Ready Player One -
Ernest Cline wants you to remember the 80s.
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Monday, 7 August 2017
quote [ Hey, everybody. I'm Kayleigh McEnany. Thank you for joining us as we provide the news of the week from Trump Tower here in New York. ]
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knumbknutz said @ 6:40pm GMT on 7th August
Interesting - that's the setup they had in Cuba under Fidel Castro. I was stationed at GTMO some time ago. Since the base TV sucked, and was only on for about 6 or 7 hours, most everyone there tuned into Cuban TV, out of boredom (seriously; living on that base was a completely boring suck-hole). They had some TV shows on if you spoke Spanish, and, I incidentally found out that watching TV is also great way to polish up on learning a foreign language as well.
Anyway - instead of commercials, it was clips of Fidel telling everyone how it was gonna be. And they had a ton of Castro propaganda and other "the Fidel hour" sort of stuff. Kind of funny and surreal to see him on TV every day, big as life, twice as ugly, and always wearing those damn green fatigues and hat.
I know it is not state sponsored, and on every channel, but interesting nonetheless that Trump would want to even put himself in such esteemed company as a penny-ante tin-pot dictator. Thought he had slightly higher standards.
knumbknutz said @ 6:43pm GMT on 7th August
Interesting - that's the setup they had in Cuba under Fidel Castro. I was stationed at GTMO some time ago. Since the base TV sucked, and was only on for about 6 or 7 hours, most everyone there tuned into Cuban TV, out of boredom (seriously; living on that base was a completely boring suck-hole). They had some TV shows on if you spoke Spanish, and, I incidentally found out that watching TV is also great way to polish up on learning a foreign language as well.
Anyway - instead of commercials, it was clips of Fidel telling everyone how it was gonna be. And they had a ton of Castro propaganda and other "the Fidel hour" sort of stuff. Kind of funny and surreal to see him on TV every day, big as life, twice as ugly, and always wearing those damn green fatigues and hat. I always pictured him stepping into a walk-in closet first in the morning with nothing but Kelly-Green fatigues and army boots as far as the eye could see in it.
I know it is not state sponsored, and on every channel, but interesting nonetheless that Trump would want to even put himself in such esteemed company as a penny-ante tin-pot dictator. Thought he had slightly higher standards.
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knumbknutz said @ 6:40pm GMT on 7th August [Score:1 Interesting]
Interesting - that's the setup they had in Cuba under Fidel Castro. I was stationed at GTMO some time ago. Since the base TV sucked, and was only on for about 6 or 7 hours, most everyone there tuned into Cuban TV, out of boredom (seriously; living on that base was a completely boring suck-hole). They had some TV shows on if you spoke Spanish, and, I incidentally found out that watching TV is also great way to polish up on learning a foreign language as well.
Anyway - instead of commercials, it was clips of Fidel telling everyone how it was gonna be. And they had a ton of Castro propaganda and other "the Fidel hour" sort of stuff. Kind of funny and surreal to see him on TV every day, big as life, twice as ugly, and always wearing those damn green fatigues and hat. I always pictured him stepping into a walk-in closet first in the morning with nothing but Kelly-Green fatigues and army boots as far as the eye could see in it.
I know it is not state sponsored, and on every channel, but interesting nonetheless that Trump would want to even put himself in such esteemed company as a penny-ante tin-pot dictator. Thought he had slightly higher standards.
I don't think it will be successful, but there will be an overt effort and given Trump's base's blind loyalty it could get ugly...fast