Christopher Nolan’s second Batman film The Dark Knight drags on for too long, adds so much unnecessary “gravitas” and nonsensical plot MacGuffins about technology, and was generally kind of hard to follow at points. But between Health Ledger’s Oscar winning performance and the utter brutality of the character, the film’s Joker is and will remain one of the most iconic villains in cinema history. The early scene where he fatally slashes a gangster named Gambol while his three lieutenants are forced to watch while held at gunpoint by Joker’s street punks is wicked enough, but what’s implied to happen next is downright demented: As he’s breaking a pool cue, the Joker goes on about how his operation is expanding and he’s looking to add more men to his small army of murderous rogues. But he’s currently only got room for one more, so he’s holding “auditions.”
Since this is a largely bloodless big budget PG-13 movie, the scene ends by leaving it to the viewer’s imagination about what happened next, though the implication is clear enough as the Joker tosses a broken cue in between Gambol’s three guys and tells them to make it quick as he exits the room.
Anyway California MAGA Congressman Ken Calvert just grabbed the broken pool cue first on Wednesday, announcing just over 12 hours after the landslide win for Prop 50, that he’s running in one of the few remaining safe GOP districts in the Golden State, a move likely pitting him against fellow Republican Young Kim. “Californians in the newly drawn 40th District deserve a proven conservative they can trust and a fighter who has delivered results for Riverside and Orange County for decades. No one else comes close to my record of service to the new 40th. I’ve lived here my entire life and already represent the majority of this district in Congress. I look forward to helping President Trump to deliver lower taxes, to bring down housing costs,” and blah blah blah said Calvert in a statement asserting HE should be the one to survive the GOP’s self-inflicted destruction.
The only thing missing here is Gavin Newsom lighting on fire a pyramid made out of the $60 million the GOP had raised to oppose Prop 50, the pyramid topped with Kevin McCarthy cuffed to a chair.