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Yesterday in Trump on Twitter:
Jackie Evancho's album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her Inauguration performance.Some people just don't understand the "Movement"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2017
Jackie Evancho’s album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her Inauguration performance.Some people just don’t understand the “Movement”
And yet he will insist that he doesn’t care about getting the big stars, doesn’t even want them! He just tweets about them obsessively…
Taco sales were astronomical this year. Why? It’s because of the ‘Movement’. Obviously. It’s what fasco-narcissists do: claiming unabridged ownership of reality while decorating all they touch with orange excrement.
(*) http://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-eat-554-million-jack-in-the-box-tacos-a-year-and-no-one-knows-why-1483465285
…and yet I still can’t be arsed to Google who Jackie Evancho is…
Well, yes, of course. Because everyone was getting their taco fill, and hoarding toward the day the wall is built, and there is a shortage of tacos…
See? Perfectly legitimate.
/s
And if you looked at his actual feed, rather than seeing that one in isolation, you’d notice that the font for that rubbish tweet is bigger than for the tweets (also rubbish) about more serious issues that surround it.
“Movement”? A bit grandiose, I think (but then again, so is Trump). The idea that there’s such a thing as “Trumpism” or that this is a “movement” is giving his unfortunate and improbable win of the Presidency (I’ll have to stop capitalising that after the inauguration (which I shall not capitalise to start with)) too much credit, unless you want to dignify his confident ignorance, pompous shallowness, pathological mendacity, unashamed bullying and naked self interest with the label of ideology. Trump is a singularity of horrible lacking in any of the foresight, thoughtfulness or coherence required to come up with anything resembling an ideology.
I admit I had to google Jackie Whatsit. She’s sixteen years old. (Hey, Donald! Dating material! Grab her by the… )
Thanks, Silentbob. Now I have to go scrub my eyes with bleach so I can forget I ever saw that….
#7, I’m afraid she’s a bit long in the tooth for him, don’t you think?
I find that too much chilli in my tacos invariably causes a movement but I wouldn’t exactly call it a popular one.
Too much Trump has pretty much the same effect.
Maybe the young singer’s album sales skyrocketed because her announcement was the first time that most people had heard of her. Or maybe Trump had his people bulk-buy it to manufacture a more positive ‘Trump-effect’ than the one most of us suffer.
From ijr.com (http://ijr.com/2016/12/763940-celebs-who-declined-trump-inauguration-invite-might-be-wishing-they-hadnt-after-checking-the-charts/);
She isn’t even old enough to vote, and I do wonder how much choice she really had over the booking.
The ijr writers do seem to miss the point of why real stars are staying clear, though;
…..but retaining their credibility and self-respect.
And their future, when the Trump ‘revolution’ turns to nausea (for some of us, it started out that way).
It’s probably just me but I don’t understand why someone getting a new job requires people to sing and dance on command. When we get a new PM here in the UK, nobody even really notices. Even when we get one as horribly dangerous as our current one.
The US is about to inaugurate their head of state, not merely a Prime Minister. I promise you that when the UK gets a knew head of state there will plenty of pomp and circumstance and everyone will notice.
What about coronations? I realize there hasn’t been one of those for a while, but…aren’t they fancy affairs? (I don’t know; the last one was before I was born. And I can’t possibly know about anything before I was born ;-)
I think this is our way of coronating a new “king”. Even when the idea of the monarch was stripped out of our government, the desire for the pomp and circumstance remained, so we (meaning citizens of the US, not me personally) overdo the celebration of our short-term elected leader. Which probably only contributes to Trump’s misunderstanding of the position of president, apparently believing he will be some absolute ruler (but understanding there were limits on the president when Obama was in, and screaming about his overstepping of the limits).
@Ink:
Yeah, those things are hugely embarrassing, but they’re not the same thing. While we know that the royal family is going to be conservative in principle, they’re not really allowed to support a particular political party. So people dancing at the queen’s birthday or coronation are doing something I don’t understand, but they’re not celebrating the rise of a politician.
The queen is not our leader in any sense. Why would you think that?
I don’t think that. It was more speculation about why we here in the USA have such a showy spectacle – we did away with any monarchy, but at some level, the idea of royalty is appealing (in the abstract) to some people, so they transfer that sense of monarchy to the president. Couple that with how few people really understand what the job of the president is, and you end up with this party-hearty mentality. So it wasn’t really about the Queen at all, other than trying to reference why in the world we blow so much cash and time hailing the rise of a new political leader.
The problem is, we do this expensive flamboyant grotesquerie every four years; your queenly (or kingly) spectacles are usually much more infrequent.
I remember a public school history teacher extolling the virtues of our (Canadian) system where head of government (Prime Minister) was a different position than head of state (Governor General/Queen/King). This was in the early 70’s when Nixon was destroying his presidency.
Speaking of our head of state, I do not look forward to the day when Charles shows up on our coins and bills.