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On Jul 5, 2025 at 11:06:49 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>  On 7/5/2025 2:08 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>  Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>  On 7/5/2025 3:45 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>  Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>>>  On 7/4/2025 4:02 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>  Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>  On 2025-07-04 1:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>>>  Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>  New from Amazon, we have John Sena and Idris Elba headlining an
>>>>>>>>>>  action-comedy. Sena plays new American President Will Derringer while
>>>>>>>>>>  Elba is the Prime Minister of the UK. President Derringer is a
>>>>>>>>>>  Schwartzenegger-style movie star renowned for his action movies and Elba
>>>>>>>>>>  doesn't much like him but circumstances - the shooting down of Air Force
>>>>>>>>>>  One over Belarus - force them to work together and to try to save NATO.
>>>>>>>>>>  There's also a romantic subplot between the Prime Minister and a woman
>>>>>>>>>>  from his past.
>>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>>  I won't spoil any more of the plot. Suffice it to say that there's lot
>>>>>>>>>>  of shootin' and killin' to keep us engaged and a fair number of puns.
>>>>>>>>>>  It's not going to win any awards for realism but I enjoyed myself and I
>>>>>>>>>>  think you will too.
>>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>>  IMDB gives it 6.5 but I think it deserves higher.
>>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>  Ob Veeus just wrote to Robin and me recommending it. I’ve said elsewhere, I
>>>>>>>>>  fell asleep during a different show and woke up in the middle of heads of
>>>>>>>>>  state as the plane crashed, and they met the cute girl in the jungle and
>>>>>>>>>  had no idea what the hell was going on, but added it to my watchlist!
>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>  It will make more sense if you watch it from the beginning. ;-)
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  I started it up in the middle of the night and saw it from the beginning
>>>>>>>  through the plane crash before falling asleep.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  Today I’m dealing with the fact that the DMV destroyed the records of the
>>>>>>>  citizenship of hundreds of thousands of Arizona and unless we can prove
>>>>>>>  we’re citizens again we won’t be allowed to vote anymore.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  I am not making that up
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>  Got a link to a news report on that?
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.azfamily.com/2025/07/03/longtime-arizona-voters-forced-reprove-citizenship-due-mvd-glitch/
>>>>>  
>>>>>  This one is about the previous letter where they told 83,000 people they
>>>>>  had had their identity stolen
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.azfamily.com/2025/07/02/maricopa-county-recorder-takes-partial-accountability-mistake-impacting-83k-voters/
>>>>>  
>>>>  Thank you.  I read both and I can smell the fishyness of it hundreds of
>>>>  miles away.  The problem was "discovered" nine months ago but they are
>>>>  only NOW telling people about it?  And it is something like one system
>>>>  broke, breaking another system and possibly a third system?  If that is
>>>>  even close to the reality this is FUBAR'd to the nth power.
>>>>  
>>>  
>>>  And nobody has backups of any of their files apparently. And why is the DMV
>>>  safeguarding my citizenship status in the first place? And how come I’ll
>>>  still be allowed to vote in federal elections just not local? And without
>>>  proof of citizenship, can I even flee to Canadia?
>>>  
>>  Backups: Well, they might have but they waited over six months before 
>>  even telling anyone so the backups may have been overwritten.  Assuming, 
>>  of course, that they didn't penny pinch into oblivion a records backup 
>>  system....
>>  
>>  DMV: Because most states made the RealID verification part of the DMV's 
>>  responsibility.  That's where I had to go to get mine in California.
>>  
> 
> I might mention we didn’t even get real ID until about six weeks ago.
> Before then we had something you could pay $25 for but it wasn’t federally
> compliant and really didn’t do anything except raise money for the DMV.
> 
> 
>>  Fed Elections: Because this whole pile of fecal matter is intended to 
>>  prevent "illegals" from voting.  
> 
> Probably the exact opposite. We tend to emulate California in these things.

Yeah, Dimensional has a lot of stones criticizing anyone else's elections when
he lives in California.