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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJ.K. Rowling zings trump this morning on Twitter
Link to tweet
J.K. Rowling
?@jk_rowling
I do'nt care what Kids at School call me because they are all Disgusting Fake Losers and my Real Friends go to a diffrent Scool you haven't heard of and they think Im the Coolest and Smartest and we go to parties and I don't have to tell you there Names for this to be True.
(In response to Trump's Tweet:
?Some members of the media are very Angry at the Fake Story in the New York Times. They actually called to complain and apologize - a big step forward. From the day I announced, the Times has been Fake News, and with their disgusting new Board Member, it will only get worse!)
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Here is her Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jeong
malaise
(268,998 posts)AZ8theist
(5,461 posts)malthaussen
(17,195 posts)... she'd make a great candidate. Shame she's British.
-- Mal
malaise
(268,998 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)became US citizen in 2017. So she can be deported if king con gets his way.
malthaussen
(17,195 posts)But the latter has some pretty good points, too.
-- Mal
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Rowling writing as Trump misuses their, and misspells school, and randomly capitalizes.
volstork
(5,401 posts)She's mimicking his poor grammar and spelling.
Girard442
(6,072 posts)volstork
(5,401 posts)katmondoo
(6,457 posts)the do'nt and the huge run-on sentence, she is doing it on purpose.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Smh.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)And a bit wicked.
dchill
(38,493 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Something has happened here in the past couple of years.
The concept of SATIRE seems to be difficult for some to grasp.
Some months ago I had a post hidden because of it...
I mean there is subtle satire, and then there is... this..
JHan
(10,173 posts)In these current times, I think people's satire detectors have been shot to hell.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)I think the "detectors" have been overloaded because so much of what IQ45 says and does leaves one thinking: "Did he REALLY say/do that?"
mythology
(9,527 posts)Satire is hard when what should be absurdly impossible is in fact actually possible. Like say an idiot like Trump being president.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I tell you, occasionally I have seen something that SHOULD be from THE ONION or BOROWITZ or such, and it turns out to be real. THIS is the intent of the russians, in this case, or anyone or group of authoritarians trying to destroy a society and then take over.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)When Obama was POTUS, we didn't have to check a source to know if something was satire or not.
malthaussen
(17,195 posts)With someone like Donald Trump taken seriously, "satire" becomes an even more slippery concept than it was. And it does kind of deflate the effect by labelling it "satire" when written.
But, as a Latin teacher once told his student, "Juvenal doesn't write nonsense," so when a writer of J.K. Rowling's ability appears to make "mistakes," one should probably look a little deeper than the surface. That, I'll grant you, is something that is sorely missed these days.
-- Mal
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)We do need to de-DeVos our education system; it's getting pretty bad.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)n/t
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)She is mocking him. Get it?
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)'''n' stuff,' and 'nuff said!'
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)My pet peeve.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)And notice I did not say current president.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)Boy would I like to see who that was.
I am thinking it is one of those invisible people we hear about or Hannity
Either way not a real person.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,425 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She owned him! He is such a disaster, he probably wouldn't even get it.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)She's always clever and right to the point!
yodermon
(6,143 posts)DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)it means he's important.
Oneironaut
(5,495 posts)Anyone ever notice this? Its especially true when hes talking about women. He brags about people begging him for a job, or forgiveness. Its always people who slighted him - its his sadistic power fantasy. He portrays his enemies as meek subjects who fall to his feet, pleading for his forgiveness.
Trump is a mentally ill, Fascist man. His mindset is fascinating and terrifying at the same time.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Chemisse
(30,811 posts)Clever and very barbed.
cp
(6,628 posts)dflprincess
(28,078 posts)DFW
(54,379 posts)Of course, being literate in the first place almost guarantees being able to write better than Trump in any language.
betsuni
(25,524 posts)ArchTeryx
(221 posts)There's that fine British sense of humour showing. Wit so dry you can make raisins out of grapes from it.
It'll go right over Trump's head, but it certainly didn't go over mine. Bravo, Ms. Rowling. Bravo.