This is … just not useful. Or respectful of others’ opinions. I appreciate what you and @anon15383236 bring to this discussion and in some cases, I sincerely agree with it. Also, if you insist on reducing everyone who disagrees to a insult like “bootlicker” – please take a page out of the Scots book when they called out Trump on Brexit. Really, it was poetry.
An edit after I saw your follow-up post - not trying to pile on.
With all due respect, I thought it was obvious I was referring to a very specific type of commenter with that phrase. Apologies if it was taken as insulting anyone who disagreed with me. That is absolutely not how I intended it.
I’m still trying to work “witless fucking cocksplat” into everyday conversation. Surely it’s possible.
There FTFY.
I just remembered to reply to this.
Comparing Don Quixote to Trump is not fair to Quixote.
Don Quixote fought honourably, if foolishly, for noble causes.
Trump would have been one of the real-life villains: those evil men who, with their inhumanity towards other men, drove poor Alonso Quixana so far into his books of chivalry that his only way out was to basically make himself a character in one of them.
Besides, most of the real power in the Democratic and Republican parties is retained by third party groups who have never pretended to be democratic, and have thus insulated themselves from charges of hypocrisy.
You don’t find that drawing puerile and immature? That’s Trump-esque. It’s a great reminder of exactly how much of a difference there is between the two major candidates.
Oh, SO stolen!
There are so many more that are fantastic, most of which I’ve never heard. They are amazing. I actually created an index of them for myself. You know, cuz I’m gonna need them.
Are those all Trump inspired?
Every. Single. One. From when he was in Scotland when Brexit was announced. One source (but I’ll admit, I got addicted and kept looking, so may not include all): http://9gag.com/gag/abZy938/scots-shower-trump-with-glorious-scottish-insults-after-his-brexit-tweet
So, dare time. I dare anyone here to use at least three of these in a sentence about the U.S. 2016 presidential election.
Oh, I know they went in on him; I just didn’t delve very deeply.
They are quite creative with their insults, though; those Scots…
Gimme a couple of months to get really nauseated; I’m sure that I can work them in.
My favourite now “Mangled abricot hellbeast”.
No more so than its target, and no more so than Swift’s suggestion that the Irish eat their babies in his archetypal example of satire. And no more so than the American public’s expectation that a woman who wants to be president prove she’s tough as a man. It’s satire, and absurd exaggeration is how satire works.
I recognize that Hillary is an imperfect candidate who has some serious shortcomings. I do not believe “puerile and immature” are among them.
If people wanted Obama to actually effect change, they should have showed the fuck up in the first mid-term elections and given him more than 24 months in the depths of the worst economic disaster since the depression to do so. He’s done flat fucking AMAZING things given that for 6 years he’s had the majority in congress saying “no” to every policy move he’s made.
Electing Bernie into a GOP congress would have been even worse.
Yeah that would have been my gripes about him being President.
I happily vote the most progressive option on my local ticket. I am sad to see Baghdad Jim retire ( he has more than done his time in office so I don’t fell all that bad about him stepping down just that he is an awesome congresscritter and will be missed ) but it will be awesome if Pramila Jaypal wins the primary here and I think she will be great to have in Congress.
I’ve put in bold what I feel are good points. I sense that there is, however, disagreement of whether it’s good satire. Millie is spot-on that this cultural bullshit where a woman needs to prove her masculinity deserves a barrage of satire. I just think this cartoon doesn’t do a very good job of that.
But there’s a great Futurama episode (‘Law and Oracle’) that does. Fry becomes a police officer and is placed in the Future Crimes Division (think Minority Report). The police chief is a female, cigar-chomping, side-spitting, baby-dropping, ovary-busting hard-ass. The writers for that show had a knack for brilliant cultural satire and this episode is a prime example.
That’s the satire U.S. culture needs—incisive and through channels no one might expect.
Brady Walkinshaw seems okay too. I guess those two will be the on the ballot in Nov.
Sneaky of Joe McDermott to run, I wonder if he’s hoping people will vote for J McDermott out of force of habit?
This is the best statement so far that sums up the crux of my attempt this past week to hold two competing ideas in my feeble brain at once. I know I’m thrilled a woman has been nominated by a major political party because gender matters in ways unseen and seen, beyond our personal experiences and opinions. And I know it’s the wrong woman.
