#cheney chen

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

離別沒說再見 你是否心酸

轉身寥寥笑臉 不甘的甘願

也許下個冬天 也許還十年

再回到你身邊 為你撐雨傘

. . .

以後遇見風雪 有新的雨傘

為我留的燈盞 能不能別關

不要為我傷感 別被絕望打斷

不能一起的白頭 也別讓風雪染

再一個明天 下一世人間

等我再為你戴上指環

. . .

祈禱天災人禍分給我只給你這香氣

我想大言不慚卑微奢求來世再愛你

希望每晚星���入夢時有人來代替我 吻你 💋 🥲

不再見

🤍❤

陳學冬( Cheney Chen )

作詞：郭敬明 落落

作曲：李榮浩

編曲：李榮浩

離別沒說再見 你是否心酸

轉身寥寥笑臉 不甘的甘願

也許下個冬天 也許還十年

再回到你身邊 為你撐雨傘

剩幾個夜晚 再幾次晚安

等你摘下還戴上指環

原諒捧花的我盛裝出席只為錯過你

祈禱天災人禍分給我只給你這香氣

但我卑微奢求讓我存留些許的氣息

好讓你在夢裡能想起我曾緊抱你的 力氣

以後遇見風雪 有新的雨傘

為我留的燈盞 能不能別關

不要為我傷感 別被絕望打斷

不能一起的白頭 也別讓風雪染

再一個明天 下一世人間

等我再為你戴上指環

原諒捧花的我盛裝出席卻只為獻禮

目送潔白紗裙路過我對他說我願意

但我繼續清掃門前的路和那段階梯

如果你疲憊時別忘記那裡還能停留 休息

原諒捧花的我盛裝出席只為錯過你

祈禱天災人禍分給我只給你這香氣

我想大言不慚卑微奢求來世再愛你

希望每晚星亮入夢時有人來代替我 吻你

[misfitwashere]

November 1, 2024 

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 2

Trump’s comments to right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson last night at an event in Glendale, Arizona, about former representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), coming as they have after the extraordinary racism and sexism of Trump’s Sunday event at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, have have highlighted the centrality of the campaign's attack on women. 

“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump told Carlson, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”  

Today, Trump surrogates have tried to say that he was referring to Cheney’s positions on American warfare, but it seems pretty clear he is fantasizing about seeing her in front of a firing squad. Journalist Magdi Jacobs noted the parallels between this statement and his 2020 command to the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” the precursor to the Proud Boys’ attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In both statements, Trump avoided explicitly calling for violence, but absolutely set the stage for it. 

This morning, Cheney responded to Trump’s threat “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”

While Trump began to attack Cheney openly when she accepted the role of vice-chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, where her presence clearly made Republicans—like Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows—willing to share what they knew, Trump’s recent bloody fantasies appear to have broader meaning.

Cheney has emerged as the key figure to urge Republican women to vote against Trump, and it is becoming increasingly clear that Trump’s reelection is in trouble in part because white women are abandoning him. The early hints that this is happening, like the huge gender gap showing up in early voting, have sparked a right-wing frenzy of attempts to restore the power of white men over the women in their lives. Right-wing men are insisting that wives should vote as their husbands do, or that women should lose the ability to vote altogether. 

Trump’s suggestion that Cheney should face a firing squad seems to be a general expression of the anger of white men accustomed to dictating the terms of public life when faced with the reality that they can no longer count on being able to cow the people around them.

Trump’s attack on Cheney has galvanized his unpopularity with women, while the larger meaning of the MAGAs’ attacks on women got additional illustration with the news broken today by Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana of ProPublica that a pregnant 18-year-old in Texas suffering from sepsis was turned away from emergency rooms twice before doctors at a third visit required two ultrasounds to make sure her fetus no longer had a heartbeat before they would move her into intensive care. She died within hours.  

Today’s news continued to be bad for Trump. Last week, on the Joe Rogan podcast, Trump talked about the CHIPS and Science Act that authorized about $280 billion to encourage domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the U.S. While the law has brought significant private investment into the construction of new manufacturing plants and has created manufacturing jobs, Trump complained to Rogan, “That chip deal is so bad.” 

After listening to that conversation, journalist Luke Radel asked House speaker Mike Johnson in a report aired today whether, with Trump opposed to the bill and with Republicans having voted against it, the Republicans will try to repeal the law if they get majorities in Congress. Johnson responded “I expect we probably will, but we haven’t developed that part of the agenda yet.”

Republicans are determined to cut government spending to make way for more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. But the CHIPS and Science Act has brought important supply chains home and has created more than 115,000 new high-paying jobs in the U.S. 

And it has brought significant investment to battleground states: $19.5 billion to Arizona, $75 million to Georgia, $325 million to Michigan, $750 million to North Carolina, and $93 million to Pennsylvania. Johnson quickly realized that acknowledging the Republicans’ hopes of repealing it was a bad mistake days before an election and, claiming he had not heard the question accurately, said he had no intent to undermine the CHIPS and Science Act. 

At a closed-door meeting earlier this week, Johnson said repealing the Affordable Care Act is a Republican priority. He tried to walk this comment back, as well, but Pennsylvania Republican senatorial candidate Dave McCormick kept the issue in front of voters when he was caught on a hot mic saying he wants to reform the ACA and that he opposes the provision in the ACA that allows children to stay on their parent’s health insurance until they’re 26.

Trump’s mental state continues to deteriorate, taking with it the former president’s inhibitions. After going on a rant about the people he blamed for troubles with his microphone at a sparsely attended rally in Warren, Michigan, the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America simulated oral sex on stage.

An official with the Harris campaign told reporters today that they “fully expect” Trump will replay the game plan of 2020 and claim victory on election night, before all the votes are fully counted. In an interview on Wednesday, Harris noted that they were ready if Trump prematurely declared victory: “We are sadly ready if he does and, if we know that he is actually manipulating the press and attempting to manipulate the consensus of the American people...we are prepared to respond,” she said. 

Washington State governor Jay Inslee has activated the state’s National Guard so it will be “fully prepared to respond to any…civil unrest” before or after the election. 

The Department of Justice today announced it would monitor the polls in 86 jurisdictions in 27 states to make sure they comply with federal voting rights laws. Although the federal government has monitored certain polls since 1965, officials in the states of Florida, Missouri, and Texas promptly announced they would not permit Department of Justice officials inside polling stations.

Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris made two stops in Wisconsin today before packing the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis near Milwaukee. 

In Madison, Harris told a reporter: “What I am enjoying about this moment most is that in spite of how my opponent spends full time trying to divide the American people, what I am seeing is people coming together under one roof who seemingly have nothing in common and know they have everything in common, and I think that is in the best interest of the strength of our nation.”

—

[belanekra]

Interesting annotations on Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer (part two)

From genius.com. I am fascinated by Cheney's fictional novel about Control. Like, what the hell man?

Once there had been biologists here, in numbers so great that the forgotten coast shook with the aftermath of their passage. These men and women bestrode the terrain like conquerors, sent by government money in the form, it was rumored, of gold bars well-hidden that could not devalue or decay like the money kept in banks. They were thus ungoverned by the dictates of barter or of neighborly responsibility that had bound this place for so long.

In the summer of that first year they established their headquarters in the ruins of the ghost town, a bivouac of scientists unprecedented for that place even when it had been alive. As they spread out across their migratory range, the biologists as observed by the locals began to carry out a series of arcane rituals. They shoved pieces of swamp grasses and bits of bark into vials. They put up tents out in “the field” as they called it, even when it was just black swamp. They used binoculars, scopes, and microscopes. They took readings with innumerable peculiar instruments. At times, they stopped in their labors to swear about the heat and humidity, which did not endear them.

The biologists tagged many living things — at least one of every creature that moved and breathed across the pine forests and the cypress swamp, the salt marshes and the beach. They took fine nylon nets and set up capture zones for songbirds, running clod-stepped to the rescue of what they had themselves endangered. Fragile wings and fragile beaks, heads to the side; small eyes looking up at giants that held their bodies in half-closed fists. They tagged so many things, had brought so many tranq darts, that the blue caps removed from the tips still showed up years later in the marshes, along the river bank or crushed into the gravel of the dirt roads.

In their heyday, at the zenith of their powers, some said their boot prints outnumbered the tracks of deer and raccoons and otters on the salt flats.

But over time, the effort that had quickened slowed, the impulse behind it dulled, and the biologists began to die out. Their mobile tents that had once dotted the camping ground near the lighthouse began to disappear. The sounds of their idle conversations before expeditions in the early morning became muted and infrequent. That last spring there might have been a hundred of them and by the fall only four or five. It was a mass extinction created by lack of grant renewal, a matching funds disaster, and a moving on of government attention, that great eye roving toward other lands and foreign wars.

–from the book Forgotten Coast History and Customs by Berit Ellingsen

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“Control indicates certainty about life. I have no certainty, and I wish nothing but to fade into the background, a wish that only ever makes people think of words like ‘wallflower’ because we live in a world where narcissism has been enshrined as a noble pursuit."

“I had no dead twin brother or sister. I had no specific trauma that made me this way. I am not defective, as more than one boyfriend suggested. I simply live apart. I simply have different interests. I simply do not privilege human activity…except when I do.”

–fragments scrawled in the margins of the biologist’s account, and then crossed out

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“As Chen…as Control sat there, in the dying warmth, in the mottled courtyard, by himself, finally by himself, he saw a tall, dark outline lit by the setting sun, which had given a dark umber glow to the singed edges of the swamp. He would recognize her outline anywhere by now. Still in her expedition clothes. So close to a gnarled tree that she was hard to see. There was a hardness in the pit of his stomach, and a tightness in his chest, but somehow not the fear. Somehow, Control was not afraid of this apparition.

She stood with her back to the Southern Reach, to the pull of the U, and looked out across the swamp, where Control imagined Area X lay. Just standing there, staring. Or, perhaps, with her eyes closed. Or perhaps she had no eyes. He could not tell from his vantage, and did not care to get closer. Just standing there. This person who should not have been there, this shell of a soul of whom Control had only found fragments. He could not help thinking that she had materialized because of his close study of her, even though he knew this wasn’t true. That he was just lucky enough to get a glimpse of some ongoing phenomenon. That she probably wasn’t real.

He stood at the window for quite a while, watching her from that distance. He thought about sounding the alarm. That occupied his thoughts for some time. Then he thought about going down to her, but he could not quite do that either, could not quite give himself that kind of permission.

Then, hidden by long tree shadows as long and narrows as bars, she began to walk around the edge of the swamp, until she was distant enough that she fell out of sight.

Control realized that his left hand was curled and his fingernails were dragging into his palm. He released, flexed his fingers, examined the angry white curved indentations, fringed flush with pink, that best expressed to him to proof of his anxiety.

The Southern Reach was over. The Southern Reach was done. He couldn’t stay, he realized. It wasn’t really a place he wanted to stay. It wasn’t really his sinking ship; the rest of the world was.

Had Grace seen her? Should he tell Grace he had seen her? Somehow this was the thought that filled him with dread, and not all of the others. For it would not be a mercy. Knowing what he did. So he let her fade into the dusk, and did nothing. He did not call to anyone. He did not try to follow her. He just…let her go, to do whatever she meant to do. That she had been in the world so long already made manifest how futile it would be to ‘contain’ her at this point. Control understood that all of this was unforgiveable. That it was a sighting and a lapse that if ever known would make him unqualified for any position within the agency. But he didn’t care. He didn’t care because now he had to be a selfish and do what he thought was good for him, whether it was or wasn’t."from Mike Cheney’s fiction manuscript about Control

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Final report on the linguist assigned to the twelfth expedition, one year after withdrawal from the expedition…

Subject is combative and paranoid when interviewed. Still refuses to admit that she scrubbed herself from the mission, but continues to claim that the former director strongly suggested she stand-down. In direct contradiction of testimony by the assistant director. Subject feels as if she has been “bullied and harassed.” Subject lives by herself, under a different name, says she feels “repatriated with reality, but not in quite the same way as before.” She has only rarely seen her family, and under carefully controlled conditions. A Central agent has followed her everywhere, and she knows this. She may or may not know her house has been bugged.

Subject was terse during the last interview, conducted in her backyard as she tended to her garden. I asked her if she felt free and floating and she said nothing back. Per L’s instructions, I gave her a few more prompts, but no recognition occurred.

The question arises, with no clear answer: Who or what deprogrammed her?

At the end, she handed me a letter she said would answer all of my questions. I was only to open it after I had left. I obeyed this request and opened the letter on the way back to Central.

There was only one word written inside, repeated three times.

“Annihilation.”

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“Does Area X have its own Lowry? What would that look like? What would it mean? Or does a Lowry only exist on the human spectrum of possibility?” – scribbled note by the former director

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“Control was beginning to get a sense of Whitby’s filthy habits, the way the illogical Whitby had limpet-like attached himself to the Southern Reach rocks. You couldn’t pry him off. God knows, Michael Cheney, the handsome and clearly uber-intelligent science director, had tried. Control had to give Cheney that. The man’s methodology might be eccentric, but what a brain! Not like that mewling Whitby, who for all anyone knew might be roaming the air ducts in imitation of a more dangerous creature. No, Whitby could go to the dogs, but Control thought Cheney might be the go-to guy for a lot of things. Because Control was at sea and Cheney was the captain he was looking for.” – from science director Mike Cheney’s fiction manuscript about Control

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“When is a lighthouse not a lighthouse? When it’s a distress beacon. Your focus on the island is a terrible miscue. A fixed attention that blinds you to the periphery–and the periphery is where everything is happening. Only certain member of the S&SB know what’s really happening, what phenomena we are really charting here. You have to give us more authority. You have to let us have more resources. – Henry”

–Note found in the pocket of an unidentifiable man slumped at a piano in the village bar.

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“Sometimes I believe Area X is coming in at me through my dreams. Because I don’t believe in dreaming any more. I don’t believe there are such things as images you conjure up at night, while asleep. That’s just another whisper, another way they hack into you, subvert how you think about things. Lord knows, we need subversion–we need it if want water to drink and air to breathe. But did it have to happen quite this way?” – from Whitby Allen’s private journal

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[uswnt5]

Women In Blazers is actually hilarious and Cheney also looks like she's being kept hostage in that bus while ARod and Tobin look like they're having a great time

haha Chen was a good sport and her air vent slap made me laugh

[yetisidelblog]

Four years ago today, Donald Trump emboldened a mob to attack the Capitol in an attempt to overturn a free and fair election. That dark day was a direct assault on our democracy—with five lives lost.

With Trump set to return to the Oval office in two weeks, he’s doubling down, suggesting he will pardon the violent insurrectionists and punish those who held him accountable.

Pardoning rioters sends one message: Political violence is acceptable. Targeting ‘political enemies’ that were simply doing their job is the playbook of a dictator.

We can’t let this happen. The House Select Committee to investigate January 6th—Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Jamie Raskin, and others—worked tirelessly to get to the truth about that deadly day. Now, he’s unjustly seeking retribution.

We need to show Trump that America won’t stand for his assaults on democracy. Sign the petition NOW to stand defenders of democracy and condemn his attempt to write-off political violence from the MAGA mob.

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[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: The Great Wall

Año: 2016

Duración: 92 min

País:  China  

Dirección: Zhang Yimou

Guion: Tony Gilroy, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro. Historia: Max Brooks, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz

Música: Ramin Djawadi

Fotografía: Stuart Dryburgh, Zhao Xiaoding

Reparto: Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Jing Tian, Zhang Hanyu, Eddie Peng, Lu Han, Lin Gengxin, Ryan Zheng, Cheney Chen, Huang Xuan, Karry Wang, Vicky Yu, Liu Qiong, Pilou Asbæk

Productora: Coproducción China-Estados Unidos; China Film Group, Le Vision Pictures, Legendary East, Kava Productions, Legendary Pictures, Atlas Entertainment

Género: Action; Adventure; Fantasy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2034800/

TRAILER:

[heymeowmao]

原来是老师啊! | Brilliant Class 8 - E20 ♪ when the math teacher gets drunk & sentimental

+ Probably shouldn’t have let him drink.

[bemybaebaebae]

Cheney Chen

[staydandy]

Decoded (2016) - 解密 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : A math genius gets recruited by Chinese spy agency to crack a complex coded message in the early republican era. (MDL)

Whumpee : Rong Jin Zhen played by Cheney Chen

Country : 🇨🇳 China Genres : Military, Thriller, Historical, Crime

Note : This is a Partial List - I didn't list every bit of whump, just what caught my attention the most • Adapted from a book of the same name by Mai Jia (麥家)

Episodes on List : 3 Total Episodes : 41

*Spoilers below*

02 : Rong Jin Zhen faints from fright during a gunfight

24 : Saved from drowning & gunshot

30 : Shot

[guishan-lian-quan]

Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 2: 2020/04/12 - out on Tencent

[lecho]

Social Distancing: L.O.R.D. - Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (Movie) - #23

Synopsis: Based on the novel of the same name, the film depicts the endless battles of four kingdoms as they fight for power and domination of the one ultimate realm.

My Take: Where do I start with this one…I guess the most obvious, the shallow 😂. Everyone and I mean everyone in this movie is beautiful. 😌 So right off the top I can see why these actors were cast. Not saying they can’t act, but again, I can see why they were cast. Kris Wu is gorgeous and mesmerizing as Silver, and I thought Yan Yikuan (Wind Walker) was just hot. 🔥 Whew. 😂 Anyway, besides the beauty of the cast, the look of the movie was stunning as well. It was shot in computer animated motion capture which really brought to life the fantasy that is the world these characters lived in.

The story is somewhat complicated and thus difficult to understand. It is easy to decipher that the movie is based on some other work due to the hint of complexity that is displayed on screen. Being as it is a movie, the audience doesn’t get a clear explanation on who the different factions are, the levels in those factions (what their titles mean) and their goals. That said, it is quickly understood who is supposed to be “evil” and “good” and who we as the audience should we be rooting for. However, we still get no insight as to why Asval (Cheney Chen) is essentially the chosen one. Despite these questions, the movie is very good. And you’ll find yourself rooting for these characters and very much engaged in their plights.

I will warn you that the movie does end on a note that is unfinished. This is likely due to a sequel having been made: L.O.R.D 2: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties II. However, the trailer for the sequel was released more than two years ago and still no movie. So who knows when (or if) the sequel will be released to audiences.

Anyway, back to this movie, if you enjoy watching beautiful people, the genre of fantasy, science fiction, and lots of adventure, and are okay with reading through the Chinese sub-titles, then this one is a must-see.  

[wrongkunhang]

Qi ling, a bisexual disaster

[movie-titlecards]

L.O.R.D.: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (2016)

My rating: 3/10

Utterly incomprehensible. Apparently the director also wrote the novels this is based on, and if they're in any way like this, I'm not interested. Add to that the sloppy editing, bad voice acting (in the English dub, which was all Amazon had) and mediocre animation (especially the facial expressions are almost always slightly off), and this is a complete dud that feels like nothing so much as a two hour long video game cutscene.

[fyeahluhan]

20200415 LuHan Weibo Updated (reposted): Listen to the new song 🎵🎵🎵

(Cheney Chen’s new song release.)

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Defend Democracy: Condemn Trump's Threats of Pardons and Retribution

Donald Trump's vow to pardon January 6 rioters and his threats to imprison members of the House Select Committee, like Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, and others who sought the truth, are a direct attack on our democracy.

These actions are not just wrong; they are profoundly undemocratic. Pardoning violent insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol to overturn a free and fair election signals that political violence is acceptable. This undermines the rule of law and emboldens future attempts to subvert democracy.

Threatening to jail public servants, those who bravely upheld their oaths to defend the Constitution, mirrors the tactics of authoritarian regimes, not democratic nations. Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, and every member of the House Select Committee stood up for justice and accountability, putting the country before personal or political interests. They should be honored, not persecuted.

We stand with Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, and all members of the Select Committee. We stand with everyone who defends democracy, truth, and justice. And we condemn any attempt to normalize political violence and retribution.

Our democracy only survives if we defend it. Now is the time to stand firm.

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[shy-nee-universe]

"ARE YOU WITH ME?"

I didn't watch this drama and I don't know if I will watch it. At this moment, I don't feel like watching a sad drama.

But I really like this video. Like always falxCieStudios did a great job.