Weekend at Donnie's

"Weekend at Bernie's," a 1989 dark comedy starring Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, and Andrew McCarthy.

 

Many people of a certain age will remember an absurdist black comedy from the late 1980s called "Weekend at Bernie's."

It was made by the Bulgarian / Canadian film director Ted Kotcheff - who had a string of good movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including "Fun with Dick and Jane," "North Dallas Forty," and the inaugural installment of the Rambo series, "First Blood."

The premise of "Weekend at Bernie's" is two young finance bros in Manhattan are invited by their boss Bernie out to Bernie's house in the wealthy Hamptons for the weekend.  

The bros have discovered an embezzlement scheme at the company, but are unaware that Bernie is behind the scheme, and plans to have them killed to cover it up.

Bernie gets killed instead, and the two bros spend the weekend propping up Bernie's corpse and pretending he is still alive. 

The movie was widely panned by critics, but became popular because actual people enjoy low-brow comedy.  Parts of the movie are insanely funny.  

Like this part:

The Memes Write Themselves

A thought occurred to me the other day.

I thought, "I wonder if anyone has noticed the similarity of Trump Presidency 2 with Weekend at Bernie's?"

Basically, you have a living corpse in Trump, being propped up by certain individuals who are trying to preserve their own power and privileges, and ram through an extremist agenda.

It's been noted in many places now that Trump has dementia, and likely has very little idea what is happening.  He is also in poor physical health, and his body will probably be gone soon, along with his mind.

If people are noticing, you'd think they'd start making memes about it, wouldn't you?

And you'd be right.

Weekend at Donnie's meme featuring Stephen Miller and one of Trump's odious, insufferable sons.  Stephen Miller is a modern incarnation of the Medieval antisemitic trope of the malignant, underhanded, scheming Jew.  When Trump goes away, the MAGA people will happily tar and feather him.   

 

This is a fun one.  It must be a bit old, because Elon Musk long ago fell out of favor with the Donald.  Why would JD Vance prop up the Donald's corpse, when he stands next in line to become president?  Simple.  There is no MAGA movement without Trump.  MAGA people don't care about Vance, they don't believe in him, he doesn't matter.  He will become a half-term president, like Gerald Ford.

I would cite authorship of these memes, but I found them floating around the internet.  I have no idea who made them.

Any event, the point is the Trump presidency, as awful as it's been, is already approaching its end.

It says a lot about the United States that we've had two presidents in a row who are old, sclerotic, and suffering from dementia - while backroom dealers scurry around the White House like rats. 

Words of Wisdom

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” 

- Antonio Gramsci