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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:44 AM Jan 2019

Conservatives lose it after Christian Bale thanks Satan for 'inspiring' him to play Dick Cheney

SARAH K. BURRIS
06 JAN 2019 AT 21:22 ET

Actor Christian Bale accepted the Golden Globe award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for his role in the film “Vice.”

Bale plays former Vice President Dick Cheney in a story that details the unique role he had in George W. Bush’s White House.

According to Rotten Tomatoes, “Bale’s transformation is a sight to behold.” He donned prosthetics to achieve some of the key characteristics of Cheney, but capturing the so-called “evil” of Cheney was all Bale.

“Thank you Satan for the inspiration,” Bale said about the biographical drama-comedy role.

He then offered a challenge to other actors, saying it was a kind of “competition.”

“I will be cornering the market on charisma-free assh*les,” he said. “What do you think, Mitch McConnell next? That would be good, wouldn’t it?”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/conservatives-lose-christian-bale-thank-satan-inspiring-play-dick-cheney/


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Conservatives lose it after Christian Bale thanks Satan for 'inspiring' him to play Dick Cheney (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2019 OP
Charisma-free assholes. My new favorite descriptor. Cousin Dupree Jan 2019 #1
I screamed with laughter when he said he should play Mitch McConnell next! Neema Jan 2019 #5
Me too! Still laughing Cousin Dupree Jan 2019 #13
Made watching worth it. Funniest thing on the show. dem4decades Jan 2019 #49
Trump is as close to being Satan as it gets. Maybe he's the dreaded anti-Christ. olegramps Jan 2019 #25
He's certainly a type and shadow/precursor... ADX Jan 2019 #31
I thought trump was the Antichrist. calimary Jan 2019 #55
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jan 2019 #57
Shut up & act underpants Jan 2019 #2
Christian Bale may have insulted Satan! Siwsan Jan 2019 #3
may have? n/t kag Jan 2019 #39
I wasn't going to watch the movie, because, well, too soon. Baitball Blogger Jan 2019 #4
It's a good film PJMcK Jan 2019 #8
Rental! nt TwistOneUp Jan 2019 #47
I will watch it because Christian Bale plays Cheney. lunatica Jan 2019 #14
Oh my ! donkeypoofed Jan 2019 #6
It gets better... TwistOneUp Jan 2019 #48
That was a great moment! PatSeg Jan 2019 #7
Satan's handiwork Botany Jan 2019 #9
This just makes me cry! lunatica Jan 2019 #15
Devastating catchnrelease Jan 2019 #53
This is sad beyond words. thucythucy Jan 2019 #17
France tried to warn bush & Chaney before the invasion of Iraq about the "blow back" that .... Botany Jan 2019 #18
+1 dalton99a Jan 2019 #20
That photo of the drowned child laying in the surf is devastating nt irisblue Jan 2019 #26
Oh god, that photo just made me sick to my stomach. smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #27
You can thank the US Supreme Court's 2000 bush v Gore ruling for that little boy .... Botany Jan 2019 #28
No, not thank them. Condemn them. smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #30
Correct Botany Jan 2019 #33
Thanks for posting this. We varnish the TRUTH entirely too frequently. nt Ferrets are Cool Jan 2019 #41
Love the comment about Hollywood going down Downtown Hound Jan 2019 #10
If the Shoe Fits... dlk Jan 2019 #11
Bale did a hairraising turn in American Pyscho. sarge43 Jan 2019 #12
those are the 2 people barbtries Jan 2019 #16
I saw the film and it was a bone chilling performance. Texin Jan 2019 #19
Oh wow.. that's a good review, Cha Jan 2019 #52
I'm now a Christian Bale superfan! Rorey Jan 2019 #21
Am I the only one here who thinks what Bale said was pretty damn insensitive? Major Nikon Jan 2019 #22
Bush/Cheney make Trump (to date) look like a pauper when it comes to body count. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2019 #32
Um, a theological/mathematical point: tclambert Jan 2019 #34
I'm not sure how else you'd keep score Major Nikon Jan 2019 #43
Jeez, now it's Satan shaming! lunatica Jan 2019 #54
Wow. All these wingnuts coming to Cheney's defense. skypilot Jan 2019 #23
I knew they would. Ask me if I care. Go ahead...ask me! LOL. nt Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #24
I love Christian Bale! Catherine Vincent Jan 2019 #29
I didn't plan on watching that movie because of the subject matter, but now I think I will. Vinca Jan 2019 #35
It's quite a movie. His portrayal almost guarantees him a Best Actor Oscar. calimary Jan 2019 #56
LOL!!! ailsagirl Jan 2019 #36
Uncle Dick is far more evil than 45. Buckeyeblue Jan 2019 #37
Oh 45 is at least as evil, but more stupid and less competent. nt Lucky Luciano Jan 2019 #44
Of course, the MOST evil of that group is Karl Rove ailsagirl Jan 2019 #45
Why are they upset? Did Bale give Satan too much credit? Yavin4 Jan 2019 #38
K and R for unvarnished truth and hilarity. nt Ferrets are Cool Jan 2019 #40
Oh, that's great! louis-t Jan 2019 #42
LOL SunSeeker Jan 2019 #46
Christian Bale is brilliant! 💗 BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2019 #50
Wow.. I would have fallen Cha Jan 2019 #51
'Christian' Bale Danascot Jan 2019 #58
 

ADX

(1,622 posts)
31. He's certainly a type and shadow/precursor...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:53 PM
Jan 2019

...but he's missing a few of the "requirements" to be THE Anti-Christ...

Response to olegramps (Reply #25)

Baitball Blogger

(46,699 posts)
4. I wasn't going to watch the movie, because, well, too soon.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:57 AM
Jan 2019

But Bale's acceptance speech may have changed my mind.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
14. I will watch it because Christian Bale plays Cheney.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:14 AM
Jan 2019

He’s one of the great actors. He’s played roles of drug addicts to psychotic violent military vets that are completely convincing. When I saw his body in one of the scenes of the drug addict I was shocked to see how skeletal he looked. He was wearing pants but they were hanging low enough that you could see the back of his pelvis bone clearly under the flesh as well as every vertebrae and rib. And his face was so thin that he didn’t even look like himself. His collarbones stood out so much it seemed like it had to be painful.

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
6. Oh my !
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:59 AM
Jan 2019

That was awesomely delicious! Now to sit back and watch the resulting fireworks. Dont think it'll cost Christian any more than the cost of a bodyguard for a few months; he'll always be able to find roles. Besides, death threats aside, the RWNJ's will have alot to digest in the coming year. Their worlds are about to be rocked when all the proof comes out. I almost feel sorry for them, almost. Christian Bale will not be in the frying pan of the very mad conservative right for too long before they're mightily distracted with Proof of Collusion, Coming Soon.

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)
48. It gets better...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 04:30 PM
Jan 2019

All those RW judges the senate are approving? They're being rushed through, which means little or no background checking. Think "Kavanaugh lite".

I'm guessing that Kavanaugh, while being a dick, was a lightweight dick, and that some or many of these conservative judges being appointed are *serious* dicks. I.e., judges with "non-trivial flaws" in their personality. Who may not want that shit "to come out", and only agreed to the appointment if they could skip the background check. You get the idea.

Botany

(70,488 posts)
9. Satan's handiwork
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:00 AM
Jan 2019


No Dick Cheney's war for oil in Iraq = no al Qaeda in Iraq = no ISIS = no civil war in
Syria and this baby* wouldn't be dead on some Turkish beach.




* Alan Kurdi

catchnrelease

(1,945 posts)
53. Devastating
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 08:45 PM
Jan 2019

I can never see this photo without bursting into tears. That little peanut looks like he should be taking a nap, not washed up on the shore as a byproduct of mans' unending stupidity. It's just too much.

Botany

(70,488 posts)
18. France tried to warn bush & Chaney before the invasion of Iraq about the "blow back" that ....
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:33 AM
Jan 2019

.... would happen if they destabilized the middle east with their unneeded war and what did
the right wing, Fox News, and the hate talkers say in return? "Freedom Fries."

Botany

(70,488 posts)
28. You can thank the US Supreme Court's 2000 bush v Gore ruling for that little boy ....
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:28 PM
Jan 2019

.... laying dead on the beach.

Botany

(70,488 posts)
33. Correct
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:10 PM
Jan 2019

BTW Sandra Day O'Connor knew that they were fucking America with their ruling that stopped
the counting of lawful votes of American citizens in their bush v Gore ruling. Because she stipulated
that ruling could not be used in any other legal actions prior to bush v Gore or post bush v Gore.

BTW we would never of had a 9-11, a war in Afghanistan, a war in Iraq, citizen's united, Justices
Roberts and Alito, HAVA, Ohio 2004, the Big Branch Mine explosions, Dick Cheney drinking and
shooting somebody in the face, President Trump, and on and on without bush v Gore.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
10. Love the comment about Hollywood going down
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:04 AM
Jan 2019

2018 was a record year at the box office, but you know, who needs facts when you've got insanity and wishful thinking on your side?

Texin

(2,594 posts)
19. I saw the film and it was a bone chilling performance.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:34 AM
Jan 2019

Terrific movie. And Sam Rockwell was wonderful as W. I understand that McKay was tilting the movie more into a sort of dark (very dark) satirical piece, but it balanced pretty well between that and a straight dramatic biopic (but it was much more serious than any recent satire I've seen). Amy Adams was pretty much transformed as well. Not so much in her appearance as just how Machiavellian Lynne Cheney was. She was every bit the Lady Macbeth to her husband, and I'd just opine that she's the more ruthless and cold blooded of the two.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
22. Am I the only one here who thinks what Bale said was pretty damn insensitive?
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:52 AM
Jan 2019

Satan killed only 10 people in the bible and that was on a bet with god. Dick killed in the 7 figure range.

Seems pretty insensitive to Satanists and would have been more accurate if he said he got his inspiration from god.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,324 posts)
32. Bush/Cheney make Trump (to date) look like a pauper when it comes to body count.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:55 PM
Jan 2019

Yet Bush is being rehabilitated by people in our own party.

It bogythe mind.

tclambert

(11,085 posts)
34. Um, a theological/mathematical point:
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:13 PM
Jan 2019

In the Great Flood, God killed EVERYONE except Noah, his sons, Ham, Shemp, and Curly, and their unnamed wives (women, I guess, were too unimportant to name, even though everyone now alive supposedly descended from these women). That must have been, I don't know, hundreds of people (thousands? millions?), anyway, far more than the 10 you assign to Satan.

So, if we use bodycount as a measure of evilness, does that make God more evil than Satan? Are you saying God is more evil than Dick Cheney?

I don't know, somebody could get excommunicated up in here.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
43. I'm not sure how else you'd keep score
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:39 PM
Jan 2019

It's not as if we know how many kittens any of them drowned in a bathtub.

skypilot

(8,852 posts)
23. Wow. All these wingnuts coming to Cheney's defense.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:54 AM
Jan 2019

Someone should play them the clip of Cheney saying that "deficits don't matter" and then see if they can reconcile their sudden high opinion of him with that statement.

calimary

(81,200 posts)
56. It's quite a movie. His portrayal almost guarantees him a Best Actor Oscar.
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:34 AM
Jan 2019

Warning - you may find it INFURIATING. I certainly did. That ratfucker still walks free. With somebody else's heart keeping him alive. Murderous, scheming, power-mad fucking GHOUL.

Yavin4

(35,433 posts)
38. Why are they upset? Did Bale give Satan too much credit?
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:37 PM
Jan 2019

Dick Cheney's evil should be inspiration enough.

Cha

(297,123 posts)
51. Wow.. I would have fallen
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 08:05 PM
Jan 2019

out of my chair if I had seen that on tv.. like I used to watch the Golden Globes!

What did the audience do?! lol

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