Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Springtime for Trump


In the wake of Super Tuesday, I present another Trump funny in the vein of Donald Trump dance remix, Darth Trump, and Trump is coming and he's building a wall.  Courtesy of Esquire, here's “Trumped" Starring Matthew Broderick & Nathan Lane.

From the producers who brought you “The Producers,” #Trumped is a new musical starring Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman and the unlikely candidate himself, Donald Trump.
Of course, it's not all fun and games.  Follow over the jump for more from Esquire plus a video from Vox on Trump's rise.

Jack Holmes of Esquire explains why this video works.
It resonates in two ways. First, it was almost incomprehensible at the outset that Donald Trump could be competitive in the race to be leader of the free world. But like Springtime, his candidacy has been so flamboyantly absurd—and the surrounding environment has been just right—that it has found success. He is vulgar, he is rude. He makes himself and others look silly. People love the show.

Second, there's reason to believe that other candidates in the race (cough, Ben Carson) actually have consultants in the mold of Bialystock and Bloom on staff. There were far too many candidates, especially on the Republican side, that were plainly unqualified with zero chance at challenging for the nomination. Carly Fiorina was fired from Hewlett-Packard and lost a race for senate, so she ran for president? Carson's own adviser said he couldn't absorb "one iota of intelligent information" on Middle East policy. Clearly, some of the people working on these campaigns were looking to make a quick buck before the show closed up and left town.

In the end, Lane and Broderick's bit is incisive and funny. But it's also a sobering reminder that our politics has, for the most part, devolved into a destructive combination of cynicism and absurdity.
Ezra Klein sounds even more alarmed in Donald Trump's rise is a scary moment in America.

We are so busy laughing at Trump that we’ve lost sight of how dangerous he is. Vox's editor-in-chief Ezra Klein explains.
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Trump is in serious contention to win the Republican presidential nomination. His triumph in a general election is unlikely, but it is far from impossible. He's not a joke and he's not a clown. He's a man who could soon be making decisions of war and peace, who would decide which regulations are enforced and which are lifted, who would be responsible for nominating Supreme Court justices and representing America in the community of nations. This is not political entertainment. This is politics.
Klein's message is one to take seriously, given that Trump has now won primaries and caucuses in ten out of the fifteen states that have voted on the Republican side so far, including seven out of eleven last night.  Remember, The Penguin is a villain.


Welcome to Weimar America.

9 comments:

  1. Opinions like this are highly suspect as there are 2 positions in America... those at the trough.... who hate Trump

    and those whose lives have been stole by those at the trough,..... who love Trump.

    How anyone can look at The Donald and see evil... is disingenuous at best.

    His goodness is so evident - especially in his children.

    Readers must look at who owns this site... where they get their money.. and what they risk if The Donald protects Americans from the invasion of Musims and low paid workers... and the export of our production and resources.

    That is the bottom line here... competing interests. Trying to paint Donald as "Weimar America" is an evil evil attempt to avoid the conflict of monied interests.

    I vote Pitchforks and portable guillotines in the leafy neighborhoods of Connecticut... whether he wins OR NOT>

    We aren't going anywhere... and this angelic leader is the best you'll get... next we go nuclear.

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    1. I see this and think you took English lessons from Sarah Palin. I'll come back to your duplicate comment later and try to compose a serious response.

      In the meantime, you should now be aware that I'm not above trolling hostile commenters.

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    2. After all these weeks, I have one serious comment to make in response to you. Since you apparently came here from The Archdruid Report, you should practice something Greer advocates--ternary thinking. Your comment shows you are in acute need of it.

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  2. Opinions like this are highly suspect as there are 2 positions in America... those at the trough.... who hate Trump

    and those whose lives have been stole by those at the trough,..... who love Trump.

    How anyone can look at The Donald and see evil... is disingenuous at best.

    His goodness is so evident - especially in his children.

    Readers must look at who owns this site... where they get their money.. and what they risk if The Donald protects Americans from the invasion of Musims and low paid workers... and the export of our production and resources.

    That is the bottom line here... competing interests. Trying to paint Donald as "Weimar America" is an evil evil attempt to avoid the conflict of monied interests.

    I vote Pitchforks and portable guillotines in the leafy neighborhoods of Connecticut... whether he wins OR NOT>

    We aren't going anywhere... and this angelic leader is the best you'll get... next we go nuclear.

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  3. Addendum or Pearls before Swine

    Lifted from the Archdruid Report

    "The thing the "Never Trump" brigade doesn't get is that he's probably their last chance to avoid dangling from lampposts. If he wins, and gives Middle America a few benefits, we may yet avoid a civil war. Otherwise? probably not."

    Ignore the Trumpets at your peril.

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    1. "Pearls before Swine"

      OINK!

      Thanks to your duplicate comments, you have given me the perfect opportunity to post both silly and serious responses. Also, you have made this the most c

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    2. My response got cut off. This is the most commented on entry of the month, thanks to your duplicate comments. I still have one more to make.

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  4. Addendum or Pearls before Swine

    Lifted from the Archdruid Report

    "The thing the "Never Trump" brigade doesn't get is that he's probably their last chance to avoid dangling from lampposts. If he wins, and gives Middle America a few benefits, we may yet avoid a civil war. Otherwise? probably not."

    Ignore the Trumpets at your peril.

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    1. No, they don't get that. In fact, I suspect they think exactly the opposite, that his election means the next worst thing, losing their power and relevance. That they'd ever swing from lampposts never occurs to them.

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