Minions...Is it just me?

I could not bring myself to watch/read any BS election coverage tonight, so I hand cranked up my Netflix to watch Minions...the little round yellow lozenges who live to serve the biggest baddest evil they can find.

I had not seen it in theaters so it was new to me.

So let me ask, is it just me or is there more then a passing similarity to today's events (Tuesday 6/7/16)?

I compare and contrast Scarlet Overdrive (whom the minions hope to serve) and HRC.

In one case we have someone who revels in her ability to break the "Glass Ceiling" to prove that it is possible for the greatest Super Villain the world has ever known to be a woman. Someone, who from birth has had an overwhelming desire for a crown and who will do anything for her destined "coronation" as supreme ruler. Someone determined to prove that a woman can do anything a man can do, but better, someone who has the means and the ruthlessness to achieve her goals at any cost, to squash the little people who stand in her way, and to subvert centuries old traditions and law to achieve her goals. Someone who is incredibly despicable, yet who relies on her husband for all the tricks in her basket. Her husband, a playboy genius with more tricks up his sleeve then Harry Houdini. A maestro behind the scenes to an otherwise lackluster grade B super-villain.

The other? She's a fictional character in a movie with little yellow people wearing a rocket dress.

In this case, of course, the little yellow minions are all the super delegates who will fall on their swords for their imagined queen.

Green Party here I come...

PS: How sad a statement is it for gender equality when the only way a woman can get a major party nomination is by cheating? My depression/sorrow is so great on so many levels.

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I share your sadness. It is now clear that too many so-called Democrats are no less susceptible to emotional manipulation than Dittoheads or Tea Baggers. Such people are like the hooded audience in the video of the section of Episode 17 of The Prisoner, who applaud loudly to avoid hearing any of the words of the speaker (I'd find you a link but I must bolt right now). IMHO, hearing Hillary's words means one has to think about what she is -or is not- saying, and we can't have that in a corporatist society, citizen.

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

Alphalop's picture

lil' bastards!!

Don't make me associate them with something as corrupt as Hillary. Wink

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

lotlizard's picture

featured in the Walt Dystopia film 101 Qaddafis Regime Changes.

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" How sad a statement is it for gender equality when the only way a woman can get a major party nomination is by cheating? "

No, not just any woman, only Hillary Clinton. She is not representative of all women in politics.

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Love is my religion.

I do like the Cruella DeVille comparison, but for dirty tricks, psychopathic selfishness and unbounded deviousness(is that a word??), she reminds me of a female Richard Nixon. Very depressing and infuriating, to think that gorgon will most likely be the representative of the Democratic party, but then considering what the party has devolved into, I guess it is rather fitting. I am a 60 year old woman, who feels robbed and disenfranchised by Hillary's dishonorable behavior and the rigging of our Democratic processes, against Bernie. I would have loved to vote for a woman president, at some point, but one with honor, integrity and who cares about the American people, all of us. I Will not vote for Hillary Clinton, under any circumstances.

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TheJerry's picture

When the Minions arrive in NYC in 1968 they walk in front of giant billboard that had Nixon on it with arms raised and the slogan "Nixon, finally a politician you can trust!" or something to that effect.

That was my first realization of how spot on this movie was going to be.

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