Friday, April 14, 2017

The anti-Trump

A tv series I've been watching lately on the computer is Designated Survivor ...

an American political drama television series created by David Guggenheim, starring Kiefer Sutherland .... On the night of the State of the Union address, an explosion claims the lives of the President and all members of his Cabinet except for U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman, who had been named the designated survivor. Kirkman is immediately sworn in as President, unaware that the attack is just the beginning of what is to come.

I really like it so far and I'm constantly reminded of how different the president Sutherland plays is from the one we're stuck with in real life. In the episode I watched tonight, the president had a town hall meeting in which an unemployed factory worker from Virginia asked the president how he could help him get his job back. I was reminded of Trump and his insane plan to end the fictitious war on coal and bring miners' jobs back. Here's how the tv president responded to the question ...

That's the kind of president we need!

More: Coal country's message to Trump: We want jobs of the future

8 comments:

  1. I can't watch this show for the same reason I couldn't watch "West Wing", too much disparity with the horrid reality. The nearest an entertainment comes to our present surreality is the movie "Idiocracy" in which the President is a professional wrestler.

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  2. I'll have to check this one out, I haven't seen it. He was talking about infrastructure jobs, that would make a lot more sense than this bogus wall project that Mexico is not going to pay for. Come to think of it I haven't heard much about that lately. Maybe world affairs are consuming more of the POTUS' band width than he planned on.

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  4. I did see an interview with Tillerson on his meeting with Mexico's leader a few days ago. The news guy asked him if Mexico was going to pay for the wall and he said they didn't discuss it. I doubt anything will come of the wall plans. And besides, we'll be nuked by N. Korea pretty soon, so it won't matter in the long run.

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  5. I'd like to know how you build a wall in the middle of a river. Dumbell.

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  6. Um, we did have that kind if president with Obama, IMO.

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  7. Yeah, once, long ago, back in the golden age. Miss him!

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