Captain Bligh got kicked off the ship and cast adrift in a little rowboat

[Solomon]

I'm just saying. He identifies with Captain Bligh. Proceed cap'n.

[AirmensMom]

1. Sort of exciting to think about, eh?

That dude just doesn't think things through.

[sweetloukillbot]

2. He's calling the governors Captain Bligh. nt

[SouthernCal_Dem]

6. I don't think that's the case

Did you read his tweet?

He's referring to himself as the captain.

[JHB]

19. I think his mind has muddled who's who and what's what in that movie

He clearly places himself as The Captain (Bligh], but thinks he's Brando.

[MFM008]

33. No

He is Captain Queeg
Counting the strawberries.

[John Fante]

35. Queeg suffered from some sort of paranoid schizophrenia.

He wasn't a bad man though, the war simply got to him.

Trump OTOH is a Grade A scumbag, with not a single redeeming as quality in his entire body.

[JHB]

36. True, but I was addressing how HE thinks of it.

[wryter2000]

31. He has no idea what he's talking about

He just fixated on the word "mutiny."

Some of the mutineers who did return to England were hanged, btw.

[malaise]

3. The Con is Captain Smith

Iceberg ahead!

[Zoonart]

4. THISX1000

Did the idiot watch the WHOLE movie?

[mopinko]

5. wonder if tcm is nimble enough to get it on their schedule.

have seen them make quick changes when people pass. hmmm.

[SheltieLover]

7. 🤣🤣🤣

[asiliveandbreathe]

8. Here is my thought about the pos...

The whaling voyage of the Pequod ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale (Obama),
as Ahab(pos) forces the crew members(republicons) to support his fanatical mission.
When Moby Dick(Obama) is finally sighted(like today), Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution,
and the whale(Obama) drags Ahab to the bottom of the sea.

[malaise]

9. Oh yes!

[asiliveandbreathe]

14. BTW..thanks for all you do..I don't comment too often, but I read through much of what is

expressed throughout the day..today I find myself in a mischief mood..I tried to find a pic of Ahab roped to Moby Dick..alas..

[Wounded Bear]

22. Gregory Peck version...

You're welcome

[asiliveandbreathe]

25. See..you are the best...TKS...

[Wounded Bear]

26. Not at all. Google is your friend...

[malaise]

39. Thanks

[malaise]

37. Keep searching for that pic

[asiliveandbreathe]

38. Wounded Bear post #22....TADA

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13284569

[hatrack]

10. Along with everyone in the crew, except for Ishmael

Party!

[asiliveandbreathe]

13. Indeed...

[Amaryllis]

11. There's the tweet:

Link to tweet

[renate]

12. I've never watched either, but isn't "Mutiny on the Bounty" different from "The Caine Mutiny"?

Either way, Trump is definitely the crazy captain.

[Amaryllis]

16. Very different. Bligh is essentiallly a dictator captain and the crew mutinies and Bligh does not

meet with a good end, in the movie, anyway. Don't know how fact based it is.

[wryter2000]

32. Bligh survived

Although his long, long journey in an open boat was pretty much torture. Only the iron-fisted discipline that cause the mutiny to begin with saved him and the few men with him.

The Bounty's cargo was breadfruit, which had to be watered daily. He used the sailors' water to do it. He was a tyrant, but most captains were back then.

[Siwsan]

18. One was based on truth (Mutiny on the Bounty) and one was fiction (The Caine Mutiny)

Actions by the crews, both historic and fictional, some might argue were legitimate.

I highly recommend 'The Caine Mutiny'. Excellent film with some really great performances by Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray. There's actually a disclaimer from the Department of the Navy stating that the film is pure fiction as there has never been an active mutiny aboard an American Naval vessel.

And I'd say trump* is a real mix of the character deficits of Captain Bligh and Captain Queeg, with none of the skills of either.

[TreasonousBastard]

20. Very different-- Captain Bligh was real, and not the villain he was often...

portrayed as. He was one of the few naval or merchant officers who actually had the crew's best interests at heart. He was not a mad disciplinarian and he did what he could to maintain their good health. He was friends with Fletcher Christian and they served on several ships together. The problem arose when Christian fell in love with a native woman on Tahiti and much of the crew got really, really used to life on the island. Beat hell out of life on a ship.

Queeg, otoh was the fictional captain in Wouk's brilliant novel about command decision processes and madness.

In both cases, the captain was quite capable, but one descended into madness-- Trump started out incapable and mad.

[Aristus]

28. Thank you.

The real Bligh was quite an admirable man. Not likeable, by all accounts, but an extraordinary person, sailor, and commander.

[wryter2000]

34. Bligh deprived his sailors of water

I'm sure the other things you mention contributed to the mutiny. At one point, if a sailor wanted a drink of water, he had to climb the yardarms (I think that's the word) to get a cup to get the water out of a barrel and once they'd had their drink, they had to climb to put the cup back. The sailors suffered from thirst while they watched the breadfruit getting watered.

[The Magistrate]

15. Exactly, Sir --- He Compares Himself To A Sadistic Martinet Put Adrift To Die By His Abused Crew

That is accurate enough, but the comparison fails on other grounds, and badly.

Bligh, for all his personal failings, was such a superbly competent seaman he navigated an overloaded open boat over some eleven hundred miles of ocean to a safe landing at Timor.

Later appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia, he showed such solicitude for the welfare of poor colonists newly arrived, and such hostility to illegal profiteering by large landowners and their military supporters, that these rebelled in arms and secured his removal from office.


"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."

[MyOwnPeace]

17. Easily done........

According to Stormy, he's already got the little dinghy!

[uponit7771]

21. Trump and his daughter wife will run to Russia

[DavidDvorkin]

23. But once cast adrift, Bligh demonstrated his mastery of command and navigation

Now imagine Trump in that pickle.

[Walleye]

29. trump would have ended up back where he started having eaten everyone of his crew.

[Hortensis]

24. But he's a WINNER cast adrift, and mutineer governors the losers?

Take it his view of himself as all-powerful hit another reality rock.

Wonder how free teachers of abnormal psychology feel to use clips of Trump demonstrating various traits. Guessing more will once he's no longer president.

[leftieNanner]

27. I don't know

I think he's getting closer to Captain Queeg in the courtroom scene...

[C_U_L8R]

30. If that's what Trump really wants

there's no shortage of volunteers to cast him off.

[Traildogbob]

40. Cast him off

The Fat Ass is terrified of sharks. Get a blow up boat, make his biggest blowhard ass kissers blow it up. Drop him into waters heavenly infested with the deadliest sharks, and chum the hell out of the water around him with fried chicken and cheese burgers. How long before fat boy goes after the chum, jealous sharks will take his snacks. Can we get black sharks?

[txwhitedove]

41. #1 Cap'n tRump got his movies mixed up. #2 I love DU!

[SeattleVet]

42. The biggest difference between Bligh and tRump...

is that Bligh actually served in the military.

[musette_sf]

43. He's a nitwit, you know he thinks that the captain

is Marlon Brando. And that the movie ends with Brando making out with Tarita Teri'ipaia on Miss Universe Island.