Originally published at: Badly confused Donald Trump calls for Johnny Carson to replace Jimmy Kimmel - Boing Boing
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This will lead to hundreds of op-eds about Trump’s “cognitive decline”, right?
/s
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He also famously asked “where’s my Roy Cohn?” when his get-what-you-pay-for lawyers screwed up yet again. MAGAism is so focused on the past in part* because its leader is so mired in it that he’s asking for the dead to save him.
[* It’s mainly focused on the past because of Eco’s first and second characteristics.]
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Putting the “late” in “late night talk shows”.
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I don’t think Dipweed actually thinks Carson or Cohen are alive. I think he’s referring to them as figures, and that these utterances make a statement about how he views people as things, not as living creatures. This is the classic indicator of a sociopathic/psychopathic nature.
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It’s somewhere in between. They’re actual childish wishes on his part that they’ll come back to save him.
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No, stop giving this asshole the benefit of the doubt. Just stop it. That’s how we got here, with half this country acting like he’s a normal politician and everything he does and says is normal. If you have to explain everything he says for it to not sound insane, the problem is him.
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I believe I did mention “sociopathic/psychopathic nature”, which is (in my estimation) not normal.
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Yeah, but you’re still explaining away what he said. We really need to stop doing that.
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I think it is genuinely helpful to understand an asshole’s mental pathology, especially if that asshole stands a chance of (God forbid) becoming President.
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We can do that without covering for the guy and translating the things he says into something that sounds sane and normal. I am so fucking tired of people saying, “Well, it’s obvious he meant xxxxxxxxxx.” No, it really isn’t. He says batshit crazy stuff all the time. Let it be. Don’t fix it. Don’t translate it. Don’t normalize it.
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Totally agree.
A known problem with a real name, even!
Ye gods when will it ever end…
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So, just dig Carson up, dust him off, sit him behind a desk at Mar A Largo and have Roy Cohn as his first guest. Give Trump his wish and lock the place down.
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Smithers!
Dig up Johnny Carson
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“Person, woman, man, camera, TV…” does sound like the setup for a Carnac the Magnificent joke.
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@EllsworthToohey, maybe you don’t write the headlines, but this article hurts instead of helps against trump. There are too many “trump confused this for that” headlines and the are not even remotely true. He’s being stupid, vile, non-presidential…but for a trumper to read this, they are very rightfully coming away with “see how the left is just out to get trump”. I hate Trump with burning passion, but he was not ‘confused’ about what he said. There are a million good ways to lampoon or call out trump, find one.
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Good evening. Tonight on ‘Is There’ we examine the question, ‘Is there a life after death?’. And here to discuss it are three dead people… The late Sir Brian Hardacre, former curator of the Imperial War Museum … the late Professor Thynne, until recently an academic, critic, and broadcaster … and putting the view of the Church of England, the very late Prebendary Reverend Ross. Gentlemen, is there a life after death or not? Sir Brian? … Professor? … Prebendary? … Well there we have it, three say no. On ‘Is There’ next week we’ll be discussing the question ‘Is there enough of it about?’, and until then, goodnight.
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Ah the late great Johnny Carson, he was a wonderful man.
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I, for one, would prefer a resurrected or ghost Johnny Carson over Jimmy Fallon.
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I can’t watch that guy.
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