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Sacha Baron Cohen has a new TV series premiering on Showtime called Who Is America? in which he does his trademark shtick of pretending to be someone with views similar to the person he is interviewing and getting them to lower their guard and say what they really think. And what he reveals about gun rights advocates in the US in this 10—minute promotional video has to be seen to be believed.
It is always dangerous to take these kinds of videos at face value because by highly selective editing, one can make the target look ridiculous, appear to endorse views they do not hold, or look outright nuts. But I would like to see how the people shown on this video explain away or otherwise walk back the outrageous things they said.
As this Doonesbury comic strip shows, the Trump force is strong within the cult members. They are the ones that the Democratic party establishment is trying to woo with its ‘moderate’ and ‘centrist’ Republican-lite neoliberal message, rather than seeking out those who are disaffected with the system.
It is quite extraordinary how liberals will sign on to the notion of civility, even when that is used as a cover to not take strong public stands. Cartoonists Reuben Bolling and Tom Tomorrow take aim at his kind of advice.
Tom the Dancing Bug 1396 please don’t use the n-word
Belgium has just lost its semi-final World Cup match against France. The British have a positive genius for coming up with derogatory names for the people of any ethnicity other than white and any nation other than their own. Monty Python noticed that they had not come up with a slur against Belgians and decided to find a good one.
Tom Tomorrow outlines the possibilities.
She had a good show yesterday that had this ringing, no-holds-barred endorsement of abortion rights. This is why we need more women political comedy talk show hosts like Wolf and Samantha Bee. They address topics and take stands that men may find uncomfortable addressing, however progressive they may be.
Cartoonist Jen Sorensen shows how to do it.
Here is a photo of a woman who is clearly shocked by something she sees on her phone.
She's easily shocked when looking at screens. pic.twitter.com/uEjlVAgflE
— Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) June 25, 2018
Mark Frauenfelder points many photos that Ernie Smith has found where this same woman is shocked.
She really should get some help. It is not good to be shocked so often and so easily by so many things.