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Defiant wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:30 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:21 pm Watching this Senator from Colorado go off on Ted Cruz is the best thing I've seen this week.

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:08 pm Parody only works if the target is ignorant, dishonest, or ridiculous.

When the attempt at parody itself is those things, well...

(The original, for anyone who wants to compare.)

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Jan 26, 2019 11:24 am I’m still unable to see why a commercial for a product men use, that wants men to act like good men, is such a source of consternation for some. I’ve heard the dumbass reasoning, sure. But I guess I just can’t feel that same...or any...outrage over it. Talk about snowflakes.

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:21 pm Watching this Senator from Colorado go off on Ted Cruz is the best thing I've seen this week.

Trent Steel wrote:

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:21 pm Watching this Senator from Colorado go off on Ted Cruz is the best thing I've seen this week.

Can I vote for him next year?

Kraken wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 12:58 pm I walked past this today. Make Your Own Metaphor.

stessier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:23 pm I don't have the link, but Reddit noticed that Trump's comments about women with duct taped mouths, finding prayer rugs at the border and the like sure seem the same as what happens at the beginning of Sicario.

When making his case for a giant border wall, Donald Trump has turned to a variety of strange talking points...

It’s tempting to dismiss all of this as just another round of nonsense from a president who too often has no idea what he’s saying, but in this case, these three Trump talking points have two things in common.

First, they’re demonstrably false. There’s nothing especially amazing about smugglers’ vehicles; there’s no evidence at all of prayer rugs being found in the dirt by the border (in fact, the whole idea is kind of silly); and experts have marveled at how bizarre Trump’s claims are about women tied up with tape.

Second, each of these appeared in a recent fictional movie.

No, seriously. As Rachel noted on the show last night, there’s a movie called Sicario: Day of the Soldado, which was released last summer, and which included a woman being tied up with tape, smugglers driving vast vehicles, and officials finding prayer rugs in the dirt near the border.

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:14 pm (Otherwise, you have to believe that jihadists are devout enough to carry their prayer rugs through the desert but then casual enough to abandon them in the dirt.)

Alefroth wrote:It'd be nice if they could pray on towels. You should always carry a towel.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:01 pm It'd be nice if they could pray on towels. You should always carry a towel.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:01 pm It'd be nice if they could pray on towels. You should always carry a towel.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:01 pm You should always carry a towel.

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:14 pm "Prayer rugs found at the border" has apparently been around a while. It's a pre-Trump thing.

It's thought that the story might even have originated with actual rugs/carpet/whatever found near the border. These are frequently used to throw over barbed wire fencing to make it easier to cross.

(Otherwise, you have to believe that jihadists are devout enough to carry their prayer rugs through the desert but then casual enough to abandon them in the dirt.)