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Life imitates art
Topic Started: Jun 1 2016, 11:01 PM (114 Views)
Mr. Tik
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Welcome To The Dead Zone: Trump’s Scary Similarity To Stephen King’s Doomsday Politician

We’ve heard Donald Trump saying stupid, racist and ignorant comments every time he dares to speak. Yet we seem not to have taken enough time to absorb some serious stuff that could change the course of US history and that of the entire world—Trump’s ideas on nuclear weapons. Now he has won yet another state and it’s starting to get scary; at least as scary as a Stephen King novel.

Jeffrey Lewis from Foreign Policy has said that the Republican frontrunner reminds him of King’s fictional character Greg Stillson from the novel Dead Zone.

“Trump, as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, is a dead-ringer for Stillson from the film adaptation, from his phony working-class populism to his novelty hat on the campaign trail.”
Dead Zone is about a man who gains the power to foresee the future. Upon shaking hands with Stillson, coincidentally, at a campaign rally, the man sees that Stillson will start a nuclear war as a president. The hero attempts to assassinate Stillson, who picks up a child and uses him as a human shield. And while using a child as a human shield could be very bad for votes, Lewis has no problem imagining Trump cowering behind a child. It’s not so far-fetched—Trump could drive down Fifth Avenue shooting randomly at people and he wouldn’t lose any votes.

Yet the point is that when it comes to nuclear weapons (thinking of Stillson starting a nuclear war) we think of Trump’s xxxxtail-sausage-style fingers pushing on the red button. And this is the scariest thing: it is the president who has the authority to use nuclear weapons.
You may be a conservative republican..if you are pro life until you get your mistress knocked up
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Robert Stout
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Life imitates art, but in your case you watch too many "B" grade movies............. :biggrin:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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