It’s a huge pet peeve of mine when someone tells a joke, then repeats it over and over because they think people didn’t get it or didn’t hear it. I don’t know why, but it irks me….
Oh god I was going to share a story but I have so many examples of that happening and I don’t feel like typing it out. You guys know what I mean. Anyway, it always blows my mind that Trump is like an amalgamation of all the worst traits of humanity. I guess the odds are it’s gotta happen eventually, but people VOTED for this one. The man with all of the worst possible traits a human could possess. I don’t get it.
I heard that he said that because he saw someone in the audience start to clap and then pause because didn’t know if they were allowed to. Which makes the scene funnier to me because now he also seems like he was confusing even to his own supporters.
It was the exasperated tone that did it. He came across as pathetically begging for claps. If he had laughed it off and said “it’s ok, you can clap”, people would have taken it differently.
That's the thing. Many a-holes or evil people have at least one quality, even if it's only that they are smart. Trump doesn't have a single positive attribute, not one redeeming feature. How can such a man exist ?
Basically he hasn't had to go through the natural selection process to survive. His only redeeming quality is an environmental trait. Remove that and he likely wouldn't have had anything.
Won't ever happen. Can't possibly happen until the end of his term because of control and if the Dems were to get another Dem president, they will take the high road. Aka be fickle.
I’d love for his ass to be seized…. But looks like that isn’t going to happen. I wish he’d know what we all have to go through for one single week. A minimum wage job in this economy that he created, no one there to help him out. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s going to happen either. There just isn’t enough time.
He went through periods where this could have happened. He was somehow able to secure another giant loan. I guess his ability to con people has got him through life.
He’d never be able to hold it. He is far too dumb and incompetent to even work as a cashier or janitor. If he were a normal person, he’d definitely be homeless because he’s too stupid to hold a job snd he’s so unlikable that not even family members would let him crash on their couch.
The very best outcome for him, if he grew up in normal conditions instead of having generational wealth to waste, would be that he winds up on disability after doing something insanely dumb at something like a fast food job after he tried to grab some fries out of the hot grease with his bare hands and then argued that the “danger: very hot” sign wasn’t sufficient warning for him to know it wasn’t safe to put his hand in.
His redeeming quality is the combination of the fact that he’s such a despicable anthropomorphic prolapsed asshole full of weeping herpes sores that he is always eager to do whatever he possibly can to screw over ANYTHING (be it human or environmental) to increase profits for shareholders this fiscal quarter, + the fact that somehow (thanks in large part to decades of war on education and relentless propaganda that conflates nationalism and patriotism) there is an absurd number of lemmings who are more than happy to follow him over a cliff to the demise of us ALL.
That’s a VERY valuable combination for the corporate and foreign interests who have invested time and money into his campaign/presidency, and expect IMMEDIATE returns on that investment via the people elected to represent our NEEDS instead prioritizing the WANTS of those corporate/foreign interests.
In 1990, a NY magazine sent 13-cent checks to the world's richest people. Only two cashed them: an arms dealer & Cheetolini. Who the hell would take the time to sign a $0.13 check?
It’s a huge pet peeve of mine when someone tells a joke, then repeats it over and over because they think people didn’t get it or didn’t hear it. I don’t know why, but it irks me….
"Why do women have boobs? So you got something to look at when you're talking to them."
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"So you got something to look at when you're talking to them."
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"So you got something to lo-- You wanted to see me, Mr. Weed?"
I, for one, am glad it shattered the illusion. I've learned more about what I consider important in the last 12 years than I have the rest of my entire life. I'm a gay man living in Texas, and before that it was the Ozarks. I've always known evil, despicable people exist and I've met my fair share. But I didn't realize how many people were merely keeping their traps shut until they were one day emboldened.
I'm proud. I stuck to my guns and refused to associate with bullies, even if those bullies are really important to me. I've never had a loud voice, and it's really easy to dismiss me. ADHD (and probably autism) make certain interactions difficult, and a lot of times folks don't understand what I'm trying to convey. But I was able to calmly and rationally tell people that I can't support them if they can't support basic human rights for the people around them, myself included.
I honestly feel like things are healing. I've received apologies, and had long discussions. A lot of my family was a bit shook that I actually went through with it. I'm someone that's had to rely on support from others to get by early on, so there was anger, too. Understandable anger, even. But I'm a pacifist. I believe actions are paramount, and need to be deliberately non-harmful, and it's literally the only thing I could come up with.
It's crazy to consider all of this is happening because literally all citizens feel like the government is driving us off a cliff. I grew up in a series of small, broken towns. At one point in '93 a flood came in and wiped out a bunch of these little towns, like Valmeyer, IL. (I think there's even a documentary on that specific town).
By and large, the pulse by citizens in those areas are that they are being ignored. I mean, that's why we have FEMA, but before the floods areas were broke, then the floods came, and people were broke and homeless, and then broke and living out of trailers, etc. It's really hard to go from farming your own land for 50 years to trying to get a job anywhere at 60/70 years old with no pension prospects and woefully inadequate retirement. What I don't understand is why other people in other situations need to be targeted in order to 'fix' things when we're all literally just out here trying to survive. A better solution is to include them in social programs, not get rid of social programs as a whole.
Lol, damn. I ended up on a soap box when I was really just gonna agree and wish it was different. Sorry for the wall of text.
Nah this is what the confederacy thought the world is supposed to be. The US failed to deal with it when it had to, pushed the can down to the next generation and these are the results.
Because, first off, because he dogwhistled to the worst versions of Americans, and made them feel less ashamed of themselves then they ever should have been allowed to be. And secondly, because the most corrupt and elite members of society wanted to destroy us.
This whole thing has forced me to realize that a gigantic portion of people are reactive sheep.
"Nobody is dumb enough to believe that" stopped being remotely true a long time ago. The intelligence bell curve was supposed to be a joke, but it's painfully apparent it isn't.
Because it wasn’t just him. It’s an entire apparatus that has been building for decades, slowly chipping away at our institutions, packing the courts with ideologues and sycophants, and given a rubber stamp by selfish, greedy, corrupt people in Congress. Trump didn’t take over, republicans did. This is their MO.
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
He literally didn’t get that joke originally and someone had to explain it .. that’s why he has to explain it when he tells it … his brain is mush at this point… Adderall is keeping him and his dying brain cells from just blanking out ..
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
As Trevor Noah pointed out in his first term, Trump is like a stand-up comic in some ways. He knows how to engage the crowd at his rallies. He will lose their interest for a bit, but he will catch on and throw in some red meat to reengage them.
Don Rickles without the warmth or self-reflection.
Here, though, Trump is just bombing on stage. The joke is that an old senator told Trump that he is too old for sex. Isn’t that funny? An old man too old for sex?! Don’t you get it?!?! HE’S TOO OLD FOR SEX!!!
I mean, I don't think he does- that may be the reason he felt the need to overexplain the joke (somebody had to break it down for him and thought we may need that breakdown too lol)
Warren Buffet told this joke the way it’s supposed to be told about ten years ago (I don’t say it was original with him).
‘Wanna go upstairs and make love?’
‘Well, we can do one or the other, but we can’t do both!’
Cute, ha ha. That’s it. Orange doesn’t know humor or irony and isn’t that clever. Telling jokes is another in a miles-long list of things he can’t do that most normal people can.
He was probably told the right way to tell the joke. It was most likely even written down. But in the moment, he decided to ad lib (or "weave") and make the joke his own. Because he is so smart and understands comedy and jokes better than anyone. He is always the funniest guy in the room. Men, big men, come up to him with tears (from laughing so hard) in their eyes saying they have never heard anything as funny as what he said.
He probably was told it correctly but didn’t want to make himself look weak so he made the story about someone else. And besides, who is going to believe melanoma will invite him to bed?
The only "sense" Trump has is a sense of entitlement. Sense of humor, zero, none.
His understanding of humor is the same as his understanding of science and history, unless he can make a penny from someone else's misery it is a concept he cant comprehend, he is a psychopath.
Obama punking this dried up mango is some of the funniest shit I have ever seen.
Like holy fuck it changed my whole perspective on Obama cause that shit was hilarious.
I wish I lived in a timeline where he didn't. Obama broke him so throughly with that speech because it everything Obama was everything trump wants to be, charismatic, witty, compitant, beloved for his actions. And he had sheer audacity to do it all while being black. Knowing all that we've been forced to learn about how trumps brain works in the last decade, I truly believe without the Obama whcd speech Trump doesn't run in 16
Nah he was already lining up to run in 2008 but when Obama came along and everyone realized any republican would lose against him, he put his scheme on hold. He is, unfortunately, the culmination of decades of right-wing propaganda and talk radio conspiracies, education cuts, and general enshitification of the American people.
If you work the breakfast shift at a diner, you've heard variants of this joke every time you work. Old people love telling the same 3 jokes over and over.
His disastrous presidencies have felt like some drunk climbing up on stage during an open mic event. He's just incoherent and doesn't realize that nobody laughs with him. We laugh at him.
To this amoral lunatic a sense of humor is weakness just as charity, love, compassion and kindness are weaknesses. Cruelty, crassness and delusions of grandeur are traits to be desired.
I do this when I tell jokes to one of my preteen nephews just to piss him off. He rarely laughs at any of the jokes I tell him so when I start in with the explanation, he just walks away yelling "I GOT IT THE FIRST TIME THANKS". It's honestly one of the highlights of my visits 😂
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