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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe biggest victim in all this is Kevin Spacey.
No one's going to want to watch the next season of House of Cards with all of the stuff that's going on in real life. No screenwriter has ever or could ever imagine anything like this. And if they did put it in a script, no one would buy it.
unblock
(52,383 posts)yet...
as far as we know...
ymetca
(1,182 posts)women and children in Yemen.
unblock
(52,383 posts)the way f.u. has done in house of cards.
ymetca
(1,182 posts)But I suppose if some intrepid reporter dug hard enough they might find someone "missing" along the way...
Or maybe we should be looking for an intrepid reporter who "fell" in front of a train!
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,665 posts)By throwing them off the ACA
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)If only that was the fiction, I'd rather have Kevin Spacey
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,898 posts)to watch an evil president who is at least smooth and intelligent.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,216 posts)At least he has prior political experience.
And can talk directly to you.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Underwood is evil, but he is neither stupid nor crazy. And he knows how the system works enough that he's been able to do some good things, or at least try to.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)The difference seems significant enough to me
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)if Kevin Spacey did something like SNL and said,
Jeez, we didn't expect you to use our show as a blueprint. It is just escapist fiction.
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)Spacey walking into the Oval Office while Baldwin is in there and saying, "You have much to learn, grasshopper..........."
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)he stands on Trump. He put together an anti- Trump progressive activist resistance group in the DC area.
Link to tweet
Beau WillimonVerified account
@BeauWillimon
TRUMP -- Russia > America
GOP -- Party > Country
RYAN -- Fear > Courage
CHAFFETZ -- Pride > Integrity
@SpeakerRyan @jasoninthehouse
https://twitter.com/BeauWillimon
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Maybe future House of Cards will have Frank having to face off against someone very Trump-like. The viewing audience will have to decide for themselves whether they support Frank, who they already know is evil, or Cthulhu.