10-06-2022, 08:25 PM
(10-06-2022, 03:15 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-10-2022, 04:27 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: British and dated (related to Trump's State visit to the UK) but worthy of recall.
Corgis are about the size of domestic cats. I figure that Obama, a dog lover, got to meet them, and Trump didn't. We will likely soon find out (the late Queen was extremely secretive!) Small dogs have big teeth and claws, and they have the power with which to express their opinions of people with those teeth and claws. Take it from me: dog claws are dangerous!
The Chaplin character (Chaplin was British) is a mockery of a real dictator, unlike the wannabe that Trump was (and still is). George Orwell... well, we know the connection to Trump, don't we?
PB, what's all this LW propaganda accomplishing these days?
If you can't laugh about someone like Donald Trump, then you will cry or go mad. Can't you laugh about Trump?
... The generational cycle may not give a perfect match. Mel Brooks would have been perfect for skewering Trump much as he skewered you-know-who, except that he is now too old to do comedy. Of course we are approaching the time in which the successors of the Silent will appear on the entertainment scene, and I expect them to do comedy well.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.