I’m sure every generation at one point has felt like they have experienced the craziest time in human history but what we’re dealing with right now surely has to at least be in the top ten.
It’s been said a million times before but it really bears repeating: the next president of the United States is going to be a reality TV star whose only skill that he’s brining to the table is the intangible promise of “deals”, and who has somehow not been told even once in the last 50 years that his toupee and fake tan make him look like a wax caricature of himself.
Obviously, it’s up to you to decide whether that’s a good or a bad thing, but surely we all have to acknowledge that it is deeply, deeply weird. Not only that, this deeply weird development is drawing other weirdnesses into its orbit like some sort of weirdness black hole.
Who could have predicted that Vincent D’Onofrio would get political and invite his trolls to join him in the shower? No one could have predicted that. Literally no one.
2all TROLLS Deuxième acte:
I luv u all.Instead of trollin me i invite u 2bathe w/me.
I take up a lot of room but please feel free 2squeeze n pic.twitter.com/uZUjNM0L6X— Vincent D’Onofrio (@vincentdonofrio) January 18, 2017
Similarly, who could have predicted that this election would see the insufferable darling of the alt-right, Milo Yiannopoulos, suddenly become besties with the wildly unpredictable Azealia Banks? Other than both of them having a predisposition towards being banned from Twitter, they’re about as far apart as any two people you can imagine, and yet, here we are.
It started with Banks posting to Facebook that she wished she could play the inauguration, which I’m sure would delight whoever is madly trying to book acts:
Cue Milo sliding into the replies as smooth as a freshly-oiled snake:
If you’d have told me 10 years ago that these two worlds would ever collide I would have said “I don’t know who either of those people are.” – but I’m astonished now.
It is definitely a time to be alive.
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