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The Fat Dumb Donny Show
As we approach the long-awaited season finale, what have we learned from four years of the world’s highest-rated reality TV entertainment?
We all know the basic premise: a family of subhuman mental retards, headed by the only man in history stupid enough to lose money running a casino (twice), accidentally strike an electoral gusher and find themselves transported from their modest hillbilly accommodation in Trump Shack to somewhere they’re totally unprepared for: the US White House.
The show then follows the laugh-a-minute antics of this clueless and ethics-free family as they lie, bluster, lie, cheat, lie, whine, lie, and lie some more at every opportunity. While viewers with a measurable IQ found the show tedious and repetitive (not to mention vomit-inducing), Republican voters lapped it up uncritically during its four-year run and were hoping for a new series next year.
Before we talk about what we’ve learned from the show, let’s acknowledge the praise it generated.
Комсомолская правда rates the show at 80% for its unique mix of whining self-pity coupled to never-ending infantile lies. Россия 1, the state-directed top TV news program says, “We love this program! Nothing reveals the rottenness of US capitalism and the stupidity of…
