I was traveling for three weeks, and I fell way behind on the SDMB. Now I’m finally caught up in this thread. I have read over 800 posts over the last several days. I need a hug.
OMG, you need a big bowl of soup, a fifth of Jack Daniels, and a long nap. Damn, you could have hurt yourself. One day I was gone for about two hours and the world turned upside down in the meantime.
Now that you’re back, do you see any cause for hope?
Which make backing a 2012 Honda Fit out of a parking space between two behemoths a nerve-racking, slow, timid creep.
But back to the ongoing clusterfuck: Here’s another brilliantly savage evisceration of this maladministration by Mary Geddry, this one kicking off from Hogsbreath’s hyper-Christofascist “press conference” of posturing and preening, as more dead come home. The opening paragraph:
Pete Hegseth stood at that podium and did something so morally rotten, so grotesque, that it deserves to be named plainly. He took the grief of military families, the imagery of flag-draped coffins, the unbearable finality of lives cut short, and he used it as a sales pitch for more war.
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How the heck will American-sized vehicles negotiate all those tiny, twisty back roads with giant hedges lining the verge?
I’m going to guess a pun based on “FDR,” and Trump’s love of fast food. I only figured it out by pronouncing it out loud, rather than seeing it in print, which makes it clear that it’d be pronounced Eff Dee Arr-bees. As it was part of Kimmel’s monologue, it was probably more obvious when he said it.
Got it in one. Kimmel regularly makes puns about Trump in a similar manner. He’s gone through all the obvious ones by now so sometimes they’re a little obscure. Here’s a list of 78 examples:
Haven’t there been cases where offering a candidate a job in order to get them to drop out of a race has been considered to be a bribe? Not that Trump bribing people is a shock, of course. I just want it on record.
It occurs to me that there are delivery services in both Washington DC, and Palm Beach, Florida.
A crowd sourced massive tsunami of “hamberders” delivered to both addresses could become quite hilarious. A DDOS of hundreds or thousands of shitty burgers.
A little unkind to the delivery people, I suppose, but most of them get tipped electronically even before delivery, and they would get that from the people making the order, not the putative recipient.
And local MacDonalds franchises would LOVE the traffic, even as they keep politically neutral.
I’m having a gentle beer, and some thoughts. I am Zimbabwean, as I often mention.
One of those is that Donald Trump is a bigger arsehole than Robert Mugabe, which is quite impressive.
Both are/were (Mugabe is dead) racists.
Both are/were dictator wannabes
Both had/have very racist tendencies
Both had/have terribly insecurity, mixed into sociopatholghy.
The major difference between the two men is that Robert Mugage was a very good orator. He was eloquent and very good at countering arguments. Donald… is not.
I don’t know if you saw this, but when Trump was elected the first time, Trevor Noah was still hosting The Daily Show and Noah compared Trump to African dictators.
