Aaron H. Ellis

@aaronhughellis.bsky.social

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https://threehostages.substack.com/

Poster for Do the Right Thing (1989)
Tweet quoting Andy Burnham’s bus announcement, in which he’s holding a phone camera himself: You have a professional camera man travelling with you from the No10 media team, I saw him get in your convoy this morning, stop trying to be cool and be a PM.
Angry guy from Come Dine with Me
Burmese coup meme
George Costanza in the background of a family photo
Leslie Manville in Phantom Thread saying, “I mean, she’s lovely, but the time has come”
Poster for DEAD CALM (1989)
Three gays in short shorts
Meme. Bad conversation starter: “Hey”, with a picture of Count Binface. Good conversation starter: “Hey”, sith a picture of Jonathan Harvey
Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social • 10d I just don't think they're mentally equipped to deal with Scouse dad whimsy - and that sort of Blair-esque, breaking the fourth wall, looking to the audience, raising an eyebrow, saying "Have you heard these freaks?" Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social • 10d Farage pops up at PMQs and asks some long, bloviating question with various bad faith insults that don't quite land. Then Burnham just goes: "Lend's a fiver!"
The owner of Greenwater Services
Danni Minogue looking concerned
Poster for Field of Dreams (1989)
Trump looking depressed during his lackluster military parade
Whistler painting of himself and two models in his studio
My result revealing I’m Pope Leo XIV
Omar Shariff as Dr Zhivago looking desolate as a woman falls from the train
The cast of Everwood
Kamala Harris eating Dorritos watching something juicy happening
Theodore Roosevelt
Lincoln
Upon assuming new responsibilities, many politicians feel the need to become whatever they believe is expected of someone in that role. I once worked for someone who, after they became an MP, severely restricted their emotional range because they believed it’d be inappropriate for them to ever appear happy or sad or angry about things. They were now only ever pleased or disappointed — pleased that they’d won a billion pounds, disappointed they’d misplaced the lottery ticket, etc. As a result they faded into the backbenches and had a relatively short, very unremarkable career.
A VAR screen in a stadium that says “Checking Hard Drive”
A woman is holding an iPhone close to her face. The caption reads “I’m calling the police.” But on the screen, three naked men are kissing
A portrait of Fredrick the Great, with a speech bubble coming from his mouth
A framed portrait of Gladstone
A pith helmet with a bullet hole in, with a brown stain where the hole is…
Examples of stereotypes in relation to religion or belief are that persons who hold or manifest certain gender-critical beliefs necessarily have negative attitudes towards trans people, or that persons who hold or manifest the belief at same-sex sexual activity is sinful necessarily have negative attitudes towards gay people. The judgment explains that: 'it may be that some persons who hold / manifest such beliefs have such animus, but it is stereotyping to assume that all do.
Examples of stereotypes in relation to religion or belief are that persons who hold or manifest certain gender-critical beliefs necessarily have negative attitudes towards trans people, or that persons who hold or manifest the belief at same-sex sexual activity is sinful necessarily have negative attitudes towards gay people. The judgment explains that: 'it may be that some persons who hold / manifest such beliefs have such animus, but it is stereotyping to assume that all do.
A woman at a computer
Chris Hansen interrogating an (alleged) paedophile on To Catch a Predator
One Nation Moderate Pragmatic and centrist, believing in a managed economy, social stability and the strength of the Union. Distrusts ideological extremes.
Sir Michael Palin on stage with John Bishop
Secondly, his team keeps shutting down any potential for a pivot to optimism. Whenever anyone asks why Starmer’s speeches must be so depressing, Labour spokespeople say that voters don’t want the “snakeoil” or “razzmatazz” of Boris Johnson. But these are not the only two options in political communications. Gordon Brown cultivated a sober image but could still deliver stirring rhetoric: I mean, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are able to talk upliftingly about the prospect of a fascist becoming leader of the Free World. Yet Keir Starmer has no choice but to bum you out about how best to apportion government expenditure? Voters are going to want to hear about the house that’ll go on top of the foundations that Labour is fixing. It doesn’t help the Prime Minister if, for years, they’re told he’s incapable of sketching it out for them.
Lord Robertson
Homer Simpson shaking his hand angrily at a jar marked Magic Beans. Only Homer is labeled as “My old boss” and the jar is labeled “The Eucharist”
Screenshot of WhatsApp in which I say it’s weird he’s running in Westminster, as I think that’s the sort of council where the Tory vote would hold up
Screenshot of BBC News update that the Tories retook Westminster Council
Jim Downey
A graphic showing Pope Leo in front of an electoral college map of America, showing him winning all 50 states. The Threads post points out he has Middle America roots, +34 favorability, and is tanned, rested, and ready
Adrian Carton de Wiart
What’s driving this mania, I think, is fear. In King Lear, Goneril and Regan discuss how their father’s madness is merely accentuating the flaws he has always had. Similarly, Trump has always tried to grab whatever he wanted. Yet he is especially megalomaniacal right now because he is afraid that time is running out. Power is very subtly ebbing away from him. One way or another, soon he will no longer matter. This fear is behind the craziness of Venezuela, Greenland, and Minnesota. In a great thread recently, Jamelle Bouie outlined all the ways in which Trump’s authoritarian moves have been checked and pushed back against. Even the supposedly supine Congress is restoring funding to things his administration said it had cut. Yet there are two areas in which the President can do almost anything he likes – foreign policy and immigration enforcement – and so he is trying to distract people from his flagging power by awing them with violent spectacle.
Post by me: People expend so much energy arguing over “Maduro: Good / Bad?” “Khamenei: Good / Bad?” Trump is right for attacking Iran, wrong for doing it, etc. Yet Trump doesn’t give a shit about any of this. Everything always comes down to: 1) Does it make him money? 2) Does it make him the star of the show?