This morning, I fired up my computer and saw some photos of how Donald Trump has redecorated the Oval Office so it looks like the sitting-room of a 19th-century Parisian bordello.
Could not answer the poll, as none seem at all funny. Sad, freaky, maybe, but funny -no. One day we will look back on this man the way we now look back on Joseph McCarthy, and on the present treatment of immigrants the way we look back on the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII; i.e., with great shame.
At the time of the digital manipulation (2017) Demento's face was superimposed on the body of pro golfer (Champions Tour) John Daly who apparently is a Demento supporter so ironically, the image does them both um...justice. Current images of Demento playing golf aren't all that far off.
None of the photos is funny. Nevertheless, I don't hate Trump, because he is not worth hating; he is beneath contempt. It would be like hating a crazy person who stood on a street corner and hurled an epithet at me, a passerby. No, the people I hate are the Republicans in Congress -- those who are sane, that is -- who allow him to cause all the suffering and death he's causing and to destroy this country. Their being re-elected is more important to them than others' lives. They deserve to be kidnapped off the streets, have their children taken from them, and be sent to a foreign prison to be tortured.
Join me in lifting "...a cup o' kindness..." (or two of Scotland's finest or your favorite beverage) to the Royal Couple and courtiers Rachel, Valerie, Lexi, Grandpa and the kits as we usher in another effin' year of the Siege.
I would change photo D to more accurately reflect reality from what looks to be a live Pom on Demento's head to a dead muskrat or, the larval stage of the Southern Flannel Moth caterpillar.
They skate too close to the line of being put forth as "real" making them deceitful propaganda.
Also, when the whole joke is "he looks fat," it sounds like you think we can look at that cesspool of evil, incompetence, and tackiness and see being fat is worth noting. Yeah, I get that his vanity is what we're really mocking, but a lot of "fat" people understand that logically, and still feel the insult in their gut.
Well, yeah, I actually agree with that. I mostly didn’t find the pictures funny, and just picked this one out as the least ludicrous. Had to vote for one to see the poll result. I was mostly thinking of mocking his golf swing (my own belly looks just about like that, after all).
The basic problem with visual images making fun of Trump is that all that is worst about him is hard to represent visually. You need to get really elaborate and symbolic, like having him flying through the air on a solid gold toilet while wearing a crown and shitting on everyone. Trouble is, except for the toilet, that’s exactly like a video he actually posted himself. He’s difficult to mock, because where do you go with it?
The jokes about his appearance and his age (and decrepitude) are hardest for me to laugh at -- although I do laugh at some observers' wit in their jokes -- because I'm all too aware of how really unfunny those issues are, at root. The humor has to come by contrasting his actuality with the idealized view his followers (and he himself, obviously) has of it. I mean, even George Reeve was ridiculous for the way he looked in Superman tights -- and DT's supposed to be this marvelous specimen of manhood? So sure, go after him for the obvious lie (or delusion)... but not for being old, feeble, etc. per se.
I just read that ICE deported to Mexico a single father of six children (all U.S. citizens) who has been living in the U.S. for 34 years and had a valid work permit. "He was taking his children to school to drop them off when an ICE vehicle pulled him over and arrested him." Unless they had a warrant, "arrested" should be "kidnapped." This occurred on September 16; why wasn't it headline news? Is this a great country or what.
Well, no wonder you had a problem. Shame on you for trying to slip in Costco dog food rather than go with Lexi's favorite Purina One beef and brown rice. The Dog Gods were not amused
TCM occasionally airs "The Password is Courage," a 1962 biopic of Charles Coward starring Dirk Bogarde. It is highly fictionalized, but Bogarde is swell.
The TV show "Hogan's Heroes" was always described as a satire of the movie "Stalag 17," but when I saw the movie "The Password Is Courage" on TCM one night, I realized that it was this movie that was the inspiration. Many of the scams the prisoners perpetrated in "The Password Is Courage" show up in the TV series.
I hope you didn't hurt yourself when you opened the can. Or at least, not too much. I think about the Tangerine T***t as little as possible; getting upset or anxious about him does me no good. Let's hope 2026 makes him as unthought-of as possible.
What you need for your future tussles with tin cans Dear Leader is the once indispensiible and unthwartable: P-38 , can opener, one. Known among Jarheads as the "John Wayne" and while slow, (you work it around the rim a puncture at a time), you won't need to take a hammer and chisel to the next can of dog food. Its big brother the P-51 is larger, more efficient and easier to use. They're widely available including the original military issues.
Military vets that got what we called C Rations, still carry a small tool called a p-38. Civilians call it a can opener. Amazon sells it. Should open a deep set lid. It does take some dexterity. but I am used to it. I never go anywhere without it.
NONE OF THE ABOVE is my answer to the photoshopped images... there is NOTHING funny, humorous, or anything but horror in ANY image of that ghastly human being - real or photoshopped....And yet... on second thought neither A nor C appear to be photoshopped.....
Also, couldn't agree more about the image of the bordello.... carefully orchestrated example of his life choices...either that or his futile attempt at replicating one of his Saudi gangster friends' residences...Kashoggi's, murderer, for example....
Thanks to you and to all the other journalists who left the WP to help us all through to the other side of this current regime.... and that's my two cents for a year end wish!
Gene, Did the bottom of the dogfood can have a lip that would work with a can opener? I can't tell from the picture, but I'm guessing that it did not. For around $15 you can get a chisel and punch set that can be used with your hammer for a number of tasks, in addition to opening stubborn can lids.
When my can opener doesn't work on these new-fangled cans, I use something I remember seeing in very old cartoons -- a church key (beer can puncturer). You keep making those little triangular holes all around the edge until the top is freed.
Can't remember where we got it (Sharper Image maybe?), but we have a battery powered can opener which works on "lipless" cans. You park it -- it's magnetic -- atop a can and it starts whirring and working its way around the *outside* edge of the can. So what pops off (with the magnet) is the lid and about 1/32" of the can itself. The Missus hates to open cans in general, after a bad experience with a lid put her in the ER, but even she has to agree this thing is better at dealing with the stubborn things.
First time I tried to use one of those (not battery powered though) I couldn't understand why I was turning and turning but nothing was happening inside the rim!
Could not answer the poll, as none seem at all funny. Sad, freaky, maybe, but funny -no. One day we will look back on this man the way we now look back on Joseph McCarthy, and on the present treatment of immigrants the way we look back on the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII; i.e., with great shame.
What is Photoshopped in C?
Or A?
This is the original image:
https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unflattering-donald-trump-chin-photo-ps-battle-34.jpg
And this is the Photoshopped one seen here:
https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unflattering-donald-trump-chin-photo-ps-battle-35.jpg
This one is a bonus for being a paid subscriber:
https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Trumpo-583f27ae1f489__700.jpg
Now I have to go wash my eyes out.
Photo E is by far the funniest!
At the time of the digital manipulation (2017) Demento's face was superimposed on the body of pro golfer (Champions Tour) John Daly who apparently is a Demento supporter so ironically, the image does them both um...justice. Current images of Demento playing golf aren't all that far off.
Trump could only dream of having a backswing the length of Daly's. John's flexibility, even at his age is amazing.
Yes, I seem to recall seeing a photo very similar to this—gut and all—that was a news photo.
If he has that much of a turn in his backswing … that has to be John Daly.
None of the photos is funny. Nevertheless, I don't hate Trump, because he is not worth hating; he is beneath contempt. It would be like hating a crazy person who stood on a street corner and hurled an epithet at me, a passerby. No, the people I hate are the Republicans in Congress -- those who are sane, that is -- who allow him to cause all the suffering and death he's causing and to destroy this country. Their being re-elected is more important to them than others' lives. They deserve to be kidnapped off the streets, have their children taken from them, and be sent to a foreign prison to be tortured.
Join me in lifting "...a cup o' kindness..." (or two of Scotland's finest or your favorite beverage) to the Royal Couple and courtiers Rachel, Valerie, Lexi, Grandpa and the kits as we usher in another effin' year of the Siege.
I would change photo D to more accurately reflect reality from what looks to be a live Pom on Demento's head to a dead muskrat or, the larval stage of the Southern Flannel Moth caterpillar.
D - (It's a pomeranian. ) Because Trump hates dogs.
Also, the pom makes a terrific accessory to Trump's updo.
Corrected.
Photo C is the funniest to me because that's how he really looks. The others, not so much, except for maybe the dog on the head.
I picked C for the same reason. What photoshop?
Those are least funny to me for that very reason.
They skate too close to the line of being put forth as "real" making them deceitful propaganda.
Also, when the whole joke is "he looks fat," it sounds like you think we can look at that cesspool of evil, incompetence, and tackiness and see being fat is worth noting. Yeah, I get that his vanity is what we're really mocking, but a lot of "fat" people understand that logically, and still feel the insult in their gut.
Well, yeah, I actually agree with that. I mostly didn’t find the pictures funny, and just picked this one out as the least ludicrous. Had to vote for one to see the poll result. I was mostly thinking of mocking his golf swing (my own belly looks just about like that, after all).
The basic problem with visual images making fun of Trump is that all that is worst about him is hard to represent visually. You need to get really elaborate and symbolic, like having him flying through the air on a solid gold toilet while wearing a crown and shitting on everyone. Trouble is, except for the toilet, that’s exactly like a video he actually posted himself. He’s difficult to mock, because where do you go with it?
The jokes about his appearance and his age (and decrepitude) are hardest for me to laugh at -- although I do laugh at some observers' wit in their jokes -- because I'm all too aware of how really unfunny those issues are, at root. The humor has to come by contrasting his actuality with the idealized view his followers (and he himself, obviously) has of it. I mean, even George Reeve was ridiculous for the way he looked in Superman tights -- and DT's supposed to be this marvelous specimen of manhood? So sure, go after him for the obvious lie (or delusion)... but not for being old, feeble, etc. per se.
As did I!
why did you make us look at those pictures? some of us had appetites before....
I just read that ICE deported to Mexico a single father of six children (all U.S. citizens) who has been living in the U.S. for 34 years and had a valid work permit. "He was taking his children to school to drop them off when an ICE vehicle pulled him over and arrested him." Unless they had a warrant, "arrested" should be "kidnapped." This occurred on September 16; why wasn't it headline news? Is this a great country or what.
Well, no wonder you had a problem. Shame on you for trying to slip in Costco dog food rather than go with Lexi's favorite Purina One beef and brown rice. The Dog Gods were not amused
TCM occasionally airs "The Password is Courage," a 1962 biopic of Charles Coward starring Dirk Bogarde. It is highly fictionalized, but Bogarde is swell.
The TV show "Hogan's Heroes" was always described as a satire of the movie "Stalag 17," but when I saw the movie "The Password Is Courage" on TCM one night, I realized that it was this movie that was the inspiration. Many of the scams the prisoners perpetrated in "The Password Is Courage" show up in the TV series.
Thank you, I’ve never seen the movie, will do so.
I hope you didn't hurt yourself when you opened the can. Or at least, not too much. I think about the Tangerine T***t as little as possible; getting upset or anxious about him does me no good. Let's hope 2026 makes him as unthought-of as possible.
What you need for your future tussles with tin cans Dear Leader is the once indispensiible and unthwartable: P-38 , can opener, one. Known among Jarheads as the "John Wayne" and while slow, (you work it around the rim a puncture at a time), you won't need to take a hammer and chisel to the next can of dog food. Its big brother the P-51 is larger, more efficient and easier to use. They're widely available including the original military issues.
Military vets that got what we called C Rations, still carry a small tool called a p-38. Civilians call it a can opener. Amazon sells it. Should open a deep set lid. It does take some dexterity. but I am used to it. I never go anywhere without it.
NONE OF THE ABOVE is my answer to the photoshopped images... there is NOTHING funny, humorous, or anything but horror in ANY image of that ghastly human being - real or photoshopped....And yet... on second thought neither A nor C appear to be photoshopped.....
Also, couldn't agree more about the image of the bordello.... carefully orchestrated example of his life choices...either that or his futile attempt at replicating one of his Saudi gangster friends' residences...Kashoggi's, murderer, for example....
Thanks to you and to all the other journalists who left the WP to help us all through to the other side of this current regime.... and that's my two cents for a year end wish!
Picture B begs for the substitution of an anal sphincter for the mouth.
That isn't what that is?
Looks more like a pair of lips than like a brown starfish.
I guess the butt-head it's on threw me.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
May 2026 be better than we expect.
AMEN.
Gene, Did the bottom of the dogfood can have a lip that would work with a can opener? I can't tell from the picture, but I'm guessing that it did not. For around $15 you can get a chisel and punch set that can be used with your hammer for a number of tasks, in addition to opening stubborn can lids.
When my can opener doesn't work on these new-fangled cans, I use something I remember seeing in very old cartoons -- a church key (beer can puncturer). You keep making those little triangular holes all around the edge until the top is freed.
I did that once and my wife FREAKED OUT that I'd just created one of those death-by-ninja throwing stars and yet expected to be thanked.
Yup—I’ve done that too!
Can't remember where we got it (Sharper Image maybe?), but we have a battery powered can opener which works on "lipless" cans. You park it -- it's magnetic -- atop a can and it starts whirring and working its way around the *outside* edge of the can. So what pops off (with the magnet) is the lid and about 1/32" of the can itself. The Missus hates to open cans in general, after a bad experience with a lid put her in the ER, but even she has to agree this thing is better at dealing with the stubborn things.
First time I tried to use one of those (not battery powered though) I couldn't understand why I was turning and turning but nothing was happening inside the rim!
(laughing)