१५ ऑक्टोबर, २०२४

"It makes a weird kind of sense that 'The Apprentice' is arriving in theaters Friday, a week after 'Joker: Folie à Deux.'"

"Both movies are set in New York in the 1970s and/or ’80s. Both are about larger-than-life antiheroes perceived as monsters by many and lionized by others. And both seem perversely designed to disappoint audiences on either side of the aisle...."

There may be no hidden self in Donald Trump. What we see is what we get. Because the film’s only storyline is that the man became the monster (or, for some, the messiah) he seemed destined to be, there’s no dramatic tension to push the movie forward. For any sense of tragedy, there would have to be at least a glimmer of self-knowledge, and the film’s Trump — just like, one suspects, the actual man — remains profoundly incurious about himself or anything outside himself....

That doesn’t stop Stan’s Trump from slowly amassing bits of behavior and an arsenal of gestures over the course of “The Apprentice,” until he’s suddenly there in the fullness of his muchness — the reviled, adored, hollow man of our moment.... ...Trump subtly metastasizes into something both bigger and more superficial — a man losing himself to self-caricature. A pursed lip, a sidelong glance, a flashed thumb’s-up and always — always — attention to the mane of hair. Then he’s slouching to Washington to be born.
Sorry, I'm taking the exit ramp marked "Slouching." We ought to recognize the connection to the the William Butler Yeat's poem "The Second Coming." The poem ends "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" It's slouching towards, not slouching to, as the Washington Post critic has it. And the Joan Didion title "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is quite familiar. But "slouching towards" has become a cliché that has outrun familiarity with Yeats.

Why does "slouching toward [place name]" have such legs? 

Fortunately, I subscribe to The Paris Review and can read "No Slouch" by Nick Tabor (from 2015 (the verge of the Trump era!)):
A recent Russia Today headline suggests that Europe is “slouching towards anxiety and war.” According to... Robert Bork... the United States is Slouching Towards Gomorrah. A new book by W. C. Harris, an English professor, claims we’re Slouching Towards Gaytheism. A casual reader might wonder why the nations of the world have such terrible posture.....

The only thing not doing any slouching these days is the “rough beast” in W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming”... [It] isn’t deteriorating or dying in its slouching, as the many references to the phrase would have you believe; rather, it slouches in steady, dedicated progress toward a goal. It’s actually a terrifying sight: the poem’s narrator intuits that the beast is coming to wreak some untold havoc. (At least one blog got this subtlety right in a headline about the 2012 election cycle: “Romney slouching toward GOP nomination.”)...

But... Yeats’s lines work outside their context because the word pairings are brilliant in and of themselves.... We’d expect the rough beast to “plod,” like a limping monster in a horror movie or the killer in No Country for Old Men (which itself, of course, takes its title from another of Yeats’s lines, in “Sailing to Byzantium”). But plodding is a conscious action; slouching is not. We can’t even tell whether the beast has a will of its own. The verb heightens the mystery and dread.

Even if no one reads poetry anymore, “The Second Coming” is proof that a perfect poem can still go viral in a distinctly predigital way: that it’s become a part of the culture’s water supply. Slouchy though they may be, the misapplications amount to a tribute.

Was Ty Burr getting Yeats right when he wrote that Trump was "slouching to Washington to be born"? Here's where the movie ends (to quote Wikipedia (unlike some people, I cite and use quotation marks when I quote Wikipedia)):

Trump has liposuction and scalp-reduction surgery, and tells the ghostwriter of his biography, The Art of the Deal, Cohn's three rules, which Trump has adopted. Trump muses about becoming President, talks about the genetic superiority of winners, and expatiates about his own greatness while envisioning the New York skyline.

I think Trump moves from that point "in steady, dedicated progress toward a goal," to use Tabor's words, which would mean the Washington Post critic got it right. Or did he just mindlessly move toward the presidency? In Burr's opinion? In yours?

By the way, I love Tabor's last line: "Slouchy though they may be, the misapplications amount to a tribute."

I looked "slouchy" up in the OED and was pleased to see it goes back to the 17th century, to a translation of the works of Rabelais — and I have a "Rabelais" tag! — "What meaneth this... wagging of her slouchy Chaps?"

"Chaps" is the same as "chops." It means mouth — in the contemptuous way that "wagging" and "slouchy" make obvious. You may feel free to say "What meaneth this wagging of her slouchy Chaps?" when what you meaneth is What on earth is that woman saying? or some such thing.

What the hell is this woman blogging? The movie came out last week, the Paris Review article is nearly a decade old, Trump had his scalp surgery in 1990, Yates's poem is more than a century old, and Rabelais died in the 1500s. Meanwhile, it's precisely 3 weeks to Election Day, and, in the betting odds, Donald Trump is almost up to 11.

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wendybar म्हणाले...

The Joker is Kamala. Look at her crazed face when she cackles. There is quite the resemblance to the joker.

Lazarus म्हणाले...

Both movies are set in New York in the 1970s and/or ’80s. Both are about larger-than-life antiheroes perceived as monsters by many and lionized by others.

The closer parallel would be with the new SNL movie.

Kay म्हणाले...

This weekend a street performer was singing a song with the refrain… “slouching toward…BABYLON.”

Old and slow म्हणाले...

Wow. What a post!

D.D. Driver म्हणाले...

A film brought to you by Citizens United.

Jaq म्हणाले...

They just build Trump's legend by padding out his hero's journey. After all, the Terminator got mad respect from the audience when he rose up out of that burning gasoline tanker.

Hollywood is hoping that this movie will be the equivalent of that 100 ton press, or whatever it was, that crushed the Terminator's skull. The problem is that Trump is really John Connor's mom in this flick.

Shouting Thomas म्हणाले...

Trump actually made his fortune as CEO of a huge corporate holding company. I agree with Scott Adams that Trump is the most powerful intellectual and political force of our era. Trump has literally torn a hole in reality, exposing the fraud and corruption of our electoral system. Our distrust of institutions and authority is entirely the work of Trump. He exposed the fakers.

Kate म्हणाले...

Enjoyed the plagiarism shade. Heh.

I've been complaining for years that people need to read a different poem. You made the topic interesting and fresh, something I didn't think possible.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

It's called temporizing the essence. You express the essence by how it got there, or by where it winds up. A literary trick.

Rocco म्हणाले...

Lazarus said...
The closer parallel would be with the new SNL movie.

How about the new Babylon Bee movie?

John henry म्हणाले...

Trump actually made his fortune as CEO of a huge corporate holding company.

Twice. (He was not only broke, he was deeply in debt after his spectacular bankruptcy in the 80s)

John Henry

Dixcus म्हणाले...

She just announced forgiveable "loans" but only for black men of $20,000 each.

She's literally offering black men a $20,000 bribe paid for by US taxpayers if they vote for her.

She is a joke.

Peachy म्हणाले...

A movie for Trump-Hate Cultists? of course.

Dixcus म्हणाले...

Tim Walz recently came out for the elimination of the Constitution's provisions that created the Electoral College giving each state representative votes for President.

They literally want to destroy our Constitution and they're opening announcing it. It's not fraud ... it's TREASON.

Dixcus म्हणाले...

A film brought to you by God.

And the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution providing all Americans, regardless of how they are organized, freedom of speech in the United States.

Citizens United merely took note of that Amendment. The Amendment recognized the God-given freedom of speech all men already possess, and merely codified it by writing it down.

John henry म्हणाले...

Perhaps the reason Donald Trump was so successful in that show, through 14 seasons and a couple spin-offs is that he had actually been there and done that.

Not to take anything away from Arnold, who folded the show. Or Mark Cuban, who tried something similar and failed. Neither of them had much experience running anything big and managing people, strategies, finances and so on.

Arnold was governor of California but that is a different kind of experience. Lots more restrictions. You can't do what the legislature doesn't want, you have to do what they want even if you disagree. You have to always keep in mind getting re-elected and so on.

Cuban is essentially an investor, not a runner. A good investor, apparently, but it is a different skillset.

John Henry

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

DJT has crossed the Rubican. All that remains for him is to avoid the ides of March long enough to reform the CIA and the FBI before they kill him. But then J D cometh.

Wince म्हणाले...

You may feel free to say "What meaneth this wagging of her slouchy Chaps?"

Speaking of slouchy, did you notice that Tim Walz's hunting outfit included what appears to be ass-less chaps?

"Well, you definitely don't look right."

John henry म्हणाले...

Dixcus,

Tim Walz is not the only one. Hilary has been very vocal about it as well.

These people do not understand the basic, fundemental, idea behind the United STATES. Probably not even the definition of the word "State".

We are not a country (state) divided into subdivisions. We are a series of individual, sovereign, independent states (countries) united together delegating (not ceding) some powers to the federal government.

The president, as the name says, "presides" over these individual states for the common good.

There is no requirement for popular election of the president at all. Or, some might argue, even a necessity. Of course, absent popular vote, we probably would not have gotten President Trump 45 (and 47 one can hope)

John Henry

MadTownGuy म्हणाले...

From the post, Ann Althouse saith:

"You may feel free to say "What meaneth this wagging of her slouchy Chaps?" when what you meaneth is What on earth is that woman saying? or some such thing."

I shall wax pedantic: 'meaneth' is third person singular. 'Meanest' is second person singular and would be appropriate here. What thou sayest, and how it is said, doth matter.

Stephen म्हणाले...

I thought it was Obama's mockery of Trump at the 2011 White House correspondents' dinner that was the catalyst for Trump deciding to run. (pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/watch-inside-the-night-president-obama-took-on-donald-trump/). Did Obama create the slouching beast? That narrative is plausible but too horrifying for Democrats to consider.

Howard म्हणाले...

This movie is more free campaign advertising for Trump paid for by his enemies.

The Vault Dweller म्हणाले...

Donald Trump is almost up to 11.
Our Trump goes to 11.

John E. म्हणाले...

Just so you know, slouching towards Irish orthography, you have a typo, in your 2nd to last sentence, of Yates for Yeats.

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

Our distrust of institutions and authority is entirely the work of Trump. He exposed the fakers.

The Trump years have certainly been an eye-opener for naive people, but anyone with common sense distrusted institutions and authority for a good many years before Trump was even a celebrity, let alone a politician. Heck, what are our Constitution and Bill of Rights but the founding documents of that distrust? We have "separation of powers" for a damn good reason.

John henry म्हणाले...

Has anyone re-watched "The China Syndrome" in recent years? It has the execrable Jane Fonda. OTOH, it also has Jack Lemon and Wilfrid Brimley so there is that.

It was originally intended to be an anti-nuclear movie showing how dangerous nuclear power is. If you watch it a second time, as I did back in the day and again a year or two ago, it comes across as an almost rabidly pro-nuke movie.

With the current renaissance of nuclear power, it should be in constant rotation on all the movie and streaming channels.

I wonder if the Trump movie will turn out to be like that. Made as an anti-Trump movie but viewed as a Pro-Trump movie.

I'd love to see President Trump at his next rally talk about it: "You know, I've seen that new movie about me and I really liked it. You should all go see it. Be sure to wear your MAGA hats and shirts when you do.

They tried to slam me but couldn't. The movie shows me as a great builder who got projects completed when nobody else could. It shows me coming back from bankruptcy and ...." yadda, yadda, yadda pointing out all the good things the movie shows him doing.

I suspect that he could do for the movie what he did for the phrase "fake news" Take an incoming cruise missile, turn it 180 degrees and use it against the senders.

Meep, meep!

John Henry

Carol म्हणाले...

Oh dear, Trump isn't neurotic enough for the critics. Only about his hair.

Dixcus म्हणाले...

Hillary Clinton better not ever GET what she is advocating - elimination of the First Amendment. That would be very, very bad for her and her family.

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

I don't use those chaps but they are standard upland bird hunting equipment in many parts of the country. Some are snake-proof. Others just protect you from wet grass and thorns.

Walz is a fool and a menace and probably a pedophile, and any way we can expose him to ridicule should be seized upon, but this is not something that will get traction with hunters. His appalling gun-handling on the other hand, yikes! I would not hunt in the same field with this dipshit.

John henry म्हणाले...

Scott Adams pointed that out the other day too.

And what is with his gun handling? The way he is waving it around in the air looked pretty scary to me.

He served 15-20 months* in the army. Doesn't the army teach everyone how to safely handle a weapon? The Marine Corps does "Every Marine a Rifleman". Perhaps the army only teaches skills to infantry and the like? Not artillery.

Can one of our Army guys comment?

*He was in the reserves for 21 years or so. But as a reservist he only spent about 15-20 months in uniform at meetings, summer camps, mini-deployments and the like.

John Henry

Jaq म्हणाले...

I agree with you about Trump. I think that he is extremely intelligent, plus he has the added advantage of having an insider's view into government and politics; Hillary Clinton did attend his wedding, IIRC. I think that Bill Clinton was also very very smart, but he was a sociopath. I will take Trump any day.

John henry म्हणाले...

My Trump goes to 14.

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

Dangerous and desperate tactics, not merely illegal.

To paint with a broad brush, Hispanics run small businesses and blacks don't. They are rightfully going to ask why the government is subsidizing new competition with money they can't access because they are of the wrong race.

Carol म्हणाले...

O the outrage that the film doesn't take a stand! No propaganda value at all! Sounds like it might actually be art. I'll have to check it out.

Greg The Class Traitor म्हणाले...

Our distrust of institutions and authority is entirely the work of Trump.

No, it's entirely due to the fact that they suck.

He gets credit for forcing them to expose themselves. But their failure is all theirs, not Trump's

Greg The Class Traitor म्हणाले...

The thing the "betting aggregator" fails at is that teh amount of $$ being bet matters, and they have no adjustment for that.
If a lightly traded site has Trump at 52%, and a heavily traded one has him at 56%, then the proper "average" is more like 55 than 54.

I'm wondering if it will hit 60 before Election Day.

FullMoon म्हणाले...

Stephen
I thought it was Obama's mockery of Trump at the 2011 White House correspondents' dinner that was the catalyst for Trump deciding to run. (pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/watch-inside-the-night-president-obama-took-on-donald-trump/). Did Obama create the slouching beast? That narrative is plausible but too horrifying for Democrats to consider.


It was the straw that broke the lefts' back.
10/15/24, 9:16 AM

Shouting Thomas म्हणाले...

I never watched an episode of “The Apprentice.” Cut cable long ago. My impressions of Trump are entirely from observing his work as CEO and from listening to and reading about his political positions.

FullMoon म्हणाले...

Dixcus
She just announced forgiveable "loans" but only for black men of $20,000 each.

She's literally offering black men a $20,000 bribe paid for by US taxpayers if they vote for her.

She is a joke.
10/15/24, 8:56 AM


Brilliant. Just cost her plenty of borderline white votes.

hawkeyedjb म्हणाले...

Further to Dixcus' point: as the Declaration says, "...to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men." Government doesn't have much purpose other than to provide for the defense of the nation and to secure the rights of its citizens. When it takes on extraneous tasks, it usually comes at the expense of the citizen's rights. See, for example, Tim Walz and Kamala Harris, who would protect us from the distress of "misinformation" by reducing our freedom of speech.

Dogma and Pony Show म्हणाले...

I find it amusing how all these dopes within the leftwing establishment are STILL trying to convince the country that Trump is some kind of genocidal dictator-wannabe, despite 40+ years of evidence to the contrary.

Peachy म्हणाले...

Released right before the election - rest assured it's even handed.

Peachy म्हणाले...

why? The point of saying it isn't filled with enough outrage- is that it probably is.

AMDG म्हणाले...

Without his father saving him he would have failed a long time ago. This is a man who bankrupted casinos multiple times. That takes a special kind of incompetence.

While he is a powerful political force he is an intellectual lightweight. This is best exemplified by tariffs. On the one hand he lauds tariffs as a way to rebuild American manufacturing. This means that he wants to reduce imports. On the other hand he lauds tariffs as a way to cure all of our fiscal ills.

That is intellectually incoherent. If you put in tariffs to discourage imports and it works there is no way you can raise the revenue to cure our fiscal ills. If you put in tariffs to raise revenue than you need more imports in order to raise the revenue that you need.

Also the idea that consumers to not ultimately bear the burden of tariffs is retarded.

This leaves out the fact that broad based tariffs are pushed by cynical or ignorant politicians to appeal to ignorant or stupid voters. Inevitably they make people poorer

Mattman26 म्हणाले...

Delightful post, perfect for a dreary Chicago morning three weeks out from Election Day.

Too bad Burr can't even entertain the possibility that Trump is something other than hollow. It might help him make sense of things.

john mosby म्हणाले...

Nationwide popular vote would torpedo black politicsl power.

The electoral college encourages getting out the inner city vote (or counterfeiting the ballots), to get to 51% in high-electoral-vote states. Thus giving blacks greater influence than their proportion of the national population.

If we just have one big popular vote, then suddenly there are no red, blue, or swing states. An inner city vote is worth the same as anyone else’s. Not worth any sort of targeted appeals.

And counterfeit votes would have to be produced in much greater numbers to get above 51% of 200 million, versus 51% of a few hundred thousand here and there. Much more difdicult to hide.

Also, suddenly all the rural/far suburban republican (read: white) votes count the same, no matter what state they’re in. A California redneck who stays home under the electoral college system may leave the trailer to vote under an NPV system becauer his vote suddenly counts.

Overall NPV would make life much harder for democrats and their current pet populations. So they will make noise about it, but never actually try to do it in any serious way.

The one caveat is if they do suddenly make 10 million new real voters out of the invaders, who do tend to scatter all over the country anyway. That might work for forever-Dem NPV dreams.

JSM

Christopher B म्हणाले...

To me his gun handling was another instance of Turn-tail Timmy's mouth writing checks his mind and body can't cash. By most accounts he was carrying a Benelli A400 semi-automatic, a rather pricey gun with an unusual loading system. Again according to most accounts, it's not hard to use but definitely different than pump or break-open action shotguns. Assuming he's not lying about being a regular trap/skeet shooter, it's a wonder that he didn't either bring his own personal shotgun, or at least chose a style that he typically shots both to avoid embarrassment and for safety. Instead he seems to have selected the gun based on the tacti-cool factor and just assumed he'd be able to run it.

Lazarus म्हणाले...

the actual man — remains profoundly incurious about himself or anything outside himself....

It is hard for Trump to get around himself, but he does seem to be curious about how things work and how things are done, more so than many people in the current administration. Trump's opening gambit may often be what he thinks ought to be done, but he is capable of learning. "Profoundly" can be a kind of tell, an empty emphasizer thrown in when the speaker's telling a whopper or something not entirely true.

AMDG म्हणाले...

The idea that Trump is a wannabe dictator is wrong. He is a compulsive narcissist.

He is too compulsive to become put in a dictatorship. That takes planning and discipline, characteristics that Trump lacks.

His incompetence as a leader is best exemplified by COVID where he let himself fall under the spell of Fauci/Brix etc. He checked out when confronted by a great crisis because he couldn’t bluster and bluff his way out of it.

His behavior between the 2020 election and the certification of the election was abhorrent and did indicate that he is unfit to hold the office it never represented a grand plan to overturn the election. Instead, it was Trump flailing about because he could not admit that he lost to a vegetable.

AMDG म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
rehajm म्हणाले...

Bribing black guys with taxpayer money? Wow. They really do think they’re losing…

Tom T. म्हणाले...

"Incurious" reads as projection. The man has moved through several careers. He's widely known for learning about the lives of the people who work for him.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"Government doesn't have much purpose other than to provide for the defense of the nation and to secure the rights of its citizens."

Accepting (just for discussion) your bare-bones description of government's purpose, the second function you identify is where virtually all the other action happens!

AMDG म्हणाले...

1. NPV would require a federal take over of the Presidential election because the ballots would have to be exactly the same and the entire process (method of voting, early/absentee voting procedures, counting, etc.) would have to be uniform throughout every precinct in the country. This would make large scale fraud easier to perpetuate.

2. NPV would totally screw rural voters. It would be much more efficient for campaigns to focus on where the most votes are.

3. Can you imagine the nightmare if a recount was required? Recounting 160 million ballots would be insane.

A better reform would be to go to the Maine/Nebraska method wear a candidate earns 1 electoral vote for winning a congressional district and 2 votes for winning a state.

Peachy म्हणाले...

vote prog!

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

And, it seems to be the Republicans who are most horny to limit the rights of the citizenry...those rights the ever-more fascistic right disdain and reject as rights at all.

Michael K म्हणाले...

Losers always seem to be angry.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"Trump actually made his fortune as CEO of a huge corporate holding company. I agree with Scott Adams that Trump is the most powerful intellectual and political force of our era."

Hahahha! DonDon made his fortune with serial infusions of money from his father when DonDon was in financial trouble...and, of course, with shady business practices, including stiffing his contractors and workmen of the pay promised and contracted for, the very working-class marks nationally who are cheering him for his grifting. As for Trump's "intellectual" (sic) and "political force," his influence has been entirely detrimental.

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

This is a man who bankrupted casinos multiple times. That takes a special kind of incompetence.

Bullshit. Dozens of casinos have gone bankrupt over the years, particularly in Atlantic City. They are not like geese that lay golden eggs; they are businesses like any other, and if your customers stop coming (e.g. because Atlantic City is a dirty, dangerous shithole, like every other place Democrats control) then the business fails. Just like more than half of all businesses do every 5 years. Trump's record is 6 losses and some 500 successful enterprises, which are Hall of Fame numbers in the history of American business.

One of the most comical things I've ever heard is the pontification from Starbucks baristas and unemployed actors and other losers who have never signed the front side of a paycheck in their lives, telling me all about Trump the "failed businessman."

Michael K म्हणाले...

More anger from a loser. Too bad.

Christopher B म्हणाले...

Fred Trump died almost a quarter century ago. Unless you believe in reincarnation at some point Donald Trump became responsible for his own fate.

Deep State Reformer म्हणाले...

Whether it's a Michael Moore hit piece "satire" or a sacrilegious "mockumentary" from Bill Maher or books by ex-Trump staff, floozies, hateful distant relatives, or whatever all else, these books, movies, and now lawsuits have become a common thing from the Wrecker Party Democrakticals show biz media stars and don't move the polls much at all. All their blog posts, flame wars on X, MSNBC panels, & the late night comedians don't have nearly the sway with the American people that they had two election cycles ago. Where's Jon Stewart now? More importantly who cares?

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

shady business practices, including stiffing his contractors and workmen of the pay promised and contracted for,

More urban mythology from losers who couldn't manage a hot dog cart.

Go and look at the court records. There are only two lawsuits against Trump for failure to pay a subcontractor. Both of them involved allegations of shoddy workmanship or other failure to perform according to the terms of the contract. Trump didn't pay their last draw, to force them to fix what they screwed up. Both of them supposedly settled without a court judgment, suggesting there was some merit to Trump's position.

All real estate developers do this when they are being ripped off by subs. It is essential to operating a viable business in this industry. If they did it routinely and unjustifiably merely because they are cheapskates, they'd never get a sub back on their job sites -- and how many buildings has Trump built over the years? 70 or 80?

If you don't know this is how the commercial real estate business works, your opinion is worth dogshit. But we already knew that about you.

Peachy म्हणाले...

AMDG - be sure to vote Kamala.

Peachy म्हणाले...

There is a story about an Ice rink in NYCity - the city could not fix the broken ice rink - year after year - the rink was a mess. Trump came along and offered to fix it- and did so. What a jerk!

Peachy म्हणाले...

AMDG - I assume you are all in for the progressive idea of "Rank Choice" voting?

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

In the absence of his deceased real daddy, DonDon turns to surrogate "daddies" in the form of wealthy foreign state entities. In short, he's a prostitute and a leech.

Jaq म्हणाले...

It's odd that she spelled Yeats correctly multiple times prior to the one you focus on, it's almost as of the spellcheck, or as I call it, "auto-malaprop," inserted the wrong spelling that one time, maybe because she left out a letter.

You have your snark, but you are no Ron Swanson.

Peachy म्हणाले...

Trump was over-whelmed by the corrupt DC scum. Does that mean you support the scum?

AMDG म्हणाले...

You know what they say about assume. I am opposed to ranked choice voting.

How is opposition to NPV related to ranked choice voting and how is it a sign of being a progressive to oppose it?

The only people I see supporting it are progressives who hate federalism.

AMDG म्हणाले...

Yes, be was overwhelmed by the corrupt DC scum so renominating him was a colossal error in judgement.

COVID showed the world that if you want to tear down the Deep State that Trump is the last guy you want leading the charge.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

More urban mythology from losers who couldn't manage a hot dog cart.

Go and look at the court records. There are only two lawsuits against Trump for failure to pay a subcontractor.

What makes you think all (or even most) of the contractors Trump stiffed sued him? They often just accepted reduced payment--if offered--to get something. Others walked away. Law suits are expensive, and would severely diminish or erase any funds the contractors might have won at court. There are many reports available online that describe Trump's practice of stiffing (which includes short-paying) contractors.

n.n म्हणाले...

And WaPo is accompanied by "Venom: The Last Dance".

Peachy म्हणाले...

AMDG = Life in not perfect. I agree that Trump was overwhelmed by the scum. I don't have the power to nominate the ideal candidate. COVID was released on purpose... for the obvious power-grab by the corrupt global money-whore scum/ChiCom-Corrupt Left alliance. At this point - It's time to get over it. Trump and Vance are the only things standing between freedom and complete one-party tyranny.

Bill Harshaw म्हणाले...

OnTrump's ambition--in 1988 at the Republican convention Chris Wallace asked him about running for president (yes, Trump was at the convention). There's a video of it. Trump counters that GHWBush will be the candidate that year, leaving the future open.

mccullough म्हणाले...

The “rough beast” with “lion body and head of a man” emerges from “sands of the desert” by “moving its slow thighs” so it’s already born. The poem should have ended with “slouches towards Bethlehem?” Not Yeats best poem.

Scott Patton म्हणाले...

Isn't "Joker: Folie à Deux" set in Gotham City?

mikee म्हणाले...

There are dementia symptoms, like those the left accuses Trump of exhibiting when he show human decency during an emergency, and then there are dementia dementia symptoms, like Biden exhibited before his election to president, with aphasia and loss of focus and loss of impulse control. Trump is old, but he isn't losing his mind yet. Biden was on a slippery slope when he started.

Deep State Reformer म्हणाले...

Blame the Blormf phenomenon on Roy Cohen? lol. That is a chew toy for old boomers but unknown to the rest of America FFS. I remember as a callow youth hearing about Alger Hiss, the Rosenberg spy ring, and if Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was obscene or not. Nobody cares about that shit anymore folks. Hell, nobody knows who or what they are today. That one NPC at the fast food counter who didn't recognize Bill Clinton is a fine example of this. Time has past. These films, books, and memoirs are simply vanity projects by fanatics spinning around in the whirlpool vortex before being sucked down into the political memory hole's toilet.

Michael K म्हणाले...

Cook is now an expert on managing huge corporations. I didn't know that was in the dishwasher's line of work.

Shouting Thomas म्हणाले...

Cook keeps trying to portray himself as an intellectual, but he’s bought the dumbest, corn pone leftist ranting about Trump, and Cook is obvious a complete illiterate and incompetent in high level business. I didn’t know he was this dumb. Eye opening.

Shouting Thomas म्हणाले...

Trump’s biz is building luxury high rises and hotels in major cities. The contractors who do work on these projects are not Mom and Pop operations. I know this biz. Those contractors are themselves major corporations that employ hundreds of tradesmen. Cook is so stupid that he imagines that the contracting work on interiors in a skyscraper is done by a Mom and Pop biz that can’t afford litigation. In many cases in NYC, those contractors are both big time corps and Mafia related.

Shouting Thomas म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
n.n म्हणाले...

New York City and other liberal metropolises. They believe they can perform human rites for social, clinical, political, criminal, and climate progress, and keep her, too. Delusional.

loudogblog म्हणाले...

It sounds like a totally unbiased film to me. Just look at what the director said about it:

"At Monday’s premiere, Abbassi recalled, “When we did this movie, everyone said, ‘Why do you want to make a movie with Trump? You know, if you want to tell something about the world, do it in a nice way, in a metaphorical way.'”

But, he said to applause, “There is no nice, metaphorical way to deal with the rising wave of fascism. The messy way, the banal way, is only the way of dealing with this wave on its own terms, at its own level.”"

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4676021-trump-campaign-lawsuit-filmmakers-the-apprentice-film-including-blatantly-false-assertions/

eLocke म्हणाले...

Props MadTownGuy. That's some next level pedantry there.

john mosby म्हणाले...

Strangely enough, Cohn was Barbara Walters’s ‘gay husband’ for many years. He even proposed to her a couple of times. When he was dying of AIDS, the NY Bar was still trying to yank his card as revenge for his anti-commie work (yes, this kind of nonsense up there didn’t start wth Trump). Only 3 people made in-person character references to the tribunal: Trump, Giuliani, and Barbara.

JSM

wild chicken म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
James K म्हणाले...

Entrepreneurs take risks. Many go bankrupt and then are successful. Bankruptcy by definition means that creditors take a hit. They know that when they participate in the investment, and charge more based on the risk, so they, like the entrepreneur, do well if it succeeds, and not so well if it doesn't. So what exactly is the beef with Trump? Oh yes, he's a Republican.

boatbuilder म्हणाले...

And, it seems to be the Republicans who are most horny to limit the rights of the citizenry...those rights the ever-more fascistic right disdain and reject as rights at all.

OK, Cookie, I'll bite. Just what "rights of the citizenry" are the "Republicans" trying to limit? Speech? Arms? Association? Religion? Security of person and home from Search and seizure? Self-incrimination? Trial by Jury? Double jeopardy? Confrontation of witnesses? Excessive bail?

What Republicans?

Mikey NTH म्हणाले...

Incurious is a charge often leveled at Republican presidential candidates. It means he is stupid.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

some how balance sheet writedowns don't garner much attention!
government contract cost over-runs are similar too [covered up with political help]

James K म्हणाले...

I was wondering the same thing, but I'm sure he has the "right" to abortion in mind. You know, that mysterious part of the Bill of Rights that no one has ever seen. But that's all the left has now. The trampling of actual rights in the Constitution by Democrats is of no importance to them.