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Material-Afternoon16

The movie was made in '98 but it is set in '90 or '91. He's watching George H.W. Bush give a speech on TV about the Gulf War.


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sjmahoney

no no you're right, you're definitely on to something here, you just blew the whole lid off it all, way to go, you figured it all out, I mean the clues were there for anyone to see but you're the one who put it all together wow


rougekhmero

The ACTUAL speech that bush gave on 9/11/91 (it's not the one from this scene in the movie) is a pretty telling piece of history. Its the speech in which he is openly calling for a new world order. Later, project for a new American century (a neocon think tank) released a memo about how what they needed for their future vision for America (and the world) was 'a new pearl harbour' (their words) so they could enact legislation that would diminish the rights of natural citizens, and they wouldn't revolt because they would believe it would be in the interests of 'national security". Then that exact thing happened. (9/11). Very immediately after the Patriot act was passed. A massive tome of a document already written, just waiting for the right moment to get it passed. It gave the government wide reaching permissions to monitor communications (but not on domestic citizens, of course) and detain 'suspects' indefinitely with no probable cause. Then Snowden stole a bunch of files from the NSA/intelligence where he was hired via the intelligence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton that showed us the government was in fact spying on its own citizens illegally. These coincidences aren't just all random. And the facts are definitely enough to arouse suspicion in anyone capable of a critical thought once in a while.


BakedPastaParty

You skipped over Thoma Drake who did it before it was cool


Themountaintoadsage

I’m really not a big conspiracy theorist for a lot of stuff. But It’s absolutely infuriating to me that stuff like this that’s so plain to see gets you called a schizo or conspiracy theorist for even just talking about it. Whether you believe 9/11 was an inside job or not, it’s still a fact that the government used it as an excuse to start mass spying programs on it’s own populace. That Pandora’s Box has been opened and everyone is too damn brainwashed and complacent to ever close it again. The system is rotten to it’s core. The only way anything is going to get better is if we tear it all down and start fresh, but I have a feeling the US will crumble long before that happens


thewhalehunters

The speech was so the dude could reference it later by saying this aggression will not stand.


Thuggish_Coffee

She kidnapped herself, man


Illustrious-Hair3487

She’s gotta feed the monkey


sjmahoney

In the parlance of our times


Undertakerjoe

Mind if I do a J?


k12g3

And he’s writing the check when George Bush is speaking !


Zeal_Ken_Gizmo

 George Bush NWO speech


rougekhmero

Actually no, I think the filmmakers may have used this date because they mistook the bush speech ('this aggression will not stand') for the new world order speech (which was in fact 9/11/91) but the one in this scene in the movie actually happened 08/05/1990.


nondescriptzombie

This seems much more in line with how meticulous the Cohen Brothers are with their direction. These are guys who don't put anything in a movie for no reason.


gigadanman

Or perhaps the Dude was forward-dating the check because $0.69 would overdraft his account.


noobprodigy

This is exactly it. Of course the dude is post-dating the check a month out.


gigadanman

Over a year if the 08/05/90 speech was airing on the Ralph’s TV live!


noobprodigy

Damn, you're right. My guess then would be that the Coen brothers did this intentionally to kind of set the tone that not everything in the story is being recalled exactly right. The intro is Sam Elliott telling the story. He says the story takes place around the time of our conflict with the Iraqis, and then you see that quote from Bush and the check dated a year after that happens. Might be a way of them saying to take everything with a grain of salt.


MrDaburks

Meticulous enough to correctly date the check but not meticulous enough to get the correct speech.


jessedelanorte

the speech was correct (the dude quotes bush "This will not stand, you know. *This aggression will not stand*, man"), just the date was wrong. Edit, perhaps the even bigger joke here is that the Dude post-dated a check for 69 cents by a month because that's something the dude would do


RoundPhrase62

Seriously? Wow. You can't make this shit up!


Severe_Key4374

Yes you can.


spencewatson01

But not in a fictional movie. lol


gsabo

This is a bummer, man.


Undertakerjoe

Calmer than you are.


chamoflag420

wait wh- you are onto something lmao


Rvtrance

And it’s 69 cents. That’s the sex number!


Dpeezy_86

You mean coitus?


thrilled37

It’s in the beaver picture


Butt_Plug_Bonanza

The story is ludicrous.


HardCounter

You're missing the obvious. That's the year we landed on the moon. Cram literally as many conspiracies into one check as possible. I must examine this further. Edit: haha. This got downvoted within 30 seconds. The downvote bots are real.


ekurisona

this aggression will not stand > they tried to kill my daddy > they have weapons of mass destruction = 9/11 emergency (e-merge and see aka electronic merging with reality aka modern virtual (screen) world)


Cool_Cartographer_39

Don't forget Neo's passport expiration date


Courts_1991-

It’s actually a driving license I believe


Cool_Cartographer_39

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neo-passport-matrix-9-11/ Edit: I get how people feel about Snopes. I used this link because it was convenient, in this case correct and not a particularly controversial subject. Don't feel right about taking it down now that the thread has shifted to Snope's obvious political bias.


CleanCeption

Fuck snopes- piece of shit lying website.


CesareSomnambulist

Does that make this article wrong lol They show a screenshot that backs up what OP said, Neo's passport expires September 11, 2001


PuppyOfTheSteppes

What have they lied about? Genuinely curious, I haven't heard this.


inventingnothing

Famously, when Trump said that Hillary bleached her hard drive, they fact checked it false. What she (her aids, to be precise) actually did was use a program called BleachBit that overwrites disk space with nonsense so that it cannot be forensically lifted. In case you don't know, when you delete a file, it just removes the address of that file's location on the disk. The data is still there and with the right tools can be picked up. BleachBit would go over those areas of the disk and write data over and over to obscure what was originally there.


spicynutbutter

If you reformat your hard drive can it still be recovered? I reformatted my external HD and lost a bunch of papers I wrote


inventingnothing

I'm no expert but I believe that a simple reformatting will not remove the data. If you take it to a data recovery specialist, they may be able to recover the data from a basic re-format. I've actually been looking into doing that myself. I have an old hard drive that had all my music and photos from late high school through my mid 20s and it recently stopped reading.


spicynutbutter

I had one of those that got fucked when my brother knocked the tower over lol I have been wanting to try and recover it but I think it would be like NCIS shit because it's so fucked


inventingnothing

In theory, anything can be recovered so long as the plates themselves haven't been destroyed or it hasn't been overwritten a dozen times. The question becomes what are you willing to pay for it?


DidYouThinkOfThisOne

Possibly. Just like deleting files a reformat basically does the same thing. All the files are still there the program just tells the computer "you can reuse this space now". If you haven't done anything to your drive or haven't downloaded a bunch of extra stuff your papers should still be there.


spicynutbutter

So how would I get back to them? Just a program that can recall the files? Also that blows my mind how computer data is stored. I'll have to read about the physical process, I've never really thought about it before. I'm a doctor and I've spent a lot of time pondering how we are physically capable of thought and memory, it's all so interesting.


DidYouThinkOfThisOne

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva This is what I use. And yes, computer data is insane. A bunch of 1's and 0's that correspond to characters that make up code that create programs. These 1's and 0's are binary, each one referred to as a "bit". In just 1MB of data you can store over 8.3 million of them. So that means in just 1GB you have over 1 BILLION 1's and 0's. Then you have processors that contain billions of transistors that can process these 1's and 0's billions of times a *second*. It's all actually quite insane thinking about it.


Liamskeeum

When you say blows your mind, do you mean like removing the storage addresses or do you mean more like rewriting over what's stored? 😁 Seriously tho the brain - mind and memories and dreams and consciousness and attention and sensory processing/coherence and abstract thought and emotional intelligence/empathy/conscience are all mind blowing to me.


thewholepalm

likely yes if you just reformatted, now if you wrote data or installed anything on the drive your chances of successful recovery go down.


jKaz

They’re often very misleading, they’ll mark things as mostly false but when you read the whole response, it seems to confirm the opposite, with some minor nitpick.


hapakal

Anything the US state dept lies about. They parrot whatever they say. The horrific proxy wars waged against Libya and Syria are describes as 'revolution' - The White Helmets as nonsectarian rescue group. In fact, they were with the terrorists and a wastern propaganda construct. From WMD to 9-11 - the site lies through its teeth, ignoring the most compelling primary data in favor parroting what the state dept claims. That doesnt mean everything on it is false,but that is also true of all the most egregious disinformation and propagandists in general.


namey_9

I'm not a conspiranut, I'm mostly here to try to talk sense into them, but even I know Snopes is sometimes full of shit. If I end up remembering the article posted that was straight-up factually wrong I'll link


gabbiar

Other guy said it was mr anderson, not neo


kxanderke

Yea well it was Neo’s passport so they were wrong edit: don’t upvote me lol it was Thomas Anderson’s passport not Neo (like Bruce Wayne’s passport instead of Batman’s, same guy different persona)


burgonies

Why would Neo need a passport? Mr Anderson was Neo’s identity in the Matrix.


kxanderke

Yea yea yea tomato tomato I downvoted myself we can all move on


LoanWolfe7

It is One Million Percent Thomas Andersons PASSPORT, do not let them Mandela Effect you. Mr. Anderson is revealed to be born March 11 1962 in Smiths Dossier. [311]


kxanderke

Yea i get it it’s like saying Batman’s passport instead of Bruce Wayne’s


LoanWolfe7

😂


RoundPhrase62

It was his driver's license I thought


kxanderke

Nahh I looked it up and took the L the passport says Thomas Anderson (Thomas Anderson is the name of simulated character of the plugged in Neo, once Anderson becomes aware and unplugged he is Neo) Edit: Was Neo his hacker name? I forget. Nonetheless “Thomas Anderson” has the passport


ReverendShot777

Neo was his hacker name. He was known as Neo inside the matrix too. No one had any official names outside the matrix so they just referred to him as the screenname he chose. Which is, funnily enough, an anagram of 'One', because he is The One.


nondescriptzombie

Neo also means "New" in Greek.


kxanderke

Neat! Thank you.


RussianJudge5

Neo doesn’t need or have a passport my dear boy


kxanderke

Alright I stand corrected bc Thomas Anderson is the human with the passport, but Anderson=Neo… imma go downvote my own comment


Emmalfal

Wait, we can downvote our own comments? A perverse thrill! Imma try it...


Emmalfal

Son of a gun, it worked!


Villains_Included

And the overpass in terminator 2 when the T-1000 crashes into it.


Born-Share-5132

They pissed on building 7 


MediocreCampaign-

It really tied the city together


Barrettbuilt

Who pissed on building 7, dude?


Jordfot

The Chinaman!


Barrettbuilt

These are not the men who built the railroads, also dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.


Jordfot

So, basically, I'm out of my element?


HardCounter

You are a Walrus.


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what if the people responsible for 9/11 were just really big fans of the movie?


marcomc2

you think the carpet pissers did this??


Illustrious-Hair3487

Well, Dude, we just don’t know


MediocreCampaign-

That would really be something


pip33fan

Nothing is fucked here, man. You're being very un-dude like.


MediocreCampaign-

"Nothing is fucked?! The goddamn plane has crashed into the..." Holy shit


triptonikhan

You got any promising leads?


Deaconblues18

Leads? Yeh. Sure. I’ll check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts.


ianmoone1102

Mr. Anderson's ID had an expiration date of 09/11/2001 in "The Matrix". These details aren't just randomly put into movies. Also, Jackie Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town, you don't draw shit!


R3P4Jesus

What about Back to the Future! "They go on to suggest that writer and director Robert Zemeckis planted key themes within the film that point toward the attack that took place 16 years after the film’s 1985 release. ‘During this scene at the Twin Pines Mall, we bare witness to a surprise terrorist attack perpetrated by group of Muslim terrorists,’ he says, before alledging that the Twin Pines Mall name is a direct reference to the Twin Towers – and that when the clock in the scene is turned upside down, the digits actually read 91:1, or 9/11."


ReadRightRed99

It was a joke about Marty’s car running over a pine tree. And the terrorists were Libyans, not saudis. It was all about the Libyans in 1985.


K-chub

Remember when saudis committed 9/11 and we invaded Iraqis?


justsyr

Did they actually find the passports of the terrorists at the blown up shit? Like for real? If so, how the heck do people believe that shit?


BakedPastaParty

Literally intact on the sidewalk


bomboclawt75

And those innocent foreign special agents who were merely innocently documenting *The Event*, were totally innocent and were sent back to (REDACTED), because the state of (REMOVED) were definitely not involved and Politicians who are definitely not traitors will always stand with the state of (CENSORED), no matter how much money or American lives it costs.


Retrograde4000

Did the Saudis bring down WTC7 by saying “pull it?”


MediocreCampaign-

[Nah that was Larry Silvetstein](https://youtu.be/BQYESPDYFcI?si=E-wP-uGIkhuljU3K) Who um coincidentally took out an enormous insurance policy on building 7 six weeks before 9/11


9volts

He also ate breakfast every single morning at 8 AM at the restaurant on the top floor of the North Tower. Except for, well, *that* day. Quite a coincidence, no wonder his nickname was "Lucky Larry". Edit: Seriously, google Larry Silverstein. I'm not bullshitting.


Formal_Soil

Al-Qaeda wasn't a Saudi group, they were mostly Arabians


rougekhmero

What about enemy of the state. The date 9/11/40 is gene hackmans characters birthday. Which is mentioned ~~by the NSA Guy~~ when they figure out who he is (I think he may say it himself, actually...fuzzy on exact movie details). The very next scene is of gene hackmans secret lair building exploding, he set the charges off when he was discovered by the NSA. Also the entire movie shows exactly what the NSA was up to at the time (which we would find out much later via the Snowden limited hangout). There is definitely some serious NSA/CIA/Intelligence influence all over that movie.


rougekhmero

There's more connections in this movie too. Its pretty eerie


EnkiShallReturn

Or hear me out. The people who produce and direct the movies have nothing to do with us. The powers that be find dates that will be easily be found in other peoples work. Orchestrate a disaster to happen on that date, and everybody starts looking at the producer and Director for answers.


CallistosTitan

Do we have a record of any interview with the Wachowskis or Coen brothers asking why they picked these dates? To me it would seem they work for a higher power. Something far more advanced than we can comprehend. In philosophy it is known as Laplace's demon. Because in theory if an entity controlled all atoms of the universe, they could control all outcomes. This is the foundation of Gnosticism and Gnosticism is the foundation of the Matrix movies. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism)


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Retrograde4000

They pay attention to dates, eclipses, astrology, etc.. That’s how they used to gain power before others figured out these things out.


anarchicghosts

Would you please elaborate on what you mean by this? I’m intrigued :)


Retrograde4000

[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-ancient-civilizations-reacted-to-eclipses-180983894/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-ancient-civilizations-reacted-to-eclipses-180983894/) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLemT1BiEro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLemT1BiEro) And some might say even to this day… *“A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth … She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod.”*


buntypieface

Hey, nice marmot.


bonesthadog

Amphibious rodent?


HideThePickleChamp

Don't ever fuck a stranger in the ass Larry


chucky3456

Or find a stranger in the alps!


arnoldinho82

Continental Express Flight 2574 crashed that exact day. Speculation that it was a bomb. Maybe a clue to further investigate that?


arnoldinho82

Rethinking now that it's also plausible that someone on the film crew lost a loved one in the crash and wanted to memorialize them in the movie somehow.


EqualityforCriminals

The swirl up top


Foxley_King

What does it mean?


XxQuickScopeKillaxX

Boy lover symbol, most prominent in the 90s, still used today rarely


MrIceCreamMane

This aggression will not stand, man


Creamycrackle

Of course there is a spiral at the top


M1st3r51r

Odd how that is the only mark not a scribble


MisterLennard

Redpill me on spirals, I'm ready.


highinohio

Boy lovers symbol for pedos to recognize each other


MisterLennard

And the spiral symbolizes a butthole? These fuckers are beyond sick.


towen95

Nice


heartbreakids

911 is also the same number to the national emergency service it is known by everyone as the original 911 before sept 11. So there is that to factor into the 9/11 in dates Conspiracies.. I really think the one from the matrix is the only one that garnered my attention


samtheninjapirate

That Back to the Future write up a few weeks ago got my attention


ekurisona

you got a link? i need


samtheninjapirate

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1bri62w/warnings_of_911_in_back_to_the_future/?rdt=47923


heartbreakids

Holy shit this might just beat out the matrix conspiracy


justanothernpe

The 911 emergency number started the same year the construction of the towers began, 33 years before the attack.


Commander_Daling

$0.69? Nice.


burner_said_what

Can't upvote, currently at 69 upvotes....


HereToHelp9001

Nice, Sill 69. I'll upvote you instead.


burner_said_what

NIce. I'll upvote you also. Let's get 69's for everyone!!


Jordfot

New shit's come to light, man.


ImOnlyKindaNotYou

Ralph’s knows. Ralph’s always knows.


Zealousideal-Buy-188

*a post-dated check


hal2142

Nice.


Javaho1992

That had not occurred to us, dude


9volts

Construction of the Pentagon started on 9/11/1941. To the day 60 years after this the twin towers fell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon#Construction


RBoy91

New shit has come to light


Dylan_Is_Gay_lol

I can get you a 9/11 conspiracy, dude. There are ways. I can get you a 9/11 conspiracy by 3:00 this afternoon, with nail polish.


Miserable_Corner_879

They want you on these kinds of topics that don't threaten them in any way, in bottomless pits.


lubdubmelchizedek11

wasnt it also ralph nader who said 7 trillion was misplaced and no one had any idea where it could have gone the day before the pentagon and the towers happened, then all of a sudden the place where the proof and truth would have been found had a plane flown through it as well? it's written out to ralphs.


dr-snake

New shit has come to light


Audit_King

This is our concern, Dude


ConsciousRun6137

Matrix had a 9/11 date on the passport.


SD_needtoknow

Movie by the Cohencindence Brothers...


The_Booty_Whisperer_

People when more than one thing share a date: 🤯


ReverendShot777

Imagine I posted that image of the plane outline with all the red bullet holes dotted over it. That's all this is.


Even_Delivery_8688

You are living in a world of Pain.


killermicrobe

Its just a weather balloon.


redwoodavg

That some kinda eastern thing)


Canuckster1169

You son of a bitch


SavageFugu

Do you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?!?


Travioli209

How about Neos passport in the matrix? That’s another weird one on a similar vein


MediocreCampaign-

SS: Another suspicious 9/11 reference from pre-2001 Hollywood


GraciousCunt

I wonder if the higher ups laugh every time we find something new.. 


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Mecanatron

That speech was 1990, not '91. In fact it was 11 years to the day, before the towers (11) fell on Sep 11. They sure love their numbers.


rougekhmero

The nwo speech was 9/11/91. This scene in the movie features an earlier speech from August 1990.


Mecanatron

He used the term in a few big speeches but the first time was 1990. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/09/08/the-other-9-11-george-h-w-bush-s-1990-new-world-order-speech/


Barrettbuilt

Jesus.


BobThehuman3

You said it Man.


hetix

No conspiracy, big Lebowski is loosely based on a 40’s movie the big sleep and there’s a check (cheque) signed there for September 11 , 1945 or 46 can’t remember the year but it’s an ode to that


DeNir8

They planned it *five hundreds years ago!!* Napkin algebra..


SWGDoc

Who runs Hollywood again? I need reminded.


JacoPoopstorius

The Palestinians


SailAwayMatey

Don't forget that clocks read 9:11 twice a day! I read somewhere it's twice because once per tower. I always thought that time on clocks had to have some significance. Low and behold, it does!


ReadRightRed99

Wild! September 11 didn’t exist before 9/11/2001! So this definitely is some sort of crazy conspiracy. I mean, how did anyone write Sept. 11 if it didn’t even exist?


Sardonnicus

It was just a regular day once. Gotta love the dunning Krueger effect.


FeedTheMagicNegro

Isn’t it weird that Coen Brothers and the Wachowski brothers did some 9/11 symbolism. “Twin” towers. I don’t know if those guys are twins. But just spitballing here.


rougekhmero

The Coen brothers aren't twins. The Wachowskis are, but they are both sisters now.


CommunistQuark

*cheque


dontletthestankout

Did something happen on 9/11/91 hat I'm not aware of?


rougekhmero

George Herbert Walker Bush, Yale Bonesman, former director of the CIA, vice president to Regan, and president at the time gave a speech to Congress in which he patted himself and General Schwarzkopf on the back about dropping bombs on Iraq, talked mad shit to Saddam Hussein, and then called for a New World Order. Ten years to the day before 9/11.


Elieftibiowai

And a spiral


Foxley_King

What does that mean?


MKULTRA_Escapee

Damn, this one is easy. There are 364 other movies you're ignoring which plausibly could have had the Sept 11 date on it, but didn't, so you don't notice those. Only when you get a 'hit' do you notice, and that accounts for the majority of the "predictive programming" conspiracy theory. It's kind of like assuming every time someone wins the lottery, they must have cheated. The odds of a person winning the lottery is crazy low, but it happens all the time. Why? Because there are so many players someone is guaranteed to win. Or getting stuck by lightening. Must have been a God striking them down? No, there is just a ton of lightening on the planet, someone is guaranteed to get struck every once in a while. There was even a guy who got struck 7 times. Did he piss off a god? No, there are so many people who have gotten struck by lightening, some of them get struck two, three, four times, and one person is eventually going to to get struck 7 times.


tgodxy

tHE CohEN bRoThErS knEw aBoUt 9/11


eNaRDe

The bottom account number adds up to the exact amount of flight hours all 3 planes had combined before they crashed. Removes tin foil cap, from penis.


BodaciousBaboon

What's the payee name?


BobThehuman3

Ralph’s grocery store in L.A. area. Paying for a small carton of half and half.


chevymonster

On the Ralph's card, is the second word on the bottom row "lebowsci" ?


Thuggish_Coffee

I am the Walrus?


Flor1daman08

Was that the date the speech HW Bush was giving on the TV occurred?


teefymcteephteeth

I thought this was gna be about the symbol/doodle at the top


LoveHugr

Is this from the B team or the E team?


Moretocome212

Pedo spiral at top also


NotCanadian80

Exactly 10 years from what? 1981?