Baffled European

Tag: annex Greenland

  • Gone with the Revenge from Alcatraz

    Star Wars day yesterday, and the White House was on the ball. They are on a run at the moment, what with the Pope picture and that. Anyway, they wound up their AI generator and let it produce a suitable picture for the occasion. The result was a president with the physique of Conan the Barbarian, holding a light sabre. A red light sabre at that: the computer is intelligent enough to give him the weapon of one of the space nazis.

    Maybe it was this that prompted the next semi-coherent orange order. He has now added a 100% tariff, his favourite word, to all movies produced outside the USA. He doesn’t trust foreign movies because they are “messaging and propaganda” and therefore a “National Security threat”.

    This is part of a broader complaint. Parasite, a South Korean film, won an Oscar for best picture a few years ago, “what the hell was that all about? Can we get Gone With The Wind back, please?”

    Is this the impulse behind his plans to reopen Alcatraz? It’s been closed for over 60 years and is now a tourist attraction. Doesn’t matter, there won’t be any tourists anymore. Is it because he saw Clint Eastwood there in a film once? Good film that. Fine actor. Morgan Freeman as well, he’s black you know. Or was that the Shawshank Redemption?

    People voted for this. I hope they are all satisfied with what they’ve got.

  • Procrastination makes you go blind

    Big protests in Türkiye. Erdogan has imprisoned his main rival. The Türks have clearly had enough of their dictator and are trying to get rid of him. I wish them all the best.

    Reading through news feeds and the stories of protests, authoritarianism and government violence, I have to check carefully if it is about Türkiye or the USA. Judging by responses on social media, I’m not the only one to be confused.

    The US media is not so confused. They know how to deal with stories like this. It’s some unstable foreign country, where they don’t value freedom anyway because they are not white and what else do you expect. The complacency of the media can be explained to a large extent by their oligarch owners.

    And the opposition? AOC is making an effort, but the Democrats are relying on procedure and precedent to solve the problem. They have set their red line for when the government defies the Supreme Court. Then they will spring into action.

    Two problems with this. First is that the bad guys already routinely ignore other courts already, no need to wait. Second, it presumes that there will be a clash between the Executive and Supreme Court.

    The mob is running rampant. Their mates in the Supreme Court will just nod approvingly. The Democrat strategy is to pray to their constitution to save them, until such time as they are told to shut up.