Courtesy of WaPo:
Tina Fey is fuming about last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, home to her alma mater, the University of Virginia.
In response, the former “Saturday Night Live” comedian and writer is spearheading a movement: “sheetcaking.”
In a surprise appearance on SNL’s “Weekend Update: Summer Edition” Thursday night, Fey urged Americans not to get into screaming matches with neo-Nazis. Instead, she said, “order a cake with the American flag on it … and just eat it.”
She proceeded to stuff her face with sheet cake as she bashed white supremacists, President Trump, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and conservative pundit Ann Coulter (“yard-sale Barbie”).
With her mouth full of frosting, she seemed to capture the frustration of many Americans in the past week. Almost immediately, the hashtags “#sheetcakemovement” and “#sheetcaking” began circulating on social media.
I had a couple of thoughts while watching this genius at work last night.
First, why doesn't this woman have her own show right now?
Second, I totally feel everything that she was expressing. Totally.
And third, is that not the moistest cake you have ever seen?
I don't even usually like cake, and she was eating it like a rabid wolverine, and yet I still wanted some of it. Really bad.
So thank you Tina Fey for channeling all of our emotions to eloquently.
And thank you for the extra three pounds I am definitely going to gain when I sit down to eat my own entire sheetcake.
There are those who are lamenting Tina Fey's advice to avoid mixing with the alt-righties/neo-Nazis/white supremacists when they strut through the streets of our cities. I actually agree with her. Stage a thoughtful, peaceful march or vigil on the following days. Let the crazies make fools of themselves and behave like the monsters they are. Why give Trump the opportunity to parade his false equivalences? The rest of us have better things to do - like taking care of one another and eating cake! Fey put the whole white supremacist anger-thing in its proper place in a few minutes.
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Yeh, what if they marched and nobody paid any attention. They are like Trump: need the adulation, need the attention to the make them feel alive; without it they are empty and soulless.
DeleteI agree. If you watch the vice video, they clearly are itching for a fight.
DeleteIf we avoid the fringe of both sides then we'll be okay. Don't forget those Antifa people showed up in Berkley and Portland and threw molotov cocktails and broke windows. We don't want to be associated with that either. They too seem to show up itching for a confrontation, lets all be better than the alt right AND the alt left.
DeletePosobiec (Mr. Pizzagate) held a march in Seattle and only 7 people showed up.
Deletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seattle-lenin-protest-jack-posobiec_us_59955bb3e4b0acc593e53b45
Twitter was scathing in humiliating him.
I think ridicule and humiliation are the best weapons. These people have no sense of humor and can't take a joke at their expense. As thin skinned as their Führer.
Really? When? Love it that Seattleites humiliate these fools ala Alex Jones today.
DeleteI am at the 'dip-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich' stage and am happy to have this outlet for my rage and disgust with 45* and his minions.
ReplyDeleteI totally felt it as Tina Fey gorged on cake and then cake with grilled cheese!
DeleteBeaglemom
I haven't gotten to sheet cake yet. I'm still on Hagen Daz ice cream bars. I might move up to brownies before I hit the sheet cake.
DeleteThat was fun comedy relief.
ReplyDeleteMilitary leaders have hastened to denounce racism amid the furor over President Donald Trump’s defense of white supremacists who violently rallied last week around a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia.
ReplyDeleteBut they are also presiding over their own controversial symbols of the Confederacy — including 10 Army bases named for generals who commanded armies of the slave-holding South during the Civil War, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas and Fort Rucker in Alabama.
On Friday, a group of mostly African-American Democrats in the House proposed legislation that would require the defense secretary to rename any military property “that is currently named after any individual who took up arms against the United States during the American Civil War or any individual or entity that supported such efforts." They argued that the names undermine the military's commitment to American values of “freedom, equality, and democratic governance."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/18/military-bases-confederate-names-241799
Is it just me, or is naming our military bases for LOSERS and seditionists seem like a bad idea?
DeleteYou'd think we had enough AMERICAN heroes we'd run out of things to name. And let's not just stick to white me or even just men. Add a few women in there too.
Steve Bannon Takes His Street Fight Outside
ReplyDeleteTrump didn’t personally fire his volatile chief strategist—but he might suffer the consequences.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-leaves-white-house-215503
And the show continues. While Rome burns. Winter is coming...
Delete“From a perch on the outside, Bannon reasoned, he could launch attacks on GOP leaders, stir up primary challenges, and rile conservative supporters — ‘going medieval,’ he has said — much as Breitbart did against former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Bannon can also pressure the White House to allowing a government shutdown if Trump doesn’t get what he wants in a funding bill.”
ReplyDeleteNot content, it seems, to simply undermine what the United States stands for, Bannon is also going to make sure the Republican Party is in disarray. “Such a barrage, should it materialize, would further exacerbate tensions that are deeply dividing Republicans during the Trump era.”
Conservatives love drama and see themselves cast as the hero of a Western meets Armageddon, so prepare yourselves for “Bannon ‘da barbarian.”
Other dramatic comments from “friends” of Bannon today included, “Steve is now unchained,” “Winter is here” and “#WAR”. So that’s fun.
Apparently up until now, including the white supremacy and nastiness to women, has been “Bannon ‘da Civilized”.
Who knew.
This was the President’s Chief Strategist, so while these threats seem adolescent and silly, they are also indicative of the level at which our President most comfortably operates.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/18/preparing-medieval-bannon-tells-friends-ready-bannon-da-barbarian.html
If we were to go Medieval, Bannon would be taken out in the dead of night, castrated, drawn and quartered and hung in the down square, then his head put on a pike for all to see as a lesson to others that might follow in his footsteps.
DeleteMedieval is the last thing Bannon should be talking about.
Another great post! I'm still able to laugh so thank you Gryphen and Tina Fey!!
ReplyDeleteConfederate Monuments Are Coming Down Across the United States. Here’s a List.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-removed.html
Everything will be so much different now, what a relief.
DeleteI remember that Stone Mountain one. It was completed the year I graduated high school.
DeletePerhaps all of the confederate statues should be gathered together and put at Stone Mountain to make it a living history park. Teaching the context and that the south LOST THE WAR. A concept that seems to be difficult for so many to grasp.
The state has considered topping the dome with a large freedom bell for Martin Luther King Jr's speech.
"On October 11, 2015, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the park is considering a proposal of a permanent "Freedom Bell" honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and the line "Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia" as part of King's "I Have A Dream" speech of 1963.[20] The proposed monument is inspired by a bell-ringing ceremony held in 2013 honoring the 50th anniversary of King's speech."
Seems to me the best "context" for the removed statues would be to stock them all at Stone Mountain with a carved frieze that can't be removed without a vote of the Georgia legislature, which isn't going to happen.
So line them all up for a one stop history lesson. But you better get the history right.
The south LOST 150 years ago. Get over it already.
Bannon Is 'Going Nuclear'
ReplyDelete“He’s going nuclear,” said another friend. “You have no idea. This is gonna be really fucking bad.”
Friends say the ousted White House chief strategist has a range of ways to make mischief—from returning to Breitbart, to helming an outside group, to leaking dirt about rivals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/bannon-unleashed/537381/
Perhaps good he and Trump eat each other alive. Great to know Kelly and Kushner steer the Trump Titanic (snark).
DeleteIt's frequently been speculated that Trump would cross the wrong white house "insider" and he or she would spill guts. I have a feeling that Bannon is going to be that person.
Delete@3:07 "Perhaps he and Trump eat each other alive." In front of USa all.
DeleteBurp,
Far'T'
Winning.
Please let him have a copy of the PeePee tape!
DeleteThe Week When 'President' Trump Resigned
ReplyDelete... By those measures, it’s indisputable that his presidency ended in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday afternoon, when he chose — yes, chose — to litigate rather than lead, to attend to his wounded pride instead of his wounded nation and to debate the supposed fine points of white supremacy.
He abdicated his responsibilities so thoroughly and recklessly that it amounted to a letter of resignation. Then he whored for his Virginia winery on the way out the door.
Trump knew full well what he should have done, because he’d done it — grudgingly and badly — only a day earlier. But it left him feeling countermanded, corrected, submissive and weak, and those emotions just won’t do for an ego as needy and skin as thin as his. So he put id before country and lashed out, in a manner so patently wrong and transcendently ruinous that TV news shows had to go begging for Republican lawmakers to defend or even try to explain what he’d said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/opinion/sunday/president-trump-resignation.html
I was reading about this new thing called the trump ten. It's an actual thing where people have put on weight stress eating since orange Hitler became president.
ReplyDeleteWow, it must be terrible to be that weak and to lack discipline.
DeleteQuite right, 5:27. Trump is hideously overweight and completely lacking in self-awareness regarding his horrid hair and pitifully inadequate efforts to mask his girth with a scotch-taped tie.
DeleteThanks for slut-shaming him for the rest of us.
Wild Tortoise
Bannon rushes to dangerous new far-right propaganda site to spin his firing
ReplyDeleteLook at who Steven Bannon contacted immediately after his White House ouster as he moved to create a narrative. It wasn't Fox News.
http://shareblue.com/bannon-rushes-to-dangerous-new-far-right-propaganda-site-to-spin-his-firing/
Schmidt went on to accuse the GOP of entering in an unholy alliance with what he termed the “nationalist Trump party.” And Schmidt says it’s an alliance from which the party must promptly break away.
ReplyDelete“There was a lot of hoodwinks and dog whistles during this disgusting campaign in 2016 that have now given way to foghorns and loud speakers,” Schmidt said. “What we saw this weekend with this racist rejoicing with the president’s false moral equivalency is this: He’s fused the white nationalist movement as a credible force in American politics with neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan. And the Republican Party cannot exist in coalition with these groups.”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/steve-schmidt-rips-gop-for-complicit-silence-on-trump-dog-whistles-have-given-way-to-loudspeakers/
For me Schmidt has been the articulate sane voice of reason.
DeleteHe almost gave us Sarah Palin. He may realize what that would have been and he knows it was the gateway to Trump. He feels guilt yet still won't be truthful about what all he knows.
DeleteI am glad he is channeling his energy into Trump now. He has been articulate and sane. He fears this wave of lunatics are going to take over the Republican party. I hope it is not too late. But you see very little of the Republicans that aren't cowering.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/after-charlottesville-donald-trump-reveals-his-true-face-a-1163466.html
ReplyDelete"U.S. President Donald Trump is a racist and a hate preacher. It's time to stop trivializing the immense damage he is causing." Fred Trump raised his son Donald to believe that he belonged to a white elite."
Delete"man who campaigned under the slogan "Make America Great Again" -- in which "great again" means a social Darwinist U.S. where American-born locals rule over immigrants, heterosexuals over homosexuals, whites over blacks and men over women."{Note who's last}""Trump tests ideas on Twitter and then he repeats and repeats them so often to the point that they have been learned," says German cognitive scientist and linguist Elisabeth Wehling, who is currently at the University of California in Berkeley"The White House is supposed to be home to America's moral compass. Instead, though, it currently houses the country's chauvinist-in-chief."
"he aim of racist rhetoric is to bring taboos back into the sphere of "legitimate debate," placing racism on the same footing as tolerance. Thesis and antithesis. Just an expression of opinion. The U.S. is a free country."Tolerance, empathy, kindness and diversity of opinion are all disparaged as political correctness. It becomes OK to say anything else, and if you can say it, it becomes easier to justify violence."
I certainly do not know of any Democrats who "disparage" "tolerance, empathy, kindness and diversity of opinion." Certainly, President Obama did not "disparage" them.
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Yep. Cake walk for saturday
ReplyDeleteI, personally, have been sampling the culinary offerings of various Asian restaurants in our area and quietly weeping into their bounty. Put on five pounds already. The primal scream of Fey into that cake said it all for me...although Heather Heyer's mom was stunningly eloquent at her eulogy.
ReplyDeleteOkay. This is pretty funny too.
ReplyDeleteHair was a political statement musical of the 60s.
James Corden is nutty enough to stage the musical in a crosswalk during the red lights.
Lin-Manual is just a good sport having some fun.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lin-manuel-miranda-james-corden_us_59970bb4e4b01f6e801e490a
And I love Lin-Manuel's statement about "they told me a brown eyed Puerto Rican couldn't play Hamilton...."
Hilarity ensues.
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ReplyDeleteGryph, Tina fey is currently working on Mean Girls the Musical, it's supposed to open on Broadway next season. She's also the writer/producer for her Netflix show "Kimmy Schmidt" and a new sitcom for NBC called Good News. So she's a little too busy to star in a TV show right now.
ReplyDeleteI have an idea-the day Trump resigns or is arrested (whatever happens first), we all order cake either for that day (if happens in the morning or otherwise the next day).
ReplyDeleteYou have to order cakes several days in advance.
DeleteBut you can make one in just a few hours. Sheet cakes are easy and fast. Once they are cool (the hardest part is the wait) you ice them, put on a few sprinkles and you're done. Even if he resigns at 5pm you can have cake by the time the prime time shows come on. Well, before Colbert.
If the timing is right, we could all be eating cake during Weekend Update on Thursday Night.
Actually, Haagen Daz or Breyer's ice cream makes a great substitute. I like the chocolate, myself.
ReplyDeleteI disagree that marching Nazis should be ignored. They might take that as a sign of fear. But I do hope that in cities across the nation, clowns will show up and make fun of them.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion/how-to-make-fun-of-nazis.html?_r=0
Not ignored.
DeleteBut perhaps observed with various fingers raised and laugh and point as they go by. Then turn your backs.
Humiliation and ridicule. Most powerful tools.