David Mamet sees the light

[Shooter]

David Mamet, perhaps the best playwright in the country (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed the Plow, American Buffalo, etc.) has shucked his blind liberalism and become a conservative. After a lifetime of spouting the absurd platitudes of the Left, he finally came to realize that he believed none of it--and that there had to be a better way.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576319122938720438.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

 

[julius]

yeah but does he send pictures of his boner to college women?

If he does, then I'll care.

 

[Shooter]

yeah but does he send pictures of his boner to college women?

If he does, then I'll care.

Good for you! You definitely have your priorities right.

 

[julius]

Good for you! You definitely have your priorities right.

yeah, I should be worried about how people here never make fun of black NBA players, but pick on the poor white players who play in the NBA.

 

[Natebishop3]

More importantly, he wrote The Unit and Red Belt.

 

[maxiep]

"We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."

"Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money."

"My motherfucker is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him."

"I put a thief in my mouth to steal my brain." (to describe a hangover)

I love Mamet.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

You never open your mouth til you know what the shot is!

 

[Shooter]

More importantly, he wrote The Unit and Red Belt.

As well as The Untouchables, The Verdict, House of Cards, and The Postman Always Rings Twice.

 

[Shooter]

You never open your mouth til you know what the shot is!

You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

 

[BrianFromWA]

That was Capone.

 

[jlprk]

Amazing news. First time I've ever heard of money changing someone's character. A guy gets rich and turns selfish? No, it can't be!

 

[Natebishop3]

Amazing news. First time I've ever heard of money changing someone's character. A guy gets rich and turns selfish? No, it can't be!

Yeah... except he got rich decades ago. Money sure took a long time to change the guy.

 

[Shooter]

First time I've ever heard of money changing someone's character. A guy gets rich and turns selfish? No, it can't be!

You want to talk about selfish? How about the people who aren't working or who are scamming the system at the expense of people like Mamet? How about the young girls who are having multiple babies just to get checks from the government? How about the people who would rather collect unemployment than work? How about all the people committing insurance fraud, or claiming disabilities that they don't really have? There is a ton of corruption out there, and it's all funded by tax payers who have to work for a living.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

You want to talk about selfish? How about the people who aren't working or who are scamming the system at the expense of people like Mamet? How about the young girls who are having multiple babies just to get checks from the government? How about the people who would rather collect unemployment than work? How about all the people committing insurance fraud, or claiming disabilities that they don't really have? There is a ton of corruption out there, and it's all funded by tax payers who have to work for a living.

Very well ranted.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

his divorce was an abomination, he is clearly going to hell

 

[Shooter]

his divorce was an abomination, he is clearly going to hell

Say hi to him when he arrives, would you?

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Say hi to him when he arrives, would you?

sure will! as long as tusked, foul breathed, calloused palmed demons havent already forced me to eat my tongue while my entrails are slowly roasted on a spit to the delight of legions of fang wombed hags

 

[SlyPokerDog]

sure will! as long as tusked, foul breathed, calloused palmed demons havent already forced me to eat my tongue while my entrails are slowly roasted on a spit to the delight of legions of fang wombed hags

Hey, leave Mrs Shooter out of this.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

What changes when you "switch" from liberal to conservative? Or from Macho Man (RIP) to Hulk Hogan?

 

[julius]

What changes when you "switch" from liberal to conservative? Or from Macho Man (RIP) to Hulk Hogan?

depending on your point of view, you change from wrong to right.

 

[Shooter]

What changes when you "switch" from liberal to conservative?

You start growing more brain cells, for one thing.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

You start growing more brain cells, for one thing.

you lose brain cells as you get older actually, maybe thats whats going on here

 

[3RA1N1AC]

hes gone senile!

 

[MARIS61]

Amazing news. First time I've ever heard of money changing someone's character. A guy gets rich and turns selfish? No, it can't be!

I've seen it play out with friends and relatives many times.

Put a bit of money in someone's pocket and it burns a hole right through their heart.

Wealth creates greed.

Poverty nurtures compassion.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I've seen it play out with friends and relatives many times.

Put a bit of money in someone's pocket and it burns a hole right through their heart.

Wealth creates greed.

There are so many things wrong here that I don't know where to start. Wealth may empower greed, but greed's always there.

Poverty nurtures compassion.

The projects are the most compassionate places you know? Pretty compassionate in those homeless shelters you volunteer at? All those rich guys locked up at the place you do your prison ministry?

 

[MARIS61]

There are so many things wrong here that I don't know where to start. Wealth may empower greed, but greed's always there.

That has never been my observations among the many people I have known in my lifetime.

Greed is an abheration of the human spirit, and like most evil is a learned trait.

It only occurs after the person has made a conscious decision to abandon their ethics in the pursuit of power.

The projects are the most compassionate places you know? Pretty compassionate in those homeless shelters you volunteer at? All those rich guys locked up at the place you do your prison ministry?

Yes, the most compassionate people I have known have always lived modestly. I have known enough people living on the street and enough people living in mansions to abhor what wealth does to most people.

 

[Natebishop3]

I've seen it play out with friends and relatives many times.

Put a bit of money in someone's pocket and it burns a hole right through their heart.

Wealth creates greed.

Poverty nurtures compassion.

Must have been a slow burn. His first success as a playwrite was in the 70s and then he scored a Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry, Glen Ross in 1984. He's written countless plays and movies since then.

 

[Shooter]

Greed is an abheration of the human spirit, and like most evil is a learned trait.

It only occurs after the person has made a conscious decision to abandon their ethics in the pursuit of power.

Good grief, where do you get this stuff? Everybody would love to be rich, and most of them are not evil. Everybody wants to make more money, get a better deal on a house, win the lottery, etc., etc. Furthermore, some of the most generous people in the world are the people who have the most money. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have agreed to pass on at least half of their fortunes to charitable causes all over the world.

 

[Shooter]

Poverty nurtures compassion.

??? The most crime-ridden areas in America are in the poor inner cities. What poverty seems to nurture more than anything--at least in places like Detroit and East LA--is violence, murder, rape, and thievery.

 

[julius]

You start growing more brain cells, for one thing.

shows how much you know, you can't grow more brain cells.