Stalin
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It is going to be a great time for comedy..with the geriatric boomer leading the chorus
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Full American democracy is barely 60 years old, yet seems to be in an advanced state of cognitive decline. At his inauguration yesterday, Donald Trump seated the tech bosses, his nerd broligarchy, in front of his supposed cabinet. Needless to say, it was all a hopelessly overstimulating day for Elon Musk, whose double salute on stage later was a pure Dr Strangelove spasm, generously described by the Anti-Defamation league as “an awkward gesture”. Listen, if your friends won’t tell you, then who will?
As for the staging of the inauguration, which was moved indoors several days earlier, it was an occasion devoid of a sense of occasion. I would honestly have preferred Trump to ride in on the QAnon shaman. Instead, and not to get all British about state events, the world was forced to watch a quite staggeringly inept and lo-fi ceremony. You constantly expected someone to grab the mic and say: “Could the owner of a red Honda Civic please move your car as it’s blocking in the burger van.” Or maybe, as viewers round the globe sat waiting in mortified vain for singer Carrie Underwood’s basic backing track to kick in, to announce: “Apologies, ladies and gents, we have a tech fail. Is there anyone who knows about tech in the house?
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The day marked a personal tipping point for Trump, who has now pulled out of more international agreements than Playmates. Among his withdrawals on Monday were the Paris climate agreement, and the World Health Organization, a body that seems to have been about as prepared for this news as it was for the Covid pandemic. Over in the Oval Office, meanwhile, the Diet Coke button has been restored – the least imaginative red button ever to grace a strongman’s desk – along with busts and paintings of admired politicians who are too dead to be able to tell Trump precisely how much they’d have hated him.
By way of background music that actually functioned, there seemed to be a competition between the incoming and outgoing presidents to determine who could issue the most disgraceful pardons, with Trump gifting exoneration to 1,500 of the January 6 rioters like some sort of insurrection Wonka. Meanwhile, Joe Biden took the moment of the inauguration ceremony itself to sneak out pre-emptive pardons for most of his family, an act of such craven shamefulness that the kindest response was to think: you’d better be completely, dribblingly gaga by now because that is seriously the only excuse.
more comedy at https://www.theguardian.com/comment...d-trump-inauguration-coalition-cronies-creeps
comrade stalin
moscow-on-the-woke
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Full American democracy is barely 60 years old, yet seems to be in an advanced state of cognitive decline. At his inauguration yesterday, Donald Trump seated the tech bosses, his nerd broligarchy, in front of his supposed cabinet. Needless to say, it was all a hopelessly overstimulating day for Elon Musk, whose double salute on stage later was a pure Dr Strangelove spasm, generously described by the Anti-Defamation league as “an awkward gesture”. Listen, if your friends won’t tell you, then who will?
As for the staging of the inauguration, which was moved indoors several days earlier, it was an occasion devoid of a sense of occasion. I would honestly have preferred Trump to ride in on the QAnon shaman. Instead, and not to get all British about state events, the world was forced to watch a quite staggeringly inept and lo-fi ceremony. You constantly expected someone to grab the mic and say: “Could the owner of a red Honda Civic please move your car as it’s blocking in the burger van.” Or maybe, as viewers round the globe sat waiting in mortified vain for singer Carrie Underwood’s basic backing track to kick in, to announce: “Apologies, ladies and gents, we have a tech fail. Is there anyone who knows about tech in the house?
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The day marked a personal tipping point for Trump, who has now pulled out of more international agreements than Playmates. Among his withdrawals on Monday were the Paris climate agreement, and the World Health Organization, a body that seems to have been about as prepared for this news as it was for the Covid pandemic. Over in the Oval Office, meanwhile, the Diet Coke button has been restored – the least imaginative red button ever to grace a strongman’s desk – along with busts and paintings of admired politicians who are too dead to be able to tell Trump precisely how much they’d have hated him.
By way of background music that actually functioned, there seemed to be a competition between the incoming and outgoing presidents to determine who could issue the most disgraceful pardons, with Trump gifting exoneration to 1,500 of the January 6 rioters like some sort of insurrection Wonka. Meanwhile, Joe Biden took the moment of the inauguration ceremony itself to sneak out pre-emptive pardons for most of his family, an act of such craven shamefulness that the kindest response was to think: you’d better be completely, dribblingly gaga by now because that is seriously the only excuse.
more comedy at https://www.theguardian.com/comment...d-trump-inauguration-coalition-cronies-creeps
comrade stalin
moscow-on-the-woke
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