Sir Spot of Borg wrote on May 14
th, 2018 at 6:29am:
NorthOfNorth wrote on May 12
th, 2018 at 3:00pm:
Albeit with probable unintentionality…
Says Maher during his ‘New Rules’ monologue:
“People call this presidency a reality show… Its more like a Scorsese movie. Everything Trump does is modelled on the mob…
Who does Trump surrounded himself with? Disposable lawyers and idiot members of his own family.
Who’s his worst enemy? The FBI.
Where does his money come from? He’s in ‘construction’… Fugget-aboud-it.
He’s so much like a don, his name is literally ‘Don’ “.
“What part of this isn’t mob-like? They’re using a legitimate front business, in this case the White House, to enrich the family…”
He goes on to make comedic comparisons of Trump’s people to mobster characters including referring to Giuliani’s comment RE Michael Cohen: ‘He did his job. He made it go away’.
“Made it go away?”, asks Maher, “…Yeah, that’s why Cohen always has the look of a rat that can’t get out of the toilet”.
And, admitting that he never liked Trump (thinking of him pre-politics as an ‘egomaniac and a blowhard’), Maher realises now that Trump is and always was ‘a cheap hood all along. A common thug’.
And that’s when Maher (maybe accidentally) stumbles on the one thing that supporters love about Trump and why he has their support, despite the kind of low life character he aspires to …
To them he represents the archetypal American ‘mobster’, defined, not so much from the Godfather, as The Sopranos… An archetype rising from the most admired persona in the American cultural pantheon of antiheroes.
Admired even more than its heroes.
The last couple decades all the politicians have been that way (to a lesser extent) at least in australia england and america. They are
thugs and mobsters. They are the only choices we are given though.
Spot
I would have to disagree with that.
i think the last couple of decades have seen leaders like clinton, oblama, blair, david cameron, theresa myers, merkel , rudd, gillard, turnbull who are WHIMPS and INEFFECTUALS.
and the population look at a leader and say "he lets everyone walk all over him, he is spineless"
and when they see a leader behave in such a weak way, they dont feel safe and protected.
The rise of
Putin, Trump and Deterte is entirely predictable and entirely natural.
People are drawn to strength. they've had enough of the bland and the biege.
and not a moment too soon
Good grief, horseboy... Are you seriously lauding Putin and Duterte????? They are dictators and mass murderers in the mold of Hitler and Stalin.
So again... are you actually supporting these monsters? Does someone need to take you behind the woodshed and beat the crap outta you until you learn?
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