Here at BQ HQ, we don't need to rely on cable news pundits to predict how Trump's spankin' new war, Operation Epstein Fury will turn out......
We know already from the source by which all prescient wisdom emanates......
Movies.
We direct your attention to Billion Dollar Brain (1967) the third theatrical film about the adventures of novelist Len Deighton's dryly witty, slightly rogue MI6 secret agent Harry Palmer......as perfectly embodied as a kind of grown-up delinquent anti-Bond by Michael Caine.
Britain's resident anything-goes, madman director Ken Russell ("Tommy", "Altered States", "The Music Lovers") given the film's loony, nutso plot, predictably went wild with it......and the film's climax will provide you with a telling metaphor for Trump's latest, most insane attempt to take our minds off the Epstein files.....his Middle East war, which he swore to his mouth breathing, red-hatted Trumpanzees he'd never wage.
'Billion's Megalomaniac is mad, mad, mad Texas gazillionaire General Midwinter (played with eye-bulging, foam-at-the-mouth gusto by Ed Begley). An All-American patriot, General M deploys his private army to invade Latvia and touch off a revolution that will no doubt cause the populace to rise up and overthrow communist Russia.
Yeah....right.
Driving minion-filled tankers and armed snowmobiles across a frozen lake, Midwinter's crusade literally sinks in mid winter......when the ice cracks and he and his army go glub, glub, glub into the ice cold drink.
(And yes, if this sounds vaguely familiar to cinema buffs, of course it's a direct homage to the iconic drowning of the Teutonic Knights in Sergei Eisenstein's medieval war epic "Alexander Nevsky".)
Midwinter's bubble-brained ideas of instant regime change bear a striking similarity to our own homegrown would-be conqueror, Donald Trump. But while Midwinter believes fervently in his cause, Trump believes in nothing but the greater glorification of Trump and doesn't think much past that......meaning there's no endgame or carefully laid strategy on his mind, other than the fun of watching his missiles and bombs reigning down on the Iranians......combine that with a Filet O' Fish sandwich, fries and a coke - it's Trump's recipe for a narcissist's orgasm.
Midwinter's army is nothing but a horde of faceless, fictional cultists who've swallowed his bullshit while five-time draft dodger Trump now risks the very real lives of American men and women of the U.S. armed forces......brave people he privately thinks of as 'suckers and losers'.
Our final glimpse of Midwinter practically serves as a political cartoon of Trump......trapped in a flooded glass capsule, a prisoner of his own delusions, gasping for his last breaths as the water rises over his head.
Tragically, we've yet to see our last glimpse of Trump, with his toddler tantrums, decaying mind and desperate fear of his inevitable exposure as a pedophile. Because he's drowning all of us in that cracked open lake and determined to take us all to the bottom with him......
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