I find sarcastic snark to be joyless comedy, built on exclusion. Intellect-free intellectualism, pretending to be smart. I've never felt less connected to the national funny bone. And I believe it's part of how we got here.
But I'm influenced by my ex, who was endlessly snarky, self-congratulatory about it even, and it was all out of a personal psychology that informed her of how great she was, and how much everything else sucked.
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If Clinton had won the Presidency and Trump the popular vote, they'd be satirizing her
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Ha ha no. Remember when there was a national moratorium on saying ANYTHING bad about her? She literally couldn't focus her eyes correctly due to having suffered a blood clot in her brain -- and in most of the media, this was simply off-limits for discussion.
No, they give the first female Democratic President a pass for two full years.
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The worst things about Trump and his administration are nothing to do with left and right...
The conservatives in the US, even those leaning marginally right, or just unhappy with how ACA affected their health insurance... Republican candidates... etc...
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Nothing to do with left and right, but a scant two sentences later... for two full paragraphs... the right did this, the right the right the right. Then ending with it isn't about left right. You see what you did there?
It's fine, knock yourself out! But can we stop pretending it's
not political? Because it totally is.
ETA: if Hillary had failed to pass something healthcare-related, would the late night comics
mock her for it? Well that actually happened; let's watch all these clips from 1993 where it's... never even brought up.