Discussion: Trump Walks Out To A Song From The Music Les Mis, Welcomes His 'Deplorables'

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What’s next, Wagner operas?

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Yes — starring Melania with breastplate, horned helmet and thigh-high slave sandals. The little Trumpers all as trolls.

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I have nothing. I don’t know what this even means.

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or the “Horst Wessel Lied”

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If it would occur to someone on his camp, I am sure that the music for Springtime for Hitler could be used to good effect.

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How about Funeral March of a Marionette for Putin’s puppet?

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It has been surprising to me that someone hasn’t done a knockoff / Al Yankovic version of Springtime dedicated to the Trump phenomenon; it would seem to write itself. Uh,

‘Follow, The Donald, to victory /
He’ll make America great’

and so forth.

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There was a spoof a couple of months ago with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick featuring the Republican candidate.

Edited to add link.

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Having “meaning” is no longer relevant. It’s the new reality.

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Victor Hugo is spinning in his grave.

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"As Newsweek‘s Kurt Eichenwald said in a tweet, “In 8th yr of a Democrat’s presidency, the Republican nominee announces to the press that the president was born in USA. Are we in a movie?”

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A much more appropriate Les Miserables song for Trump, especially since this was at his new hotel, is Master of the House

Master of the house
Doling out the charm
Ready with a handshake
And an open palm
Tells a saucy tale
Makes a little stir
Customers appreciate a bon-viveur
Glad to do a friend a favor
Doesn’t cost me to be nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!

Master of the house
Keeper of the zoo
Ready to relieve ‘em
Of a sou or two
Watering the wine
Making up the weight
Pickin’ up their knick-knacks
When they can’t see straight
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody’s bosom friend
I do whatever pleases Jesus!
Won’t I bleed 'em in the end!

Though I think Mme. Thenardier words are most appropriate:

Master of the house?
Isn’t worth me spit!
Comforter, philosopher’
and lifelong shit!
Cunning little brain
Regular Voltaire
Thinks he’s quite a lover
But there’s not much there
What a cruel trick of nature
Landed me with such a louse
God knows how I’ve lasted
Living with this bastard in the house

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Ooooooh, bumbling is an excellent word, designed to get right under Donnie’s scaly skin.

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Red Rider’s Lunatic Fringe would be much more appropriate.

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So by this display it is clear, and the press should correctly and immediately report that; as a movement Trumpeters embrace the full definition as a group that is racist, xenophobic, homophobic, white supremacists, first amendment hating, misinterpreted second amendment loving, fascism desiring, intellectual property right ignoring, and violence inciting, cocksuckers.

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I would go with cocksucking fuckwits but, other that that, you are spot on.

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particularly theatric

Huh?!?!?
Can there be any doubt whatsoever…The Coward is coming as close to the Pepe artwork Don Jr. just retweeted as he can. The media doesn’t get it but the White Nationalists do…theatric, God help us.

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Makes sense…I distinctly remember a billionaire leading the student revolution against the aristocracy in Le Mis.

A revolution that failed, by the way. As Rick Perry would say…oops.

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If they’re using a tune from Les Miserables, I would have thought ‘Dog Eats Dog’ more in line with Trump.

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