Randy Rainbow: Suckers for the Orange One

By dianeravitch

October 20, 2019 //

Randy Rainbow explains why people vote for a crazy racist who takes away their healthcare and destroys the environment,

Categories Education Reform

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Alice M Flarend says:

October 20, 2019 at 1:10 pm

THANK YOU for introducing me to Randy Rainbow!!! He gives me hope, especially when I have seen Rand Rainbos Tshirts on people at local sprting events.

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Christine Langhoff says:

October 20, 2019 at 1:19 pm

Here’s another wonderful video, riffing on Cyndi Lauper; we gotta keep laughing!

OMG How did I miss this👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼@realDonaldTrump a song just for you! Please feel free to use at your hate rallies. #ImpeachmentTaskForce pic.twitter.com/Wf6q6z4l2K

— Skyleigh Heinen-Uhrich (@Sky_Lee_1) October 16, 2019

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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  October 20, 2019 at 2:27 pm
  
  Oh Lord. Spot on.
  
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- carolmalaysia says:
  
  October 21, 2019 at 11:19 am
  
  LOVED it. Thanks. I especially liked seeing the doors of prison closing on him.
  
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Iorio, Sharon says:

October 20, 2019 at 1:24 pm

Diane, Take the high road. Donât stoop so low as to endorse someone on your site who presents as Trumpâs alter ego. Reasoned, diplomatic, and factual responses without name calling, such a âbitchâ which Randy does, is just not right for a nationally known supporter of high quality public education. Love you but stay on the straight and narrow please.

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- dienne77 says:
  
  October 20, 2019 at 1:45 pm
  
  Indeed. The line about having phone sex with Sean Hannity – another example of homophobia being wrong, unless it’s in the service of Trump bashing.
  
  Incidentally, Randy better hope Trump gets re-elected or else his career is over. You know he’s not going to turn that wit on a Democratic president.
  
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  - Bob Shepherd says:
    
    October 20, 2019 at 1:46 pm
    
    Was Bill Maher’s career over when George Bush, Jr., was no longer in office? No.
    
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  - dianeravitch says:
    
    October 20, 2019 at 2:32 pm
    
    Randy Rainbow will never run out of targets for satire.
    
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  - Bob Shepherd says:
    
    October 20, 2019 at 3:10 pm
    
    I must say that I, too, questioned the phone sex with Hannity line. Too meta and easily misconstrued as homophobic even when Randy Rainbow is so obviously NOT homophobic. It’s a lapse in the writing, but nonetheless, Rainbow is quite funny, and we need to laugh at this stuff.
    
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  - dianeravitch says:
    
    October 20, 2019 at 3:58 pm
    
    As an openly gay man, Randy Rainbow has license to make jokes about homosexuality.
    
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  - NYC public school parent says:
    
    October 20, 2019 at 4:03 pm
    
    dienne77,
    
    Randy Rainbow is gay. Therefore HE can make those kinds of jokes.
    That does not mean that other people can make those kinds of jokes.
    
    It is not “racist” if an African-American says a word that other people should not say because it is clearly racist when people who are not African-American use it.
    
    It’s not “another example of homophobia being wrong, unless it’s in the service of Trump bashing”. I don’t understand why you are looking for a reason to attack a Trump critic. Someone who is not gay cannot say that. But someone who is can. And you attacking someone who is gay and demonizing him as homophobic seems questionable. Not to mention your gratuitous attack on Randy’s career and Randy himself as if Randy would put his own career over his desire to do what is best for the country by electing a Democrat – any Democrat – instead of Trump. The people who insist that most – or all – Democrats are just as bad as Trump are the ones who are selfishly putting their own desires over the country’s.
    
    Randy isn’t selfish and he isn’t concerned more about himself than other people and that’s why he would vote for any Democrat against Trump.
    
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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  October 20, 2019 at 2:35 pm
  
  Thank you, Diane, for sharing these delightful pieces. Laughing at this stuff helps. And it plays an important role. Social sanction, positive and negative, is extremely powerful for regulating behavior and effecting change.
  
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- Joe Jersey says:
  
  October 20, 2019 at 4:52 pm
  
  What’s a “Donât stoop?” Is that where you eat your Donâts?
  Just kidding. Thank goodness Diane occasionally introduces humor and satire in order to not go completely insane in this age of Trump, Giuliani, Stephen Miller, Hannity, Limbaugh, DeVos and the Koch brothers. Randy Rainbow is very clever, creative and humorous, to say the least. Just enjoy.
  
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Bob Shepherd says:

October 20, 2019 at 2:05 pm

Here’s a question: suppose that Moscow Mitch McConnell doesn’t wise up and seize the opportunity to dump Trump and put a viable Republican candidate in time for 2020.

Will Trump’s handlers allow him to debate? Or will he be the first Presidential candidate to refuse to do so?

The Trump trainer/handlers definitely have a Scylla and Charybdis to navigate. On the one hand, given Jabba the Trump’s current extreme cognitive and emotional deterioration, there is no way the man could get through even a couple debates without saying things so insane as to sink any chances he has of reelection. That must be clear to everyone around the “man.” In a debate, IQ45 in his current devolution wouldn’t be able simply to read (to the extent that he can read) prepared comments written by that reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister Stephen Miller. There would be no way to keep him on script (Ronnie Reagan could at least memorize his lines and was willing to repeat them.) On the other hand, if Jabba simply refuses to debate, as he refused to release his taxes, almost everyone will see that this is because he simply isn’t up to it. That will be SOOOOO obvious. What do you think Trump handlers are going to do?

Perhaps they will come up with some excuse. Lord knows that they’ve spent Trump’s whole presidency doing that. Carter refused to debate if Anderson was present, and Reagan refused to debate without Anderson because he hoped that Anderson would split the Democratic vote. So, the first debate was between Anderson and Reagan. Even if Gabbard runs as a third-party candidate, it doesn’t seem likely that the Democratic nominee would refuse to participate in a three-way debate.

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Bob Shepherd says:

October 20, 2019 at 2:40 pm

Ditzy DeVoid and IQ45, Two Songs

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Bob Shepherd says:

October 20, 2019 at 2:43 pm

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-teen-rape-allegation-national-enquirer-ronan-farrow-jane-doe-1465652?fbclid=IwAR1S_l49M8ZdaJppgUbcK3aynnTT6Cv19WvOaax4H6NLlF8Dc8mb-Hl8t_Y

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charlesj says:

October 20, 2019 at 3:34 pm

Much needed laugh, thanks Dianne. Although I am worried that once again education reform is receiving little to no attention from mainstream media. Only a few candidates have released their plans. Some leading candidates have not. There seems to be no pressure from education reformists to change this. I admire your work but in the last month I have read the majority of your posts, and while most are on education, none talk about policy positions from the democratic field.

Whats the plan, we wait, wait and wait like we did in 2016. Is anyone else concerned with this? I have done my part and have even visited some campaign offices. Diane, I hope you have done the same or at the very least made some calls.
My candidate Warren is yet to give any hint of what she will fight for, come 2020.

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- dianeravitch says:
  
  October 20, 2019 at 3:57 pm
  
  Charles,
  
  I have posted many times about the silence of most Democratic candidates about education issues, especially Warren. Just a few days ago, I posted an article by Jan Resseger about that deafening silence.
  
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Bob Shepherd says:

October 21, 2019 at 4:37 am

Why did Trump pull out of Northern Syria? Because Trump, Vlad’s Asset Orange, is playing for the other team. This is treason.

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carolmalaysia says:

October 21, 2019 at 11:06 am

This article was just put out by the WH. Poor innocent Trump who never does anything wrong. In an impeachment hearing the Repubs will get a chance to speak out. This is still in the inquiry stage.
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Rep. Andy Biggs: The Pelosi-Schiff impeachment farce has no respect for due process
by Rep. Andy Biggs
| October 18, 2019 12:00 AM

Earlier this week, Rep. Denny Heck, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters that Republicans “are darn lucky these [hearings/depositions] weren’t public.”

Implication: The information coming out is horrifically damaging to President Trump.

Reality: If the information was truly damaging to Trump, Democrats would hold open hearings and would have already released transcripts of the testimonies.

Trump did not ask the Ukrainian president to investigate a political opponent. The Trump administration has released the transcript of the telephone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the “whistleblower” complaint, the accompanying letter from the Intelligence Community inspector general, the Office of Legal Counsel’s legal brief, and correspondence with Australian officials.

The Trump administration will certainly provide additional evidence and witnesses in an open and transparent process, but why should they cooperate when the fix is in?

Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is holding these closed-door meetings in a top-security room in the basement of the Capitol. He is doing this to keep the public and the president in the dark…

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/rep-andy-biggs-the-pelosi-schiff-impeachment-farce-has-no-respect-for-due-process

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carolmalaysia says:

October 21, 2019 at 11:47 am

If you click on the link, you’ll be able to hear Baldwin’s latest attack on the Orange Buffoon.
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SNL Season 45 Premiere: Trump Freaks Out at Rudy Giuliani Over Impeachment

Yes, Alec Baldwin’s Trump returned for the opening monologue to the late-night sketch show. The actor told former SNL-er Kevin Nealon he would sit in his dressing room and think, ‘I hope a meteor hits this building and kills me because I don’t want to do this ever again.’

And, despite Alec Baldwin’s recent confession that he absolutely “hates” playing Donald Trump on the late-night sketch show, the hot-headed actor returned to don the blonde wig and orange face paint for the night’s opening monologue—which saw the president frantically calling his confidantes to complain about the Democrats’ ongoing impeachment inquiry, triggered by the recent Ukraine whistleblower scandal.

He began by calling Rudy Giuliani (played by the inimitable Kate McKinnon), his personal lawyer/consigliere, who’s also been implicated in the scandal.

“What do you mean what’s new, Rudy? I’m being impeached! It’s the greatest presidential harassment of all-time—I would know. I’m like the president of harassment,” shouted Trump.

“You gotta relax, Mr. Trump. We got nothing to worry about. Nobody’s going to find out about our illegal side-dealings with the Ukraine, or how we tried to cover up those side-dealings, or how we tried to cover up the cover-up,” offered Giuliani, before the two realized that the former mayor of New York City was actually on CNN…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/snl-season-45-premiere-trump-freaks-out-at-rudy-giuliani-over-impeachment?source=email&via=desktop

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carolmalaysia says:

October 21, 2019 at 2:22 pm

This comes from The Onion:

Mark Zuckerberg Argues High Taxes On Wealthy Could Stifle Innovation In Human Suffering

“If there’s anything that the rise of Silicon Valley has taught us, it’s that in order to make trailblazing breakthroughs in cruelty and technological oppression, we need to empower the private sector,” said Zuckerberg, adding that without the promise of being able to fund and ultimately make money off of his inventions, he would have never worked to erode civil liberties, invade people’s privacy on a grand scale, and manipulate the democratic process by creating Facebook. “If we want the kind of brutal, intrusive solutions that the market can provide, we can’t punish those who have risen to the top based on their genius at perpetuating human suffering. Take the medical industry for example—sure, government agencies and public-sector grants can help researchers develop lifesaving medicines, but only visionaries driven by the promise of unimaginable wealth can come up with ingenious ways to drive people into cycles of addiction or massive medical debt. If we stifle the creative potential of our country’s most successful business people, think of all the devastation and daily compromises on people’s lives that we may never discover.”…

https://www.theonion.com/mark-zuckerberg-argues-high-taxes-on-wealthy-could-stif-1839230597%3Futm_medium=sharefromsite%26utm_source=_email&utm_campaign=bottom

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- dianeravitch says:
  
  October 21, 2019 at 2:40 pm
  
  Hilarious!
  
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