A break from a 3 year long movie review series to declare that Donald Trump Wins Re-Election with Broad Sweeping Mandate for Second Term!

Or at least that's what the headlines could have been saying.  Now if you're thinking I'm right because of all of the massive amounts of vote fraud that occurred in November of 2020, this is not the post for you.  Until your crack squad of professional dipshits can do anything besides hold press conferences where they say all the things they won't say in court, yet still never present any evidence, consider yourself out of school here.  You’ve gotten used to trying everything in the court of public opinion and muddying the waters enough to either win or soil the prize to where it isn’t worth anything anymore. You’re as annoying as the lefties who say Putin is the only reason Trump won the 2016 election. Now that your man has to go to actual court court, he doesn’t have a fucking fart in a skillet. Take that shit back to the corner of the internet where your bubble is impenetrable.  Here in the halls of the Big Empty, like the courts, facts still matter.  In God We Trust, all others; bring data.  So unless you are the Almighty Himself, your "plausible theories about what could explain the outcome that you can't fathom is possible" hold not one fucking drop of water here.  There are plenty of other sites that will eat that garbage up, but this isn't one of them.

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So, How'd we end up here in a movie review series? I've been working on the Best Documentary category, which I hope to finish soon.  My plan was to finish that up in September so that I could get to work on the Horror Category in October.  I think doing the Horror post was my plan for October of last year too now that I think of it.  Holy crap this is taking longer than I ever thought it would.  I'll finish this....I will.  I think I will.  No, I will.

Movies aren't on my mind much right now.  We are almost into month 9 of the Covid.  We just ended a very divisive election.  Every time we have one of those, we always say it was more divisive than any other previous election so saying that is somewhat stock.  But it was partly because, love him or hate him, there is no way that we can  have anything unifying where Donald Trump is involved.  He's not the cause, but rather the most glaring symptom of the rhetorical cancer that is now how government is chosen in the United States.  

As I sit here with two paragraphs written, I'm thinking to myself that I know this is going to be a long post, so I'll say what I think is the crux of the matter right at the top, and then go from there.  There are some, heck probably many many people, especially supporters of Trump that will disagree with me on this, but I truly believe there are two factors that had the greatest influence on the outcome of the election:

Remembering when TV was more real than reality

I don't care about Roseanne Barr's politics.  I knew she was a flake before that crotch grabbing and spitting rendition of the National Anthem 28 years ago.  I didn't care about her politics when she was a raving liberal and I still don't care now.  I watched and really liked the Roseanne reboot.   I wish we could leave it at that.

The old show was good because

Go have your talk, but the adults will take it from here

Every single time there is a mass shooting, the stalling tactics of the interest groups come out in full force, and exhibit A is embedded below.  There is no exhibit B as these are the same tired old tropes that have been used for the last 20 years.  I can save you 5 minutes and 43 seconds by summarizing:

1. Guns aren't the problem.  We all proudly showed off the guns we got for Christmas as kids in school.  We brought them on the bus, and kept them in our lockers and nothing bad happened.
2. We're a violent culture.  Video games and movies have desensitized our kids to violence, and the games have become more realistic.  One game awards extra points for "finishing off" your opponent.
3. We need to have a dialogue about it, but those who think restricting access to firearms need to "get a new idea."  
4. Those who think otherwise don't realize that just as much carnage can be brought on with other things like cars.

We are all Simon Cowell now

Bristol is now the new Sanjaya Malakar, thanks to legions of political junkies that care more about personality than quality or competence. Our race to the bottom just shifted into a new gear. We are all doomed, and on pace to validate the Mayans.

Update:
Ughhhhhhhh.  2012 is perhaps more credit than we deserve.

Fueled by Tea, now let's fire up this SVT Mustang Yugo and take it for a spin

In what will undoubtedly be the first in a series of contradictions; via ABL at Balloon Juice, we've got Freshman Senator Andy Harris of Maryland who hates government subsidized healthcare so much, he wants it yesterday and doesn't know what he'll be able to do without it.

Our current political climate....

summarized in 30 seconds and with slightly more maturity.