This Scottish newspaper's TV preview of Trump's inauguration is going so viral

[kpete]

The Sunday Herald TV guide on the inauguration of @realDonaldTrump ...

https://twitter.com/newsundayherald/status/820670333036490752

[dalton99a]

1. Spot on.

[TubbersUK]

2. Perfect n/t

[hunter]

3. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I accidentally stumbled through a portal...

... into this dystopian reality.

Certainly I'll do what I can to assist this universe, but in the back of my mind I'll still be looking for that passage back to the place I was before.

[robbob]

5. Yes, but just remember

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave...

[AJT]

15. Kinda wish

I was in the Hotel California instead of the Hell Hole Wisconsin.

[Crash2Parties]

32. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave..."

[jeffreyi]

4. Well done.

[Paladin]

6. My God, that is BEAUTIFUL.

This one deserves wide-spread circulation, immediately.

[SCantiGOP]

7. So glad to find out

That Trump being elected wasn't real.

[notdarkyet]

8. I watched a three day twilight zone marathon the days before

The electoral college. Felt like I was transported to another dimension.

[malaise]

9. Love it and never forget his love/hate relationship

with his Scottish mother

[keithbvadu2]

10. TV psychic Cleo gives a reading.

[Ligyron]

11. Brilliant.

I keep hoping this is all a nightmare and that I'll wake up soon.

Unfortunately, it's a nightmare we're all sharing like in the TV show "Falling Waters".

Actually, falling waters now takes on a whole new meaning given Trump's revealed perversion.

[Historic NY]

12. Thats going to leave a mark....

he'll be banning all foreign press & newspapers next.

[highplainsdem]

13. Link to that page on the Herald's website, full text of paragraph:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/15024376.Damien_Love__39_s_TV_highlights/

President Trump: The Inauguration

4pm, BBC One/ STV

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 – among the most common is the “What If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War” setting – 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’s 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’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.

[DemoTex]

14. Harry Turtledove comes to mind .. "Guns of the South" (1992)

"Guns of the South" - Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia is supplied with AK-47s by time-travelling white supremacist members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging from an imagined 21st-century South Africa, resulting in a Confederate victory in the American Civil War. Probably the type stuff Steve Bannon reads little Trumpie before he tucks him in at night, with his little Russian Putie Bear next to him on his Cheeto-proof pillow. Sad.

[2naSalit]

19. +1!

[noel711]

16. Brilliant, effective, far-sighted.. and yet..

Yet... none of our own newspapers would have the cojones to do likewise.

Our press/media seems... oppressed, and willing to bow down to the
new "Messiah..' or fear being 'cut out of access.'

Pathetic. Trump lacks any sense of humor,
and the best weapon against him and his regime is satire.

We are truly on the brink.

[MontanaMama]

23. The ironic truth that the ass kissing MSM

hasn't yet grasped is that they will ALL lose access to the White House very soon. It won't matter how well they sucked up. With the possible exception of Breitbart and Alex Jones.

[Eyeball_Kid]

27. Being cut out of access should be a badge of honor.

What's access worth anyway when you're entering into a brothel full of alligators.

[Scurrilous]

17. Interactive virtual reality Twilight Zone.

[yallerdawg]

18. No impact on our election?

This spells it out!

“...huge sections of the U.S. electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president.”

[2naSalit]

20. They haven't forgotten...

how they were trumped...

Ignored them at our peril, which is now our reality.

[smirkymonkey]

21. The Scots have such a great sense of humor.

[Initech]

22. Imagine if you will, a reality television star with a Nazi complex elected president of the United S

[MarinCoUSA]

24. No Tax Returns No Peace

Orange Pustule Hitler: King of the Birthers Not My President

[Eyeball_Kid]

28. Did you say, "TAX RETURNS"?

There's nothing like returning to fundamentals.

[Ilsa]

25. Hahaha! Trump is half Scottish (his mom) IIRC. I hope

this really gdts under his skin.

[Eyeball_Kid]

29. I'm for showing no mercy.

Throw the Twitter Book at him. Every person Trumpy would recognize should tweet him and tell him what an asshole he is. Maybe 50-100 a day. Keep him up until dawn every night for several weeks, tweeting insults and threats to hundreds. He'll be buying Adderall by the buckets.

[Ilsa]

31. Adderall, Valium, Klonopin;

His nutty dr will be flipping pages from the pharmacopeia for days, looking for something to treat him!

[Denzil_DC]

26. Damien Love's a star! n/t

[stage left]

30. Damn! The Scots really hate him.

Makes me proud of my Scots heritage.

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. So I looked up the author; he's written a novel, and I guess I have to read it now

because not only is the TV preview really funny, but his childhood reading is identical to mine:

Which book or series do you read that makes you feel nostalgic, remembering the period in your life you first read it?
The Gormenghast books, by Mervyn Peake. I was about 12 or 13 the first time I tried to read them. I was going through lots of fantasy and sci-fi of different varieties, Lord of the Rings, the Dune books, Douglas Adams, Stephen R Donaldson, Julian May, Terry Brooks. But the Gormenghast books were something else. I can�t remember how I first stumbled across them, but I had that real sense of having discovered something no one else knew about. Which was nonsense, of course: but they�re the kind of books that make you feel like that. Also, as a kid sitting in his bedroom trying to draw, I remember it was really important to me that Peake did his own illustrations. The books are so strange � sad, violent and funny, with an unforgettable anti-hero, but you�re watching it all through this damp cloud of white dust and black soot. To use the jargon, it's real �world building.� The density of the language, these long, minute descriptions, they just surround you � and, I�ll admit, made the books quite heavy going the first time I tried them. I�ve just started reading them again, for the first time since back then. They�re just incredible. There was great new collection of the complete trilogy published in 2011, which added many more of Peake�s drawings, plus an introduction by either China Mieville or Michael Moorcock, depending on whether you buy the UK or US edition.

http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/interview/2015/damien-love/

My exact early teenage reading, every single author - and I couldn't get through Gormenghast the first time, but returned a few years later and loved it. Though I never tried to draw.

[Denzil_DC]

34. I've not read anything long-form of his (I read too much for work),

but his TV and film reviews are always worth a look.

[JawJaw]

35. "SUNDAY HERALD? FAKE SCOTSHIRE NEWS! SO SAD. NOT FUNNY. HOLD ME MUMMY.@OANN"

[Lucky Luciano]

36. Thx for the laugh! nt

[harun]

37. Can't imagine having to live that reality

[IntraPolitico]

38. Can we take back our country like the Scots did?

Perhaps an American Braveheart is in order...