When you leave the chicken in the fryer that long, you have to toss it out and start over (with better chicken).
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Comments from a Twitter friend: “This version makes it look like his face was stolen, cured like leather, and then superglued on”
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That word:
Bags under the eyes, bulging double chin, and skin so pale it appears almost purplish; these traits are not aesthetically pleasing to the eye, even aside from the fake Naugahyde hue that encircles the face.
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Question is, is @photowhitehouse a legitimate account, or a parody? The “dancing with the sunset and strong winds” sounds parodic.
Well, I hope that the White House issues a strong denial, causing even more people to look at this photo, and since more and more people are doubting everything Trump and staff statement . . .
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Denial from the WH:
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I can’t be arsed to shoop the Face of Trump on “Moisturize Me”.
“Cheddarize me!”
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Trump: still not funny.
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Asking this almost to myself as much as you.
Is there a way to clarify somehow? Otherwise it seems like a silent endorsement. Yes, it’s a Rorschach test of sorts, but I prefer to avoid ambiguity. If you’re going to “take it back” I think it needs to be done in such a way that’s clear how you’re using it.
How can we avoid the scenario where Nazi scum read your comment and thinks “see, we are everywhere! People support our cause!” Not that I think there is a clear answer here. I’m more musing aloud.
he tweeted that it was “obviously photoshopped” – as if he even knows what Photoshop IS, let alone knew enough about it to be able to tell if an image was 'shopped or not.
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“Oh this? It’s just something I pulled on.”
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Say what now? 
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I don’t want to take it back, I just don’t acknowledge that this one guy and his idiot followers have any claim on it at all. If someone decides that “1+1=2” is code for something out of the Protocols, I’m not going to change to nonstandard arithmetic.
The way language gets meaning is to use it. If I use it and someone wonders whether I’m using it Ickiously they can ask – this already happened once on BB – or jump to whatever conclusions they like, I don’t really care.
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But seriously though, it doesn’t. It never looks like he’s smiling. Even when he tells his aggressively unfunny “jokes” at his white power rallies. As I’ve said before, he treats everything (the US Constitution, human dignity etc.) as a joke, but when you have literally no sense of humor, “joking” just means a cargo-cult imitation of behavior that you’ve seen other people use to excuse saying shitty things. I have literally never seen an image of Turmp looking plausibly happy, because he is dead inside (or more likely never lived).
We shouldn’t judge people by their appearances. But as you get older, your face is in part a checksum of all the expressions you’ve ever made, so while that’s not the whole story of your character, it’s certainly part of the resumé. That’s why portraits of the very old are so poignant, because they’re an unforgeable receipt for decades of laughter, frowning, suspicion, weather, joy, tears and what not. And though it is hard to look at Turmp’s fizzog with unbiased eyes (or any other kind of eyes), I’m pretty sure that his face is part of the reaction I have always had to him, namely: “oh god that thing is pretending to be human – badly – how are you people not seeing this”.
And yes, dehumanising language is also to be strongly avoided. Except when someone is, in fact, a fucking wendigo.
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So, it looks like it’s a White House press photographer, and not the official White House photographer feed.
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No higher resolution available I wish.
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Or, to simplify: “It’s not the official White House photographer feed.”
Anyone else is just “someone near the White House with a camera.”
Whats kind of humorous here is: this photographer is (apparently) so enamored of his idol, so surfeited with führerprinzip, that he lacks any critical eye to be able to see the man in a ridiculous pose.
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I’d heard - maybe on NPR? - that the photographer is just a guy who likes taking pictures of [current occupant of the White House] - no press affiliation. I could well be wrong.
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