The GOPods are already here and the problems only get worse in 2023 especially if they win.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). If you fall asleep you turn into a pod person (and invest in TruthSocial)
“Oh, Becky. I should never have left you.” The trumpist QAnon pods have already gotten 20% of the US population. And they want to defund the SEC instead of the cops?
As in the 1956 version of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers, falling asleep and losing consciousness is how semi-fascism becomes full-blown in 2022 and 2024.
The 1956 film and its added framing narrative remains important for reminding us how hoaxy Trump exploits the sleepy, pod-people who live in a world of alternative facts.
Because of course the FBI would plant incriminating files amid those that Trump already stole. It’s all in the framing. So many folks have already fallen asleep.
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Kinzinger knows the teabagger maga trumpette from SD.
"Yeah, I mean, this -- I'm blown away," Kinzinger replied. "This is not -- I served with Kristi Noem in the House. It's like invasion of the body snatchers, this is not the Kristi Noem I served with."https://t.co/Hk1XvT49Sd
During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) bashed his former House colleague Kristi Noem for her defense of Donald Trump's complicity in the Jan 6th insurrection saying the Noem he knew appears to be a victim of the "invasion of the body snatchers."
Following Noem's appearance, moments before, where the anti-abortion South Dakota governorducked questions about a pregnant 10-year-old girl's difficulties getting an abortion, the Jan 6th House committee member was asked about her deflecting blame away from the former president over the Capitol riot he incited after losing the 2020 presidential election as well as her attack on witness Cassidy Hutchinson.
"I want to get your reaction from what you heard from the South Dakota Governor, Kristi Noem, particularly on January 6th talking, about the fact that she didn't think specifically that the former president had any blame," Bash prompted. "She said everybody has blame. She also put into question the credibility of Cassidy Hutchinson."
"Yeah, I mean, this -- I'm blown away," Kinzinger replied. "This is not -- I served with Kristi Noem in the House. It's like invasion of the body snatchers, this is not the Kristi Noem I served with."
This clip of Donald Sutherland talking about the filming of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is depressing. pic.twitter.com/KcE5NmZhLm
— That Spooky Tony Scott Guy (@tj_mackey432) October 5, 2022
1978 version
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fictionhorror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. The black-and-white film was shot in Superscope and in the film noir style. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers.[2] The film was released by Allied Artists Pictures as a double feature with the British science fiction film The Atomic Man (and in some markets with Indestructible Man).[3]
The film's storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical traits, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it until only the replacement is left; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion. Little by little, a local doctor uncovers this "quiet" invasion and attempts to stop it.
The slang expression "pod people" that arose in late 20th-century U.S. culture refers to the emotionless duplicates seen in the film.[2] Invasion of the Body Snatchers was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[4][5]
Both Siegel and Mainwaring were satisfied with the film as shot. The original ending did not include the flashback framing, and ended with Miles screaming as truckloads of pods pass him on the road.[11]The studio, wary of a pessimistic conclusion, insisted on adding aprologueandepiloguesuggesting a more optimistic outcome to the story, leading to the flashback framing. In this version, the film begins with Bennell in custody in a hospital emergency ward, telling a consulting psychiatrist (Whit Bissell) his story. In the closing scenes, pods are discovered at a highway accident, confirming Bennell's warning, and the authorities are alerted, likely stopping the pod distribution and resolving the extraterrestrial threat.[2]
Mainwaring scripted this framing story and Siegel shot it on September 16, 1955, at the Allied Artists studio.[9]In a later interview Siegel complained, "The film was nearly ruined by those in charge at Allied Artists who added a preface and ending that I don't like".[14]In his autobiography Siegel added that "Wanger was very much against this, as was I. However, he begged me to shoot it to protect the film, and I reluctantly consented [...]".[15]
Although most reviewers disliked it, George Turner (inAmerican Cinematographer)[18]and Danny Peary (inCult Movies)[19]endorsed the subsequently added frame story. Nonetheless, Peary emphasized that the added scenes changed significantly what he saw as the film's original intention.
Some reviewers saw in the story a commentary on the dangers facing the United States for turning a blind eye toMcCarthyism.Leonard Maltinwrote of aMcCarthy-era subtext,[21]or of blandconformityin postwarEisenhower-era America. Others viewed it as an allegory for the loss of personal autonomy and individualism in theSoviet Unionorcommunistsystems in general.[22]
For theBBC, David Wood summarized the circulating popular interpretations of the film as follows: "The sense of post-war, anti-communist paranoia is acute, as is the temptation to view the film as a metaphor for the tyranny of the McCarthy era."[23]Danny Peary inCult Moviespointed out that the studio-mandated addition of the framing story had changed the film's stance from anti-McCarthyite toanti-communist.[19]Michael Dodd ofThe Missing Slatehas called the movie "one of the most multifaceted horror films ever made", arguing that by "simultaneously exploiting the contemporary fear of infiltration by undesirable elements as well as a burgeoning concern over homeland totalitarianism in the wake of Senator Joseph McCarthy's notorious communist witch hunt, it may be the clearest window into the American psyche that horror cinema has ever provided".[24]
Don Siegel spoke more openly of an existing allegorical subtext, but denied a strictly political point of view: "[...] I felt that this was a very important story. I think that the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them. I think so many people have no feeling about cultural things, no feeling of pain, of sorrow. [...] The political reference to Senator McCarthy and totalitarianism was inescapable but I tried not to emphasize it because I feel that motion pictures are primarily to entertain and I did not want to preach".[29]Film scholar J.P. Telotte wrote that Siegel intended for pods to be seductive; their spokesperson, a psychiatrist, was chosen to provide an authoritative voice that would appeal to the desire to "abdicate from human responsibility in an increasingly complex and confusing modern world."[30]
STOP repeating gop framing! The media continues to repeat Trump & GOP’s words, in the name of reporting news, but that helps harden the lie. Cognitive scientist George Lakoff urged to stop. Reframe or give a summary, but stop repeating the lies as news.https://t.co/1A30V8qlvW
More Trump media framing of lies for the pods to consume:
“Truth Social is maybe the most important creation in Trump’s career. It’s why I left Congress to go and do this.” Devin Nunes
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To those long aware of the winking relationship between Trump and QAnon, this may not seem like news. I think it is: as close as Trump has come to openly committing to the murder of his political enemies.
According to a report from Politico, the embattled partnership between Donald Trump's social media start-up and the company behind the SPAC that would take it public is on the verge of falling apart for good as potential investors either renege on their plans to fund it or demand a bigger return on their investment.
At issue is the proposed deal that was supposed to inject over a billion dollars into the increasingly troubled start-up before it went public -- which now may collapse under its own weight.
As Politico's Declan Harty reports, investors sensing weakness now want a bigger slice of the pie if they are expected to park their money in a business deal that has been struggling since its inception.
Reporting, "The group of more than three dozen investors who had planned to put $1 billion into the company have begun to waver as bad news keeps piling up around the deal," Harty wrote, "The hedge funds, trading firms and other major backers are questioning whether the financial riches that first attracted them to the transaction are still strong enough to hold their interest in a deal fraught with troubles, according to four investors who asked not to be named. Negotiations have been ongoing as some investors seek bigger potential profits in exchange for following through on commitments to put hundreds of millions of dollars into the venture."
With a cloud hanging over it due to an SEC investigation and the company's inability to pay its bills, investment analysts are waving the red flag.
He’s freaking out because if Elon buys Twitter and invites Trump back, we all know: 1) Trump can’t resist an audience (and he’s not getting it on Truth Social) 2) Trump gives zero sh*ts about Truth Social investors 3) Trump will blame Nunes for Truth Social’s failure
