https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...aptain-queeg-time-for-all-hands-to-be-on-deck
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw compared outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis to "the captain of a sinking ship" and urged all Americans regardless of "party label" to confront President Trump, whom he compared to Captain Queeg.
Queeg is the fictional unstable skipper of the U.S.S. Caine in Herman Wouk's classic World War II novel, "The Caine Mutiny," released in 1951.
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Somebody check the strawberries.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...aptain-queeg-time-for-all-hands-to-be-on-deck
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw compared outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis to "the captain of a sinking ship" and urged all Americans regardless of "party label" to confront President Trump, whom he compared to Captain Queeg.
Queeg is the fictional unstable skipper of the U.S.S. Caine in Herman Wouk's classic World War II novel, "The Caine Mutiny," released in 1951.
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Somebody check the strawberries.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...aptain-queeg-time-for-all-hands-to-be-on-deck
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw compared outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis to "the captain of a sinking ship" and urged all Americans regardless of "party label" to confront President Trump, whom he compared to Captain Queeg.
Queeg is the fictional unstable skipper of the U.S.S. Caine in Herman Wouk's classic World War II novel, "The Caine Mutiny," released in 1951.
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Somebody check the strawberries.
Haven't seen this classic flick in decades. Hope to find it tonight on my tablet either Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.
Someone should send DJT a few ball bearings for him to play with, sort of like Muslim Worry Beads (which became the Catholic Rosary).
Of course Captain Queeg wasn't the villain in that film or the novel it was based on. If Trump is indeed the Queeg character according to Brokaw, then he needs to read/watch the whole thing and see where that places the opposition.
Indeed, Queeg wasn't the villain, but a pitiable, unstable genius. All one has to do to see Trump's Queeg-ness is remember his doctor's letter, apparently dictated by Trump: "his physical strength and stamina are extraordinary," and "If elected, I can state unequivocally that Mr. Trump will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." This is a seven-year old forging a note from the teacher. "Your son is the most well-behaved boy in school history." The fact that Trump would dictate such sentences is sign of his Queeg-ness. No doctor would write such a thing, I imagine. Trump would. And that's the problem.
You imagine no doctor would write such a thing. I don't know if a doctor would write such a thing.
But that's beyond the point- I don't recall anything from the film about Queeg dictating letters to doctors.
So who turned out to be the villain in The Caine Mutiny?
You imagine no doctor would write such a thing. I don't know if a doctor would write such a thing.
But that's beyond the point- I don't recall anything from the film about Queeg dictating letters to doctors.
So who turned out to be the villain in The Caine Mutiny?
Of course Captain Queeg wasn't the villain in that film or the novel it was based on. If Trump is indeed the Queeg character according to Brokaw, then he needs to read/watch the whole thing and see where that places the opposition.
You imagine no doctor would write such a thing. I don't know if a doctor would write such a thing.
But that's beyond the point- I don't recall anything from the film about Queeg dictating letters to doctors.
So who turned out to be the villain in The Caine Mutiny?
The Caine would have been lost in the storm with captain Queeg in charge.
I meant that what Trump did in dictating the letter is as troubling to me as Queeg's obsessions about strawberries. The final scene if I remember correctly attempts to expose those who caused Queeg's downfall as not really heroes. It is an interesting and appropriate twist for viewers. No real villains. Life is often like that. I helped get rid of a boss like Queeg. Had to be done, but didn't feel great afterwards. Strange as it sounds, though I want his downfall, there is a little bit of tragedy in Trump. I suspect he might be a lonely man.
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