Imagine you are a movie producer. There you are sitting in your office, doing whatever producers do all day: make phone calls, hit on your assistant, talk about your ongoing juice cleanse. Then a screenwriter walks in and pitches a script in which the two lead roles are Donald Trump and Roy Cohn. You love it. You think, “Finally! The sympathetic and heroic story that Donald Trump and Roy Cohn deserve!”
You would be a fucking idiot if you thought that.
Which brings us to Dan Snyder: billionaire, litigious pervert, former owner of the football team then known as the Washington R******s, and apparently a fucking idiot.
Snyder is not a movie producer, but he reportedly was an investor in a new movie called The Apprentice, a movie about Donald Trump premiering on Monday at the Cannes Film Festival. The film traces the life of a young Trump in the 1970s and early 1980s as he tries to make it big in Manhattan real estate. Trump’s lawyer and consigliere at the time was Roy Cohn, one of the most all-around abusive, cruel, rotten sociopaths of a human being to ever walk the Earth.
Roy Cohn! A man so despised that 40 years after his death, people still spit on the ground at the mention of his name. A man so terrible that he makes Vladimir Putin look like Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Given this objectively correct description of Cohn coupled with, well, *waves hand in direction of Donald Trump*, what would make anyone think a movie focused on the two of them would be sympathetic? The best thing you could say about 1970s-era Donald Trump and Roy Cohn was that neither one of them was the Times Square Torso Killer. Allegedly.
Not Dan Snyder, though. From Variety:
Sources say Snyder, a friend of Trump’s who donated $1.1 million to his inaugural committee and Trump Victory in 2016 and $100,000 to his 2020 presidential campaign, put money into the film via Kinematics because he was under the impression that it was a flattering portrayal of the 45th president. Snyder finally saw a cut of the film in February and was said to be furious.
LOL, and may we add, LMAO.
Snyder reportedly then hired lawyers to try and prevent the filmmakers from releasing The Apprentice, which is funny because the movie does not yet have a distribution deal. The producers are premiering it at Cannes in the hopes of drumming up some interest.
Shoot, for all we know, some clever publicists planted this story to gin up some controversy. It says a great deal about people’s opinion of Dan Snyder that it would ring so very, very true. Those are some good publicists!
Sources familiar with the back and forth say Snyder took issue with multiple aspects of the film and weighed in on what should be changed. In earlier versions of the screenplay, “The Apprentice” featured a scene where Trump rapes Ivana.
Did Snyder not read this script before he agreed to put money into filming it? Is it possible Dan Snyder does not know how to read? It would explain a few things, and thus it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Our advice to budding filmmakers out there: always read the script and never, ever, ever, EVER have anything to do with Dan Snyder. Pretty much the entire NFL will back us up on that one.
OPEN THREAD.
[Variety]
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A twitter post to be shared with anyone who claims to be "pro-life"
TRIGGER WARNING- MISCARRIAGE DISCUSSION
Ryan Hamilton
@TheRyanHamilton
My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.