If you don’t know who Paul Nehlen is, count your blessings. He’s one of several racists and Nazis running this cycle under the GOP party banner. The GOP doesn’t want them. But theirs is the party the white supremacists choose to run with. I wonder why?
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Well, well, it appears that Paul Nehlen (@pnehlen) has been suspended. Only took thousands of complaints and two days to get his openly blatant racism off this platform. pic.twitter.com/MjXL7GCLfT
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 11, 2018
Will Bunch/philly.com:
Donald Trump became president of the United States of Men today
The 1977 skit gently mocked the women’s movement and less gently mocked the patriarchy with a TV talk show called “You’ve Come a Long Way, Buddy” that promoted the work of male painters like Vincent Van Gogh (who “influenced many artists. And he was a man.”) while music written by men, like Beethoven, played in the background, The skit reached its absurdist crescendo when a cigar-smoking John Belushi appears as a character who’s launched a 24-hour rape hotline … for men who’ve committed a rape. Belushi’s “Sam Montgomery” says the hotline gives rapists “an opportunity to talk to someone who understands what he’s gone through” — and it’s completely anonymous.
“Very often, to be known as a rapist is a social stigma, and it can ruin a man’s life.”
That’s a quote from SNL and what was supposed to be biting social satire, in a time when the future absurdity of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, was beyond the ability of comedy writers to imagine.