Andy Borowitz (humorist) says Donald Trump was named Person of the Year by Popular Sociopath.
For the third year in a row, Donald J. Trump has been named Person of the Year by the magazine Popular Sociopath, the publication announced on Thursday.
“Once a year, we at Popular Sociopath recognize the person who best epitomizes sociopathic-personality disorder, which manifests in antisocial behavior and a total absence of conscience and concern for others,” Harland Dorrinson, the magazine’s editor, said. “We are delighted to bestow this honor, once again, on Donald J. Trump.”
Dorrinson said that Trump bested a daunting roster of competitors for the title, including the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell; the Fox News host Tucker Carlson; and Trump’s own son Donald J. Trump, Jr.
“Honestly, though, it wasn’t close,” the editor said.
When asked, the parody said, Trump said he was proud to beat out his son.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I’m starting to think 40% of the country is sociopathic. The good news is that 60% aren’t.
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“When asked if he had reached out to his son since surpassing him for the magazine’s honor, Trump told reporters, “Why would I do that? I don’t care what he thinks or feels.”
David Coleman agrees.
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LOL
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It’s getting harder and harder to embrace the humor in what is the totally dysfunctional regime of Trump and his sycophants. I am scared.
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Humor is helpful. So is art.
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I know humor is helpful. Lord knows I have used it to get through some pretty humorless situations, but when we are staring at the possible destruction of our system of government, I am finding it harder to laugh. I cannot understand how so many people can be so willfully blind to the danger.
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I knew I shouldn’t have let my subscription to “Popular Sociopath” lapse. I will renew in my neighbor’s name (using his credit card number, which I overheard when he was ordering a pizza the other day) and remove the magazine from his mailbox each month when it arrives.
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LMAO!!!!
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Ditto!
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I LOVE Borowitz.
This pile of crap comes from the WH.
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President Donald J. Trump Is Committed to Supporting Working Families
ECONOMY & JOBS Issued on: December 12, 2019
LIFTING UP FAMILIES:
President Trump’s pro-growth policies are helping families across the country to prosper.President Trump’s pro-growth policies have ignited an economic resurgence, leading to more opportunity and bigger paychecks for workers and their families.
President Trump’s historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes for American families and implemented reforms to help families get ahead.
The President’s historic tax reforms doubled the child tax credit benefitting nearly 40 million American families with an average of over $2,200 dollars in 2019.
The President’s legislation created a new $500 tax credit for dependents age 17 or older.
Millions of workers gained bonuses, wage increases, and increased benefits for their families following the signing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
In 2018 alone, nearly 300,000 American families were lifted out of poverty. Over 600,000 children being raised by single mothers were lifted out of poverty in 2018.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-committed-supporting-working-families/?utm_source=link
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Here’s what the CBO says about that: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-tax-cut-effects-20190529-story.html
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I’m with you, speduktr. The reality is the satire is the reality.
I have just about stopped watching Colbert’s & Meyers’ opening monologues.
It’s reality tv. Just as frightening as the news. (& I just got a news bulletin that it’s Boris Johnson in Britain…so they’ve become just as messed up as us.)
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In other news:
I guess it’s good to be a prince of the New Feudal Order, no matter how ignorant and sleazy and creepy and morally stunted you are.
“That’s beautiful.”
“Yeah, huh. Let’s kill it. Huh huh.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/12/donald-trump-jr-mongolia-hunting-trip
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The late great poet and critic Randall Jarrell wrote that ours is a time when parody has become almost impossible because our “great figures” parody themselves so successfully. https://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/trump-rally/
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What would Randall Jarrell say now?
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Or Mencken. Or Twain. One can only imagine.
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The votes of Republican Representatives today, in the House Judiciary Committee, showed those who watched what preservation of white, conservative, male entitlement in a colonialist society looks like- the privileged believe they can do whatever they want to the vulnerable.
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After yesterday’s vote in the UK, once again, look at how spot on and prescient Andy Borowitz’s insights were in June 2016: “British Lose Right to Claim That Americans Are Dumber”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber
So sad…
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Agreed, Reteach, &, in our Chicago paper today, there was such a goofy picture of The Boris.
In retrospect, even having agreed w/speduktr RE: what passes as humor these days. there’s no way not to love Andy Borowitz–as so many of his others, this one was pure genius. Gave me a much-needed, good laugh.
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The corporate media is now working for Biden or Buttigieg. Both have received big donations from corporate sponsors and would be moderate. Anything is better than Trump, but why settle of ‘anything’?
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Trump need fear only one Democrat: Warren Sanders | Robert Reich
The two senators, working for everyday Americans, are streets ahead of any establishment candidate
There aren’t 20 Senate Republicans with enough integrity to remove the most corrupt president in American history, so we’re going to have to get rid of Trump the old-fashioned way – by electing a Democrat next 3 November.
That Democrat will be Warren Sanders.
Although there are differences between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, I’m putting them together for the purpose of making a simple point.
These two have most of the grassroots energy in the 2020 campaign, most of the enthusiasm and most of the ideas critical for America’s future.
Together, they lead Joe Biden and every other so-called moderate Democrat by a wide margin in all polls.
That’s because the real political divide in America today is establishment versus anti-establishment – the comparatively few at the top who have siphoned off much of the wealth of the nation versus everyone else whose wages and prospects have gone nowhere.
Warren and Sanders know the system is rigged and that economic and political power must be reallocated from a corporate-Wall Street elite to the vast majority.
This is why both Warren and Sanders are hated by the Democratic establishment…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/15/donald-trump-democrats-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders?CMP=share_btn_link
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