I'm sitting here watching The Untouchables - they showed De Niro playing Capone and it struck me -

[NewHendoLib]

This is what TFG models his current persona on. The affect, posturing, bullshit, lies, attitude are the same.

TFG can't even be an original asshole - he is a fraud now based on a role in a movie. He thinks he is Al Capone - or an actor playing him.


sad.

[BigmanPigman]

1. I have no doubt he would punch out his own lawyer in court.

Charles Manson did that too. Violent Neanderthals with narcissistic, misogynistic, psychopathic tenancies.

[jcgoldie]

2. I dunno

But if Trump is channeling De Niro that would be pretty fucked up considering Robert De Niro can barely contain himself when the subject of Trump comes up he hates him very passionately.

[Tetrachloride]

3. I believe Trump channels himself.

[GP6971]

4. And he thinks

he should emulate Harrison Ford in the movie Air Force One. Harrison Ford's response..."It's a movie Donald".

[BOSSHOG]

5. Where's frank nitti?

[BlueSpot]

9. He's in the car. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

10. Great movie BlueSpot

Really liked the seemingly never ending scene with the woman and the baby carriage.

[usonian]

6. The GOP cult exhibits Mafia-like behavior.

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Joe Pistone, the real-life "Donny Brasco", agent who infiltrated the mob, wrote about "gangster life".

He called it "The Way of the Wiseguy" and it's quite a description of the cult members.

I posted earlier:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=354762

The resemblance to mafia behavior is quite stunning.

I read a book by Joe Pistone, the "real life" Donnie Brasco, and two points of wiseguy life are similar to MAGA cult membership.

1. Membership "legitimizes" all kinds of vile behavior.
I had to expose myself to the full sweep of wiseguy wickedness. Violence, greed, manipulation, exploitation-these are the raw impulses that define life as a wiseguy. They walk the same streets as us but by no means are they seeing or feeling the same things.

2. There is no gain, in fact, disadvantage, in being a member,
but the lifestyle and "family membership" are too attractive.
All wiseguys fully expect to either go to jail or get whacked. They have absolutely no delusions that they are going to live long lives

What lifestyle? Ask (real life) Henry HILL from Goodfellas.

Henry begins the film by telling us, “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.”

Trump is what happens when you try to have it both ways.
(From https://www.pastemagazine.com/article/the-mob-movie-goodfellas-tells-us-everything-we-ne )

It "legitimizes" vile behavior, and Trump normalized racism, misogyny, violence, greed, even theft and treason (and more), and they live vicariously through him or a successor, though it would be hard to match the "glamor" of a TV actor.

And they ignore the downside --- that this is all self-defeating ---because their red hat gives them a hall pass at the promised apocalypse.

OR SO THEY ARE TOLD
Kindly send cash to ensure your place.

[Doc Sportello]

12. Good post but one point

It's Henry Hill.

Henry Hyde was the repub congressman of the Hyde Amendent fame - or infamy.

[usonian]

13. Arghhhh. Memory fault. Will fix, thanks!

On second thought, I wonder if autocorrect sabotaged me.
Autocorrect and I take turns at misteaks (sic)

[DenaliDemocrat]

7. Al Capone fed and clothed far more people

Than Trump ever did.

[sdfernando]

8. Perhaps orange menace can die like Al Capone too?!?! /nt

[LudwigPastorius]

11. Trump's hands are too tiny to get a decent grip.

...and he's so out of shape, he couldn't swing more than once.

[usonian]

14. I think this shot says a lot about his understudy. MIKEY LIKES IT.

Ass-kisser extraordinaire.

[Frasier Balzov]

15. You got nuthin. Just a lot of talk and a badge.

You hear me? Cause you got nuthin.

You got nuthin in court. You don't got the bookkeeper.

You got Nuh-Thing. Nuh-Thing!

And if you were a man you would've done it now.

You don't got a thing. You punk.