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UnLunDun by Neil Gaiman has a similar idea. There’s a Chosen One, great heroine, and her plucky sidekick. The heroine gets sidelined and it’s up to the sidekick to actually save the day.
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UnLunDun by Neil Gaiman has a similar idea. There’s a Chosen One, great heroine, and her plucky sidekick. The heroine gets sidelined and it’s up to the sidekick to actually save the day.
And the stupidest thing is, he could have extorted billions from Putin on Inauguration Day.
“Drop any pictures you want, Vlad. I got the CIA in my pocket, and they’ll prove it’s fake news. Now wire the money, or Ukraine is getting a dozen nuclear submarines tomorrow.”
Trump had a lottery where the top prize was dinner with him in the White House. There has never been a single winner. Trump hates his voters more than he hates Obama, but they’ll happily die for him.
The book ‘Future Shock’ came out about fifty years ago and it predicted that a lot of people, facing the massive changes caused by the switch from the Industrial Era to the Digital Age would be unwilling and/or unable to deal with the new world. They’d go insane, desperately trying to hold on tighter and tighter to a world they had already lost.
I have posted this dozens of times since it occurred. Back after the 2016 election, there was a panel of the creators of TV’s top political dramas. House of Cards, Scandal, The West Wing, and others. All the writers and producers said the same thing; if they’d had a character say that they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the TV networks and advertisers would have demanded that the character be destroyed by a massive wave of public opinion.
When people call out the media for not being harder on Trump, I point to stories like this.
People shouldn’t need editorials to explain to them why this is a terrible thing to say.
I’ve posted this before.
Back in 2016, just after the election, there was a panel of the creative teams behind all the top political TV shows. Veep, House of Cards, Scandal, etc. Every writer and producer said the same thing; if they had put on a character that said he liked soldiers who didn’t get captured, the advertisers and networks would have demanded that the character be treated as a pariah by every voter. Trump’s been deplorable since day one.
Think of it this way. We’d fail a 5th Grade student who didn’t read a 100 page book and hold them back a year.
Stop the silliness. Pick one permanent site and forget about it.
Taylor Tomlinson had a great joke.
She said she didn’t want to date woman because she was too old to learn a new skill set.