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Ocelot II

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Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:27 PM Jan 18

"This combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror." [View all]

Last edited Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:19 PM - Edit history (1)

A writer for the Guardian made that comment while discussing the cringeworthy behavior of Musk and Zuckerberg in https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers When I read about the 15' bronze statue of Trump that was commissioned, to be called "Don Colossus" and to be shown around the country and later installed in his so-far-nonexistent presidential library, I realized that everything about the Trump phenomenon is both evil and embarrassing. It's not just cool-wannabe poseurs like Musk and Zuckerberg; it's all the sycophants and fluffers and fawners and invertebrates like Lindsey Graham and the other politicians and moguls and media suckups who beclown themselves on a daily basis, falling over each other for the great privilege of touching the hem of the Great Man's garment.

What The Actual Fucking Hell? Who does that? What happened to simple self-respect? Why are you people humiliating yourselves over this guy? When you look back on all this some day will your balls shrink to the size of mouse turds as you realize what asses you made of yourselves? Will you even have enough decency and capacity for introspection to be properly and utterly embarrassed for yourselves? Folks, it's way worse than getting drunk at a formal dinner party and making a pass at the host's wife before vomiting red wine on the Persian rug and finally passing out naked on the front lawn. Waaay worse. You should be too embarrassed ever to show your faces in public again. Strangely, you're not. Yet.

And the person over whom you are embarrassing yourselves is himself an embarrassment: Overweight, aging, balding, trying desperately to hold onto his lame self-image as a suave playboy through orange makeup, dyed and ridiculously-styled hair, lifts in his shoes and a transgressive attitude; illiterate, childish Xeets - and it's all so desperately cringe-inducing. And it's all profoundly evil at the same time. A unique horror, indeed. Evil is being done in embarrassing ways by embarrassing people. Obviously we shouldn't lose sight of all that evil; dignified evil is still just as evil. But you'd think such a ridiculous and juvenile and stupid guy wouldn't be taken seriously and emulated, and therefore able to be so evil. He's a fucking clown, people! Why are you making statues and artworks that would make the creators of the Socialist Realism movement blush, glorifying this slack, dumpy loser as a muscular superhero? Stalin would be envious - but he was just evil, not ridiculous on top of it.

At least Bond villains weren't embarrassing, but they wouldn't have been credible as villains if they'd been clowns like Trump. What the actual fuck is wrong with a country that not only fails to recognize and be embarrassed by a pathetic clown but actually embraces him?

Idiocracy is real.

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He is trying to embarrass the USA & bring our country to her knees on the world stage SheltieLover Jan 18 #1
I don't think he realizes that he's embarrassing. He thinks he's trolling. Ocelot II Jan 18 #9
This, so much this: CrispyQ Jan 18 #2
Too bad this article can only be rec'ed a single time by a user. n/t the nelm Jan 18 #3
I second that emotion. yellow dahlia Jan 18 #30
i love this -- wanted to share but the link doesn't work nt orleans Jan 18 #4
See post 5 dpibel Jan 18 #7
I fixed it. Ocelot II Jan 18 #8
To view the article, delete the dot dpibel Jan 18 #5
I feel like for a decent chunk of his supporters, it's more about trolling "the left" or "the establishment" TRHST82 Jan 18 #6
No matter how many explanations I read about why people find TCF appealing or... 3catwoman3 Jan 18 #10
It's "American exceptionalism" in action. mwb970 Jan 19 #35
Laws of stupidity JT45242 Jan 19 #42
God can't be happy SWinter Jan 18 #11
Pathological narcissism Blue Full Moon Jan 18 #12
One can only hope Hekate Jan 18 #24
We are back to the Golden Calf. BidenRocks Jan 18 #13
Brainwashed rawhideal Jan 18 #14
I'll post more rawhideal Jan 18 #15
Bad gamma rawhideal Jan 18 #16
Go head on post! 😎 dchill Jan 18 #17
Stupid rawhideal Jan 18 #19
You can't argue with stupid, but it's good exercise... dchill Jan 18 #21
So true!!! Revenge of the nerds, Apocalypse version LymphocyteLover Jan 18 #18
Recommended. H2O Man Jan 18 #20
excellent rant Skittles Jan 18 #22
It turns out Idiocracy was a documentary Hassler Jan 18 #23
We just rewatched it and came to the same conclusion! Silver Gaia Jan 18 #25
👏 thanks for posting this Deuxcents Jan 18 #26
Oh I am embarassed alright! and pissed and disgusted by stupid "Americans". nt Exp Jan 18 #27
A statue????? Ohioboy Jan 18 #28
Read and weep. And it's in Ohio. Ocelot II Jan 18 #29
Oh, gawd... I read the text, but squinted over the pics so I.... electric_blue68 Jan 18 #31
Isn't it considered unAmerican to have statues of living presidents? Ohioboy Jan 19 #40
"Invertebrates like LIndsey Graham" Clouds Passing Jan 18 #32
:) marinero Jan 19 #37
The ignorance and stupidity of MAGA morons is simply staggering. mwb970 Jan 19 #33
To paraphrase Austin Powers,... LudwigPastorius Jan 19 #34
That is truly disgusting. n/t ReRe Jan 19 #36
That's exquisite. nt allegorical oracle Jan 19 #38
Well said Evolve Dammit Jan 19 #39
Great OP malaise Jan 19 #41
Gotta love the Guardian. Joinfortmill Jan 19 #43
The bullies have won intrepidity Jan 19 #44
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