Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

he clearly peed himself

Weird, he usually hires someone else for that.

I guess the news people were using a direct line into the PA, which makes his entrance and letting the song completely play out as he mugs for the audience come off really weird because there's no audible cheering whatsoever for minutes on end.

Imo it’s got to be some kind of dress pants with an elastic waist and no zipper. If he put regular pants on backwards that would mean he’d have to reach behind and do the zipper, and no way he can reach to do that

Whether they're on backwards or no, they're almost certainly elasticated pants with a fake fly, pulled over a diaper.

Diaper Donnie just getting all incontinent over the Constitution.

he’d have to reach behind and do the zipper, and no way he can reach to do that

That's what he keeps Eric around for.

In other recent Trump offspring news, DJTJ needs Coke money, gets dunked on by Claire McCaskill

Seriously? $19.99 for a DM? This is hilariously pathetic. pic.twitter.com/fHd8tu9kKi

— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) June 3, 2021

I thought for sure this was a parody. pic.twitter.com/8kDCQLDm7q

— OG JJ (@J_Dot_J) June 8, 2021

Fucking hell people, stop sharing this shit on fucking Twitter, even if you want to dunk on him.

One of the joys of him being booted was to not have to look at this shit and it was nice for awhile, but for the last week it feels like a quarter of my feed is fucking Trump again, even if it is all making fun of him.

I was looking for a famous birthday to talk about for a teaching job today, and yuck. I think we'll talk about Boy George/Culture Club instead.

not allowed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18441Eh_WE

RIP I’ll always remember you big guy.

I wish I talked about Trump instead. I played "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" for them--and had to stop 30 seconds in. (Hadn't seen the video for 30 years at least.) Jesus. "Teachable moment," as they say.

I have honestly never seen that video before. Holy hell.

xxp don't get my hopes up please

wow @ that culture club video, sure I have seen that before, how did I not notice THAT?

Karma Chameleon video is also fairly problematic along similar lines

I had "Karma Chameleon" cued up to play after, but that was immediately a no-go...It really shook me up. We talked about it, and then I phoned the principal as soon as I had a break. She was really good about it. Last time I ever play a music video without double-checking first.

from https://www.songfacts.com/facts/culture-club/do-you-really-want-to-hurt-me, don't know that this really explains it...

The concept of the video was Boy George as an outsider, getting kicked out of different places in various historical settings. It was directed by Julien Temple, who came up with the idea of jurors dressed in blackface. This was a shocking image for American audiences, who long associated blackface with racism, but in England it was far more accepted as part of their music hall tradition.

Temple explained in the book I Want My MTV: "'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" was about being gay and being victimized for your sexuality, which George was kind of emblematic of. It seemed appropriate to me that in the video he would be judged by jurors in blackface, to send up bigotry and point out the hypocrisy of the many gay judges and politicians in the UK who'd enacted anti-gay legislation."

count me among the people who saw this many times as a child, but did not recall the blackface element

Was there an edited version as well, maybe?

I seem to recall the original video for Taco's "Putting on the Ritz" featuring blackface bits that were later removed and replaced with generic stills of Gary Cooper

Was there an edited version as well, maybe?

I think there was...? I remember reading at the time that MTV refused to play it (not that MTV's programming wasn't already explicitly racist in the early '80s).

See also UB40's 1980 video for 'Dream a Lie'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfoVVRDU378

wow @ that culture club video, sure I have seen that before, how did I not notice THAT?

There must have been an alternative or edited version, I've never seen that before.

xpost yeah looks like the blackface is in the slow opening part of the song. Pretty easy to cut that part out.

I had to check when The Black and White Minstrel show ended on the BBC - 1978, so three years before the Culture Club video, too far a distance timewise for the CC vid to be taken or excused as parody.

Running weekly for 20 years makes enough of a cultural impact that it can still be referred to as an element of public consciousness three years later... even if the stage show wasn’t still touring regularly until 1987, and playing Butlins until 1989.

too far a distance timewise for the CC vid to be taken or excused as parody

Are you kidding? People are still making jokes about shit that happened in 1978 now.

True. That was the year the Star Wars Xmas special aired.

ask someone if they have 'badges' and wait for them to tell you they don't have to show you any 'stinkin badges'.

Wait, is this the Donald Trump thread? I think I'm lost

all threads are Donald Trump threads. no threads are Donald Trump threads.

Boy George came out as MAGA

not my lover, but my rival

Make America George Again

I'll grumble 4 ya

KarMA_GAmeleon

but really, he did?

xp

Perhaps he has a... poisoned mind

trump is still doing fake tweets as "statements" on his website. nothing worth mentioning.

File in the "WTF?" dept.:

The niece of Osama bin Laden on Wednesday protested the Biden-Putin summit with a “Trump Won” flag.

Video surfaced on Twitter Wednesday showing Noor bin Laden, on a boat with others, holding a “Trump Won” flag in Geneva, the site of the summit. Noor bin Laden is pushing the unfounded claim that former President Trump won the 2020 election.

i think maybe bin Laden's angle is that anything that promotes the idea the Trump Won is a destabilizing influence for the U.S. as a whole. or, you know, she could just be out of her mind like so much of humanity

KarMA_GAmeleon

― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 June 2021 19:08 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

vvg

BIN LADEN WON

she could just be out of her mind

This. She's been a major, out of her mind Trumper for years.

bin laden did win, tbh

he got bush and the neocons to sliiiiightly overreact in Iraq and Afghanistan, which played a big hand in obama getting elected (he was one of the few candidates who could credibly say he was against iraq from the beginning), and then white americans got so mad about a black man being president that they elected trump, which made pretty much everyone mad

not that he planned it out that way, of course. but the initial destabilizing event 9/11 led very directly to other destabilizing events, varnished the bravado of 80% of americans being for bush in the wake of the attack, freedom fries, all that bullshit. one big evil tragedy leads to another

and eventually everyone's just like "fuck you asshole!", including me. seriously, fuck any republican 4 life for what they did. i'm supposed to talk to them? fuck them