You’d best make sure you don’t criticise any of Trump’s golf courses then…
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xxx? Please name this moron. You must have a moron in mind.
Do people still use fb.
Muhammad Trump?
But there isnt currently a ban on Muslims travelling from the UK Cherts.
I know, but the fact he was stopped was because he was Muslim.
Disagree, quite profoundly. There are different types of comedian, as you well know. As a pure comic, I don’t really rate Oliver. He’s not a pure comic though. He’s part of a double-act, with the establishment, especially Donald Trump, playing the other side.
If he wanted to be a pure comic, he could be Tim Vine. His particular schtick is commenting on the political situation of the day. He’d have very tame material without it. You can’t say he’s not part of the political conversation.
Does that imply political responsibility? I’m not sure. However, comparing him with another psuedo double act, the excellent Jonathan Pie, I personally find Pie a more compelling and braver creation. Sure, Oliver’s going after the god-damn President of the USA, but who isn’t? I get the sense that people watch Oliver and think “job done”, as if the mere act of watching him say fuck in a British accent is enough.
Pie, by contrast, has a much wider range of targets, including his target audiences - and tends to drive debate that wasn’t there before.
Over a billion. It’s the world’s biggest social network.
That’s a lot of morons.
Still, i’ll never be lonely.
There’s always a positive, if you look hard enough(the mirror, for 1 in 6 of us).
I have a degree of sympathy with your point. I fondly remember the days when you needed a beard to go on the Internet. When “normal” people started arriving, you looked like savage hillbillies de-civilisin’ the place.
The situation continues in this state of tension.
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While there are a lot of colorful murals along Dickerson Road, none is quite as controversial as a new one that appears to compare President Donald Trump to terrorist Osama bin Laden, who orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the U.S.
“The Donald Bin Laden” is painted in red, white and blue block letters about 5 feet high on the back of 2245 Dickerson Road. It’s visible from West Fourth Street across the train tracks.
There is no signature on the painting, other than one that was already there for another mural painted just below. The painting has been visible for more than a week, but no one has publicly claimed it as their work.
The sign next to it says
Daisy’s Bin Laying $5.00 a dozen
which sort of takes the edge of I think
Here’s a wee column the Guardian wouldn’t print because they didn’t like the Rupert Murdoch jokes:
Say what you like about Donald Trump but he’s already done things people said were impossible, like made Twitter worse. Looking back, the Harambe situation is the closest working model we have for a Trump presidency. Last week he gave the sort of press conference that in a movie would bring a weary superhero out of retirement. His answers were filled with pointless digressions and absurd sentence construction, like he was desperately trying to avoid the buzzer on some unfathomable new Radio 4 panel game. And yet I wonder if Trump isn’t playing to his base quite effectively: grievance is a key part of his appeal, and chaos may well just look like him butting heads with Washington insiders. His approval rating among Republicans was 84%, before he started what will no doubt be a series of rallies. Even Trump isn’t stupid enough to think he’s still fighting an election, so the assumption has to be that he’s trying to enthuse his base to create pressure for his agenda on Republicans in Congress.
Trump’s base are people who believe that the U.S is a country run by elites enabled by mainstream media propaganda. Which, awkwardly, it is. Distorted media has been around for as long as Rupert Murdoch. By the look of him that would include telling Moses the commandments would go down much better if he took the third tablet and carved a pair of tits on it. I do feel for Rupert. Not least the arthritic tadpoles that shuffle around in his scrotum, clutching their tiny hearts every time they hear Jerry’s voice, muffled by his adult nappy. Trump isn’t inventing public disillusionment with the news media, just as he hasn’t invented their dissatisfaction with the fruits of globalisation. He has co-opted these grievances, and followed the pattern of his whole life by bringing a lot of disparate stuff under the Trump brand.
The loyalists Trump has appointed form a kind of intellectual wing of anti-intellectualism, but really they’re pouring out of the gates of Mordor so fast it’s hard to keep track of them all without some kind of bestiary. Steve Bannon, who has the name and face of a relegation haunted Scottish football manager, agitates for a white supremacy that already exists. Ironic, really, that one of the main things his Administration seems to have illustrated is that only black people are good at being President. Seemingly every day we have the unveiling of some new cabinet member who has stepped screaming into our dimension after being outwitted by a Princess in a cautionary folktale. If Trump nominated his horse as a consul it would be a blessed relief.
The modern far-right have a lot in common with Jihadis in that their sexual desperation has been used to radicalise them online. The Brexit and Trump campaigns have been their training camps: the equivalent of a few weeks in some desert barracks shooting an AK-47 into an old mattress. Imagine the adrenaline surge of feeling responsible for a huge election upset. And then they have to go back to normal life. A life where during the 10 minutes they had their picture up on Tinder it was left-swiped so many times they got whiplash due to voodoo. Where they look like Joseph Merrick carried a photograph of their face in his wallet as an appetite suppressant. Where their mail-order bride heard who she was being delivered to and chewed off her toes just so she had something to block up the air holes in her crate. And so they channel their energy back into the trenches of hate that now pass for political discourse, to where they feel safe and newly empowered. There’s never been a better time to be wrong.
I sometimes think that the new right have arisen without warning, then I remember that there were loads of warnings but I just kept muting and blocking them all. In all the hilarity of Trump, in the all the cluelessness of Brexit; in the sheer inchoate, transparent, head shaking, WTF of it all, it’s easy to forget that we are losing. We sign petitions while they sign executive orders, pass laws, remove regulation. We share pictures of them signing away our rights as caption competitions. And yes, I realise columns like this aren’t any more effective. There’s obviously a limit to the need for humorous metaphor when describing a society literally being run from a country club.
The disillusioned electorate that voted for Trump are right to feel the establishment doesn’t care about them, it rarely even considers them. The Democratic Party’s response to Trump has had all the zip of an adulterous journalist phoning in coverage of a conference they didn’t attend, and there isn’t a war he could declare that they won’t back. For Republicans, Trump’s unpredictability is tolerated because his ideology largely overlaps their own. These are disaster capitalists and Trump is their unnatural disaster. They look to adapt to and capitalise on the situation as they would try to find profit in any scenario from hurricane to plague. Whatever happens next, it’s certainly not going to be dull. Or survivable
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I’ve been surrounded by muslims for a week now. Nobody has attacked and I’ve managed to tune-out the six times a day caterwauling.
Don’t know what all the fuss is about.
Mrs G is getting used to her new ‘little black dress’ too.
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I was in Glasgow for a few days last week and there were lots of Muslims there. Strangely enough they seem to get on with their lives, just like the rest of us “normal” folk. Who’d have though it? The only person the locals seemed to have a problem with was Donald Trump.
Serafinowicz may not change the world or get rid of Trump, but his video’s are still making me laugh (or at least smile or not be bored)
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So The Donald has now done a U Turn on the EU. Having recently slagged them off and called them “a vehicle for Germany” just a few weeks ago the EU is now “wonderful” and a good thing.
Twat.
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Did he also say “great”? All he seems to say “we gonna do great things, he’s a great man” etc.
I’d like to do a developmental assessment as his vocabulary seems to be stuck way in his childhood.
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I saw a thing on TV where they was saying his public speeches quite deliberately use vocabulary of a 10 year old, so that the message is within the mental grasp of his core supporters srs.
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Yes, Ted used to post that interesting video about Trumps use of language, before he was run out of town.