This sign, which is hanging on a commercial building in suburban Denver, has me wondering:
We’ve all seen pictures of Trump, and he doesn’t look anything like the more-than-slightly homoerotic images shown here. But then there’s this:
This is via Jeff Tiedrich and apparently some mainstream publications are wondering if this is a hoax (clearly they haven’t spent much time in Trump country).
Which is it, fuckers? “Orange Man Good” with pics of a ripped Trump flexing? Or some fat old guy who can’t keep his turds on the right side of his anus? Pick one, OK?
Speaking of poor sphincter control, Marge’s motion to get rid of Pastor Mike just got shat upon from a great height, to the tune of 359-43, with 196 Republicans joining 163 Democrats to kill her bill.
Tony Jay
But… why do Real Men wear diapers? Is it something I should do? Is it just diapers or can I still wear pants? Do I take the diapers off when I go the toilet or am I expected to just let it all go and squish around until home time? Do I have to nod approvingly to other men who smell of poo? Do I take a deep breath and say something like “Smells like freedom”? Is there a manual?
Also, ‘diapers’. Odd word. I prefer nappies.
MisterForkbeard
@Tony Jay: Real men don’t need diaper instructions. Real men just DO diapers
Gin & Tonic
@Tony Jay:
This is America, Bub. Speak American.
Dorothy A. Winsor
As someone who lives among old people and knows they sometimes need a little grace, I can’t laugh at this as much as I’d like to.
Baud
Sometimes the hoax takes over and becomes real.
Tony Jay
@MisterForkbeard:
So it’s like attracting a mate? Just release the odours and let nature take its course?
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
As long as they don’t pretend to be strongman fascists or support them, they’re good.
MattF
Greene’s motion to vacate has been tabled, by a huge margin, 359-43. A total of 11 Republicans voted against.
Tony Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
This is not ‘America’, this is The Interwebs, which are a series of tubes connected by the suspension of disbelief and the possibility of porn.
grumbles
Anyone know what EmptyG was thinking? (I use that term advisedly.) Granted, she’s not exactly likely to be confused with Hannibal for strategic thinking, but I have trouble believing this was a coin toss decision.
Last I heard she was pretending that people would care if Dems bailed Johnson out. That also made no sense, but I was guessing those were just filler noises made because someone expected a response. But maybe she actually thinks that?
Or maybe this is a temper-tantrum over not being invited to the geriatric fellatio/self-humiliation contest for the VP slot.
dmsilev
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Wearing protection, so to speak, because you need it is one thing. Wearing protection and boasting of it because someone else needs it is quite the different thing.
Alce_e _ ardillo
@Tony Jay: the “certainty” of porn.
dmsilev
@MattF: Too insane for over 90 percent of the House GOP is quite the accomplishment.
John S.
I see the Republicans are following their “Personality Cults for Dummies”.
By next year, they’ll be convinced that Trump doesn’t actually go to the bathroom at all, just like Kim Jong Un.
Gin & Tonic
@Tony Jay:
I hate to respond with a semi-serious point, but if you know any languages besides British and American, it is amusing and sometimes astonishing, the extent to which American Interweb slang has permeated into other languages. I quite often see things on-line in contemporary Ukrainian that take me a little while to figure out, until I realize that it comes from American slang.
Suzanne
I don’t wanna kink-shame….. but, actually, I do. If “real men wear diapers”, then it is absolutely no wonder that heterosexual women are like, whelp, let’s be single forever. Cats use a litter box.
Jeffro
whoa Whoa WHOA now
Emperor Trump is all things, to all people, at all times!
He is the Alpha and Omega (but mostly, a Beta ;)
lowtechcyclist
@Alce_e _ ardillo:
As we all know, the Internet is for porn.
Steve in the ATL
@Tony Jay: this is why we insist that you return to your prior job
BruceFromOhio
Never expect a coherent reply with that lot. When they get around to “Real men jump off bridges!” then just maybe its worth looking into.
Baud
@Steve in the ATL:
Late stage capitalism, man. It makes everything worse.
Jeffro
It’s a good point!
“I WOULD HAPPILY SHOOT HUNDREDS OF DOGS IN GRAVEL PITS FOR YOU, MY LIEGE!! I WOULD BABBLE NONSENSE ON THE SUNDAY SHOWS WITHOUT PAUSE, ALL FOR YOU! I WOULD PRETEND TO BE ENGAGED TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOT APPEALING TO ME – FOR YOU!”
What a psycho! Where is the ‘Say Anything’ MTG meme? That seems to be the quickest way to get the point across.
Suzanne
@BruceFromOhio: They got to “Real Patriots Inject Bleach”….. almost there!
MattF
@Gin & Tonic: And the differences between British and American English can cause problems. I was at a Thanksgiving dinner years ago that included a couple from Old Blighty, and noted that the word ‘homely’ sometimes caused a problem, since it means ‘domestic’ to Brits and ‘ugly’ to Americans. The Brit lady gaped at me since she’d recently fallen into exactly that trap. She’d called someone ‘homely’ and an American got rather pissed off about it.
lollipopguild
@Tony Jay: “SMELLS LIKE FREEDOM!” Many thanks Tony!
TBone
The O.G. of diapers
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/25/how-a-diaper-protest-led-to-the-implosion-of-a-conservative-student-group/
Hoppie
Cue Warlock Dowling telling the truth as only a child can.
“you smell like poo” – Good Omens
Tony Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
The convenience of a Lingua Franca based mostly around taking the piss and finding new ways to insult the size of strangers’ genitals.
If time-travellers took the whole show back to the Bronze Age we’d have Mycenaeans and Shang Chinese alike accusing the Hittites of kissing Pharaoh’s arse in Akkadian.
Baud
@Tony Jay:
Kiss my ankh!
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: I’ve been trying for monetize Tony Jay’s posts. The post-brexit weakness of the pound makes it a great arbitrage opportunity!
Tony Jay
@Alce_e _ ardillo:
There are only three certainties in life. Death, taxes, and people watching porn to avoid thinking about the first two.
Tony Jay
@Baud:
I just spat mead on my papyrus.
Baud
@Steve in the ATL:
In a world of AI, words have no value. Get out while the gettings good.
Steve in the ATL
@Tony Jay: another great post I can sell. Do you how many millions of Iranian rials this is worth?
NotMax
@Tony Jay
“Freedom’s just another word for nuthin’ left to ooze.”
//
wjca
I’d be more impressed** by the “real men wear diapers” types if there were even a slight suspicion that those with children had changed their kids’ diapers. (Except, maybe, in an absolute emergency.) Real men do that. Do these guys even know how?
** Not impressed. Just more impressed.
TBone
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/05/ex-trump-aide-vows-porn-ban-in-trumps-second-term/
Tony Jay
@Steve in the ATL:
Never! I like helping old people with their problems while cunningly redirecting their frustrations away from me and towards the enjoyment of crass jokes.
And I like doing it in my new job, too.
Suzanne
I’m so tired, y’all. So, so tired. And it’s only May.
I can’t believe we have to share a country with these people.
jonas
Wait, wut? Are those “Real Men Wear Diapers” people actual Trump supporters or performance artists trolling Trump rallies or something?
If they’re real….dear God.
Steve in the ATL
@Tony Jay: you are en fuego tonight!
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: next you’re going to tell me that nobody walks in LA
HumboldtBlue
That dumb bitch has been laughed off the House floor, and today that traitorous buffoon was jeered from the floor.
What a fucking traitor.
Suzanne
WaPo is reporting that Biden will cut off offensive weapons to Israel if they invade Rafah. Good.
Jeffro
@Suzanne: hang in there, there are lulz to be found!
My favorite from today, re: RFK Jr’s “brain worms” thingy
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Tony Jay
@Steve in the ATL:
Just make sure that there’s enough left after fees to fund the secret shipment of Kevin Sorbo to the Contras.
Delk
Sadly the rain yesterday canceled my pelvic health for men class.
Jeffro
Btw ol’ Brain Worms turned up on Ari Melber’s show tonight and was a holy rolling disaster of a flaming dumpster fire rocket-launching off of a clip. holeeeee cow.
We just need to give these people microphones and what not. I’m serious. MTG? RFK Jr? trumpov himself? Here’s your mics, mis amigos!!!
Steve in the ATL
@Tony Jay: I could have gone with the Vietnamese dong but it’s too early for Balloon Juice After Dark here in the colonies.
Baud
@Suzanne:
Interesting.
ETA: they were close to a truce, but people were playing games. Hopefully, this nudge will wake some people up.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Biden started holding the shipment of weapons 3 weeks or so ago. But he did it quietly, as a message to Bibi and the government of Israel.
Biden announcing that publicly is an escalation – a message to all of us.
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: I wonder if that really is what killed the worms in his brain?
Unexpected consequences!
Ksmiami
@TBone: I guess he’s trying to lose Utah… and truckers?
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
“Cry Freedom, and let slip the Logs of War!”
Jeffro
@WaterGirl: I think it was the lack of available nutrition that killed RFJ Jr’s brain worms. =)
Bill Arnold
@Tony Jay:
Sumerian proverbs can be fun.
Here’s a few from “collection 5”.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Where do we go from here?
Tony Jay
@Steve in the ATL:
Sniggering at the currency simply must have played a part in America losing the war in Vietnam. How could it not?
sab
@TBone: I thought I had seen them with this diaper fetish before. Kent State is one of our local universities so it must have been carried in the local news.
Kirk
@wjca: It’s likely that 3% know how.
HumboldtBlue
Jamie Raskin is a constitutional scholar, some GOP jamoke from Wisconsin just learned that the hard way on the House floor.
Princess
On the one hand, I really don’t think the Trump diaper thing is going to help him. On the other hand, all sorts of perfectly nice and competent adults wear diapers for a range of reasons so I don’t want Dems to make that attack part of our personality. But if the MAGAs want to elevate it, please proceed, I guess.
CaseyL
OMG, the bearded guy in the photo with the banner looks so much like someone I know. I hope to FSM it isn’t him.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Right.
Martin
@lowtechcyclist: In what universe did you think anyone would click that link?
Tony Jay
@Bill Arnold:
I get 33, it works.
50 – 54, could be modern political commentary. On point and topical.
83 – 84, this is why they stopped putting opiates in dog food, and why we all lost something wonderful as a consequence.
Steve in the ATL
@Tony Jay: America doesn’t lose wars! Especially not Afghanistan, Vietnam, or the War of 1812 where we clearly won even though you people burned down our capital!
zhena gogolia
@MattF: Wait till you hear about “knock me up.”
Gloria DryGarden
I need the address if this eyesore trump mural ad in Denver.
I don’t know anyone who knows somebody, it’s illegal, and I don’t have spray paint, but I can go there.
And find out which business owner offered space for it, and which businesses he/they own. And then not shop at those places, and tell everyone.
Bill Arnold
@jonas:
Yes, real.
If you’re not concerned about contaminating your Amazon search history with a newfound apparent interest:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%22real+men+wear+diapers%22+trump&ref=nb_sb_noss
Brachiator
@Gin & Tonic:
@Tony Jay:
@Baud:
The world’s oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humour was as popular with the ancients as it is today.
One of the oldest known British jokes
Bill Arnold
@Tony Jay:
This one that was making the rounds recently on social media:
73-75. A dog entered a tavern and said: “I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one!”
Tony Jay
@Steve in the ATL:
Hey. Hey. I’ll have you know that ‘you people’ is offensive and othering.
We prefer ‘you fucking people’, or at a pinch ‘you fuckers’. It’s more inclusive and shows due respect for our heritage and history.
Jeffro
@HumboldtBlue: I was just watching that clip!
I know we have a ridiculously deep bench, and “_____ for President” is so over-used that it’s barely even a compliment to the actual person anymore.
BUT
Raskin would fucking rock as Prez.
So much talent on our side! Biden, Harris, Raskin, Newsom, Whitmer, Pritzker, Beshear, Shapiro, Frost, Crockett…it just goes on and on…
karen marie
@John S.: I’m starting to understand why Trump complains so much about water pressure and having to flush multiple times. He’s stuffing his diapers in the toilet.
Baud
@Tony Jay:
Is it you or the Australians that use the C word as a term of endearment?
Steve in the ATL
@Brachiator:
“I’m here all week. Try the barley and tip your waitress!”
”I’m here all week. Try the mutton and tip your waitress!”
yeah, that wasn’t worth the effort it took to type.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I think they both do.
Tony Jay
@Bill Arnold:
I’ve got to say, I’m liking these Sumerian dogs. They’ve got levels about them.
Stuart Frasier
@jonas: Whether it started out real or a prank or a hoax, it’s out there now. There is a bunch of “Diapers Over Dems” and “Real Men Wear Diapers” merch available for sale on various sites.
Tony Jay
@Baud:
Aussies originally (they probably use it in wedding vows) but it’s become more common over here as long as it’s said in a broad Cockney/Essex accent.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Those madmen finally achieved the wingnut singularity.
JCJ
@Gin & Tonic: That reminds me of a clip from a speech by Angela Merkel where she in the middle of speaking German she called something a “shit show”
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Sumer time and the living is easy.
//
Eyeroller
@Tony Jay: For Tony: “diaper” was originally the name of a weave of cloth (weavers still use it in that sense). It is also called “bird’s eye.” It was widely used for baby needs back in the day. Americans can’t use “nappy” because we use the word “napkin” for “serviette.” The base meaning in English is “large piece of cloth.” Americans actually preserve the original meaning better, since it was applied to cloths used to wipe one’s mouth at dinner by the 14th century. Somehow in England it got transferred to “baby needs” with the effete French term “serviette” used for the original meaning. (But Americans aren’t pure either, since we use “napkins” to refer to women’s needs, now almost always made of paper pulp, though cloth is making a comeback.)
Craig
@HumboldtBlue: whoa! That was beautiful.
Tony Jay
Actually I quite like that REAL MEN WEAR DIAPERS banner. Stench looks suitably troubled by the size of his swollen head, he’s got the cell bars silhouetted to his right, and there are cartoon stars of pain rising from his backside where someone just carved the outline of a shamrock with a shank.
Nostradamus did have a beard…
mrmoshpotato
Why can’t the orange shitstain be tremendously bigly?! WHY?!?!?!?!?!!??
Omnes Omnibus
What was her name?
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Repeated from late last month.
Oh dear. One of those times when crossing the pond becomes linguistically hazardous.
British TV drama episode viewed this evening; a police forensic examiner rattling off a list of items she’s subjecting to inspection and tests, ending with “and a bag of smelly old fag butts.”
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: Katie Holmes?
zhena gogolia
@Eyeroller: I am not wiping my mouth with Trump’s diaper.
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
To Ur is human…
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Nostradameus.
Tony Jay
@Omnes Omnibus:
Barbie, or something close to that,
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Ah yes! More slapping the GOP with historical FACT! Cry harder, Trump trash! 😭
Tony Jay
Right. It’s English late. Thanks for the laughs and the interesting facts (language and fart jokes make me happy) I’m off to bed.
Soprano2
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I can’t either. They’re pull-ups now, they’re a lot like underwear.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.
Eyeroller
@zhena gogolia:Napkin is the older term for “dinner cloth.” Brits use it for “baby wrap.” So you would not want to wipe with Trump’s nappy but his serviette would be…not quite as awful, I guess.
A Ghost to Most
The best take I saw was a court room sketch of Donnie napping, but obviously in the style of GOP hagiographer Jon McNaughton, including concerned dead presidents looking on.
different-church-lady
Slow news week, eh? 🤯
Soprano2
@TBone: I guess he’s never heard of the First Amendment.
Eyeroller
I had not looked closely but it appears that the banner in Denver says “Orange man good”? Christ.
sdhays
@Tony Jay: “Nappies” just sounds like a fun way of saying what I’d like my son to take in the afternoon, and he steadfastly hasn’t since he was about 2.
Tony G
I can’t even begin to understand these people. Members of the Trump cult have been embracing his ugliness for years now, so maybe the next step is to literally embrace his shit.
Anotherlurker
@wjca: Myself and my 2 brothers are very adept at changing diapers. My mom insisted that we learn the skill, saying that it would come in handy. We are all in our 70s and can attest to its usefulness.
Kay
I’m glad he’s sticking to the red line he drew.
JPL
@Kay: Remember if you like that message go to Whitehouse.gov and let them know.
Miki
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yup.
Dealing with this with my sister right now (I’m POA). Dealt with it with my mom, as did my BFF and her mom.
And have my own issues which my PCP and I have dealt with recently by changing a med, not especially successfully (dizziness and headaches).
Incontinence puts people in nursing homes, esp. fecal incontinence.
Not funny, ever.
bjacques
My time machine broke down in 1750 BC, but I can get it going again if I can find some good quality copper…
EDIT: Are those Kampgrounds Of America (KOA) bungalows in the background of that banner picture??
Jinchi
I remember a brief period when pranksters convinced the pre-Maga “Tea Party Patriots” to refer to themselves as teabaggers, before they caught on that it was a gay sex joke.
This seems to fall into that category.
Timill
@bjacques: Best to avoid the dubious merchant Ea-nāṣir then.
Mapaghimagsik
@Eyeroller:
That’s because in Britain, babies are a delicacy
JaySinWA
Can we get a better press corpse?
From the WP article linked in the post we have this clinker.
The first sentence of the second paragraph has the vote ass backwards. The motion to table would end the ouster. The 11 R’s voted against tabling. The one of the authors is assigned to the House coverage.
JaySinWA
@Mapaghimagsik: Irish babies especially. /s
Mapaghimagsik
@JaySinWA:
Naturally! They don’t taste like mutton
Timill
@JaySinWA: Presumably a UK/US confusion…
[In the UK, you table a motion to bring it up for discussion. In the US, you “lay on the table” to set it aside.]
Bill Arnold
@Timill:
It is rumored that that was Abraham, who subsequently fled Ur from an extremely dissatisfied buyer of his not-very-good copper. Allegedly.
Westyny
@Tony Jay: Haha!
kalakal
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s a race to the bottom
JaySinWA
@Timill: The Washington Post has been taken over by the Brits?
Omnes Omnibus
@kalakal: Not a Missing Person fan then?
TS
@Anotherlurker:
I gave birth back in the day when maternity hospitals still spent a little time teaching new mothers how to look after their babes. On our ward we had the most wonderful and caring male nurse (very new to midwifery in those days). He taught every husband/partner who came into the ward how to change a diaper (nappy as we called them) – and this was in the days of cloth and pins.
Eyeroller
@JaySinWA: Yeah, I don’t get it either. The writer is clearly using the term in the meaning in the rest of the Anglosphere, which is the opposite of what we use in the US of A, but it’s an American publication so that can only lead to confusion. Are there no editors?
JaySinWA
@kalakal: It sounds like he’s the butt of the joke.
JaySinWA
@Eyeroller: Last I heard, no. Editors were some of the first to go.
Authors:
.
NotMax
@JaySinWA
Sleeper agents from the War of 1812?
:)
dr. luba
@Gin & Tonic: One bit of Ukrainian slang that would seem to apply here is there version of super-duper….for some reason it became super-pooper. And apt description of 45.
JaneE
Why is it that all the posters and banners extolling Trump feature images that most definitely do not look like him? The left half of “Orange Man Good” looks like they stole stills from some Hollywood publicity agency. And what is with all the tats? Trump after his prison term? They can draw him as ripped, but one photograph shows that for the lie it is.
Incontinence is not really all that funny if you have to live with someone in diapers. And diapers can only hold so much. If Trump really cannot control that, he needs sympathy, and a caregiver who can help keep him cleaned up. He should be able to afford private nurses.
F79
Whoa, I drove by that the other day and had a real “wtf am I looking at” moment – feel like it was in Wheat Ridge or somewhere around there. Was hard to appreciate its full madness in passing, so thanks for the photo
Gloria DryGarden
@Eyeroller: I need to go see it. Good grief, we can read out here, and mostly we speak good English.
Does it really say that? Ick
A trillion, tripping trumpeters tracked trash….
JaySinWA
@JaySinWA: eventually somebody corrected the sentence without any indication I can see that the change happened. It now reads:
Gloria DryGarden
@JaneE: I agree. Incontinence is not funny. I’m sure it’s hard to live with. I like your point that he could have private nursing help to assist him with this.
By making fun of this aspect of him, it hurts others. There’s plenty else we can mock and be cranky about regarding this person. But compassion for the health challenge.
laura
Frankly, I’m surprised at the dearth of Tom of Finland trump merch.
seefleur
After a perfectly foul day, this thread has reminded me that there are still wonderful people out there – and most of them seem to hang out in Balloon Juice space. Thanks for the laughs! And why don’t I get to meet more of you (types) in real life??? Carry on!
Mr. Bemused Senior
Ask WaterGirl to arrange a meet up.
Roberto el oso
Growing up abroad, in a community in which my family was the only American one, but with a fair number of British, Australian, and Anglo-Indians led to some interesting exchanges and revelations slangwise. My dad was fond of recalling how the Anglican priest, Padre Robbins, who was director of the Antofagasta British School, which my sister and I attended, once had a conversation with him about gangsters and their representation in films, and P. Robbins, describing someone, said “He’s what you Yanks would call ‘a wide boy’ …. my dad later came across the term in something by Graham Greene (I think), but that was a new one. One other instance (and then I’ll quit): a young American who worked for NASA stayed with us for a while, and the day before she was set to drive out to the desert for a tour of the astronomical and weather station a couple of members of the Australian team told her very cheerfully “Be sure and get a good night’s sleep, we’ll be by quite early in the morning to knock you up”.
Sister Golden Bear
@TBone: Project 2025 wants to declare anything having to do with LGBTQ — including us people — to be inherently pornographic. And then make all porn illegal. You see where this goes…
@Ksmiami: Fun fact. Utah has the highest number of search queries for trans-related porn.
Tehanu
@TBone:
Prohibition worked so well to get rid of drunkenness, after all!
mrmoshpotato
@Tony G:
To literally suck his anus?
gsus
Where in suburban Denver is that “Orange Man Good” banner? Please let me know so that I don’t stumble upon it accidentally and get into a car wreck. Also would like to know the name of the business there so I can avoid patronizing it and supporting such horrible politics (and art) with my consumer dollars.