[Submitted by Oppo (High Praise!)]
Well, they’ll moan at ya when you’re trying to be so good
They’ll moan at ya just-a like Hollywood
They’ll moan at ya when you’re tryin’ to not be homo
Then they’ll moan at ya if yau put on Perry Como
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get safe zones.
Well, they’ll moan at ya from their tent on Wall Street
They’ll moan at ya in your Senate seat
They’ll moan at ya with a speech from the Floor
They’ll moan at ya when you question Common Core
But I would not feel so half-grown
Everybody must get safe-zones.
They’ll moan at what ya eat at the table
They’ll moan at ya — especially on cable!
They’ll moan at ya when you’re tryin’ to make a buck
They’ll moan at ya and they’ll call you a cuck
Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get safe-zones.
Well, they’ll moan at you and say that it’s the end
Then they’ll moan that temps are rising again
They’ll moan at you if you’re riding in your car
They’ll moan at you if you vet folks from Qatar
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get safe-zones.
Well, they’ll moan at you when you’re walkin’ on a pier
And they’ll free the armed illegal felons to your rear
They’ll moan until they get awards for being so brave
Moanin’ noon and night: no time to shave
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get safe-zones.
Nice beat, you can dance to it. I’d give it a 10/10
Huh.
I just realized how fast and coordinated the media can be.
This morning, Trump tweeted at 6:17 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (according to the time stamp on the tweet) that he has called Don Lemon the “dumbest man on television.”
CNN, of course, looked around for a safe space and provided a statement to the Washington Examiner, before 1:06 p.m.:
. . . to which someone commented:
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Now, I thought that was funny in two ways, because the local Fox news affiliate on the very same morning (7:30 a.m.) carried a story they claimed was going viral about some crying kid complaining about bullies, and how “celebrities and politicians” were sending him messages of support.
“What an odd story,” I thought, reaching for the channel-changer. There was nothing unusual about the kid’s experience, and he was hard to understand what with all the blubbering. It seemed an unusual video clip to be going “viral,” lacking as it did any of the elements usually associated with the term.
On the ABC affiliate that I turned the channel to, they were just introducing the very same clip.
If, out of all the possible videos in the world, different networks independently happen to choose to show the same clip on the same morning, are they justified in calling it by the self-fulfilling title “viral”?
Of course it was merely a coincidence that it was run on different networks on the very morning they could be certain (because of Trump’s earlier Tweet) that there would be a statement by an anti-Trump representative about the horrors of elementary-school bullying — as a negative comment on Trump.
Call me skeptical.
I will bet that — because it is not exactly difficult to predict what behaviors Trump will either speak on or be accused of — that the anti-Trump coalition has pre-packaged “human interest features” on the same topic all ready to roll, to lay the groundwork by encouraging an emotional reaction to the topic on the morning news, before releasing news of the Trump “controversy” later in the day. All under the theory, probably justified, that people will feel outraged, and think they always felt that way, but won’t know exactly why.
Keep an eye out for odd “human interest” pieces that tug at your heart, and impel you to say “things should ‘t be that way,” followed almost immediatey by stories (true or false — it doesn’t matter if they’re later proven false) of Trump doing something on the wrong side of exactly that issue.
Perhaps they are missing the point the rest of us can see, that if a bully is bothering you then you have to stand up and hit back. Trump’s tweets are his hitting back and media gets bopped on the nose and simply doesn’t know how to handle it except by whining, crying and saying, “Mommy, make the mean man stop!” They much prefer Presidents who let them do all the insulting and take it in quiet. They can’t handle getting hit back, twice as hard, as one former President has been quoted as saying.
Had to Google Don Lemon. Apparently he makes a living insulting Trump.
He should feel flattered the President even knows his name.
I know that when I swat at a cloud of gnats, I don’t know Tom from Dick from Harry.
There is joke in there, but damn me if I’m gonna say it.
So, a safe place is what millennials use for dope?
Sad.
Dopes use safe spaces.
I need a safe place to use my dope.