Reality TeeVee
I have a friend who absolutely believes that Donald Trump’s run for president is a live reality teevee show.
I thought … nah, he’s spending money instead of making money. He makes money on reality teevee.
But now I am starting to wonder …
Every week until Election Day 2016, Showtime will air a half-hour “real-time documentary” about what’s happening on the campaign trail.
The series, called “The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth,” comes from Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the hosts of a daily political talk show on Bloomberg TV, and Mark McKinnon, a famed campaign strategist.
Oh my gosh, it’s now a reality show. For real. You gotta wonder if Donald Trump owns stock in Showtime.
Production is already underway: McKinnon was spotted with a camera crew at a Marco Rubio rally in Las Vegas on Monday.
My friend is acting all smug this morning. “See?” he keeps saying.
But there’s more. If you watch the series House of Cards about President Frank Underwood, murderer, philanderer, life destroyer, and political genius, life might be ready to imitate art. This was also announced today.
When a handful of wannabe presidents square off at Tuesday night’s Republican debate, one faux president will make a “special announcement.”
A cryptic message from the official Twitter account of the “House of Cards” set the stage. “BREAKING NEWS: President Underwood will be making a special announcement during the #GOPDebate,” the tweet said.
So which Republican presidential candidate is really Frank Underwood. My bet is Ted Cruz.
Oh hell, my friend is right. This whole damn thing is reality teevee.
Smug, my friend is acting smug.
Thanks to Bryan, who used to be my friend.
And bad reality teevee at that!
1I hope it is reality TV and somebody’s going to come out at some point and show us who the REAL candidates are. I think a lot of people around the world feel that way too.
2Rhea, no dear goddess, just no. Please don’t tempt the fates. The snacilbupeR have things like Gov. Paul LePage (s-ME), Louie Gohmert and Steve King on their back bench.
Micr, thanks. I can now type snacilbupeR faster and with more accuracy than Republicon.
3But wait!
There’s more!
If you vote for Donald Trump before midnight tonight, you’ll receive at no additional charge* a lifetime supply of foreigners to blame and condemn. In addition to all Mexicans and Syrian refugees, future plans include a selection of Somalis, Yemenis, still to be determined Asians, and probably Denmark with their loser solar panels and wind energy …
* Some amazing, super classy, bing bing bong bong bing bing bing, shipping and handling fees apply
4@PKM
Bitte schön! Whatever I can do to help!
5I agree with your friend. The script for the GOP-ers is so bad it has to be “reality teehee.”
6It’s not reality unless they put them on an island full of hungry crocodiles.
7PKM, I was hoping that the real candidates might have a functioning brain and a mouth that was directly connected to it, and possibly even the ability to tell truth from lies and science from crapola (no, autocorrect, I did not mean “carpool”). Even a GOP win once in a while wouldn’t be so bad if that party had the sort of people it used to have. Okay, the only one who comes to mind is Lowell Weicker, but you know what I mean. It’s not even fun anymore when you dread to see what the GOP front-runner has said next because it’s horrifying and internationally embarrassing.
8Things have gone way too far when Rush Limbaugh is trotted out as an expert on anything but pure hate. The R-Klan pushed the hate-fear agenda so adroitly and that turns out the hate vote.
9We have to teach American voters to fear these fascists so they will surge to the polls in droves to prevent our country from regressing to the dark ages of the pre-Civil Rights era.
Rhea, your optimism is charming today. For your listening pleasure we recommend the recorded speeches of Abraham Lincoln by Jeff Daniels. Post Lincoln we don’t have a clue as to any snacilbupeR who would meet your standards.
The embarrassment I can handle having been born in the century of embarrassing snacilbupeR. It’s their threat to any possible peace that scares the socks out of my boots. As you say, T-Rump is horrifying. The current bunch make Barry Goldwater seem teddy bear cuddly.
10maryelle wins the inner-tube image of the day! The crawling Rushbo upgrading his pace to a “trot” is hilarious.
However, maryelle, educating the snacilbupeR base is in line with the Myth of Sisyphus. With guidance from Miss JJ her ownself and our resident political operative, daChipster, we can motivate the Democratic base and all sane Americans to flood to the polls with us. We have the numbers to do this.
11I vote for literature instead. Specifically, Lord of the Flies.
12PKM: Of course we have the numbers to do this. We always have. Now… try and get those queens off their butts and to a voting booth. Yeah… I want to win in November, but I want more than that. I want to win BIG. I want to win YUUUUGE! I want to win by such numbers that even the Pope will say WTF? And just how we do that… I don’t know.
13Just reread my comment, they ARE the hungry crocodiles. Real crocodiles would run away.
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