For me it's quite the contrary, I would prefer that a company where I order custom printed t-shirts does not decide to chime in with their own political commentary not matter if it says "Trump Lover" or "I hate trees".

It is none of their business to give their snide commentary in this manner, they can deny the order and that is fine, then I'll go somewhere else.

Inb4 someone thinks I'm a Trump or Hillary supporter - I can't even vote in your country so I don't really care about them.

So, firstly, I must agree with @ChaosEngine, a commencement speech is no place for political commentary. A commencement speech's purpose is to allow one who has paved a complex path through life and come out on top, or one who has overcome something great, (and) has a important lesson for those less-learned to share their knowledge, that it may be used for good.

(God that sentence is long, let me catch my virtual breath...)

Next, why, if he is to provide political commentary during a commencement speech, as so many do nowadays, does he slam Trump?

Anybody? Is it his hair? Is it his puffy little face? Is it because he looks like a pumpkin? No? Perhaps its because he is a disaster waiting to happen, because that seems to be the general sentiment from many people who are allowed to speak their minds en-masse nowadays...

But how is Trump worse than Clinton? Hmmm? Perhaps there are buried rape cases THAT WERE MADE PUBLIC BTW, in Trump's past? No?

Perhaps making billions of dollars FROM ONE MILLION is just inherently evil? Hmmm, no?

Okay, that Hairdo, it must burn a hole in the Ozone layer wherever he walks... Or flames must flower at his feet, as lotus flowers did for the Buddha? NO?

Perhaps he was wrong about the people that you blokes are letting into the country? Yes? Then how come one of them, (whom you could never tell is a radical, HE HAD A WIFE AND CHILD), just killed 50 members of the LGBT community in the horrible massacre in Orlando?(which was so bad we are getting news coverage of it in LONDON)

Hmmm, maybe electing someone who actually admits there is a problem, destroying political correctness, and being damned with the "established order" which supposedly keeps you Americans safe isnt such a bad idea...

Maybe electing a Woman with a hideous blot of a record, and a long standing member of said establishment is one such bad idea...

Thanks, and yes

British music has a long tradition of political commentary in music, like Amnesia about the sense of betrayal that Labour supporters felt with Tony Blair's New Labour:



With the catchy chorus: Do you suffer from long term memory loss? I don't remember. Also "The good ship lifestyle" - https://youtu.be/Uu8gO8d4aT8 and their version of Bella Ciao https://youtu.be/oSpqj3V0s2E

And then, of course, there's Billy Bragg.

Subtle political commentary on the Capitol being made of straw?

Come election season 2016 I will be back to post ill informed political commentary.

@kevingrr, Thank You. I have been decrying the schlock of TYT as long as these embeds started appearing on the VS maybe 4 years ago?? The lapdog fanatics here clam the fuck up whenever I suggest their being duped-out of the meat of what's news as they trade the protein of meaning for smarmy, snipeish, sub-standard infotainment that strokes their programmed sensibilities.

Compare TYT to Fox News, simply insert banter that "feels" and "sounds" better to the critical-thinking-challenged ineffectual and, "Voila, let's call it bad drugs disguised as political commentary."

↑ ↑ TYT's "progressive daily news and political commentary" since they reared their Sirius head has derptly crafted serious issues into their brand of junk-food news and tabloid-sensational fluff since Cenk started belching his snipish drool 5 years ago, and the kids here eat it up like Skittles and Arizona Watermelon Fruit Cocktail Juice w/codeine and promethazine...

Purple Drank Internet Drizzle

*wilhem @1:03
Interesting political commentary...
The giant woman is Tarja Halonen, president of Finland.
The giant man is Andrus Ansip, prime minister of Estonia.

lol at hairy armpits.

'Tis a pity the powerful social and political commentary gets diluted by the conspiracy BS and religious symbolism.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell also are gods of comedy that make excellent political commentary via their art.. Patrice O'Neal had great points as well. Kudos to meta-cognition.

dude that is sport

>> ^spoco2:

Um, ignoring Tracy's comments, why the f ck are sports commentators talking about which women would be better to have sex with anyway? Aren't they supposed to be talking about... oh, I dunno... SPORT!?

I'm not sure if I'd call this a "joke" although it is humorous. It's more of a weird piece of gonzo political commentary - contrasting vintage capitalist propaganda with the grim meat hook realities of modern day capitalism. I'm surprised it got as many votes as it did so far. Right on, my aesthetically sophisticated sifters.

I also believe that it is meant to offend, but it has gone beyond offensive to outright insulting, IMO. To each his own, I suppose.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
It sounds to me, without knowing any context, like this is a piece of sardonic political commentary, with the intention of being offensive to the ear. Not sure if it's pro or con - if he weren't an avant-garde jazz musician, I'd go with con.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
To my untrained ear this is just painful, but maybe you, as a musician, could appreciate it? Just way too much dissonance for my taste.

It sounds to me, without knowing any context, like this is a piece of sardonic political commentary, with the intention of being offensive to the ear. Not sure if it's pro or con - if he weren't an avant-garde jazz musician, I'd go with con.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
To my untrained ear this is just painful, but maybe you, as a musician, could appreciate it? Just way too much dissonance for my taste.

Leadership and goofballs? Obama isn't exactly a good president or a bad president, but it's hilarious to me that total right-wingers like QM fail to see how tremendously horrible the Bush Administration were. They keep hanging on, when in reality the 'crats and the 'publicans are all a bunch of whores sucking from a gigantic corporate/military tite. If you want to do some real political commentary QM why don't you show us how similar the parties are instead of coughing up the same old tea-bag nutter-buddy rhetoric? They want you to fight about their "differences" so they can both continue having the same agenda - corporate wealthfare, making the rich richer, fuck everyone else. They have no ethics or spines and they just love manipulating the public into believing there is a clearcut dividing line. Obama ran on what democrats should sort of be. But, he has hardly delivered.

What we need is what Martin Luther King said so long ago, "Radical economic reconstruction." What the Tea-baggers believe in as their movement is a movement that is bought and sold by huge corporations, that is all it is and nothing more. It is just their corporate money corrupting your minds and poisoning everything.