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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

8 years

When you summon the strength to let the bad tweet go by without responding

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

8 months

Movies deleted instead of released, apartment buildings sitting empty, beloved publications bought to be dismantled. So tired of malignant accountants being incentivized to salt the earth.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

8 months

‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever. Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer. (Source: )

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Amos Posner

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3 years

If the new Batman does set the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents in 2001, it still wouldn't be the worst thing to happen to a Robert Pattinson character in a movie set in 2001.

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Amos Posner

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6 years

Makes sense. He failed his audition for Sorry.

Variety

@Variety

6 years

Kevin Hart is in talks to star in the Monopoly movie

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Amos Posner

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8 years

2016: "Don't boo Mike Pence." 2017: "Don't punch Nazis." 2018: "Don't run so fast when Donald Jr. and Eric are hunting you for sport."

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

2 years

Did horses write this?

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Amos Posner

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7 years

Kushner is a perfect fall guy. Bannon's glad to blame a Jew, Priebus is glad to blame an outsider, and Trump would love Ivanka to be single.

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

2 years

The preview for Thor: Love and Thunder ended, and in the quiet moment before the next one played, an older woman near us whispered to her companion, “I don’t know what’s happened to our lives.”

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Amos Posner

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7 years

Jenkins' $8 million indie out-grossed Trevorrow's pre-Jurassic movie, Vogt-Roberts' pre-Kong movie, and Jackson's pre-LOTR movies. Combined.

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

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#WonderWoman : Warner Bros. is gambling $150M with a filmmaker whose only prior big-screen credit was an $8M indie

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Amos Posner

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7 years

If you dislike New York and New Yorkers except when something bad happens that could serve a narrative you peddle, kindly fuck off forever.

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Amos Posner

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10 years

Still obsessed with Chuck Jones' coyote/roadrunner rules. Awesome to so clearly, concisely define your characters. http://t.co/MRd4zguD93

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Amos Posner

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6 years

All these rich, famous people having Michael Cohen as a lawyer is like everybody in 30 Rock having Leo Spaceman as a doctor.

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

7 years

Ted Cruz kills memes like they're Bay Area young people in the '60s and '70s.

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7 years

Covfefe? Hard to say, but I hear Al Franken's new book is full of it ;)

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Amos Posner

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3 years

Just rewatched the end of Remember Me. That chalkboard reveal is an all-timer. When they cut back to Pattinson, they might as well have him look at the camera and hold up a help sign like Wile E. Coyote.

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Amos Posner

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4 years

My late grandmother was the youngest of nine children. We recently had a call with that side of the family, involving at least 60 people. One of my elderly relatives couldn’t hear it, but sent word she was “enjoying the interactive quilt.” I’ve thought of that every Zoom since.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

I really don't want to hear about Sharia Law from a Christian conservative ever a-fucking-gain.

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Amos Posner

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2 years

Always weird when an adult dismisses grownup or challenging art by comparing it to eating vegetables. It's fine if you never develop a taste for arthouse cinema or dense literature or whatever, but dude, you're 40. You should like some vegetables by now.

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Amos Posner

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8 months

@EricKleefeld @DennisPerkins5 My ethical problems with piracy generally go out the window when a movie is impossible to watch legally, let alone put on death row.

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Amos Posner

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5 years

I know exactly who needs to hear this, but there’s nothing renegade cool about fucking around and jeopardizing the health of random strangers. You’re not the rugged individual riding a motorcycle without a helmet, you’re a drunk driver near a lot of pedestrians.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

There is such a thing, however, as being born into all the lunch money you'll ever need, and marrying into even more lunch money.

NBC News

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8 years

DeVos at CPAC: I’m “the first person to tell Bernie Sanders to his face that there's no such thing as a free lunch”

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Amos Posner

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3 years

Ain’t no rule says a dog can’t host Jeopardy.

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Amos Posner

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7 years

John Wick sledgehammering through his basement floor to get his weapons and gold coins, except me getting out my sweaters for autumn.

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Amos Posner

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8 months

Amazed how many people can only read a nonliteral phrase literally. Do they think the twist ending of Great Gatsby is that Nick Carraway was a boat the whole time?

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Amos Posner

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6 years

Meghan McCain is like Max Landis. The famous father actually killed people, but the kid is somehow even more hateable.

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Amos Posner

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6 years

Ladies, if he: -responds late to your texts -favs you, but never RTs -has 8 children with another woman -makes the most accurate planetary observations of his era -dies of an exploding bladder He’s not your man. He’s Danish astronomer and nobleman Tycho Brahe.

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Amos Posner

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6 years

I don't think we talk enough about how one fellow American has so much inner calm and restraint that he could live next to Rand Paul and only kick his ass once.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

If you think a Trump presidency could be great for art, imagine how great paying artists would be for art.

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Amos Posner

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7 years

I knew that exact posture and proximity looked familiar.

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Amos Posner

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3 years

I really loved Licorice Pizza for many reasons, but on a very basic level, it’s amazing how much more immersive and lived in a movie can feel when 98% of the cast don’t have the same noses, teeth, and body types.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

In honor of Kurt Vonnegut's birthday, here's the beginning of his intro to Mother Night. It feels appropriate for our current moment.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

Clinton said black men get jailed for things on which white men skate. Trump bragged about doing what Wesley Snipes went to jail for doing.

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

6 years

Another famous man trending for thinking he's too good to go down.

Tyler Kepner

@TylerKepner

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Mets DFA Matt Harvey. Asked him to go to minors and he refused. Wow.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

2016 seems so much like a dystopian YA novel prequel that we should just start teaching all tween girls archery, jujitsu, and falconry now.

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Amos Posner

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6 years

Well, I successfully kept Marlowe in the crate. I did not, however, successfully keep our duvet out.

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

8 months

@pr0fiteer I live in Manhattan, and I promise you there are a huge number of luxury apartments here that have never had someone actually live in them.

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Amos Posner

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8 months

@ionnin That’s who I mean by the phrase malignant accountants.

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

7 years

If Ed Gillespie embraced you any harder, Mike Pence would have sent both of you to conversion therapy.

Donald J. Trump

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Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

8 years

Me at the beginning of 2016 vs me at the end of 2016

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

9 years

A baseball team tweeted a self-reflexive language joke at a movie critic. Like a bot predicted something I'd enjoy.

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Amos Posner

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Amos Posner

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6 years

Uh, excuse me. When the Jewish people need a giant abomination to save us, we build a golem, thank you very much.

The Hill

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6 years

Pompeo: It's "possible" God planned Trump to save Jewish people

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Amos Posner

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8 years

Almost done writing my Of Mice and Men remake.

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Amos Posner

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3 years

Indie filmmakers and freelance film critics simply aren't paid enough to bash each other. They should save their trolling energy for the tech and finance people who kneecapped both industries.

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Amos Posner

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5 years

Film Twitter has dissolved into an inscrutable clusterfuck of opinions about opinions about opinions, which as far as I can tell is also how Christianity works?

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Amos Posner

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2 years

Very strange to be accused of making up a mundane moment I transcribed and fired off because I thought like eight other people might find it funny. I’m not positive she was even talking about Thor, but if she was, I wonder how she liked Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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Amos Posner

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6 years

Vet: There’s a metal pellet in his back. Someone must have shot him. Me: Someone shot my dog? Vet: With a pellet gun. Me: Someone shot my dog. Vet: To be clear, it must have hurt when it happened, but he’s totally fine. He shows zero signs of any long lasting eff— Me:

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Amos Posner

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7 years

Brett Ratner's Tower Heist has special thanks credits for James Toback, Roman Polanski, and Donald Trump. That's like a whole season of SVU.

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Amos Posner

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2 years

I met a 4-month old corgi earlier and I’m having a hard time moving on

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Amos Posner

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7 years

When you see scuzzy dudes rushing to defend sexual harassers/assaulters, it's like that Mr. Rogers "Look for the helpers" quote, but backwards.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

@erinprovolone @mousterpiece I tried to make it a teachable moment.

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Amos Posner

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7 years

I wouldn't let a dog work with one of Mike Huckabee's kids.

Mike Drucker

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7 years

There's no rule in the rulebook that says a golden retriever CAN'T be White House communications director

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Amos Posner

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6 years

@amber_athey Glad your yearbook is clear. Harder to delete that than tweets.

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Amos Posner

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7 years

Live shot of America:

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

8 years

You gotta work pretty pointedly to make a statement about the Holocaust that doesn't mention bigotry, hatred, or any of the groups targeted.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

8 years

Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day:

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Amos Posner

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8 years

If blocking someone means they've won, I'm quite happy to bestow some wins upon people who really seem like they don't get too many in life.

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

7 years

Does Sony own that stray footage of Armie Hammer's balls now? Could Sony digitally add Armie Hammer's balls to, like, Jumanji or the Peter Rabbit movie?

VICE

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Armie Hammer's balls had to be digitally edited out of 'Call Me By Your Name'.

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

8 years

Stop romanticizing Trump voters. They're angry low-information voters who got seduced by a celebrity authority personality. #ElectionNight

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Amos Posner

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7 years

There is palpable tension between the dry people and the wet people on the train.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

"Grandpa, what was 2017 like?" "I left Twitter for half an hour, saw golden showers trending, and knew it involved the president-elect."

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Amos Posner

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1 year

Yeah, I’m interested in Dune 2. Dune 2 identical posts on two different social media platforms.

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Amos Posner

@AmosPosner

8 years

Donald Trump literally produced and starred in a reality show about him being able to hire and fire celebrities.

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8 years

Media obsession with "celebrities not at Inauguration" is ridiculous. Who cares. Plus, totally misses why most supporters voted for Trump.

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Amos Posner

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9 years

Figures. She supports diseases that haven't thrived in this country since 1908, too.

MLB

@MLB

9 years

. @JennyMcCarthy at Wrigley reppin’ her @Cubs gear. #NLCS

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Amos Posner

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6 years

I guess sex crimes aren’t the only thing he has in common with Bryan Singer.

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6 years

NBC reporting Trump has not yet come to work today.

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5 years

We are all cats now.

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3 years

Wild how great Michelle Monaghan is in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. She’d never even had a screen role that big in *anything*, and she keeps pace with Downey and Kilmer firing on all cylinders in their third decade of lead roles.

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Amos Posner

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7 years

Weird question: If a former president goes to prison, do they get Secret Service protection on the inside? How does that work?

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Amos Posner

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8 years

Democrats are your friend who'll die single, waiting for a person too perfect to exist. Republicans are the guy who fucks whoever is there.

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Amos Posner

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2 years

Man I hope GEICO makes the cartoon lizard address this

Jackson County woman says she caught STD in car. Auto insurance could pay out $5.2 million

An arbitrator found that a man was liable because his romantic partner contracted HPV after he had been diagnosed and they had sex in his car.

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Amos Posner

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Me on Election Day 2016 vs. Me on Election Day 2017.

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3 years

Met another dog owner who seemed to earnestly think dogs are descended from bears. I was not going to be the one to shatter that belief.

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Amos Posner

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9 years

This presidential race has driven me to writing fan fiction.

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Amos Posner

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3 years

@WilliamBatcake It’s not a 9/11 joke, it’s a Remember Me joke. Now quit using the mentions of my dumb joke to dig into fights with strangers. You could be doing anything else.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

The Democrats are like an old Italian movie. Everyone's mad, happy, sad, inspired, and cynical at once, but hey, it beats being fascists.

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3 years

I wish Sandler had made five more movies in the register of The Wedding Singer. It’s still distinctly a Sandler comedy, but it’s shaped like a movie. The female lead isn’t an afterthought. He has friends there, but not Rob Schneider, and the plot doesn’t grind to a halt for them.

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Amos Posner

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7 years

@TruBronco @MikeBeauvais @StaceGots That is neither how freedom of speech works nor how heinous is spelled.

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7 years

When Twitter says they've received your report of an abusive account.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

. @POTUS

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3 years

Aaron Sorkin doesn’t have social media so asked me to post this letter on his behalf xx

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8 years

Untalented Conservative Actors: Hollywood oppresses conservatives! Clint Eastwood: *makes a studio movie with A-list talent every year*

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5 years

@RepThomasMassie When John Kerry gets a round of laughter dunking on you, maybe you should pick a different hill to die on.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

Here's what the electoral map would look like if only Terrence Malick voted.

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Amos Posner

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2 years

You Never Can Tell is absolutely wild. Even after reading this description on @criterionchannl , I spent the whole movie floored that it exists. What a delightfully odd way to spend 78 minutes.

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Amos Posner

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2 years

Ok but they didn’t have to make the sign look like him specifically

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Amos Posner

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8 years

Uh oh. Fascism fanboys have found their way into my mentions. I'm really worried about developing carpal tunnel syndrome in my block finger.

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Amos Posner

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8 years

@wellshwood Maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't need that information to not go out of your way to be a huge asshole to strangers.

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Amos Posner

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7 years

Unless you filled Steve Bannon's office with blood and frogs, I don't want to hear shit about what Passover means to you.

Ivanka Trump

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During #Passover , we reflect on the significance of the exodus from Egypt and celebrate the great freedoms we enjoy today! #ChagPesach

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7 years

*writes note on script in red pen* Try to make the analogy for America just a teensy bit subtler.

CBS News

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A man trying to scare away opossums by setting a fire has accidentally destroyed his home

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5 years

Reanimating James Dean decades after he died to appear in a movie also set after he died is a bad artistic choice, as well as a slap in the face to both James Dean and scores of current actors, but it IS also a hilariously elaborate way to not cast James Franco.

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@JaredHart0 @MNightShyamalan @POTUS Yet you're fine with a socialite turned reality TV personality being president? Sit down, Jared.

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7 years

The sheer number of the GOP’s wildest, dumbest assholes Wisconsin produces is staggering.

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Sen Ron Johnson claims "informant" who has news about the FBI "Secret Society" working to overthrow President Trump.

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"You can't write something better than this." -Kobe Bryant, who has obviously not seen John Wick

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5 years

@ShelleyBFarmer There are only like six tall leading actors and you’re not allowed to put more than one of them in a movie.

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7 years

OK, I know this administration isn't big on subtlety, but Trump has a business partner named HANS GRUBER.

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7 years

If Steve Bannon's out, who's gonna give Stephen Miller his weekly meal animal, which he catches, constricts, and spends 6 days digesting?

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7 years

If you want to see a Russian crime story with the appearance of taint, check out Eastern Promises.

Laura Ingraham

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Mueller's office is leaking. Another sign that this investigation has (at the very least) the appearance of taint.

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7 years

Last night, I got some good, tough, actionable script notes, and you can already see a difference in how tidy my apartment is.

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6 years

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' awful interpretation of the bible makes a lot more sense when you remember that the first clergyman she ever met was Mike Huckabee.

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7 years

Life hack: Keep the business cards of people you don't like, and give them to other people you don't like who ask for your business card.

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8 years

Twitter tip: Don't call liberals snowflakes on a site where your choice of president loses his creamsicle head over every perceived slight.

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