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Or, When Did We Start Living in a Fictional Satire? I've compared recent events—and, in particular, this presidential election—to many things: Armageddon, Alien, every Batman story, and almost every '90s action movie. But there is one painful metaphor that I have not explored: the 2016 election appears to have been written by writer and satirist Kurt Vonnegut. I first …
Continue reading What Would Kurt Vonnegut Say About the 2016 Election?
Interested in reading D. F. Lovett's fiction? Buy his books here. Donald Trump made waves this week by releasing his list of SCOTUS picks. He must've had some help from a buddy of his, as the list was conspicuously absent of either John Grisham or Mark Geragos. But let's be real. We all know that Candidate …
Continue reading Who Would Donald Appoint? Some Predictions for Trump’s Cabinet
Jeb(!) Bush recently made headlines by declaring he would not vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, proclaiming "I cannot support his candidacy." With this announcement, he has fallen into rank with Lindsay Graham, Mitt Romney, and the other two Presidential Bushes, in saying that he will not support either the Democrat or the …
Continue reading How the Republican Establishment Has Become South Park’s Stan Marsh
"Do you feel in charge?" It is with these words that the power shifts from one man to another in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, as the terrorist and demagogue Bane rests a hand on the shoulder of corrupt, scheming businessman John Daggett. This is Daggett's last moment alive, realizing that he staked …
Continue reading Is Bane the Batman Character Who Trump Resembles Most?
Trump and the Joker have been compared many times. Let's take a close look at how much they resemble one another.
In a previous article, I discussed how presidential elections resemble the one-by-one elimination of astronauts at the hands of space monsters, and which specific science fiction character each candidate is. As it happens, we are farther into the campaign and the expendable characters have started to drop away. It also happens to be October, aka Horror Movie …