Politics
The evolution of accusations
The goal post has been doing a lot of roaming lately. Almost as much as the attempted moves by the Democrats when Trump sent Hillary packing. “Oh, sure he won the electoral votes needed, but not the popular vote, the left-handed vote, and the number of voters who voted in the middle of the day vote.”
Here’s a quick run-down of the how the recent accusations have evolved.
We’re keeping our fingers crossed that he’s never ripped a tag off a mattress.
With math skills like that…
After a couple of weeks of Kavanaugh hearings, we’ve checked into a political detox center and are now being forced to watch more wholesome programming like A Clockwork Orange.
One thing we’ve concluded is that politicians must not travel the same educational path as the rest of use. We don’t recall ever seeing the classes listed below:
- Languages (or at least the one that uses the most words without saying anything)
- quid pro quo (and other Latin phrases that you don’t think the public understands)
- Advanced Shredder Operations
- Progressive Studies on Hypocrisy
- Hypocrisy Work-Study Program
- Leading-edge Hypocrisy for the Liberal Arts Student
- Selling to the Unwashed Masses
- Feigned Sanctimoniousness
- Unctuous Duplicity as a Dramatic Art
- Biology of Teeth Whitening
- Combating Bourgeois Arrogance
- Fighting Humility with Audacity
- Owning a $4 million house on a $100k salary
- Turning Charisma into a Theology
And when it comes to Judge Kavanaugh, will we see any liberals think for themselves?
Video of a Democrat gathering to protest Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing.
Washington Post: Trump complicit in hurricane
The Washington Post, never one to shy away from blaming Trump whenever possible, may have jumped the shark this week. Their editorial board has declared Trump complicit in hurricane Florence. Obama was more complicit in be-headings than Trump could possibly be in a hurricane.
If the Post is looking for other equally preposterous things for which Trump is deserving of blame, we offer the line-up below. Well, the Omarosa thing, yea, that one’s squarely at his feet.
- the 1969 Mets
- Woody Allen
- restrictor plates at Talledaga
- the classy love affair between Strzok and Page
- Gamecock Football
- the death of Frank Zappa
- 3-clasp bra hooks
- US heat wave of 1934
- dark stars
- poisonous mushrooms that look tasty
- the heartbreak of psoriasis
- cable TV going out last night in Buford, Wyoming
- Angela Merkel’s failed diets
- the broken bridge rail in Chappaquiddick
- the ice age
- Mario Van Peebles acting range
- rise of Nazi Germany
- fall of Nazi Germany
- Madonna and Abba
- JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald killings
- making most women secretly attracted to Melania
- disco
- Daylight Savings Time
- every girl that told Ted Cruz she just wanted to be friends
- riptides
- English food
- San Fransisco sanitation
- prepubescence
- Apollo 13
- cruising in the left lane
- Godfather III
- rationed airplane peanuts
- Omarosa
- Hollywood movie recycling
- setting Millennial’s expectations too high with rise in middle class incomes and record number of jobs available
Our illustration above was too funny not to make a full cartoon out of it.
Spartacus
Overheard in a Costco:
Cory Booker: I’ll be taking one of those meatball samples.
Employee: Help yourself.
Booker: I’ll be taking it no matter the consequences.
Employee: They’re for everyone. Go right ahead.
Booker: And I’m not paying for it!
Employee: No charge. Really.
Booker: I am Spartacus!!
Iconic images ain’t what they used to be
Hollywood has removed the iconic image of the American flag being planted on the moon in the upcoming movie First Man. At some point, you’d think it’d be more about entertainment than political messaging. For many, instead of seeing the movie they’ll be taking a knee.
So for those in the make-believe movie producing business who want to send a message along with playing dress-up, we have a few other iconic scenes you can consider omitting when you get around to portraying certain events on the big screen.
Media collaborates to show Trump how much they don’t collaborate… or something like that
First there’s no doubt in our mind that Trump hates bad news, that he thinks it’s a direct reflection on him and will say and tweet what he feels is necessary to discredit the offending media source. Some would say he down right lies, others that it’s hyperbole. But many also recognize that the media have been using their position as the fourth estate (a lost concept, by the way, over the previous eight years) to twist and turn stories that any unbiased person would recognize as clear bias.
Early on in the Trump administration an obvious example of bias was seen. How early? Trump’s first day. He was being observed by the media while getting organized in the oval office. One media rep from the press pool noted that the MLK bust was gone and notified the other reporters (btw, a press pool member provides insights for other press members since the oval office has limited space). Later though the reporter had to walk the claim back because the bust was actually there. So instead of reporting on an historic day, the reporter desperately jumped on the first indiscretion he could … imagine. But gee, we can understand how difficult it would have been to verify his reporting. Do you know how much work it would have been to look around the whole oval office?!
And it continues today. You can’t read the front page of a major newspaper and not see as many adjectives and adverbs as there are coming out of a night school creative writing course. Whatever happened to who, what, where, and when? Now instead of the four W’s we get the four B’s: bias, bloviate, bluster, and bellow.
Confederacy of Drones 