(Was wondering what Rush The Farting Fascist Limbaugh had warbled but then remembered that he considers anything else competition for the entertainment dollar.)
My favorite post-debate surrogate was Pennsylvania’s own Rick Santorum, always a colossal dummy, who tried to spin by plaintively explaining the president COULDN’T disavow the Proud Boys because racists and white nationalists are his base. I know they’ve been saying the quiet part out loud for ages now, but it’s hard to imagine a more perfect own-goal.
"...the President said something that sounded to this dispassionate observer like 'Fun is knickers'..."
So great a line, I almost LOL. (I realized the other month that while I'm often amused, I almost never actually laugh out loud at funny stuff. Maybe just another to a very long list of human defects.)
I can easily believe this of the party that went crazy for eight years (and are still trying to shock life back into it) the "Whitey" Tape. "We refuse to believe anything we don't have a use for, thanks."
Just swell. Wait'll the 3rd debate, when Trump lashes out at "clitoral rage theory," which he claims to personally know a lot about, "some people say maybe too much."
Pitch-perfect as usual, but nah gonna happn. People mistake Trump's sloppy language for lack of self-discipline or competence, but it's a combination of a lifetime of being surrounded by yes-men and an old con artist's instinct for preserving (im)plausible deniability (his "the bleach thing was sarcasm! Don't you people know sarcasm when you hear it?" ). His deliberately sloppy language is both his impression of a "regular guy" and part of his Lord of Chaos schtick. I don't think it's accidental at all. I think the Trump in your vignettes (which I pray will make it into a book/play/miniseries/movie someday) is much closer to what you'd hear in private.
Now deliberately dropping the bomb, that's a different story. If that was the point, I retract everything.
Not to threadjack, but I wanted to pose a hypothetical question for any experts in copyright law we may have here: is it possible for a piece of mockery to be SO spot on that ceases to be satire and becomes a kind of plagiarism?
The media's obsession to get Trump to denounce white supremacy seems pointless to me. It's been obvious for decades that this is what he is (and we should just say it, constantly - he's a racist). His own fucking cult would know it was bullshit if he did say what the punditocracy so desperately needs to hear! Just point at him and say, "Our president is a racist."
(Was wondering what Rush The Farting Fascist Limbaugh had warbled but then remembered that he considers anything else competition for the entertainment dollar.)
My favorite post-debate surrogate was Pennsylvania’s own Rick Santorum, always a colossal dummy, who tried to spin by plaintively explaining the president COULDN’T disavow the Proud Boys because racists and white nationalists are his base. I know they’ve been saying the quiet part out loud for ages now, but it’s hard to imagine a more perfect own-goal.
Congratulations on winning first place in the 2020 Bulwer Litton Contest (William F. Buckley division)!
"...the President said something that sounded to this dispassionate observer like 'Fun is knickers'..."
So great a line, I almost LOL. (I realized the other month that while I'm often amused, I almost never actually laugh out loud at funny stuff. Maybe just another to a very long list of human defects.)
I can easily believe this of the party that went crazy for eight years (and are still trying to shock life back into it) the "Whitey" Tape. "We refuse to believe anything we don't have a use for, thanks."
Sublime
Just swell. Wait'll the 3rd debate, when Trump lashes out at "clitoral rage theory," which he claims to personally know a lot about, "some people say maybe too much."
Fun Fact: Hyman Hitler's real, given name was Adolf Schickelgruber. A lot of people don't know that not many people know that.
"While those who watched the debate without prejudice certainly saw it exactly as I did" That's the Con mindset in one phrase.
Pitch-perfect as usual, but nah gonna happn. People mistake Trump's sloppy language for lack of self-discipline or competence, but it's a combination of a lifetime of being surrounded by yes-men and an old con artist's instinct for preserving (im)plausible deniability (his "the bleach thing was sarcasm! Don't you people know sarcasm when you hear it?" ). His deliberately sloppy language is both his impression of a "regular guy" and part of his Lord of Chaos schtick. I don't think it's accidental at all. I think the Trump in your vignettes (which I pray will make it into a book/play/miniseries/movie someday) is much closer to what you'd hear in private.
Now deliberately dropping the bomb, that's a different story. If that was the point, I retract everything.
No disrespect, Roy, but how can you make up a weirder name than Tobias Hoonhout? https://www.nationalreview.com/author/tobias-hoonhout/
Not to threadjack, but I wanted to pose a hypothetical question for any experts in copyright law we may have here: is it possible for a piece of mockery to be SO spot on that ceases to be satire and becomes a kind of plagiarism?
The media's obsession to get Trump to denounce white supremacy seems pointless to me. It's been obvious for decades that this is what he is (and we should just say it, constantly - he's a racist). His own fucking cult would know it was bullshit if he did say what the punditocracy so desperately needs to hear! Just point at him and say, "Our president is a racist."