Roseanne tweets better than Trump

[Pat Mustard]

Bunker was a caricature of a dumb, white racist.

Now we have one in the white house.

I've always been so astounded at how many people actually admired that idiot. The guy who played him was clear that you weren't supposed to like him until he had his enlightened moments. I think those are what made the show great.

The english equivalent was Alf Garnett a character created and played solely to lampoon poor people supporting right wing parties which do him down.

For most of the rest of his life Warren Mitchell, the man who played Alf and a lifelong socialist, was on an extended "lads, what the flying fuck".

The moral: There's no caricature so ridiculous the far right will refuse to embrace.

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I think a lot of the problem, is people don't know who Roseanne Barr is outside of what CNN and Twitter tells them.  

Things like in 1994, ABC was trying to keep an episode of Roseanne featuring a Lesbian kiss off the air, and Roseanne told them she'd take her show to another network if they didn't air it.  

That show also addressed domestic abuse, birth control, gay marriage, abortion, worker rights, depression, mental illness, child abuse, interracial relationships, etc..  And not in a hokey cartoon-y way  She is exactly right that she created the platform.  And it wasn't like it is now, where people do 'tough episodes' because they know they will be applauded as progressive heroes.  This was back when it didn't happen.  She was so far ahead of the curve.

But then she got old, and bought into too much conspiracy stuff, which is sad.  And she's always been a comedian who worries about how other people will 'interpret' what she says later, so once people turned on her, it'd be easy to get rid of her.

Essentially, for those of us old enough to remember, she spent her entire adult life championing the right things at great personal cost decades before the general population got on board.  And people are ready to discard her because at 65, she bought into some conspiracies, and likes Trump.

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Regarding criticizing people criticizing her, I think she's probably frustrated that people who've done nothing are saying she's a bad person, when she's got a lifetime of hugely positive contributions that she had to fight tooth and nail for.

I think something happened to her brain - seriously.

Her tweets are totally bizarre, all over the place and she looks totally confused to me. Erratic. Disjointed. Not normal.

Trumpington's disease. It's a neurological malady which causes you to spout far right nonsense.