Picture it. After four years of a Donald Trump presidency, Kim Kardashian becomes First Lady. It’s a sign of the end times!
I know that democracy is the system of government in which the people know what they want and and deserve to get it—good and hard. But nobody deserves this.
Did any other candidate call out that skank Miley Cyrus?
Nicki Minaj 2016 – the anti-skank candidate.
What got me about the Kanye bit was seeing a piece on CNN, I believe, that was taking it seriously.
I’ve outlived any future I envisioned, and am now a stranger in a very strange land indeed.
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
HST
Glittering-Eye Friday-Rewind:
On April 27, 2011, President Obama released his birth certificate and Dave asked whether our long national nightmare was truly over? Icepick observed a gathering darkness and growing threat over the mountains of madness:
I’m all about the mountains of madness.
“Visionary” is the word. I’m not really stalking your comments; I just thought Dave had violated some principle about not talking about someone who refuses not to be talked about. A quick google and I found your comment, which I would have thought was crazy at the time. And here we are.
I agree, visionary. But Kanye and Kim – how bad could they really be?
The Cubs have a 5.6% chance of winning the World Series as of today according to Fangraphs.
Andy, one thing I hold to be utterly true is that it can always get worse, whatever “it” is. And if you think you’ve thought of a scenario which can’t possibly get worse, that just means that you’re lacking in vision.
PD, while I still think Trump would be a bad President, I find my opinion of him has improved slightly on an absolute scale.
What’s really depressing is that he is the best out of the lot now running.
And he has done the country one invaluable service in completely destroying El Jeffe ¡Jeb! as a viable candidate – Trump has pwned him, as the kids (used to?) say.
PD, I’ve made lots of predictions through the years that have been sickeningly prescient. Sadly, I can’t predict lottery numbers. But the only one that could have really helped me was one I ignored. I _TOLD_ my friend that if we got in THAT CAR driven by THAT IDIOT we would be in an accident before we got off that street. Three fucking minutes later, not even off that street… and my dumb ass was in the car because I was scared of the neighborhood. (That’s a riotously funny thought to me now, given where I live, but times were different then. _I_ was different then, to complete the cliche.)
Andy:
At this point what difference does it make?
When the rules are broken wholesale by people who think the only reason the rules were put in place were to empower the dead white European men who had more power without the rules, things tend to get a little strange.
They actually assume a basic set of rules. They never state them, and they never provide a philosophical basis for them. They get away with this because they leave these rules in place, but there is no rational basis for this.
In a strange world, strange is normal, and the strangest is the strongest. In a rule-breaking world, rule breaking is normal, and the biggest rule breaker is the strongest. I have a feeling things are going to get a lot stranger.
Embrace the strange. Become the strange.
“Andy, one thing I hold to be utterly true is that it can always get worse, whatever “it†is.”
Yeah, you’re right. And old friend has a saying to keep things in perspective – “no matter how bad it gets, just think how much worse it would be if you had a bloody piece of poop in your mouth.”
Re: bloody piece of poop:
Just so!
Let’s see. Both Trump and Kanye are successful businessmen, at least partially based upon shameless self-promotion (i.e., they are both self-centered A-holes). They both go for celebrity wives. AFAICT, they are both ignorant on foreign policy issues and neither has ever held any other public office. Both seem equally plausible to me.
Steve