I can’t remember who it was but I heard someone last week say the only Brit who could legitimately replicate what Trump has done in the US is Clarkson and it chilled me to my fucking bones coz: they’re correct.
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I see he's said "I bought the farm to avoid inheritance tax" was a joke, because he knew the real reason ("I like shooting") would make animal lovers angry.
I dunno, if the only two options an admittedly talented writer can come up with make him sound a twat, chances are... (not new news I know.)
This is the stuff of nightmares. The only comfort I've got at the moment given the state of my native country is that my adopted country isn't as bad. I hope I don't need to add 'yet' to that statement.
It would absolutely fucking work as well. My mum and my brother aren't right wing at all and my mum is VERY politically on it...but they both love Clarkson's Farm and decided that he was "actually a good guy" after watching it.
One difference is that Clarkson attempts to make himself likable by presenting himself as fun, reasonable, and doing admirable things, and saves his most blatant bigotry bullshit for off camera. For Trump, the hatred is the whole show.
Before he weighed in on the tax stuff, I wonder what actual farmers thought of him? My Dad HATES him for changing Top Gear into the format that made it popular. He preferred it when it told you how to fix the car. Wonder if there's anything like that with the farmers? "He using that tractor wrong!"
In 2016 I learned not to believe people when they’d say “it’ll never happen [here]”. But if a Britain does get its own Trump it won’t be Clarkson. His continued horror over Brexit and the people who voted for it is one reason - the fact he’d burned an effigy of Trump before the election is another.
-Controversial
-Charismatic
-Celebrity tv host
-Massive cunt, but well liked and funny
-Very rich
-Very right wing, but not necessarily ideological
-Would promise to "shake up the system" after a mediocre neoliberal admin
Holy shit he ticks EVERY box, how has no one ever thought of this before
FUCK. I literally just thought that this afternoon (and had the same reaction). And Jesus, he's so butthurt about having to pay inheritance tax on the farm he doesn't know how to run that he bought as a tax dodge that he just might do it.
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I don't think he's got the appetite for politics, though, too many restrictions on what he can do & say.
I dunno, if the only two options an admittedly talented writer can come up with make him sound a twat, chances are... (not new news I know.)
Oh no
It's true
Sooz if you accidentally manifest this, I swear to god...
A pleb like any of us would have been arrested and chucked in the clink.
If only Kilroy had stuck it out, he could be emperor now
-Charismatic
-Celebrity tv host
-Massive cunt, but well liked and funny
-Very rich
-Very right wing, but not necessarily ideological
-Would promise to "shake up the system" after a mediocre neoliberal admin
Holy shit he ticks EVERY box, how has no one ever thought of this before
Er...and it's 'Marjorie.'