#bunker trump

[contemplatingoutlander]

I never realized it before, but Donald Trump is Archie Bunker in a nice suit

It's sad if you think about it.

In the 1970s we used to laugh at the bloated, ignorant, bigoted, racist, sexist, homophobic Archie Bunker.

It makes me scratch my head when I consider:

Who would have thought that about 45 years after All in the Family first aired on TV, some Americans would decide it was a good idea to vote for a bloated, ignorant, bigoted, racist, sexist, homophobic man for president in 2016?

Furthermore, after the trainwreck of his corrupt, self-enriching, racist, sexist, homophobic, pro-billionaire, pro-right-wing, white, "Christian" nationalist administration, who'd have thought many Americans would have voted to get him elected to the Oval Office again in 2020?

In addition, after his attempted coup, his repeated lies about the "fraudulent" 2020 election, and all of his current and pending criminal indictments, who'd have thought that many Americans would still be backing him for president in 2024?

Finally, who'd have ever thought a wealthy Archie Bunker would have so much influence in American society in the 21st century?

How far we as a nation have fallen since the 1970s, when we knew that Archie Bunker was someone to laugh at--NOT someone to elect as president.

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[akechi-if-he-slayed]

wouldn’t it be insane if pt were real and one day trump just started bawling out apologies at one of his rallies

[angelx1992]

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

[aunti-christ-ine]

[internettoday]

New episode of News Dump, this time covering

Epstein files unsealed

Christopher Nolan vs Peloton

Woman builds underground bunker

Trump's tarot reading

Dan Crenshaw vs Fox News

Trump took foreign cash

Nikki Haley changed Husband's name

Cop splash

Ladies love Stanley Cup

[tomorrowusa]

Speaking of courage, am I the only one struck by the contrast between President Biden’s daring visit to Kyiv and the way President Donald Trump retreated to the White House bunker in the face of unarmed protesters in Lafayette Park?

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in a New York Times column on how the far right in the US worships loser Vladimir Putin. (archived)

People on the far right love to talk tough. But in reality they are mega wimps with fake bone spurs.

[fhear]

Back to the bunker: McCaskill predicts Trump heads for safer spaces afte...

[tuttle-did-it]

M*A*S*H was constantly attacked because it was far left, pro-equal rights, pro-queer, anti-gun, anti-establishment, anti-US government and the gross futility of war. For 11 years, Hawkeye and everyone else railed against war, trauma, the incredible incompetence of governments who use people like tissue paper, the impossible and sadistic cruelty humans were capable of, and the senseless death of every war. Every week, they all got more and more trauma just trying to survive.

Mary Tyler Moore Show was the first mainstream American television show that explored the life of a single career woman. She struggled with relationships in a changing world, workplace sexism and the limitations society put against women. Mary smashed against the glass ceiling every week, and the spin-off Rhoda was the first mainstream American television show that explored the life of a divorced woman.

Frank Burns and All in the Family’s Archie Bunker were the the representations of the Republican American man— and he was the repressed, absurd, sadistic, sexist, bigoted, incompetent, hateful buffoon that was mocked, argued with and defeated every week.

These shows mattered. They changed lives, they changed hearts, and they tried, desperately, to change minds.

Trump is the incarnation of Archie Bunker — but sadly, unlike the actors Carroll O’Connor who played Archie, and Larry Linville (Frank Burns on M*A*S*H) two delightful, incredible humans, who played Frank Burns, Trump has no concept of how evil he really is.

Norman Lear, James L Brooks, Burt Metcalf and Larry Gelbart did more for television and audiences than Jerry Seinfeld ever did.

Every week, these shows tried to say something about something- racial rights, LGTBQIA+ women's rights, the futility of war, the importance of connecting with other people, the dangers of human cruelty-- they TRIED to say SOMETHING.

And Seinfeld? Seinfeld was, famously, about nothing. They said nothing. They did nothing. Which means it means NOTHING.

Oh, and by the way, Jerry— the M*A*S*H finale ‘Goodbye Farewell and Amen,’ had more than 106 million people watching in 1983— and there were a LOT of parties who got together with a big party (HUGE parties) so that’s a low estimate.

More people watched 'Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen' than the moon landing. It is still the most watched television episode of ALL TIME.

It was such a massive event that it caused a city-wide water pressure problem in New York City. Alan Alda wrote,

"the city's water supply was strained at every commercial break because so many hundreds of thousands of toilets were flushed at the same time."

An estimated million viewers in New York City alone used the toilet after the show ended, pouring 6.7 million gallons of water through the city’s sewers, United Press International reported at the time. “In speaking to engineers who’ve been around 30 or 40 years, they haven’t encountered anything like this before,” Peter Barrett, a spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Protection, told UPI.

Seinfeld only got 76.3 million viewers in 1998 compared to M*A*S*H's 106 million. And there were a lot more people in 1998 than there were in 1983, so percentage-wise, it's probably even more significant difference than it looks.

So maybe you didn't make nearly as big an impact as you thought, Jerry.

May 15, 1998: (huge thanks to @mimi-kkyutie for jumping the paywall for this article!)

Article from The Patagraph, Bloomington illinois reads above:

As "M*A*S*H" star Mike Farrell spoke at the Evening of Stars benefit in Bloomington-Normal, millions of viewers were glued to their television sets watching the final, much-hyped episode of "Seinfeld." Farrell was not taping it. While he was careful to insist he meant no offense to the cast or viewers, he said at a news conference earlier in the day that "M*A*S*H" had a far bigger impact on people's lives. "Popular shows come and go," he said. "'Seinfeld' is a show about nothing, as they describe it. I'm proud to be a show about something." For a show to really reach an audience and to make an impact, he explained, it had to have a powerful, lasting theme that resonates with viewers. "M*A*S*H did that," Farrell said. "And continues to do so in reruns. Seinfeld has not. And never will," Farrell said. "These shows come and go. They just try to attract people's attention for a certain period of time and you can do that by making a fool of yourself. For a little while. Then people get tired of you and appropriately so." M*A*S*H was effective on many different levels," Farrell noted, "including comedy and drama. And it carried a great message: the portrayal of people doing a job they didn't particularly like, but which had to be done. And despite difficult circumstances, they did it well, often with great humor and courage."

"That's a terrifically admirable characteristic and people across the country and across the world understand that," he said. Farrel added that there has been far too much hype surrounding the final episode of "Seinfeld," especially when one considers that much of it is self-generated But he understands why. "We have to remember we're talking about selling a product. The network is selling itself as a product. It's ending amid a flurry of publicity, and they're going to use it to wring every drop, every last rating point they can get out of it. That's the nature of the business." Farrell's speech at the Evening of Stars, which benefited the McLean County chapter of the American Red Cross, was held at the Radisson Hotel in Blooming-ton. However, his appearance there was closed to the media. But he said earlier that his message was going to be a simple one: that people matter, and that he was disturbed by the increasing lack of care and concern for those who suffer around the world. "When we make heroes out of people who stand for nothing, as opposed to people who stand for something, we are doing ourselves a disservice," he said.

Farrell currently serves as the co-chair of the Western Regional Branch of the Human Rights Watch in California. He also is the spokesman for CONCERN Ameri- 5 if If -r "MASH" star Mike Farrell, shown second from left in this photo from the taping of the show's final episode in January 1983, believes his show had more significance than "Seinfeld." ca, an international refugee aid penalty, Farrell also has debated and development organization. and spoken about the issue as a lifelong opponent of the death many occasions.

Seinfeld was the empty calories you eat because you want something in your mouth. It's what you put on to kill 22 minutes. But it means absolutely nothing.

I have every episode of M*A*S*H memorised. I have every episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show memorised. I have most of All in the Family memorised (but frankly, America having a president just like Archie Bunker makes it much too real, these days). Why? Because these shows were all so damned good, I thought about the episodes for days and had to rewatch them. And over 40 years later, I am still rewatching them.

I cannot recall a single episode of Seinfeld, save the clip-show of a finale in which it was reiterated what horrible people they all were. And even that is the most I can tell you about it. Because it means NOTHING. Frankly, I forget that Seinfeld ever existed until someone mentions it.

I would take the worst episodes of M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and All in the Family over the best episode of Seinfeld any day because they were TRYING to say SOMETHING. Even the few episodes that didn't quite land or work-- they were TRYING.

"When we make heroes out of people who stand for nothing, as opposed to people who stand for something, we are doing ourselves a disservice." -- Mike Farrell

“In a new interview with the New Yorker ahead of his 70th birthday on Monday, the comedian explained his theory about why there’s no “funny stuff” to watch on TV anymore. “Nothing really affects comedy,” he said, “People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it.” Instead of getting sitcoms like M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and All in the Family, audiences miss out, he said, as a “result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.” […] A look back at some of his earlier comments on a similar subject adds some context, if not clarity. In 2015, Seinfeld sat down for an episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd podcast, where he explained his aversion to performing stand-up on college campuses. “I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges. They’re so PC,’” he said on the show. After giving an example of his teenage daughter using the word “sexist,” he concluded that young people “just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist’; ‘That’s sexist’; ‘That’s prejudice.’ They don’t know what they’re talking about.””

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Jerry Seinfeld Draws Right-Wing Praise for Comments on ‘Extreme Left’

This is such a bummer. Tell me you’re a privileged, entitled, myopic Boomer without telling me you’re a privileged, entitled, myopic Boomer.

It’s interesting to me that he says these legendary sit-coms, none of which were cruel, punching down, or hurtful, but were actually satirizing power, celebrating women, changing societal norms through representation, and using comedy to do it all, wouldn’t exist if “the extreme left” had anything to do with it.

Umm. Who does he think created these shows? And is he really that ignorant? Has this guy never read a single interview with Norman Lear? Or literally anyone in the cast of Mary Tyler Moore? I mean. Come on, man!

Teenagers and college students don’t know what they’re talking about when they tell a privileged, entitled, multimillionaire Boomer that his “jokes” can be hurtful, and maybe he could use his tremendous talent to do comedy that is just as funny without being hurtful. Okay. Got it. Keep saying that, and see how far it gets you, buddy.

Hey, Jerry Seinfeld: when blue checks on Twitter are celebrating you being a dick, it’s not because you’re so funny and such a brilliant comic; it’s because they love how you’re validating what garbage they are. You can’t see that, or don’t care, and that’s such a huge bummer.

[melodyvibes-blog1]

Trump May Be Hiding MORE Classified Documents In Secret Room At Mar a Lago

[bisaster-energy]

[queerphotobastard]

As hitler proved, even fascists aren't immune to bullets.

I think it's time we take some pages from their books and be as loud and annoying and petulant as possible

Demand a recount

Go to court over and over

Harass your representatives to stand up for us

Be a pain in the fucking ass just like they have been

And if all else fails, they're all just men in a room. Human like the rest of us.

DO NOT GIVE UP

BE FUCKING LOUD

DEMAND REVOLUTION

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

The Washington Post reported that administration officials informed Congress of the 100 foreign military sales to Israel in a classified briefing. Few details are known of the sales, because keeping each one small meant their contents remained secret, but they are reported to have included precision-guided munitions, small diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid. The Arms Export Control Act makes significant exceptions for arms sales to close allies – a limit of $25m for ‘major defense equipment’, defined as big-ticket items that require a lot of research and development, but the limit rises to $100m for other “defense articles” like bombs. “This doesn’t just seem like an attempt to avoid technical compliance with US arms export law, it’s an extremely troubling way to avoid transparency and accountability on a high-profile issue,” Ari Tolany, director of the security assistance monitor at the Centre for International Policy thinktank, said. She added that, in exploiting the loophole, the Biden administration was following the steps of its predecessor. “They’re very much borrowing from the Trump playbook to dodge congressional oversight,” Tolany said. The state department office of the inspector general found that between 2017 and 2019, the Trump administration had made 4,221 below-threshold arms transfers to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, worth an estimated total of $11.2bn.

[haleingstorm]

Okay we've discussed Piper in depth and now I want to tackle Leo.

Leo originally in HOO was clearly putting in a mask for other people. Being a jokester and the comix relief because he wouldn't be kept around if he wasn't.

Add the fake memories to the mix. Now in canon no one ever tells Leo these are fake for some reason??? But in our canon Leo is not dumb he's a genius in his own right. He knows that there is something odd about those memories something off. Jason never acts like he did in the memories. As soon as Leo is told about the mist he has an oh shit moment.

But he never says anything. Never searching for the memories he forgot. Because deep down he knows that he probably spent those months alone and scared, bullied and teased without anyone to back him up. That without those memories Piper wouldn't have looked at him twice. The only reason he has what he has right now is because of them. He has to be useful and funny. Serious at the right moments and comic relief at others. Leo's whole personality is built on how to keep others around. Because he is so tired of being lonely.

So he swallows his fear and guilt around his fire and uses it anyway. Because Jason is the son of the king of the gods. And Piper could charm anybody with a simple smile. He has to bring something to the table. That's why he hunts down Festus.

Bunker 9 stays in his back pocket. A trump card he will only use if shit hits the fan. He is going on this fucking quest and he is going to be a hero. Because maybe then people will actually look at him.