He's bona fied.
Posted on 10/07/2015 7:59:52 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I had an amazing revelation today early AM.
I went to sleep unusually early last night at around 8 P.M.. As often happens when I hit the sack early, I woke up in the middle of the night...like around 1 A.M.. Soooo...I did what I often do, I watched one of the many things recorded on my DVR until I got tired again and return to sleep. In this case, I watched the Coen Brothers comedy, "Burn After Reading," about the intelligence community.
After watching the movie, I still wasn't quite tired enough to hit the sack again so I switched to a news channel which had reports on Campaign 2016. After a bit of watching I was hit by a sudden revelation: Campaign 2016 has many of the elements of a Coen Brothers Comedy. From Donald Trump upending everything with his personality and humor, the comedy of the other candidates (especially the Lindsey Graham phone episode), to the ridiculous press focusing on "Peak Trump" and speculating on when he will drop out of the race despite consistently leading the pack by wide margins, as well as MANY other episodes that have to be labeled Coen Comedic.
The Democrat side of the campaign also resembles a Coen Comedy. "Inevitable" candidate Hillary Clinton, discovering that she is very "evitable." Her laughable attempts to make herself "relatable" and to get away from the growing email server scandal and many other foibles on the campaign trail (we can't forget the bigtime foible of the husband of her closest friend and associate, Anthony Weiner, Huma's hubby.)
Her Democrat rivals also have elements of a Coen Brothers comedy. Bernie Sanders spouting boring Socialist stats on the campaign trail in thick Brooklyn to crowds Hillary could only dream of (and don't forget when #BlackLivesMatter took over his microphone). Martin O'Malley caving in like a frightened baby when he enraged #BlackLivesMatter by proclaiming that "All Lives Matter." There is also the candidate obsessed over the metric system. Oh, and Joe Biden. That there is a comedy movie in itself.
So was I just being sleep deprived when I saw how Campaign 2016 seems to be like a Coen Brothers Comedy?
p.s. Post "revelation" I was finally able to get back to sleep again.
Humor PING!
Since we’re living in IDIOCRACY, a Coen Brothers comedy is indeed just what the US needs as an antidote.
That there is also Coen Comedy.
He's bona fied.
Pappy O’Daniel: I’ll press your flesh, you dimwitted sumbitch! You don’t tell your pappy how to court the electorate. We ain’t one-at-a-timin’ here. We’re MASS communicating!
Homer Stokes: And I say to you that the great state a Mississippi cannot afford four more years a Pappy O’Daniel - four more years a cronyism, nepotism, racialism and service to the Innarests! The choice, she’s a clear ‘un: Pappy O’Daniel, slave a the Innarests; Homer Stokes, servant a the little man! Ain’t that right, little fella?
Pappy O’Daniel: Moral fibre? I invented moral fibre! Pappy O’Daniel was displaying rectitude and high-mindedness when that egghead you work for was still messing his drawers!
Pappy’s Staff: The reason he’s pullin’ our pants down.
Pappy’s Staff: Gonna paddle a little behind.
Pappy’s Staff: Ain’t gonna paddle it - gonna kick it, real hard.
Pappy’s Staff: No, I believe he’s gonna paddle it.
Pappy’s Staff: I don’t believe that’s a proper characterization.
Pappy’s Staff: Well, that’s how I’d characterize it.
Pappy’s Staff: I believe it’s more of a kickin’ sitcheyation.
That reminded me of Hillary recently telling us that she was the most transparent candidate in history.
The one thing that is missing is that likeable schlub for a main character that the Coens usually use.
H.I. McDonough, Norville Barnes, “The Dude”, even Jerry Lundegaard all kind of fit that mold. They are not morally upstanding by a long shot (except Norville maybe), and they are idiots who don’t realize what is going on in the big picture, but the audience can identify with them and their quirkiness anyway.
I’m not really seeing anyone like that in the race.
We’d look like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, bragging on our own midget, doesn’t matter how stumpy!
There were no likeable schlubs in "Miller's Crossing." There was a schlub but he definitely wasn't likeable so he got shot dead at the end.
If you gone napping in 2005 and woke up a decade later....I think you would be in for a heck of a shock.
Hillary just can’t win, period. She can’t win against a no-name Illinois senator, and it appears she can’t win against a 100-percent socialist guy.
Jeb Bush is to get anyone interested in him except the Republican National Committee.
Some Texas Republican senator has come out of thin air and blazing away with Tea-Party slogans.
A black doctor appears to be among the top two Republican possibilities.
And Donald Trump will likely win the primary system and go to the convention....with almost no agenda.
All of this....after almost eight years from some guy who had a six-line resume, and was carried by the national media while forty-odd scandal episodes occurred, including one where Hillary slept through some Libyan episode and another while she ran her own personal e-mail server for all state department traffic.
True, there really isn’t.
Maybe that’s why it’s my least favorite Coen brothers’ movie. I know everyone thinks it’s great, but it doesn’t do much for me.
“If you gone napping in 2005 and woke up a decade later....”
I wish!
Back in 2008, I was desperate for some tranquilizer that would let me sleep for the next eight years :)
Blood Simple
Actually, I would have taken the tranquilizer in 1989 as Reagan wrapped up things.
So who gets thrown into a woodchipper?
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