It was bound to happen eventually. Hollywood needs to give us cautionary tales. I watched the trailer for an upcoming movie called “Civil War.” The scenario is a “fascist” president in his third term (probably named Donald Tromp, Ronald Trump or something else equally subtle) is fighting a war to recapture nineteen states that have seceded including the Western Alliance (or something like that) consisting of California and Texas. As an aside, the guy playing the president sounds exactly like Mike Pence.
The heroes of the movie are three intrepid “reporters” who travel across the country and witness the horror of Middle America in all its racist something or other. In the trailer we see white men with guns interrogating some seemingly Hispanic people and when told that they are Americans the guys with guns say, “But what kind of Americans?” And then it looks they’re going to shoot them. And there is lots of footage of jets and tanks attacking New York City and monuments in DC blowing up and I think it looks like the invaders breach the White House.
The Democrats are attempting to take Trump off the ballot. What a perfect time to have a movie showing what will happen if a fascist president is allowed to run for president.
My favorite part of the trailer is near the end where the intrepid female reporter says, “Every time I survived a war zone, I thought I was sending a message home saying, “Don’t do this.” And yet, here we are.” So even during a movie where the country is engulfed in war and the outcome should be the story we have “Karen” lecturing us about how we didn’t listen to the girl boss who knew best.
So really my only question about all this is how the hell did California and Texas form an alliance. Are they commies or good guys? Is it run by Gavin Newsome or Ron Paul?
Honestly, I’ll bet this movie will be incredibly annoying. All the people we are supposed to applaud will be urban dwelling, latte sipping progressives and all the people we’re meant to boo will be white red state Americans. I assume, at the end, once Donald Trump is dragged from the White House and burned at the stake, all of the seceding states will come to their senses and unanimously re-elect Barack Obama or some other BIPoC woman as president and we’ll finally reach nirvana.
Wouldn’t it be something if we could have a civil war movie where the bad guys were the people who were trying to destroy America for real? The Summer of George rioting wasn’t exactly a civil war but it came really close. It was akin to the Visigoths burning and pillaging the Roman Empire.
I’d pay some money to see a civil war movie where Joe Biden declares war on Texas and then gets his head handed to him. I mean that makes some kind of sense. I could see Texas just plain getting fed up with an immigrant invasion and putting a stop to it even in the face of federal intervention. I’d love to see a movie where Washington calls out troops to force Texans to allow illegal aliens in and the troops revolt and join the Texans. Now that I’d pay to see.
I guess I should wait until April and see what the actual plot turns out to be but I’d bet small change that I’ve just more or less spelled it out. It’s a warning against Trump as dictator for life. Please spare me this drama.
Only president to serve three terms was the great fascist and Stalin stooge, FDR.
Truth is never an obstacle when they’re attacking their enemies. This movie will probably be too stupid to bear.