Built to keep out those glowin', wailin', tentacled illegal aliens, for fear they might vote illegally and cause some kind of... oh, I dunno, electoral upset?!? Wouldn't want some monstrous, despicable, egomaniacal dumbell with the temperament and attention span of a toddler, the impulse control of a pre-schooler and the diplomacy level of a teenager being voted in charge now, would we? Russia interfering and influencing the election, that's all fine, but people who actually LIVE and WORK in the country being able to actually have a say - nope, won't stand for that crazy malarkey!
Hope you enjoyed it (not that any Trumpericans would ever watch this film), because that's the closest Trump will get to a wall like that "8th wonder of the world".
The reality is gonna be like that classic Simpsons episode where Homer "builds" his outdoor brick barbecue, then he looks admiringly at the tidily finished work, and says "Aaah, that is one beautiful barbecue!" before the camera pulls back to reveal he was looking at the photo on the packaging, and Homer's actual monstrously deformed, insane creation is revealed behind it, as he dementedly screams: "WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT???" Except Trump won't be able to sell his wall for a profit as "outsider art", and it will cost about 900 times more than any possible financial benefits obtainable from it.
How appropriate too, that a film with such a prescient wall creation should be called Monsters, since that's what Trump is busy installing into power as I write. Busy, busy bee, ensuring that America's future will be FUBARed for many years well beyond his own hopefully short-lived presidency.
"It's too late... Always has been, always will be... Too late."
Haha! Well, you certainly bucked some minor trend there - by watching the film, not by being (like most deluded Trumpites) a gloating a-hole. However, I think you'll find you'll be the one seething when the snake breaks all his promises, including the big one about making America great again. When was America last great, by the way? Was it in the 20s, with the prohibition, and its resulting massive rise in organised crime? Maybe it was the 30s, with the Great Depression, caused by the Wall Street crash which effectively allowed Hitler to rise to power when America called in its loans to Germany, creating massive economic depression there, and insane inflation, spurring Adolf to run on a platform of making Germany great again (oh, and blaming Germany's problems on an ethnic minority - any of this sound familiar?). Maybe it was the 50s, when the Vietnam war was started, effectively using that country as a pawn to fight the "red terror" of the Soviet Union, or maybe the 60s, when things in Vietnam really kicked up a few gears, and then you had the Cuban Missile Crisis which nearly resulted in all-out NUCLEAR WAR between the two superpowers but for ONE single voice of calm reason, that of Kennedy, for which efforts he was so kindly rewarded with a bullet in the head about a year later, in '63 - was that your finest hour? Perhaps it was the glorious disco-dancing, coke-fuelled 70s, with "not a crook" Nixon and the Watergate scandal? Or maybe it was the Bush junior years, which culminated in the 2007 Credit Crunch that brought the world to its knees economically for a couple of years, and whose effects will be long felt by the worst-off members of society for many, many years to come, yet the scumbag greedy bankers who CAUSED it were back on top almost right-away, but not before he valiantly launched a "War on Terror" which turned out to actually be more of a war OF terror, and resulted in - just a few short years later - bringing terror to a whole bunch of European countries that didn't really have much of a terror problem before. Oh, and the fact that said war was brought about under utterly false pretenses, and it was simply a way to ensure the puppetmasters pulling Bush's strigs, like the Halliburton heads, could make a few more billions for themselves, as well as giving the morons what they wanted: cheaper gasoline, y'all! (Not saying all Americans are morons, just those for whom saving a few cents on a gallon of gas is worth the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians - men, women and children.) Was that when America was great? Maybe it's more recently, when the NSA decided to spy on ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE, criminal or not, suspicious or not, USING EVERY MEANS AT THEIR DISPOSAL, SCOURING ALL FORMS OF COMMUNICATIONS THEY COULD GET THEIR HANDS ON. Was that when America was great?
So no, I won't be seething, I'll just be the one shaking his head, saying "I told you so, but you decided you'd rather be a hateful moron or just an ignorant one and elect a loathsome scumbag piece of sh*t. You've made your bed, now you can lie in it.".
Hey, you know what? It'll be a lot like when Homer Simpson ran for sanitation commissioner OUT OF SPITE and defeated the perfectly competent man in charge, Ray Patterson (nicely played by Steve Martin!), by being a loudmouth jackass with no actual plan, yet freely making insane, sky-high promises that appealed to idiots who didn't for a minute think about the feasability of his outlandish promises, AND by also - if I remember correctly - running a vicious mud-slinging campaign against Ray. Homer then proceeded to IMMEDIATELY run the department into the ground, spending its entire yearly budget in days, then causing a total garbage workers strike and ultimately over-running the town with garbage. The townspeople then begged the old commissioner to come back and sort out the mess Homer created, to which Ray's response is: "You've done this to yourselves. Youall deserve each other. In conclusion: You're screwed. Bye!" The year was 1998.
I love Homer, but it is amazing how many parallels can be drawn between his jackassery and that of Trump. Those writers are pretty switched on! Not in that they predicted this insane situation of a Trump presidency - not even they could have imagined that the outlandish plots they were cooking up for a big laugh could become ACTUAL F-KING REALITY - but in how well-observed and hilariously presented human flaws are in the Simpsons universe. The only other Simpsons character that has more Trump in him is Montgomery C. Burns. So congrats, your chosen president is a blend of Homer's impulsive, thoughtless jackassery and Monty Burns' bottomlessly greedy black heartedness. You totally witless - if I may borrow a description from you - jerk.
"It's too late... Always has been, always will be... Too late."
You mean the "greed is good" 'glorious' 80s? I'll grant you, there may have been a small window of relative calm and prosperity when a large chunk of America was fairly happy, and it usually followed that if you worked hard, you were better off, but here's the problem: it turns out that if you really examine it, greed is possibly the most socially damaging human trait there is, and is at the root of many of society's problems. It follows then that the happy 80s were merely a brief economic respite, the fertile breeding ground for the economically unbalanced, utterly divided situation we have today, where the gap between the tiny faction of mega-rich and the unhappy millions in near poverty has never been greater, and is incresing by the year. But you think THIS is the time to elect a scumbag billionaire who made his fortune (much of it in those happy 80s, I should think) by ripping other people off and not paying taxes? Your solution to an inequality problem is to elect the one person who is most concerned with accumulating wealth, whose gaudy residences draped, painted, plated, coated, covered and sprayed in garish gold are a MONUMENT to greed?? So that is the great time Trump wants to roll the country back to, is it? Sure, it makes sense, a time of rampant greed with a lot less regulation to oversee his own shady dealings. Heck, it was probably the last period he was able to get it up without the use of the little blue pills, same as many of his supporters, so no wonder he wants to go back to those days. But it doesn't sound as realistic as a slogan, does it? "Let's make America like in the 80s again"! How is that ever going to happen though - time and the world move in only one direction, besides which do you really want to go back to the time when sending someone a document quickly entailed babysitting it for endless minutes via a screeching lump of beige plastic known as a fax machine, and mobile phones needed a briefcase to be gracefully carried around?
As to the cartoon you mention, I don't know what that is in reference to, but I assume there must be some cartoon somewhere showing a condensed history of America - I had no need to reference that, I used my memory, but I am pretty sure a great number of American kids (and many adults too) would likely learn a lot of stuff they didn't learn in school from whatever that cartoon is. Feel free to post the link.
"It's too late... Always has been, always will be... Too late."
I thought your rant was perfectly worded, and I was surprised how much I enjoyed this film. When we finally see "The Wall," it's like seeing Trump's demented vision fully realized...and the movie is six years old! Two thumbs up, one for the film, and the other for your rant...resistance is never futile...
Yep, "When we finally see "The Wall," it's like seeing Trump's demented vision fully realized." - exactly what I thought when I saw it, I was surprised no one had caught this yet and posted it here. Of course, one could only think that if they saw the film after September 2016, as I did (re-watched, actually) so for most here, my observation will be a retroactive experience, but I thought I should point it out for the many who may have almost forgotten about it. Thanks for the nice words.
"It's too late... Always has been, always will be... Too late."
Just saw the movie and was pleasantly surprised and impressed by the depiction of the "wonder" wall. In reality President Kim Jong Trump won't get past the huffing and puffing stage on his wall of greatness, but it was pretty impressive looking on screen. Decent movie and follow up (in the middle east), which I saw first, too.
Who are you talking about, Trump, right? "seemingly so unembarrassed about how they appear" is obviously Trump, but "sore loser" makes it confusing, since he "wins at everything"! He wins so much we'll all get sick of winning! Well, no need to wait, Trumpsky, every sane human being on the planet is sick of you winning after just one day. Take a 4 year holiday, comrade, you earned it. Alternative request: take a leap off a tall building. Pazhalsta, tovarisch.
"It's too late... Always has been, always will be... Too late."
Yeah, the anxiety ridden, anti social "people" (and I use that term VERY loosely) who can't figure out what gender they are, hold mass sky screaming or "moon Trump Tower" or "menstrual blood" protests/events, burn cities over r@pists getting pwned by cops, etc. are clearly the "sane" humans in the crowd. Clearly...
Also, it is a fact libs are more likely to be psychotic than conservatives are: