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Maybe it would be beneficial to flood both Donald and Ivanka Trump's Twitter feeds with links to the film?

Supposedly the similar "The Day After" convinced the previously hawkish Reagan to advance arms control talks with the USSR, so that isn't the worst idea.

Though Reagan loved movies, while I haven't heard that Trump is a movie buff, so we'll need something equivalent with more appeal to its target. Has anyone tried filming a post-nuclear holocaust reality show?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN0ixdOsrY0

> President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war". The film was also screened for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A government advisor who attended the screening, a friend of [the film's director Nicholas] Meyer's, told him "If you wanted to draw blood, you did it. Those guys sat there like they were turned to stone." Four years later, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed and in Reagan's memoirs he drew a direct line from the film to the signing. Reagan supposedly later sent Meyer a telegram after the summit, saying, "Don't think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_polic...

For the impatient, the money-shot starts at about 45:30.

It's actually remarkably tense waiting for the blast to happen.

Oh it is, and the tension built up through the whole first half is exquisite. I'd certainly recommend everyone watch through from the beginning for the full, sickening experience.

So we're off the whole "Trump is a Russian spy" narrative now are we? It's hard to keep up sometimes

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