One reader sent an email not happy that I referred to our president as the Mook, writing that in order to convince the other side we have a true mook for president, we probably should refrain from name-calling.
I agree. A little. I figure that at least I haven’t gone full tea bagger and created a sign of Trump looking like a monkey. Oh wait. Trump is white.
Anyway, I’ll hold off on mook, but I can’t tell Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, what he can and can’t call our president. I was thrilled to get an envelope from him last week with a new comic series called Li’l Trumpy. We will run these each week. Thank you, Griffith. Thank you very much. Hope you guys enjoy it.
Other than that, I haven’t changed my views on this president and administration, but I find the troll comments interesting, along with only a few letters and calls. I find myself thinking how odd some folks assume challenging this presidency means you’re anti-military or now a human who refuses to buy Girl Scout cookies or help old ladies cross the street. It’s hard not to laugh when explaining my family’s military history. But I’m not the one who needs to defend myself. There’s a man with a Brietbart angel on his shoulder who has a lot to defend ahead of him.
Let’s see how Li’l Trumpy proceeds and how he shakes hands with the next visiting dignitary.
— Mari Herreras,
mherreras@tucsonweekly.com
This article appears in Feb 16-22, 2017.
“Teabagger” is yet another shining example of “civil discourse” by left wingers in America. The etymology of the word “teabagging” involves a slang term originating in American homosexual subculture (ref-NSFW) involving a specific (typically humiliating based on context) sexual activity between two homosexual males.Jun 18, 2013″
You must be so proud of your literary skills.
And would you call him a monkey if he were not white? How did tge trolls take over so called journalism? Drop tge hatred, it doesn’t suit you. You have more in common with Rev Wright than you do with Mother Teresa.
Shut up you two idiots
At the dinner table;
Son: Mom, what did you write about today?
Mom: I called our President names and likened American citizens that believe the government should abide by the U.S. Constitution to homosexuals that put their partners scrotum in their mouth.
@Rat T
I’m pretty darn sure that you called “Obammie” a monkey when you were having gin and tonics with close friends and relatives.
Drop the hate and quit reflecting it to make it look like others are practicing it.
Someone who is so “privileged” to be making a nice paycheck should be happy to pay taxes. It’s part of being an American! Unless of course, they’re a selfish whining prick.
By the way, what the hell does tge mean?
What, Again sounds offended.
I guess it’s because he’s a teabagger.
(And a snowflake!)
Mari. 3 weeks ago you accused President Trump of being a racist. I called you on it and asked you what you based it on. Still no answer. Well?
Mari, it seems like you derive your strength from weak men. Name calling is no virtue, but it does seem to have over taken your personality. Rather than continue to post negativity, can you tell us what it is that you do support? And please don’t say social justice. That is a worn out phrase.
Mari,
George w. Bush suffered the monkey memes and drawings long before Obama, as have many other presidents throughout history. This is not to diminish the racial conflations surrounding such imagery, but in politics, comparing a leader to a monkey is not usually a racial or ethnic attack…
Do you really believe the orangutan trump memes or political cartoons are too far off? Oh wait, they already exist! And all it took was a quick googling….
COME THE FUCK ON!
Our country is sliding down a precipitously dangerous path and you are focused on name calling and attacking a mans looks? This is what people do when they either can’t address the real issues or the real issues don’t exist. It is clear that the real issues DO exist, so the problem must be with you.
Fix your shit Mari and stop feeding the trolls!
Meanwhile, as the “erudite” commenters and the editor argue the finer points of personal insults and the new White House administration initiates its witch hunt for those “un-American” leakers, Russia has fielded a new ground-launched, nuclear-capable cruise missile in Europe and is actively patrolling the waters outside of our ballistic missile submarine bases on the west coast, even as North Korea is testing ballistic missiles and China is creating man-made islands to serve as aircraft carriers in the south pacific.
Americans need to get their collective heads out of their collective asses and realize that there are bigger things going on in the world right now. Am I pissed at the current administration — damn right, but the other party didn’t do us any favors either. Frankly, it doesn’t matter.
The corporations have gutted this nations manufacturing abilities and both political parties have created a nation full of whiners who would rather protest in the streets and kill one another than take notice that the old Cold War never really went away — just like racism in America — and that the fat soft America we see today is ripe for the taking.
We have a pro-Russian sitting in the oval office, almost one-third of our Navy’s aircraft are out of service because of spare part issues brought about by political infighting and the average draft-age American couldn’t pass a military physical fitness test to save his/her Big Mac Whopper-eating ass.
I spent more than 20 years defending this nation against “all enemies foreign and domestic” and right now I see more enemies inside the borders of this nation from both major political parties, corporations and special interests destroying us from the inside out.
You want to make America great again — read the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution for yourself and not through the filters of some political hack. Take a trip to Washington D.C this summer and walked the silent hills of Arlington Cemetery, the Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam War memorial and the countless monuments to World War II.
Do whatever it takes to clear this self-loathing, racist-based, media-feed crap from your mind and soul and start working to make AMERICANS great again.
ALL empires eventually become “fat, soft, and ripe for the taking”. Only a fool, ignorant of history and drunk on his own hubris, would believe that ours will last forever.
Fear-mongering is counter-productive, whether it comes from the left, right, or middle. The world is not our enemy–but our nation is increasingly becoming an enemy of the world, as we cling desperately to our fading power.
Chump is a symptom, not the problem. By all means, call him names. It’s an essential responsibility of citizenry–not to mention fun and satisfying–to say that the emperor has no clothes. But rescuing this nation’s democracy goes way beyond attacking Chump.
When Chump is gone, as he soon will be, we must resume the tenuous task of negotiating our own decline. I would prefer the British way–we should aspire to do it politely, humanely, and with as little violence as possible, please.
At the dinner table;
Mom: Son, what did you write about today?
Son: I camped out on yet another TW article with Rat T because neither of us has a life, so we vomited up yet more of our offensive and idiotic comments while simultaneously whining and sniveling about being the real victims in any and every instance because we’re losers with a chip on our shoulders who have nothing better to do with our lives than inflict our misery on anyone who makes the mistake of reading the same article we did.
Congratulations TW, you’ve let your comments section turn into the same cesspool as the ADS comments, thanks in large part to the very same sewer dwellers who infested them…
Mari, I really can’t thank you enough for making my point for me. It’s been 3 weeks now since you wrote how proud you are of your 15 year old son that he knows that President Donald Trump is a racist. A ” fact ” he no doubt learned from his mom. I challenged you on that asking what facts you have to base that on. I’m sure if you had any you would come back at me with both barrels. Instead nothing. Silence. That’s because you don’t have a shred of evidence that Trump’s a racist. Unless it’s something you heard on the View. I hope you’re proud that you filled your young sons head with lies and misinformation.
This is why I love the Left . Confront them with facts and they turn tail and run. You can’t beat me in the arena of ideas. Never have. Never will.
Q.E.D.
Gee, it never crossed your mind that she’s not into the idea of feeding a troll?
Just like Tom Danehy, she’s a lot smarter than you give her credit for.
Why don’t you pick one name and stick with it?
What, like your buddies Rat and What do?
They have posted under a host of other names, yet you brown nose them.
Thank the Lord that you don’t have your nose up my rear.
P.S. — I believe I’ll stick with this name, thanks for the suggestion!
I’ll tell you what. Come around some time when you actually have something intelligent to say, other than calling people you don’t even know trolls. Trolls, you sound like a 5 year old. That’s how old I was when I read about the the 3 billy goats.
The comments I’ve posted are no less intelligent than the commentary you’ve engaged in for quite some time.
Part of being a troll is badgering people when they choose to ignore you. They have better things to do than to feed a troll. It makes you feel like you’re the “winner” even though nobody has even responded to you. In your mind, if they’re not responding, that means you must be correct and they have no facts to debate what you believe to be fact. You feel as if their absence of a response is equal to you having the upper hand. It’s not always that complicated though, sometimes people just don’t want to bother with you. Sometimes people just don’t want to be badgered and they hope that you stop once they ignore you. They even let you wallow in your false sense of superiority, just so they don’t have to engage with you even when they can easily “beat you in the arena of ideas.”
I’ll tell you what, I’m willing to make a deal with you. If you stop participating in trollish activities, I will stop referring to you as a troll. Until then, you reap what you sow.
Was that intelligent enough for you?
“I’ll tell you what. Come around some time when you actually have something intelligent to say”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Irony just keeled over dead in its tracks…
“Now I’ll ask another excruciatingly dumb question that is so pointless, that everyone summarily ignores me. And when they do, I’ll declare victory and pat myself on the back for being so S-M-R-T!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
You can call me a troll “til your socks fall off. For an insignificant troll such as myself you sure spent a lot of time on your comment. If by “trollish activities” you mean expressing my opinion, you can forget it. I have a suggestion for you. Why don’t you sign up with the weekly and use 1 name like I did. Then we can look up your old comments and see if you ever do anything except insult people.
P.S. Thanks, Zippy
Why should I sign up? Your buddies Rat and What haven’t bothered to and you aren’t complaining to them about that.
You got your nose jammed in the rears of plenty of people who post here that haven’t signed up and they have posted under all different kinds of usernames. Rat T didn’t disappear for several weeks, he just decided to post under different names during that time.
Also, I never labeled you as insignificant. A distant 3rd place isn’t bad considering all the trolling that’s happening on the TW site. You just need to work a little harder than Rat and What are, that’s all.
P.S. — I chuckled when you mentioned looking at old comments to see if all that is done is insulting people. That’s some serious “pot calling the kettle black” stuff going on there. Thanks for the laugh dude.
I love you too. Since you obviously know me, who are you?
@CW13
He wasn’t complimenting you
“P.S. Thanks, Zippy”
You’re welcome, nitwit.