Category: Election 2020

• People Who Can Laugh At Themselves Never Become Bullies

  Think of a well-known bully: Donald Trump, for instance. While Trump loves being an entertainer and making people laugh, he’d never entertain his followers by making them laugh at him. Trump’s notorious for his inability to laugh at himself or to be the butt of anyone’s joke (as Barack Obama learned when he poked fun…

  A L Katz

  April 28, 2021

  American News Media, Barack Obama, Election 2016, Election 2020, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  2011 WH Correspondents' Dinner, Barack Obama, Hitler, Laugh At Oneself, Mary Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Sense Of Humor, Serge Kovaleski, Trump has no sense of humor, Trump-Russia, Vladimir Putin

• “The Big Lie” And “The Giant Secret”

  We all know what “The Big Lie” is — Donald Trump’s insistence that, despite literally all evidence to the contrary, he “won” the 2020 election. Stop for a second to savor the sheer lunacy of the fact that this is even a question. We have followed a criminal down a rabbit hole of his making…

  A L Katz

  April 21, 2021

  American News Media, Barack Obama, Cyber War, Election 2016, Election 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Mitch McConnell, Robert Mueller, Rule of Law, SCOTUS, Treason, Trump

  ES&S, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Oleg Deripaska, Paul Manafort, Paul Ryan, Proprietary Polling Data, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, The Big Lie, Trump and Putin, Trump-Russia, Vladimir Putin

• How To Beat Tribalism? Be Even MORE “Tribal”

  Humans are tribal by nature; it’s a survival instinct. Since reproduction is one of our key “primal directives”, our genome has built into it behaviors that give our personal DNA every chance to create a next version of “us”. After our own precious ass, our family’s ass comes next in the pecking order. Then our…

  A L Katz

  April 18, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Coronavirus, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Music & Culture, Racism, Slavery

  America's Great Seal, E Pluribus Unum, Fascists, French Enlightenment, Jews Will Not Replace Us, Originalism, Out Of Many One, Tribalism, White Grievance, White Privilege, White Supremacy

• Alpha Dogs Don’t Have To Be A-holes

  Larger-than-life show biz alpha dog SCOTT RUDIN announced publicly today that he’s “stepping back”, having suddenly realized apparently that decades of acting like the biggest asshole in every room he was in has a downside. In my 35+ years in the show biz trenches, I’ve worked with and for many creative people equal in stature…

  A L Katz

  April 17, 2021

  American News Media, Atheism, Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Cyber War, Election 2020, Mitch McConnell, Movie Reviews, Music & Culture, Showbiz Stories

  Alpha Males, Back To The Future, Bob Zemeckis, EC Comics, Forrest Gump, Joel Silver, Kirk Douglass, Kubrick, Red Camera, Scott Rudin, Tales From The Crypt, Walter Hill

• If Russia Made Donald Trump President (They Did) Then Donald Trump Was NEVER The Legitimate POTUS

  I’m not sure when exactly we got it into our heads that cheating to win was merely one more “way” to win. It’s not. The moment one cheats to win, one cannot win. One might appear to “win” at the time of the contest but if further examination reveals clear evidence of cheating — and…

  A L Katz

  April 16, 2021

  Cyber War, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Mitch McConnell, Racism, Republicanism, SCOTUS, Team Biden, Trump

  Diebold, Donald Trump, Election Fraud, ES&S, Hillary Clinton, Konstantin Kilimnik, Obstruction Of Justice, Oleg Deripaska, Paul Manafort, The Apostle Paul, Treason

• Why Do I Call This Blog What I Call It? Because Bullsh*t Nearly Killed Me, That’s Why!

  Devout atheist that I am, I consider myself “born again’. I have seen with my own eyes the havoc bullshit can cause in both my daily life and over the whole length of it. I bear witness to bullshit’s remarkable power to convince us that it is truth and truth is bullshit. Actually, bullshit’s much…

  A L Katz

  April 13, 2021

  Atheism, Branding, Election 2016, Election 2020, Live Bullshit Free, Magical Thinking, Marijuana Legalization, Religion, Spirituality, Suicide Prevention

  Anthony Bourdain, Atheism, Born Again, Explaining Suicide, Insomnia, Medical Marijuana, Mood Stabilizers, Sexual Assault Survival, Suicide, Suicide Prevention, Theism

• Sylvester Stallone Has ALWAYS Behaved Like A Trump Voter — I’ve Seen It UP CLOSE

  [NOTE: For a much deeper dive into the whole story, please check out the “How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast: The Making Of Bordello Of Blood” either via the link above or from wherever you go to find the podcasts you love!] Heroes run TOWARD burning buildings, bent on saving people. Zeroes, on the…

  A L Katz

  April 12, 2021

  Branding, Election 2020, Movie Reviews, Showbiz Stories, Trump

  Assassins, Billy Zane, Bordello Of Blood, Demon Knight, Freddy Krueger, Horror Movies, Joel Silver, Mar-A-Lago, Robert Zemeckis, Sylvester Stallone, Tales From The Crypt

• Prosecuting Trump For His Coronavirus Failures First Might Be The Quickest Way To Nail Him For Betraying Us To Russia

  Fact: Election Day 2016 was a crime scene more than it was an election. On that day, Russia pulled off the greatest intelligence coup of all time: they made their fully owned asset — Donald J. Trump — President of the United States. Assisting in that act of unmitigated treason from start to finish was…

  A L Katz

  April 10, 2021

  Cyber War, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Magical Thinking, Mitch McConnell, Political Commentary, Racism, Treason

  Election 2016, Lindsey Graham, Omerta, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, RNC hacked too, Russian election interference, Russian Propaganda, The Big Lie, Trump's Failed Pandemic Response

• The Reason Big Business Will Absolutely “Quit” The GOP Is The Same Reason Bill O’Reilly No Longer Works At Fox News

  Hey, remember Bill O’Reilly? Bill sure wishes most of us did remember him. But, for most of America, O’Reilly sits in the “Whatever happened to?” heap and not anywhere near the top. The reason most people don’t even think about O’Reilly any more as a “choice” in the news-entertainment marketplace is exactly the same reason…

  A L Katz

  April 7, 2021

  American News Media, Branding, Election 2016, Election 2020, Movie Reviews, Republicanism, The Branding Age

  21st Century Fox, Amazon, Big Business, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Georgia, Howard Beale, Ned Beatty, Network, Paddy Chayefsky, Rupert Murdoch, The O'Reilly Factor

• Matt Gaetz Epitomizes A Political Party That Long Ago Turned Into A Frat Party

  Go to any large American college or university campus and it’s understood — frat row is where the partying is taken most seriously. Movies like Animal House where debauched frat parties make Roman orgies look tame didn’t come from nowhere. Frat parties are really that debauched. Any time you let male culture run riot —…

  A L Katz

  April 2, 2021

  Bill Barr, Election 2020, Racism, Republicanism, Trump

  Animal House, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, Frat Party, Insurrection At The Capitol, January 6, Joel Greenberg, Male Culture, Matt Gaetz, Rape Culture, Roman orgies, Statutory Rape