🍊🍊🍊🤡🤡 Even More Trumpian Events 🤡🤡🍊🍊🍊 (Part 1)

[Melizmatic]

@ChuckV

had some work done

Oh, she absolutely had a nose job at the very least, but that’s still her.

[RickMycroft]

The Bride of Theseus?

[smulder]

@prooftheory

Is that even the same Melania

this seems to be the original image https://global.discourse-cdn.com/boingboing/original/4X/1/b/f/1bfb58969a9f32fd05c4255148745a63a23a4c4d.jpeg

[Brainspore]

@smulder

fortunately, a giant machine that’s been rolling along for centuries is not going to pause or stop for a few chuds and grifters

I’m glad the courts have been pretty resilient to Trump’s shenanigans so far but it’s dangerous to take it as a given that our institutional machinery is impervious to the likes of Trump just because it’s a couple of centuries old. History is filled with disruptive movements that took down centuries-old institutions.

[smulder]

@fiddlingfrog

cube rule theory of food classification

[alahmnat]

A pop tart is a ravioli.

[DukeTrout]

Baklava is a soup! Fight me!

[Faffenreffer]

Or a very dry empanada.

[FGD135]

[Wally]

This week’s Last Week on this topic was good:

Trump & Election Results: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

[FGD135]

Trump asked for options for attacking Iran last week, but held off -source

[HMSGoose]

well you know, or:

Pancake Rocking - Parry Gripp

[FloridaManJefe]

yup.
that about says it all, right there.
fuck off waffles from Belgikirkistan. fuck off Freedom toast! let’s pancake this!

[ficuswhisperer]

That was absolutely riveting. And wholly depressing.

/r/AITA has some pretty amazing chronicles of assholery, but this one it just

[FGD135]

Biden warns 'more people may die' of coronavirus as Trump blocks transition |...

[mr_raccoon]

Barack could have blamed reality tv and many people would have gotten it. Same for celebrity and wealth culture. But why did he approach it from that angle?

Barack Obama blames rap music for Donald Trump's increased support among...

[FGD135]

@mr_raccoon

Barack could have blamed reality tv and many people would have gotten it. Same for celebrity and wealth culture.

He did:
Obama added: “America has always had a caste system — rich and poor, not just racially but economically — but it wasn’t in your face most of the time when I was growing up.
“Then you start seeing Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous , that sense that either you’ve got it or you’re a loser. And Donald Trump epitomises that cultural movement that is deeply ingrained now in American culture.”

And I think he has a point there.

[Otherbrother]

@mr_raccoon

Barack could have blamed reality tv and many people would have gotten it. Same for celebrity and wealth culture. But why did he approach it from that angle?

I think you’ll find that if you read the whole interview in the Atlantic you’ll see that he very much does get into celebrity and wealth culture. The full point he’s making is much more nuanced than “rap is bad.”

From earlier in the same interview:

I guess I’m also surprised by, and this is not an original thought on my part—but I think about the classic male hero in American culture when you and I were growing up: the John Waynes, the Gary Coopers, the Jimmy Stewarts, the Clint Eastwoods, for that matter. There was a code. This is something I always emphasize. I may be African American but I’m African and American. This is part of me. The code of masculinity that I grew up with that harkens back to the ’30s and ’40s and before that—there’s a notion that a man is true to his word, that he takes responsibility, that he doesn’t complain, that he isn’t a bully; in fact he defends the vulnerable against bullies. And so even if you are someone who is annoyed by wokeness and political correctness and wants men to be men again and is tired about everyone complaining about the patriarchy, I thought that the model wouldn’t be Richie Rich—the complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure.

Then later came the part that you refer to:

Goldberg: You’re just surprised by the horse populism rode in on.

Obama: Yes, and it’s this indication of parts of popular culture that I’ve missed. It’s interesting—people are writing about the fact that Trump increased his support among Black men [in the 2020 presidential election], and the occasional rapper who supported Trump. I have to remind myself that if you listen to rap music, it’s all about the bling, the women, the money. A lot of rap videos are using the same measures of what it means to be successful as Donald Trump is. Everything is gold-plated. That insinuates itself and seeps into the culture.

Michelle and I were talking about the fact that although we grew up in very different places, we were both very much working-class, lower-middle-class, in terms of income, and we weren’t subject day-to-day to the sense that if you don’t have this stuff then you are somehow not worthy. America has always had a caste system—rich and poor, not just racially but economically—but it wasn’t in your face most of the time when I was growing up. Then you start seeing Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous , that sense that either you’ve got it or you’re a loser. And Donald Trump epitomizes that cultural movement that is deeply ingrained now in American culture.

So my personal takeaway was that he was talking about American popular culture generally, giving a few specific examples, one of which was rap music, which he seems to have mentioned in the context of Trump receiving support from “the occasional rapper”. I didn’t see him heaping special scorn or blame on it. But that’s just my reading.

[KathyPartdeux]

He’s much too smart and nuanced in his thinking to go for that limited take on those in the music industry. And far too fair.

[mr_raccoon]

Honestly, i’ve been so distracted with stuff and tired this past week or so to read things through more.

Sorry about that.