Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/27/what-part-of-the-heroes-journey-is-don-junior-on.html
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i need to know if the guy had tears in his eyes.
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Junior tonight: “Now more than ever, the amount of African-American men that have come up to me and are literally like, ‘Hey man, you’re my hero!’“
What is that number, Jr; is it non-zero? I bet it isn’t.
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Junior? Threshold Guardian, at best.
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I get major Kendall Roy vibes.
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Negative. I’m sure a nonzero number have told him the opposite.
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He’s in the “I’m middle-aged but still every bit as spoilt, useless, and mindlessly destructive as I was as a 13 year old” phase.
sniff sniff
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It was one guy, and to be fair the guy mistook Don Junior for someone else, but…
(This is the only scenario where what he said is both true and possible.)
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Maybe he’s a more advanced mathematician than we all realized…
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Where is he on the journey? I’d like to imagine he’s stuck on the beltway around FAFO City and all the exits point to downtown.
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Dude needs to stop doing cocaine in front of cameras.
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Yeah, I was going to go with the “Tony Montana in the last 10 minutes of Scarface” part of the journey.
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That’ll work.
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+1 million upvotes for Glove and Boots. Gorilla’s Christmas album is all that.
I bet his black fans go to another school, in Canada.
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“…African American men have come up to me and and are literally like, ‘Sir! Sir! Hey, man, you’re my hero!’ They had tears in their eyes. They really did.”
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It is nice that he doesn’t over-egg his story. He’s obviously learned rhetorical restraint from his dad.
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What does Hogwarts use to send rejection letters?
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I am looking forward to Don Jr. changing his last name in order not to be associated with a loser. (Daddy expects loyalty, but has not yet earned it.)
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And the man’s name? Black Albert Einstein.
Pet peeve: when people say “amount” when they should say “number”.
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