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Trump seems to lack a sense of humor

Kinda weird that they could call it an 'Inaugural portrait' when it's just some ◊◊◊◊ he slapped together and edited himself. It would be neither inaugural, nor a portrait.
 
kookbreaker said:
That's basically his mugshot from Georgia put on a different background.
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The pose, and to some extent the lighting, is based on his mugshot, but it was done by an official photographer, I believe. His expression differs from the mugshot. where it's possible to read a certain amount of fear or uncertainty.
 
dann said:
MAGA humor appears to be at the level of calling Puerto Rico "a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean."
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this is, in a nutshell, the problem with comedy that panders to conservatives. a portion of it is these guys aren’t really conservative, they just hopped on the rogansohere free money train, and they think this is what conservatives want to hear. a little casual racism. want to see a huge bomb? check out shane gillis trying to have one foot in and out on his most recent snl monologue.

anyway, they live in this little bubble where “you can’t say that or you’ll get cancelled” is a real thing. they make unfunny jokes they don’t believe in trying to appeal to people they don’t care about, and blame the left when it’s not funny. and conservatives keep buying it, because they love to be pandered to and don’t want to give that up by telling the truth.

i mean, even admitting tony hinchcliffes set at that rally was bad is too close to admitting they were wrong about someone for them to actually do it. and that makes for a creative black hole that swallows up all right wing artistic endeavors. the lack of honesty
 
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zooterkin said:
The point is, and I've seen it noted elsewhere, Trump doesn't seem to laugh at all, in the sense most normal humans do.
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What're you talking about? Trumpff* is the most normal human in the world today, or any other day.

Or any other world. If he was any normaler he'd be a Martian.

* I'm working on spelling his name like a fart. I find it funny.
 
i think trump is extremely unintentionally funny. it’s like michael scott, whatever the most stupid and ridiculous thing is to do is what he will do
 
sackett said:
What're you talking about? Trumpff* is the most normal human in the world today, or any other day.

Or any other world. If he was any normaler he'd be a Martian.

* I'm working on spelling his name like a fart. I find it funny.
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You don't need to change the spelling; in the UK, trump is already a synonym for fart (and was well before the orange one came along).
 
zooterkin said:
You don't need to change the spelling; in the UK, trump is already a synonym for fart (and was well before the orange one came along).
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But that's just a slang term, devoid of subtle discrimination. Real-life flatulence sounds so very many tunes! For example:

Treeuemf
Trophyp pyp pp
Trrrrmth
Tlumpsqq (wet one)

Yes, it's challenging. And a challenge is something we can -- we must! -- rise to!

I mean, QED, right?
 
alfaniner said:
The smile I liked was one of the few times where he got burned, and was bristling out of embarrassment. Like when he addressed the UN and said he was the greatest blah blah blah, and people laughed (at him). He smirked and said something like "Well, I didn't expect that reaction." And there was a bigger laugh. However, he didn't realize the bigger laugh was coming from the rest of the congregation who had just had the first remark translated.
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I treasure that incident. If he was greeted by the truly appropriate gales of laughter every time he opened his stupid yap, he would be dead of apoplexy by now . .. . or we would all be dead from a global nuclear war,
 
zooterkin said:
The point is, and I've seen it noted elsewhere, Trump doesn't seem to laugh at all, in the sense most normal humans do.
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I have no idea how most normal humans are supposed to laugh.

I do, however, have some idea of how utterly, clownishly worthless "I've seen it noted" is, in this social media age.
 
theprestige said:
I have no idea how most normal humans are supposed to laugh.

I do, however, have some idea of how utterly, clownishly worthless "I've seen it noted" is, in this social media age.
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There is only one way, and that's sincerely. True, nobody can be the final arbiter of what's a genuine laugh or not.

Like Ed Meese said about pornograpy (which makes you wonder), "I know it when I see it."

Hoomins are pretty good at detecting real emotion.
 
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PitPat said:
There is only one way, and that's sincerely. True, nobody can but the final arbiter of what's a genuine laugh or not.

Like Ed Meese said about pornograpy (which makes you wonder), "I know it when I see it."

Hoomins are pretty good at detecting real emotion.
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Humans are also pretty good at hallucinating bizarre narratives when it fits their preconceived notions.
 
Thermal said:
Hate to ask in caee I'm ruining it, here, but... Thats from Potter Stewart, isn't it? Am I missing a joke, here?
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Yes you're right, though it's from the Meese Commission investigation. My mistake.

A major problem the commission faced was its inability to define key terms. The commission found it difficult to define "pornography," "obscenity," and "hardcore." In the end, it could do no better than Justice potter j. stewart had in jacobellis v. ohio (1964). Stewart, although not defining pornography, qualified it by stating, "I know it when I see it." Hampered by the inability to define key terms, the commission called for further research.
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/meese-commission

So maybe Potter Stewart tends to watch and judge a lot what's considered pornography.
 
Armitage72 said:
There was a MadTV sketch in which a Congressman was attacking an artist for his disgusting paintings of naked underage boys.
The paintings turned out to be Rorschach ink blots.
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I never got into MadTV that much. But that's a pretty funny take on it.
 
He’s grinning rather broadly in the picture with a 12 year old Ivanka on his lap. And he’s smiling and laughing with Epstein in the video at the party for teen girls.
 
grunion said:
He’s grinning rather broadly in the picture with a 12 year old Ivanka on his lap. And he’s smiling and laughing with Epstein in the video at the party for teen girls.
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The exchange was uncovered by CNN, which published that clip and others on Saturday from Stern’s radio show. The publication of the exchange comes one day after The Washington Post published a recording of Trump making crude, sexual remarks about women, including a statement that he “did try and ◊◊◊◊” a married woman and a declaration that he often got away with groping women because “when you’re a star they let you do it.” In the 2005 clip published by the Post, Trump told Access Hollywood host Billy Bush he would “grab [women] by the pussy” and added that “you can do anything” to them.

In the 2004 interview with Stern, Trump tells the host that “My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka,” to which Stern interjects, “by the way, your daughter.” Trump finishes Stern’s sentence by repeating “she’s beautiful.”


“Can I say this? A piece of ass,” Stern says in the clip. “Yeah,” Trump replies.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-ivanka-piece-of-ass-howard-stern-229376

But hey, it's just locker room talk. Nothing to look at here.
 
theprestige said:
I have no idea how most normal humans are supposed to laugh.

I do, however, have some idea of how utterly, clownishly worthless "I've seen it noted" is, in this social media age.
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I'm sorry I don't make note of the reference in Zotero every time I hear someone say something. You can choose not to believe what I say, but "clownishly worthless" seems unnecessarily dismissive.
 
Donald Trump was visiting a primary school in Orlando and visited a 4th grade class. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked Mr.Trump if he would like to lead the discussion on the word 'tragedy.'
So our illustrious POTUS asked the class for an example of a 'tragedy'.
One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs him over and kills him, that would be a tragedy."
"No," said Trump, "that would be an accident."
A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove off a cliff, killing everyone, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not," explained Trump. "That's what we would call great loss."
The room went silent. No other child volunteered. Trump searched the room.
"Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"
Finally at the back of the room, Little Johnny raised his hand. The teacher held her breath.
In a quiet voice he said: "If the plane carrying you was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic!" exclaimed Trump, "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
"Well," says Johnny, "It has to be a tragedy, because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss... and you can bet your sweet ass it wouldn't be an accident either!"
The teacher left the room..
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Robert Jones
 
sackett said:
But that's just a slang term, devoid of subtle discrimination. Real-life flatulence sounds so very many tunes! For example:

Treeuemf
Trophyp pyp pp
Trrrrmth
Tlumpsqq (wet one)

Yes, it's challenging. And a challenge is something we can -- we must! -- rise to!

I mean, QED, right?
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Trumpffplplplp.
 
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