Political Conventions of Tomorrow
May 24, 2023
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VM writes:
When I watched your linked video “Political Conventions of Tomorrow” it sounded strangely familiar to me. So I looked it up on YT, and I realized that the cartoon ought to be called “Political Conventions of Yesteryear”.
The dialogue is taken directly from the Democratic Socialist convention of August 5, 2019. Here’s a link to a portion of the original video. “What A Democratic Socialist Convention Is Like” – YouTube
When I first watched the video back in 2019, I said to myself, “Well, with this sort of balky procedural nonsense, performed by the rejected and crazy denizens of hell, there is NO WAY these people will ever take over the San Francisco city council, much less the United States government.”
I guess I’ll have to eat my words. So there it is.
On a related note:
Years ago out in California I listened to a couple of morning disc jockeys tell a joke. The joke went like this: “Fellas, here’s a way that you can pick up weird hippy chicks at parties. Simply tell them, ‘I’m a lesbian trapped in the body of a man. And I’m really confused about my sexuality, so I’m hoping that a beautiful young lady like you can help me sort it all out.'”
Even in the mid-’90s things were sufficiently crazy (in Los Angeles anyway) that this truly cracked me up. And the culture was ALMOST weird enough that this gambit might actually work.
Well, when I looked into the whole Brittney Griner nonsense, it turns out that “Brittney” is actually a biological man. (In fact, “Brittney” impregnated his first wife with his own sperm). So, a man named Brittney thought of himself as a woman, and this woman desired females, which made Brittney a “lesbian trapped in a man’s body.” And two women have fallen for it. In fact, he’s fallen for it!
So, the outrageous joke told by the disc jockeys of 1995 is no longer funny, because it has now been accomplished in “real life.” And the outrageous video made by the cartoonists of South Park is but an animated version of what really happened among the Commies of California nearly four years ago.
I confess that I am discouraged. This stuff isn’t even funny anymore. It just makes me tired.
Laura writes:
Ha! Ha! That is such a riot. I can still laugh!
That dialogue did sound brilliantly realistic.
