This just in: Yesterday, I watched the Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up.” I was amazed by the number of A-list actors so I thought I would give it a go.

The movie is a spoof on the Trump administration and the way it handled the COVID pandemic.

The president is played by Merle Streep and her Chief of staff is the president’s idiot son.

A comet is discovered that will hit Earth with 100% certainty. When this is explained to the president, she replies with, “Let’s take some time to assess this.” She doesn’t want it to be made public because it might hurt her poll numbers.

As the truth gets out, the President starts to hold rallies. Since the comet is now visible to the naked eye, she promotes the saying, “Don’t look up.” She says things like, “They want you to be afraid. Be an American and refuse to look up.”

Polls show some Americans are afraid, some are not and a large portion don’t believe there is a comet (remember, it is visible).

As the comet nears Earth and panic sets in, a news cast (Fox) completely ignores this and runs a segment, “That all of America is talking about – topless elder care facilities.” or something like that.

To completely understand this movie, take our current “Pandemic” and substitute “Comet”. This really brings out how criminal Trump was; how negligent Fox news is and how clueless about 30% of the population is.

As I watched this had two thoughts in the following order: (1) This will show those Trump supporters how stupid they have looked to the rest of the world and (2) The Trump supporters will watch this entire movie and not know it is about them.

Alas…

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

This just in: I have long suspected that I have ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder. Why? Because I am rarely able to sit down and do just one thing for very long. I get bored quickly and a part of my brain begins to look for shiny things to distract it from the task at hand. Here are some of those things…

YouTube has me figured out. First of all, it has changed something so that you can’t get out of it with just one click. I watch a video and try to close it. Instead of closing, it just changes size, revealing all kinds of other juicy videos that I need to watch right away. It’s like falling down a rabbit hole. I can pass a quick hour just shutting down YouTube only to find that there are other videos I must see right now.

My television isn’t much different. I have HULU, Netflix and Amazon Prime. All have tons og great content. In fact, there is so much good content that the bar for what I find acceptable has been significantly raised. I now spend most of my time trying to choose between a great show and a really great show and an even greater show. In then end, I often give up and go for a walk instead. Having said that, my current binge is the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I fought off watching this for a long time but finally gave in. After making it through the first 40 minutes, I found myself hooked.

When the day gets slow, I turn on politics so I can find something to be pissed off about; specifically, Republicans. Here is a list of things Republicans appear to oppose:

1. Universal free healthcare (by free I mean higher taxes and no private insurance)
2. Voting rights
3. Spending tax payer money to repair infrastructure
4. Fighting climate change
5. Fighting COVID to save lives and the economy
6. Any effort to fight racism
7. Women’s rights
8. Fighting poverty
9. Solving Immigration

Next page…

Abortion seems to be on the front page everywhere. I’m 63 and have little need for an abortion (I’m also a man) so this issue does not affect me directly. However, I do have an opinion. First, I think women should be able to make their own decision. Second, I oppose only men passing laws that impact only women. Third, I am astounded at the hypocrisy of those that want to control a woman’s own reproductive rights are the same ones that oppose mask and vaccine mandates that affect everyone’s health.

I thought the following was funny, at least to me: Stephen Miller, Trump’s residential racist advisor was subpoenaed by Congress to testify about something. This news made it to Reddit. The top comment was, “Stephen Miller? Isn’t he the guy that entered politics because his hands were too weak to strangle prostitutes?”

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim