Trump the Chump (Part 1)

Not getting the reference.

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

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Oh, okay… I think that was about when the zeitgeist passed me by.

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I had to look it up too, and I’m a kid. I tried watching Dr. Horrible, but lost interest after about five minutes.

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Humor can help signify how ridiculous Trump’s politics are — as ridiculous as Captain Hammer’s song about the homeless people he was supposed to be helping.

Stephen Colbert may also be starting to get the word out about Trump.

It might be that recent political events like that towering victory in the New Hampshire primary have inspired Colbert to take the threat of a Trump presidency more seriously.

Or it may be the fact that his recent scorching take down of Sarah Palin is one of the most popular segments in the show’s history, easily racking up more online views in just a few weeks than his early treatment of Trump did in several months.

Either way it’s refreshing to see Colbert return a bit more to his Comedy Central roots.

There needs to be some different Trump memes to contextualize the fact-checking.

WaPo thinks Samantha Bee is the best hope for post-Daily Show satire of Trump.

Something has been missing from the 2016 presidential campaign. With a reality TV star and a democratic socialist looking like real contenders, some might say the absent ingredient is sanity.

But that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about a singular voice of satire — a Jon Stewart-like figure whose zingers make you laugh and think at the same time.

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6.1M views


6.4M views

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Hurray, Stephen! The comedy cavalry!

The Donald debates The Donald.

I love Iowa … How stupid are the people of Iowa?

And like Jack Donaghy, who can only negotiate with Jack Donaghy.

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Maybe not completely relevant, but similarly classy…

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if you hadn’t posted this i was going to.

honestly, the fact that he unloaded on george w. for his record of failing to protect the u.s. from a terrorist attack and lying us into an unnecessary war at the debate in south carolina makes this little fantasy even more plausible.

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It’s not a gaffe if people vote for it!

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The one sure way to draw boos from a Republican debate audience: speak the truth.

But, unfortunately, Trumpy is the poster child for the “even a stopped clock is right twice a day” party.

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My grandfather taught me this, as a fundamental principle of successful ad-hoc engineering:

Your expectations don’t line up with reality pretty often. It’s good to try and let attitudes flex that way as well.

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Too incompetent to be trusted.

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better is the enemy of good

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Hey, I know the MTC lads. Glad to see they’re still as polite as ever.

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I’ve been thinking about the whole “presidential” thing, and quite honestly, I think this kind of thing is what’s helping him; I mean, sure, he most definitely has a core group of fans who actually agree with his racist, xenophobic, woman-hating rabble-rousing. But I think there’s huge numbers of centrist/conservative Americans who don’t follow the news very closely and just glance at USA Today headlines or watch a few minutes of MSNBC every once in awhile, and for those people, Trump’s a refreshing change because he’s wacky and entertaining. He doesn’t act like a President. He certainly doesn’t act like the cool, smoothly even-tempered guy who’s been in charge for the last eight years (plus that guy’s black and might be a Muslim). So for tons of people, I think Trump is their “hey, why not?” candidate. Their “well, he’ll be entertaining!” candidate.

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It was a bad bet for the republican party, and the other republican contestants, not to go negative against Trump earlier. That said, that will leave plenty of fresh snow for the Democratic nominee.


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Fresh snow, did you say?



That was August. Let’s check Today’s headlines

Report: A.C. jobs, housing in downward spiral

Job loss is the new normal, the labor force is in “free fall,” and the housing market is “moribund,” according to a report released last week by the South Jersey Economic Review, published by the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University.

Driving many of the problems, of course, is the instability of the casino industry, which anchors the local economy. Four of the city’s 12 casinos closed in 2014, and some 8,000 people lost their jobs.


Is this is who you want, @galaxies, a man who brags about fleecing thousands of blue-collar construction workers and ruining a state economy?

Trump is a fast-talking New York con man who can’t wait to fuck over working people in any and every state.

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