Barack Obama is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States of America: January 20, 2013
The Equalizer is released September 7, 2014.
Donald Trump is inaugurated as President of the United States of America: January 20, 2017
First Q post: October 28, 2017.
The Equalizer 2 is released July 20, 2018.
The 2nd Q post asks the question, “What is military intelligence?”
In The Equalizer movies, we do not have any solid connection between Denzel Washington’s character Robert McCall and military intelligence (Defense Intelligence Agency) until the second movie.
In other words, Robert McCall was a generic (possibly CIA) covert asset [hitman] in the 2014 film.
Q brought military intelligence into the limelight in 2017.
All of a sudden, Robert McCall (the protagonist of The Equalizer movies) becomes SPECIFICALLY a MILITARY covert asset (Defense Clandestine Service [DIA]) in 2018.
Joe Biden is inaugurated as President of the United States of America: January 20, 2021.
Last (most recent) Q post: November 27, 2022.
The Equalizer 3 is released September 1, 2023
U.S. Presidential election: November 5, 2024.
Selected Q posts containing the word “movie”:
461 “What makes a movie GOOD? GREAT actors?” January 4, 2018
813 “You are watching a movie.” February 22, 2018
1191 “What makes a good movie?” April 19, 2018
1262 “Think movie.” April 25, 2018
1450 “You are watching a ‘scripted’ movie.” June 11, 2018
[The Equalizer 2 is released July 20, 2018]
1928 “…[MOVIES 1-3 FULL LIST]. Coming SOON to a theater near you. MOVIE 2: Coming this FALL. MOVIE 3: TBA Enjoy the show.” August 20, 2018
2663 “Something out of a movie?” January 7, 2019
3635 “Sometimes a good ‘movie’ can provide a lot of truth and/or background.” November 25, 2019
4904 “All [3] movies playing simultaneously?” October 21, 2020
Which Q posts featured a(n IWC) watch?
The time is 4:19. The date is the 19th.
The time is 3:05? The date is the 27th.
Which times on Robert McCall’s Suunto wristwatch (stopwatch function) are clearly readable in The Equalizer movies?
Let’s start with the first movie.
The stopwatch reads 3:22’14.
Could this be read as 3/22/14?
Keep in mind The Equalizer came out in 2014.
322 is also the mysterious number associated with the Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale University (a college famed for its many CIA alumni).
The stopwatch reads 5:17’44.
Would there be any significance if parsed as 5/17/44?
The final readable watch image (chronologically) from The Equalizer (2014) follows:
The stopwatch reads 0:28’24.
If parsed as 2/8/24, does this foretell an event which will happen on February 8, 2024?
Klaus Schwab: “When I mention our names…like Mrs. Merkel…even Vladimir Putin, and so on: they all have been Young Global Leaders of the Economic Forum…but, um…what we are really proud of, now…is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau…um, President of Argentina…and so on…so we penetrate the cabinets…so…yesterday, I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau, and I would know that half of this cabinet, or even more half [sic] of this cabinet are…for our actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.”
David Gergen: “That’s true in Argentina as well.”
Schwab: “It’s true in Argentina, and uh, it’s true in France now, I mean, with the President, uh, with the Young Global Leader, but…what is important for…”
There are two parallel online databases–one shorter, and one longer–maintained by the YGL (Young Global Leaders program) of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) aka Davos. Here is the longer, more inclusive database:
It should be noted that in neither database is listed Justin Trudeau, Angela Merkel, or Vladimir Putin.
Indeed, I can find no record on WEF websites which draw attention to any of the these three leaders having been “trained” by the WEF.
[it should be noted that the Young Global Leaders formerly went by the name Global Leaders for Tomorrow]
Perhaps, in a strictly accurate sense, neither Trudeau, Merkel, nor Putin were in the YGL program.
But this is disingenuous.
It is the same program.
Just simply renamed.
And this is where I need researchers more talented than myself to DIG!
It is ESSENTIAL to delineate the hideous world order under which we now live.
Go back to the year the program started.
In the early-1990s.
Why is it essential?
Because Schwab is bragging (you must read between the lines…listen to his tone of voice) that these leaders are BEHOLDEN to him.
And while we cannot yet put our finger on the very years these three leaders were trained, we can cite with more authority the strange network which Schwab has built up.
Let me introduce you:
It’s time people stopped worshipping Trump.
Face the truth.
The motherfucker has pushed the vaccine in myriad ways the past few months.
So here you go.
Maybe Bartiromo was just gathering intelligence.
For what it’s worth, I like her more than Trump at this point.
Same with Putin.
I like him more than Trump.
I could see Putin (a former Stasi officer) treating a WEF invitation as a chance to gather intelligence.
It should be noted, there are VERY FEW Russians included in the HIGHLY-EXCLUSIVE Young Global Leaders program.
But Canada is of much concern.
If Trudeau was really in the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program and is beholden to Schwab.
Things start adding up.
If you are looking for members of the climate cult, look no further than the YGL.
Comb through all 98 pages (as I did).
You will find some doozies!
The head of New Zealand.
The head of Belgium.
And the Canadians beholden to Schwab just keep on coming!
Don’t buy into the Tulsi crap.
She’s fake as a plastic lei.
Owning politicians.
And fake news.
Wire services.
The “choke points” of the news industry.
I’ve heard that Bono was among the Global Leaders for Tomorrow.
I can’t yet verify that.
But I can verify this.
Heads of state (verified):
New Zealand
Belgium
France
Do you need some vaccines to really start to round out this picture?
Right.
GAVI.
Former (recent) heads of state: Mexico.
How about some really weird, pseudo-philanthropy, social-engineering stuff?
Eyes open!
But the Canadians keep coming hot and heavy.
And fake news can be proffered and gate-kept by means other that simply wire services.
This is information warfare.
Censorship can be achieved in many ways.
How about “deplatforming”?
How is that done?
I first went through the shorter database.
A mere 60 pages or so.
Then found there to be a larger database (the 98-page one).
Who was left out of the shorter one?
This guy.
There are so many it’s hard to remember who is on which list.
I will have to leave some out.
Pick a concentration.
A specialty.
Trace it through the 98 pages.
It’s astounding and heartbreaking that Kissinger protege Klaus Schwab wields this much power.
It appears that the Bilderberg group is no longer the prime focus of the New World Order.
It is, rather, the World Economic Forum.
And George Soros is no longer the living, breathing James Bond villain-to-end-all-villains.
That is, rather, Klaus Schwab.
Schwab puts the words in the mouths of Prince Charles and Pope Bergogio.
6uild6ack6etter.
Gates and Schwab are weaving the same hideous tapestry.
Fauci is a rather mid-level functionary.
At a Vatican event here.
Hand-in-glove with Gates in many other places.
But Klaus Schwab is at the top of the pile.
The pinnacle of the shit heap.
He “penetrates cabinets”.
Former (recent) heads of state:
Mexico
Georgia
I’m leaving out all of the forays the WEF Young Global Leaders make into the private sector.
Neuroscience.
Pharmaceuticals.
Cyber”security”.
Skull and Bones had their election (2004): Bush vs. Kerry.
Win-win.
And now the WEF is starting to pick off U.S. Presidential candidates.
And “penetrating cabinets” (transportation, in this case.
Gabbard.
Buttigieg).
Buy the regulators.
So you won’t be regulated.
I’m not at all telling you about all of the bankers the WEF “owns”.
But here’s another government connection.
The New World Order is not just white men.
Perhaps they are pulling the strings.
But they have puppets of every make and model.
Every color.
Every gender.
Every woke permutation.
Some are tokens.
But many hold key, KEY positions in major economies.
Major regional powers.
When Schwab spoke about essentially controlling half of Canada’s cabinet, he wasn’t kidding.
Supranational banks.
Soros buys prosecutors.
Gets them elected.
“Bail reform”.
Goal: cause chaos/anarchy.
Societal collapse.
The antithesis of law and order.
Absurd policies which increase crime.
So it is biblical that Canada’s truckers should have taken such a stand.
Because no government on earth appears to be owned more by the WEF than Canada’s.
There was a lot of mention of Argentina between Schwab and Gergen (didn’t Gergen attend Bohemian Grove? [Alex Jones once did a great ambush interview with Gergen]).
Remember, Bohemian Grove is where people (like Kissinger) do a “mock” sacrifice of a child (called the “Cremation of Care”) under a giant sculpture of Moloch (in the form of an owl).
This is out in the woods near San Francisco.
Or maybe you need some Jesuits to go with Fauci, Bergoglio, and Francis Collins?
[Bergoglio Argentine Jesuit]
The places with the fastest-disappearing freedoms (Canada, Australia…) seem to be big focuses of the Young Global Leaders program.
To Myanmar’s credit, they appear to have rid their country of the Soros influence.
Need some more vaccines?
Need some critical race theory?
Klaus Schwab controls the Elvis of that racket.
How about the U.S. Congressman most heavily invested in Big Pharma?
Yep, Schwab has him too.
Even Trump hired one of these dumb fucks.
How about some transhumanism?
Keep in mind: I am giving you an overview that is far from exhaustive.
There are more Argentines.
More Brazilians.
Could Chinese communist news be more fake and insidious than it already is?
Yes.
How?
Make the anchors beholden to Klaus Schwab.
The World Economic Forum is a threat to every country on earth.
But Schwab seems to idolize China.
Russia has been smart enough to make Soros persona non grata.
China should do the same with Schwab.
EVERY country should do the same with BOTH of them!
Wikipedia thoroughly compromised.
Now does it make sense why you can’t find any real news or facts on Wikipedia?
Why it is so politicized and liberal-, communist-, GLOBALIST-biased?
But this is recruiting.
EVERY. SINGLE. COUNTRY.
These may not be the Prime Ministers today, but they will be.
Own New Zealand, France, Belgium…own Mexico and Georgia.
These high-profile recruits make scamming the third-world even easier.
The only type of people who could enter this Young Global Leaders program and not come out blackmailed are the Putin and Bartiromo types.
HARD individuals.
And I cannot guarantee that either of them made it out unscathed.
Let’s check in on those current heads of state (which we can confirm were Young Global Leaders):
New Zealand
France
Belgium
Costa Rica
Finland
(and recently
Mexico
Georgia)
Belgium and Finland, eh?
Maybe Schwab just wants to control the countries with the most pale women?
Biden is a one-trick pony in a party of well-meaning morons.
No President has ever been hated so much…
…by the establishment.
Ironic.
It took one of their own to bring them to their knees.
And now the establishment has come up with an exceptionally-pathetic excuse for a candidate:
Joe Biden.
Republicans tried to elect a showroom dummy once (recently).
Mitt Romney.
Had the looks.
What could go wrong?
He came off as cold.
Plastic.
And so all the genius, conniving minds of the Democrat Party have gotten behind the person they think can Trojan their specious ideas into the realm of policy.
It is quite obvious.
Joe Biden didn’t get a big enough shot in the ass of ginkgo biloba to really stay in the ring 12 rounds with Trump.
Joe needs to be mainlining that shit by now.
If Joe Biden ate nothing but onions and drank nothing but tea, his brain would still be like a hunk of Swiss cheese.
Trump, fresh off recovering from the plague of the century (once-in-a-100-years) was cogent and articulate.
Look around.
If every media outlet, every source of information, every sports star, every celebrity is against Trump, what does that make Trump?
Anti-establishment.
So, go ahead.
Vote for Joe.
Joe couldn’t last five minutes playing Tropico (much less five minutes actually running the USA).
And he will not be running the USA (if elected).
Swiss-cheese-brain Biden has actually bought and believed the syrupy propaganda of his own party.
Which makes sense.
Because his brain has become (and will rapidly accelerate towards being) childlike.
Which doesn’t excuse Biden of being a nakedly-corrupt politician par excellence.
Joe would bring the old gang back together.
Hillary would have a chance to get her pay-to-play Clinton Foundation back up and running.
Hell, why not make her Secretary of State again?
She will be emboldened to shred every law because, even though she got caught, she paid no price (except for the nosedive in Clinton Foundation contributions).
You would have “bonesmen” like Austan Goolsbee.
[a pale imitation of an actually-competent individual (Mnuchin)]
Hell, bring ’em all back.
Comey at FBI.
Brennan at CIA.
Lynch on the Supreme Court.
Bring back Eric “Fast and Furious” Holder.
Put Bernie’s great economic theories to work at the Department of Labor.
[another guy who would crap out at Tropico within minutes]
Because it’s all one big gang.
It’s all one big, compromised gang.
And it’s all about making money OFF the people (rather than making money FOR the people).
Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters…
“Liberals”.
Limousine liberals (as they say).
Their respective personal worth always MAGICALLY balloons in their years of “service” to the USA.
It doesn’t take a genius to make money that way.
It takes a scumbag.
Trump didn’t need the money.
Hell, he gives away his Presidential salary checks.
But there is something.
He is GOOD AT MAKING MONEY.
So, yeah…
He didn’t fight in Vietnam.
[it’s also quite likely he never disparaged the military]
“Anonymous sources”…
Joe Biden disparaged the military ON TAPE, but never a hardball question about that:
[6’10” —> “clap for that, you stupid bastards”]
on tape.
Joe Biden has a problem with being caught on tape.
Here bragging about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired (while using American taxpayer dollars as leverage). Hmmm, why would he want a UKRAINIAN prosecutor (?!?) fired? Why would he brag about it? What was this prosecutor investigating? Why would we interfere in the judicial system of the Ukraine (by way of Joe Biden)? Seems like his son Hunter had some dealings in Ukraine. Hmmm… Could it be, that this prosecutor was investigating his son Hunter???
But Joe Biden also has, how can I put this tactfully, other “problems” on tape. It’s not just the hair of women he is sniffing:
Wouldn’t be so bad (?) if it was an isolated incident. Maybe it was taken out of context?
You don’t need to watch all 17 minutes of the above clip to get the gist. Joe Biden takes liberties with children…knowingly…on C-SPAN, etc. What does he do behind closed doors? The footage we’ve seen is shocking enough.
Joe Biden makes women and children (particularly Chris Coons’ daughter) feel uncomfortable. You can see it in the body language. Biden whispers in their ears. And the young Coons daughter pulls away from the kiss. Cre-epy!
But in this debate (the final of the 2020 season), Donald Trump made Joe Biden feel uncomfortable…especially when Trump brought up the “laptop from hell”. You could see it in Joe’s body language.
“It’s all lies,” said Joe repeatedly throughout the two debates.
Pull his string: “It’s all lies.”
“Come on, man!”
Sometimes it’s funny.
Like the moronic George W. Bush who was part and parcel of the cabal that brought down the Twin Towers.
Bush was funny.
But scary.
Because he was so dumb.
But Joe Biden is not so completely ravaged by senile dementia not to feel the fear at even the mention of “the laptop from hell”.
But let’s hit some key points.
Joe Biden cannot consistently get his train of thought from point A to point B. Witness this gem:
“And I don’t look at this in terms of the way he does, blue states and red states. They’re all the United States. And look at the states that are having such a spike in the coronavirus. They’re the red states, they’re the states in the Midwest, they’re the states in the upper Midwest. “
Trump knows his opponent is mentally-compromised.
But Trump also knows that his opponent is a textbook corrupt politician:
“Joe, you have raised a lot of money, tremendous amounts of money. And every time you raise money deals are made, Joe. I could raise so much more money. As President, and as somebody that knows most of those people, I could call the heads of Wall Street, the heads of every company in America. I would blow away every record. But I don’t want to do that because it puts me in a bad position.“
Like with the kids, Joe just couldn’t help himself (even against the obvious preparation where his advisors explicitly told him to, under no circumstances, broach this topic) #LaptopFromHell:
“His own National Security Advisor told him that what is happening with his buddy… Well, I shouldn’t… Well, I will. His buddy Rudy Giuliani. He’s being used as a Russian pawn.”
Joe fucked up. As Trump explains:
“Well, let me respond to the first part, as Joe answered. Joe got $3.5 million from Russia and it came through Putin, because he was very friendly with the former mayor of Moscow and it was the mayor of Moscow’s wife. And you got $3.5 million. Your family got $3.5 million. And someday you’re going to have to explain, why did you get three and a half? I never got any money from Russia. I don’t get money from Russia.”
“But now, with what came out today, it’s even worse. All of the emails, the emails, the horrible emails of the kind of money that you were raking in, you and your family. And Joe, you were vice-president when some of this was happening, and it should have never happened. And I think you owe an explanation to the American people. Why is it, somebody just had a news conference a little while ago who was essentially supposed to work with you and your family, but what he said was damning. And regardless of me, I think you have to clean it up and talk to the American people. Maybe you can do it right now.”
“…I don’t make money from China. You do. I don’t make money from Ukraine. You do. I don’t make money from Russia. You made $3.5 million, Joe, and your son gave you, they even have a statement that we have to give 10% to the big man. You’re the big man, I think. I don’t know, maybe you’re not, but you’re the big man, I think.”
#TheBigGuy.
AKA #TheBigMan.
Truth:
“I was put through a phony witch hunt for three years. It started before I even got elected. They spied of my campaign. No president should ever have to go through what I went through. Let me just say this, Mueller and 18 angry Democrats and FBI agents all over the place spent $48 million. They went through everything I had, including my tax returns, and they found absolutely no collusion and nothing wrong. $48 million. I guarantee you, if I spent $1 million on you, Joe, I could find plenty wrong because the kind of things that you’ve done and the kind of monies that your family has taken, I mean, your brother made money in Iraq…millions of dollars. Your other brother made a fortune, and it’s all through you, Joe. And they say you get some of it. And you do live very well, you have houses all over the place. You live very well.”
Fire when ready:
“His son didn’t have a job for a long time, was, sadly, no longer in the military service, I won’t get into that, and he didn’t have a job. As soon as he became vice-president, Burisma, not the best reputation in the world, I hear they paid him $183,000 a month, listen to this, $183,000, and they gave him a $3 million upfront payment, and he had no energy experience. That’s 100% dishonest.”
Trump did this same thing to Hillary.
Blew holes in her metaphorical hull.
Torpedoes.
“He is the vice-president of the United States and his son, his brother, and his other brother are getting rich. They’re like a vacuum cleaner. They’re sucking up money…”
Incoming:
“His son walked out with a billion and a half dollars from China to…after spending 10 minutes in office and being in Air Force Two. Number one. Number two, there’s a very strong email talking about your family wanting to make $10 million a year for introductions.”
Joe Biden does not understand international finance.
He does not understand the implications of Chinese currency devaluations.
He doesn’t even understand the mechanism.
Joe Biden is a (renovated) showroom dummy:
“My response is, look, there’s a reason why he’s bringing up all this malarkey. There’s a reason for it. He doesn’t want to talk about the substantive issues. It’s not about his family and my family. It’s about your family, and your family’s hurting badly. If you’re a middle-class family, you’re getting hurt badly right now. You’re sitting at the kitchen table this morning deciding, ‘Well, we can’t get new tires. They’re bald, because we have to wait another month or so.’ Or, ‘Are we going to be able to pay the mortgage?’ Or, ‘Who’s going to tell her she can’t go back to community college?’ They’re the decisions you’re making, and the middle-class families like I grew up in Scranton and Claymont, they’re in trouble. We should be talking about your families, but that’s the last thing he wants to talk about.”
Bill Clinton was persuasive when he was peddling this same shit.
Joe Biden isn’t.
And Trump calls it out:
“That is a typical statement.
[…]
That’s a typical political statement. Let’s get off this China thing, and then he looks, ‘The family around the table, everything.’ Just a typical politician when I see that. I’m not a typical politician.
[…]
That’s why I got elected. Let’s get off the subject of China. Let’s talk about sitting around the table. Come on, Joe. You could do better.”
Joe Biden only has one “dollar word” left in his intellectual quiver:
“The public option is an option that says that if you in fact do not have the wherewithal, if you qualify for Medicaid and you do not have the wherewithal in your state to get Medicaid, you automatically are enrolled, providing competition for insurance companies.”
Twice in the same sentence?!?
Come on, man!!
Joe’s (and the Democrats’) answer for everything is “bailout”…as Trump begins to delineate:
“The bill that was passed in the House was a bailout of badly run, high crime, Democrat, all run by Democrat cities and states. It was a way of getting a lot of money, billions and billions of dollars, to these guys. It was also a way of getting a lot of money from our people’s pockets to people that come into our country illegally. We were going to take care of everything for them. And I’d love to do that. I’d love to help them. But what that does, everybody all over the world will start pouring into our country. We can’t do it. This was a way of taking care of them. This was a way of spending on things that had nothing to do with COVID, as per your question. But it was really a big bailout for badly run Democrat cities and states.”
Joe wants a planned economy (like Uncle Joe Stalin had). Price ceilings. Price floors. Arbitrary values for labor (a major factor in production). It doesn’t work.
Trump defeats this backwards economic chestnut in one sentence:
“How are you helping your small businesses when you’re forcing wages?”
Watch the price of eggs.
That’s how you will see the free market (as opposed to a planned economy) assert itself.
Supply and demand.
As simple as that.
Don’t toy with it.
Don’t stifle it.
Let it create value.
For everyone.
It may be trite, but “a rising tide lifts all ships” (as it is said).
The stock market is equivalent to the vital signs of a medical patient.
Joe may or may not understand that.
Again, he seems to have bought the “black propaganda” (total disinformation) of his own party.
What little brain Joe has left has been thoroughly washed of all real-world, economic logic.
As good as Kristen Welker was (and she was quite good [compared to the atrociously-partisan Chris Wallace]), she is still part of a profession that, when it comes to Democrat interviewees, almost always shirks its duty:
“Who built the cages? I’d love you to ask him that. Who built the cages, Joe?”
The U.S. immigration system is broken (on purpose). And Joe should know that. But he still blithely opines otherwise. Trump truth:
“And then you say they come back. Less than 1% of the people come back. We have to send ICE out and Border Patrol out to find them. We would say, ‘Come back in two years, three years. We’re going to give you a court case. You did Perry Mason. We’re going to give you a court case.’ When you say they come back, they don’t come back, Joe. They never come back. Only the really… I hate to say this, but those with the lowest IQ, they might come back, but there are very, very few.”
Sure.
Trump is rough around the edges.
But he is no bullshit.
And there are a few opinion leaders (Johnny Rotten) who understand and appreciate this.
Joe steps in it again:
“My daughter is a social worker and she’s written a lot about this. She has her graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in social work.”
Doesn’t take a fucking genius to see that Sleepy Joe is actually Creepy Joe.
MOAB:
“You know Joe, I ran because of you. I ran because of Barack Obama, because you did a poor job. If I thought you did a good job, I would’ve never run. I would’ve never run. I ran because of you. I’m looking at you now, you’re a politician, I ran because of you.”
And again (for good measure):
“If this stuff is true about Russia, Ukraine, China, other countries, Iraq. If this is true, then he’s a corrupt politician. So don’t give me the stuff about how you’re this innocent baby. Joe, they’re calling you a corrupt politician…They’re calling it the laptop from hell.”
Emphasis mine.
No cap:
“But, why didn’t he get it done? See, it’s all talk, no action with these politicians, why didn’t he get it? ‘That’s what I’m going to do when I become president.’ You were vice president along with Obama as your president, your leader, for eight years, why didn’t you get it done? You had eight years to get it done, now you’re saying you’re going to get it done because you’re all talking and no action, Joe.”
#AllTalkNoAction
Biden: “I don’t know where he comes from. I don’t know where he comes up with these numbers.”
It all started with Errol Flynn. Flynn, accused of statutory rape by two under-age girls in November 1942 was defended by (among others) the American Boys’ Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn. That’s right: ABCDEF. One member of the organization was William F. Buckley, Jr. Ah Buckley…not the heroic Bill Buckley who died in Beirut (after helping to expose Project MKUltra). Nay, we speak of the harpsichord man. The Knight of Malta (like Ronald Reagan).
In 1943 (that is, the next year) the Buckley in question would go from ABCDEF (Z.O.W.I.E. anyone?) to being a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. After a short stay, he entered (?) WWII out of U.S. Army Officer Candidate School and soon enough (at war’s end) was at Yale and in the loving arms of Skull and Bones (being a member in good standing).
Buckley was recruited by the CIA in 1951. The story goes that he served just two years, but strikingly one of those two was back in Mexico City as a “political action specialist” in the Special Activities Division under E. Howard Hunt.
Now there’s a name… Hunt, along with G. Gordon Liddy (what is it with these guys and first initials?), engineered the first Watergate burglary on behalf of President Richard Nixon and his administration. That is to say: in 1972 the President of the United States of America’s “people” broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. In on this whole thing was another fellow keen on the aforementioned self-referent nomenclature: L. Patrick Gray (the acting head of the FBI at the time).
This immense tangent serves to set the stage for what is not really that great a movie: In Like Flint. Yes, the phrase is thought to have originated in reference to good old Errol Flynn (the demigod [not to be confused with demagogue] of our friends the ABCDEF).
All of this is to say that the “plot” of In Like Flint is beyond fanciful (and utterly jaw-dropping in its dated sexism). Yet, every day the machinations of strange organizations with nefarious plans swirl around us in orbits mostly unnoticed.
I must say that I preferred the direction of Daniel Mann’s Our Man Flint to the staging here of Gordon Douglas. Don’t get me wrong: there are some priceless moments herein. At one point James Coburn utters the phrase “an actor as President…” (as if the whole thing seemed too preposterous to be real). Of course the U.S. would go on to actually have an actor as President when Reagan assumed the position for the majority of the 1980s.
The tape recorders in hair dryers idea bears a spooky resemblance to what the other Bill Buckley observed at McGill University in Montreal (under the horrific guidance of Dr. Ewen Cameron): that is to say MKUltra.
More light-hearted is Coburn’s hilarious “dolphin talk” near the top of the film. Fans of The Illuminatus Trilogy will doubtless find this particularly poignant.
Spy Chief Framed As Libertine… This brings to mind the strange case of Gen. David Petraeus. In the film, intelligence (?) chief Lloyd Cramden is stoned and dethroned in just such a manner by a junta of which Gen. Carter is head. Once again Flint shows his boundless talents (including a stint as hypnotist and another as a ballet dancer). Rahm Emanuel would surely be proud. Leave it to the polymath Flint to deduce female cosmonauts from a cardiograph (80 BPM) on Earth.
Coburn as a Cuban is definitely a knee-slapper. And there is plenty of eye candy (as in the appropriately-named Operation Smooch). All in all this is great downtime for spy and enthusiast alike.
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