I like how Ronald Reagan delivers this joke: https://youtu.be/mN3z3eSVG7A?t=131

What a great find. Linked from that video, a great one on ageism in politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97_qDsrqgU

Reagan surely knew to carry himself in a presidential manner.

Crazy to think that today almost every candidate was older than what Reagan was then. Clinton was only 6 months younger.

> Reagan surely knew to carry himself in a presidential manner.

He was a good actor.

> He was a good actor.

At least he wasn't a megalomaniac.

> At least he wasn't a megalomaniac.

Well, most Donald Trump supporters would take offense upon hearing how you characterize their idol. But since most of them are unlikely to be lurking round these parts, I guess that's okay.

Even some of us who aren't Trump supporters are getting tired of the incessant Trump-bashing.

Some of us Trump unsupporters grew up under actual totalitarian regimes and are extremely sensitive to certain types of behavior at the top of government. Canaries in a coal mine, if you will.

Funnily enough I never assigned "megalomaniac" to a certain name; it appears it was just assumed I was talking about Trump.

That being what it is, seeing it as an outsider to the US, the glove certainly appears to fit. If good people can't stand up to this sort of behaviour, and call it for what it is, I am rather worried.

What's bark?

epic

I love this one:

What would happen if the desert became a socialist country? Nothing for a while, and then there would be a sand shortage.

A variation: What's the shop that never has empty shelves in a socialist country?

The shelf shop.

A grain shortage, even.

I wonder: in today's political climate, would saying this joke, substituting "Donald Trump" for "Ronald Regan", get you arrested by the US Secret Service and/or KGB this time round? ;-)

Have you seen the news coverage of the protests and rioting in the US? Every other has a sign that says, "Fuck Trump"

Sorry, I don't think there's any evidence of rioting in the US recently.

This is a classic example of how tyranny changes a nation's sense of humour. This joke could just as well have been made under Stalin.

What does this look like https://pibillwarner.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/black-bloc-...

Like this:

http://www.spygun.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/millbank-win...

More photographers than rioters, and around the corner 30,000 people marching peacefully.

Reported like this:

https://psupopculture.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/british-st...

He was just joking around, he memed you.

> he memed you

No. This has to stop. For the love of all that is good and holy this has to be the line in the sand that we do not cross. This is too much for the English language to take and still survive.

Meme cannot be a verb.

>> Meme cannot be a verb.

Yeah, stop verbing your nouns, dammit.

Whenever I get upset about this, I have myself a run. ;)

Yeah, nobody ever does that. Go ahead, google it.

What about at Berkeley?

Here you go:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AMBY3FpH8VA

You forgot the /s

And that is the funny part of the joke for me, what would Vladimir say if you told him you didn't want Donald running the country. :-)

There's a modern one on that (circulated in Russia pre-US election):

"Today, violent clashes between Clinton and Trump supporters occurred at Red Square and Manezhnaya. Moscow police had to resort to tear gas and water cannons"

(Disclaimer: I totally don't work for the CIA).