First, it was recognizing that conservative Republicans are “weird,” out of touch with common values. Now he has absolutely perfectly pegged Elon Musk: he’s a dipshit.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz on Tuesday joked that Elon Musk is Trump’s real “running mate,” and mocked him for jumping “like a dipshit” on stage with Donald Trump earlier this month.
“I’m going to talk about his running mate,” Walz said during a campaign rally in Wisconsin. “His running mate Elon Musk.”
“Look, Elon’s on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dipshit on these things,” the Minnesota governor said. “You know it.”
Oh man, that brought back memories of my father, a bedrock union man and staunch Democrat, because that was one of his favorite words to describe clowns lacking in dignity and publicly making an ass of themselves. That’s Musk in a single word, a dipshit.
Well, I can think of a few ruder words to also accurately describe Musk plus a somewhat more polite Aussie version – dropkick.
Douche and its variants also suits the Elongated Muskrat very well.
“Dipshit,” just like all those great expressions of wisdom from my grandparents directed at morons: “They can dish it out but they can’t take it”; “Monkey see, monkey do”; “What the hell is wrong with those people?”; “They just gotta make a federal case out of it, don’t they?”
It’s a fitting description of Elon, although I could think of a few other words that aren’t heard in public often. While this may represent to some how the level of public discourse has declined, it’s far superior to a former president’s bizarre babbling about a deceased golf pro’s dong and how impressed other golfers were with it.
@StevoR. Polite? The two types of kick in Australian Rules football are drop kick and punt. Think rhyming slang.
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Yup, total dispshit.
Dipshit is a succinct description of that asshole.
@ wearsbellsonlegs : “Polite? The two types of kick in Australian Rules football are drop kick and punt. Think rhyming slang.
Umm, not a big fan of AFL footy (to be slightly tautologous) but there’s definitley more than just tow types of kicks :
Source : https://anybodysfan.com/afl-kick-types-guide/
From Spitting Image:
Football terms in Italian.
Il Bastardo: The referee.
Kicko ballo: A fair tackle when the bastardo isn’t watching.
Australian golf should have the option to tackle rival golfers, or launch balls directly at them. The players would be wearing protective gear compareable with that used in American Football.
Baseball: MAD magazine believed the hybrid sport Basebrawl would be a greater TV sport. For instance, it should be allowed to launch a cannon ball just to see the fun when the opposing team tries to catch it with their hands.
StevoR and wearsbellsonlegs:
As someone who does follow Aussie Rules, I can assure you that dropkick is not an insult because of rhyming slang. Calling someone a dropkick is calling them useless, usually after they’ve repeatedly screwed up tasks that should have been straightforward. It belongs in the same rough category as ‘couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery.’ (A piss-up is a get-together where everyone gets drunk, for non-Australian readers.) We have plenty of other slang for pricks.
Explanation: A drop kick is vastly more likely to go wrong than a punt kick. Drop kicks used to be common, but from the 1970s on they fell out of the game because they were much less accurate. You only see it occasionally now when someone makes a mistake or is trying to be lairish — as in ‘see, I can beat you even kicking drop kicks!’ but mostly that behaviour is shortlived because the coach drags the player from the field and yells at them for being unprofessional.
There are a lot of words to describe Elon Musk.
So many it is hard to choose.
Creep and wacko would work.
He isn’t even an American except by citizenship.
Born and raised in South Africa.
And who let that guy in anyway?
I keep wondering how much damage Elon Musk can do to our society before we can put him on a plane back to South Africa.
birgerjohansson@9 — see also the Goodies episode that parodied bodyline via Rollerball, with a hyperviolent future version of cricket.
Oh, and StevoR@7 — there are no place kicks in AFL any more; were written out of the rules nearly 70 years back.
Anyway, enough on AFL. Suffice to say, getting back on topic, that ‘dropkick’ would also be almost as fitting as ‘dipshit.’
chrislawson@12
In junior high The Goodies were more my speed than Monty Python. I loved that show!
Dropkick translated into a manner we Merkins can grasp:
I have a button that says, “Wasn’t raised properly.” I’m thinking Muskrat could wear it better.
8) @ birgerjohansson: That Italian football terms bit reminds me of Japanese for Dummies [actual phrases]:
Hello: konnichihi [konnichiwa]
Goodbye: seeyanara [sayonara]
Excuse me: sorrymasen [sumimasen]
Thank you: arigathanks gozaimuch [arigatou gozaimasu]
Hold on: chotto a minute [chotto]
What: nani the fuck [nani]
Knock it off please: yamete kudyastop [yamete kudasai]
Recently bought an EV, an Ioniq 5. There were 3 reasons why I bought that one:
1. It is not a Tesla.
2. It is not a Tesla.
3. It is not a Tesla.
@raven “He isn’t even an American except by citizenship.
Born and raised in South Africa”.
Musk and Murdoch (both non-Americans) are doing more damage to America that Russia or China.
Returning to the weird bastard dipshit party:
The swing states need wall-to-wall ads calling them out for the weirdness.
Remind people of how Dump thought the Finns literally clesn up forests the way we clean buildings.
Also, his belief of what “clean coal” is.
The predictable way he completrly makes up stories.
LOL.
A few weeks ago, I was stopped at a red light in back of a Tesla.
The bumper sticker read, “I bought this car before we knew Elon Musk was crazy.”
A lot of people won’t buy Tesla cars because of Elon Musk.
A lot of people have even sold their Tesla cars because of Elon Musk.
Since we’re somehow on the subject, the drop kick is still very much a thing in both forms of rugby — rugby league and rugby union — for drop goals (1pt league, 3pts union), and various types of restart. You can also drop kick a conversion (equivalent of “point after touchdown”) but since you can place kick those instead, it’s almost never used for that.
When I was a kid, we were only allowed to watch The Goodies since Monty Python was considered too rude for us kids. My parents never actually said Python was too rude, they always used the generic “Turn it off, it’s rubbish!” whenever they were barring us from watching something.
The Goodies (Tim Brooke Taylor, Graham Garden, and Bill Oddie) have often been overlooked in the annals of British comedy. Sure, they engaged in a lot of slapstick humour, but at their best, they could be hilariously funny and quite satirical.
Anyone who is a fan of their humour (especially if you’re a fan of bad puns), should check out episodes of their earlier radio work on “I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again” (YouTube has a bunch) which also starred a pre-Python John Cleese.
It’s very silly, but pretty funny too if you like that brand of humour. The BBC was very censorious in those days, so part of the fun of the shows is to detect the ways in which the writers managed to slip some double-entendres past the censors.
@SteveoR I wouldn’t call Trump a punt because punts are useful.
Dave Bautista tears Trump a new one. “That little dance he does. He looks like he’s jacking off a pair of giraffes.”