I can confirm that if you do nothing but talk shit over 74 years, you will occasionally say something funny.
I dunno, if you guys find those funny then you find them funny. But, at least to me, anything thatâs funny is that theyâre the sort of playground insults you wouldnât normally hear in that setting. Trump doesnât consider that and used playground insults because thatâs what he always does. Those are all nicely crafted playground insults but he does plenty that arenât, and I donât think Trump came up with them to be funny, it was about being belittling. So if itâs not exactly laughing at him, then itâs not laughing with him.
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Agree with that. Definitely not with him.
When I say âfunny,â I just mean heâll occasionally say something that connects with a person in a way that defies rational or ethical explanation and yet makes them want to laugh. Sometimes despite everything you just said.
Belittlement can be funny! Cruelty can be funny. Meanness can be funny. Especially when itâs aimed at powerful people â even if it comes from another powerful person.
The virgin âPlease proceed, governorâ vs the chad âShe should be runningâ.
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The Obama Presidency, a play in two actsâŚ
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Yeah he didnât come up with that, though.
Trump is maybe the least funny person to ever live. He is the living walking epitome of all that is not funny.
Yeah, certainly. My attempted point is that if the person doing it has no idea about the factors that make that particular belittlement funny, and didnât particularly intend them, then you canât say youâre laughing with them.
(And I think you have to be laughing with him to say that he is funny.)
One of my more memorable cop experiences as a doc was telling a group of three that no, they did not overdose on fentanyl because some touched their hands. Dumbasses were acting all weird for no god damn reason.
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What made âShe should be runningâ funny was that it undercut Jebâs whining and pining over his mother. I donât doubt for a second that Trump gets why thatâs funny.
There just isnât a necessary moral dimension to funniness. Itâs kind of fashionable to suggest that there is, but itâs just not true. The reason not to âpunch downâ is that itâs morally repugnant to do so, not that the words or actions through which one might punch down arenât or canât be funny.
I said it before the last time this came up, but âThatâs not funny!â is what you tell children who are too young to have the moral maturity to reject something that is, or that could be, funny, on the grounds that it would be morally repugnant to laugh at it or to encourage jokes made at the expense of that target.
This is where we disagree, but I donât claim any major insight so I could well be wrong. I mostly agree with the moral point youâre making, and I donât say Trump isnât funny because the above exchange didnât make my chuckle. It did. Itâs just his delivery and expression, and then that he almost never makes âjokesâ that arenât insults means I doubt he did this for humour or gets why itâs one of the funniest of his many many insults.
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âMaybe she should be runningâ
Ponied
Headline of the month race has an early leader:
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Sure, but thereâs a weird dynamic of his narcissism leads to constant shitting on and attacking other people and inevitably something comes out eventually that has the framing of a good zinger at a roast. Is it âfunnyâ? Just barely.
Gotta wonder what Obamaâs thoughts are on the dixie stampede.
Iâm guessing at least as harsh a thought as Dolly recently expressed about it
Yeah thatâs not bad for the intended audience. I admit Iâve never watched more than a few seconds of a Trump rally for my sanityâs sake.
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