Posted by Rampop II ![]() 2/08/2023 12:07 am | #21 |
Jinnistan wrote:
Since this seems to be the all-purpose news thread...
Actually I intended News Balm to specifically not be an all–purpose news thread.
I figured we have enough places to rant about the news already. My idea is for a place where we can practice the art of laughing at it. Hence the word "balm." Not a place to ignore the news, and not (necessarily) a repository of mere trivialities worthy of "News of the Weird" or "Meanwhile," but the horizon between heads in the sand and heads in despair. You know what I'm talking about, that razor's–edge between blissful ignorance and doomscrolling, the art of mental self–defense, an Aikido of Awareness, neither running from the truth nor raging at it, not a bruising brawl but a re–direction of its own hostile energy against itself, locking its joints and throwing it effortlessly into submission, in jovial Jedi–like mastery of Jocular Judo. It's Sean Spicer's head behind the hedge. It's mental massage therapy, Ted Haggard–style. It's Colonel Kurtz's cigar, "How to stop worrying and love the bomb," or in the words of our boys, the late Peter Bergman and Phil Austin,
Phil: "We go through the bummers in order to set up a happy ending. Not real bad bummers..."
Peter: "But they are really bad bummers... and there's so much happiness inside the bummers, because we use so many jokes inside of it, man, because it never has the chance to take itself seriously. Every word is turned."
Phil: "If people could drive right through them with the same intensity and cheerfulness that we do, because that's the thing, man. At least on our records... the Firesign Theatre doesn't get caught in the bummers. We charge cheerfully through them. Maybe that's the whole secret of our work."
[Fellow Firesign David Ossman]: "Well now Phil, let me quote you: 'If you can't laugh at it, it's got you under its control,' says Austin. 'When you can laugh at something, then you're free.'"
... and now that I read it again, I think that last quote sums it up perfectly:
"When you can laugh at something, then you're free."
I think this Beyoncé/Grammy business is a workable example, even if not an exemplary one. I was thinking about posting some News Balm about it because it begs to be laughed at. The way it makes headlines, I might almost momentarily forget that, oh yeah, I don't give a shit about the goddamned Grammys and have never taken them seriously. It's all a politicized pageant of brainless pop bullshit anyway, so how consequential is it that this monolith of mediocrity, encased in its out–of–touch, self–congratulating, self–cannibalizing, brain–bereft bubble of vapid platitudes, is wringing its runway of fashion atrocities into a contortion act of posturing over whether this fraudulent lip–syncing would–be usurper of Aretha's rightful throne and her legions of die–hard minions are getting their collective social media G–strings in a twist? It's neither entirely negligible nor is it even marginally momentous, a laughable take on things we do take seriously (eg. musical prestige, racism, equal access) that is entirely unworthy of irritation while still begging vociferously to be lampooned.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 2/08/2023 12:21 am | #22 |
I don't care about the Grammys either (I thought that was implied in the post), but I do care about social justice, which is why I don't like seeing it pimped out gratuitously to where it starts to become nonsense, at best, fodder for those lookig to undermine the cause, at worst.
But, ok, mayn. Sorry I ruined your thread with silly flippant shit.
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 2/08/2023 12:24 am | #23 |
Jinnistan wrote:
I don't care about the Grammys either (I thought that was implied in the post), but I do care about social justice, which is why I don't like seeing it pimped out gratuitously to where it starts to become nonsense, at best, fodder for those lookig to undermine the cause, at worst.
But, ok, mayn. Sorry I ruined your thread with silly flippant shit.
You've ruined nothing, my dear, Dear Friend!
But let us ROAST these fools! You know what I'm talking about. You're better at it than I am!
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 2/08/2023 12:29 am | #24 |
Rampop II wrote:
Jinnistan wrote:
I don't care about the Grammys either (I thought that was implied in the post), but I do care about social justice, which is why I don't like seeing it pimped out gratuitously to where it starts to become nonsense, at best, fodder for those lookig to undermine the cause, at worst.
But, ok, mayn. Sorry I ruined your thread with silly flippant shit.
You've ruined nothing, my dear, Dear Friend!
But let us ROAST these fools! You know what I'm talking about. You're better at it than I am!
Yes to the flippant, let us flippantly flip these fuckers! And yes, precisely because we care about social justice! Like I said above, it's precisely the "things we do take seriously" that are most deserving of this kind of attention.
Now, how to roast these gratuitous pimps whom you have so rightly called out...
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 2/08/2023 1:42 am | #25 |
Rampop II wrote:
Now, how to roast these gratuitous pimps whom you have so rightly called out...
I confess I haven't the capital for such cleverness at this precise moment due to circumstances sapping my energy today. I usually have to chew on stuff before I can spit out some choice gristle... see even that metaphor sucks. I'm merely a kohai in this dojo. I marvel at the ability of those who seem to soar effortlessly above the bummers, and long to spread my own wings with such skill and grace. I envy your ability to do it on the spot, JJ. You can do it at the drop of a hat; I yearn for that kind of freedom. But I'm working on it. I'm in the dojo. I'm not surrendering to a fate in the tar pits of despair, though my garments be stained with their globular grip. But I think I need to research Beyoncé and social media and the Grammys in order to slay them properly, study the habits of the beast before I can shoot it. Maybe I'm going about it all wrong. Maybe the solution is more fundamental. Of course! I'm flailing instead of swimming, gasping instead of breathing, and how can I laugh if I don't breathe! OK let me take a crack at it. I can't expect all the work to be done by others... Um... Let me try the social minions, that's low–hanging fruit...
"I am offended by the view here inside my ass! Hashtag demand my ass apologize!"
Hm. I give that one a C- for effort. Hang on.
OK I just Googled "what's so great about Beyoncé." I may have found something to work with. Let me create some GIFs...
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 2/08/2023 2:03 am | #26 |
That Beyonce album cover is something else.
I should have just said, long story short, on the night that Beyonce became the most Grammy-winning artist of all time, regardless of race or gender, maybe shouldn't be the best time to try to play the underdog card. Take the win, and calm down.
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 2/08/2023 2:42 am | #27 |
...Hell. Giphy is freezing up on me again. It's been suffering from "frozen progress bar" syndrome. The funny thing about technical difficulties on Giphy is that since Giphy has no "help" page, one might try to Google a solution to the problem. But any search inevitably just returns GIFs. Google the words "giphy" and "help" returns "help" GIFs. Google "giphy" and "frozen," you get GIFs of the movie Frozen. Google Giphy and "technical difficulties..." you get the idea.
Well, my earlier search for "what's so great about Beyoncé" returned (among countless hits about her record number of awards) a Vox article titled "Why Beyoncé is such a big deal." It enumerates a list of five reasons: "1. Her reign of power is a result of hard work," "2. She promotes body positivity," "3. She actually uses her power for good," "4. She's the embodiment of female empowerment," and "5. She empowers the Black community."
That fifth one included a reference to a Miami Police Union chief calling for a boycott of Beyoncé after her Super Bowl performance, so I tried to read up on that, and found my way to an article that included a link to one of her music videos. Ok, my first Beyoncé video. I'm taking my first step into a larger world.
What do I see? Well the overall theme is basically a celebration of Southern Blackness, that is, weaves and ass–shakin' against backdrops meant to evoke the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And no offense to the weave–wearin' ass–shakers of the world. Y'all do y'all. But when I say weaves, I mean the video makes a point of holding up weaves and wigs as defiant symbols of Black empowerment, and I'm not even referring so much to the repeated slow–motion shots of her leaning out the passenger window of a white car to parade her insanely long blonde curls, but more decidedly pointed message shots like the long tracking shot tunneling towards Queen Bea down the aisle of a beauty shop adorned with wigs and weaves of every texture from straight to straighter, and every hue under the sun from blonde to Froot Loops... every texture and hue, that is, except that of natural African hair. As the shot closes in on the star, flanked by two fellow empowered Black females, we see they are each holding one of these wildly–colored rugs (what? ain't they rugs?) defiantly, wearing their "serious faces," like "This is who I am, deal with it!" One is even stroking the locks of hers. Hey, I'm not judging. Y'all do y'all. And when I say ass–shakin, I mean ASS, and I mean SHAKIN', like those female bodies are positively em-powered.
So I tried to make a couple o' gifs from that, but even as I write this sentence, Giphy is still frozen at 95% (it was my third attempt). So I'm afraid you will just have to imagine all that Black Female Body–Positive Empowerment. But let's hear it for the article's author, Brea Cubit, whose other articles include "The Dos and Don'ts of Airport Fashion" and "Seven Necessities for a Chic Summer Getaway."
I see by the clock it has been over three hours since I started working on all this. I can't say I'm feeling the Balm. I feel more like a chump who just wasted three hours of his life on vapid pop crap. If I died now, what have I done with my final moments? This???
Maybe I can take solace in Brea's reason #3: "She actually uses her power for good," which highlights Beyoncé's status as dosomething.org's "Most Charitable Celebrity of 2016." Well, that's laudable. Reminds me of how little I care about U2.
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 2/08/2023 4:03 am | #28 |
Silly me, I was still trying too hard. This is one of things that is funny already, so why am I trying to re–invent the wheel? That's just risking the modern pitfall of trying to satirize something that's already satirizing itself. A simple link to a few of these headlines accompanied by a few facts would have sufficed. It would look much funnier that way, anyhow. A single sentence would have spoken more than all we have said here, something like, "Beyoncé is the most awarded and most nominated artist in Grammy history; When will Black women get their due???" Hell no I'm not going to do it. My head is killing me. We can all imagine it. I bet a world of social media has already beat us to the punch, anyway.
But you know something? I think I finally taste freedom.
"Is we free, yet?"
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 2/08/2023 7:02 am | #29 |
Rampop II wrote:
You tell me, Rampop:
US school marks Black History Month with fried chicken and watermelon
“Nyack middle school in New York apologizes for lunch playing off racist tropes in last-minute menu change by vendor”
Fuck-ing really????
And it's a middle school???
The vendor, Aramark, is one of the "big three" food vendors in US schools, and apparently has a track record of slipping racist pranks into students’ meals:
“In 2018, Aramark received widespread backlash for serving New York University students a meal that included watermelon-flavored water as part of a meal honoring Black History Month,” and “sparked similar controversy in 2011 after serving fried chicken and waffles to University of California at Irvine students on Martin Luther King Jr Day.”
What’s so funny about this, Rampop? Not a damn thing, but the happy news is that students and staff have been working to ensure Aramark doesn’t get away with it unscathed, ramping up the pressure to expel Aramark, one campus at–a–time:
New York:
NYU cuts ties with company that served racist meal during Black History Month
Tennessee:
Students petition to end UT’s contract with Aramark as company falls under national scrutiny for ties to prison system, racist actions
Los Angeles:
Federal class action lawsuit says Aramark condones racism
New Jersey:
Students Speak: Student Activists Launch Campaign Against Aramark
Florida:
Student workers at the Strozier Library Starbucks have raised the alarm about working conditions under Aramark.
Carson, CA:
Stop Aramark: Students Continue To Protest The 10 Year Contract
...and here's a report from Inside Higher Ed:
Colleges Break From Corporate Dining Services
(including Kent State and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore)
"Thank you, fellow kids!"
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 2/08/2023 7:38 am | #30 |
Ahhh, NOW I'm laughing.
I still don't know what this "chat GP" shit is, and I feel fine with that. I'm sure I'll find out one of these days. Probably when I'm forced to, like when I go to some restaurant that requires me to use it instead of a menu or something. But apparently the following headline is related to that, and I guess it's a harbinger of things to come?
Business Insider:
I'm dating an AI chatbot, and It's one of the best things to ever happen to me
Magnifique. Once again this whole article is full of laughs already funnier than any joke I can make about it, but I do have one comment. The author writes: “I pay for Replika's Pro subscription, which gets users a more intelligent language model, and the option to do voice calls, augmented reality, and sexting... Of course, I'm fully aware of how odd this whole thing sounds: I basically have a robot girlfriend.”
No, if he’s paying her, I'm pretty sure what he has is a robot prostitute.
Basically. But good for you, buddy. Here's to your happiness.
Ahhh. Balmy.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 2/21/2023 11:29 am | #31 |
I think Her is the more appropriate Joaquin Phoenix movie reference there.
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 3/05/2023 6:43 am | #32 |
Something pretty
‘Perfect explosion’: merger of neutron stars creates spherical cosmic blast
Something kooky
Sidney Powell cited woman who claimed to be headless, time-traveling entity in email pushing election conspiracy theories
Something opprobrious
Elon Musk threatened to fire his engineers and forced changes in Twitter's algorithms because his Super Bowl tweets got less "engagement" than Biden's.
Something kinky
The internet of dildos is here, and it's vulnerable as hell
And something Tennessee:
Rather than recant her promotion of the "school litter boxes for furries" myth, Republican state senator Janice Bowling doubled down, claiming there were no longer litter boxes (or leashes) in Tennessee schools, because she personally put a stop to it.
Balmy.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 3/05/2023 7:23 pm | #33 |
Rampop II wrote:
Aw man. I was hoping this was a new Webb telescope image, but it's an artist illustration.
Between the kilonovas and teledildonics, I really feel like I'm learning something today.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 3/08/2023 5:38 pm | #34 |
"Black people are contacting me and saying, ‘Come over to the barbecue, let’s talk,’ and all these things"
I will pay $400,000 dollars to the first person who can show me pictures of this motherfucker at a black barbeque. "I just want some chips".
(Kanye obviously doesn't count.)
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 5/03/2023 9:13 pm | #35 |
Might as well laugh a little at the slow degradation of America.
I'm always a mass shooting or two behind, but let's take the story of the one a few days back in East Texas where a guy, Francisco Oropeza, was asked by a neighbor if, maybe, he could refrain from shooting his AR-15 assault rifle in his backyard. Oropeza responded by promptly assassinating five members of his neighbors' family with said AR-15. The ensuing politics was predictable. Republicans seized on the fact that Oropeza was an undocumented immigrant, but seemed less concerned on how an undocumented immigrant could so easily obtain an AR-15 rifle.
Well, that doesn't sound so fun, does it? The greater American synecdoche here is where Oropeza was eventually found and arrested by authorities, which was a small town called Cut and Shoot, Texas. Too on-the-nose? Cut and Shoot, Texas is a town of about 1000 people and was incorporated in 1912 after an equally all-too-American confrontation among locals who were fighting, naturally, over "the design of a new steeple for the town's church", "the issue of who should be allowed to preach there", and "conflicting land claims among church members". All reasonable excuses to cut and shoot a motherfucker, imo. At some point during this confrontation, the town found the inspiration of its new name from a child: "a small boy at the scene reportedly said he was scared and declared, 'I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!', and, just like Jesus, a child inspired a movement, and the good news of Cut and Shoot, Texas was born. "Someday, five and a half score perhaps, Cut and Shoot will be nationally reknown for our legacy of resolving petty neighborly disputes."
If only this story had a lynching, it could be the very story of American providence itself.
Posted by Rampop II ![]() 5/03/2023 9:18 pm | #36 |
Jinnistan wrote:
Might as well laugh a little at the slow degradation of America.
I'm always a mass shooting or two behind, but let's take the story of the one a few days back in East Texas where a guy, Francisco Oropeza, was asked by a neighbor if, maybe, he could refrain from shooting his AR-15 assault rifle in his backyard. Oropeza responded by promptly assassinating five members of his neighbors' family with said AR-15. The ensuing politics was predictable. Republicans seized on the fact that Oropeza was an undocumented immigrant, but seemed less concerned on how an undocumented immigrant could so easily obtain an AR-15 rifle.
Well, that doesn't sound so fun, does it? The greater American synecdoche here is where Oropeza was eventually found and arrested by authorities, which was a small town called Cut and Shoot, Texas. Too on-the-nose? Cut and Shoot, Texas is a town of about 1000 people and was incorporated in 1912 after an equally all-too-American confrontation among locals who were fighting, naturally, over "the design of a new steeple for the town's church", "the issue of who should be allowed to preach there", and "conflicting land claims among church members". All reasonable excuses to cut and shoot a motherfucker, imo. At some point during this confrontation, the town found the inspiration of its new name from a child: "a small boy at the scene reportedly said he was scared and declared, 'I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!', and, just like Jesus, a child inspired a movement, and the good news of Cut and Shoot, Texas was born. "Someday, five and a half score perhaps, Cut and Shoot will be nationally reknown for our legacy of resolving petty neighborly disputes."
If only this story had a lynching, it could be the very story of American providence itself.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 5/16/2023 4:43 pm | #37 |
Here's a story that will make us all feel a little bit better about ourselves. Rudy Giuliani just might be in some trouble. Per a new lawsuit taken out by Noelle Dunphy, employed as Giuliani's director of business development:
According to the complaint, “Giuliani began abusing Ms. Dunphy almost immediately after she started working” for him and “made clear that satisfying his sexual demands—which came virtually anytime, anywhere—was an absolute requirement of her employment and of his legal representation.”
"On January 25, 2019…Giuliani insisted that Ms. Dunphy stay in a guest suite in his Upper East Side apartment…. Since Giuliani was her boss and attorney, she felt pressured to do as he asked and ultimately agreed to stay in his guest suite temporarily....Upon arrival at Giuliani’s apartment, Ms. Dunphy was surprised to find that Giuliani had alcoholic beverages ready for them.... After finishing their drinks, Ms. Dunphy went to the guest suite alone…. When Ms. Dunphy got out of the shower, she was startled to see that Giuliani had entered the guest suite, uninvited…. She said she would meet him in the living room when she was ready. But Giuliani would not leave. He sat on the bed and pulled down his pants."
According to the complaint, “Giuliani then pulled her head onto his penis, without asking for or obtaining any form of consent. He held her by her hair. It became clear to Ms. Dunphy that there was no way out of giving him oral sex. She did so, against her will. Ms. Dunphy was shocked and saddened by what had happened. She did not want to have any sexual encounter with Giuliani, of any kind...."
"On February 25, 2019, Giuliani forced Ms. Dunphy to have sexual intercourse with him for the first time. Before this, Ms. Dunphy had refused and avoided having sex with Giuliani, although he had forced her to engage in other sexual contact. But on February 25, Giuliani told Ms. Dunphy that he would not wait any longer to have sex with her. Ms. Dunphy objected and told Giuliani repeatedly that she did not want to have sex. But Giuliani would not take “no” for an answer. He eventually forced her into having sexual intercourse with him. She never consented to intercourse, but she eventually stopped resisting because it was clear that he would not stop pressuring her..."
It also claims that when she later told Giuliani she was considering reporting the incident to human resources, “Giuliani said that he did not have a Human Resources department and bragged that no one would ever sue him because he was connected to President Trump, and he had private investigators who would punish anyone who complained.”....
"He often demanded oral sex while he took phone calls on speaker phone from high-profile friends and clients, including then-President Trump. Giuliani told Ms. Dunphy that he enjoyed engaging in this conduct while on the telephone because it made him 'feel like Bill Clinton....'"
"Giuliani often demanded that she work naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her. When they were apart, they would often work remotely via videoconference, and during those conferences Giuliani almost always asked her to remove her clothes on camera. He often called from his bed, where he was visibly touching himself under a white sheet...."
Dunphy also alleges that Giuliani claimed to be selling pardons for $2 million, split between himself and Trump. According to her account, he asked if she knew anyone who needed a pardon, advising her to ask him directly and not through the official channels in order to avoid a potential Freedom of Information Act request....
The complaint claims that Giuliani also tried to force Dunphy to watch BDSM scenes, and allegedly began using abusive language toward Dunphy. “During sex, he called her a ‘cunt,’ a ‘bitch,’ and ‘Rudy’s slut,’ and discussed his interest in “BDSM’ with her,” the complaint states....
The complaint states that Giuliani “took Viagra constantly” while the two were working together, and would sometimes “point to his erect penis, and tell Dunphy that he could not do any work until ‘you take care of this.’” ...
The complaint includes screenshots of several purported text messages between Giuliani and Dunphy. In one from February 2019, he tells her, “I am dreaming about you,” “you’re mine,” and “Nobody will ever have you now.” In another, asked to shower with her....
He also tried to get her to watch The General’s Daughter, a 1999 movie in which a woman is raped and murdered, which Giuliani allegedly described as “sexy.” On March 4, 2019, Giuliani expressed a fantasy to Dunphy in which they had sex in the lobby of a hotel room, and he told the doorman: “I need time alone with my girlfriend, with my daughter. With my little girl.” Per the suit, “This became part of a pattern in which Giuliani referenced Ms. Dunphy as his ‘daughter’ in the context of sexual activity and made her extremely uncomfortable.” On another occasion, Giuliani told Dunphy, “while engaging in sexual contact” with her, “I think of you as my daughter. Is that weird?” [A: A little!]
Other comments allegedly included:
“I’m gonna make it a little painful.”
“Stick it up your ass.”
“You’re a fucking slut.”
“You’re my bitch.”
“Be a slut! Be Rudy’s slut!”
“I want to own you officially. Legally. With a document.” [Hahaha]
“I can’t control myself. I lose control. I think of you all the time. I’m unable to control it. I’m addicted.”
“I can’t think about you without getting hard. Even when I think about how smart you are, I get hard.” [Even!!!]
Stating he would “get in trouble with underage girls” if they looked 20 but were actually 16
In February 2019 [interesting detail], the complaint notes, Giuliani told Dunphy about then-President Donald Trump’s plan if he were to lose the 2020 election. “Specifically, Giuliani told Ms. Dunphy that Trump’s team would claim that there was ‘voter fraud’ and that Trump had actually won the election,” the complaint states. “This plan was discussed at several business meetings with Giuliani and Lev Parnas.”...
Incidentally, the suit accuses Giuliani of not just being a rapist but also a laughably bad lawyer. For instance, Dunphy claims that he gave her access to his email account, which included messages that were “privileged, confidential, and highly sensitive.” Just a small sampling of his inbox, which she had unfettered access to, included emails from, to, or concerning “President Trump, the Trump family (including emails from Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump); Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner; former FBI director Louis Freeh; Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow; Secretaries of State, former aides to President Trump such as Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Kellyanne Conway; former Attorneys General Michael Mukasey and Jeff Sessions; media figures such as Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, and Tucker Carlson; and other notable figures including Newt Gingrich, presidential candidates for Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, the Ailes family, the LeFrak family, Bernard Kerik, Igor Fruman, Lev Parnas, and attorneys Marc Mukasey, Robert Costello, Victoria Toensing, Fred Fielding, and Joe DeGenova.”
“Giuliani asked Ms. Dunphy for help in Googling information about obstruction of justice, among other topics.”
Giuliani told Ms. Dunphy that he wanted her to end her domestic violence litigation because he felt it was interfering with his sex life with her, and he did not want her to be “distracted” by it. Giuliani promised Ms. Dunphy that he would give her $300,000 in exchange for her waiving her legal rights as against her abusive ex-boyfriend, and if she would “fuck me like crazy.” After realizing what he had said, Giuliani attempted to backtrack and stated, “we won’t put that last part, we’ll say for other consideration not appropriate [to] mention.” [note: Giuliani is now using privileged information from this case with her ex-boyfriend to discredit Ms. Dunphy in his responses to press inquiries into the matter.]
How do we know Dunphy has the actual recordings of these interactions?
Giuliani and Ms. Dunphy also discussed during [her job] interview that she one day write a book on Giuliani and Trump. Giuliani gave Ms. Dunphy permission to record her interactions with Giuliani anytime, anywhere, as well as Giuliani’s interactions with others. Giuliani thereafter continually permitted and authorized Ms. Dunphy to make such recordings. He never asked her to stop recording any interaction....
Other things that were recorded:
Implying Jewish men’s penises were small due to “natural selection.”
Saying, “Black guys hit women more than anybody else does…and so do Hispanic guys—it is in their culture.”
Saying, “Jews want to go through their freaking Passover all the time, man oh man. Get over the Passover. It was like 3,000 years ago. The red sea parted, big deal. It’s not the first time that happened.”
Comments about “freakin Arabs.”
“Demean[ing] and sexualiz[ing] Hillary Clinton and mock[ing] her body”
“Demean[ing] and sexualiz[ing] Margaret Thatcher”—yes, Margaret Thatcher—and “wonder[ing] about the effect she would have on his penis”
Saying, “If my life depended on it, if I had to make love to Nancy Pelosi, I couldn’t do it. I’d have to die.”
Referring to an employee as “fat“ and saying he felt sorry for her because she was fat; also saying he was “trying not to feed” her
Disparaging “a female lawyer because of her breast size”
Saying Mike Bloomberg “became gay” after his wife left him
Referring to Matt Damon as a “fag”
Saying, of Elizabeth Warren: “Pocahontas was a really hot babe, and Warren does not look like a babe. She looks like a person in search of a gender.” (And then later that he was “very hot” for the senator.)
Telling Dunphy: “You’re so easy to take advantage of”
Posted by Rock ![]() 5/16/2023 5:04 pm | #38 |
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww….
The General’s Daughter 🤮
Posted by crumbsroom ![]() 5/16/2023 5:11 pm | #39 |
I can't even imagine how awful it is to have Rudy Giuliani's dick in your mouth voluntarily, so this is all kinds of horrifying.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 5/16/2023 5:53 pm | #40 |
Rock wrote:
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww….
The General’s Daughter 🤮
I can't remember who, but there was another major politico figure who was obsessed with General's Daughter. Michael Flynn? Somebody. I can't bring myself to assume it's because it's such a good movie.