin and exaggeration, which both sides always do in a debate (correcting numbers, etc...)
The moderators didn't do that for either side. Their "fact checking" only occurred on statements that were clearly not reality and so far fetched that letting them go by unchecked would be opening them up to a potential lawsuit when a Haitian immigrant gets murdered by a MAGA moron.
And those DANGEROUS lies were coming entirely from one side.
I think Lord of War and Anon were his best post Gattaca. In Time was pretty "meh" in my opinion, but watchable, and the rest were forgettable.
I misspoke a bit. I don't mean that his other works are garbage by any means. In fact I quite liked Lord of War and Anon. Just meant that they never really hit the same depth of messaging that Gattaca seemed to hit.
My father was right. It didn't matter how much I lied on my resume. My real C.V. was in my cells. Why should anyone invest all that money to train me when there are a thousand other applicants with far cleaner profiles.
Of course it's illegal to discriminate; "Genoism" they call it. But no one takes the laws seriously. If you refuse to disclose, they can always take a sample from a doorhandle, or a handshake. Even the saliva off your application form. And if all else fails, a perfectly legal drug test can just as easily become an illegal peek at your future in the company.
This movie stands as one of the most prescient I've ever watched. It's a shame that Nicols later works never matched it, and that this movie itself is somewhat forgotten.
Or Alf reruns.
The family was the Tanners. Gordon Shumway was literally his name from back on Melmac. ALF is an acronym for Alien Life Form and is what the family called him as a nickname.
"This..." (long pause to make sure she doesn't say something stupid) "...former president"
She didn't need to say it. The long pause said everything it needed to.
Also, going over to shake his hand was such an alpha move and she knew it. Trump was pretty much rattled from that point onwards.
If you draw women like children, and then give them high pitched voices, like children, and have them act girlish and foolish like pre-teen girls, and then sexualize them...There is something very very fucking wrong with you. Anime "purists" can deny it all they want, but it's inherently tied in/related to fake waifu girlfriends and lonely neckbeards drawing naked waifus all over DeviantArt.
It's skeevy as shit and I refuse to pretend otherwise.
Because when you let perfect become the enemy of good, you end up with neither.
So Trumps entire strategy amounts to "I'm rubber, you're glue"?
How the fuck is this timeline even real at this point?
If I have a choice between buying a table and chairs from IKEA, or buying a table and chairs from my neighbour who loves making them bespoke in his woodshop, I'll take the second option every time. As a society we need more of this....supporting our own labour efforts over mass corporate manufacturing.