Trump vs. Harris [9/10/2024)

David Muir starts with three sentence fragments.

Linsey Davis follow with two more sentence fragments before the night gets its first complete sentence courtesy of Davis.

Five sentences without a verb.

In the sixth sentence, they whip out the dollar word “is”.

Astounding intellectual display!

Muir follows the lone complete sentence with three more sentence fragments before forming a complete sentence of his own.

He goes truly Ivy League by using the verb “start” in present tense.

Truly indicative of the high-information programming to follow.

Then Muir suddenly strings together four complete sentences in a row.

Is this the same guy from 20 seconds earlier?!?

Looks like Davis is also speaking strictly in complete sentences now.

The goo-goo–gah-gah, caveman-like grunts of the opening appear to be complete.

David Muir apparently thinks Kamala Harris and President Trump were BOTH elected “four years ago”.

While that may be true in the sense that Trump ACTUALLY WAS elected and Harris usurped the election via all manner of cheating, it doesn’t make much general sense.

Yet here are David Muir’s words:

“Vice President Harris, you and President Trump were elected four years ago… [emphasis mine].”

Ok, so maybe sentence-fragment Muir is now having a Biden moment.

Let’s move on to see if he gets any more literate or accurate.

Notably, Trump restrains himself from tooting his own horn regarding the disastrous COVID vaccines he rushed to market.

This shows that he learns and is learning.

I sense the influence of RFK Jr. here.

And that is very positive indeed.

Kamala Harris starts employing a torturous logic when she proclaims, “…Donald Trump’s plan would make the economy worse” and “Donald Trump’s plan would actually explode the deficit” while almost immediately afterwards articulating that, “…Donald Trump actually has no plan for you…”.

Hm.

His plan is so bad.  So very, very bad.  That it doesn’t exist?!?

Like Muir and Davis speaking in infantile vocalizations at the top of the program, Harris is insulting your basic intelligence.

She thinks you won’t notice that she’s virtually, simultaneously saying that “Trump’s plan sucks” AND ALSO “Trump’s plan doesn’t exist”.

Trump scores the first body blow with the words, “They gave her that to say.”

That is unrehearsed authenticity.

Kamala is not capable of unrehearsed authenticity.

“They gave her that to say,” is a direct hit.

The first of many.

Trump nails Kamala as being an intellectual lightweight early on:

“We hardly make chips anymore because of philosophies like they have and policies like they have.  I don’t say her because she has no policy.  Everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out the window.  She’s going to my philosophy now.  In fact, I was going to send her a MAGA hat.”

BOOM)))

Kamala is scrambling to get elected (after the Democrats jettisoned Joe “Weekend at Bernie’s” Biden) by ADOPTING ANY POLICY WITHIN REACH (as long as it might get her elected [including going so far as to “borrow” policies from Trump]).

But it’s all for show.

It’s all to trick you out of your vote.

Says Trump, “But if she ever got elected, she’d change it.”

She’s not serious about securing the border, etc.

It’s lip service…for a few lousy months.

Just to get in office.

Then America becomes a sanctuary COUNTRY (no law enforcement)–to hell with American citizens.  Immigrants first.

As Trump has said, that’s not sustainable.

And very unfair to American citizens who need all these handouts.

Trump lowers the boom again:  “She’s a Marxist.  Everybody knows she’s a Marxist.  Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics.  And he taught her well.

Whoa.

That’s serious stuff.

Trump is landing a lot of “truth bombs” early on.

Then Trump alludes to Harris and company possibly wanting the USA to collapse as a country–that their immigration policy is so bad that it’s, “Almost policy that you’d say they have to hate our country.”

Powerful stuff.

Trump is essentially accusing Harris of being a Marxist who is in the process of using her position in government (Vice President) to foment a “color revolution” (that favorite tool of George Soros) which ushers in a dictatorship of the people:  communism.

BTW, I guess Linsey Davis has never heard Ralph “Black Face” Northam on the radio explaining how babies are born and left to die.  Granted, Northam is talking about “third trimester abortions” involving a fetus [baby] “that’s nonviable”.  Are third trimester abortions done BECAUSE a baby has severe deformities [immoral/murder]?  Or are “severe deformities” the result of botched third trimester abortions [also immoral, torturous mutilation of human life]?

Regardless, here’s what pediatric neurosurgeon (and former Governor of Virginia [before he was canceled for being a racist Democrat]) says would then happen:

“The infant [baby] would be delivered [alive].  The infant [baby] would be kept comfortable [still alive].  The infant [baby] would be resuscitated [it was left to die?] if that’s what the mother and the family desired.

If the mother and family didn’t “desire” the baby to be resuscitated, medical professionals would then ALLOW THE BABY TO DIE.  That, dear friends, is an afterbirth abortion.  The infant [baby] needs medical attention.  The infant was either the product of a botched abortion (aborted because it had “severe deformities”) or acquired “severe deformities” during a botched “third trimester” abortion.

DO NO HARM.

Doctors/nurses fucked up.  The law is immoral.  But doctors/nurses couldn’t even carry out the immoral law competently.  These medical professionals then PURPOSEFULLY WITHHOLD MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (at some crucial point) to said infant [let it die = afterbirth abortion] UNLESS the mother and family “DESIRE” that the comfortable [still alive] infant be “resuscitated”.

It’s quite a common clip of Northam.

Educate yourself, Linsey Davis:  https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/ralph-northam-third-trimester-abortion/index.html

All this being the case (and Trump having quickly alluded to this [although misspeaking by saying West Virginia rather than Virginia]), Linsey Davis admonishes Trump as if he were a lunatic:  “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”  True!  So what is Ralph Northam, a pediatric neurosurgeon describing, ILLEGAL ACTIVITY???

And he describes it so nonchalantly.

Keep the baby comfortable.  Yada yada.

And then [apparently] withhold resuscitation when the child needs such medical attention.

But it’s whatever the mother and family desire.  The doctors discard the Hippocratic Oath.  And they ignore these much-vaunted laws Linsey Davis alludes to.

If the former Governor of Virginia can go on a radio show and brag about this (describe it matter-or-factly as something THAT HAPPENS), and if said governor is a pediatric neurosurgeon (check and check on the first two points), then it appears that medical and governmental individuals AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL (with regularity) operate in a gray area in which they perform (by leaving a baby to die) afterbirth abortions IN CONTRAVENTION OF ANY EXISTING PROHIBITIVE LAWS.

If the third trimester abortion (or any abortion at all) is fucked up inside the womb (botched), the baby is delivered and left to die.  The decision was made to abort the fetus/infant/baby.  If Northam’s radio interview is accurate, the process of abortion can “continue” (by not resuscitating [leaving to die]) AFTER BIRTH.

Kamala Harris, like all euphemistic “liberals”, equates “abortion” (killing) with “health care”.  There is no case in which a baby must be killed in order for the mother to live.  A baby may die INCIDENTALLY to the process of saving a mother’s life, but these circumstances are rare.  This doesn’t stop Democrats from making murder (abortion) into a healthy, life-sustaining activity.  This is truly a sick, Orwellian (communist) twisting of the truth.  2 + 2 = 5.  War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Ok, if you say so, bitch…

Kamala says, “And now in over 20 states there are Trump abortion bans which make it criminal for a doctor or nurse to provide health care.”

Abortion is not health care.

It is the termination of a life.

Democrats think you’re stupid.

Democrats think we’re stupid.

Like her earlier argument:  Trump’s plan is so bad, so vile AT THE SAME TIME AS ITS nonexistence.

Donald Trump will not have the votes for a “national abortion ban”.

Kamala will not have the vote to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law.

But Trump makes it unequivocal:  “I’m not signing a ban.”

Boom.

There you go.

Question answered.

Next subject.

But Trump tells you why:  “And there’s no reason to sign a ban.  Because we’ve gotten what everybody wanted.  Democrats, Republicans and everybody else and every legal scholar wanted it to be brought back into the states.  And the states are voting.”

There will be no one national policy.

There will not be, “Abortion is legal [federal law].”

There will also NOT be, “Abortion is illegal [federal law].”

The Federal government of the USA has no Constitutional mandate to enforce either position.

There is no Federal law either legalizing or prohibiting abortion.

And there won’t be (for the foreseeable future).

As such, the 10th Amendment ALLOWS STATES TO DECIDE by way of voting.

STATES can legalize abortion.

STATES can prohibit abortion.

That is the Federal system.

Different parts of the country will feel differently about the issue.

The law will vary from state to state (for the time being).

And that is representative of local populations in every area of this diverse country.

Kamala is full of shit.

Trump is unequivocal again:  “…I’m not in favor of abortion ban.”

Kamala Harris seems equally as ignorant as Linsey Davis concerning Ralph Northam’s shocking statements as both a pediatric neurosurgeon and former DEMOCRATIC Governor of Virginia when she says, “And as you rightly mentioned, nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.  That is not happening.”

No, what is happening is that EVEN IN THE THIRD TRIMESTER women are asking for an abortion.  And the abortion is being performed.  But if the abortion is not successful inside the womb (as Ralph Northam clearly explains), the baby is LEFT TO DIE.  He says,

“The infant would be delivered.  The infant would be kept comfortable.  The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired.

There is a birth (a delivery).  The abortion is asked for before the baby is delivered.  The medical professionals AND the mother/family COLLECTIVELY continue to decide the fate of the delivered, living (“kept comfortable”) baby.  The process of abortion IS CONTINUED AFTER THE BABY IS DELIVERED.  The mechanism of abortion AFTER BIRTH is to withhold medical attention from the infant.  The mother and family decide this.  And the doctors and nurses facilitate this.

Can Kamala truly be ignorant of these statements by such a prominent Democrat politician?  And not just any politician, but a highly-skilled PEDIATRIC doctor (i.e. someone “in the know” about how such situations are handled).

Linsey Davis does not ask Kamala Harris, “Will you allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month?”

Trump asks Davis to ask Harris this question.

Davis does not ask Harris the question.

Harris’s response is to deflect (not answer) and team up with Davis in forcing Trump to answer a wild hypothetical.

Kamala:  “Why don’t you answer the question would you veto – Answer the question, would you veto –”

The problem is, Kamala’s question had already been asked.

Linsey Davis asks Trump a wildly hypothetical question–exactly the question Kamala wants asked:  “Would you veto a national abortion ban…”

Kamala didn’t have to ask Davis to ask this question.

Even before Kamala went into her absurd prosecutor mode, Davis was already PRESSING Trump on this:  “But if I could just get a yes or no.”

Trump asks Davis to ask Harris about third trimester abortions.

Davis does not ask Harris the question (much less press her “if I could just get a yes or no”).

The ridiculous thing is:  Trump already made his position clear.

To reiterate his statements:

  1. “I’m not signing a ban.”
  2. “And there’s no reason to sign a ban.  Because we’ve gotten what everybody wanted.  Democrats, Republicans and everybody else and every legal scholar wanted it to be brought back into the states.  And the states are voting.”
  3. “…I’m not in favor of abortion ban.”

They are grandstanding (both Linsey Davis and Kamala Harris).  There is no issue here.  He made his position clear even before they started teaming up on him in this hysterical orgy of outrage.

Kamala “Rational” Harris wants to point out how improper it is for Trump to bring up immigration when the ostensible subject is, for instance, the economy (they are clearly connected issues).

How does “Rational” Kamala do this?  By this whimsical (?) prosecutorial coup:

“And I’ll tell you something, he’s going to talk about immigration a lot tonight even when that’s not the subject that is being raised.  And I’m going to actually do something really unusual [oh really?] and I’m going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump’s rallies because it’s a really interesting thing to watch.  [Kamala was asked why the administration waited till six months before the election to take action on illegal border crossings.  THE SUBJECT IS IMMIGRATION, BITCH.]  You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter.  [the question was about immigration]  He will talk about windmills cause cancer.”

Kamala does not even make a hint of attempt at answering why the Biden administration (she herself) has been so piss-poor on securing the southern border.

And the moderators let her get away with this.

David Muir does not fire back with, “If I could just get a yes or no” or “The question was on immigration”.

Muir does, however, agree with Harris:  that Trump killed some amazing bill that would have put “thousands” [Kamala said 1500…they think you’re stupid] of additional agents and officers at the border.

So the moderators appear to ask Kamala a tough question:  “Why did you wait until six months before the election to enforce basic immigration law at the southern border?”

But then, whatever bullshit answer she rolls out, they buy it.  She can talk about Hannibal Lecter and cancerous windmills and the moderators are satisfied that this is a sound answer regarding immigration.

So much so that THEY ARE READY TO PRESS TRUMP AGAIN.

In other words:  appear to ask Kamala a tough question (very subtle), then accept whatever bullshit excuse she rolls out TO THEN ACT AS KAMALA’S ENFORCERS AGAINST TRUMP.

This exchange is particularly rich.

After a bunch or prevarication about Hannibal Lecter and cancerous windmills and a bunch of recycled propagandistic Obama garbage like “your needs, your dreams, and your, your desires” (oh, so inspirational! [the question was about the 3 1/2 years Biden/Harris did nothing about the border]), this follows:

DAVID MUIR:  Vice President Harris, thank you.  [for what?!?]  President Trump, on that point I want to get your response.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:  Well, I would like to respond.

[Muir interjects to cut off Trump]

DAVID MUIR:  Let me just ask, though, why did you try to kill that bill and successfully so?  [he did not press Kamala at all…and has now taken her pathetic excuse and turned it into a rhetorical weapon with which to bludgeon Trump]  That would have put thousands [1500] of additional agents and officers on the border.

Trump can’t pass up a zing.  And he gets one in.

“First let me respond to the rallies.  She said people start leaving.  People don’t go to her rallies.

BOOM)))

David Muir feels it is incumbent upon him to “fact check” Trump (just as Linsey Davis “fact checked” Trump in perfect harmony with Kamala regarding afterbirth abortions):  “I just want to clarify here, you bring up Springfield, Ohio.  And ABC News did reach out to the city manager there.  He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community–”

Maybe Muir should ask the Ohio Attorney General:  https://www.infowars.com/posts/ohio-ag-slams-media-for-hiding-dismissing-springfield-haitian-goose-story

Now the spectacle implodes.

Trump says: “The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food. So maybe he said that and maybe that’s a good thing to say for a city manager.”

Muir, from the loftiest of heights, responds:  “I’m not taking this from television. I’m taking it from the city manager.”

David Muir.  Literally a TELEVISION REPORTER is saying that, because ABC News [TELEVISION] reached out to the Springfield, Ohio City Manager and got the answer conveyed above, that David Muir’s source [the City Manager] trump’s Trump’s source [television].  In order to win this pathetic argument and try to rig the debate further, David “My Entire Authority Derives From Me Being on TV” Muir is reduced to denigrating television as something only an oaf like Trump would believe.

So where does that leave Muir?

Was it at this moment that Muir became a Nobel Laureate or a professor at Harvard?

Nay.

Muir merely needed to give the impression that he was MORE TRUSTWORTHY than television.  Even though he is, in his essence, television itself.

The absurdity of the faux-objectivity on display by Linsey Davis and David Muir is truly appalling and pathetic.

Trump, nonetheless, soon thereafter drops another truth bomb:  “..I think they probably did it because they think they’re going to get votes. But it’s not worth it. Because they’re destroying the fabric of our country by what they’ve done.”

Trump exposes the operation.

Let a bunch of people in illegally.

They will repay you with generations of votes.

Trump here is giving Democrats the benefit of the doubt–that they are just allowing unrestricted, illegal immigration in an effort to get votes.

This is a more generous assessment than the first position that he alluded to:  that Kamala is a Marxist and the unlimited immigration is a policy which only those who hate the USA (or the current governmental system of the USA) would adopt.  In other words, the goal would be for the unrestricted immigration to “collapse” the country (starting with the immense strain on social services).  A Soros-style “color revolution” could follow at any time…to basically overthrow the existing form of government in the USA and allow Democrats, by “emergency powers”, to take GIANT STEPS in a socialist direction (up to, and possibly including, full-on communism).

Muir is quick to “fact check” any thing he can in such a way as to make Trump look incorrect, but does Muir latch onto the VERY CORRECT case of how the Biden administration had to “revise downward” the jobs numbers by 818,000???

Not at all.

He lets that one slip by.

He does not admit it’s true.

He pretends not to hear it.

And by no means does he turn it into a question which might catch Kamala off-guard.

After every bizarre Kamala answer where she changes the subject and jumps all over the place regarding subject matter, David Muir responds:  “Vice President Harris, thank you.”

He doesn’t “drill down” into any of her bullshit answers.

He doesn’t “fact check” her.

Never.

Not once.

Neither does Linsey Davis.

And it’s not because Kamala is so precise in what she’s saying.

She is not precise.

There are plenty of analogous points at which TRULY OBJECTIVE moderators would have subjected Harris to the same treatment to which they subjected Trump, but they simply don’t do that.

When it comes down to it, one candidate is real (Trump), and one candidate is fake (Kamala–the stunt double for Joe “Weekend At Bernie’s” Biden these past four years).

To Trump’s realness: “I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. They talk about democracy. I’m a threat to democracy. They’re the threat to democracy…”

Trump ain’t done dropping truth bombs:

“And nobody on the other side was killed. Ashli Babbitt was shot by an out-of-control police officer that should have never, ever shot her. It’s a disgrace.”

How does the ACAB crowd respond to this???

Well, of course, they dehumanize Babbitt:  she was a “fascist”.

She wanted her vote to count.

Obviously a fascist.

So, in that case, that particular cop wasn’t a bastard, is that right???

Then Trump levels the boom on Sleepy Joe…this is brutal:

“Why are we allowing these millions of people to come through on the southern border? How come she’s not doing — and I’ll tell you what I would do. And I would be very proud to do it. I would say we would both leave this debate right now, I’d like to see her go down to Washington, D.C. during this debate ’cause we’re wasting a lot of time. Go down to — because she’s been so bad, it’s so ridiculous. Go down to Washington, D.C. And let her sign a bill to close up the border. Because they have the right to do it. They don’t need bills. They have the right to do it. The President of the United States, you’ll get him out of bed. You’ll wake him up at 4:00 in the afternoon, you’ll say come on. Come on down to the office, let’s sign a bill. If he … if he signs a bill that the border is closed, all he has to do is say it to the border patrol, who are phenomenal. If they do that, the border is closed.”

Biden could do this by Executive Order.

But he hasn’t.

He won’t.

Question after question from David Muir is directed at Trump:

Muir asked Trump about January 6:

Is there anything you regret about what you did on that day?

So the next one should be a tough one thrown Kamala’s way, right?

WRONG!!!

THE.  VERY.  NEXT.  QUESTION.

[and we are talking “planned out” prompts that have been decided beforehand to structure this “debate” (interrogation of Trump)]

Muir precedes all of these seemingly-innocuous “questions” with mountains of biased backstory intended to vilify Trump.

DAVID MUIR:  […]  Mr. President, for 3 and a half years after you lost the 2020 election you repeatedly falsely claimed that you won, many times saying you won in a landslide. In the past couple of weeks leading up to this debate, you have said, quote, you lost by a whisker, that you, quote, didn’t quite make it, that you came up a little bit short.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I said that?

DAVID MUIR: Are you now acknowledging that you lost in 2020?

Trump is correct:  no court judged any of the evidence of election fraud on its merits.

So it is quite true that Trump is not debating Kamala Harris, but rather, that he is debating David Muir.  There are no analogous “tough questions” thrown her way–no moments where either “moderator” press Harris in the slightest.

This interaction is quite interesting:

DAVID MUIR:  …and we should just point out as clarification, and you know this, you and your allies, 60 cases in front of many judges. Many of them —

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No judge looked at it.

DAVID MUIR: And said there was no widespread fraud.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They said we didn’t have standing. That’s the other thing. They said we didn’t have standing. A technicality. Can you imagine a system where a person in an election doesn’t have standing, the President of the United States doesn’t have standing? That’s how we lost. If you look at the facts, and I’d love to have you — you’ll do a special on it. I’ll show you Georgia and I’ll show you Wisconsin and I’ll show you Pennsylvania and I’ll show you — we have so many facts and statistics.

Muir will do no special.  He will contact the City Manager of Springfield, Ohio…as long as he’s relatively sure it will make Trump look stupid and make Kamala look good.  He won’t contact the Attorney General of Ohio.  He doesn’t get his information from television. He IS television.  And, as such (in a twisted bit of logic), ABOVE HIMSELF AND HIS OWN MEDIUM.  Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Kamala only gets one shot.

Joe got KO’d by Trump in one debate.

Biggest smackdown in U.S. Presidential history.

NEVER has a Presidential candidate (the SITTING PRESIDENT, mind you) done so poorly that HIS OWN PARTY YANKED HIM out of the game after ONE DEBATE.

So this time there could be no repeat.

Kamala must win.

The text doesn’t lie.

Kamala was not pressed.

She was not interrogated.

Whatever answers she gave were accepted at face value.

Trump was continuously “fact checked” and pressed for a “yes or no” answer (as one would do in a courtroom).

Even Kamala got in on the action–teaming up with Linsey Davis so that both of them were asking Trump for a “yes or no” answer in the same part of the debate.

Kamala was never asked for a yes or no answer.

The questions posed to Kamala were generally so open-ended as to be answerable by any meandering bullshit she might reel off.

Muir’s next question is essentially a softball for Kamala…where he more or less asks her what she thinks and feels about the fact that Trump is such a horrible person.

Observe!

DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, thank you. Vice President Harris, you heard the president there tonight. He said he didn’t say that he lost by a whisker. So he still believes he did not lose the election. That was won by President Biden and yourself. But I do want to ask you about something that’s come up in the last couple of days. This was a post from President Trump about this upcoming election just weeks away. He said, “When I win, those people who cheated,” and then he lists donors, voters, election officials, he says “Will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, which will include long-term prison sentences.” One of your campaign’s top lawyers responded saying, “We won’t let Donald Trump intimidate us. We won’t let him suppress the vote.” Is that what you believe he’s trying to do here?

David Muir might as well have said, “Kamala, we love you.  As we sit at your feet, basking in your guru-like glow, would you be so kind as to impart some kind of wisdom to us poor lowly souls?”

More truth bombs from Trump as he outlines the very UNDEMOCRATIC coup which replaced the Potemkin President Joe “Façade” Biden with Comrade Cackler:

“But when this weak pathetic man that you saw at a debate just a few months ago that if he weren’t in that debate he’d be running instead of her, she got no votes, he got 14 million votes, what you did, you talk about a threat to democracy. He got 14 million votes and they threw him out of office.”

If you’re wondering how truthful Kamala has been up to this point in the debate, get a load of this WHOPPER that not even Trump would dare to trot out regarding October 7 (because it’s not true):

“Women were horribly raped.”

Let’s put it in context.

Kamala SUCKING UP to Israel in the most craven, pusillanimous (and untrue) way possible:

“Well, let’s understand how we got here. On Oct. 7, Hamas, a terrorist organization, slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. Many of them young people who were simply attending a concert. Women were horribly raped.”

Oy, vey!

Then some more whoppers from Harris:

“And so we will continue to work around the clock on that. Work around the clock…”

In four years, Biden and Harris have not “worked around the clock” ON ANYTHING.  Work is anathema to Biden and Harris.  And that’s one big reason why the country is in such bad shape.

Trump is a worker.

The media made fun of Trump for playing golf.

That Trump was really “taking it easy” during his Presidency (which was not at all true…the dude worked long hours every day…longer than Presidents much younger than him).

And how has the media treated Biden?

All those vacations in Delaware.

Does the media take note of that?

Not at all.

For three and a half years, the media protected Joe Biden (in much the same way as they are protecting Kamala Harris in this debate).

When I say media, I mean ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

The only network in opposition to this is FOX.

There is a serious imbalance there.

It caused the country to be “run” be a mentally-compromised moron for the past four years.

AND HE’S STILL THE FUCKING PRESIDENT (“technically”).

Such a deficit of truth–such hubris–has consequences.

When Biden faced Trump in their ONLY debate this year, there was no way of protecting Biden.

There was no way to rig it enough in his favor.

It essence, he couldn’t even sign his name with a crayon.

He was toast.

Even though the media (those networks listed above) continued to tell you till the bitter end that he was competent and sharp and vigorous and…

I gotta agree with Trump on this one.

Kamala, like Obama, talks a good game.

But in the end, the story can be told in how much money she (and Obama) take/took in Israeli (think AIPAC) cash:  about half a mil. each.

Biden?  About 3 mil.

Trump.  $3,000 lousy bucks.

Kamala ain’t Cornel West.

She DOES NOT care about the Arabs.

And Trump nailed it pretty well:

“She hates Israel. At the same time in her own way she hates the Arab population because the whole place is going to get blown up, Arabs, Jewish people, Israel.”

The Biden/Harris regime is weak and clueless–not least on foreign policy.

Trump nails this too:

“Putin endorsed her last week. Said I hope she wins. And I think he meant it. Because what he’s gotten away with is absolutely incredible. It wouldn’t have happened with me.”

After the break, it’s another lose/lose, tough question from David Muir for Donald Trump.

No tough question for Kamala.

Hell, very few questions for her PERIOD.

All the questions are for Trump (and they are all trap questions…biased minefields that have been planned beforehand to make him look bad no matter what he says).

DAVID MUIR:  [to Trump] Do you want Ukraine to win this war?

And by the way…what in the HELL is Joe Biden doing these days?!?

Trump nails the shadow Presidency to the wall:

“And now you have millions of people dead and it’s only getting worse and it could lead to World War 3. Don’t kid yourself, David. We’re playing with World War 3. And we have a president that we don’t even know if he’s — where is our president? We don’t even know if he’s a president.”

The Biden/Harris administration is so dysfunctional that it puts our country in great danger.

And all of this has been facilitated for four years by apparatchiks like David Muir.

The way Trump leans into the word “dawg” in that Queens accent!

Powerful stuff!!!

“They threw him out of a campaign like a dog. We don’t even know, is he our president?”

Even with Muir’s interruption, Trump manages to get out this gem:

“We have a president that doesn’t know he’s alive.”

So.  True.

Biden is wandering around in the Rose Garden while we get closer to nuclear armageddon and the total breakdown of society in our country thanks to unrelenting illegal migration.

So let’s get this straight.

Kamala is super pro-Israel.

She and Joe are sending them those 2000 pound bombs with which the Israelis are mercilessly bombing refugee camps in Gaza and wiping out 40 people at a time…incinerated…vaporized.  Nothing left.  A big crater.  That’s Kamala.

But ALSO…ON TOP OF THAT…she also wants to take you to war–ENDLESSLY–with Vladimir Putin (Russia) and China.  Kamala loves Israel.  And she loves war.  And she wants the war to continue INFINITELY.  Until there is a nuclear exchange or until you get drafted to go fight in Finland or Estonia.

KAMALA:  “…we understand the importance of the greatest military alliance the world has ever known, which is NATO.”

She LOVES war.  Just like Hillary.

Hey.  Why do you think Dick Cheney (Satan himself) endorsed Kamala?

Look it up.

I know sometimes it can be hard to see through all the propagandistic bullshit, but if this don’t wake you up, you ain’t waking up, my friend:  https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-president/index.html

Yes, Kamala wasn’t just the Border Czar for the southern U.S. (look how great that has gone), she was also the Border Czar for eastern Europe–tasked with trying to prevent a Russian invasion (that went swimmingly as well).

Trump hits HARD on this one:

“But just so you understand, they sent her to negotiate peace before this war started. Three days later he went in and he started the war because everything they said was weak and stupid. They said the wrong things. That war should have never started. She was the emissary.”

Despite what the five fingers of Satan (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC) are telling you about this debate–that KAMALA DID SO WELL and TRUMP DID SO BAD…despite OBVIOUS, anti-journalistic bias against Trump, TRUMP STILL SOUNDLY WHUPPED KAMALA’S ASS!!!

Kamala has gotten where she is not due to any particular gifts on her part.  She’s risen to a position far higher than that for which her skills qualify her.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:  “And that’s the kind of talent we have with her. She’s worse than Biden. In my opinion, I think he’s the worst president in the history of our country. She goes down as the worst vice president in the history of our country. But let me tell you something. She is a horrible negotiator. They sent her in to negotiate. As soon as they left Putin did the invasion.”

Begging lapdog Muir sees an opportunity to IGNORE TRUMP’S ENTIRE POINT by focusing on one small detail to try and discredit the gist of Trump’s argument and once more come to Kamala’s rescue:

DAVID MUIR:  “President Trump, thank you. You did bring up something, you said she went to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. Vice President Harris, have you ever met Vladimir Putin, can you clarify tonight?”

Trump knows how to negotiate.

Kamala knows how to be coddled–just as Joe Biden was coddled the past four years.

If elected, Kamala will do the same thing Joe did the past four years:  absolutely nothing.

Some people have been running the government during the Biden/Harris administration, but we can only guess at who they are.

Susan Rice?

Barack Obama?

Who knows??

TRUMP:  “And Abdul is the head of the Taliban. He is still the head of the Taliban. And I told Abdul don’t do it anymore, you do it anymore you’re going to have problems. And he said why do you send me a picture of my house? I said you’re going to have to figure that out, Abdul. And for 18 months we had nobody killed.”

Do you want someone capable–someone with real-world skills (Trump), or a feel-good cackler?

Kamala’s record speaks for itself.

Border Czar?  Failure.

Negotiator on NATO’s eastern flank?  Failure.

Peacemaker in Middle East?  Failure.

Weapons supplier to Israel?  SUCCESS!

Say what you want about Trump’s comments and support for Israel, but 40,000 Arab Palestinians did not die under his watch.

They died on Kamala’s watch.

With weapons (bombs) she and Joe provided (and continue to provide).

Kamala speaks a good game about two state solution and blah blah blah.

But it doesn’t matter if she keeps giving Netanyahu weapons.

And she does.

Kamala is a refried version of the peace and hope and love and yes we can palaver of Obama.

They think you’re stupid.

They think you’ll fall for it.

GOOD ECONOMY is what will help black America.

Kamala has had a chance to do that.

She can’t.

Because she’s a moron.

The Democrat party may have their heart in the right place, but when it comes to economics, they have no brains.

They don’t know economics 101.

Trump will give the country a GREAT ECONOMY.

And Trump will give the nation a sense of SAFETY again.

Safety for your children.

Safety for your neighborhoods.

A Trump Presidency will honor AMERICAN CITIZENS.

A Trump Presidency will honor LEGAL IMMIGRATION.

The social safety net is for AMERICAN CITIZENS.

New jobs created are for AMERICAN CITIZENS.

The only people who should be allowed to vote in America are AMERICAN CITIZENS.

Then David Muir has planned another difficult question for Kamala Harris.

JUST KIDDING!

DAVID MUIR:  [to Trump]  Why do you believe it’s appropriate to weigh in on the racial identity of your opponent?

Unbelievable.

The sycophants really only know one tune:

DAVID MUIR: Vice President Harris, thank you.

LINSEY DAVIS: We have to move on. President trump —

Linsey Davis is staking her whole career on being perceived as prosecutor “Baby Kamala”.

LINSEY DAVIS: [to Trump]  “So just a yes or no, you still do not have a plan?”

Where’s [to Kamala] “So just a yes or no, you still do not have a plan as Border Czar?”

Nah.

Ain’t happening.

Three and a half years without any action taken (until recently) regarding the southern border, but David Muir and his side kick are perfectly satisfied with Kamala’s answer that obstructionist Republican lawmakers are to blame for the chaos at the southern border and (consequently) across the entire country from unceasing illegal immigration.

As Trump alluded to, Kamala could have gone back to D.C. and woke Sleepy Joe up to draft and sign an Executive Order to close the southern border, but that ain’t happening.

No questions [to Kamala]  “Just a yes or know, will you go to D.C. tonight to sign an Executive Order closing the southern border?”

Linsey don’t care.

David don’t care.

There’s a club.

Kamala and David and Linsey are in it.

Trump ain’t.

The “truth deficit” that occurs in authoritarian regimes is being displayed by Kamala and the party organ ABC (like Pravda in Soviet Russia).

You may be asking yourself, “Why does Trump look so serious…and so PISSED OFF?”

Because he is.

He’s been shot.

He’s been indicted in four or five tranches by Democrats (including two or three times by the Biden Justice Department).

He’s four years older.

And he’s seen all the good stuff he did as President TOTALLY PISSED AWAY by No-Show Joe and Cackling Kamala.

And now Kamala thinks she can serve some warmed-over bullshit version of Biden policy and Obama free love peace dude politics and everything’s gonna be hunky dory.

That’s why Kamala looks so happy…and carefree.

Because, just like for Weekend-at-Bernie’s Joe, the red carpet is rolled out for her by a mass media and ESTABLISHMENT that clear every obstacle in her way.

Hollywood loves her.

Vacuous pop stars love her.

Trump is pissed off.

This is not fun and games.

But he has not quit.

And I admire it.

There are things I disagree with Trump on.

I think Trump could win in a landslide if he would call the Israeli actions in Gaza what they are:  genocide and ethnic cleansing.

But he probably won’t do that.

And Kamala sure as hell ain’t gonna do that.

She’s sucking up to Israel like she’s ready for her bat mitzvah in the charred remains of a West Bank olive orchard.

I’m gonna leave you Trump’s closing statement.

It is rough.

Angry.

And REAL.

If you want the country to totally go to shit (both economically and in terms of basic security for you and your family), vote for Kamala.

If you want the country to become safer and prosperous–if you want job opportunities–and if you want the security that a peacemaker (a true dealmaker) can bring to the world [in contrast to Dick-Cheney-endorsed Kamala], vote for Trump.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:  “So, she just started by saying she’s going to do this, she’s going to do that, she’s going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn’t she done it? She’s been there for 3 1/2 years. They’ve had 3 1/2 years to fix the border. They’ve had 3 1/2 years to create jobs and all the things we talked about. Why hasn’t she done it? She should leave right now, go down to that beautiful white house, go to the capitol, get everyone together and do the things you want to do. But you haven’t done it. And you won’t do it. Because you believe in things that the American people don’t believe in. You believe in things like we’re not going to frack. We’re not going to take fossil fuel. We’re not going to do, things that are going to make this country strong, whether you like it or not. Germany tried that and within one year they were back to building normal energy plants. We’re not ready for it. We can’t sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision. But I just ask one simple question. Why didn’t she do it? We’re a failing nation. We’re a nation that’s in serious decline. We’re being laughed at all over the world. All over the world, they laugh, I know the leaders very well. They’re coming to see me. They call me. We’re laughed at all over the world. They don’t understand what happened to us as a nation. We’re not a leader. We don’t have any idea what’s going on. We have wars going on in the Middle East. We have wars going on with Russia and Ukraine. We’re going to end up in a third World War. And it will be a war like no other because of nuclear weapons, the power of weaponry. I rebuilt our entire military. She gave a lot of it away to the Taliban. She gave it to Afghanistan. What these people have done to our country, and maybe toughest of all is allowing millions of people to come into our country, many of them are criminals, and they’re destroying our country. The worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542

-PD

Introversion [2021)

Teenage Fanclub.

That glow in The World’s End.

But a sadness.

THE sadness.

Emily Dickinson.

Unrequited.

Unattainable.

My Bloody Valentine.

Sloshy grunge hats.

Edge echo.

Chris Bell.

I Am the Cosmos.

Yerself Is Steam.

Slowdive.

Rutti.

Brian Eno.

The disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Tom Petty.

You don’t know how it feels.

J. Spaceman.

Abbey Road.

Air.

George Martin.

Beck.

Badfinger suicides.

Loser.

Spiritualized.

Royal Albert.

I can only give you everything.

Rick Danko.

Loping.

The Delgados.

Dave Fridmann.

Black magic warded off by honesty.

Good timing.

Divine.

Sigur Rós.

Nigel Godrich.

Pocket symphonies.

Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Serge on the way.

Lenny Bruce, even.

Hit to Death in the Future Head.

Wait at least until track three to break it down.

Southern Harmony and Musical Companion.

Gorecki.

Arvo Pärt.

Deserter’s Songs.

Absolutely.

The confusion of ridiculous counterpoint.

Aaron Copland.

Tonal, yet dissonant.

Thick Billy Corgan.

Siamese Dream.

Definitely a sadness here.

Dawn Upshaw.

Tabula rasa.

Death.

Immense Mellotron.

Tchaikovsky.

Abrupt modulation.

Sugar plum.

Lou Reed.

Ennio Morricone.

Cinema Paradiso.

All you need is hate.

Upstate.

Chaliapin.

Basso profundo.

Jussi Björling.

Dvořák.

Memorial day.

The Inflated Tear.

Columbus, Ohio with duct tape.

Debussy.

Posing with a bass clarinet.

Primal Scream.

Get Duffy.

Rock ferry.

Smokey Robinson.

Sad clown.

Dead clown.

Kinks.

Grasshopper.

Suzanne.

Woodwind quintet.

Did I ever write one?

Yes, I did.

César Franck.

Saint-Saëns.

Organ symphony.

Or is it contrabassoon?

Nadia Boulanger can tell you.

My teacher’s teacher (twice over).

The Left Banke.

LSD.

Herb Alpert?

Hummel.

Handel.

Strawberry fields.

Stereolab.

Unequivocally.

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements.

A little lo-fi.

Vocal doubled.

Vox continental.

Great hook.

Changes that pull at your heartstrings.

More melancholy.

A fucking marimba solo?!?

Are you kidding me???

Makes sense.

Pauly Deathwish collaboration with Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes.

Lost Bayou Ramblers.

Gordon knew him as Death.

I have become death.

96 Tears.

Farfisa.

Partials.

Tim Gane tone.

Faust IV.

Doogie Howser?

Scary.

Impending.

Suspense.

Rock bass.

Ozzy.

Black Sabbath.

Amazing Grace.

Pete Townshend.

Front.

Back to J. Spaceman.

Dirty ass rock and roll with pristine horns.

Expensive drugs.

Sophisticated changes.

Éminence grise?

Is this the artist we’ve been waiting for?

Rodriguez?

R. Stevie Moore?

Wesley Willis?

Sounds like Jack Nitzsche.

Major Velvet vibes.

Suck-ceed twice.

Dylan with P-bass.

Mick Taylor.

Too much attitude.

Keith Richards.

Let it Come Down.

Shakespeare.

Fucker kicked the bucket.

First to be vaxxed.

Maricopa.

First Suicide album.

Bossa nova.

The Soft Bulletin.

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space.

Gimme some lovin’?

Steve Winwood?

How old?

La Monte Young.

Slow changes.

First rehearsal tapes.

Alan Vega.

Martin Rev.

New York City heroin.

Warhol Factory torn down.

Across from YMCA.

Trump dances.

Great throwaway lyrics.

George Harrison.

Sound of universe.

Spacemen 3.

Savage tone.

Revolution.

Direct into mixing console.

Fried signal.

White album.

Sonic Youth.

Derek Bailey.

Lou ecstacy.

Late Lou.

European son.

Blood pressure rising.

Brutal.

Frankie Teardrop.

I think I’m in love.

Dub bass.

Will the circle remain unbroken?

When I had dinner with Roky.

13th Floor.

First Velvets album.

Heroin.

Drug rush.

Invincible.

But you gotta buy it.

Dirty Baltimore.

Cop shoot cop.

Cheree.

On the jukebox.

Eat at the gas station.

On tour.

First time in Texas.

American Supreme.

Iceland.

13 Angels.

It’s definitely Bowie.

New career.

Same town.

New old.

Old is new again.

Mercury Rev.

Savvy programming.

Dynamics.

Break beat.

A fuck ton of flutes.

Flute loops literally.

Bowie sax.

Little fluffy clouds.

Every drop.

Gay glam chorus.

Tony Visconti.

Don’t underestimate.

Pere Ubu.

First album.

Méliès.

Boys peel out.

Boces.

Inspector Clouseau.

Phone.

French ambulance.

Pants.

Gives me pants.

Videogames.

Cutting hole.

Pink Panther.

Herbert Lom.

A Shot in the Dark.

Grandaddy.

Under the Western Freeway.

Weeping willow.

Under that.

With Sean Mackowiak.

Square waves.

WarGames.

Tympani.

Rollerskate Skinny.

Dublin.

Kevin Shields.

Comes back loud.

One song mastered soft.

Definitely Low.

The main influence of Pauly Deathwish’s debut album.

Honegger.

Pacific 231.

Chariots of fire.

Vangelis.

Such a groove.

Nancarrow.

Polyrhythm.

Immense sadness.

By the side of a freeway.

Under an underpass.

Not like RHCP.

Much darker.

Like Godspeed.

Philip Glass.

Eno.

Blackstar.

How did a Trump supporter make this album?!?

I thought all Trump supporters were redneck morons???

This is way fucking better than Ariel Pink’s dabblings.

This sounds like a debut album.

Songs saved up.

Like The Strokes.

Cinematic as fuck.

Glitch Radiohead.

Trail of Dead.

Makes sense.

Because Pauly wrote the string arrangement on IX.

Dark.

Killers.

Disco compression.

Distressed.

These lyrics!

Johnny Rotten.

Trump 2021.

Snot on the crowd.

Arcade Fire.

Makes sense.

Lost Bayou Ramblers lost sessions.

Montreal studio.

This was all made on an iPhone?!?

Guy Debord.

Aladdin Sane.

Time.

Rick Wakeman?

Olivier Messiaen.

Major 7ths in uppermost range of piano.

Almost indistinguishable from octaves.

Eerie.

Slight.

Only for the sensuous ear.

The Wall.

Waters delayed bass.

No nonsense drums.

Humble Pie reference?!?

Ha!

Great lyrics!!

Predating new Bob Dylan album.

Check SoundCloud timestamp.

This is definitely the QAnon anthem.

This hook should be on a million conspiracy videos.

“10 Days of Darkness”.

Tell ’em Large Marge sent ya!

My end is my beginning is my end.

Grinderman.

No pussy.

Early-’90s.

Nirvana’s wake.

Finnegans Wake.

Great debut album (if I do say so myself).

Usual suspects.

Spotify.

iTunes.

Pauly Deathwish.

-PD

Napapiirin sankarit [2010)

Here is a masterpiece.

Not since Aaltra (2004) has a movie so perfectly made use of the dark humor pioneered by Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932).

Lapland Odyssey is Finnish film which is currently free to watch on Tubi.

I cannot give enough praise to the director, Dome Karukoski.

This is not just a miraculous feat of storytelling, but the mise-en-scène of a true auteur.

I was born 15 days earlier than Mr. Karukoski:  43 years ago.

Our director hails from Cyprus.

Where Eric Schmidt has recently applied for citizenship.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-google-citizen-cyprus-european-union

Funny timing, that.

Wouldn’t Eric Schmidt welcome a Biden Presidency?

Does Mr. Schmidt fear something in the United States?

Perhaps the former CEO of Google knows something we do not?

Might it concern impending public corruption trials?

And, just maybe, a reelection of Donald Trump?

Lapland Odyssey premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010.

That was the same year that Toronto-based company Dominion Voting Systems acquired not only Premier Election Solutions (an American company [Ohio]) from ES&S (Election Systems & Software [Omaha, Nebraska]), but also Sequoia Voting Systems [California] from Smartmatic [U.K.].

PES had only been acquired by ES&S the previous year (2009).  Before that, PES was owned by Diebold.

Premier Election Systems was formerly known as Diebold Election Systems.

Before Diebold bought it, it was known as General Election Systems.

Before General Election Systems bought it, it was known as I-Mark Systems.

You get the picture.

Dominion Voting Systems is now owned by American private equity firm Staple Street Capital (which has extremely strong ties to the Carlyle Group [George H.W. Bush’s former benefactor]).

https://www.osler.com/en/expertise/deals-cases/dominion-voting-systems

None of this would have been possible without Jussi Vatanen.

Vatanen is our hero.

He is tasked with the impossible.

Find a digital TV receiver (“digibox”) in one night.

After the local electronics store has closed.

This involves a trip to Rovaniemi:  the main city of Lapland.

[population 63,032]

Hundred of kilometers to get to Finland’s 17th most populated city.

In Finland, Lapland is not only the northernmost province, but it is also the largest province of the country.

It bears mentioning that there is also a Swedish province called Lapland.  

The cleavage of these two Laplands dates to 1809:  when Russia annexed the eastern part of Sweden and declared it the Grand Duchy of Finland.

My closest brush with this region was a single musical concert I played years ago in the town of Kiruna (in Swedish Lapland):  Sweden’s northernmost town [population 22,906].

It was an experience which profoundly changed me and which stays with me till this day.

Finnish Lapland borders Sweden’s Norrbotten County.  At Norrbotten’s northernmost point can be found Kiruna (north of the Arctic Circle).

At the southeast corner of Norrbotten County is Piteå:  my favorite town in Sweden.

The town of Piteå sits on the Gulf of Bothnia–just across the water from Finland.

I also played a musical concert in Piteå.

It was, perhaps, the happiest time in my life.

So I can imagine Rovaniemi.

A city just four miles south of the Arctic Circle.

Jussi Vatanen plays the loser who makes good.

Which makes him, in fact, not a loser.

I can intimately relate to that.

I have lost my job (again).

I am addicted to drugs (again).

And I am addicted to alcohol (a first for me).

It is in these days, when I am having the first true experience in my life with alcohol withdrawal, that I come to this film.

It is the perfect film.

It is just exactly the film I needed at this particular time.

Because I, like Janne (Vatanen’s character), am trying my damnedest to get my life together.

Last week, I got engaged.

Actually, REengaged.

I exercise (pacing back and forth in my parents’ garage as my phone records my steps).

I drink less.

I exercise.

I drink less.

Nausea.

Dizziness.

ANXIETY.

And extreme fucking INSOMNIA.

When I was in Kiruna, the sun only went down for four hours.

I didn’t see the Northern Lights.

But you can see them in this film.

And they are glorious.

If it is CGI, then I am losing my touch.

Because I don’t believe it is.

I appears to be the genuine article.

Aurora borealis.

And headaches!

Lots of sunflower seeds.

Big red welts all up and down my arms and torso from nicotine patches.

I can no longer afford my General Snus.

Sure, I have some stashed away…

But my wise old psychologist once told me:  “just move one thing at a time”.

  1.  alcohol
  2. tobacco
  3. valerian?
  4. Ambien?
  5. Xanax?

I put question marks because I am unsure of the order.

Main goal is STOP DRINKING.

Or, should I say, the FIRST goal.

If I can get an MBA, surely I can stop drinking.

[God willing]

For every hero, there needs to be a doubter.

To provide context.

The hero forges forward (when it would probably be best to just quit).

The hero quits (when it would be much easier to just continue).

The hero is determined.

The hero gives energy and inspiration to those around him.

But the doubter adds richness.

Because it is human to doubt.

Will Donald Trump be reelected President?

We will find out when the Electoral College meets on my birthday to ELECT a new President-Elect.

Till then, Joe Biden is at best the worst kind of poseur.

He is doing exactly what he promised Chris Wallace and the American people he WOULD NOT do:  to declare victory before the election is independently certified.

What a hypocrite.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-victory-election-independently-certified

Each state certifies its vote.

Biden does not have enough votes at the moment (by way of certified state votes and their concomitant electors) to declare victory.

N.B.  It is the Electoral College which will ELECT the next President (who THEN AND ONLY THEN becomes known as the President-Elect).

And so we doubt.

Me and Jasper Pääkkönen.

Was there fraud?

I believe so.

And you may doubt in the other direction.

Was there fraud?

You doubt there was.

But I know there was.

Because I have basic research skills.

And I availed myself of Rudy Giuliani’s masterful delineation of the case for fraud.

[no thanks to American mass media (which completely blacked out all coverage of Giuliani’s press conference with Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis)]

So we all doubt, each in our own way.

And someone may convince us.

The law may even compel us.

The U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in on the legality of certain ballots in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Cold states.

Particularly Michigan and Wisconsin.

Fort Meade.

4thPOG.

Dark Horse.

Fly fishing.

Fort Bragg.

Timo Lavikainen is the late-bloomer.

Along for the ride.

But absolutely essential.

Able to love.

You must become like a child to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Sibelius.

Karelia.

1893.

News of war.

Siege.

National anthem.

At some point we might mention the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Which lasted about 500 years (until 1795).

For beauty, we have Pamela Tola.

She just wants a fucking digibox, for christsakes!

Something about those blonde bangs.

Then there is the villain.

A bit like Alex “Scott Evil” Soros.

A bit like Martin Vanger.

Kari Ketonen plays the boy who never got anything.

…and let it make him evil.

He plays the cheater.

The trickster.

A character with absolutely no morals.

Strictly driven by lust.

[and a good bit of narcissism]

He comes off looking a bit like Kip in another masterpiece of a film:  Napoleon Dynamite.

Imagine Kip as an irredeemably-unscrupulous character and you will have a pretty good idea of who Pikku-Mikko is.

Little Mikko.

Short.

Short people.

Randy Newman.

Mikko moves in for the kill while the matrimonial bed is still warm.

Mikko false-flags his way into manipulating his enemy.

Mikko is a master of PSYWAR.

But God wins in the end.

And Moa Gammel is the real star of this film.

In a strange way.

Principal siren.

Debussy.

A Swede.

Almost the doppelgänger of Pamela Tola.

The Swede is the world image of beauty.

Alluring.

Beckoning.

The Finn is more quixotic.

Cute.

Harsh.

Soulful.

None of this, of course, means a damn thing.

And all the while Timo Lavikainen just wants to see Miia Nuutila’s tits.

License plate.

Ali G.

There will be helicopters.

-PD

An American in Madras [2013)

Here we come again to India.

And again to Tamil Nadu.

When last we visited India in our minds, we spoke of For the Love of a Man.

Another Tamil documentary.

About the superstar of South India:  Rajinikanth.

But An American in Madras takes us back.

WAY back!

Indeed, it is the story of a man named Ellis Dungan.

And his 15 years of fame (complete with tuned klaxons) [meme mixing] was 1935-1950.

Ellis Dungan from Barton, Ohio.

Who went to Spain.

And bicycled to France.

Worked a bit in Paris.

Became interested in photography.

And somehow ended up in one of the first cinema cohorts at USC.

Met an Indian student.

Got an invite to Madras (Chennai).

And six months turned into fifteen years.

Isn’t that the way life works?

If you think I’ve spoiled too much of this story, you’re WAY wrong.

There is so much more to this fantastic documentary directed by Karan Bali.

Mr. Bali is in his prime, being just 48 years young.

But he has made a significant contribution to cinema with this picture.

Yes, this story is unique and compelling.

But again, we get a priceless view of India.

I promise we will move from Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu eventually (the only two provinces I have really covered).

But you really must see An American in Madras.

It is currently on Netflix.

And by the screenshot–the thumbnail…you might think it’s about a Jewish director.

That would be wonderful and fine.

But you would be wrong in assuming such.

Indeed, it seems that the six-pointed star on the “film poster” is not the Star of David but perhaps, rather, the Star of Goloka.

Which is to say, an Indian six-pointed star.

And though there are (and certainly were) Jews in India (though not very many…all things considered), An American in Madras is just about a bloke from Ohio who somehow ended up directing some (14) of the classic Tamil-language films.

1935-1950.

He left India at the behest of his wife.

They divorced a short time later.

Okay, ok…I will stop giving spoilers.

But suffice it to say that An American in Madras tackles a very sticky conundrum:

motivation.

For most of my life, my main motivation has been EXPRESSION…

What I’m doing right now.

Showing off my verbiage.

But hopefully adding value to the world.

[there goes my business school dissection…it’s second-nature now!]

And yet, my motivation changed.

For I was presented with a crossroads.

Not like Robert Johnson’s crossroads…

But more like Robert Frost’s crossroads.

Two paths.

God damn it!

I chose the path less-taken.

I chose love.

Not lust.

Not romance.

Just love.

And it doesn’t make me a saint.

But it is what it is.

I gave up music.

I gave up expression as my main motivation.

And I attempted to evolve.

To nudge an inch closer to nirvana.

I chose love.

As my main motivation.

It is not a rockstar path.

Mother Theresa probably had some pretty rough days…

And I ain’t no Mother Theresa.

But I’m trying.

Trying to put other people before myself.

Often failing.

But steadfast.

I am on the path.

And yes, I become wistful.

It seems like 40 years ago.

Maybe I can catch a wisp of song in my memory…a shard…a sherd…some hieroglyph of my past life.

But growing into an adult can entail smiling through the tears.

Singing a snippet, and being glad to be here now.

-PD

Gummo [1997)

When the rain comes down…in the swimming pool…and rabbit ears has his pink life…kissed by movie stars.

Rabbit ears isn’t so lonely anymore.  Literally hovering over the highway.  Chain-link crosswalk.  Loitering.

Rabbit ears had it bad in the dump.  Got beat up by stereotypes.  Shot with cap guns.  But the words real hurtful.

I wanna add my own appendix to this here masterpiece.  And so’s I goes on the Google and finds pictures.

They say a boy can’t be beautiful.  Just handsome.  And a taxi…a cab.  Can only be hansom.

We’ll get to your favorite scene in due time.  Just tape that bacon to the tile.  We’ll be returning.

I wanna add my own art to art already made.  Found footage.  Found emotions.  On the junk heap.  Andre Breton.

All those cool French guys recording their dreams.  Dali.  With a little slanted dot over the eye.

Yeah, Dali and Bunuel.  With a little wave over the inn.

And the donkey or whatever.  Gets his eye cut reel bad.  And this was near the beginning of cinema.

And Bunuel went on to Mexico.  And Aleister Crowley went to Mexico.  And Antonin Artaud.

And then Bunuel made French movies.  Maybe they were all French.  But not the Mexican ones.

And Eisenstein made a Mexican movie.  Reel good that.

And why is I talking funny and sayings nothing?

Because I been steeped like a tea bag in pure genius.

Ain’t my genius.  I’m just the reader.  The watcher.  The observer.

And then somebody gets Schrödinger‘s cat.  And they hurt it real bad.

Nobody ever asks what Schrody’s cat was named.  And it so happens Foot Foot.

Like the song by The Shaggs?  I think so, my pal.

So lemme tell you.

If I go on many more tangents like a line glancing off a sphere I will lose something important.

No no…I keep going.

Because my glasses fogged up with tears from crying.  When I had to get up to pee.

Later.  The retarded girl.  In the Krokus shirt.  But when she’s jogging back and forth.

That’s my family.

Yeah, for a minute I saw the whole totality of my lineage.

And it really made me cry.  Prematurely.

But mostly it’s when the rain falls.

It looks like the most heavenly scene.

I’m Mr. Rabbit.  I took a lot of risks.

A pink life.  That’s being vulnerable.  Listening to Tchaikovsky.

I skated down the hill on a banana like Jesus Christ.

One little pebble and my face is fucked for weeks.

One passing car and I’m Jello.  J E LL O.

But take a deep breath because you’ve shivered shirtless.

God damn.  You’ve got pink rabbit ears and knuckle tats.

You weren’t meant for this world.

And when the perfect storm comes—-

a lifetime of pain melts away.

For a second.

You’re not the freak.

For a second somebody wants you.

And you want them too.

And, really, it’s just fun.

That life has dealt you this miracle.

It makes your Xenia, Ohio bearable.  Just.

Life is transitory.  Crackling like a wet transistor.

Here today be here not tomorrow.

-PD