[quote=“LDoBe, post:13, topic:74039, full:true”]People have always called me smart, but really, I just have lots of info on niche subjects. Typically I just say, “I’m not smart. If I were smart, I’d know how to make decisions that make me happy.”
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I’m “smart” enough to have a neuroscience PhD and a decent academic publication record, yet my life is still comprehensively fucked (housebound, mentally and neurologically ill, single, broke).
Smart does not equal happy, wealthy or successful. It appears to be largely orthogonal.
He was really showing off how Presidential he was. It’s about the most surreal thing I think I’ve experienced watching this human freak show become more and more likely to win the Primaries and be one election away from the Presidency. There really are a strangely large number of fellow citizens who believe a guy whose primary modes of expression are “petulant child” and “gloating child” should serve as leader of my country.
It’s a legacy of America’s scumbags (I include Murdoch in that pantheon) making an art form of pushing the right-wing end of the spectrum ever further into lunacy. By constantly pandering to the already self-indulgent, they’ve created an army of monsters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
