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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:03:12 -0700
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:43:31 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 7/18/2025 1:26 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:21:27 -0700, Paul S Person
>> <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>=20
>>>> I am looking forward to the US 2028 election even if Vance is the =
GOP
>>>> candidate. (Which at this point I'd guess is a 50-50 proposition but
>>>> by no means a certainty)
>>>
>>> Hmmmm ... Vance/MTG vs Newsom/Buttigieg.
>>=20
>> Incidentally I've read Vance's book and didn't feel I had wasted my
>> time - it was a decent read but then you would expect a lawyer to be
>> able to write coherently.
>
>The movie was pretty good too.  Of course you had an Oscar winning=20
>director, Ron Howard, and two Oscar nominated actresses.
>    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6772802/

It was well done, but I didn't find it (when I had finished watching
it) something I actually wanted to have watched.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"