The NYT has studied Trump's campaign speeches and says they have grown harsher and darker. Trump throws in a penis joke to lighten the mood and there's a bee in everyone's bonnet. Ethnic humor -- You might be able to get away with a few Irish jokes but the better comedians have moved on. Back in the day on his radio show Stern used to say A LOT of racial things. Didn't stop Kamala from talking with him though. Just watched the 12 minute clip of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Trump's recent MSG rally and a small portion was devoted to what you would call racial humor. Yes cringe - groan. Times change. Every once in a while you need to open up the window and look outside. Jon Stewart defended him as a roast comedian who once roasted Tom Brady. My take calling PR a floating island of garbage is rough even by ethnic humor standards. Having said that it doesn't affect the race in the least imho. On the other hand the Left's claim that Trump has it on his bucket list to be an aging Hitler now that's HILARIOUS. A tyrant for life with dementia. ROFL!!!
Tyrant for life with dementia worked for Nero and Caligula (for awhile- they were done in by their own Praetorian Guard.) We are more civilized now so here is how I imagine it. Rallies - he loves and needs them, so while he does that, his staff will govern. Maybe Ollie North at Defense, RFRJr at CDC, Elon Musk at IRS, Hulk Hogan at Agriculture and Steve Bannon at Homeland Security and Vance wondering what to do? Just pondering and not comfortable outside the Shroedinger container.
ReplyDeleteThe Hinchcliffe joke. Puerto Rico is known for having an overflowing landfill. One view is the comic was making an environmental joke not a racist one. I shoulda been a lawyer.
ReplyDeleteYou people won't give up on the dark fantasy of Trump as Hitler will you? Sounds like a video game.
ReplyDeleteSo the question is who hired Hinchcliffe as an act? There is already the caricature out there of Trump as racist. What better way to combat that image than to feed into the caricature. Hire a comedian who might say racist things. Strange times.
ReplyDeleteHad to look up Hinchcliffe. Sort of a a Don Rickles but better looking?
ReplyDeleteRE: "You people won't give up on the dark fantasy..." What people? You know me - professional scientist with a hobby of reading history. Gotta use it some how, ya know?
ReplyDeleteCan't just be an election has to be the most important election of our lifetime. People calling Trump a fascist that's a er figment of my imagination?
ReplyDeleteFascism gets thrown around a lot these days -
ReplyDelete"Perceptions of fascism are tied to partisanship: 87% of Democrats call Trump a fascist, compared with 46% of independents and 12% of Republicans. Harris, for her part, is seen as a fascist by 41% of Republicans, 20% of independents and 3% of Democrats."
And it's probably overkill. It doesn't help to have the White Nazi
movement on your side. Most 'experts' currently put him more like
the Erdogan in Hungary or Putin in Russia, where they just jail their opponents and don't have death camps per se. And as you previously mused, he is old and thinks of gov as more like his business enterprize. Perhaps we may all be required to buy gold
TrumWatches? Can't predict the future, but can't forget the past.
Trump is gonna jail people? Who Taylor Swift?
DeleteSaw somewhere that Desmoines Iowa has banned trick or treating for like 65 years and is making it legal again this year. Des Moines - French for 'the monks'. We talking monkey business or what, here?
ReplyDeleteSo much I don't know. Are you a Captain Google or just an expert in all fields?
ReplyDeleteBoth and neither. Get curious, wonder about stuff. Like today, I wondered where Wisconsin got its name. (From the Miami tribe -
ReplyDeletemesconseng in the 1670s.) It meant 'river that runs through red places' like several N Wisconsin rivers that start in Tamarac swamps and get stained by the bark. The Miamis migrated eastward and ended up in N Ohio and Indiana, displaced by the Ojibway (or Chippewa). The Chippewa R is also reddish, although its more southern feeders like the Eau Claire (Fr - Clear Water) ran clear.
The French voyageurs corrupted Mesconseng to Ouisconsin, which the English corrupted to Wisconsin. People avoid me at parties.
Ran into a guy at the dentist office last week, didn't even recongnize him, but had worked with him quite a bit at the ammo plant 25 years ago. He strolls over, slaps me on the back and says "I remember when you taught your whole department how to read and write Runic!" We chatted on while the office girls sat with open mouths.
If you make the trivial even more trivial, it gets kind of interesting.
You can improve boring other people, ya know?
Si candore non delectaris, fimo tauro eludo
(If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit)
How are you in forensic anthropology?
ReplyDeleteHaven't tried it yet. Like dig up Ted Bundy and find him innocent?
ReplyDeleteRest assured, I shall never master feral cats - that takes real focus.
Sometimes a program about it on TV. Some skeleton they found from hundreds of years ago. Did he/she die in battle? Was there foul play? They go to great lengths to uncover this. Whatever happened happened. Who are they gonna prosecute?
ReplyDeleteThe curious case of Jimmy Hoffa.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think some mobster in the know would've revealed all by now. Woodward's next assignment?
ReplyDeleteYou don't suppose he is still alive in Anchorage as a protected witness?
ReplyDeleteWith Elvis and Jeffrey Epstein.
ReplyDeleteI got a few dozen jokes about Norwegians, Irish, Blacks , Italians, and women. Color me incorrect.
ReplyDeleteYou could never run for office.
ReplyDeleteFirst candidate to get zero votes, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteGot a bro in law that has a zillion lawyer jokes and another zillion dumb blonde jokes. Asked him about dumb blonde lawyer jokes and he gave me a blank look. Thank heavens.
ReplyDeleteI got nothing going on. Never worked or lived near Camp Lejeune. Never molested in an Uber or a Lyft. No payday. Gotta think of something.
ReplyDeleteThere is even a category called 'Yo Momma' jokes' hundreds, like
ReplyDelete"Yo mama's so stupid, when I said, "Drinks on the house," she got a ladder" Dunno, I think they maybe originated in the ghettos?
Most likely.
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