Month: September 2018

Tell me…are you satisfied with the latest television show?  You probably haven’t heard of it…

It involves the U.S. and its intense struggle with the rest of the world’s political powers.  A story of confusion: “Is our president mentally stable?”, contradictory information “He can’t pass a basic literacy test, but he became the most powerful man in our country.”, sex “Grab ’em by the [REDACTED]”, and maximum shock value at all times.

It’s some really good content.  Like, 5-star content.  Oh, and the real kicker?  It’s not even a TV show!  This is some REALLY good content.  Did I just say he can’t pass a basic literacy test?  Yeah, I did!  And it’s not a goddamn television show!  This is such good content, I could watch this all day!

You’re probably SO tired of looking at Trump’s gold-plated name all over the airwaves and all over your own neighborhood.  I bet even your dog could speak his name if he tried.  I don’t care right now.

The way you get elected when you have the knowledge and where-with-all of a 5-year-old is to be really, REALLY lucky.  I have to praise the guy, yes, PRAISE him, for how he got here.  Very nice, dude.  And I also have to say, your content is good, for the fact that no one has demoted you yet.  Very well-constructed wobbling.  Yeah I said wobbling…he still acts like how I said in my last posts…changing opinions on a dime, making quick work of…any situation somehow…and making anyone who tries to emulate him to a tee start to question their own sanity.  Really good content.

…you want the other side of the coin?   I don’t have it, sorry.  It died when the video I linked got posted.

…rant over.  Now the point of this post:  Welcome to The Apprentice Series Z:  Donald Trump:  The Presidency

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It’s not only luck that grants him access to that big white house.  He also follows a script.  That script is rewritten every time something changes, mind you, but it is a script, bent on making him look like your money-lined hero.

You know he likes to change his mind on a dime…and I know that’s not very script-like…but when he butts his way into the presidency looking like a 5-year-old got a grammy award…just…just bear with me.

This script is aimed at drama…actually, I don’t have to explain what the script looks like.  Please turn your attention towards The Apprentice, a drama series that consists of men and women groups doing jobs for Donald, and he picks the best people for the job.  Yes, he splits the group into specifically men and women, and yes, the women fight a lot and don’t seem to like to focus on anything, and the men look confident (of course there’s exceptions for both.  Drama isn’t drama without variety and unexpectedness).

Of course…you gotta scale the script.  A story about two groups doesn’t work for a highly complex country with a near-infinite number of smaller stories with an unthinkable number of potential outcomes.

Enter:  Drama cannons for years and everyone yelling like someone turned up the anger chemicals in their brains.

And before you provide the obvious logical conclusion:  “A guy who can’t pass a basic literacy test and can’t string two facts together without making a mess of things cannot possibly hope to follow a large and complex storyline including thousands of actors and plot points.”…is he president?  I’m sorry, I have to do it again, I have to praise him for how he’s managed to maintain, not just initiate, but MAINTAIN the endless drama cannons firing out of his butt…and it’s not like no one’s listening at all.  There’s reactions, firestorms, conspiracies, facts being posed as lies, lies being posed as facts, attacks, defense, advances, good theories, bad theories…literally everything there SHOULD be…but not a single final result, not a shift in behavior from Trump, not a group movement that had any effect, not a falloff, not even a drop of sweat on the brow of Donald Trump.

When you watch Donald Trump…you are watching a master.  And when you interact with him, you are now part of the main storyline…

At the time of the current episode, you are either good or bad, strong or weak.  But as soon as a point is raised or a meeting ended or a rally started or ended…that episode is over.  The next begins, and TWIST, you’re either the opposite of what you were before, or stronger…or weaker.  Or now in the background, as an extra that the audience is meant to forget.  Or FROM an extra to a main character that everyone loves or hates.  Or now a secondary character, and then from that to the lady’s lapdog, or from your own personal heaven provided to you from the greenback-lined savior of the universe, to your own personal hell, again, provided to you from that suit-wearing Satan of death.

You as an actor, having no knowledge of the script, might have their sanity, maybe react a little to that.  Drop down a peg…or fifty.

But to the rest…the people not part of the main story, who actually have breathing room…they’re watching the telly.

It’s just really good content.

 

[The midterm elections are coming up at the time of writing.  I hope everyone’s got their red pen out to cross out Mr. Drama DJ’s name.  And don’t you dare elect anyone like him again, or I will assume the Russians did it instead of you because there’s no goddamn way you’ll make this mistake again.]

 

[As for my Apple posts…I was busy with VRChat, a really good VR game I might post about.

 

Really quick points:

iOS 12 is definitely a reaction to the software audit a while ago, and it is damn good.  Apple seems to have listened…sort of.  Two important keyboard keys on iPads have switched.  Why did that happen?

The iPhone lineup is a little confusing in terms of names.  I’m not even sure Apple knows what the letters mean.

Still kinda puzzling over what Apple thinks of itself and its customers.  “Ecosystem” is the key word here, it seems.

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Not sure what the next post will be, Apple or VRChat or something else.  And I will try not to make another post about the DJ again.  If I can help it…]