Imagine someone who isnt KKW doing this. There’s no press conference, there’s no need for them to go in front of cameras and accept praise and take questions, it hasn’t been disseminated to every single internet with sketchy descriptions making it seem like much more than it is.

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Hey let us know what you come up with after you “check your notes.” I’m sure it’ll be devastating, seeing as you fucked up the execution of a joke that everyone on the internet has made 5,000 times.

We, as a species, are firmly in the “Fixing Problems That Aren’t Problems” era, which we jumped to before completing the “Fixing Actual Problems We Can Actually Fix” era, which, as the pudding is proving, was maybe not such a hot idea.

The thing that kills me is that the one incontrovertible truth about the coming election is that voter enthusiasm is going to be a massive, massive factor. For better or worse, people were not enthused enough by HRC to vote for her even in the face of DJT as the potential winner.

I agree completely, but while the calculation may have been present, it also played out like an Onion headline: Local Teen Discovers Marijuana, Wants to Tell World.

The story seemed insane so I found the pictures and I don’t think they “let” her do anything, looks like she bought some food, walked outside, took off her shirt and posed in front of the restaurant with the food covering things up.

What sucks extra about a guy like Steve King is the opportunity he affords people like DJT to take cover of “I’m racist? I kicked Steve King off AF1!”

We have the right to have an opinion about the substance of your opinion.

He quotes James Joyce! We can all agree that’s embarrassing!

Do you really think he’s got enough experience to run for president?

despite the fact that he has accomplished almost nothing.

As someone who did turn off GoT during the first of those scenes and did not return, I must remind my cultural critic friends:

Exactly, which is why I can’t do these “watch this Dem senator OWN this Rep. so and so” or “watch what this idiot said!”

That’s what scares me the most. Every day they’re proving and pushing the line on how little anyone cares about the substance of what they do and say. It doesn’t matter; there’s a retrofitted excuse for it no matter what. It is astonishing—absolutely nothing will move the needle with this bloc of people. They’re just…

One of the great American films.

Yeah this 100% feels like a “general awareness” without having experienced some of the abject horror the show does deliver. Its that extra bit of harrowing that would stop you from doing this that you wouldn’t get if you’ve heard of the show and make some general assumptions.

It isn’t really so much that they “can’t” do this or that they were being brazenly, offensively “I don’t give a shit” in the face of the message—its that theyre so fucking stupid as to think this was a fun, party-like theme to play around with. You’re literally watching the point fly right over their heads.

Yeah, exactly, they didn’t do this because they’re callous or ultimately not supportive of PP or reproductive rights, they did it because they’re cloistered, coked-up, high school dropout morons.

+1 I’ve been smh’ing at it all night.