Stephen King got it right:

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/727664278908620800

[maryellen99]

1. Stephen King foretold Trump

Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone. It's on my TBR list.

[jtuck004]

3. And I didn't think King did satire. Will wonders never cease?

Anyway - you can grow a dragon with their teeth? I thought they came from eggs?

[malthaussen]

4. The reference is to ancient Greek stories...

... involving Cadmus and the founding of Thebes and Jason and the Argonauts.

-- Mal

[jtuck004]

5. The satire I was referring to is the real estate swindler. Then I switched.

Two topics in one email, not a great idea.

so 'i will do it again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_%28mythology%29

I had not read that in a long,long time. Thank you.

[longship]

8. "The missiles are flying. Hallelujah!"

[Akamai]

27. Great catch! Cruz wanted those missiles to fly, and he still does. A religious zealot interested in

bringing about the end-times. That is, the destruction of the effing planet. You and me and all we hold dear. The lives and futures of all on this world.

This is a fairly good reminder of what it means.

On the other hand, hedonist Trump doesn't want the world to end but is too lazy to figure out how to help it. And with his lack of attention, the world is at perilous risk.

Go Bernie!!!

[Bucky]

15. Cruz was Stillson

Trump is Biff Tanner.

[raccoon]

2. Yep, it's as horrific as many of his works. nt

[randr]

6. Republicans have replace dedicated civil servants

with people who, right out front, declared they would go to Washington to bring down the government.
They have succeeded and now the fright wing is terrified of their own choices and are still blaming everyone except themselves.
The GOP is actually the party of zero responsibility.

[malaise]

7. It started the day these political hacks gave those Fundie moron institutions

accreditation. It is their ideological and theocratic graduates who were pushed into the civil service to spread their propaganda, then destroy government with one main intent - to loot and plunder - always follow the money.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Of course

the Responsibility part of Party of Personal Responsibility only applies if you are poor and/or not white and/or not male.

[PatrickforO]

10. Trump is the laughing man, the walkin' dude, Randall Flagg,

Walter O'Dim.

[Act_of_Reparation]

11. You give him too much credit.

I think he's more of a Greg Stillson than a Randall Flagg.

At least Flagg was funny.

[Puglover]

12. Yep

[PatrickforO]

28. Or maybe a 'Good Man' in the 'Gunslinger' sense...

whimsically, dangerously insane...

[snort]

13. He's Harold Lauder,

forget the hawk shit.

[bedazzled]

14. give the man a payday bar...

my favorite stephen king book by far...

[Act_of_Reparation]

18. M-O-O-N

That spells payday bar.

[kimmylavin]

26. Hell yes.

Pompous and badly groomed. Keeps a ledger. And in a general snit fit about a woman, he's willing to destroy the whole world.

I think you nailed it.

[backscatter712]

23. He is Randall Flag.

Trump has a unique talent for bringing out the dark and vicious in people.

[Separation]

30. More along the lines of....

Trashcan Man!

MY LIFE FOR YOU!!!!

[Chiyo-chichi]

16. They've been sowing dragon's teeth for far longer than 8 years...

but, yes... spot on.

[wickerwoman]

21. Was going to say the same thing.

They've been sowing furiously since Clinton was elected in 1992.

[Fumesucker]

31. Nixon's Southern Strategy was the beginning of the sowing the teeth of the dragon

[wickerwoman]

32. George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire is a great documentary.

More or less every other speech he gives could have been given by Trump or Cruz.

The sad fact is that there's a significant portion of the US population that has never gotten over the end of segregation.

[MisterP]

17. and the spartiots then bonked each other to death with rocks--sounds about right

[saidsimplesimon]

19. kpete, this novelist is amazing, imo

[pressbox69]

20. More like Warden Norton

but with tiny hands.

[lame54]

22. And now they are going to give full support to him...

Party Above Country

[ExtraGriz]

24. Met him when i was living in Bangor, Maine...

the most down to earth guy you can meet...he was wearing worned jeans and t-shirt, and will take time to talk with you. this was a long time ago, we were both in a movie rental store, looking for movies...ummm, VCR movies were a huge thing at that time, it was 1987...lol

[cab67]

25. more than 8 years

There were hints of the kind of extreme partisanship we see today during the Reagan years, and Republicans acted like children during the Clinton administration. This brew has been fermenting for decades.

(Not disagreeing with what Mr. King said - just raising a pedantic point.)

[msanthrope]

29. Kahleesi grows close. nt

[TlalocW]

33. Very succinct summation of what's going on

This guy should look into becoming a writer or something.

TlalocW