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Trump Tweets about SNL While Making Fun of His Tweets

Should ya maybe wait til his inauguration and his official actions as president before you make that call?

1. He's already used the influence of his new status for international business deals, and
2. He has no interest in putting his business in a blind trust (no, handing his business off to his kids is not a blind trust).

He also has a history of scamming people, not paying his employees, accruing and leveraging debt and lying like a mother****er. Seeing where this is going is not difficult.
 
I have no problem with satire and appreciate the tool as a good way to attack and expose the powerful.

I would have greater respect for the SNL satire if it was equally as accurate in its satire to both sides of the political spectrum.

I think I posted here earlier that there was a rich vein of humor to me mined by SNL in the neck wrenching outcome of the election in light of the expected outcome.

The opening of SNL on the Saturday following the election was a mourning grief service of the demise of Hillary instead of what it could and should have been: an examination and humorous review of the bias and prejudice of the news, entertainment and polling industries.

A missed opportunity and as revealing as any satire they have ever presented.

The satire in this is that they didn't even know they were doing what they did. Exposed before all and unaware of it.

There is some truth in that but nobody can be everything. But my guess is most of the SNL audience leans left and certainly the cast leans left. Most comedians seem to lean left or at least libertarian. Complaining about that bias is like complaining that country music doesn't give equal time to liberalism or to us atheists. I expect news media to be as unbiased as possible. I expect no such thing from the entertainment industry.
 
1. He's already used the influence of his new status for international business deals, and
2. He has no interest in putting his business in a blind trust (no, handing his business off to his kids is not a blind trust).

He also has a history of scamming people, not paying his employees, accruing and leveraging debt and lying like a mother****er. Seeing where this is going is not difficult.
He also has a history of 4 decades of support to minority communities, building over 500 business holdings in places across the globe, being able to resurrect failed government projects coming in under time and under budget, providing careers and employment/education opportunities for approx 60,000 people a year for 4 decades. So...maybe...JUST maybe you could wait until his first official day and act as president before you made up your mind. Or not...that's OK too. Hell...there's plenty of rat politicians that have already committed to fighting him on each and every policy decision as payback for the GOP. We have already seen people **** themselves 6 ways from Sunday trying to denounce even simple acts like saving jobs at 2 plants or taking a phone call from the leader of a country that we do 5 billion dollars a year in sales with. So...sure...you might as well join the rest of those committed to ensuring his failure. You will have plenty of company. And I DO appreciate your honesty. At least you have the guts to admit you will blindly follow your hatred of the guy no matter what he does. Some people here will actually go through the pretense of giving him a legit shot before they condemn him. You wont, by golly. And that's cool. I mean...its a completely stupid position for you to take...but I at least respect your honesty.
 
He also has a history of 4 decades of support to minority communities, building over 500 business holdings in places across the globe, being able to resurrect failed government projects coming in under time and under budget, providing careers and employment/education opportunities for approx 60,000 people a year for 4 decades. So...maybe...JUST maybe you could wait until his first official day and act as president before you made up your mind. Or not...that's OK too. Hell...there's plenty of rat politicians that have already committed to fighting him on each and every policy decision as payback for the GOP. We have already seen people **** themselves 6 ways from Sunday trying to denounce even simple acts like saving jobs at 2 plants or taking a phone call from the leader of a country that we do 5 billion dollars a year in sales with. So...sure...you might as well join the rest of those committed to ensuring his failure. You will have plenty of company. And I DO appreciate your honesty. At least you have the guts to admit you will blindly follow your hatred of the guy no matter what he does. Some people here will actually go through the pretense of giving him a legit shot before they condemn him. You wont by golly. And that's cool. I mean...its a completely stupid position for you to take...but I at least respect your honesty.

None of what you wrote addresses the fact that he's already used the new influence of his office for personal gain and that he regularly scams people.

"4 decades of support to minority communities." Lulz.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html?_r=0

Also, trying to make the thread about me in an attempt to poison the well has already become a worn and old tactic by Trump supporters. It won't have any effect on me.
 
None of what you wrote addresses the fact that he's already used the new influence of his office for personal gain and that he regularly scams people.

"4 decades of support to minority communities." Lulz.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html?_r=0

Also, trying to make the thread about me in an attempt to poison the well has already become a worn and old tactic by Trump supporters. It won't have any effect on me.


yes..actual work and recognition of his actual work vs a NYT (NYT :lamo ) hit piece.

Trump has a history of being respected and appreciated by liberals throughout most of his business career...right up until he entered the politcal realm as a republican. Suddenly...the left shrieks racism.

:lamo

Commenting on YOUR WORDS isnt making the thread be about you...but nice try.
 


yes..actual work and recognition of his actual work vs a NYT (NYT :lamo ) hit piece.

Trump has a history of being respected and appreciated by liberals throughout most of his business career...right up until he entered the politcal realm as a republican. Suddenly...the left shrieks racism.

:lamo

Commenting on YOUR WORDS isnt making the thread be about you...but nice try.


Links to youtube videos, over-use of emoticons, weird claims about liberals loving Trump and sudden rants about racism. Your position in this thread deteriorated more quickly than it usually does. I accept your surrender.
 
Links to youtube videos, over-use of emoticons, weird claims about liberals loving Trump and sudden rants about racism. Your position in this thread deteriorated more quickly than it usually does. I accept your surrender.
:2funny:

Positing video of a prominent liberal and lifetime voice in the black American community...doods ACTUAL WORDS...and you find that as 'surrender'? Responding to YOUR ACTUAL WORDS is 'surrender'?

:thumbs:
 
There is some truth in that but nobody can be everything. But my guess is most of the SNL audience leans left and certainly the cast leans left. Most comedians seem to lean left or at least libertarian. Complaining about that bias is like complaining that country music doesn't give equal time to liberalism or to us atheists. I expect news media to be as unbiased as possible. I expect no such thing from the entertainment industry.

This right here pretty much nails it. But more importantly, when engaged in activities such as watching SNL or listening to country my brain simply doesn't have the biased to start judging those things or even care. Why would I ever do that to myself, it's a COMEDY SHOW, judging it as "biased" seems like way more work than its possibly worth and adding meaningless stress to ones life.
 
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This right here pretty much nails it. But more importantly, when engaged in activities such as watching SNL or listening to country my brain simply doesn't have the biased to start judging those things or even care. Why would I ever do that to myself, it's a COMEDY SHOW, judging it as "biased" seems like way more work than its possible worth and adding meaningless stress to ones life.

Yep. Life is much more enjoyable when you don't take things too seriously that shouldn't be.
 
revealed to the public a cruel and shallow, murderous and hurtful maniac.
Despite the lack of cruelty, or maybe because of it, the public was allowed to take its own opinion.

So you think with the SNL portrayal of Trump the public cannot make up their own mind about Trump? Most studies show that most people made up their minds about trump the moment he went down the escalator and announced his candidacy in 2015.

Funny you said this comedic portrayal of Hitler is correct, and yet you are yelling at SNL for doing what you think is the same thing. I'm not sure what is funnier. You comparing a skit about Hitler to a skit about Trump, or you believing that SNL's power is so great that they are forcing the entire public to think Trump is an idiot. HINT: Most of the public thinks Trump is an idiot anyway. They don't need SNL's help to do that.

His latest tweets prove it.
 
The opening of SNL on the Saturday following the election was a mourning grief service of the demise of Hillary instead of what it could and should have been: an examination and humorous review of the bias and prejudice of the news, entertainment and polling industries.

A missed opportunity and as revealing as any satire they have ever presented.

The satire in this is that they didn't even know they were doing what they did. Exposed before all and unaware of it.

Oh, yes, the Kate McKinnon jeremiad at the piano. :roll:
 
Oh, yes, the Kate McKinnon jeremiad at the piano. :roll:

Along with it, the casual assumption that their entire audience was in mourning with them.
 
A lot probably were, at least the locals.
 
I have no problem with satire and appreciate the tool as a good way to attack and expose the powerful.

I would have greater respect for the SNL satire if it was equally as accurate in its satire to both sides of the political spectrum.

I think I posted here earlier that there was a rich vein of humor to me mined by SNL in the neck wrenching outcome of the election in light of the expected outcome.

The opening of SNL on the Saturday following the election was a mourning grief service of the demise of Hillary instead of what it could and should have been: an examination and humorous review of the bias and prejudice of the news, entertainment and polling industries.

A missed opportunity and as revealing as any satire they have ever presented.

The satire in this is that they didn't even know they were doing what they did. Exposed before all and unaware of it.
You hit the nail on the proverbial head about the episode after the election. Right through the whole election the skits about both candidates were largely even handed IMO. Sure they were going a little easier on Hillary than Trump but it is SNL so that is expected. What I noticed is that the Hillary skits prior to Hillary actually appearing on SNL had a much harder edge to them and were far more pointed about Hillary. One of my favorite bits from earlier in the year had the setup as Hillary visiting a youth beach party in her wool pantsuit. She tried reeling in some young supporters but they were having none of it. So she tried appealing to them by 'betting' their parents would be excited about her campaign. The kids all looked around at each other and then announced, actually our parents don't like you. It was pretty spot on and funny.

It has only been since the election ended that IMO the well done Baldwin performance and McKinnon's have not been so funny in these presidential skits. I attribute it to the fact that this is where the SNL's bias has hurt them, because the skits now have taken on a much more bitter tone in their writing. I can *see* the anger in the writing a little too clearly but then again, it is SNL so it is to be expected. They will recover and I suspect that once the sting goes away they will get back to skewing Trump in the same style they were up until he won. The good news is that we have got years of Trump skits to look forward to, so at some point with so much scrutiny on them (thanks in no small part to Trump's tweeting problem) I think they will step it up and skew more towards satire again.

At this point you can very easily tell when it's Trump tweeting and when it's not. HINT: It's usually early in the morning :) Plus I heard somewhere that Trump doesn't have a smartphone. He uses a laptop fetched by an intern to tweet.
The lack of spell checking is another BIG give away. ;)


Along with it, the casual assumption that their entire audience was in mourning with them.
This exactly.
 
Iirc, that was A Leonard Cohen song. Remember who died just before that?

Everyone knows that, dude. It only adds to the eyeroll-worthy cynicism that they'd conflate their political mourning with a "tribute" to Cohen.
 
Everyone knows that, dude. It only adds to the eyeroll-worthy cynicism that they'd conflate their political mourning with a "tribute" to Cohen.

At any rate, the idea that a sketch comedy show has an obligation to be unbiased is laughable.
 
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