Well, 2017 certainly gave us no shortage of potential villains! The year kicked off with approximately half of the country throwing a collective hissy fit over the fact that their entitlement to another eight years of Democratic rule could be derailed by these pesky things called elections. We could nominate their choice of presidential candidate, who would spend the year proving the crazy theory that there is at least one person in America who could take lessons in sportsmanship from Al Gore! We would go on to learn that the people who scream that protecting election integrity equates voter suppression were the ones who suppressed their primary votes by basically throwing out every vote for the candidate who wanted to turn America into Venezuela.
Our president went overboard with taking many swipes at our media, sometimes pretty petty, so of course our media responded by working overtime to justify President Trump’s criticisms of them. We’ve learned that over time the FBI has transformed from a well respected law enforcement agency into one of the deeper swamps of political hackery that desperately needs to be drained. Ignoring the crimes and acts of treason by a failed presidential candidate and not investigating masked fascist thugs assaulting people for having incorrect opinions endorsed by major media publications took a back seat to an attempted quiet coup via an extended campaign of trying to manufacture evidence of a crime against their Commander in Chief.
Dang, those are all really good, but for 2017 our villain isn’t any of these good folks. While their actions are actually far worse than our winner, the champion has prevailed for its ability to squander one of the greatest opportunities to make themselves look childish and petty.
Ladies and Gentlemen, our villain of the year is……. American comedians!
One of the most disappointing elements of the Trump presidency has been how unfunny our nation’s comedians have become! Let’s face it, even President Trump’s most passionate supporters have to admit that our president is an amazingly ripe target for mockery. And rather than capitalize on this opportunity, America’s comedians have chosen to eschew being funny for just using their platforms as outlets for their blind hatred for our country’s 45th President (and indirectly, anyone who voted for him).
The list is too exhaustive to include everybody, but who can forget Alec Baldwin’s over the top d-baggish portrayals of the president? How about Jimmy Kimmel’s weepy lectures that have gotten the ridicule they so richly deserve? Or the original talentless D-Lister Kathy Griffin complaining that she’s now unemployable after making an ISIS-like video depicting her holding our president’s severed bloody head?
Even when they get things right, our comedians can’t resist the urge to find a way to get it wrong. Sean Spicer was not the best choice for White House Press Secretary, and the talented Melissa McCarthy did a great job of skewering him. Unfortunately, like most things SNL the skit went too long and just came off as angry and condescending after a while. This skit included shots at Nancy DeVos and Jeff Sessions… why? OK, to people who read too much political crud like me I get it but does most of America know who is the current Secretary of Education and Attorney General, much less know enough about them to enjoy some snarky, unfunny jabs at them?
OK, enough of beating up on the comedians who’ve gotten it wrong. This is a festive time of year – let’s give props to those who’ve gotten it right! First off let’s start with one of my favorite things about the Trump Presidency – seeing graphics of the leader of the free world and for the life of me, I can’t tell if they were made by friends or critics! For example, let’s look at the following two graphics that both were used as my Facebook cover photo at one point:
Remember this bizarre pic of what the great Michael Loftus tried to dub “The Glowing Orb of Trump”? The person who made this captioned the pic “I photoshopped in Saruman and it’s not even weird!”
And then there was this gem:
featuring our then-new president invoking the Batman movie villain Bane taunting a despairingly howling protester. Even though this pic is nearly a year old, I have no idea if it was meant as a compliment or an insult. More importantly, I don’t care!
Now, let’s transition from the ambiguous to those definitely poking fun at our commander in chief. Here’s a nice light jab coming from a pro football write-up:
Just a year after the Tony Romo Era ended in Dallas, the NFC East may have just seen the last of Eli Manning. This team, full of expensive veterans and expendable coaches, is in need of a deep-clean rebuild, and the idea of Archie’s son sticking around through some sort of “Process” is about as likely as Donald Trump donating his salary to the International Center for Journalists.
Next up is one I found via one of my mostly apolitical social media friends. This one came down around the time of Sean Spicer’s departure, and fans of The Muppets will appreciate:
Appointment Of Beaker As White House Communications Director Draws High Praise
I could go on all day, but a post like this has to end somewhere, so I’ll end with what I have no problem calling the most creative and funny way to parody our president. Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker, has let his lefty colors show a bit too much lately, but there is one piece of great comedy that Hamill gave us. After he seemingly disappeared from acting after the original Star Wars trilogy, he found his groove in voicing animation – specifically, in the Batman cartoons of the 90s he did a great job of voicing The Joker. And how did he choose to ridicule our president? By reading one of his tweets in the voice of The Joker, and it is brilliant!
My one problem with this is, why hasn’t Hamill done any more of these? Given how prolific our president is with Twitter I would have thought that this would have been a given for a Trump-hating entertainer. Please – use The Force, Luke!
Lest any of my Conservative pals think I’m going RINO, I’ve been a lot happier with President trump’s first year in office than I thought I’d be, and am looking forward to the next seven! Being able to mock your leader is a sign of a healthy culture. After all, who would want to live under rulership where mocking your president can get you a visit from the Secret Service, cost you your job, and have you sent to a reeducation camp? Thankfully we have moved beyond such insecure pettiness!
I’ll sign off by asking this of you, my Blogosphere Friends – for this week only hold your fire in the comments and only post items mocking President Trump, but only if they’re funny!
The Week in Radical Leftism might be back in short form next week, and if it’s not I’ll still have a Saturday morning post for you – definitely back in two weeks!
Merry Christmas everybody!
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Trump pulls America out of the Junk Science and polticly inspired Paris Accord and liberals beat their walnut sized brains out against the wall The greens are doing crazy Al Bores A Inconvent Seqael Bombs in the box office Moonbeam Bown who is as Dumb as a sack full of rocks turns the State of California into a Sanctuary for Rapists,Child Molesters,Drug Dealers and other undesiribles We see the childish behavior of whining little liberals and they show us what spoiled little brats they are
on the street, one most ask as a civilized society: colbert , fallon, kimmel, noah, and silverman, who’s their boss? these individuals are not bright, their evening routine s are always the same and the exit point is the same. wasn’t fallon in drug rehab. this past year? their only saving grace is the First Amendment which has become their literary cover; however, they all hate America. insulting the President of the Untied States is one thing, insulting powerful foreign political individuals like Putin does have consequences.
I saw a cute sign in front of a pricey market:
“Ban shredded cheese, Let’s make America grate again.”
There’s a photo of a Huge (Yuge) Trump rally with the caption:
“I admit it. I colluded with 62,979,535 other patriots and 306 Electors to elect President Trump.”
President-elect Trump went to the Army Navy game last year and Army won for the 1st time in many years.
Later, an Annapolis cadet touted his commie roots. Then Army/Navy played again. And Army won, again. Army side held up sign: Communism won’t win. Of course, it needs to be noted that Army finally got their camo uniforms just right.
http://specialoperations.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Army-Navy-unis.jpg
After he signed the tax reform bill, Trump Twitter-trolled all business owners who haven’t given bonuses to their workers yet. Apparently it’s all the rage to give bonuses. So, anyone who doesn’t is suddenly a Scrooge! Brilliant and funny.
@Nanny G: Great stuff! There was a also a good one I had saved somewhere in my FB feed from just before the election – someone had a :
TRUMP
Make America Great Again
sign, but had cut off the T and P from Trump and the dude standing next to it dressed as Johnny Depp’s Capt. Jack Sparrow. Again, not sure if it was from friend or foe but was damned funny!
@M0S #8541: On the plus side, the Radical Left’s finally feeling comfortable in expressing how much they truly hate the half of thee country that didn’t vote the way they told us is already eroding their influence
@Brother Bob: Then there’s the slant on the Left’s,
“Love trumps hate,”
by making it into
“Love Trump’s Hat.”
I’ve made a point of ignoring Saturday Night Live since the crew with Lovitz and Hartman left. It simply isn’t funny. I have seen pictures of Baldwin dressed up as Trump (restoring his tarnished star after attacking little girls, women, blacks and gays) but never seen a performance.
I was over at someone’s house and they had SNL on and Baldwin was on. That is just about the worst and most unfunny impersonation of Trump I have seen. I guess for liberals, it’s enough that he is making “jokes” that insults Trump.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: This one was cute http://mashable.com/2017/03/12/saturday-night-live-talking-dog-trump/#bBOH3i3PDSqI
@Nanny G: Hahahaha – Love Trumps HAT is genius – I’ll be using that one!
@Bill… Deplorable Me: I kind of disagree with your dis on Baldwin’s Trump impression – I think that his physical appearance, gestures, and voice inflection are dead on. The problem is that he hates our president so much that the dialogue he drops is so ridiculously over the top and humorless that it ruins an otherwise great performance. What a damned waste of talent.
@Brother Bob: I’ve only seen one. I always enjoyed Dana Carvey impersonating GHW Bush and Will Farrell impersonating W, but I just don’t get Baldwin’s Trump. Darrel Hammond’s Clinton was great. Maybe it’s the inherent viciousness.
Shirley Temple
Merry Christmas, all!
Funny stuff there. Trump gave the comedy industry a gift of solid gold so therefore the comedy industry is the villain because, well, they capitalized on the shortcomings, flaws, and undesirable traits of the serial lying, admitted vagina grabbing, egomaniac, profoundly racist, proud thief of wages because “it’s good business”, and legendary con man in chief, something that comedians have always capitalized on. And now all of a sudden, after having all this low hanging fruit literally tossed to them, today’s comedians are “just using their platforms as outlets for their blind hatred for our country’s 45th President”.
Now what’s really really funny is that the latest Gallup poll picked Obama and Hillary as the most admirable people of 2017. Even funnier, that just has to piss Trump off to know end, sending him into a late night toilet Tweeter and again, sending easy fodder out to comedians.
So, in a previous post the liar AJ claims he doesn’t like Hillary but here he shows his admiration and love for her by praising a poll trying to make people believe she is “admirable”. More Hillary-slurping and Obama-swallowing from the great question-evading liar.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: There is much to be admired how he and Hillary have avoided a firing squad for treason, the hangmans noose for election tampering and espionage, the electric chair for corruption and the gas chamber for abetting murder of an embassy official. Hell they haven’t even been indicted ….yet.
@kitt: Certainly, what socialist-loving liberal wouldn’t admire how they both trampled on the Constitution, committed perjury, broke laws and sacrificed lives with impunity.
Of course, that could change.
https://downtrend.com/stop-the-presses-178-people-admire-barack-obama/
Obama with 99% media worship, 17% and Trump, with 93% negative media coverage, 14%. Not a very glowing endorsement, but for dishonest folks like AJ, it’s enough.
Outstanding Post Brother Bob—with Word and Mata and Aye Chi gone, in my eyes ,you have become the voice of reason here at FA–Word used to jokingly-I think-lament my approval as it undermined his Conservative cred.lol
Comedy is a wonderful thing. Self deprecation wins more friends and influences more people than rampant egotism.
A quiet measured self confidence more impressive than loud braggadocio
Our President has earned his 35% approval rating. He’s taken on the media–they’ve fought back. POTUS has lost in the eyes of most. The man lacks humor and he lacks grace. As you point out his twitter rants make him “an amazingly ripe target for mockery.”
I thought Melissa McCarthy was HILARIOUS. Baldwin has nailed the look and the mannerisms of Trump.
I give Trump credit for his appointment of Mattis and the destruction of Isis in Syria and Iraq
I wish the best for you and your loved ones in 2018—because of you I may stick around for awhile
Semper Fi.
@rich wheeler:
Here, I fixed it for you.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_dec28
@Bill… Deplorable Me: Reuters has 35 up 65 down—HE’S #2 BEHIND BHO as most respected man.
@rich wheeler:
Yeah, think about that. Here, since you missed it in #18, I made it easy.
https://downtrend.com/stop-the-presses-178-people-admire-barack-obama/
Obama with 99% media worship, 17% and Trump, with 93% negative media coverage, 14%. Not a very glowing endorsement, but for dishonest folks like AJ, it’s enough.