Is this too much?
Is the meaning clear?
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But the photo is exactly the kind of shot that TFG’s fans would respond to, without even making him look especially nasty.
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Yes, I was afraid of that. I’ll have to try other options, but I really hate looking at his face.
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Fist your feelings?
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Yes. That was another slogan I was considering. “Ready to fist the whole world.”
But his people would probably embrace that sentiment too.
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I think it’s some variation or corollary on Poe’s Law.
Without some explicit indicator of sarcasm, it is utterly impossible to parody a Fascist in such a way that someone won’t mistake it for the genuine article.
Or: you can’t parody a Fascist through exaggeration, because it doesn’t matter how extreme you make your parody, there is a sizeable number of people out there who really believe it.
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“Tiny handed goat fister” seems like a good nickname.
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Probably sadly true. Even if I used one of those heroic AI-generated images of him.
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They’re already using those heroic AI-generated images of him, without irony. You can’t satirise that, because they’re there before you.
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Casey did not concede as the counting continued. 
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What about putting him in one of those military uniforms with the front almost entirely covered in medals and such?
Political cartoonists still seem capable sometimes of visually satirizing Tromp, but they get to add a lot of exaggeration of his physical features.
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I think for that to work, they need to be very, very obviously fake medals, like say a bunch of McDonald’s logos on some of them.
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Golf balls too.
“Best Makeup, 2015.”
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Seeing the list this morning of Trump’s planned cabinet makes me more content with my planned policy of just flat out ignoring him and his antics for the next 2 years. While most will get approved, it will be highly revealing of things they don’t want revealed as they get confirmed. Considering all of them are far from the sharpest knives in the drawer and nuttier than a squirrel’s underwear, they will likely spend a lot of time infighting, like happened before, and get little done. Even his little meme “department” (which he can’t just make and has already acknowledged is just an ‘advisory council’) will do nothing but steal money from government coffers.
I don’t have to like it, but the horse is loose in the hospital and nothing I can do, right now, can change that. I’m fortunate to live in a blue state, in a close suburb of a very blue city, and I remember that after all the crazy outrage 4 years ago, it could have been far worse if he had actually been competent. And, fortunately once again, he’s continuing to lean into hiring moronic yes men rather than the evil architects who could certainly cause even more damage.
It’s going to be a long 4 years, mostly the first 2 years as he runs around trying to stop anything that doesn’t have his gilded name on it, but it will end.
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As a German colleague of mine would say, “The cow is already on the ice.”
Then again, as a different colleague (from Philly) responded: “This is America. We get our truck, lasso the cow and drag it’s ass off the ice.”
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“…without checking the thickness of the ice, as a truck weighs more than a cow.”
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Respectfully, how nice for you if you really can (afford to?) do that. For a LOT of other people, including outside the US, Tromp’s re-ascendency to power is already disastrous, and all too impossible to ignore. (And I don’t think there’s nothing at all that privileged people can do to help at least lessen some of the damage.)
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I don’t know that I can afford it, but I’m going to do my best to.
What I’m not going to do is spend all day on reddit’s politics threads, or ingesting the constant slurry of drama from news organizations complaining about what he did/said, since those same news organizations are exactly why he is there. The mental stress of that last time, plus the pandemic, nearly broke me. I’m not letting him do that again.
His cabinet picks are clueless morons being placed there because they kissed the ring and nothing else. They will last until they are no longer useful and then be replaced with the next one, and so on. He had hundreds of people turnover in his first year of his first term before, and I fully expect it will go just as well this time.
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