4 posts tagged ‘trumpism’
Ted review: A profane, obvious lampoon of old sitcom tropes
AV Club,
For the generation that came up in the ’90s, before the internet could worm its cruel, pitiless tentacles around our minds and hearts, it was TV that shaped us. Game shows allowed people to dream of nicer stuff for the house. Talk shows gave everyone something to bicker about around the table. But it was sitcoms that… Read more...
Vivek Ramaswamy Is Buying TV Ads in Iowa After Calling Ads 'Idiotic'
Jezebel,
Flip-flopping is to be expected in the hellscape that is American politics, but it’s rarely this embarrassing: After previously calling TV ad spending “idiotic,” Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reportedly resumed buying TV ads in Iowa this week. This comes less than a month??? after pulling his ad… Read more...
Would You Play a January 6 Board Game?
You can probably easily recall images of Trump supporters storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021: a grown man wearing horns, body paint, and fur strutting through the halls of American democracy; another adult man yelling “falling down” as he did exactly that while attempting to scale a wall; that one particularly… Read more...
So Far, Trump's Truth Social Has Set $73 Million on Fire
Gizmodo,
Less than two years after it launched, Donald Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, might be headed for the internet graveyard. New federal filings show that Truth, like a lot of Trump businesses, has lost massive amounts of money ($73 million, in this case) and is drifting, inevitably, toward insolvency. The… Read more...