When historians write about the year 2020, should they stumble upon Roy's collected works they will find it damn near impossible to distinguish these plays from reality.
Consider that here, Roy has Trump telling Hoge to add Retsyn to the vaccine. Seems so over the top, doesn't it? And yet, we had Donald Trump on live national TV from the White House press room suggesting people inject themselves with household disinfectants or possibly shove UV lights into their various bodily openings. The transcript from the one is frighteningly close to the other.
Having gotten stewed on Retsina when I was about 12 years old, I quickly decided that drinking turpentine was better both taste-wise and in terms of after-effects.
There’s a Middle Eastern restaurant in Berkeley that I patronized for decades in the Before Time, and I used to take a glass of retsina with my baba ghanoush and lamb lule. The spousette is always horrified when I do this “You’re drinking Pine-Sol!”
Retsyn is the funniest fucking thing I've read all morning, & I live in an America where white liberal dweebs with Ivy degrees think they know everything about student loan forgiveness
My favorite take I saw yesterday from a Very Serious Adult among Atrios’s commenters, explaining that free college was Bad, Actually, because it (somehow) made inequality worse than the current system where the rich and well-connected get all the breaks.
It was the kind of galaxy-brained liberalism that travels back in time to give itself a wedgie to prove how smart it is.
I think you’re absolutely on point that random old TV ads, along with various other factoids and fantasies, rattle around in Trump’s brain, filling the neural landscape occupied in more normal people by basic arithmetic, words larger than two syllables, and moral concepts other than “See, want, take!”
Love how Trump's outfit keeps sprouting military ornaments. If you ever write him back into civilian life, a few dozen more ribbons and medals and he could be the new captain of Sea Org. With a lifetime of grifting on his resume, he's certainly qualified.
I'll say. Trump agrees to be "audited" (once they calm him down and assure him it's not THAT kind of auditing) with an E-meter--a quasi-lie detector, and literally the last thing he'd want to touch.
I looked in on Rall’s blog the other day. He’s ranting about how Biden is senile…I think maybe ol’ Ted’s stuck at the “Bernie Woulda Won in a Landslide” stage of Kübler-Ross.
I was picturing elderly, Brezhnez-era Politburo members standing on the May Day reviewing stand, their box suits buckling under the weight of their costume jewelry.
I laffed out loud when I saw the art. "Certs contains a golden drop of Retsyn!" I says to myself in the windmills of my "mind." Sure, all your younger readers got explained the reference to them, but I KNEW IT FIRST.
(In the 3rd line, you've got STEVE talking when you mean TRUMP.)
I like the last part where Fauci is pushing his glasses up his nose with his middle finger. He actually did this more than once during those absurd Covid-19 press shows that Trump did for a while. Don't think it was an accident.
"There’s nothing weird about these people who got better, right? They’re not all Amish or colored or something?" Trump sure knows what weird is. He should, being one. Just like he knows who very fine people are.
Hate to be that guy, but I had a thought while reading about Pardonpalooza this morning, I'd dearly love to hear the discussion between Trump and Bill Barr about the text in his upcoming pardon. You know Trump is gonna want to punch it up a bit.
Ohhhh, I'm so happy whenever I read one of Donnie's stories wherein people call him Sir.
And don’t forget the grateful tears in their eyes. A “sir” without tears is like soup without sandwich.
or like grilled without cheese
When historians write about the year 2020, should they stumble upon Roy's collected works they will find it damn near impossible to distinguish these plays from reality.
Consider that here, Roy has Trump telling Hoge to add Retsyn to the vaccine. Seems so over the top, doesn't it? And yet, we had Donald Trump on live national TV from the White House press room suggesting people inject themselves with household disinfectants or possibly shove UV lights into their various bodily openings. The transcript from the one is frighteningly close to the other.
Could have been worse. Could have been retsina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsina
That’s Greek to me.
Having gotten stewed on Retsina when I was about 12 years old, I quickly decided that drinking turpentine was better both taste-wise and in terms of after-effects.
Dunno, this might a "fuck around and find out" sort of thing, but it doesn't sound promising. Maybe I'll just stick with potein.
I would like to stick with Poutine
There’s a Middle Eastern restaurant in Berkeley that I patronized for decades in the Before Time, and I used to take a glass of retsina with my baba ghanoush and lamb lule. The spousette is always horrified when I do this “You’re drinking Pine-Sol!”
Eh, it's just the calm before the storm.
Retsyn is the funniest fucking thing I've read all morning, & I live in an America where white liberal dweebs with Ivy degrees think they know everything about student loan forgiveness
My favorite on this is, "I had to struggle to pay off my loans, so these kids should also suffer!"
If paying off your loans was so horrible, why on Earth would you wish that on anybody else?
Character, henny. Character.
My favorite take I saw yesterday from a Very Serious Adult among Atrios’s commenters, explaining that free college was Bad, Actually, because it (somehow) made inequality worse than the current system where the rich and well-connected get all the breaks.
It was the kind of galaxy-brained liberalism that travels back in time to give itself a wedgie to prove how smart it is.
I think you’re absolutely on point that random old TV ads, along with various other factoids and fantasies, rattle around in Trump’s brain, filling the neural landscape occupied in more normal people by basic arithmetic, words larger than two syllables, and moral concepts other than “See, want, take!”
this!
Love how Trump's outfit keeps sprouting military ornaments. If you ever write him back into civilian life, a few dozen more ribbons and medals and he could be the new captain of Sea Org. With a lifetime of grifting on his resume, he's certainly qualified.
Trump trying to con the Scientologists is tempting.
Now *that* is one circular firing squad I would watch!
I'll say. Trump agrees to be "audited" (once they calm him down and assure him it's not THAT kind of auditing) with an E-meter--a quasi-lie detector, and literally the last thing he'd want to touch.
"This Niacin -- does it get you off?"
This reminds me of Ted Rall's caricatures of GWB as caudillo. Haven't seen him around much these days...
El Busho!
I looked in on Rall’s blog the other day. He’s ranting about how Biden is senile…I think maybe ol’ Ted’s stuck at the “Bernie Woulda Won in a Landslide” stage of Kübler-Ross.
I was picturing elderly, Brezhnez-era Politburo members standing on the May Day reviewing stand, their box suits buckling under the weight of their costume jewelry.
OMG.
I laffed out loud when I saw the art. "Certs contains a golden drop of Retsyn!" I says to myself in the windmills of my "mind." Sure, all your younger readers got explained the reference to them, but I KNEW IT FIRST.
(In the 3rd line, you've got STEVE talking when you mean TRUMP.)
Thanks, fixed.
I recognized it too right away. Roy is so good at dialogue.
Tis pity [BLACKOUT] is a lighting cue and not a stage direction to Trump after double-dipping in the nose candy.
What’s in those inhalers, anyway? And why two
This may give you a hint https://edroso.substack.com/p/ring-my-friend-i-said-youd-call
I like the last part where Fauci is pushing his glasses up his nose with his middle finger. He actually did this more than once during those absurd Covid-19 press shows that Trump did for a while. Don't think it was an accident.
The last days of the Trump White House is beginning to resemble Sealab 2021.
LOL - good one! I'll be chuckling about this one all day. Unfortunately there's too much of an element of truth to how he's gonna kill everybody.
"There’s nothing weird about these people who got better, right? They’re not all Amish or colored or something?" Trump sure knows what weird is. He should, being one. Just like he knows who very fine people are.
Beauty, Edroso. The Retsyn is the master's touch.
Hate to be that guy, but I had a thought while reading about Pardonpalooza this morning, I'd dearly love to hear the discussion between Trump and Bill Barr about the text in his upcoming pardon. You know Trump is gonna want to punch it up a bit.
"They're not all Amish-colored or something?" I grinned, I laughed, I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out what it meant, I laughed some more.
5 stars