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America’s already engaged in major fun and entertainment. Provoking global thermonuclear war and pandemic panic, depleting the economy, real time recidivist violent crime, creating divide and invoking the ghost of a scourge of “ White Supremacy”. Mass surveillance, political persecution, insider trading… Who needs movies when everyday life is a battlefield?

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We need a redo of “Top Secret”. A lot of good fodder these days to make it extra stupid funny.

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Love it! And the Movie. Thanks Matt and Jared. :)

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Thanks as always. Check out my sub stack.builder's Tale

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Normally journalist don't know shit about the budgetary analytics of politics but some of them are geniuses when it comes to understanding America's changing social structure. Others and geniuses with wordsmithing great lines. Other are hilarious. You sir are all three. Greg Pappas

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Matt. You are a gifted human being!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hahaha! I thought I’d heard Trump blamed for just about everything, occasionally rightly so. But this review managed to blame Trump even for the lack of humor in America today. Now that’s funny!

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fun article thanks Matt

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The Green Beret quote in Deerhunter (who was also in Slapshot)

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Just like Top Gun: Maverick, Trump was crazy-ass fun. Biden and the DC establishment? Not fun at all. Draw your own conclusions.

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