It was damned near impossible for me to reconcile the author of 'Glengarry Glen Ross and The Verdict with the character (David Mamet) who wrote the unhinged pro-Trump screed op-ed ('Decline and Fall of American? Not Yet) in the Nov. 23-24 issue of The Wall Street Journal.
Mamet scribbles in two of the more odious and repellent passages:
"To the left, 'She isn't Trump' was sufficient reason to vote for Harris. Trump isn't the devil, but a rational consideration of him and his achievements was beyond the liberals' ability. Mr. Trump was the enemy because he represents a challenge they could not accept...
Why would sentient Americans vote away the freedoms of thought, conscience, assembly and expression guaranteed by our Constitution? It makes sense, as any suicide does, as an act of survival. The suicide takes his own life to stop unbearable anguish. It is the most desperate act of self-preservation."
Maybe Mamet has forgotten - or never processed- that among Trump's "achievements" were:
- Being able to grab women's pussies ("They let ya do it!")
- Mocking a captive of the North Vietnamese (John McCain)
- Dismissing those U.S. soldiers who died in past wars as "losers and suckers".
- Declaring Nazis and white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville, VA as "some very fine people"
- Writing 'love letters' to one of the most bloodthirsty dictators (Kim Jung Un) on the planet
Asserting Gen. Mark Milley ought to be "hung for treason:"
Laying waste to an Ohio town and forcing closure of its schools, facilities, after bellowing in a debate that Haitian migrants were "eating the cats and the dogs".
- Inciting an insurrection (Jan. 6, 2021) and asserting it was about "love" when dozens of D.C. police had their heads bashed in.
So pardon me, but a rational consideration of Trump's 'achievements' - as listed above (and facts, not 'slander' as Mamet claims) leads one to conclude Trump is an egomaniacal - and possibly demented- psychotic, insurrectionist traitor, and rapist swine who has no business running a porty-potty far less the U.S. government.
As for 'sentient Americans' voting away the freedom of thought, well from where I stand it was the 74 million -odd yahoos and imbeciles who voted for Trump who are guilty as charged. As documented by one Canadian newspaper - which appears to have a vastly more objective perspective than Mamet- based on the ten examples below of voters' mental misfires. Voting at cross-purposes to their own interests.:
COLUMN: Americans electing Trump like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving - Orillia News
In an election like no other, many Americans behaved like turkeys voting to establish a new feast to be called “Thanksgiving.”
By all measures of mental balance, rectitude and coherent judgment it is these Trumper voters who've committed electoral suicide - by voting to extinguish their own interests, welfare and security. Don't believe me? Read through that list of mental misfires again and tell me with a straight face that Mamet has it right.
Ordinarily I'd just say Mamet was high on coke or magic shrooms when he wrote the piece, or maybe he's begun a descent into dementia. But other sections of the article show he was acutely aware of the dangerous tripe he'd spewed but just didn't give a fuck. In particular, when he dismissed all Trump's vows of retribution as mostly empty blather while we who challenged him were guilty of :
"horrors of the past 4 years, an appeasement of terror, assaults on free speech - seeming to me to be the descent into chaos which has been the end of every world power."
Methinks Mamet is living in another parallel planet - "Earth 2"- where the horrific attacks on D.C. police 4 years ago can be ignored just as the recent attacks on federal workers - thanks to Elon Musk's posts to his 32 million followers which incited their targeting . Like the targeting of Ashley Thomas - a director of climate diversification -who "triggered an avalanche of memes and ridicule". (WSJ, 'Federal Workers Feel Ire Of Musk's Followers', p. A6, Nov. 23-24)
Meanwhile, blatherskite like Mamet’s has continued to feed into the skewed, ignorant beliefs of too many lazy Americans. I.e. that Trump has been unfairly targeted in "unwarranted politically motivated cases". Beliefs based on propaganda ingested from excessive FOX watching, too much social media exposure and not enough independent research – including into the backgrounds of the cases.
So at the very least, it's incumbent on the remaining U.S. citizens - with active brain neurons- to dismiss Mamet's tirade. Dismiss it as misbegotten malarkey by a played out playwright whose best days are decades are behind him. And who's now reaching for some belated fame by getting his name 'in lights' on the Rupert Murdoch- approved op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal. All that after sucking the balls of Dotard Trump.
Sad, how another formerly dignified human and competent crafter of the arts has had his vestigial sentience flushed down Trump's toilet to screech out twaddle and codswallop on his unworthy behalf. Or more aptly, from Shakespeare's Macbeth:
"A walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
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Trumpists intended to take members of Congress hostage, hold show trials, conduct executions
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by Thom Hartmann | December 5, 2024 - 6:24am | permalink
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose declaration of a state of emergency yesterday shocked the world, has often been referred to (both within and outside of his country) as “South Korea’s Donald Trump.” A political outsider, he came to power with anti-establishment and often outrageously inflammatory rhetoric, trash talking women’s rights, “reforming” their healthcare system, and pushing hard for a neoliberal agenda that included raising the workweek from 52 to 69 hours.
In that, he reflects a growing trend among advanced democracies around the world, as decades of neoliberalism have weakened multiple nations’ abilities to sustain middle-class lifestyles while enriching an oligarch class that’s now reaching out—worldwid—to seize control of democratic governments to their own financial benefit.
Of all the events in world news over the past weeks—even more than the escalation of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s murderous crimes against Ukraine—President-elect Donald Trump and his authoritarian colleagues down at Mar-a-Lago are probably carefully watching what’s happening to Yoon and gaming out how a similar “emergency” action here in America might be recalibrated to have ultimate success.
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