I was looking into the life story of Volodymyr Zelensky, because I was trying to figure out what language he spoke in the notorious telephone call with President Trump. This mattered as I analyzed a WaPo article about the supposedly low number of words per minute compared to a phone call between Trump and the President of Mexico.
And I stumbled into the movie "Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon," in which Zelensky played Napoleon:
Fascinating. Distracting. And there's this in the cast list:
Jean-Claude Van Damme as himselfSo Jean-Claude Van Damme was in a movie with Volodymyr Zelensky. Well, what, if any, is Jean-Claude Van Damme's connection to Trump?
First, there's this, from "Trump Solo" by Mark Singer in The New Yorker, back in 1997, when Trump was "solo" because he'd just broken up with Marla Maples:
We hadn’t been airborne long when Trump decided to watch a movie. He’d brought along “Michael,” a recent release, but twenty minutes after popping it into the VCR he got bored and switched to an old favorite, a Jean Claude Van Damme slugfest called “Bloodsport,” which he pronounced “an incredible, fantastic movie.” By assigning to his son the task of fast-forwarding through all the plot exposition—Trump’s goal being “to get this two-hour movie down to forty-five minutes”—he eliminated any lulls between the nose hammering, kidney tenderizing, and shin whacking. When a beefy bad guy who was about to squish a normal-sized good guy received a crippling blow to the scrotum, I laughed. “Admit it, you’re laughing!” Trump shouted. “You want to write that Donald Trump was loving this ridiculous Jean Claude Van Damme movie, but are you willing to put in there that you were loving it, too?”And then there's this from December 2017 (again, from The New Yorker, where I get my Van Damme news), describing a scene from just before the 2016 election:
And last October, in an interview with TMZ conducted outside a restaurant while he was holding his small dog, Van Damme said, among other things, that the next President of the United States needed to “have a vodka with Mr. Putin” and “try to make peace.” He then downplayed the attention being paid to Donald Trump’s use of the phrase “grab ’em by the pussy,” and said, though he loves his “brother Muslims,” “right now, we need Donald Trump.” In that video, and in other public moments, Van Damme has had the appearance of a man who still takes himself quite seriously....Now, continuing with the New Yorker, look at "The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea/On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?" (September 2017):
When it came time for Kim Jong Il to choose an heir, his four daughters were ineligible, because of their gender. His eldest son, Jong Nam, was more a playboy than a statesman, and, in 2001, he was caught trying to enter Japan on a forged passport, to take his four-year-old son to Tokyo Disneyland. The next-oldest son, Jong Chul, was reserved and gentle. While in Switzerland, he had written a poem called “My Ideal World,” which began, “If I had my ideal world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs anymore. I would destroy all terrorists with the Hollywood star Jean-Claude Van Damme.” According to Fujimoto, Kim Jong Il said that Jong Chul was unfit to rule “because he is like a little girl.”I don't know what more you need to know. Connect the dots!
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Coincidence?
IS THAT misspelling for COINKIDINK
Almost as good as the story being circulated by the Warren campaign that she fucked a Marine. See guys? She is fuckable. Don't you want a fuckable President?
I still have Netflix DVD subscription. Huge inventory. Disappointed that a search did not turn up any Zelensky DVD.
"Tu regardes à l'intérieur de toi et tu deviens aware of your own body!"
From the article linked at Wikipedia at the footnote for: "In the French-speaking world, Van Damme is well known for the picturesque aphorisms that he delivers on a wide range of topics (personal well-being, the environment, etc.) in a sort of Zen franglais."
The Van Damme dots connect: Donald Trump is unfit to rule because he is like a little girl.
So they are down to analyzing the number of words per minute in the "notorious" Ukraine phone call. Sounds like the boys are getting desperate.
That said I had a conversation today with another fellow who, like me, lives in Schiff's district. He's drunk the Schiff Koolaid. He's absolutely positive that the transcript of the "phone call" has been doctored, and that there's a second "real" transcript out there.
Well as the line from Kinky Friedman's Wild Man of Borneo song goes, "They come to see, what they want to see, but they never come to know."
Speaking of movies I have already decided which is the next movie we will see.
Probably see "1917" as well. Last year it was "They Shall Not Grow Old," which we saw twice.l
Bloodsport is a big guilty pleasure movie for me. It's so goofy and cheesy. I saw it in theaters when I was 13 and thought it was awesome. I've never managed to shake off the nostalgic charm that movie has for me.
Another factoid, Bloodsport is based on what was very likely a fraudulent story by a character who is much-maligned in the martial arts world named Frank Dux.
1917 trailer looks promising. Hard to imagine British high command caring much about one battalion though.
Skeptical Voter said...
So they are down to analyzing the number of words per minute in the "notorious" Ukraine phone call. Sounds like the boys are getting desperate.
All we need now is a Harvard psychology professor to opine that slowing speech is a sign of a psychopathic mindset.
This post is classic Althouse. Love it.
Donald Trump is unfit to rule because he is like a little girl.
I don't expect my President to rule anything.
“You want to write that Donald Trump was loving this ridiculous Jean Claude Van Damme movie, but are you willing to put in there that you were loving it, too?”
I think this captures President Trump's relationship with the press, and the American people, to a T.
Nonapod: "Another factoid, Bloodsport is based on what was very likely a fraudulent story by a character who is much-maligned in the martial arts world named Frank Dux."
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Something tells me Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were big fans of Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Trump v. Van Damme is one of the few fair fights out there.
"He's absolutely positive that the transcript of the "phone call" has been doctored, and that there's a second "real" transcript out there. “
Well there’s an admission that they have nothing if ever there was one, and even they know it. Of course it is impossible that the ‘whistleblower’ who was relying on hearsay only, doesn’t have a better knowledge of the call than the the actual people monitoring the call!
They have been four flushing against Trump for his whole presidency. He’s not playing 4D chess, he just knows they don’t have the cards and calls them on it.
Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?
That's funnier than the cartoons.
The Donald is absolutely right. Bloodsport is a fine film of its era.
But it’s no Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.
Bloodsport
By assigning to his son the task of fast-forwarding through all the plot exposition—Trump’s goal being “to get this two-hour movie down to forty-five minutes”—he eliminated any lulls between the nose hammering, kidney tenderizing, and shin whacking.
The Gorilla Channel
Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren’t hitting each other, and at last the president was satisfied. “On some days he’ll watch the gorilla channel for 17 hours straight,” an insider told me.
"Servant of the People," the sitcom that launched Zelensky's election to the Presidency is playing on Netflix right now. I saw the first episode. It's not Veep, but it has its moments. Zelensky has a kind of Ray Romano vibe. In the sitcom, he plays a high school teacher who gets elected as President. Art imitating art imitating art. Zelensky won for acting like an unassuming high school teacher acting like a President in a sitcom that imitated Mr Smith Goes To Washington. It's not Mr Smith Goes to Washington but Jimmy Stewart Goes To Washington.....Some of the girls are pretty hot, but there's no nudity.The backdrop of Ukranian scenery gives it some interest. Who knew the Ukraine was so sunny.
“Admit it, you’re laughing!” Trump shouted. “You want to write that Donald Trump was loving this ridiculous Jean Claude Van Damme movie, but are you willing to put in there that you were loving it, too?”
Trump knows media. Trump knows "journalists." They know he knows. Hence the bad blood. Apart from the fact that they are malicious progs, of course.
Anyone who's watched it's always sunny in Kishinev?
Speaking of movies, anybody remember "The Sting" with Paul Newman and Robert Redford? Great movie. Great music. Also germane to the subject at hand. The "whistleblower" is not such, nor is he a leaker nor an accomplice - he is a pigeon, a dupe.
When you find a spy you have three choices; shoot him, turn him, or use him to feed disinformation to your enemies. When done properly it can cause massive confusion. Sort of like what is happening to Trump's opponents.
24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?? I think not!!
The best thing about the nuclear war with the Norks (it was inevitable with that crazy Trump on one side and that crazy KJU on the other) is it did not last long. Most people have forgotten all about it.
"the story being circulated by the Warren campaign that she fucked a Marine."
Well I always knew Marines were tough and brave, but dayum!
:: presents wrists for the cuffs, prefatory to frog march :: I was an extra in a movie with Van Damme. :: sob :: Guilty :: whimper ::
that's in moldova where liberman, is from, the vin diesel of Israeli politics,
roughly south of Ukraine is turkey, which a number of Turkish soaps feature, notably the northeast quadrant,
The "Oracle of Bacon" reveals other links between the two heads of government. Three degrees of separation. The Ukrainian president did Love in Vegas with Sharon Stone, who appeared in movies with such Trump non-fans as Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg, and Susan Sarandon, who appeared in other movies with Trump. I don't think President Trump did any actual one-on-one scenes with any of them though. Surprising that Trump appeared in a Woody Allen movie (Celebrity), as well as Home Alone 2 and other flicks.
Interesting in the timeline:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Avery1776/status/1179911931496423424
So it turns out pelosis son, paul is involved in a clean energy company in the ukraine.
Darrell said...Almost as good as the story being circulated by the Warren campaign that she fucked a Marine. See guys? She is fuckable. Don't you want a fuckable President?
I wouldn't even have a beer with Warren so why would I want to fuck her? Asking for her husband.
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So it turns out pelosis son, paul is involved in a clean energy company in the ukraine.
Surprise, surprise.
Let's keep in mind that Pelosi is a member of the super corrupt D'Alessandro crime family that ran Baltimore into the ground.
19/09/breaking-exclusive-pelosi-neck-deep-in-ukraine-legislative-aide-is-linked-to-ukrainian-military-and-government/
Pelosi NECK DEEP in Ukraine – Female Ukrainian Party Girl Connected to Military and Government is Her Legislative Aide
Joe Hoft by Joe Hoft September 30, 2019 776 Comments
Nancy Pelosi is neck deep in Ukraine politics. Her legislative aide, Ivanna Voronovych, is from the Ukraine and is connected to the Ukrainian Embassy, the Ukrainian military, the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian party life.
Young Ivanna Voronovych was a party girl in the Ukraine and somehow managed to make her way into a position as a Legislative Aide to Nancy Pelosi –
And this:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/breaking-update-speaker-pelosi-and-adam-schiff-connected-to-prominent-ukrainian-arms-dealer-photos/
SPEAKER PELOSI AND ADAM SCHIFF Connected to Prominent Ukrainian Arms Dealer – PHOTOS
Joe Hoft by Joe Hoft September 29, 2019 408 Comments
Corruption runs deep in the Deep State! No wonder the Democrat House wants to get rid of President Trump now. Speaker Pelosi and Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff are both connected to a Ukrainian arms dealer. This is why they lie in front of the nation. They are afraid of their own deeds being uncovered!
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You got to tip your cap to JCVD. He's a highly talented artist, athlete and businessman.
Politics is the true bloodsport now.
You're still three steps from Kevin Bacon.
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