Hub & Dad. Friend of David ✞. Hi from OC, CA, USA. I use AI for many things, but not to write my posts!
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Here’s a story for you. We started filming without owning the title and had to do alternates.
Taft Broadcasting owned the title Ghostbusters as part of their half-hour sitcom starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker (F-Troop) and a gorilla chasing ghosts. I had never heard of it. They didn’t have proton packs or Bill Murray. Columbia paid $500,000 to buy the name, but they really should have paid Dean Martin, from whom I first heard the term.
In the film Scared Stiff (1953), he and Jerry Lewis (check out his acrobatic stair descent) are in an old haunted castle, and Lizabeth Scott asks Dean: “Who are you guys?” And Dean answers: “You’ve heard of Trustbusters and Gangbusters, we’re Ghostbusters!”
For my research writing the first movie, I watched every single ‘ghost’ comedy ever made. Bowery Boys, Hope and Crosby, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis all did such films.
Happy Halloween 2026.
Jonathan retweeted
"Why don't you like Elon?"
Because he uses his giant platform to spread baseless fear, encouraging Americans with different political views to hate each other. He makes our political world worse.
In reality land, Democrats don't want to open the borders and "legalize everyone." Biden's border policies were too loose, but he cracked down (under pressure) in his last year, and the 2024 Dem platform explicitly called for better border security.
Immigration policies hurt Dems at the polls, and they're wary of getting burned again.
Assuming that immigrants will all support Dems is also ahistorical. Half of Hispanic voters, immigrants and children of immigrants, picked Trump in 2024, partly because they didn't agree with lax immigration policies.
Remember, in 2021-2022, Democrats controlled the presidency, the Senate, and the House, but they didn't pass Elon's scare package! If they're so evil, why didn't they do it then???
"Game over for America"? Just stupid fearmongering: "If my side doesn't win, we're all DOOMED!!!" Sometimes one party wins, sometimes the other. That's how elections work.
Elon is as trustworthy on politics as Hasan Piker.
(But making Puerto Rico a state would be fair. They are American citizens; give them representation.)
Jonathan retweeted
We lost one of the greats of stage and screen today. And, in my book, a tremendous friend and man. I learned so much from him. I will miss you, Patrick Stewart, all of my days. @mang0ld
Jonathan retweeted
I am so very appreciative of this honor. It means so much to me to receive approval from the people of the coalfields where I was born and raised. Thank you, Bluefield. wvva.com/2026/10/27/bluefiel…
Jonathan retweeted
So much conspiracy out there over Brazil. Here are the facts.
1. Both candidates requested extension of voting hours. Both!
2. Allowing everyone time to vote is democratic obviously.
3. Voting is mandatory in Brazil.
4. Bolsonaro got nearly four million more votes in second round versus first, despite claims he lost votes.
5. He was always going to lose as almost all voters for anyone else weren't going to touch him.
6. It was a relative landslide win for Lula.
7. Lula has issues but isn't communist.
8. Begging Trump to invade in the name of democracy because you lost isn't a good reflection of your intelligence.
9. The right need to learn to lose and stop whining.
10. X posts don't make someone who couldn't find Brazil on a map an expert on their society and politics.
11. Lula now needs to do far better for Brazilians than he has in past and I've huge doubts he will frankly.
Jonathan retweeted
The only warmongers are in the Kremlin. Europe and our allies support Ukraine in its self-defence in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. It really shouldn’t be that hard to grasp.
Jonathan retweeted
I’m a Russian speaker from eastern Ukraine. My family are Ukrainian, and Russia stole our home. So what exactly is your definition of “ordinary people”?
I’m now a journalist and author, if it’s any consolation, it’s in the bloody bio too. 🤦♂️
Jonathan retweeted
This was not a war of choice for Ukraine
If they stop fighting, then Ukraine stops existing
Framing this as elites versus the people is rich coming from the world’s wealthiest human
Jonathan retweeted
I've been in those trenches every month or two for the last four years.
People are tired, they miss their families, they have their frustrations.
But they are there, still holding the line, with full clarity that if they let go, Russia and its tyranny will come to their homes.
Jonathan retweeted
To be clear, Ukraine has supported an unconditional ceasefire and freeze in place for over a year. This is not a new position. The Russians, by contrast, want a negotiated settlement— that’s not a new position for them either.
Jonathan retweeted
Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @RadioFreeTom argues: theatln.tc/ZkAeQt3l
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To Russia With Love, Signed Donald @WSJopinion
Trump Waives Sanctions and Tariffs Under the Lindsey Graham Law | The Editorial Board, WSJ wsj.com/opinion/to-russia-wi…
Jonathan retweeted
"Well, she may not have lasted very long, but at least you can say she was pretty."
"Yeah... pretty bad at her job!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
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Yes. US officials and reports since March 2026 confirm Russia has shared satellite imagery and location data on US bases, warships, and aircraft to aid Iranian targeting in the Middle East. Iranian strikes on those targets have killed US troops; the official toll linked to the conflict stands at 21 as of mid-October.
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The president has been saying for years that Putin wants to make a deal, but I'd love to know what the evidence of that is. He's the aggressor in this war and regularly attacks civilian targets with no military purpose. He is a war criminal.
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No. Pre-war oil and product flows through the Strait of Hormuz averaged roughly 17-20 million barrels per day. Latest Kpler figures show 7-day averages around 10.5-12 million bpd in early October, about 30% below that baseline, after recent attacks further reduced volumes. Visible ship traffic is only 4-10% of normal.
