Against the make-up cRazie$...

With all the video games, sports on TV, movies, etc. they still can’t seem to entertain themselves

horse vet. Every year he vanned thoroughbred foals to a Kentucky auction. Asked him what he did if the foals started fussing with each other. He replied, "I gently ease on the van's brakes. That makes them focus on keeping their balance, and that ends any squabbles."

Much of the so-called "greatest generation" grew up during the great depression only to find that World War II was threatening as they reached their teenage years. Those who survived the war were only too happy to be able to come home and foster a peaceful, "boring" home life.

I strive for dull and boring!!

learn who they are and to help others.

They don't really care about this country, just getting game tokens.

Better start fighting them now. Whatever we imagine TSF/Musk is going to do will be far worse than we imagined. That is a pattern and it isn't going to change.

Many will be murdered, this will be a Pinochet-style regime.

These are the people who will be running our country, in this order;

Putin
Musk
Trump.

stays on that list. He is nothing more than a useful puppets to them, and when he out lives his usefulness, will be easily discarded.

Now is the time to decide which ways to resist I can start with now, and begin.
I will resist and have a good humor while doing it.

"...it's a TV show.."

a sequel.

My thesis is that his supporters
1) believe both parties are bad,
2) believe the government doesn't help the right people,
3) believe that Trump is an outsider to DC,
4) believe Trump's bullshit that only he can fix the problems,
5) are willing to watch Trump burn the whole thing down

We are now living in a lavishly financed, poorly cast, hastily written reality show about bad guys and gangsters and fanatics and fools.

I will probably watch something else.

great writers who can whisk you away into another world, at least for awhile.

I’m bored with it and I have more interesting pursuits.

Big yawn from me. I never could abide uncouth, stupid, obese, and vulgar characters anyway, be they anti heroes or whatever you want to call them.

Entertainment for the masses to watch people fight wild animals or fight each other to death.

All you can eat,... don't you know ?

People are so used to watching so called reality tv that they can’t really tell the difference between what’s actually real and what’s contrived. Since those shows have been good entertainment with no personal repercussions what’s the harm?

Maybe leading up to a plot twist like in ‘Designated Survivor’. Naw, that’s all just fantasy.

Anybody got a spare guillotine down cellar or in the garage ?

"If you ask American *men what the greatest TV/Film achievements are, likely every list will include near the top: The Godfather, Parts 1and 2; Goodfellas, the Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and The Wire."

In polls of all moviegoers, fascinatingly, the film which often comes out on top is Vertigo, a film about a neurotic, phobic, creepy guy who’s obsessed with a particular woman to the point of near-self-destruction.

I’ll take the anti-hero anytime.

"Vertigo" gas been a favorite of mine ever since I viewed in on NBC Saturday Night At The Movies back in the 1960s. Hitchcok and his cinematographer went to great lengths to get the colors in the scenes just right. The scene with Kim Novak walking into the restaurant is breathtaking.

I only watched 2 of them and only liked one of them.

I think the books were much better for the Godfather.

They love the chaos, because that's how many of them have lived their own lives.

will wake up is when they feel the pain and hurt. Let it rip!

"St. Maximos painted a vivid picture of our loss of true freedom and free choice, and our embrace of death rather than life.

The more we frantically pursue pleasure for its own sake and allow this pursuit to drive our lives, the greater the pain. The greater the pain, the more intensive the pursuit and the delusion that more of the same will assuage it. We are caught in an endless cycle like dogs chasing our tails. We are trapped."

https://readingsinphilokalia.com/2020/04/07/pain-dispassion-and-pleasure-st-maximos-the-confessor/

religion.

The trillionaires, billionaires and hyena media will somehow spin that feeling of hurt and pain into something caused by the “communists” who want to take over the country. At which point, too many of those who somehow still have their lips above water will tack to the “middle” while proclaiming “I’m socially liberal!”

They will feel the pain of another crash in about 2 years.....maybe less. I would recommend you pull some cash out of the bank and stock up on supplies.

Trump will destroy our economy like he bankrupted all of his businesses. It's coming. And it will probably be followed by riots and unrest.

The thing is that the filthy-rich want all the money. But if and when they take all the money, it becomes worthless.

Also, I think Putin is wanting Trump to send him American troops to fight Russia's wars. That's why the purge of the Generals started before Trump even got sworn in. Trump has obligations to the person who put him in power.

. . . When the made for tv series “Trump” is produced, I hope I’m around to see it. At age 80 I may not make it.

Of course, I’m being privileged to LIVE THROUGH IT!!!

I'd rather read the book.

The country put back together.

Because I will be gone before then

It has been forgotten as well as the millions who died as a result of the fucking moron's severe hatred of all living things. Many of us will not make it to our golden years thanks to the sadistic, greedy, hate filled monsters who are now in control of everything we value.

Why abdicate the responsibility to the country and our Constitution?

piece of shit is that I never enjoyed any of those shows. An "anti-hero" is really just a villain with better PR. I enjoy watching basically decent people overcome odds or people who learn and change over the course of a story.

Interesting insight.

Plus, reality shows were started to break the union during the writers strike. They are not very good TV shows.

that the first episode of Survivor was the death knell of our society.

He says I said that back when it first started as well.

Unless the competitive performing shows like Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, and The Voice count. And I haven't watched any of them for years.

My favorite series?
Outlander
The West Wing
The Newsroom

I like well written, well acted, well produced shows/ movies with more than token female characters in predictable roles.

I get it, now, because I have zero interest in watching the con man of bad TV destroy our country. I can't watch the news because I can't stand the sight or sound of that orange a$$hole.

Thanks for that Donald

Let’s do our part of the drama and kick some ass

I can't predict when or if the dark clouds will dissipate.

As long as we're citing favorite movies, I thought I'd throw that in there.

And Now for Something Completely Different

Harold and Maude

And a few Woody Allen movies. The funny ones. I'm in no mood for dramas, suspense, or horror movies right now. Especially when it feels like we're LIVING them, whether we want to or not.

Henry VIII's reign has remained popular for centuries. Humans seem fixated on rogues.

and film, TV and drama possibilities is not what's on most people's minds.

You think people aren’t affected by what they have watched for decades on tv?

Really?

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I think you're on to something there.
Though a woefully wrong-headed, morally bankrupt and shockingly idiotic action, many who voted for Trump have confimed in divers interviews that their vote constituted the equivalent of swinging a nihilist orange wrecking ball at the system.

Which brings to mind a lurking question.

If it has been decided to cast aside a 240 something year old republic in favor of empire. Shouldn’t the living people (yes, there are many) who have a prior claim to the throne of the mid-north americas be cycled through before the johnny-come-lately Trumps?

In some campaign poster. I’m not a fan but that show has softened the public up for the carnage to come.

that my life has somehow slipped into an alternate bizarre universe, and that there’s a faint chance that I could suddenly find myself back in some more rational setting.

This simply cannot be reality. It’s just too strange, in a most horrifying way.

Said he “almost” wanted to see what would happen if Trump won. That’s the allure Trump has, so easy for others to cross that line.

I’ll also never forget my 7 year old stepson seeing video during 9/11 of a plane hitting a building and the fire plume it created and saying, in awe, “It is beautiful.”

Seems there is something about catastrophe that entices young males souls.

Prescription there is a weird denial, hypnosis, and amnesia in this country

I heard others say Dumpy Trumpy was an outsider?????????

He was president 4 years ago. How is that being an outsider?????? He appointed those sexually abusive and repressed Supreme Court Judges. How is he the outsider for stupid sake?

But they are really saying is, he’s a lousy politician.

The power elite have decided to to cut their own throats. By their relentless greed they have opted to destroy humanity, unwittingly of course, their wealth and power will fade as the planet burns. Humans are the parasite the Earth must rid itself of.

Maybe I'm too scarred from real world violence and depravity to find them entertaining.

... plays a guy (or could be a woman) you hate to root for, but you do anyway. Then everything goes wrong and you're glad when he loses and the real "good guys" win. So in the end you feel a little crazy that you rooted for the anti-hero. For some reason that type of story has become very popular in our culture.

This is a very male perspective. The OJ Simpson trial was not merely made-for-TV drama, it was a national referendum on whether male wealth and celebrity trumped women’s lives.

Decades later, Americans are still getting the answer to that question wrong.

I do think it says something about our culture, and all the free air time for Trump, that some people (mostly men) are still fascinated by Trump.

He’s a narcissist who is utterly desperate for the national spotlight. That’s not compelling or dramatic, it’s just pathetic.

Dr. No: SPECTRE. Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. The four great cornerstones of power, headed by the greatest brains in the world.

Bond: Correction, criminal brains.

Dr. No: The successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to be.

And a nuclear reactor cooling pool full of destiny awaits…

Alchemy through mineral extraction.

I think many were motivated to create real life drama by electing him. The Matt Gaetz appointment may have been just to see how much he can stir up everyone and done in spite.
It's weird and sick.

We have lost the thread on reality.

He makes "great copy," not somebody drab and boring and competent like Joe Biden.

But I didn't get any traction...

I liken Donnie to that most famous of American antiheroes, Bart Simpson.

I mean they really are that dumb.

I think you have made everything make sense. I have been searching for a narrative that makes his victory make sense and this one ties together all of the disparate elements into a whole. Thanks for this

History will probably offer a different take, but as one living through it, it feels more like an endless bad boy adventure. Look, the spoiled brat got away with this, he got away with that, etc. The anti-heroes in recent popular movies and TV series have extraordinary abilities and accomplishments that keep you rooting for them despite their flaws. Not Trump. Trump is cowardly, incapable, and inarticulate. Part of the pain of living in the current era is watching a relentlessly mediocre human being bulldoze the "shining city on a hill." The fact that this is not only possible, but happening, reflects badly on all of us.

As we always are.

Are you saying the Left can't learn lessons?

From my perspective, if all the DU'ers who've said they won't watch teevee just come here and get aggregate news -- it's more than I can remember in my 12 years here, but who's counting -- it's less than rational to assume that all DU'ers and the 72,877,294 who voted for Kamala are the Left.
For another, after losing more Left than we knew in 2024, and if you're right about whatever is left of the Left, they'll be just as silo'd into the information zone that brought their loss on Nov 5.

The bad guys got what they deserved. The good guys knew what their job was.

It is as good as the polls.

Pretty sure it is not something those voters are aware of. More like a subconscious pull. People do identify with TV/movie characters.

The clicks, man! The clicks!

Don Corleone survives and dies an essentially natural death, but his family is ruined.

Michael Corleone survives and ends up utterly alone and emotionally miserable. Everything he ever loved is destroyed. He dies an essentially natural death but his character suffers an even worse artistic fate by being part of the abomination that was Godfather III.

In Goodfellas, Joe Pesci's character, Tommy, is taken out. Robert De Niro's character, Jimmy goes to prison. Ray Liotta's character, Henry goes into witness protection (which is a life of ceaseless paranoia) and back to incarceration.

In the Sopranos, most all of the main characters die and their families are damaged. While the creators left artful wiggle room in the final scene, it is pretty much a given that Tony dies in that eatery.

To me, those stories all show a type of life best avoided. The psychological and physical destruction is too great.

In the example of the Sopranos, the ambiguity of the final scene prevents obvious justice from being exhibited. Michael Corleone destroyed his own family. Not a week in jail for the protagonists. Lotsa misery for everyone else. Sound familiar?

And his margin of victory based on lies, is no mandate.

Elect a clown Expect a circus!

The glorification of criminals... I have never liked the violence, the mob films etc. I do not need to be entertained by that and am not. This is real life, it is not a tv show, a movie etc. Millions of people were murdered by him. He needs to be stopped if at all possible now, and so do his supporters and the corrupt party that put him power.

People who do true good and who are truly intelligent or genius are not rewarded or appreciated the way they should be. It is part of it being an idiocrazy, yes. new word, it now will be even more of a kleptocrazy.