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Jasmine 🇰🇷's avatar

I always thought he was the only person who played Superman to not be affected by the curse. Guess I was wrong.

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janice's avatar

Nah, he’s going to be ‘honorary’ . Gets the signing bonus, though?

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MayorDefacto's avatar

Am I off base in thinking that this massive ICE budget is just creating a welfare program for racist chuds?

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Mark J.'s avatar

And this is how we employ the unemployed White Nationalists. Wow!

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Pisto75666's avatar

Interesting that Cain thinks MAGA will totally forget his Japanese heritage. Also that he's campaigning to put people in the same kind of camps he's talked about his family being in (his family were interred in Idaho during WW2)

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

It isn't relevant to this article, but I think it should be noted that, when Mr. Mackey tries to find the exit to Mar-a-Lago, every room he walks into has a rich old white guy getting a massage from a young "woman."

Chump's not gonna like that.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Evan. I would say they could not sink lower, but they'd accept that as a challenge.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Countdown until The Ricker comes off his ranch and signs up.

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

So, like, Volkssturm was established when Germany was already on its last leg in WWII. Like, literally half a year before it was all over.

I keep harping on the point that fascism is all about aesthetics, and here we are again.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Dean Cain's last-released movie was "R.A.D.A.R.: The Adventures of the Bionic Dog," where he was the voice of "Mayor." Is "Bionic" even still a word? He's also got quite a list of supporting roles in Hallmark Movies and Direct-to-Dump.Bin faith-based dreck you paw through while waiting for the kid to ring up your twelve-pack of Coors at the local Buck-Ee's.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

So, what you're saying is that the $50,000 signing bonus was looking pretty sweet to ol' Dean.

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Cmatthews191's avatar

I am ok with calling that dood a microdick.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

The Costume Department loved it. Nothing to tuck away.

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No Quid Bro Code's avatar

Not even a techbro-owned "studio" will cast him in a project, eh?

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chev_chelios's avatar

Cain was a shitty Superman....I'm sure he'll live up to that standard as an ICE Gestapo agent too...guess this loser needs a job really bad.

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Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

Back in the day, there was a wonderful SNL skit with Bill Murray as Superman with the premise being an alternative take showing "What would happen if Superman had landed in Nazi Germany."

It was funnier that Dean Cain, but still the same basic plot.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Are you sure? I remember the skit, but I thought it was Phil Hartman, not Bill Murray. I can say that it isn't in YouTube anywhere.

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Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

It was during the Michael Palin hosted show on January 27, 1979, but I was wrong, it was Akroyd as Superman, Murray as Mr. Kent, Palin as Hitler, Al Franken as Jimmy Olstein, and Belushi as Jor-El.

I have looked before, but can’t find any traces of the video on line, but here is the script along with stills:

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78jwhatif.phtml

I guess if you have the DVDs, it still exist.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Okay, that makes more sense. I knew it was someone more Hartman-like, but I also remembered it as being during the original cast era. It also makes sense that it was spoofing the movie.

Dammit, wasn't Lois Lane in it? A gloriously Teutonic version of her?

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Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

Lois Laneoff…..Laraine Newman

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Could be. I know Laraine Newman would be my choice for that part.

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MechEngBandit's avatar

So, now student loan forgiveness is...fine, somehow? Will this get challenged in court? I really think some blue state AGs should get on that shit.

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DemoCat's avatar

Reeve was a hero and surely would have been horrified to see any link between Superman, fighter for truth, justice and the American Way and ICE. And Tom Welling briefly attended high school down the street from us. A friend of mine went to school with him there. She is a staunch supporter of equal rights, justice and bravely attends rallies to protest Trump. She’s a real hero.

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