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Normalization of Assassination - Olympus Has Fallen promo on TBS
TBS Network ^ | 6/23/17 | Self

Posted on 06/23/2017 1:28:31 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

I was watching reruns of The Big Bang Theory on TBS last night, and they had promos for the movie, Olympus Has Fallen, which airs tonight.

The plot of the movie involves North Korean terrorists who size the White House, kill dozens of people, and hold the President hostage. TBS cuts the promo to play this plot for laughs.

In one promo, the VP in the Situation Room are communicating with the terrorist over a video connection, and the terrorist threatens to kill the President, and a scenes from the end of the movie is cut in where everybody in the Situation Room laughs and the VP says "At last some good news!"

Another promo has a C130 gunship shooting up the White House, and this is played for laughs.

This is yet another example of the normalization of violence against President Trump, which has reached the point where a movie about terrorists holding the White House hostage is seen as a good thing and a suitable subject for humor.


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To: Haiku Guy

300 struck me as gay theater, what with those outrageous uniforms. Metal underwear and capes? Come on. The Spartans had more sense than that.


21 posted on 06/23/2017 4:22:13 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Saruman (Leftists) to the army (evil people) of Isengard “A new power is rising. Its victory is at hand. This night the land will be stained with the blood of Rohan. March to Helm’s Deep. Leave none alive. To war!”


22 posted on 06/23/2017 4:23:51 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: Eleutheria5

“Seems these show people tend to like the idea of assassination.”

Most people have a very simplistic view of the world. Instead of seeing titanic structural forces like changing demographics, changing distributions of wealth, immigration and the like as causing events, they focus on one individual and assign blame for things not being the way they’d like. Gavrilo Princip, who shot Arch Duke Ferdinand, for example, was by all accounts incompetent as a man. He understood so little that he shot the one man most likely to grant him exactly what he wanted, a true partnership in the empire for his people. I read an analysis of about a hundred high profile assassinations, starting with Julius Caesar. In not one case did the assassination accomplish what the assassin wanted. In most cases, the opposite happened.


23 posted on 06/23/2017 4:25:51 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Haiku Guy

The ballpark demonstrated that at present they couldn’t assassinate anyone. He shoots 100 rounds, injures four, and gets killed—in a crowded ballpark and low security! A POTUS is surrounded by highly trained secret service men, who are conditioned to jump into the line of fire to save the POTUS, and they do advance work anywhere the POTUS is going to appear, covering every vantage point that might be used for a shooter before the POTUS even gets there. Given time, the snowflakes might train and equip a competent assassin. But by then, America will be well over them and into the Trump era.


24 posted on 06/23/2017 4:28:21 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: cgbg

And McKinley and Kennedy were both assassinated, along with Robert Kennedy, several attempts on Ford and one attempt on Reagan that failed only because the bullet was badly made. Now that they’re not at all interested in who killed Seth Rich and why, and are hell bent to believe that the Russians did something Russian because Russian, things are looking bleak.


25 posted on 06/23/2017 4:31:44 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Sounds like just the profile for a hollyweirdo. I wonder who’ll do it? Can Sean Penn even pronounce “hic sic semper tyranus”? How about Leonardo deCrapio?


26 posted on 06/23/2017 4:37:03 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Haiku Guy

If something happens to Trump, I have a feeling that the next civil war will erupt. It will be like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.


27 posted on 06/23/2017 4:42:01 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: ReaganGeneration2
Time Warner owns TNT and CNN and funded the Central park assassin play about trump.

You can do real damage by complaining to the FCC about the proposed merger with Att .

i think it reeks of monopoly issues too.

Hit the left wing corporate clowns were they are going to hurt .

Stop the merger.

28 posted on 06/23/2017 4:43:01 AM PDT by ncalburt (ll)
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To: Haiku Guy

Time Warner owns all of them .
Stop the merger with Att and see the left wing global media heads snap .


29 posted on 06/23/2017 4:46:02 AM PDT by ncalburt (ll)
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To: Haiku Guy

All of that rot is under the umbrella of Time-Lies-Warner-Turner-CNN-HBO, home to Bill Marher.


30 posted on 06/23/2017 4:57:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: ncalburt

Hit the left wing corporate clowns were they are going to hurt.

Stop the merger.

Strategically very smart.... hit them in their power consolidation.


31 posted on 06/23/2017 5:01:09 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Haiku Guy
No. The movie is about a North Korean Terrorist Organization infiltrating the White House. The South Korean PM visits and his security detail IS the Terrorist Organization. The South Korean PM is executed live on TV. Things get worse from there until they get better. It is a good action movie.

The sequel, London has Fallen, is just as clever. When the Westminster Bridge attack occurred I thought of that movie.

32 posted on 06/23/2017 5:08:06 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: FoxInSocks

It’s a goog movie.


33 posted on 06/23/2017 5:09:23 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: ReaganGeneration2; All
It's much better than White House Down.

The plot entails North Korean Terrorists, one Secret Service Traitor and good guys! It has nothing to do with our Fascist Democratic brethren who are willing to assassinate Republicans

34 posted on 06/23/2017 5:13:48 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Chgogal

The problem is that our Fascist Democratic brethren are putting this movie on a comedy channel and using it as comedic fodder.

The joke is that wouldn’t it be great if the Norks came and blew up the White House because Trump.

Then think this is funny.


35 posted on 06/23/2017 5:22:47 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: Haiku Guy

Did you see the movie? If not watch it. It is good.


36 posted on 06/23/2017 5:26:46 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Chgogal

The movie is fine. Better than White House Down, which came out at about the same time.


37 posted on 06/23/2017 5:42:04 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: Haiku Guy

I’ve noticed it, too. Olympus Has Fallen. White House Down. The Manchurian Candidate, etc. Pure hate against Trump and America. Television has been running and rerunning every movie they can find about a presidential assassination or government takeover for the past couple of months.


38 posted on 06/23/2017 5:58:16 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Haiku Guy

TBS is owned by Hanoi Jane’s ex.


39 posted on 06/23/2017 6:00:35 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Haiku Guy

Awful movie and equally terrible TV show. Stopped watching the TV show after the POTUS and FLOTUS went FULL RETARD on gun ownership.


40 posted on 06/23/2017 6:04:35 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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