Sunday, May 12, 2024

The best thing about the Trump trial? It's turning CourtTV* into a modern day version of Skinemax

* = and other outlets

Well into the 2010s, but most notably in the 1980s and 90s, the cable channel Cinemax would broadcast soft core porn movies late at night, mostly on Fridays and Saturdays.  That practice earned them a nickname.

"Skinemax."

Cinemax, and its parent, HBO, have moved away from adult entertainment.

Also, "Skinemax" refers to the longtime nickname for Cinemax, and not the Canadian network of the same name that broadcasts hardcore porn.


From an analysis piece in The Guardian (UK) -

Stormy Daniels testimony was lurid and powerful – but Trump voters don’t care

Stormy Daniels may have regarded sex with Donald Trump as brief, unimaginative and regrettable but the porn star gripped the nation with a salacious and lengthy retelling of the encounter to a New York court this week.

Daniels’s humiliating testimony in Trump’s fraud trial infuriated the former president who glowered from a few feet away. But her account only confirmed what most Americans already knew about a man widely regarded as a sexual predator and appeared unlikely to change many votes in November’s presidential election.

New York state is prosecuting Trump for fraud for allegedly using his business, the Trump Organization, to pay $130,000 in hush money to Daniels days before the 2016 election. She went public anyway two years later with a book, Full Disclosure, in which she claimed to have had sex with Trump once.

[snip]

Daniels told the court how she went to meet Trump at his penthouse suite expecting to go to a restaurant only to find him in satin pyjamas. She said her evening evolved from administering a playful spanking with a magazine that had Trump’s face on the cover to her alarm at finding him spread across a bed stripped down to his underwear.

[snip]

“I was staring up at the ceiling, wondering how I got there,” she told the jury.

The judge stopped Daniels rapid-fire testimony at times, telling her the jurors did not need to know the pair had sex in the missionary position, with Daniels keeping her bra on, or that Trump didn’t use a condom. But by then they had heard it and, like almost everyone else in court and around the country, were unlikely to forget.

Daniels said the sex “was brief” although, apparently, not brief enough.

And that doesn't even include the creepiest stuff - Cheeto's remark about how Daniels resembled his daughter, Vanky.

All of this may result in Cheeto's biggest contribution to American culture - mental images of him boinking may serve as the ultimate form of birth control


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