{"id":33599,"date":"2017-01-15T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T21:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33599"},"modified":"2017-01-15T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T21:12:45","slug":"hysterical-tv-listing-compares-trump-inauguration-to-a-nightmarish-twilight-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33599","title":{"rendered":"Hysterical TV Listing Compares Trump Inauguration To A Nightmarish Twilight Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

With less than a week until Donald Trump is sworn in to office, the world is still incredulous. Many wonder how a vulgar, thin-skinned, racist, pathological liar, with countless conflicts of interest, and unsavory ties to Russia, ever got to this point.<\/p>\n

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However, a television writer in Scotland may have had the best reaction to this unsettling state of affairs. Damien Love writes the program synopses for Scotland’s Sunday Herald. In this week’s listings<\/a><\/strong> he described the Trump inauguration in a uniquely troubling way:<\/p>\n

President Trump: The Inauguration<\/h4>\n

4pm, BBC One\/ STV<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories \u2013 among the most common is the \u201cWhat If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War\u201d setting \u2013 but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present. The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today\u2019s feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead. It\u2019s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we\u2019re not careful.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Love’s satire perfectly captures some very real concerns. This is indeed “a nightmarish version of 2017”<\/em> and “a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into.”<\/em> And the fact that other countries perceive the new American government this way forecasts a worrisome decline in respect for the nation. This snarky TV listing is, unfortunately, just a preview of what’s to come.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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