(05-06-2018, 04:54 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(05-06-2018, 11:07 AM)gabrielle Wrote:
No mention here of Michelle Wolf's infamous and hilarious speech last week?
What? Another blue taking advantage of a free opportunity that was given to them to take a few cheap shots at the president and some major cheap shots at defenseless woman couldn't do much of anything other than sit there, try to control her emotions, keep hercomposer(composure -- PB) and remain professional because that's here job.
Free opportunity? She apparently earned it, and doing it badly could wreck her career. Cheap shots at the President? In view of his dubious achievements he is a brittle target for those cheap shots, especially since he was in Washington Township, Macomb County, Michigan so that he could have a pliable audience instead of being roasted. Such shows the singular lack of humor of this President, a man who takes his ego too seriously and treats the sensibilities of others as trivialities. He deserves the sort of skewering that the late Don Rickles gave Hollywood stars excessively full of themselves; that skewering reminded them that they, generally people too rich and influential for their own good, that they are terribly-flawed people irrespective of their achievements. Defenseless woman? The lies of Sarah Huckabee Sanders on behalf of an inveterate liar holding onto an office for which he is completely unsuited are indefensible. When you tell the truth you can expect fewer challenges to your emotional state and you will find that maintaining your composure is easier.
Quote:Yeah, it's easy doing stuff like that to a woman like that but it's not viewed as nice by DECENT WOMEN.
Sure, her comedic tirade was vulgar and often sarcastic, as if men never had the prerogative of vulgarity and sarcasm. Watch your double standard! Donald Trump is ideally suited to vulgar sarcasm because of his vulgarity and his nastiness. Being nice to him without giving in to him is not good for getting anything. Donald Trump is one of those my-way-or-the-highway sorts of leaders, much like the typical despot or dictator and to an extent unlike any President in the last century at the least. The Presidency is most effective when the President is able to get something for something, which explains how Reagan was recognized as effective even by those who disliked his agenda.
Quote:Blues have to be careful, EVERYONE is free today to vote as they now please for whatever reason or whatever issue matters to them regardless of your gender or(expletive deleted) skin tone.
It is up to all politicians, Trump included, to give people reasons to vote for them. Insulting practivally everyone with an above-average IQ is not good for winning the next election.
Quote:Me, I would have treated her like a man. Blue women don't like being treated like a man. Blue women just prefer the benefits associated with being a man and the pay associated with being a man.
Comedy, once largely a male preserve (Fanny Brice being the apparent female pioneer), has never been an easy activity. Failure in it has always been one slip of the tongue away. Intellectually it is a high-risk dare with excellent rewards for spectacular success in entertainment but little room for mediocrity. Not only must one crack a joke, but the joke must be germane to reality... and of course funny without being so profound as to be pedantic.
Michelle Wolf was funny. If she hurt your feelings because she skewered your political idol -- then that is your problem and not mine. I thought that her routine was funny and apropos about the Trump administration. For me that is what counts.
Quote:What are blue women going to do when red women begin dominating women's politics and start treating them like men? You do know, Republican America is raising a generation of women right now with no support from government or special rules and protections that favor them.
Republican women now have more influence in Congress and most state legislatures. The best description of the Trump Administration is basically a liberal-free zone. But note well -- some of those Republican women are raising Democrats who expect no special breaks for being female or Democrats.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.