NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4)

Greg Bovino visits Dracula’s tomb and declares that actually he was a good guy because he fought illegal immigrants.

You can’t make this shit up.

Bovino:

The Prince of Walachia wasn’t some cartoon villain, he was a great hero to his people.

He says this about VLAD THE IMPALER.

Sometimes, the only thing standing between your civilization and the next wave of invaders is the willingness to stick them on pikes as a warning. Oh, and turn into a bat and suck their blood.

I see he ampersands a few people at the end. Does that force his post to those ampersanded?
This douchebag himself threw teargas in neighborhoods on yer typical Tuesday morning.

Fuck that guy. He sure stands like a tough guy, don’t he? He’s probably imagining kicking a school kid in the face.

Or maybe he’s remembering being kicked in the face by a school kid. Maybe he cried in his little single bed every night and imagined being Vlad and getting back at those Turks kids who tormented him for being a whiny ass runt.

This is an ampersand.

While this…

…is an “at sign”. You’d think it would have a better name than that, but it doesn’t. :frowning:

(Though it’s called an “arroba” in Spanish, which sounds pretty cool to me.)

Professional courtesy.

Hey Bovino, there’s a big difference between a literal invading army and immigrants seeking a better place to live, despite you and your ilk constantly conflating the two.

And he doesn’t even have history correct. Vlad first took the throne with the help of an army from the Ottoman Empire. In other words, he was the invader.

An anchor tyrant.

The Master Speaks. One incident that strikes me as relevant:

On another occasion Vlad invited the local beggars as well as the old, the sick, and the lame to a feast. Having gotten everybody drunk, he inquired, “Do you want to be without cares, lacking nothing in this world?” Sure, said the assembled multitudes. Vlad then ordered the building boarded up and set afire, killing all inside. “I did this so that no one will be poor in my realm,” he supposedly said.

Reminds me of “If we don’t let the cruise ship dock, it won’t add to the COVID count.”

It’s called a “strudel” in Hebrew, which is even cooler.

Mmm…strudel…

I can’t think of the word “strudel” without remembering the Pillsbury Toaster Strudel kid.

That kid always creeped me out.

I was apparently not the only one.

Just 'cause I just watched this,

Thanks, very informative, and he covered my favorite punctuation symbol, the pilcrow!

Immediately before coming to this thread, I was reading about the pilcrow, octothorpe, ampersand, and @ sign in the very engaging book, Shady Characters; The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks, recommended by @Exapno_Mapcase in another thread.

I was concurring that that is indeed the coolest name for the @ symbol, until I watched @crowmanyclouds’s video link a few posts after yours and discovered that the Dutch call it an “apenstaart” or “monkey tail”. Sorry, Yiddish/Hebrew, that out-cools your version. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Wouldn’t Bovino be a dirty foreigner in Walachia? I could get behind (heh) some Vlad the Impaler treatment for him.