These next 10 years will be the last whiff of that population bulge historians call the Baby Boom Generation…an entity that started off with piles of idealism. Some achieved; Some clawed back with age hello civil rights and women’s right.
These old, grumpy boomers are hanging on today with unrivaled privilege…now this may be a generalization…but you have a bunch of old white guys, especially in the USA, and old white gals too embittered about what has transpired in their fantasy lives, and in the US many aging boomers voted for a guy who had no experience at all but was famous on TV — Shit4Brains Trump.
Trump at a rally in 2016 US Presidential Debate. Courtesy of Politifact
Which brings me to the a little known movie in the late 1960s called Wild in The Streets — the height of hippiedom for the Boomers.
Rotten Tomatoes describes Wild in the Streets as a:
A campy satire about a rock star/drug dealer who is elected president once the voting age has been lowered to fourteen. The title song was a big hit in the 60’s and the film itself was well-liked by many critics.
Max Frost (Christopher Jones), presidential candidate, in Wild in the Streets acknowledges, the crowd’s adoration. Courtesy American International.
IMDB describes Wild in the Streets as follows:
“A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.”
The connection to real life today is this: Like Max Frost the Rock Star/drug dealer in the quirky movie Wild in The Streets, Americans (albeit with less popular votes than Hillary) elected an aging boomer, Trump. with a fractured mind and morality whose only claim to fame was a failure as a businessman, but a genius on pretend TV which was ironically labelled reality TV.
Trump’s strategy like the political strategy of Wild in the Streets is to collect a band of disgruntled, angry members of society who feel the have been left out. Call this populism if you will or call it appeal to the mob.
Donald Trump, a boomer is the aging Max Frost…the KKK and Neo Nazis are Trumps troopers.
Trump may not have sold drugs…but the list of his criminality is long Trump U, violation of Fair Housing Laws, money laundering (this will come out soon), sexual assault.
Like Trump, Max Frost, in Wild in the Street was a criminal, a drug dealer. Trump is the first criminal ever elected to the US Presidency. Among his crimes was the fraud of Trump U. In New York State you have to be accredited to call yourself a University. And of course the tens of thousands of dollars he stole from those who ponied up the $35,000 enrollment fee. Oddly this criminal was never charged by law enforcement. He did settle a civil suit out of court. Courtesy of Mother Jones
Begone boomers and let younger people take over..No one over 60 should be president of the USA ever.
For the boomer generation Trump is one last kick at fantasy land.
Let it be quick and let more savvy youth take the reins. They are skilled at detecting twitter bullshit like boomers are not.
Until then Trumper’s troopers and angry old white guys will be a force. These are the last embers of baby boomerism. They are angry kids from Wild in the Streets.
Recently I asked my Facebook friends to provide me advice on how I should handle a request for a replacement cheque of $100 that I provided a right wing friend of mine when Donald Trump was declared president-elect of the United States.
Thank you for all your advice on how to respond for the request for me to replace the $100 cheque.
Donald Trump, admires Adolf Hitler. Notice the Hitlerian influence on Trump. Here is Trump’s open mouth yelling of his hateful messages..Just like Adolph Hitler’s open mouth yelling.
After I sent the $100 cheque to my hyper conservative friend, he failed to deposit it and left it in his shirt pocket which his wife put in the washing machine and dryer thus destroying it.
I dismissed outright the suggestion from another elderly conservative, Trump-loving friend (well more elderly than me LOL), who wanted me to immediately re-write the cheque and send it to the unfortunate fellow whose wife laundered the cheque in the wash.
To all my middle of the road and lefty friends who said I paid my debt and it is his problem that the cheque was destroyed in the wash ha ha ha ha ha…the symbolism is drenched in comedy. LOL.
As an admirer of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King who on the issue of a Canadian wartime conscription during World War 2 utter these very funny words: (part of the evolution of the Canadian comedy tradition, I guess) — my approach will be be pragmatic and flexible.
“Conscription but not necessarily conscription,”said PM King.
Wartime Canadian PM, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
So in paraphrasing King, I say unto the the winner of the wager: “Re-issuing the cheque, but not necessarily re-issuing the cheque”
Here is my email to his wife with my proposed solution.
“Haha ha a ha ha ha ha ha LOL.
This must be God’s displeasure at the incomprehensible results of the US election leading to the so-called victory of the satanic Mr. Trump.
How else can one explain the comedy over the destruction of the cheque that was my payment in full for the $100 wager I lost to your husband.
And the irony that the cheque was destroyed while his shirt was being washed and laundered clean.
As if God was saying “wash away the filth that is Donald Trump.”
Trump is a loser, whom 65 million Americans rejected, but despite only gaining 63 million votes – two million less than Hillary Clinton, the undemocratic US ‘Lector College declared Trump, President.
(The ‘Lector College kills democracy as surely as Hannibal Lecter killed people in Silence of the Lambs).
Doesn’t the Book of Revelation say something about the end of times being near when the insane rule over the good, sane people of the earth? LOL!
Donald Trump is the first, openly insane presidential candidate to win the Presidency.
Some of us remember the insane candidacy of Lyndon Larouche. Mr. Larouche who espoused much of the same philosophy as the Trumpster never won in the 1980s and 1990s.
I must also note, that the 2016 Election was also tainted by the massive and unprecedented incursion of the FBI into the election on Trump’s behalf a week prior to voting – falsely claiming Clinton was embroiled in Anthony Weiner’s emails. And then saying oops…we were wrong – she wasn’t.
Let me think about whether I should replace the cheque.
Certainly if I do re-issue it, it will be after the recount in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, that will be triggered by allegations of cyber hacking of the computer based voting systems in those states.
Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, has already filed for a recount in Michigan on Friday. She now has the funds to officially demand a recount in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Also, I will require your husband to sign an agreement/acknowledgement and mail it to me before I possibly send him the replacement cheque.
That is of course unless the recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania reverse the totals thus giving those states’ electoral college votes to Hillary Clinton, who in those circumstances will be declared President elect.
In that case of course your husband will send me the cheque.
In the attachment I have included several sections from Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book on Trump and Ivana titled “Lost Tycoon”. The sections describe Donald Trump’s brutal sexual assault and rape of his wife at the time– Ivana Trump.
You can not say this book is some false news that was cooked up to defeat Trump in this election, like the James Comey false allegations and all the Ezra Levant and Breitbart bullshit your husband wants me to read in his support of Trump.
These facts in Harry Hurt’s book have stood the test of time and are true. Trump has had 23 years to sue the writer for libel, but he didn’t because the truth will trump Trump and his denials that he raped Ivana.
Ivana filed a deposition in court in 1992 saying she was raped by Donald Trump in 1989. She also told author Harry Hurt III the same information in the interviews, Hurt conducted with Ivana. Hurt also interviewed Trump himself, Trump’s dad Fred and others in researching the book.
Afterwards, Trump got a restraining order on Ivana because their pre-nuptial agreement said she could not disclose the details of Trump’s business and personal life.
Fearing that the courts would take everything away from her, as Donald wanted as a relief from the breach of the pre-nup, Ivana watered down her allegations, but in no way recanted or denied them.
As the Lost Tycoon was going to be released to bookstores, Donald Trump sent a notice to the publisher and demanded that the insert which is included below, be attached to the book.
The notice reworded Ivana’s claim of rape and used more weasely words to describe what still amounted to spousal rape.
I will ask your husband to sign an acknowledgement of all of Donald Trump’s business failures, misogyny, racism and sexual assaults on women beginning with his rape of Ivana.
I also want your husband to acknowledge that Trump was a major business loser, having gone bankrupt six times and someone who played fast and loose with other people’s money to the point where the US banking industry considered him to be financial poison.
That is why Trump had to go to billionaires like Vladimir Putin, and others in Kazakhstan, China and India for loans. And now they own him.
Harry Hurt provides a 1993 snap shot of so-called billionaire Trumps’ financial troubles.
Hurt said Trump’s value in 1993 was approximately, – $350 million; that is negative $350 million, if he was forced to liquidate all his highly leveraged properties to repay his loans, bonds and debentures.
I will ask your husband to acknowledge that Trump is a racist who coddles the KKK (will we soon see an invitational only cross burning at the Trump White House Lawn — Whites Only????)
If your husband signs, seals and delivers the agreement/acknowledgement I will gladly re-write the laundered cheque.
However, if he refuses to sign the acknowledgement, then I will refuse to re-write the cheque, which God destroyed as a sign of displeasure at the election of that cretin Trump.
You should not feel bad for unwittingly destroying the $100 cheque in the wash, as you were only working on God’s behalf — deus ex machina – the hand of God.
Ha ha ha ha… wow…best $100 wager I ever made…It will provide me a lifetime of hilarity.
Did I say hilarity? I meant to say “Hillary-ity”.
LOL
In friendship…Frank
Dear readers here is Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Warning: The following has humour and truth that might offend people who support Donald Trump. Read at your own risk.
Donald being Donald tells the world where it can go: “People try to put me down, but I just tell them all to kiss my billions.
In 1932, Many people in Germany laughed when their very own Charlie Chaplin-ed mustachioed clown Adolf Hitler won the Chancellorship of Germany by the tiniest of minorities. After all this was the clownish buffoon who in 1924 thought he would start a fascist revolution by overthrowing a Munich beer hall.
Difference is that in a four horse field, Donald Trump actually lost the election by two million votes, yet because of the ‘Lecter College and the killing of democracy, the cretin Trump becomes the illegitimate president of the most heavily armed nation on the planet and perhaps the entire Solar System.
And I know my dear right wing friends will respond in anger or write some smart aleck response to my post. But we can’t hide facts about Donald Trumpler any longer.
Donald Trump, admires Adolf Hitler. Notice the Hitlerian influence on Trump. Here is Trump’s open mouth yelling of his hateful messages..compare to the open mouth yell of Adolph Hitler
Trump is an admirer of Adolf Hitler as this passage from Harry Hurt III the author of Lost Tycoon Trump’s (p.341) unauthorized biography clearly indicates. Trump is not academically inclined, this was a how to book, folks…How to bamboozle big crowds.
What we can do is help human rights organizations like Amnesty International keep on eye on Herr Trumpler and intervene when called on. Call Amnesty International and donate now with a statement indicating you are concerned about Trump’s threat to imprison Hillary Clinton.
Click here to contribute to Amnesty International:
You supporters of Donald Trump who still are basically good people although thoroughly bamboozled by his lies can also contribute to Amnesty International too.
Your contributions will help Amnesty keep an eye On American’s new Third Reich.
Yes, that’s right folks lets not mince meat here any longer.
In 1990, according to author Harry Hurt III, the Donald was given or purchased the entire set of Hitler’s Speeches.collected in an edition titled “The New Order”..and I don’t think Herr Trump only had a passing academic interest. This collection of Hitler speeches was a how to book, folks…How to bamboozle big crowds. Notice as in Hitler’s Triumph of the Will, it was all about large crowds, theatrics, blusters and big lies.
Compare Hitler’s open mouth yelling to Trump’s yelling in the previous photo. The admiration is obvious. Also notice Hitler’s odd hand gestures, something he shares with Trump’s odd hand movements. Although it looks like Hitler’s hands are huge compared to Trump’s tiny hands.
What we can do is help human rights organizations like Amnesty International keep on eye on Herr Trumpler and intervene when called on.
Call Amnesty International and donate now with a statement indicating you are concerned about Trump’s threat to imprison Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump boned up on Hitler’s speeches as early as 1990 notes author Harry Hurt III Lost Tycoon, 1993 (p.341)
Author Hurt notes more than a passing similarity between Adolfo’s big lies and Donaldo’s big lies. Donald’ big lies were the hall mark of his career in the New York City and Global development industry; and more recently with his entry into politics with his discredited birth movement..
Hitler and Trump they both lied and the poor sad sack uneducated marks, suckers who voted for both Hitler and Trump (obviously some highly educated volk too) had to live with tragic consequences.)
They also threatened to arrest political opponents. Hitler did, Trumpler so far has only threatened to do so.
Soon Amnesty International may have to campaign to free from prison Hillary Clinton , the numerous women who accused Donald Trump of sexual assaults, and the Trump admirers who were foolish enough to enroll as students in the scam Trump University. They now are suing their former guru for fraud.
Trump who has a penchant for revenge against his perceived enemies may also try arrest journalists, financiers, fellow billionaires who mocked him and anyone who makes fun of his small hands in relations to the size of his organ-i-zation…yeah that’s it the size of his tiny electoral organ-i-zation. LOL
James Comey was warned by the Attorney General’s office and the Department of Justice not to go public with the “Anthony Weiner-Hillary Clinton email” investigation letter to the Republican controlled congress.
Comey should be fired for insubordination.
James Comey, FBI Director, swearing to uphold the law…an oath he failed to keep.
James Comey is a weak and confused leader of the FBI who lacked the balls to do the right thing. He should have fired the pro-Trump FBI officers for insubordination.
FBI linking Weiner to Clinton emails stole election for Trump
Is no one in charge here? Are the inmates controlling the insane asylum?
If Comey told the NY FBI office to stop their leaks about the Anthony Weiner-Hillary Clinton alleged emails and they refused to listen, he should have fired them.
Instead Comey spreads the untruthful innuendos of the The Rudolf Giuliani Pro Trump FBI faction in a letter to Congress – Comey told congress and the world about unsubstantiated and false claims concerning Clinton’s email on Anthony Weiner’s cell phone and computers.
Rudolf Giuliani former DA Manhattan District, former Mayor of NY and a paid Trump stooge.
This swayed enough voters to abstain from voting Clinton or to stay home to steal the election for Donald Trump.
I would have fired the lot of Pro Trump FBI agents for insubordination. Leaking information before an investigation is complete is an egregious breach of police practices. This amounts to professional misconduct.
I know, I cover the police beat in Timmins, Ontario. North Country, Canada.
Whenever I press the local police chief about details of an unsolved murder for example, the chief always replies -“Sorry, can’t comment, the case is under investigation.”
The Timmins police chief doesn’t provide innuendo about someone who might be guilty. That would be shoddy and unethical if not illegal police tactics.
Comey on the other hand is all about babbling unsubstantiated details to the world. Details that as it turned out amounted to hill of bullshit.
There was nothing there – there.
Comey should have said nothing and he should have told the NY Pro-Trump FBI agents to follow police protocol…warn them if you didn’t they will be fired!
Comey could have ordered the seizure of the FBI Office and placed it under trusteeship under his direct command sequestering all FBI computers and cell phones.
If agents didn’t obey Comey, he should have fired the lot and exposed Giuliani’s and Trump’s undue influence on the pack of FBI renegades from New York.
Once Comey fired the lot for insubordination, I then would write a letter to Congress and the Attorney General explaining why this dangerous clique had to be fired, because they were going to leak untrue information about Clinton on the final week of the campaign and unjustly interfere with American democracy.
Loretta Lynch, US Attorney General
This incursion of the FBI into an election is the hallmark of any tin pot dictatorship in banana republics around the world.
Now if I were Obama or Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General,I would fire James Comey ASAP…for insubordination and incompetence. If Comey can’t control a rump faction of the FBI in New York that is controlled by Rudolf Giuliani what other gross injustices have occurred under his watch that have been simply swept under the rug.
Fire Covey, Obama!
Obama and or the Attorney General should quote the law as it stands and also Police Practice of never commenting on a case before all the facts are in as the bases of his action.
Of course Donald Trump would re-hire Comey on becoming President on January 20th…but Obama would be making a bold statement. The firing of Comey would be fact-based and hard to dispute.
President-elect Donald Trump, like former U.S. President Bill Clinton, his former friend, is a serial groper of women who said he likes to “grab women by their pussy.”
The re-hiring of this blatantly incompetent FBI director by Trump could set the tone for the Trump regime — corrupt to the core.
The Comey Dirty Trick turned enough potential Clinton voters off in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida to swing the election to Trump…less than a million voters had to be so turned off Clinton that they stayed home or went to vote for Trump.
And that is difference. Before Comey Clinton was up by as much as 8 percent in the polls…after Comey Clinton sunk to the bottom even trailing Trump by 2 percent the weekend before the election.
The majority of Clinton voters dismissed the Comey dirty trick…50,000,000 Americans plus voted for her, about 250,000 more than voted for Donald Trump.
Clinton won more votes than Trump And should be the legitimate president of the USA, but the USA doesn’t practice democracy and by a quirk of their goofy system Trump with less votes becomes President.
Clinton won the popular votes in the 2016 election. But the goofy and authoritarian Electoral College system denies the majority of Americans their choice of president elected by the people. America’s democracy is tainted.
That is like the second place runner being declared the Gold medal winner in the Olympics. Or the second place horse in the Kentucky Derby being declared the winner.
Comey’s dirty trick turned off a tiny, slim amount of support say 1/50th of Clinton’s support or one million voters were turned off enough to lose Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida.And give the Trumpster those badly needed electoral college votes.
Enough to steal the election for that Liar Trump.
Folks, we all know Trump is a Liar. He doesn’t represent working America. Unfortunately Trump pretended to listen to their voices when the Democrats under Hillary Clinton failed to connect with them.
Also don’t discount the ingrained American racism as a factor in Trump’s razor thin climb to the white house. This Make America Great Again slogan by Trump is really Make America White Again.
And it worked barely, but it worked.
Listen to Henry Rollins song Liar because the lyrics and the video that accompany the song tell the story of Donald Trump– the Liar.
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