Althouse: "What's at stake in this election as you compare and contrast...?"

June 26, 2020

"What's at stake in this election as you compare and contrast...?"

How to second term pic.twitter.com/WTuH277sUA
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) June 26, 2020

42 comments:

mccullough said...: Amusing. She’s hoping Trump is re-elected to keep her schtick going; 6/26/20, 8:00 PM
Matthew Heintz said...: She's a good looking young halfbreed, I'd let her pretend to be me.; 6/26/20, 8:03 PM
Achilles said...: Tiktok spies on the people that use it for the Chinese government.; 6/26/20, 8:04 PM
Wince said...: Through the display of the notes she mocked the interviewer most, whether or not that was her intention.; 6/26/20, 8:04 PM
Achilles said...: It would be fun to talk about the stupid video. But tiktok.

As for what is at stake in the next election that is easy.

Trump wants to go back to 2019.

The Democrats want to go back to 1619.; 6/26/20, 8:07 PM
Iman said...: CCP data mining tool... but so cute, otherwise.; 6/26/20, 8:14 PM
Ann Althouse said...: The embed is from Twitter, not TikTok.

It was originally made on TikTok, but she's putting the same thing on Twitter, so you're not using TikTok if you watch this.; 6/26/20, 8:16 PM
Limited blogger said...: That is excellent!

Is that supposed to be anti-Trump? I don't know who Sarah Cooper is?

It made Trump's words sound even better with her real facial emoticons.

Is there a narrative, or comments that I was supposed to read to clarify that Orange Man Bad?; 6/26/20, 8:17 PM
Not Sure said...: That was good.

I think she could do a killer Biden.; 6/26/20, 8:17 PM
Elliott A said...: Do you want the entire country to look like Seattle, Portland and Madison to name a few, where criminals get a free pass and all others are persecuted, or not?; 6/26/20, 8:20 PM
Openidname said...: Hope you've seen the latest exposé on the awfulness of TikTok:

https://hothardware.com/news/tiktok-reverse-engineered-beware-privacy; 6/26/20, 8:31 PM
Iman said...: TikTok and Twitter: places where Class “A” narcissists go to exhibit their illness.; 6/26/20, 8:34 PM
narciso said...: Is she the sour mouthed in thor ragnarok; 6/26/20, 8:46 PM
Achilles said...: Ann Althouse said...
The embed is from Twitter, not TikTok.

It was originally made on TikTok, but she's putting the same thing on Twitter, so you're not using TikTok if you watch this.

Oh dear.

If you put coffee in a cup what do you drink?

Twitter is the cup.

Tiktok is hosting the video. You are using their service.

They have been caught doing naughty things with their app.

Twitter is also a nasty bunch of douchebags whose views on freedom are indistinguishable from Nazis.; 6/26/20, 8:51 PM
gadfly said...: Hannity asked Trump: “If you hear in 131 days from now, at some point in the night or early morning: ‘We can now project Donald J. Trump has been re-elected the 45th president of the United States’—let’s talk. What’s at stake in this election as you compare and contrast, and what is one of your top priority items for a second term?”

Trump's stream-of-consciousness response to the two-part question of "what's at stake? and "what is your top priority?" goes straight to the president's mental condition: "Well, one of the things that will be really great -- you know, the word experience is still good. I always say talent is more important than experience, I've always said that. But the word experience is a very important word. It's a very important meaning. I never did this before. I never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington, I think, 17 times, all of a sudden, I'm president of the United States. You know the story, I'm riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our first lady and I say, this is great. But I didn't know very many people in Washington. It wasn't my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York. Now, I know everybody and I have great people in the administration. You make some mistakes like, you know, an idiot like Bolton. All he wanted to do was drop bombs on everybody. You don't have to drop bombs on everybody. You don't have to kill people."

The answer I suppose, could mean that the president's life is at stake and he shouldn't hire anyone to drop bombs and kill people including himself.; 6/26/20, 9:04 PM
Ken B said...: TikTok is a data stealing Trojan horse. The new iOS caught it reading data it should not have access to.; 6/26/20, 9:26 PM
sunsong said...: I love her...she's an artist

and we can sure use more laughter in these dark times; 6/26/20, 9:28 PM
Inga said...: We should all feel secure in the knowledge that Trump is a stable genius. He said so himself, so it must be true.; 6/26/20, 9:30 PM
Gordy said...: I want to see her do Biden.; 6/26/20, 9:32 PM
Narayanan said...: she is definitely funny.

Has Sarah Cooper done any other "characters' or only Trump is seen as safe target?

In spring 2020, Cooper began publishing a series of videos online in which she lip-synched comments by Donald Trump; 6/26/20, 9:43 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I think when you put your video on Twitter, Twitter uploads it. It doesn’t just embed it. I could be wrong, but I’ve put video on Twitter and that’s how it worked. I think.; 6/26/20, 10:00 PM
Matthew Heintz said...: I would love to deposit a load on the back of her tongue!; 6/26/20, 10:13 PM
cubanbob said...: Inga said...
We should all feel secure in the knowledge that Trump is a stable genius. He said so himself, so it must be true."

Compared to any Democrat running for office or in office it's true. He is the adult and stable genius.; 6/26/20, 10:14 PM
cubanbob said...: The girl in the video comes across as Fran Drescher. The video is a bit amusing.; 6/26/20, 10:15 PM
eddie willers said...: I fail to see what you think is funny about this person. Not an impressionist...just lipsyncing.

Do I have to stay to the end to get the joke?; 6/26/20, 10:16 PM
Mal said...: You are correct @ Ann Althouse

But I think people would still feel better if you used the youtube version, as you do with most of the videos you post. That is, if we are caring about how people feel.

https://youtu.be/s2EU-VKPrXU; 6/26/20, 10:19 PM
Sabrina said...: Ms. Cooper was the subject of an interesting article today in The Hollywood Reporter. The article supports a point that Professor Althouse made about the women impersonating Trump - that they have an illicit love of Trump. In the article, Ms. Cooper admits something very close to that:

“Asked to explain why she turned to Trump for comedic inspiration, Cooper said she just couldn't believe her ears. ‘I was blown over by how much BS was spewing out of this man’s mouth,’ she explained. ‘I wasn’t trying to be Trump, but what would Sarah Cooper be like if she could get away with talking like that?’

That last part requires further examination. ‘Selfishly, I think I wanted to be somebody who could BS my way through life. Like, I’m jealous. I could never get away with that,’ she explained, saying that because she comes from ‘a lower status and lower power perspective,’ her impersonations hit on something that might not be felt when one sees Alec Baldwin do Trump on Saturday Night Live. ‘He hates Trump so much that you can’t empathize so much.’”; 6/26/20, 10:22 PM
daskol said...: Trump is aspirational, even for a lot of the people who hate him. Some people, highly analytical and intelligent, hate Trump even more for that aspect of his character. For them, what Sarah Cooper is doing is highly disturbing, humanizing, normalizing the monster.; 6/26/20, 10:40 PM
LA_Bob said...: If Trump wins re-election, it will be fascinating to see how his 2nd term goes. Most 2nd terms have been disappointments, starting with George Washington's. Richard Nixon was keenly aware of the 2nd-term problem, and yet his second term was a catastrophe.

I think George W Bush probably had the least unsuccessful 2nd term, at least of two-term presidents in my lifetime.; 6/26/20, 10:50 PM
The Vault Dweller said...: It is not particularly effective mocking. And honestly it seems rather plainly obvious. Makes me think it is more likely just an attempt at views/clicks/etc to stoke the ego than anything else. Though, perhaps she mistakenly thought it was good. You can never know for sure.; 6/26/20, 11:15 PM
narciso said...: But the guy who there 120 million virus deatj thats totes cool.; 6/26/20, 11:28 PM
chickelit said...: I want nothing to do with TikTok. I'm disappointed that Althouse is so fascinated with these toxic fads.; 6/27/20, 1:36 AM
BudBrown said...: WE got a funny talking president. Whadayougonnado?; 6/27/20, 3:48 AM
Howard said...: Blogger Achilles said...Oh dear.
Twitter is also a nasty bunch of douchebags whose views on freedom are indistinguishable from Nazis.

How Dare You insult POTUS.

WTF are you doing here anyway? Don't you have some statue destroying Negros and white Libtards to gun down? Those icons are not going to defend themselves. It's time for you to stand up and be counted to save American History X.; 6/27/20, 5:12 AM
tim maguire said...: Best line: I’ve only slept in Washington, like, 17 times.

17? That’s an awfully precise sounding number for what I expect was an in the moment guestimate.; 6/27/20, 6:12 AM
alanc709 said...: Howard, what do you want to be when you grow up, Stalin?; 6/27/20, 7:23 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: What’s at stake. For me, the future of this country. To start with, the rule of law. The Obama Administration militarized the federal government against its political enemies, deliberately ignoring te thousands of felonies committed by Crooked Hillary, while creating a Russia Collusion conspiracy out of thin air, and then their embeds sing it for the next three years to try to destroy their legitimately elected successors. They have cheated unmercifully, from the Logan Act up through impeachment over an illegal fake whistleblower (which they are trying to pull off again).

They have gotten so blatant at their cheating. Dem controlled state after Dem controlled state is using whatever means that they can to eliminate fair elections, and instead embed cheating through mandatory mail In balloting, ballot harvesting, etc. while ignoring with impunity laws that require cleaning up voter rolls. Once they have implemented these systems, they make replacing themselves in control almost impossible, as we have seen in CA, where much of Clinton’s National vote majority came from illegal votes, ranging from millions of non citizens encouraged and facilitated to vote through the usual cemetery voting. Then two years later ballot harvesting was implemented, which totally shattered the concept of chain of custody for ballots. Instead, party operatives were allowed to go through the nursing homes and post offices collecting ballots wherever they could be found, then voted as the operatives wished. They have been trying to impose this in other states through executive action, justifying it with COVID-19.

Now we have violent rioting and arson, organized and facilitated by Marxist organizations like AntiFA and BLM, funded by outside interests like Soros and the CCP, and facilitated and encouraged by almost every major Dem politician in the country, along with their MSM allies, big tech media companies, etc. all in a cynical ploy to regain power in DC. And we know what they want then, as they loot and burn down the inner cities across the country, and tear down statues, along with their history. They want the power to take what Obama and his Administration did while in office up a number of notches. They want to further embed power over the people, and the political process, in the federal bureaucracy, and control of that bureaucracy in their own hands.

I see little possibility of anything good coming out of a Trump and Republican loss this November. The indictments of those who violated the law, and the public trust when they went to war against their duly elected President, will be quietly dropped, as so many crimes by the left were excused under Obama, from the Black Panthers up through Crooked Hillary. Similarly, the federal indictments for rioting, arson, extortion, etc, in recent days, will magically disappear. The Democrats will have lied, cheated, stolen, and intimidated their way back into power, and it is going to be much harder next time to dislodge them. They will, again, be in position to use the federal government to secure their power from democratic overthrow, while rewarding their backers with trillions, as they again loot the treasury. And, yes, they will do whatever it takes to effectively eliminate our 1st and 2nd Amdt rights. They have to, because those rights may soon be our only recourse.; 6/27/20, 8:01 AM
Phil 314 said...: The video: tiresome.

And Howard, do you have to work hard at this or does it come naturally?; 6/27/20, 9:09 AM
Howard said...: It stream of unconscientiousness, Dr. Phil. Like when you close your eyes to initiate taking a piss; 6/27/20, 10:45 AM
hstad said...: Sara Cooper says, "...‘Selfishly, I think I wanted to be somebody who could BS my way through life..."

Well Ms. Cooper in the real world you've just described every politician. Run for office and find out.; 6/27/20, 3:57 PM
Nichevo said...: Howard said...
It stream of unconscientiousness, Dr. Phil. Like when you close your eyes to initiate taking a piss

Who would have EVER guessed that YOU were pee shy?!; 6/29/20, 4:33 PM
Nichevo said...: Howard said...
It stream of unconscientiousness, Dr. Phil. Like when you close your eyes to initiate taking a piss

Who would have EVER guessed that YOU were pee shy?! Or, sorry, are you so old that your prostate is a thing?; 6/29/20, 4:33 PM