Comic Relief?

How about a bit of bad TV?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trackdown-trump-character-the-end-of-the-wo...

As President Trump and Democrats feud over funding for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, a clip from the 1950s television series "Trackdown" that captured eerie parallels between the show and reality resurfaced. In the episode titled "The End of the World," a sketchy salesman by the name of Walter Trump pitches the idea of building a giant wall, claiming it would protect townspeople from a catastrophic cosmic event.

On Wednesday, "Gravity Falls" creator Alex Hirsch tweeted a part of the episode and it went viral. But it wasn't the first time the video made the rounds. Snopes reported on the authenticity of the clip in 2017 after a portion of the show was uploaded to YouTube and claimed to have "predicted Donald Trump."

(2 min clip)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpQSilWvjcs]

The entire episode (23 min) is here.

So history does seem to rhyme. Enough silliness... now back to your regularly scheduled blogging.

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Bisbonian's picture

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

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@Bisbonian

thanks for the old newspaper clip.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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The town at least gets a Marching band out of it...

It has been fun rewatching old Twilight Zone recently though... It now just feels like prep work for the headlines.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI]

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

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@detroitmechworks
...of the episode so you know that's fiction don't you?

I re-zoned a few years ago. Took awhile at an episode a night to make it through the series.

All the best.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”