by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Yesterday, I blogged about American windbag Donald Trump's social media attack on his onetime political BFF, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Greene has been increasingly critical of the MAGA cult leader over the past several months, claiming that Trump has lost sight of his MAGA vision. She has been extremely irksome to the narcissistic Trump by pushing for release of the Jeffrey Epstein files that are currently being held by the Justice Department. Candidate Trump last year had also called for release of those files, but as President he has done a one-eighty and now refers to the files on his former close friend as a "Democratic hoax."
Friday night Trump had finally had his fill of his former close political ally, Ms. Greene, and went on one of his social media tirades trashing her and calling the congresswoman a "lunatic' and "whacky." Trump also said if the right candidate chooses to primary her, that person would have his "Complete and Unyielding Support." Divorce final.
Yesterday while the unbowed Marjorie Taylor Greene was still firing back at him on social media, Trump launched an assault against another of his former political allies. His target this time was Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a man who has earned his way to the top of Trump's "bad list" by sponsoring the discharge petition in Congress that has ultimately forced the impending release of the Epstein files. (Trump is very focused on keepng those files under wraps. One has to wonder why.)
Rep. Massie, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, is one of only a very few Republican members of Congress who dare to go against Triump's wishes. Greene said yesterday in her social media rebuttal to Trump's meme trashing her, that he was using an attack on her to coerce other Republicans into not supporting the release of the Epstein files. Thomas Massie could certainly make that same argument.
Thomas Massie's wife of thirty-one years and the mother of his four children died unexpectedly in June of 2024. The representative announced early this month that he had remarried on October 19th of this year to a former staffer of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a woman he has known for ten years. That marriage occurred 16 months after the first Mrs. Massie passed away.
Donald Trump, a man who has been married three times and divorced twice - and been known to have had affairs during two of those marriages, went after Thomas Massie regarding what Trump described as a "quick" remarriage. Here is the vindictive hairball that Trump coughed up yesterday:
"Did Thomas Massie, sometimes referred to as Rand Paul, Jr., because of the fact that he always votes against the Republican Party, get married already??? Boy, that was quick! No wonder the Polls have his at less than an 8% chance of winning the Election. Anyway, have a great life, Thomas and (?). His wife will soon find out that she's stuck with a LOSER!"
Nice, huh? Very presidential. Such a comfort to know that our great nation is under the control of a thirteen-year-old bully.
Not long after reading about Trump's very personal attack on Thomas Massie, an attack that did not sit well with some members of the MAGA movement, my mind wandered off into the subject of movies. (Don't ask me why - when you are old stuff like that just happens.) I thought about four filmss, all titled along a common thread and all favorites of mine.
The first was 1987's Angel Heart, a noir tale about a NYC detective who travels to the bayou country of Louisiana to search for a young woman in a land steeped in voodoo and the occult. It stars the hugely underrated Mickey Rourke. The second movie to bounce across my consciousness was Thunderheart from 1992, It is the story of an FBI agent who is trying to mask his Native American heritage while working a case bearing a strong resemblance to the actual FBI-Native American confrontation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a few years earlier. The movie is not one of Val Kilmer's best known works, but it has always been one of my personal favorites.
Braveheart (1995), is the story of William Wallace, the Scottish commoner who rose to challenge the King of England in a fight for an independent Scotland. Mel Gibson took on the role of Wallace and make it his own. Big screen, big acting, big story - and, like oatmeal, it sticks with you. And finally, Crazy Heart, the story of an alcoholic, washed-up country singer - played by Jeff Bridges - who encounters an unexpected chance at redemption.
Each of those movies was centered on the internal struggles of a strong but flawed man as he sought to regain or fulfill his sense of purpose. Three were successful in moving forward to some degree, while one was consumed by his demons - and all their stories were gripping and powerful.
And as I quit daydreaming about some of my favorite movies and got back to thinking about Trump's petty and vile attacks on people who were once his friends, the thought crossed my mind as to what a movie based on Donald Trump's life would possibly be called. I mean, Pinocchio was already taken. I finally came up with a movie title that I thought would fit his life story perfectly, but I won't repeat it here because that would be ugly.
Have a day - I know I will!
4 comments:
I asked AI about negative words used by Donald Trump. It yielded the following: "Vermin”, "Enemies from within”, "Comrade Kamala”, "Full communist”, "Weird", and "incompetent” . I was a little disappointed but you have to start somewhere. Those were from a UCLA study. The Times of India added: “garbage”, “enemies from within”, “human refuse”, “poison to our country”, “people with poinsoned blood”, “radical left”, “left-wing mob”, “crooked”, “do nothing democrats”, and “RINOs”. Those last two may be accurate in some cases. Still disappointing. The Conversation: “death and destruction”, “go after”, “you can expect to be shot”. Now, we’re getting somewhere. I remember “fight like hell”. Someone should make a list and assign values to those words for the levels of hostility, spitefulness, polarization, racism, etc. Each would have a value of one to ten. Donaldo might give a speech using the words or phrases like “shit hole countries” which would get a 9. If he says it twice, his speech would be up to 18. Crooked might get a 7; he uses is 3 times for 21 and now his speech rates a 39. Continue rating and adding until you get the total for the entire speech. Then we could compare speeches with the total numbers. CNN could report that last night’s speech was 4,281 and then compare it to his last speech of 3,995. Or we would say that Donnie thinks MTG is a 328 compared to Mamdami as a 587. Maybe I need a hobby.
Apparently oblivious to the fact that people with good memories are actually paying attention to him, Trump now is calling on Congressional Republicans to release the Epstein Files. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv653v1vjo
Well, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit! This new product line, Trump fertilizer, may actually succeed.
Bob, you may find, as do I, that AI has a big vocabulary with an extremely limited sense of nuance. It is a sad comment on our times that we agree on the usefulness of a metric describing Presidential negativity. Of course, to give benefit of the doubt, the model should include pre and post spin entries.
I like that idea of a Trump fertilizer product line. The ingredient list would be only bullshit. Love it!
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