Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
It must be very hard to find people who were “ehhhhh I’m on the fence” about Trump until this moment in particular.
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I skimmed the FiveThirtyEight live commentary yesterday. As Kent was giving his excellent opening statement, one of the commentators quipped:
I think career diplomats may overestimate the extent to which the average watcher is interested in geopolitical history lessons!
What a shallow comment. Every instant does not need to be entertainment, although personally I found the historical analogy interesting and helpful in understanding our Ukraine foreign policy objectives. Also, how patronizing to think that the “average watcher” can’t handle a history lesson, or that witnesses shouldn’t lay out relevant history because some hypothetical Joe Sixpack may lose interest.
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The movie (the first one, anyway) never identifies the demon as Pazuzu. The studio though it would be better if audiences thought it was The Devil.
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I know; the demon never names itself until the sequel, and Reagan only refers to it as ‘Captain Howdy.’
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Which is a bizarre, fever-dream of a movie. I like number three, though.
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Did you make that yourself?
I haven’t been able to find a ready-made Pazuzu gif, and I just hadn’t worked up the energy to create my own yet.
Either way;
YOINK.
Thanks.
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No. It is somehow associated with the band Gorillaz.
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Well, that’s some random tagging, then…
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Pez-uzuz?
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Dragons?
Trial by combat?
Sexposition?
Booze?
All of the above? Emmys please!
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Okey-doke. (1930’s phrase 
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“Pazuzu’s petals!”
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Trump + walk of shame.
Of course that punishes everyone with working eyeballs but I’m ok with that.
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This. I’ve probably half-remembered scenes from the movie more times than I’ve actually seen them?
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Irving Finkel discusses Pazuzu:
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Exorcist III has the single best scare of any horror movie, EVER. You know the one. It combines the slow burn, the jump scare, and the what-the-fuck scare into a single, Platonic ideal of a movie scare. It may never be matched.
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