Recently watching a series touching on the rise of the Videla regime in 1970s Argentina, and how it took Argentinians by surprise, that historical reality looks so much more like what is currently happening in the US. Wag the Dog is like a 1990s American fantasy of what a coup would look like.
The current situation in the US is an order of magnitude more warped than anything portrayed in Wag the Dog. In the 1990s we could never have imagined that the democratic system could break down so severely, or that such openly malevolent bad actors would be permitted to game the system like this.
Wag the Dog: a pitch-black political comedy thatâs never looked more relevant
Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman lead an all-star cast in this satire about a spin doctor and a film producer who fake a war to divert attention from a presidential sex scandal In a public discussion about the US election, the political commentator and one-time Keating speechwriter Don Watson posited that the American public finds it difficult to tell the difference between reality and fantasy. Never were the lines more blurrily drawn than in Wag the Dog, Barry Levinsonâs pitch-black comedy from 1997. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the tail wagging the dog describes a situation in which âan important or powerful person, organization, etc., is being controlled by someone or something that is much less important or powerfulâ. Continue reading...
Are people still queuing up to take Elonâs rockets to Mars?
Don't use the passive voice to minimise liability, @guardianaustralia.bsky.social Deforestation isn't 'roaring back' all by itself. Farmers, miners and and developer are the ones destroying Australia's last few remnant forests. Just say it.
âDutch prosecutors mull criminal case over alleged Israel interference into Intentional Criminal Courtâ www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct...
Complainants request examination of allegations that Israel tried to derail international criminal court inquiry
ââThe normal racoons are nice, but the new ones scare her,â McCarty said, reading from a deputy's statementâ Replace âraccoonsâ with âweather eventsâ and âfeeding the racoonsâ with âburning coal and gasâ. www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2...
An outside trapper had to be called to the property off Miller Bay Road.
This kind of service should exist in every city
