How is this not the soundtrack for ¿Jeb?’s campaign?
I suppose, given the offer within the song of to “help build this wall,” The Donald might want to borrow a verse or two.
Not watching the Stupor Bowl tonight (though TBH, I might sneak a couple of glances, but it’s not an event in this particular keep). I will, no doubt, continue to search out good snark on last night’s GOP debate, or, as I like to think of it, Community Theater of the Damned. So use this thread for more fun at their deserving expense, or for a tally of alternatives to watching neurons collide at Levi Stadium, or for whatever floats your approved aquatic recreation device.
Major Major Major Major
For whatever reason I always have the urge to listen to Crass and cook chili today. So, doing that.
Linda Featheringill
Damn, Tom. You nailed it.
cmorenc
Ted Cruz is a real-life version of Vizzini from Princess Bride, without any charming sidekicks Inigo Montoya or Fezzik.
Joel
I love that no one gives a shit enough to start a Super Bowl thread. Me neither.
p.a.
Checking out Hail! Caesar at 7.
Go Panthers…meh…
mdblanche
@cmorenc: The other difference being Vizzini could be trusted to never get involved in a land war in Asia.
Mike in NC
@p.a.: We saw “Hail, Caesar!” today and it was merely OK.
chopper
@Major Major Major Major:
Crass. it’s been a while.
Iowa Old Lady
@Mike in NC: I’ve been wondering about that movie. I usually like the Coen brothers. So only Ok?
patrick II
Me (to Wife): So, do you want to watch the Superbowl?
Wife: I’m taping it.
Me: Why? We want to watch the commercials.
Wife: So I can fast forward through the game.
p.a.
@Mike in NC: merely ok is “exceeds expectations” for most mass appeal movies. But I hold the Coens to a higher standard.
eemom
Good post. I mean, srsly, how pathetic can Jeb GET? First begging a NH audience to clap for him, and then breaking out the monstrous Bargoyle — his MOTHER — to say he’d be a good president. JHC, has he NO self-respect?
Mike in NC
@Iowa Old Lady: Not many laugh out loud moments for a Coen brothers flick. More mildly amusing and some of the subplots sort of fizzled out.
p.a.
@patrick II: The first time I taped a football game, scrolling thru to watch it later, it amazed me how little action there actually was. It was all commercials and replays.
Tom Levenson
@p.a.: Something like 11 or 12 minutes of actual action in the 3 + hour event, last I heard. Part of why I’m trying to wean myself of the whole sport. Not only are there the obvious issues, I value that time.
Ultraviolet Thunder
I’m at the stinkin’ airport leaving for a stinkin’ 2 week trip. Going to be gone over Valentine’s Day.
That stinks.
redshirt
@Mike in NC: Do you like other Coen movies?
redshirt
@p.a.: Studies say there’s only 12 minutes of actual action in a given NFL game.
satby
@Ultraviolet Thunder: it does stink. Sorry.
max
I will, no doubt, continue to search out good snark on last night’s GOP debate, or, as I like to think of it, Community Theater of the Damned.
Hrmm. Well, can I point out that:
that the debate was so bad, the NYTimes has been reduced to begging for the return of Zombie Ronald Reagan?
And also:
I do believe the NYT outed itself as looking (sounds like hoping to me) for a R victory this November. On the back of voter suppression. Even the Liberal New York Times. Gosh.
max
[‘Charming people.’]
Ultraviolet Thunder
Soccer fans cite the greater actual playing time in their games compared to NFL games.
True, but 97% of a soccer match is boring and the scoring is low.
Hence the popularity of the NBA
RepubAnon
We need new words for Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”:
“All in all, it’s just a – nother stupid Trump Wall…”
Ruckus
@eemom:
No one else has any respect for him, why would you expect him to be any different?
Ultraviolet Thunder
@satby:
Thanks. Plus I am going to Connecticut, which is in the path of some bad, cold weather. I could really use another mission to Mexico about now but I drew CT.
At least it’s not Ontario again.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Tom Levenson: “Football combines two of the worst aspects of American life: violence and committee meetings.”
Possibly the only correct thing George Will has ever written.
mdblanche
@eemom:
His brother will be campaigning with him next.
Matt McIrvin
I’ve already seen Trump’s rallies compared to “In The Flesh?”
By more than one person.
Matt McIrvin
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Will is surprisingly fond of ridiculing creationists. Then he turns around and insists that real climate science is the same kind of thing.
Matt McIrvin
@Matt McIrvin: …That should be “In The Flesh” without the question mark, I guess.
Frankensteinbeck
@max:
Ah, yes. Reagan’s vision of America. So welcoming to white Western Europeans and brown people who knew their place.
I do believe the writer just outed him/herself as a Reagan Democrat, The attitude that minorities are a voting block to be manipulated in elections, not people with political concerns, fits in perfectly.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Well, why not commit a blatant face mask when it’s just a one yard penalty?
Matt McIrvin
In election years the NYT and the Washington Post both have this strange way of acting like a right-wing paper and then endorsing the Democrat at the end.
NotMax
@Matt McIrvin
You mean the TV series about recovered zombies?
Don’t quite grok the connection.
MtnBob
Roger did a good job here. But that’s not Pink Floyd.
Can’t stop myself.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: In the Flesh
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Aha.
Thought it referred to this and was confoozled.
mainmata
Daughter insisted I watch the GOP debate for sh*ts and giggles even though I wouldn’t have. Well, in addition to the hilarious introduction of the candidates, which made JEB! Look, as usual, like a total sad sack we also had the hilarious programming misfire of the Rubio-bot making him state the same sentence about Obama again and again and again while being savaged by Chis Crisco for being a robot. Other than that it was the usual name-calling, stupid sh*t that makes the GOP debates an astonishing contrast to the policy-based Democratic debates.
Matt McIrvin
@Omnes Omnibus: You know, it’s interesting, it’s been a long enough time since I saw the movie that I’d forgotten they redid the song with the brass and Geldof; in my mind’s ear that was always the album version of the song in that scene, which in some ways is even more terrifying since it makes the connection to a rock concert more explicit. Bits of it sound almost like doo-wop.
Zinsky
@Mike in NC: Mike – agree. While there were some wonderfully put together shots (like the gorgeous Malibu mansion overlooking the ocean), my wife and I left the theater asking each other, “what was that about”? Was it about the movie industry or Communism or the male ego or the Romans vs. the Christians or WTF? It seemed like a lot of acting talent wasted on a movie that, in the end, seemed pointless.
Ben
As a long-time Floyd fanboi, it is an abortion to listen to any Floyd song or concert without David Gilmour. Lead vocalist, lead guitarist and not a raging asshole like Waters. Yes, I’m being pedantic. Post is right on.