So, I recently watched Falling Down, the film starring Michael Douglas as an unemployed defense contractor that finally snaps and goes on a crime spree.

I had seen this film in a theater years ago and for whatever reason did not think too much of it. Seeing it now though it is a perfect film for our times. It features a character played by Michael Douglas that is the embodiment of the kind of person that would in 2016 vote for Donald Trump...or just go on a shooting spree with his assault rifle.

The film is now 25 years old and I have to say I do think people should visit or revisit at this stage. It's not the sort of brilliant satire that Network is but it captures a very American character that...well...probably would be seen as a hero to a lot of Trump rally attendees.

He is white, racist (not a Nazi though as he meets one in the picture), a family man, violent, harms a bunch of people of color that we see through his eyes as being "intruders" that make our country worse, and at the end of the film he asks with great surprise "I'm the bad guy?" when confronted by Robert Duvall's cop.

This is important because you have to understand that a typical Trump supporter does not see him or herself as a bad guy. Of course most of them have not gone on a crime spree as Douglas does in the film but they do see supporting an absolutely vile creature like Trump and all the horrible things he does and espouses as "justified" because like the Douglas character in the film they feel they just can't get a fair shake anywhere in the world. So, in their fantasy they want revenge. To make somebody pay.

Of course, they want to hang on to their assault rifles just in case they do need to go on a killing spree to...well...um...kill the "deep state" people coming for their idiotic and traitorous president they love so much? Or you know stop the hordes of brown people, gay frogs, or fight the zombie apocalypse that are all likely to invade their neighborhood at some point.

Sadly, the people they want to trample are typically far worse off than they are.

It would obviously be illegal for Trump to hire a private army to rape other countries...he has the largest most powerful military force in the world at his disposal after all and so would just use them. However, he certainly would look the other way if a guy like Prince put his private army to work for some giant corporate interest. This should also be illegal as companies should not be permitted to hire a military force (I know people will say we already hire out the US military to Big Energy) but there are ways around that and Prince moved his company out of the United States so he would not have to be bothered by pain in the ass stuff like US laws.

You have to ask too, who would Trump go to war with? I mean the thing you have to understand about Trump is the guy loves rich people and he really loves rich dictators. So, he can't attack North Korea now he is love with Kim. He loves Putin and Russian money. He loves the Chinese and their money.

The Russians are in Syria so he will leave that to his pal Vlad. He and his family really, really love the Saudi royals because they are as fucked up and crazy as the Trump family...and they have a shitload of cash.

Yes, there is Iran. Trump has nobody he loves there and the place is full of brown people to kill. There is also Afghanistan and that place is loaded with poor brown people to slaughter and lots of natural resources everybody wants to take. Trump still needs permission from Vlad to do anything though and Vlad will tell Trump how much of a cut he gets.

Honesty, if Trump could choose who to bomb it would probably be Canada or Germany or even a place like Iceland. I mean the people he wants to kill are either brown or they are people that say bad things about him. Or he would just bomb the side of the House and Senate where the Democrats sit. Or he would bomb Bob Mueller's office.

I mean Trump wants to go to war with somebody, this is absolutely true...it just has to be a place that has no rich people that might invest in Trump family businesses and that all his rich pals tell him it is OK to bomb.

Now, to be fair, Trump almost got to start one war since he has been in office and no it was not North Korea. Apparently though, Rex Tillerson of all people shut it down.

What happened was Jared Kushner had nearly made a deal with some Qataris to finance his dump 666 Fifth Avenue but they pulled out...obviously pissing him off. At the same time the Saudis had let Kushner and Trump know they would like to attack Qatar and steal all their wealth. Somehow a deal seemed to be quickly made that Trump would rapidly essentially declare Qatar our enemy and immediately institute an economic blockade of Qatar. This would essentially clear the way for the Saudis to attack Qatar.

Trump was all in on this salivating at the idea he could kill some Qataris and punish them for backing out on Jared, not to mention steal their wealth and resources through the Saudis. Then Rex Tillerson stepped in and said "Hey, you ignorant boob, Qatar is our ally and we have a huge military base there (which Jared should have been aware of since Trump put Jared in charge of the Middle East) what the fuck are you idiots doing?"

This led to Trump and Kushner having to back down as suddenly as they put their surprise blockade in place (plus they had no explanation for their sudden economic blockade anyway) so their greedy little war was averted. It also led to Tillerson losing his job.

Of course this whole thing was barely even noticed by the general public so most people have no idea that Trump and Kushner nearly started a war in the Middle East over financing for a Trump family property.

Is that messed up? You bet but you know Trump supporters here are too busy buying guns and getting prepared in case they need to become Michael Douglas in Falling Down to pay attention to that sort of shit.