Posted on 05/31/2019 1:57:47 PM PDT by drpix
Conservative commentator Dan Bongino schooled producer Craig Mazin on the “failure of socialism” Thursday after the creator and writer of HBO’s “Chernobyl” praised a tweet by horror icon Stephen King that compared the Soviet-era disaster to Donald Trump’s presidency.
The feud started early Thursday after Mr. King wrote that it’s “impossible” for him to watch “Chernobyl” without thinking of the current president.
Stephen King @StephenKing: "It's impossible to watch HBO's CHERNOBYL without thinking of Donald Trump; like those in charge of the doomed Russian reactor, he's a man of mediocre intelligence in charge of great power--economic, global--that he does not understand."
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Excellent point! The Left always worships the villains instead of the true heroes.
Chernobyl? Trump’s fault!
I’m not surprised. When the Beatles wrote “Back in the USSR” and were crying out for peace, they didn’t even know the USSR was a totalitarian state.
Ignorance is bliss, except for those around the ignorant.
Lots of people are fans of Stephen King’s books. I have to wonder how good a writer he is if he’s such a dipshit.
Chernobyl happened because Russia had created a Stalinist culture where nobody wanted to tell the truth to their superiors.
That’s not what that song was about...
Lots of people are fans of Stephen King’s books. I have to wonder how good a writer he is if he’s such a dipshit.
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I recently read his autobiography. Personally, he’s led a mostly Conservative life. The garbage that comes out of his mouth is inexplicable.
And in the producer's mind, this somehow relates to Trump. That's unbelievable. It's like making a movie about Clinton shoving a cigar up an intern, but in your mind, it's really about the Dali Lama or something.
John was notified about charges of the Beatles being pro-Bolshevik. He was told that some were saying Beatles music was un-American. John said, “That’s very observant of them.”
“Back in the USSR” was just a parody of Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys. There really wasn’t any political message in that particular song. McCartney wrote it, not Lennon, and McCartney didn’t tend towards the political.
I didn't say it was.
1.) They recorded a whimsical Beach Boy-esque number about a prison state. Imagine Benny Goodman playing a dance tune about Nazi Germany?
2.) They later hopped on the Peace Train, like good little useful idiots.
Of all his writings I favor THE STAND as for the rest is trash
He was responding to people claiming their haircuts were un-American. He said that’s very observant of them since the Beatles were indeed not American.
They weren’t glorifying the Soviet system. It was a comic trifle. People who lived in Nazi Germany in the 30s played a part in bringing the Nazis to power. In the late 60s, none of the young Russian girls they were singing about in that song had that sort of culpability. It’s really a deeply silly argument.
The Chernobyl disaster was technically due to a combination of a flawed and unsafe reactor design and a cultural arrogance on the part of the Soviet politicians and engineers that underestimated the probability of a failure based on a Soviet ideological bias that was indoctrinated into them from the top down. There was also a deep fatalistic attitude in the Russians that accepted the shoddy design and lack of concern for safety as part of their national character. There is no parallel with Trump’s demands for performance and excellence that characterize true leadership.
[[like those in charge of the doomed Russian reactor, he’s a man of mediocre intelligence]]
Hmmm, people in glass houses shouldn’t...
Funny how things get twisted over time. Thanks.
I pretty much agree with that.
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