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Grouchy Medievalist's avatar

Nice scene -- the Mussorgski really made me nostalgic for my childhood, when my dad would only listen to Classical music.

SundayStyle's avatar

Casting Shapiro in the role of every top management brass or owner whose profits have dropped 1% and who tries to make “we’re all in this together” common cause with workers living on starvation wages is just *chef’s kiss* material.

Hard to remain the cool kids’ philosopher when you’ve gotten done up by the proletariat.

Bern's avatar

"Nice watch"...lovely, lovely.

Always cultivate in your staff an appreciation for nice things. 'Cause when the going gets tough, the tough throw their commanders over the side at the first hint of a payout.

Also "Blowsy"

And "You sound like drunken goat! Matt Taibbi writes better than this!"

Manqueman's avatar

Loved that last line.

SteveB's avatar

"Hard to remain the cool kids’ philosopher when you’ve gotten done up by the proletariat."

Anybody heard from Richard Spencer lately? No? Thanks, I didn't think so.

Manqueman's avatar

❤️ it.

Only problem -- it's me, triggered -- was the hugely high truth content in Shapiro's spiel. 2 much 2 true.

What a world...

DrBDH's avatar

Whenever Ben Shapiro appears, I hear Mel Blanc in a combo of Bugs Bunny and Tweety.

SteveB's avatar

And I bet he said all those words like, really, really, fast. That shows he's really smart.

SnarkiNorski's avatar

Like a chipmunk on meth.

Bern's avatar

This just in:

MAXAR shows the Freedom Carpool what a REAL convoy looks like!

SteveB's avatar

Next: Bob Bolus heads to Ukraine to help the Russians with their convoying skills.

Bern's avatar

From the Daily Beast (I know...):

"On Wednesday evening, Bolus, his sidekick Betsy Green and their 18-wheeler arrived in the Northern Virginia area, only to quickly become lost.

In a series of phone conversations with The Daily Beast over nearly three hours, the circular I-495 Beltway got the best of the duo who couldn’t find their way and got stuck in rush-hour traffic.

“You are not going to see a convoy,” Green admitted near the end of the night. As for Bolus, the lead convoy driver, Green declared that he didn’t “know where in the hell he is.”

I got nuthin'...tho let's face it – everyone should have a sidekick.

SteveB's avatar

Well, I did say "heads to Ukraine", I didn't say "actually arrives in Ukraine."

SteveB's avatar

Just point your truck east, Bob. We'll tell you when to stop.

Bern's avatar

(in deranged Dustin Hoffman voice) "I'm drivin' here!!!"

SteveB's avatar

Said, in a rage, to the Motherfucking Atlantic Ocean.

D. Sidhe's avatar

Wow, that was mean. I liked it.

SteveB's avatar

Roy should make this one public, and then someone who is not me could post a link to it on Matt Taibbi's Twitter.

D. Sidhe's avatar

Not me, either. I have blocked him. I mean, he was always a complete asshole, but he used to be right about some stuff.

SteveB's avatar

His takedown of Thomas Friedman was one for the ages, but now I have to file it with the movies of Woody Allen under "Great things created by awful people."

D. Sidhe's avatar

It was his book about racial justice for me. Someone sitting down and explaining what sanctuary cities really are, and why they're not only good, they're the only Constitutional way to handle immigrants. (It pretty just means, "We don't let fascist ICE personnel tell us what to do with our municipal budget, while also directing us to hold non-violent people indefinitely."

RWAlex's avatar

“You are pig, robbing old woman. Why you don’t rob priest like a man?” was the first horselaugh!

redoubtagain's avatar

"In Russia, servers down you."

Once this started it was inevitable that Troll Trollovich Botov and his peers "are gonna go through some things."

Worriedman's avatar

"Why you don’t rob priest like a man?"

Made me laugh like drunken hyena -

Then I got to" Matt Taibbi writes better than this" and just lost all control-

Through tears and laughter I did what I could to finish the rest of the article. From what I gather little Benny Shapiro gets his ass beat and his watch and wallet stolen by the bot farmers who engineered his undeserved success which is Chekhov level irony ,(and not the guy on Star Trek either.)

SnarkiNorski's avatar

The Cherry Orchard II: Bot Farm

Manqueman's avatar

That “rob a priest” was the other line I loved.

SteveB's avatar

This is a real setback for Putin, now he'll have to rely on the American Useful Idiots who post this shit for free.

Blueb4sunrise's avatar

Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike!

Bern's avatar

Solidarność Fer Awhile!

SteveB's avatar

They jumped Ben before he got to show them that second place was a set of steak knives.