I am SHOCKED and OFFENDED by Donald Trump, suddenly. I was really hoping he was going to put this jerky, misogynistic behavior behind him, but then he had to go and be even worse last decade. I didn’t support him through 2015 by scrutinizing any single thing he ever did or said, after ehhh. If I can’t hold him to a higher standard off camera eleven years ago than I could in plain view last week, how can I ever trust him?
Also, I am withdrawing my support for Jeffrey Dahmer because I just read that he was into necrophilia.
Worse, it turns out that reporters for Hollywood gossip shows are soulless smirklords who will march in any direction they are turned and nudged in. Who would have thought that caring who Angelina Jolie is married to requires a distinct lack of discretion and earthly purpose? Who would have thought that a member of the Bush family will put on any suit of opinions necessary to appease the richest person in any location?
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Indighost sez:
For a moment i thought you actually were shocked and offended. Then i LOLed.
Let me ask you, then.
How did we go from, for example, the last election, where the two option made an effort to appear polite, where now they do not?
Myself I say it’s that entertainment has become too good such that people would rather focus on entertainment than politics, and so the politicians have to get really crazy just to get people to look in their direction.
Frimpinheap sez:
I wrote months ago about how I hoped the republican party would collapse in upon itself when the management refused to support the candidate its own core voters selected based on decades of conditioning to favor the loudest, most non-issue-focused candidate. They deserve everything they get. ESPECIALLY after the people who didn’t support him fell in line to look like they did just because public criticism had worn off. Now criticism is renewed due to stuff older than conspicuous rubbish we have already seen, and the management has to act offended again. They are all cartoon characters. And undoubtedly there is more bad unreleased Trump stuff, and they all know it. They just don’t know who else knows.
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is also a cartoon character, who has already lost a presidential election. She did everything right, she thought, last time, and that wasn’t enough. So she likewise has to contort in whatever direction the most fickle, basest public opinion seems to demand. Since Donald Trump never addresses criticism and always changes the subject, and just speaks louder than anyone who tries to bring up the subject again, Clinton has to use similar “tactics” to keep from looking like an exasperated, outmaneuvered wimp, like Al Gore and John Kerry did. But since Clinton also has scandals, she has to be as adept at shifting the topic as Trump is. AND much like Trump’s, it is impossible to know which as-yet contained ones may suddenly burst out. The third debate may just be the two of them saying “but what about YOUR scandal?” at each other the whole time.
The fact that Donald Trump has no actual plan for being president should logically have disqualified him early on, but no one else in the big flag pin party had one, either. The whole system that mandates that THEY get to have a 50% chance at winning no matter which boneheads with money come forward needs to be burned down and its ashes shot into space. The only surprise is what a hard time Hillary Clinton is having.
Frimpinheap sez:
I used to know somebody who whenever he observed, in a typed digital medium, an act of aggression or clever turn of phrase, or something that wasn’t but that he was eager to see as such, would say “>rekt” or “#shotsfired” or something like that. Even if it was just the two of us talking. The candidates are playing to that kind of audience. Like the braindead slobs observing a rap battle yelling out “OHHHHHHHHHH!” every time they hear an insult and possibly keeping score in some manner, but just as likely only remembering the last thing they said that to. Context is unwelcome. Only up-to-the-minute reactions.
And I have repeatedly raged over the terrible comedy in movies that depend on a judgmental reaction being issued on my behalf. Our culture is currently controlled by immediate reactions to the latest dumb gaffe. And politics has, at least in my life time, always depended on people forgetting stuff that only happened a little while ago, unless it suits the media’s narrative to remember something old. Eleven years old, if necessary. The reacting is just faster and trashier than ever.
Purplespace sez:
I don’t like either of the candidates. I wish there was someone else who stood a chance of being elected. If Trump does win, at least the vice president will do most of the work and he was the governor of Indiana and I guess he’s done ok…for Indiana, which isn’t that great initially.
Frimpinheap sez:
That is nothing new, but I do not recall seeing as much consensus in disgust with that during previous elections. I wonder if any amount of disgust can make a difference.