Didn’t know the guy. Looked him up. Found this:

In 2017, numerous women in Hollywood came forward with allegations of rape and sexual assault by Ratner.[3] This resulted in his business deals and prospective film projects getting canceled or scrapped, with Warner Bros. Pictures and talent agencies distancing themselves from him, and with Ratner subsequently immigrating to Israel.

And this:

The director of the new documentary on US First Lady Melania Trump has appeared embracing a young woman in images released by the US Department of Justice on Friday.
Brett Ratner, who also directed the Rush Hour films and X-Men: The Last Stand, can be seen sitting on a sofa beside the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and two women whose identities have been obscured.

You really can’t make this shit up!

Thank you for clarifying! Now I’m no longer blind as a bat to this fact.

That single seat is an FBI agent ordered by Kash Patel to watch the movie while on duty so that theatres won’t appear entirely empty. And before you ask: yes, the man has got a weapon, and, yes, he’s considering making one last use of it.

They’re not lies - they’re “alternative facts”.

In that same vein,

• illegal wars of aggression are “special milliary operations”
• people the U.S. does not want to grant POW status are “irregular combatants” (a term used for people locked up for decades in Guantanamo Gulag)
• extrajudicial killings (e.g. via drone strikes) are “liquidations” or targets being “neutralised”.
• torture is “enhanced interrogation techniques”.

I wish I were making this shit up, but most of this vocabulary is from the Bush era. That goes to ahow: while there are certain differences in both quality and quantity, blatant lies to the public have always been a hallmark of (U.S.) governments.

Renting out his wife to other men. Just like the old Jeffrey days.

Thank you for the insight, good Sir or Madam! I will not stick my head in the sand like an ostrich, but will henceforth use imagery that is in line with our modern understanding of biology.

Don’t worry! If only the other monkeys allow that one monkey to own and monopolise all the banana trees, eventually some of the bananas will come trickling down to them… in the form of ape monkey piss.

//Edit: terminological correction