Those dim, aimless, wandering-off MAGAs look to me like they think that what they're hearing off in the middle distance is just another carnival barker - and, in a very real sense, it is. All blow and no show.
I'm sorry, but that video at the end of everyone leaving the rally is hilarious! I'd repeatedly skip ahead a bit and you can hear Former President Brain Squirrels rambling on, trying to touch on all of his greatest hits, while hundreds of people clad in MAGA gear walk away. I doubt Springsteen concert goers would abandon HIM like that, they'd all stay for encores.
“You know that 12 seconds when a toddler is bitching and moaning and crying, the seconds right before the blubbering becomes apoplectic and inconsolable, the meltdown past the point of no return, and you just know as a parent you have no choice but to wait it out?
“Eric lives his life in those 12 seconds.”
More brilliant writing by Evan — it’s an endless font of goodness!
The story of Bruce recording Born to Run in 1974 for 6 months as it became his version of Brian Wilson’s Heroes and Villains is epic. Born to Run is a fantastic song, more complicated than people realize at first. But it’s the story of a musical genius trying too hard to create a masterpiece that sticks with me whenever I hear it. Bruce wrote Blinded by the Light, which became a massive hit for Manfred Mann in the 70’s and remains a staple of classic rock radio today. The chorus always reminds me of the 2017 eclipse, I don’t know why… “Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun. But Mama, that’s where the fun is!” Springsteen is a legend. Trump is a malignant buffoon.
Poor dumb Eric says "they have a damn mission to go after Donald Trump." "damn" is a transitive verb:
"to condemn to a punishment or fate especially : to condemn to hell." Poor dumb Eric, like lots of - or maybe most people - today is using it as an adjective. The correct construction would be "damned mission . . ." It's a mission - what kind of mission? a "damned" mission. It ain't that hard.
Using "damn" in this instance amounts to a colloquialism. It's the way people use the language. Sorry, prescriptivists. It's like the cavil over "could/couldn't care less" (both mean the same thing). (upvoted you anyway because you care about language!)
It's the way "lazy and/or stupid" people use the language. And as far as the "cavil" over "could/couldn't care less", they don't mean remotely the same thing. They may be perceived to mean the "same thing" but they mean precisely the opposite of one another.
If you want, but "could/couldn't care less" DO mean the same thing the way people use it. You can complain all you want (my fave currently is the misuse of "comprise"), but it's how people reshape the language. Just like "literally" now means "virtually/figuratively." I know you'll like that last one! ;-)
Miss Harris (10th Grade) and Miss Hiller (11th) weren't about to put up with "people reshap(ing) the language." You can joke that today "literally" and "figuratively" mean the same thing but I can tell that you very well know better.
High school was so long ago that I still remember one of those above misses (can't recall which one, though) teaching us that an advertising slogan of the day should have been "Winston tastes good AS a cigarette should."
And so, with your loose morals re reshaping the language, there's little doubt then that you agree with Cole Porter (speaking of loose morals) :
"You can joke that today "literally" and "figuratively" mean the same thing but I can tell that you very well know better."
I guarantee, I am not joking. It's on the frontiers right now, but I predict within 20 years there will be an alternative definition in the dictionary. I neither celebrate nor condemn, I observe. And of course I could be wildly wrong about prticulars, but language is as people use it, or else we would all be "Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon." every Saturday night.
There they are! I've been wondering where all the Republican antisemitic dog-whistles had suddenly gone. Apparently they've been hiding in Eric's stupid mouth...
Bruce Springsteen could draw a bigger crowd if he did nothing but stand on stage and floss his teeth.
I watched a good portion of the footage of the rats leaving the ship, and I was very disappointed to see no one wearing Trump diapers outside their clothes. No t-shirts proclaiming REAL MEN WEAR DIAPERS, which totally owned the libs.
It seems the Von Shitzinpantz movement (pun intended) is over. I has a sad. ☹️
The East Berlin gig was weird, in the last days of the Stalinist regime they were desperately trying to get "the kids" back on side so quite a few big Western acts played anti-nuke/anti-imperialism festivals on the wrong side of the Wall
Those dim, aimless, wandering-off MAGAs look to me like they think that what they're hearing off in the middle distance is just another carnival barker - and, in a very real sense, it is. All blow and no show.
Bristol. Named after the Bristol Scale, developed to visually classify various states of poop.
Who the fuck thinks that Rio photo is real and are they okay.
And no, they are NOT okay.
Magats do.
I'm sorry, but that video at the end of everyone leaving the rally is hilarious! I'd repeatedly skip ahead a bit and you can hear Former President Brain Squirrels rambling on, trying to touch on all of his greatest hits, while hundreds of people clad in MAGA gear walk away. I doubt Springsteen concert goers would abandon HIM like that, they'd all stay for encores.
“You know that 12 seconds when a toddler is bitching and moaning and crying, the seconds right before the blubbering becomes apoplectic and inconsolable, the meltdown past the point of no return, and you just know as a parent you have no choice but to wait it out?
“Eric lives his life in those 12 seconds.”
More brilliant writing by Evan — it’s an endless font of goodness!
Evan is OUR GIFT!!!!!
He's still doing the "I can't call Chris Christie fat" shtick? That was boring the FIRST time.
The story of Bruce recording Born to Run in 1974 for 6 months as it became his version of Brian Wilson’s Heroes and Villains is epic. Born to Run is a fantastic song, more complicated than people realize at first. But it’s the story of a musical genius trying too hard to create a masterpiece that sticks with me whenever I hear it. Bruce wrote Blinded by the Light, which became a massive hit for Manfred Mann in the 70’s and remains a staple of classic rock radio today. The chorus always reminds me of the 2017 eclipse, I don’t know why… “Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun. But Mama, that’s where the fun is!” Springsteen is a legend. Trump is a malignant buffoon.
I’m starting to think that the mouth breathers have trouble with what “-ty thousand” really means.
Like Tina Belcher counting toothpicks.
Poor dumb Eric says "they have a damn mission to go after Donald Trump." "damn" is a transitive verb:
"to condemn to a punishment or fate especially : to condemn to hell." Poor dumb Eric, like lots of - or maybe most people - today is using it as an adjective. The correct construction would be "damned mission . . ." It's a mission - what kind of mission? a "damned" mission. It ain't that hard.
Using "damn" in this instance amounts to a colloquialism. It's the way people use the language. Sorry, prescriptivists. It's like the cavil over "could/couldn't care less" (both mean the same thing). (upvoted you anyway because you care about language!)
It's the way "lazy and/or stupid" people use the language. And as far as the "cavil" over "could/couldn't care less", they don't mean remotely the same thing. They may be perceived to mean the "same thing" but they mean precisely the opposite of one another.
If you want, but "could/couldn't care less" DO mean the same thing the way people use it. You can complain all you want (my fave currently is the misuse of "comprise"), but it's how people reshape the language. Just like "literally" now means "virtually/figuratively." I know you'll like that last one! ;-)
Miss Harris (10th Grade) and Miss Hiller (11th) weren't about to put up with "people reshap(ing) the language." You can joke that today "literally" and "figuratively" mean the same thing but I can tell that you very well know better.
High school was so long ago that I still remember one of those above misses (can't recall which one, though) teaching us that an advertising slogan of the day should have been "Winston tastes good AS a cigarette should."
And so, with your loose morals re reshaping the language, there's little doubt then that you agree with Cole Porter (speaking of loose morals) :
"Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose, Anything goes . . .
The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today
And black's white today
And day's night today
And that gent today
You gave a cent today
Once had several chateaux"
"You can joke that today "literally" and "figuratively" mean the same thing but I can tell that you very well know better."
I guarantee, I am not joking. It's on the frontiers right now, but I predict within 20 years there will be an alternative definition in the dictionary. I neither celebrate nor condemn, I observe. And of course I could be wildly wrong about prticulars, but language is as people use it, or else we would all be "Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon." every Saturday night.
"they’re all funded by Soros"
There they are! I've been wondering where all the Republican antisemitic dog-whistles had suddenly gone. Apparently they've been hiding in Eric's stupid mouth...
"Eric who?" -- DJT
Ta, Evan. The entire Trump cult suffers delusions.
Bruce Springsteen could draw a bigger crowd if he did nothing but stand on stage and floss his teeth.
I watched a good portion of the footage of the rats leaving the ship, and I was very disappointed to see no one wearing Trump diapers outside their clothes. No t-shirts proclaiming REAL MEN WEAR DIAPERS, which totally owned the libs.
It seems the Von Shitzinpantz movement (pun intended) is over. I has a sad. ☹️
The East Berlin gig was weird, in the last days of the Stalinist regime they were desperately trying to get "the kids" back on side so quite a few big Western acts played anti-nuke/anti-imperialism festivals on the wrong side of the Wall
Some guys have all the luck
Some guys have all the pain
Some guys get all the criminal breaks
Then just do nothing but complain
A free Springsteen concert in New Jersey would make transportation officials in multiple sites apoplectic..
Are you saying it's "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee?"