Perhaps Netflix will take on making Ubik:

It's enriched Republican politicians through the NRA and bought Judges to further not only Gun Deaths, but the all the Elitist Project25 policies and the nightmare that is DJT.

#29

Unfortunately, Mav.... you live in an imaginary world of absolute LIES:

"Research consistently shows that immigrants, including undocumented individuals, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens. This trend has been documented across various types of offenses and has remained consistent for decades.

Key Findings on Crime Rates

Incarceration Rates: According to studies through 2025, native-born Americans are roughly 267% more likely to be incarcerated by age 33 than immigrants. In 2023, the incarceration rate for native-born citizens was 1,221 per 100,000, while it was 613 for undocumented immigrants and 319 for legal immigrants.

Violent Crime: In Texas - the only state that systematically tracks criminal history by immigration status - undocumented immigrants are arrested for violent and drug crimes at less than half the rate of native-born citizens.

Homicide: Data from 2012 to 2018 in Texas showed a total homicide arrest rate of 4.8 per 100,000 for U.S.-born citizens compared to 1.9 per 100,000 for undocumented immigrants."

lol... and that's from CBS, now Conservative BS news 'owned' by Trump.

#27

NW... and prolly more dangerous than Demented Don realizes; there are dedicated Military members from all level of ranks that take serious offence to being used as his pawns in a very unAmerican way.

Some of which Patriots might just decide to take action, regardless of the consequences.

from the wiki link above:

"Popular films based on his works include Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Screamers (1995), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and Radio Free Albemuth (2010).

Beginning in 2015, Amazon Prime Video produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle, based on Dick's 1962 novel; and in 2017 Channel 4 produced the anthology series Electric Dreams, based on various Dick stories.

In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik (1969) one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923.[14]

In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer included in The Library of America series.[15][16][17]

Thanks to Donnerboy for bringing up a writer I hadn't thought about in a long time... now I have to check and see if I ever read Ubik, because I don't recall that title.

#22

Yeah, he gets shown the Stats and Facts on immigrants, for instance, including immigrants and crime as compared per capita to US citizens... then runs away from his posts and continues to repeat the same Trump lies that people, and I use the term loosely, like Visitor and Boaz and the half dozen other Cultists I have killfiled post here ad nauseum.

It's the only way he can get attention, and for a troll any attention is good attention.

With all the billions of intelligent, humane Chinese people in the world... how is it we got stuck with a moronic midget intellect poser posting here?

Speaking of Philip K. Dick on this Hedge's Grand Illusion thread...

"Through his studies in philosophy, he believed that existence is based on internal human perception, which does not necessarily correspond to external reality.

He described himself as "an acosmic panentheist", which he explained as meaning that

"I don't believe that the universe exists. I believe that the only thing that exists is God and he is more than the universe. The universe is an extension of God into space and time. That's the premise I start from in my work, that so-called 'reality' is a mass delusion that we've all been required to believe for reasons totally obscure".[24]

After reading the works of Plato and pondering the possibilities of metaphysical realms, he came to the conclusion that, in a certain sense, the world is not entirely real and there is no way to confirm whether it is truly there. That question was a theme in many of his novels."

Philip K. Dick... wow, blast from the past. Thanks!

The Man in the High Castle (1962)... VALIS as you note, Blade Runner was based on his werk.

Here's 20 miles of empty trucks in a line waiting to cross the border from Kirgizstan to China to pick up cars, lots of cars, and other goods for export:

Yeah... he's teeing off much of MAGA now with his Excellent Adventures in Foreign Wars.

They don't seem to mind him invading Blue cities here, but overseas is a different story... I expect it's going to be a different story here when FL and TX companies start losing money when he expands his Immigrant Boogie Man hunt to those states... it's already starting here in Central FL.

Of course, they are going after those Libs who run Disney in Orlando, not the staff at Mar a Lardo.