I’ll never understand the blind worship these dudes get.
Millions of people come out to protests and it’s “not enough”, and everyone has a criticism. “Why bother if you’re just going to schedule it for a few hours of a Saturday and then go home?”, “you Americans never actually do anything beyond performance.” Etc.
Meanwhile, two multimillionaire Libertarian douchebags make the lamest most toothless fucking “statement”, and everyone here trips over themselves to jerk them off and give them some kind of credit.
Like Jesus Christ people, they haven’t actually done a single fucking thing.
It’s not even good satire. Like let’s break it down for a moment (I know, that’s how you ruin jokes, but I don’t think we need to worry much with this one): how does changing their name to add “America” to it do anything to mock, berate, etc. Trump?
I’m sorry but, “hahaha look, we can add the word ‘America’ to the title like you! Isn’t that funny?” just doesn’t cut it for me satire-wise. To a narcissist like Trump, this is basically a compliment.
And it’s kind of crazy to see so many otherwise intelligent -seeming people line up to suck them off over this.
Go read A Modest Proposal and lament at how far our satire skills have fallen.
These are two men with obscene amounts of money, and we’re praising them for this?
Talk about low standards.
Edit: here why not. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift. Written in 1729
Lol rereading this for the first time in like 15 years… This part made me lol
I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.
Fucking savage.
there are more children born in Roman Catholick countries about nine months after Lent, than at any other season; therefore, reckoning a year after Lent, the markets will be more glutted than usual, because the number of Popish infants, is at least three to one in this kingdom, and therefore it will have one other collateral advantage, by lessening the number of Papists among us.
LOL
This is what I’m talking about… Compare this to “hurr durr the show is called ‘South America’ now get it?” This is what actual satire looks like.
Looks like The Onion learned from the best. Leaving the best line for the end:
I have no children by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing.
I think the low standards result from the fact that, unlike Bush-era satire, Trump is pretty close to being ignored except for the last season of South Park. During the Bush era, every cartoonist and satirist was falling over themselves to highlight Bush’s shittery, such that the current media world in comparison is a defaening silence. And it would be wonderful for things like this to lead to Trump becoming the joke Dubya was by the end of his shitshow.
Wow, that’ll really show them!
I’ll never understand the blind worship these dudes get.
Millions of people come out to protests and it’s “not enough”, and everyone has a criticism. “Why bother if you’re just going to schedule it for a few hours of a Saturday and then go home?”, “you Americans never actually do anything beyond performance.” Etc.
Meanwhile, two multimillionaire Libertarian douchebags make the lamest most toothless fucking “statement”, and everyone here trips over themselves to jerk them off and give them some kind of credit.
Like Jesus Christ people, they haven’t actually done a single fucking thing.
It’s not even good satire. Like let’s break it down for a moment (I know, that’s how you ruin jokes, but I don’t think we need to worry much with this one): how does changing their name to add “America” to it do anything to mock, berate, etc. Trump?
I’m sorry but, “hahaha look, we can add the word ‘America’ to the title like you! Isn’t that funny?” just doesn’t cut it for me satire-wise. To a narcissist like Trump, this is basically a compliment.
And it’s kind of crazy to see so many otherwise intelligent -seeming people line up to suck them off over this.
Go read A Modest Proposal and lament at how far our satire skills have fallen.
These are two men with obscene amounts of money, and we’re praising them for this?
Talk about low standards.
Edit: here why not. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift. Written in 1729
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
Lol rereading this for the first time in like 15 years… This part made me lol
Fucking savage.
LOL
This is what I’m talking about… Compare this to “hurr durr the show is called ‘South America’ now get it?” This is what actual satire looks like.
Looks like The Onion learned from the best. Leaving the best line for the end:
I think the low standards result from the fact that, unlike Bush-era satire, Trump is pretty close to being ignored except for the last season of South Park. During the Bush era, every cartoonist and satirist was falling over themselves to highlight Bush’s shittery, such that the current media world in comparison is a defaening silence. And it would be wonderful for things like this to lead to Trump becoming the joke Dubya was by the end of his shitshow.