The scariest thing about Don’t Look Up is that as absurd as it is, it barely exaggerates. Much of our political elite are just as greedy and foolish, our media just as vapid, and our response to impending disaster exactly as mind-bogglingly irrational as in the movie.
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I've seen a lot of people who thought that Meryl Streep's character was based on Hillary Clinton.
I took her as an amalgam of Obama (smoking), Hillary (pics with Bill), Trump (rallys)
I figured the point of the pictures with Bill and other famous celebrities was to point out that while Streep's character was headlining rallies for the common man, she was actually just another well-connected elite climber.
Yeah I guess it could have been cus Trump was friends with the Clintons for a long ass time before he was pres.
With him and Bill being all over the :epstein: flight logs
What an absolutely cursed trinity.
In the movie they do show Meryl Streep's character in a picture cosying up to Bill Clinton so it's fair, I didn't even expect the movie to lampshade Clinton so that was based
All presidents are the same. If you get past the individual traits, or them being a person. They are all a bunch of sickos merchants of death, servants of capital, and perverts who don't know how to sext or be horny in private.
It's well document that Preisedent's politics change when they become president. Part of becoming the defender of the establishment.
that doesn't necessarily contradict what I have said, if you are in the role of president you are pressured or encourage to think and choose certain things. Your options are pre-determined long before they get to your desk, or you sit in for a meeting. I have read Robert Gates memoir, The Operators by Michael Hastings, and Nightmare Scenario (I know three books are not the best sample size) but one of my key insights is that they predetermine a lot of the options for the president long before he even hears "the problem" and is given a solution. The political machine doesn't start with them, it's all around them and he just has the privilege of being blamed when he pulls the (wrong, in our perspective) levers, all the time. And when the president chooses wrong or goes off-script, the amount of inertia in the machine just grinds his bad decision to a halt. So he is both "the most powerful person" and the "weakest" in the administrative sense. It just takes a certain kind of psychopath to wanna be president.
I've seen people who thought the comet was a metaphor for Trump 2016.
And yet some people thought it was too blatant and not subtle enough. Liberals want to feel smart for consuming certain media and being the only ones able to decipher it