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Dan Bongino, 'Chernobyl' creator spar over socialism after Stephen King compares disaster to Trump
washingtontimes.com ^ | May 31, 2019 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 05/31/2019 1:57:47 PM PDT by drpix

Conservative commentator Dan Bongino schooled producer Craig Mazin on the “failure of socialism” Thursday after the creator and writer of HBO’s “Chernobyl” praised a tweet by horror icon Stephen King that compared the Soviet-era disaster to Donald Trump’s presidency.

The feud started early Thursday after Mr. King wrote that it’s “impossible” for him to watch “Chernobyl” without thinking of the current president.

Stephen King @StephenKing: "It's impossible to watch HBO's CHERNOBYL without thinking of Donald Trump; like those in charge of the doomed Russian reactor, he's a man of mediocre intelligence in charge of great power--economic, global--that he does not understand."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bongino; chernobyl; gorbochev; hbo; soviet; trump; tvprogram; tvseries
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To: dead
And, to complete the circle, here is a parody of the Beach Boys California Girls about Russian girls.

SlavicChicks

Well, Ukraine girls really knock me out!
I dig their flat Slav cheeks.
And the Georgian chicks with the way they kiss
keep their guys blue-balled for weeks.

I've been all 'round the CIS
but I never thought I'd find
a hot kulak with skin like chalk
blowing Ivan's Russian mind.

I wish they all could be Yugoslavic,
I'd give my yurt for some Upper Baltic,
thank God you're no Mongolian girl!
21 posted on 05/31/2019 3:00:18 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Imagine Bing Crosby producing a comedy about a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp. He did and it was very funny.


22 posted on 05/31/2019 3:00:31 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"When the Beatles wrote “Back in the USSR” and were crying out for peace, they didn’t even know the USSR was a totalitarian state."

That just goes to show you how your knowledge of current events flavors your ideas. I say this because I was about 12 when the song came out and I thought it was joking, because "everyone knew" how bad it was in the USSR at that time.

23 posted on 05/31/2019 3:27:49 PM PDT by fini
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To: dead
Imagine Bing Crosby producing a comedy about a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp. He did and it was very funny.

With Jewish actors portraying the Nazis.

24 posted on 05/31/2019 3:31:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

I have read ONE Stephen King book...about writing...


25 posted on 05/31/2019 3:54:15 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: drpix
“Only a clueless Hollywood elitist could produce a historically accurate series such as ‘Chernobyl‘ and come away with the message that socialism wasn’t the issue,”

It really is a well-done show, very little of the hyper-emotionalism, violin music, etc etc etc... it covers the lives and events in an almost sterile approach. It allows the viewer to process and feel, without being pushed. I love it.

And the main message that I take away from it is that the accident happened by a cluster of causes all piling up in just the wrong way... all made worse by the simple fact that a leadership that was terrified of looking fallible did what they could to make it look like it was the fault of anything but their system, whether it was or wasn't. That's not even the fault of "Socialism", that's the fault of that particular stripe of authoritarian (although almost all authoritarians seem to carry that trait... and almost all Socialism leads to authoritarianism).

(The actual disaster, explained, with the gift of 40 years of hindsight: The accident occurred during a late-night safety test simulating a power outage, during which both emergency safety and power-regulating systems were intentionally disabled. A combination of inherent RBMK reactor design flaws... plus reactor operators arranging the core in a manner contrary to the checklist for the test... resulted in uncontrolled reaction conditions. Superheated water was instantly turned into steam, causing a destructive steam explosion... and the led to a subsequent open-air graphite fire, which spread the radioactive poison far and wide. None of those contributing factors are the result of a political bent. The reactor flaws possibly being known and hidden could be, and thus possibly prevented, could be attributed to the Soviet way, but that's tangential at best.)

26 posted on 05/31/2019 4:10:47 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: fini
That just goes to show you how your knowledge of current events flavors your ideas. I say this because I was about 12 when the song came out and I thought it was joking, because "everyone knew" how bad it was in the USSR at that time.

I always assumed it was just The Beatles being nice, and drumming up a huge market with some kind words and a fun song. But yes, we all knew it was not saying that Moscow girls and Miami Beach girls were partying and enjoying life and love with the same fervor.

27 posted on 05/31/2019 4:13:42 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: dead

Agree the show is riveting and I like the level of detail about what went on in the reactor and the response on the ground. You just know everyone there will die.

The portrayal of the USSR and the paranoia off the bureaucrats and high level officials is scary. I knew the result but I wasn’t sure at times they would ever do anything right.

How the creator gets a Trump blast out of it is beyond me.


28 posted on 05/31/2019 4:19:39 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: drpix

King has it totally backwards, evidence of his progressive TDS.

The show reflects what Democrats and deep staters would be like — not admitting reality, worrying most about appearances, not reacting properly, not protecting the people.

That wouldn’t be Trump. King is yet another ignorant proggie emoter with a microphone.


29 posted on 05/31/2019 4:28:42 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: goodnesswins

Yes, that’s the only book of his I’ve read too. I think I even read it twice. Very insightful actually.


30 posted on 05/31/2019 7:37:21 PM PDT by tenger (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. -Will Rogers)
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To: polymuser

I’m constantly amazed that libs equates fame to that of intelligence. King writes creepy crap, because that’s where he mentally is. Somehow King, Cher, Alyssa Moron-o, And every dumbass high school athlete that has a Nike contract, automatically think they are political wonks. TDS is the best disease out there, because only the truly intelligent are immune to it!


31 posted on 05/31/2019 11:03:56 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputec)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Actually everything he has written since about 1980 is a hot steaming pile of sh!t.
His first few books were “OK”, after 1980 he hasn’t written anything worth wasting your time with.


32 posted on 05/31/2019 11:43:32 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: drpix

Criminal Minds was a TV show that lasted for YEARS.

It showed just how SICK a mind can be and showed some unbelievable stories to prove their point.

THAT IS STEPHEN KING. His original books were sick, Carrie, Salem’s Lot, Cujo, etc., were told in such an interesting way that King rose to fame.

His later books were trash, but the loyal fans were too committed to point it out.

The man is a sick piece of trash and the sooner the public recognizes it, the better.


33 posted on 05/31/2019 11:49:03 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: 5th MEB

I actually did read The Shining. Must have been around the time it came out in paperback because there was no talk at the time of a movie being made of it. I did like the book, but did not feel compelled to read any more of his books. I really like the movie that was made of The Shining. I understand King hated it because of changes to the story from the novel.


34 posted on 06/01/2019 7:23:29 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Imagine Benny Goodman playing a dance tune about Nazi Germany?”

“Begin the Regime”? I know, Cole Porter, Artie Shaw.


35 posted on 06/01/2019 7:35:48 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Borges
Revolution is one of the greatest anti- Lefty songs of all time.
36 posted on 06/05/2019 5:42:07 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: drpix

The creator of ‘Chernobyl’ Craig Mazin — was Senator Ted Cruz’ freshman roommate at Princeton.


37 posted on 06/07/2019 1:56:36 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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