"Presidents, no matter how they got into office, don’t usually make prejudicial comments like that about people who are, after all, innocent until proven guilty."
("They're bringing crime, they're bringing drugs, they're rapists--and some I suppose are good people")
I can’t believe we started the week with Mr. Potato Head, moved on to Dr. Seuss, and have landed on Biden’s “Neanderthal” comment to end the week. Truly, there is nothing the Right will not use to gin up outrage, and then they have the gall to follow it up by complaining that the fencing protecting the Capitol is still up.
"As a conservative, I am deeply offended that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff will not allow themselves to be killed. It is this kind of incivility that forces me to keep voting Republican!"
Also, too--Marco Rubio Tweeting that Biden's little poem is a grievous insult to Europeans and Asians because those peoples have (on average) 2% Neanderthal DNA. Marco Rubio is profoundly dumb. Were it not for his ability to be discreetly corrupt, he would be the guy who's worked in the back of the deli for 30 years moving cases of beer in and out of the cooler and cleaning the floors after closing.
“And the Lord spake unto Mario, saying, ‘Maybe just give it a rest for a while, okay?’” But Mario being hard of heart, and whose head also was like unto a stone, returned to the public square and resumed his ludicrous ways, in defiance of the Lord’s command.
I'm giving L'il Marco the benefit of the doubt, and he was just making a dumb, snarky joke making fun of wokeness. Or at least, that's gonna be his response, anyway.
Holy krebapples, that was all this week?? No wonder I look so much older than I did a year ago. Well, the plan to flood the zone with shit carries on apace, I suppose. But gosh, why this week? Was anything special being voted on? Did any GQP governors do anything especially murderous? Was there any reason at all the GQP might want to distract their voters from actual, say, government stuff, this week? Hmm... Ohh! Says here, in the Reality News, that the Democrats are trying to help America, a decisive majority approves, and Republicans are hellbent on stopping them! Well, nahh, that's just too weird to be true.
Sausage is an apt metaphor for Eli Whitey's Outrage Gin. Filled with parts you wouldn't care to list, stuffed into a pig's colon, and hung up like a sacramental object.
But since this is the pay portion of the commentariat, I have to drop a mostly useless literary reference as is My Wont:
In Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, someone runs down an anecdote about a distant relative who falls in love with a sausage-maker on the continent, and when he confesses his love to her, she menaces him with a sausage. He hastily scoops & brandishes a larger sausage and their love is forged for ever.
Satirical literature loves sausages for all the right reasons: Rabelais is obsessed with them as weapons of war, you see them in the "Land of Cockaygne" tradition, I remember some fun moments in "Nicolette & Aucassin". And they taste good with mustard. So hooray.
Well, now that Trump is president again - although his inauguration was marred by Ron Johnson’s celebration of the illegal COVID-19 bill - the Seuss organization is rescinding its ban and reissuing “The Jap Takes a Crap” and “Horton Hunts a Hun.” We must remember that everyone who fought for freedom in WW2, from Supreme Commander and then President Eisenhower to the lowliest GI Joe, was a Republican while Democrats led the KKK.
What blew me away was the fact that the word "rape" is used over 30 times in the original musical. Also that stuff about "rape" having archaic meanings that weren't (overtly) sexual (but still included holding women against their will) seemed bizarre. Has the meaning changed that much in 60 years? Or is it a case of "rape, abduction, haircut, whatever, damn PC police cancelling Alexander Pope now, lol"?
"Presidents, no matter how they got into office, don’t usually make prejudicial comments like that about people who are, after all, innocent until proven guilty."
("They're bringing crime, they're bringing drugs, they're rapists--and some I suppose are good people")
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/05/26/all-the-times-trump-has-accused-people-of-murder/?sh=2d37df174289
“When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor….” LOL.
I can’t believe we started the week with Mr. Potato Head, moved on to Dr. Seuss, and have landed on Biden’s “Neanderthal” comment to end the week. Truly, there is nothing the Right will not use to gin up outrage, and then they have the gall to follow it up by complaining that the fencing protecting the Capitol is still up.
"As a conservative, I am deeply offended that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff will not allow themselves to be killed. It is this kind of incivility that forces me to keep voting Republican!"
“So much for the tolerant left!”
Also, too--Marco Rubio Tweeting that Biden's little poem is a grievous insult to Europeans and Asians because those peoples have (on average) 2% Neanderthal DNA. Marco Rubio is profoundly dumb. Were it not for his ability to be discreetly corrupt, he would be the guy who's worked in the back of the deli for 30 years moving cases of beer in and out of the cooler and cleaning the floors after closing.
Rubio acknowledged the existence of cave people? My, my -- how extra-Genesis of him!
“And the Lord spake unto Mario, saying, ‘Maybe just give it a rest for a while, okay?’” But Mario being hard of heart, and whose head also was like unto a stone, returned to the public square and resumed his ludicrous ways, in defiance of the Lord’s command.
I'm giving L'il Marco the benefit of the doubt, and he was just making a dumb, snarky joke making fun of wokeness. Or at least, that's gonna be his response, anyway.
I don't have to give him the benefit of any doubt. I have actually met him and talked to him. He is dumber than you can possibly imagine.
I have no doubt. Still think this is his lame attempt to be funny.
Condolences.
Holy krebapples, that was all this week?? No wonder I look so much older than I did a year ago. Well, the plan to flood the zone with shit carries on apace, I suppose. But gosh, why this week? Was anything special being voted on? Did any GQP governors do anything especially murderous? Was there any reason at all the GQP might want to distract their voters from actual, say, government stuff, this week? Hmm... Ohh! Says here, in the Reality News, that the Democrats are trying to help America, a decisive majority approves, and Republicans are hellbent on stopping them! Well, nahh, that's just too weird to be true.
The Rs have to find distractions like the world has never seen.
Sausage is an apt metaphor for Eli Whitey's Outrage Gin. Filled with parts you wouldn't care to list, stuffed into a pig's colon, and hung up like a sacramental object.
But since this is the pay portion of the commentariat, I have to drop a mostly useless literary reference as is My Wont:
In Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, someone runs down an anecdote about a distant relative who falls in love with a sausage-maker on the continent, and when he confesses his love to her, she menaces him with a sausage. He hastily scoops & brandishes a larger sausage and their love is forged for ever.
Satirical literature loves sausages for all the right reasons: Rabelais is obsessed with them as weapons of war, you see them in the "Land of Cockaygne" tradition, I remember some fun moments in "Nicolette & Aucassin". And they taste good with mustard. So hooray.
OMG I haven’t read Aucassin and Nicolette in just short of forever.
Well, now that Trump is president again - although his inauguration was marred by Ron Johnson’s celebration of the illegal COVID-19 bill - the Seuss organization is rescinding its ban and reissuing “The Jap Takes a Crap” and “Horton Hunts a Hun.” We must remember that everyone who fought for freedom in WW2, from Supreme Commander and then President Eisenhower to the lowliest GI Joe, was a Republican while Democrats led the KKK.
I'm sad as fucked I missed the 4 March inauguration but, like, it slipped by.
"PRESENTER: Looks like cancel culture is coming for anyone who questions Biden’s social justice mob.
"FEMALE ON-AIR SIDEKICK: Looks like!"
Well, that would be a fine start.
Those kids these days! They have no respect for what we did to the Japs. They asked for it, and boy, did they get it!
"Can you blow me where the Pampers is?" Although PCU is mostly pretty dumb, it does have some funny lines.
Plus George Clinton doing his "Erotic City" cover!
The Connells had a song in there, too, IIRC ... or perhaps just on the soundtrack
Taken literally, that would imply the speaker were wearing Pampers.
https://youtu.be/GFX8XP2mGQw
Damn, future Iron Man director.
Read the Fantasticks article, and it included this interesting quote:
"The women will like the love story, and guys will enjoy the battle scenes," Owens said.
Are there no women who enjoy battle scenes? Are there no men who enjoy love stories?
Eh it's high school in suburban Oregon. Give 'em a break.
“Billy, do you enjoy movies about gladiators?”
What blew me away was the fact that the word "rape" is used over 30 times in the original musical. Also that stuff about "rape" having archaic meanings that weren't (overtly) sexual (but still included holding women against their will) seemed bizarre. Has the meaning changed that much in 60 years? Or is it a case of "rape, abduction, haircut, whatever, damn PC police cancelling Alexander Pope now, lol"?
"has removed a book celebrating the allied victory at Guadalcanal, a turning point in the war against Hitler"
I about fell out of my chair I laughed so hard!
A thing of beauty, Roy
These nuts are outnumbered, time to stand up and be counted!..., wait..! Which side am I referring to...?!!
It’s always someone from Gunk. Must be something in the water.