I’ve been trying to figure out exactly who or what Kushner’s speaking voice reminds me of and I finally realized it’s the shrieking noise Donald Sutherland’s clone makes at the end of the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, only higher-pitched. Roughly equal to fingernails on a chalkboard on the annoyance scale.
I was thinking that Donnie with his disregard for the deaths he's causing (assisted by his party) is making Hoover look good. Now I'm thinking that taking on Hoover's mantle may help Donnie's reelection campaign since killing hundreds of thousands of people (deaths in the low six figures by the election if it's held in November, more if delayed) and kneecapping the economy probably isn't a winning platform (but given media complicity and GOP gerrymandering and disenfranchisement, who knows if anything more is needed). "We need a man like Herbert Hoover again..." Can do worse, are doing worse.
I'll be honest, I was thinking more along the lines of the name of a famous vacuum cleaner company being used as a verb as in " We should of had enough crank to last the weekend but the ol' lady hoovered that shit all up by noon Saturday. I was pissed but it worked out.Her brother came over with some Everclear and we got fucked up!"
Like that.
The Herbert Hoover reference does add quite a bit of subtext though.
Mebbe. But "hoover" and "hoovering" - it's just so onomatopoeic. I can see Jared saying "Dysoned" except I don't reckon he knows what it is or how it works.
Dysons suck because they don't suck. Man, it's like the logic puzzle about the two tribes, one always lies (the Trumpagos) and the other always tells the truth (the Edroskos).
If you're old enough, you remember Electrolux vacuums. That was the basis for a joke in "The President's Analyst," where the head of the FBI is "J. Edgar Lux."
Actually, my quote is from that song used in the opening for All in the Family. But, of course, the show focused on a conservative reactionary, hence missing Hoover.
Jared screaming at James Woods I FUCK VANKY is going to be stuck in my head all day and, inevitably, as a result, by tonight I will be a slightly different person. Can’t say I’m not worried...
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/end of hijack, thanks for your forbearance, apologies to Roy for presuming to use his space this way
The highlight yesterday of the increasingly surreal (and yet predictably corrupt) way that Trump is "managing" the pandemic was his visit to some AZ PPE factory where none of the visitors was masked (natch) but all were wearing safety glasses for some peculiar reason (no working lathes in evidence). And in the background at full blare the factory's speakers were blasting out the theme from the Bond movie "Live and Let Die".
"Live and Let Die" may be the worst Bond song (sorry, Paul), but there is no other title in history as appropriate to Trump and his "handling" of this plague. Either the person programming the PA music at that factory has a great sense of humor (and timing), or there really is a God.
I probably haven't heard most of the latter-day Bond songs, and if so I sure don't remember them. (My faves are the obvious: Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, and the underrated You Only Live Twice), but I am unshakeable in my belief that no Bond theme should ever include the line, "Ya gotta give the other fellow hell."
In a plague of hopelessness, one of the most dispiriting things is that 44% of Americans approve of Donald J. Trump (fivethirtyeight aggregate polling as of today). Do they actually see and hear the rambling asshole and his henchtwerp Kushner and deny their own eyes or is it just knee-jerk Republican anti-liberalism? If Trump was just the blowhard uncle at Thanksgiving most people would be looking for an escape plan. It's insane. What is wrong with people? Are they that stupid and manipulatable?
They don't bother to listen to most of what he says. Pick a random stupid Trump quote, maybe "John McCain is not a war hero, because he got captured. I like people who aren't captured." Ask a Trump voter about it, odds are they'll say, "He didn't say that" or "I never heard that."
Try "fuck you." PS - these armed protests have nothing to do with the virus, lockdowns, or anything at all except using the moment to threaten Democrats.
I'm glad that all the kids in my schools who cared a lot about machismo were so loathsome and loathsome in making the point to me that I stopped caring, shored-up relatively early by meeting my future wife who didn't care.
I’ve been trying to figure out exactly who or what Kushner’s speaking voice reminds me of and I finally realized it’s the shrieking noise Donald Sutherland’s clone makes at the end of the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, only higher-pitched. Roughly equal to fingernails on a chalkboard on the annoyance scale.
"Hoover" turned out to be a remarkable bit of branding, didn't it?
I'll be honest, I'd be "tween girl with Rhianna tickets" excited if I well, had Rhianna tickets.
Good stuff! I laughed! I cried! I gibbered in terror underneath my desk!
I was thinking that Donnie with his disregard for the deaths he's causing (assisted by his party) is making Hoover look good. Now I'm thinking that taking on Hoover's mantle may help Donnie's reelection campaign since killing hundreds of thousands of people (deaths in the low six figures by the election if it's held in November, more if delayed) and kneecapping the economy probably isn't a winning platform (but given media complicity and GOP gerrymandering and disenfranchisement, who knows if anything more is needed). "We need a man like Herbert Hoover again..." Can do worse, are doing worse.
I'll be honest, I was thinking more along the lines of the name of a famous vacuum cleaner company being used as a verb as in " We should of had enough crank to last the weekend but the ol' lady hoovered that shit all up by noon Saturday. I was pissed but it worked out.Her brother came over with some Everclear and we got fucked up!"
Like that.
The Herbert Hoover reference does add quite a bit of subtext though.
I know someone who renamed their yella Lab "Hoover" because although he was no Herbert, he could make anything edible disappear like a pro.
I wonder if The Kids These Days will end up using "Dyson" instead, as in
"Rich motherfuckers Dysoned up all the Rona money and now I can't pay my goddamn rent !"
Mebbe. But "hoover" and "hoovering" - it's just so onomatopoeic. I can see Jared saying "Dysoned" except I don't reckon he knows what it is or how it works.
Dysons suck because they don't suck. Man, it's like the logic puzzle about the two tribes, one always lies (the Trumpagos) and the other always tells the truth (the Edroskos).
If you're old enough, you remember Electrolux vacuums. That was the basis for a joke in "The President's Analyst," where the head of the FBI is "J. Edgar Lux."
Actually, my quote is from that song used in the opening for All in the Family. But, of course, the show focused on a conservative reactionary, hence missing Hoover.
Sir Nose D'Void Of Funk come to life.
LOL. Always love a Parliament reference. I think Sir Squeak-a-Lot would suit Jared well, too.
The weirdness is strangely appropriate for Drumpf's America but Jared...whoa.
Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!
Jared screaming at James Woods I FUCK VANKY is going to be stuck in my head all day and, inevitably, as a result, by tonight I will be a slightly different person. Can’t say I’m not worried...
Now, switching gears... Friends, if I may... I’m going to place an advertisement for myself here. To lend the days some shape, I’ve been collaborating with an artist friend on a website. We post short, illustrated horror stories—and our first entry is... “political” overstates it, let’s just say topical. So I thought it might work for some of you.
I’m not promising my writing is as good as Roy’s (obviously) but if you’re looking to be amused for 9-10 minutes, maybe try the one titled “Spring Break Outbreak”—at any rate, the illustrations are boss: www.cannibalcyclops.com
/end of hijack, thanks for your forbearance, apologies to Roy for presuming to use his space this way
LOL - De Santis is horrible, but we knew that.
The highlight yesterday of the increasingly surreal (and yet predictably corrupt) way that Trump is "managing" the pandemic was his visit to some AZ PPE factory where none of the visitors was masked (natch) but all were wearing safety glasses for some peculiar reason (no working lathes in evidence). And in the background at full blare the factory's speakers were blasting out the theme from the Bond movie "Live and Let Die".
Yes, you heard that right.
"Live and Let Die" may be the worst Bond song (sorry, Paul), but there is no other title in history as appropriate to Trump and his "handling" of this plague. Either the person programming the PA music at that factory has a great sense of humor (and timing), or there really is a God.
View to a Kill sucked pretty hard and could also be considered circumstance appropriate.
Better than Spectre. White noise is too.
"worst Bond song"
Incorrect. The correct answer is "Nobody Does It Better".
Boy, you all seem to have blacked out Madonna's "Die Another Day."
I probably haven't heard most of the latter-day Bond songs, and if so I sure don't remember them. (My faves are the obvious: Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, and the underrated You Only Live Twice), but I am unshakeable in my belief that no Bond theme should ever include the line, "Ya gotta give the other fellow hell."
Incorrect: Spectre.
Live and let die: GOP policy since the Gilded Age.
I instinctively slapped the monitor when today's piece opened.
In a plague of hopelessness, one of the most dispiriting things is that 44% of Americans approve of Donald J. Trump (fivethirtyeight aggregate polling as of today). Do they actually see and hear the rambling asshole and his henchtwerp Kushner and deny their own eyes or is it just knee-jerk Republican anti-liberalism? If Trump was just the blowhard uncle at Thanksgiving most people would be looking for an escape plan. It's insane. What is wrong with people? Are they that stupid and manipulatable?
They don't bother to listen to most of what he says. Pick a random stupid Trump quote, maybe "John McCain is not a war hero, because he got captured. I like people who aren't captured." Ask a Trump voter about it, odds are they'll say, "He didn't say that" or "I never heard that."
Try "fuck you." PS - these armed protests have nothing to do with the virus, lockdowns, or anything at all except using the moment to threaten Democrats.
I always think of the Puttin' on the Ritz scene in Young Frankenstein when I see the phrase "man about town". Sorry.
I'm glad that all the kids in my schools who cared a lot about machismo were so loathsome and loathsome in making the point to me that I stopped caring, shored-up relatively early by meeting my future wife who didn't care.