Rare Gem of a Movie: Idiocracy (2006)

 Around five years ago, I watched a Science Fiction piece called 'Idiocracy'.  In the past month, I went back and watched it a second time.  I would strongly recommend it for viewing, but for odd reasons.

The basic story?  Joe has been recruited by the Army and some mad scientist to test a suspended animation chamber....with a hooker as the second participant. 

The mad scientist gets arrested shortly after the experiment starts.

So Joe and Rita end up sleeping through to 2505.

What they wake up to....is 100-percent 'WOKE' behavior....everywhere.  Anything you could have imagined in 2006 to put into a script....is there and shows the general society of today....barely sixteen years later (instead of 2505).

Yes, it is cheaply done.  Yes, the script is stuff that a 12-year old kid would write.  But everyone is plain woke, and not able to function in a normal society....except Joe and Rita.

If you can find the video and give yourself about 90 minutes....it's an excellent bit of entertainment.  

Ten Things I Believe Today

 1.  For the entire past decade, every movie that Bruce Willis did....almost fifty of them....involved no more than forty lines of text.  I think his mental decline was already showing itself back in 2012 and his 'handlers' were picky on the movies he did and how much dialog was required.  

2.  IRS data shows that NYer's who left in the past two years....took around 30-billion dollars of wealth with them.  Well....the IRS data is only legit and declared wealth....I would imagine that it's double the 30 billion dollars if you talk hidden wealth.

3.  By the end of 2023, I expect the federal 'red flag' law to be declared mostly a failure.  Chief reasons?  At least 300 ex-wives who used the red flag law in some effort to screw the former husband.  Several states will simply state that it was unworkable in reality.

4.  Think tanks in the US will be openly fighting each other....in the public square and via legal means by the end of 2023.

5.  The jury for the Parkland School shooting deal will end with a hung-jury.  The second attempt will not occur until the fall of 2023.

6.  One single charge will be attempted by the Justice Department before December 2022....on Hunter Biden...in an attempt to prevent a massive investigation in 2023 by the new House (Republicans).  It'll be enough to get him 18 months of prison.  Dad will pardon him by the 6th month.

7.  Around 2,000 current school teachers nationally, will get a note in mid-summer that their services won't be required because a vast number of kids are going to private school or home-school in the fall.  These teachers will be shocked at the limited job opportunity and some national crisis will occur where the administration promises some financial help.

8.  More than 20 respected business and political figures will be exposed by Maxwell by the end of 2022.  Pictures will be included.  

9.  Joe Rogan will be pushed off Spotify by mid-summer 2023, for political positions taken.

10.  Some studio will announce that they are reviewing options to present 'Gunsmoke' in a updated TV series, with a female marshal and a gay deputy.  

Trump's Second Term

 "So far, Trump’s second term has been a huge success. He has several major SCOTUS victories, looks better than ever compared to Biden, and the Jan6 theater just went full Jussie. You can’t win harder than that."

-- Scott Adams

Well....yeah, basically from 2021 on.....Trump has officially been on some weird 2nd term, and affecting everyday life in some way.

The 6-Jan folks (whether accidental or intentional)....have become a opera-like situation....mostly for entertainment.

You throw in Hunter's antics, Hunter's artwork, Pelosi's husband, the doomed effort of CNN-Plus, Joe's chatter, and around three-hundred-odd comedy bits....the past eighteen months have been a circus show.

In some ways....our distrust and frustration-levels have reached a point where we'd just like to mute politics for 365 days.  

My Five Favorite Trump Hoaxes

 1.  Bleach - Covid hoax.

2. Hooker pee hoax.

3.  Russia hoax (probably 20 items to fit under this umbrella).

4.  Russian bounties hoax.

5.  Lunge hoax.  

The problem is....once you start, there's probably forty different hoax stories, and as each develops....there's an element which seems slightly possible.  Then a month later, you realize it was 'BS'.  

These hoaxes occurring with Joe Biden?  Not so much....most cannot be proven as a hoax, so they end being mostly true.

The Lunge Story

 I sat and watched about an hour of the Cassady Hutchinson 'chatter' from the Congressional hearing of yesterday, via various clips.  

Her chief comment?  Trump tried wrestle control of the car....to be taken to the Capital building....from the limo driver.  So, here's the thing....she didn't witness this herself....someone told her of the situation.  Whether this person witnessed it or not.....that they might have heard it from another person, who heard it from another person, who heard it from another person....is the real question here.

I sat and lingered over this.

To be honest, Trump is a backseat guy for a limo, and it's been that way for several decades.  I personally doubt that Trump has sat in the front seat of a car since the late 1980s.  In NY, if you make money.....real money....you never sit in the front seat.  Trump is that kind of guy.

The 'show' becoming a comedy act?  Well...if you start allowing people to show up and they say.....'I heard so-and-so say X, Y and Z', then in a legit setting....you need to bring their friend 'so-and-so' in and ask where they heard the story, and that lead to four different people, and a marginalized story where only a quarter of the start-up story is true.

The term 'lunged'?  I've probably heard six CNN/Fox people utter it....over and over.  'Trump lunged at the steering wheel'.  If you are in the rear seat of the limo, with some protective glass in between.....how do you lunge?  GET REAL.

In some ways, the hearing is now like a urbanized Dukes of Hazard episode now.  

I heard a rumor that Trump keeps a 1986 Honda Civic in the basement garage and often goes out driving around DC at 1 AM when he was President.  Sounds good?