Trump has a thing, one might say a phobia, about sharks as his story about choosing electrocution over being eaten by sharks attests. Here's a quote from an article in The Week:
Trump is "obsessed with sharks, terrified of sharks," Stormy Daniels said in 2018. "He was like, 'I donate to all these charities, and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.'"
This may be what led to my dream.
I woke from the dream at 4:30. I was at a beach standing on a boardwalk and saw a large shark starting to swim towards several bathers who didn't see it. I tried to yell to warn them but they didn't hear me.
There were some folding metal chairs on the boardwalk and I threw them into the water to alert the people but I still couldn't get their attention.Then, still not seeing the shark, they came out of the water and walked onto the beach, but the shark became a land shark and followed them onto the beach. Then there was a dog on the beach who did see the shark and was almost nose to nose barking at it. Still the people were oblivious.
I threw some more chairs and was able to hit the shark on the back but the shark didn't respond. All the while I'd been shouting as loud as I could but nobody heard me.
I managed to get down to the beach. Under the boardwalk I met some security guards. They happened to be the same red shirted unarmed security team members we have at the continuing care retirement community where I live. They had also seen the shark. The bathers were ignoring them too. Being unarmed they didn't know what to do.
We stood there together feeling helpless.
I couldn't fall back asleep so I got up, made some coffee, turned on "Morning Joe" and fired up my laptop and checked to the the lead stories on HUFFPOST and saw this:
Nate Silver: Harris Wins 40,012 Of 80,000 Vote Simulations
Statistician Nate Silver published his final Silver Bulletin just after midnight on Tuesday, and the results were stunningly close.
The FiveThirtyEight founder ran 80,000 simulations of the upcoming election: In them, Harris won just over 50% of the time. Trump won just under 50%. And the simulations found an exact Electoral College tie 270 of those times.
On RawStory the lead was:When polling places close across the United States tonight, in the event that Donald Trump appears to be losing, it’s not hard to predict what he and his allies will do overturn the result between now and Jan. 20.
The early outlines of the MAGA strategy for overturning a potential loss look remarkably similar to what unfolded after the Nov. 3, 2020 election.
This was on the main page of The New York Times.
If only the land shark, which obviously symbolizes Donald Trump in my dream, was a comedic device like the land shark featured in nine episodes of Saturday Night Live .
Here's the compilation of various episodes with different characters opening the door for the land shark who claimed to be delivering, among other things a candygram. It has a proclivity for attacking single women.... nuff said about that.
Trump isn't the amusing land shark in the SNL skits. Nobody had their head really bitten off. He's more like the great white shark from Jaws. He's the great in his own mind White candidate. In fact just yesterday he bragged about having white skin. Oddly, he also talked about going to the beach although I can't recall ever seeing a photo of him at a beach (see article).
‘Absolutely, but I could’ve been on the best beaches in the world. I own the best beaches in the world.'”
The former president then bragged about having “beautiful white skin” and griped that the presidential race has prevented him from getting a proper tan:
I could’ve been at the great Turnberry in Scotland. I could’ve been anywhere I wanted to be. I could’ve had those waves smacking me in the face. That white, beautiful white skin that I have would be nice and tan. I got the whitest skin ’cause I never have time to go out in the sun. But I have that beautiful white, and you know what? It could’ve been beautiful, tanned, beautiful.
Unlike the shark in "Jaws" who is just a shark being a shark who has an appetite for people, Trump will wreak havoc on American democracy the way the giant bloodthirsty predatory fish did in the surf in Amity (filmed on Martha's Vineyard).
It's like we've been at sea hunting the Trump shark and realized how big it has become with half the country about to vote it into the White House. We realized that we were going to need a bigger boat to stop this from happening. President Biden couldn't do it. Now we have a damn big boat with Kamala Harris at the helm, but we don't know if it will be big enough (see clip).
No blog about Trump being a dangerous shark using pop culture examples can be complete without a reference to Bobby Darin's hit "Mack the Knife." While the song has mellow and cool sound, it is actually about a murderous rapist named Macheath from The Threepenny Opera. The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld from the musical named Macheath, the "Mack the Knife" of the title. (reference).
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old Macheath, babe
And he keeps it out of sight
You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, though, wears old Macheath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red
Now on the sidewalk, ooh, sunny morning, uh-huh
Lies a body just oozin' life
Eek, and someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?
There's a tugboat down by the river, don't ya know
Where a cement bag's just a-droopin' on down
Oh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, dear
Five'll get ya ten, old Macky's back in town
Now d'ya hear about Louie Miller? He disappeared, babe
After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash
And now Macheath spends just like a sailor
Could it be our boy's done something rash?
Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town
I said Jenny Diver, whoa, Sukey Tawdry
Look out to Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Yes, that line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town
Look out ol' Macky's back
Let's hope that Kamala will vanquish Mack the Knife.
Hopefully Trump the shark can end up in a metaphorical museum. This is the home of Bruce the mechanical shark from Jaws.
Some people want to see Trump in prison. If he loses the election I don't care where he resides. He's never been known to go swimming even though Mar-a-Lago has a pool or even visit a nearby Florida beach where, in fact, there are sharks. I want to make sure that in time his cult will abandon him and realize that they better not go swimming on the beach of facism again.By tomorrow I hope I can rest easy knowing that Kamala proved that Trump wasn't that great a white shark as he and his cult think he is.None-photo illustrations are made by Perchance Photo AI.
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