The good or at least interesting news is that the media's continued obsession with Tubby has still failed to re-attract the audience they've lost since, I guess, the 1/6 affair. (Not sure when the audience collapse happened, TBH.)
Roy, you just made me realize that his brain-barf of Fox News bullsh!t is like A Clockwork Orange—only this isn’t aversion therapy, it’s to give the audience a ragegasm.
Fox and Newsmax will be there for Tubby’s rant on 1/6 of course along with the crazies, but you just know that CNN and the networks will say something about “we have to cover this” like the clowns they are.
This gave me visions of Trump as one of those permanent Vegas lounge acts. 5 nights a week of his monologuing on stage and telling his MAGAts to "try the veal".
Perfection. You know, Roy, the road to a paying gig at the NYTIMES or WaPo is to be a speechwriter for a criminal, not too bright but evil Republican [spit] president and on the basis of this, Trump would hire you right away. You obviously get him and by “get him” I mean like unvaxed magats get COVID and probably left feeling just as bad.
That 'Unselect Committee' was a masterful exaggeration of the sheer childishness—wait, that was from a real quote.
(I think someone's written about the childishness of Fascism's being, at least for some, a deliberate strategy to demean the very notion of being a functional adult capable of, e.g., discerning shit from Shinola.)
As before, I retain a very uncharacteristic hope (which I define as 'believing your wishes matter in and of themselves' and usually can't do at all) that Der Schnifter will say something so horrible in an environment his Legion ('for we are many') trust that he'll alienate _some_ of them.
So I'll leave you for the New Year (perhaps) with some Randall Jarrell, expanded from the lines someone quoted me in the Berkeley Change of Hobbit in 1982: (apologies for substack's auto-formatting it with extra lines)
"If you criticize Israel you must hate Israel" is something smart Zionists say to shut up anyone who doesn't like seeing Palestinians ground into dust, but it's also important to recognize that this is something a really, deeply stupid person would think. Unaccustomed to the complex interplay of conflicting ideas that takes place in the brain of a normal person, the deeply stupid can only think, "He say bad thing about America, he must hate America." You can't blame them, really, it's just the best they can do.
Next year for his 1/6 speech he'll be hawking steak knives.
To be fair, he lives his life according to the teachings of a wise Jew -
Lenny Bruce: Deny it. Flat out – deny it! If you really love your wife, deny it. If they got pictures, deny it.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXw9uM3G_AzVklnONN0HB8XUpRJpCamIr
“Sid and Ethel Heimrich.” awesome
"but we said, we have to be responsible" Please continue, I'm fascinated by your implication...
" But everybody knows what I mean. George Soros is what I mean, OK?" Punching up, not down for once? Fair enough, chief loser.
"Shifty Schiff and the RINOs" is MINE!
Ugh, I’m so sick of all this shit.
The good or at least interesting news is that the media's continued obsession with Tubby has still failed to re-attract the audience they've lost since, I guess, the 1/6 affair. (Not sure when the audience collapse happened, TBH.)
Roy, you just made me realize that his brain-barf of Fox News bullsh!t is like A Clockwork Orange—only this isn’t aversion therapy, it’s to give the audience a ragegasm.
Fox and Newsmax will be there for Tubby’s rant on 1/6 of course along with the crazies, but you just know that CNN and the networks will say something about “we have to cover this” like the clowns they are.
This gave me visions of Trump as one of those permanent Vegas lounge acts. 5 nights a week of his monologuing on stage and telling his MAGAts to "try the veal".
Perfection. You know, Roy, the road to a paying gig at the NYTIMES or WaPo is to be a speechwriter for a criminal, not too bright but evil Republican [spit] president and on the basis of this, Trump would hire you right away. You obviously get him and by “get him” I mean like unvaxed magats get COVID and probably left feeling just as bad.
Hilarious, although, of course, it's not funny.
That 'Unselect Committee' was a masterful exaggeration of the sheer childishness—wait, that was from a real quote.
(I think someone's written about the childishness of Fascism's being, at least for some, a deliberate strategy to demean the very notion of being a functional adult capable of, e.g., discerning shit from Shinola.)
As before, I retain a very uncharacteristic hope (which I define as 'believing your wishes matter in and of themselves' and usually can't do at all) that Der Schnifter will say something so horrible in an environment his Legion ('for we are many') trust that he'll alienate _some_ of them.
So I'll leave you for the New Year (perhaps) with some Randall Jarrell, expanded from the lines someone quoted me in the Berkeley Change of Hobbit in 1982: (apologies for substack's auto-formatting it with extra lines)
Woe's me! woe's me! In Folly's mailbox
Still laughs the postcard, Hope:
Your uncle in Australia
Has died and you are Pope,
For many a soul has entertained
A mailman unawares --
And as you cry, Impossible,
A step is on the stairs.
Impossible to read that and not hear it in his tinny nasal whine…
Brilliant. His very own State of the Loonion Speech!
"If you criticize Israel you must hate Israel" is something smart Zionists say to shut up anyone who doesn't like seeing Palestinians ground into dust, but it's also important to recognize that this is something a really, deeply stupid person would think. Unaccustomed to the complex interplay of conflicting ideas that takes place in the brain of a normal person, the deeply stupid can only think, "He say bad thing about America, he must hate America." You can't blame them, really, it's just the best they can do.