Yes, in fact it was blatantly obvious that was part of the script.
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I have been reading some Frederick Douglass lately (who died a few years before 1900). What he was dealing with was quite similiar to what FOX and Talk Radio put out regularly.
The (humourless, by the way) people who listen to and watch them have, by their actions, threatened most social legislation people took for granted EVEN DURING THE JIM CROW YEARS (which a great many historians place up to the year 1969).
So forgive me if I donāt laugh at two bald-headed old white 0.001%-ers whose āexperienceā with the Latino or African American experience revolves around whomever they let into their gated communities.
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NBC DONE BEING āOFFENDEDā BY TRUMP RACISM
Some might suggest then that giving āTrump too offensive for your networkā an hour and a half political ad in which he will placed firmly at the heart of SNL; an American humor show that past its expiration date 15 years ago, that the network is willing to promote hateful rhetoric in exchange for ratings. These people are correct.
I donāt think Trumpās views on immigrants or women are funny.
They are some things you just canāt comb over.
So then is the lesson with Trumpās SNL appearance is that Republicanās prefer staged, comedic skits over debate questions?
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Trump is a racist, a real one. Whatās funny about that?
Put Tarantino up front and let him make jokes about cops killing innocent Americans, that one is guaranteed to get some laughs.
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I get racism can be approached different ways. But this treatment made pointing out racism the butt of the joke: āHa, I donāt really care, someone just told me I could get 5k for saying it. Haha. Ok, then its cool, as long as its just for the cash.ā
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āI heard if I yelled that, theyād give me $5,000,ā David said.
āAs a businessman, I can fully respect that. Thatās OK,ā Trump replied.
How about that. The truth hiding in plain sight. Trump is telling us that his decisions on what to say and what to do are for sale to the highest bidder, because business.
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That is part of SNLās problemāof course, not nearly the greatest part.
You see this with dying newspapers and magazines. Their honchos look at the numbers and decide to dumb it down.
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Itās not the (in)sincerity of Trump that matters, itās the forces that heās irresponsibly set into motion for his own profit.
Set into motion? Iām not so sure about that. I think heās riding a wave, but he didnāt make it. Anyway, this hasnāt played out yet, but I wonāt be at all surprised if Trump doesnāt end up destroying the movement heās exploiting right now. I donāt believe thatās Trumpās goal (Trumpās goal is to get a lot of attention).
Trump is leading his followers to the edge of a cliff and, this whole time, it seems as though heās been mocking them for taking him so seriously. I realize all politics involves some acting but, as I said in another comment, Trump is taking this to a whole new level.
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Itās an act but before he ran overall I gathered he was a bit of an asshole too. The āpro-lifeā stuff is b.s. Some of the stuff probably is more less so.
Lawrence, if you will remember, chided Trump and practically dared him to mount a Prex Campaign.
Like you, I do not know how Trump-mania will endā¦But I can see Lawrence, months later, chortling over this, as Joy Reid and Eugene Robinbson are uproariously besides themselves with laughter.
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Iām not saying heās not an asshole in real life. What Iām saying is that Donald Trump the person and Donald Trump the Presidential candidate are almost independent of one another. Heās reading off a script that he wrote himself for his play titled āBad Boy Wrestler Runs for President.ā
The fact that itās working so well for him shows that heās as clever as he is cynical.
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Well, that certainly curbed my enthusiasm for SNLā¦
One thing is square-on: Trumpās is a candidacy about nothing.
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Weāve gone through nearly a decade of deliberate lies by conservative media about President Clinton, cold-blooded murderer of his best friend, a second decade of lies about President Obama, cold-blooded traitor who is āworseā than Clinton. The stage is set, the guns are locked and loaded, for another decade of lies about Mrs. Clinton, who theyāll characterize as worse than both of them put together.
All to divert the attention of people from the scam that is the conservative movement, the deliberate deceit to benefit entitled people like Trump and all the other clowns on the Republican stage getting rich off the welfare on the donors they help.
How? By running down our nation, and doing nothing!
Meanwhile, the planet is dying, people are oppressed, children are being shot at their desks, the public trough is being openly robbed by billionaires, and the so-called āliberal mediaā keeps trying to reach out to conservatives to understand them. SNL falls for the same bait-and-switch that the Republican Congress pulled on Obama, yet it criticized his naivetĆ©.
But I guess theyāre really trying to be fair and balanced. As opposed to the other channel. The one that never is, but which most people believe is actually. Because people like Trump, who benefit from it all, reassures them of the real truth.
Like others, Iām very disappointed in SNL. At least Rolling Stone had the balls to stand up for a decisioning failure.
God knows, conservatives donāt do that either.
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Cynical is the word.
At the very least, BaggerPol Matt Bevinās win in KY portends a healthcare crisis. Yet, in keeping with the Bad-Boy Comedy āactā that is Donald Trump, Trump pats himself on the Back by saying that he helped usher that in.
With DEATH as a result.
āhahahahahahahaā
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SNL - on a mission to convince America that racism is A-OK if only you are a good sport about it.
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I know that humor can point out truths, even ugly truths, but somehow it seems that Trumpās real racism was diluted and made less real by this planned skit.
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I missed it as well. Because I havenāt watched SNL in years. Because it hasnāt been funny in years.
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Iām OK with Trump hosting SNL. We all know what he thinks of Latinos. SNL is a distant echo of what it use to be. It just aināt funny anymore. It needed the notoriety of Trump to pump up its flaccid ratings. What really bothers me is not Trump, but Larry Davidās āinterruption.ā That was truly offensive - a nod to Trump and an insult to Latinos - dismissing our outrage at being dehumanized by Trump and Teabag Right. David displays the kind of blind racism you find among Liberals and Progressives for whom Latinos are not rapists and drug dealers, but cleaning ladies and gardeners. I hope the check bounces.
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Not mocking so much as dismissing. And NBC execs were themselves were onboard to make nice with Trump because they all run in the same upscale NYC circles. I am surprised that Larry David agreed to take part in this pre-emptive charade; perhaps the money was too good.
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OR2 -
Youāre right, thats a better description.