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Toward a theory of shtick: Our Donald is not as funny as Foster Brooks [1]

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Date: 2024-06-12  

Soylent Green is your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving. As Charles Sykes has claimed, no one is actually listening to a complete Trump speech to see whether they have devolved into complete unhinged screeds. Trump’s bits come from the last century and are even less entertaining, which is a low bar for a POTUS.

Apparently RWNJ media is trying to suppress their audience’s awareness but also pander to the lowest common denominator of comic entertainment. Trump’s problem is that his shtick is tired and repetitive, aside from felonious. Shtick could be a style but invariably becomes passe in the hands of the untalented. Also, Napoleon and Caesar weren’t funny.

x The late great FOSTER BROOKS roasting DON RICKLES in 1974. pic.twitter.com/yvw7m3j6yz — Michael Warburton (@TheMonologist) April 28, 2024

x Grothman: Donald Trump will once more make sure that the families stay together and that we’re not going to be separating families at the border pic.twitter.com/p6D8opDHVV — Acyn (@Acyn) April 2, 2024

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x “The 45th president is deeply unwell. It is long past time for Americans … to recognize his inability to serve as the 47th.” This is what we have been trying to say for years!!https://t.co/DFhC9gl4rP — Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) June 13, 2024

x The thing about this stuff is that Trump was seen as a Caesarist figure even in 2016. Richard Spencer called him the "Napoleon of the current year," suggesting that he'd be a start but not the more-radical end goal. https://t.co/ZMeLqRCpd4 — Alexander Reid Ross (@areidross) June 13, 2024

x “Stop sh*t-talking America!” Pennsylvania Governor @JoshShapiroPA rips into Trump for his constant whining and negativity about our country.



This is spot on — we need more Democrats to speak out like this! pic.twitter.com/GzeHfdjqrx — Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) June 11, 2024

OTOH some things are also problematically funny

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