Additions might sound like a Woody Allen meets the Road Runner meets Monty Python comedy: The good guys fail at offing the main character; there's just a bird nest of dyed yellow hair and one scruffy eyebrow left, (but it's his right one), which his sycophants carefully tend. He still rules the world through bullying, lying, grifting, and by placing a universal restriction on vocabulary. He's trademarked all the allowable words, so people have to pay him royalties to defend themselves against his constant legal attacks. Hopeless situation until the janitor tries a new vacuum cleaner, and the hair nest gets dumped into the compost bin, along with three discontinued pennies and a paperclip. Nitrites, copper, hair = kaboom. Can democracy make a comeback? Ask the newly empowered earthworms and mycelium. Gaia is possibly amused....
Trump certainly is a Russian asset, from the KGB point of view.
Our CIA did all kinds of things to recruit assets in countries whose governments we wanted to influence, and no way was blackmail off the table as a tactic.
Quick, somebody write this as a piece for community theater, have it videotaped and send it out like a meme! And remember, comedy is a great way to get people to face unpleasantly serious truths. Love the wife as influencer bit.
Well, if it were fiction it could end with said agent getting senile and going so completely off the rails that the whole plot becomes obvious! Could happen...
"No, that won't work. Nobody would believe it! Fiction, unlike reality, has to at least be plausible. And don't get me wrong--I'm not in any way saying that Trump is a secret Russian agent. I'm just asking questions. Like: if he were, is there anything he'd be doing differently?"
Not a blessed thing. There's a recent post demonstrating how far back Trump's connections to Russian influence go:
I think this truly would make a really good, creepy spy thriller in addition to a comedy. Especially if the relevance to Trump could be hidden until viewers get really hooked into the suspenseful plot. Trump worshipers might enjoy watching it if the compromised politician was not right wing and the corrupting country was one they don't like.
Where is a rich movie maker who wants to save our democracy when we need one? Do we know any?
The Maralagoian Candidate?
That’s a goodie.
Maybe he has a wife who was raised in a Communist Regime and might have been planted as his controller?
Oooh, good one!
You've nailed it, Starhawk!
Additions might sound like a Woody Allen meets the Road Runner meets Monty Python comedy: The good guys fail at offing the main character; there's just a bird nest of dyed yellow hair and one scruffy eyebrow left, (but it's his right one), which his sycophants carefully tend. He still rules the world through bullying, lying, grifting, and by placing a universal restriction on vocabulary. He's trademarked all the allowable words, so people have to pay him royalties to defend themselves against his constant legal attacks. Hopeless situation until the janitor tries a new vacuum cleaner, and the hair nest gets dumped into the compost bin, along with three discontinued pennies and a paperclip. Nitrites, copper, hair = kaboom. Can democracy make a comeback? Ask the newly empowered earthworms and mycelium. Gaia is possibly amused....
I like the way your mind works!
Trump certainly is a Russian asset, from the KGB point of view.
Our CIA did all kinds of things to recruit assets in countries whose governments we wanted to influence, and no way was blackmail off the table as a tactic.
Quick, somebody write this as a piece for community theater, have it videotaped and send it out like a meme! And remember, comedy is a great way to get people to face unpleasantly serious truths. Love the wife as influencer bit.
add an element of mental instability. like a beautiful mind
Well, if it were fiction it could end with said agent getting senile and going so completely off the rails that the whole plot becomes obvious! Could happen...
twisty plot could be multiple dips to a subconscious mind
"No, that won't work. Nobody would believe it! Fiction, unlike reality, has to at least be plausible. And don't get me wrong--I'm not in any way saying that Trump is a secret Russian agent. I'm just asking questions. Like: if he were, is there anything he'd be doing differently?"
Not a blessed thing. There's a recent post demonstrating how far back Trump's connections to Russian influence go:
https://marksmendaily.com/politics/ex-soviet-spy-claims-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb/
Bingo!
And to quote dear ole Oprah, “When someone tells you who they are - believe them!”
The biggest mystery here is how and why so many people remain in denial when it comes to little Donny Trump!
Like how your mind works
Plot without stolen (liberated?) orange trees is no plot at all 😉
O yeah. Thinking the missive about protesters is a sign off for what he’s preparing to spill tonight.
confucious and legalism
Confusionism? The ancient Chinese philosophy of tyranny?
perhaps but the idealist moral ethical aspects. take what u like right?
Not Confucius, confusion!
I keep thinking of your novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, which I read at the first witchcamp I attended.
You are a visionary.
Your spy thriller seems very based in current ‘reality.’
And I would love to see where it takes you.
Absolutely...just sayin...what would he be doing differently...perfect question🤔
Why couldn’t he be Putins Manchurian candidate? Seems plausible to me.
I think this truly would make a really good, creepy spy thriller in addition to a comedy. Especially if the relevance to Trump could be hidden until viewers get really hooked into the suspenseful plot. Trump worshipers might enjoy watching it if the compromised politician was not right wing and the corrupting country was one they don't like.
Where is a rich movie maker who wants to save our democracy when we need one? Do we know any?
Exactly...if he were. But of course it's too outrageous.