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Is George W. Bush the Key to True Detective Season Two?
boston.com ^ | JULY 6, 2015 | Rachel Raczka

Posted on 07/06/2015 10:37:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Vernon, Calif., the notoriously corrupt, industrial city that inspired True Detective season two, is a far cry from the eerie swamplands of the Louisiana bayou, but we’re there for a reason — right?

In this week’s episode, “Maybe Tomorrow,” Det. Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) and California Highway Patrol officer Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) search for the killer, leading them to ambush the home of Mayor Austin Chessani (Ritchie Coster), who was in close, questionable contact with the seedy city manager before his death. While in Chessani’s mansion, we catch a glimpse of a framed photo of the mayor and former President George W. Bush. (Wow, HBO shows like their odd Bush references, don’t they?)

To understand how weird this is, let’s take a look at the town that inspired Vinci. Vernon has a reputation for corruption, dating back decades to founder-cum-mayor John Baptiste Leonis, whose associates were found guilty of voter fraud, with incidents of sex crimes, rampant nepotism, misappropriations of public funds, and yes, more voter fraud on a regular basis. So if Vinci is Vernon, and Chessani is, as we’re led to believe, involved in some serious shade — what’s Bush doing hanging out with him?

Vanity Fair has a theory that the strange happenings in Vinci could be linked to a ritualistic secret society called the Bohemian Club. The typically wealthy, white, Republican members meet up to do who-knows-what every July at a heavily guarded 2,700 acre campground named the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, according to the Washington Post. Membership is by invitation only,

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boycotttimewarner; bushhassers; pravdamedia; revisionisthistory
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1 posted on 07/06/2015 10:37:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

1) HBO’s capacity to mess up a good thing with their childish political panderings is unlimited (hello Wire seasons 2, 3, and especially 5).

2) It never was likely that they could recreate the success they had in season 1. It was a brilliant horror-detective-film noir mixture that can only work once. I am struggling to get through the first episode, simply because they are clearly trying too hard.


2 posted on 07/06/2015 10:42:02 PM PDT by jjsheridan5 (The next Ronald Reagan will not be a Republican, but rather a former Republican)
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To: nickcarraway
Is George W. Bush the Key to True Detective Season Two?

Does it involve the invasion after 911 of a country having nothing to do with it?


3 posted on 07/06/2015 11:02:10 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: jjsheridan5

I think I heard Rush say today that HBO will be doing a hit piece Movie about Justice Clarence Thomas’ Nomination to the Supreme Court.

They have to smear him before he Dies I guess.

Then again, I’m sure it will be accurate and without Bias. HAHAHAHAHAHA


4 posted on 07/06/2015 11:13:22 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (They Live, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: 867V309

Let me guess, they’ll have a Shot of Bush’s Head on a Spike like they did on Game of Thrones.


5 posted on 07/06/2015 11:16:23 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (They Live, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
They have to smear him before he Dies I guess.

Justice Thomas' confirmation hearings contained enough smears for a lifetime.

6 posted on 07/06/2015 11:19:14 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstrea)m Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01

No, they’re just trying to let the New Generation in on it.


7 posted on 07/06/2015 11:23:17 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (They Live, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: nickcarraway

Bush’s fault?


8 posted on 07/06/2015 11:29:27 PM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody was going to ask. Why not me?)
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To: 867V309
Perform a search on NY Times for their acknowledgment of the existence of WMD’s.
9 posted on 07/06/2015 11:32:56 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: Cyman
Perform a search on NY Times for their acknowledgment of the existence of WMD’s.

Exactly what WMDs were used on 911?


10 posted on 07/06/2015 11:46:20 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: 867V309
The War on Terror was declared against all terrorist organizations with global reach. Iraq's IIS qualified for that distinction, in addition to which there was a UN mandate to destroy WMD's in Iraq. After 9/11, no American President would have ignored that nexus of the two.

Try paying attention next time.

11 posted on 07/06/2015 11:58:04 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
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To: 867V309

Test....which country did we invade in direct reply to 9/11?

A) Afganistan.

B) Iraq.

If you answered anything other than A you are a flaming libtard.


12 posted on 07/07/2015 12:04:03 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: FredZarguna
The War on Terror was declared against all terrorist organizations with global reach.

Whattabunchacrap.

AlKida has always been our bunch, CIA 'made' them in afganistan to fight USSR, gave them stingers. Hitlery and obammy equipt them to fight Syria but it didn't work out, bit us in the butt again. CIA's merry-making didn't work out so well in Iran or Cuba either, did it? Kinda makes you wonder...

Try paying attention next time.


13 posted on 07/07/2015 12:08:30 AM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: Crim

Test....which country did we invade in direct reply to 9/11?

A) Afganistan.

B) Iraq.

If you answered anything other than A you are a flaming libtard.

We did not invade Afganistan. You're a flaming maroon.


14 posted on 07/07/2015 12:13:27 AM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: 867V309
“We did not invade Afganistan. You're a flaming maroon”

Oh really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan

BTW...”maroon” is a color, moron.

15 posted on 07/07/2015 12:49:28 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Crim
BTW...”maroon” is a color, moron.

A little short on FRisms :)


16 posted on 07/07/2015 1:01:58 AM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: Kickass Conservative
The HoBO movie about Clarence Thomas is the second recent hit piece on him. There is also a new documentary about Anita Hill speaking to schoolgirls talking about how victimized she was.

Clarence Thomas underwent an electronic lynching and SHE is the victim.

Joe Biden lied.

Senator Biden was the first questioner. Instead of the softball questions he’d promised to ask, he threw a beanball straight at my head, quoting from a speech I’d given four years earlier at the Pacific Legal Foundation and challenging me to defend what I’d said. ”I find attractive the arguments of scholars such as Stephen Macedo, who defend an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws restricting property rights.” That caught me off guard, and I had no recollection of making so atypical a statement, which shook me up even more. “Now, it would seem to me what you were talking about,” Senator Biden went on to say, “is you find it attractive the fact that they are activists and they would like to strike down existing laws that impact on restricting the use of property rights, because you know, that is what they write about.”

Since I didn’t remember making the statement in the first place, I didn’t know how to respond to it. All I could say in reply was that “it has been some time since I have read Professor Macedo … But I don’t believe that in my writings I have indicated that we should have an activist Supreme Court.” It was, I knew, a weak answer. Fortunately, though, the young lawyers who had helped prepare me for the hearing had loaded all of my speeches into a computer and at the first break in the proceedings they looked this one up. The senator, they found, had wrenched my words out of context. I looked at the text and saw that the passage he’d read out loud had been immediately followed by two other sentences: “But the libertarian argument overlooks the place of the Supreme Court in a scheme of separation of powers. One does not strengthen self-government and the rule of law by having the non-democratic branch of the government make policy.” The point I’d been making was the opposite of the one that Senator Biden claimed I had made.

pp 235-236 of "My Grandfather's Son" by Clarence Thomas
17 posted on 07/07/2015 1:05:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: 867V309

We didn’t immediately invade Iraq. The run up to war took a year and a half.

We’d been saber rattling since 1998. Saddam had been saber rattling even longer as he’d violated the peace agreement of the first Gulf War.

North Korea was also part of the Axis of Evil. They weren’t behind the 9-11 attack either.

Iraq WAS a state sponsor of foreign terrorism in Israel and elsewhere.


18 posted on 07/07/2015 1:08:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: a fool in paradise
North Korea was also part of the Axis of Evil. They weren’t behind the 9-11 attack either.

Neither was afghanistan. If anything, we should have hit Saudi arabia.


19 posted on 07/07/2015 1:11:24 AM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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“AlKida has always been our bunch, CIA ‘made’ them in afganistan to fight USSR,”

Ah yes...another liberal myth:

The early foundations of al-Qaeda were allegedly built in part on relationships and weaponry that came from the billions of dollars in U.S. support for the Afghan mujahideen during the war to expel Soviet forces from that country. However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Osama Bin Laden was “outside of CIA eyesight” and that there is “no support” in any “reliable source” for “the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen.”


20 posted on 07/07/2015 1:16:05 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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