JD Vance and LOTR

[George K]

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Other alt-right warning signs to look for:

1. Drinks beer
2. Watches sports
3. Engages in exercise and bodybuilding
4. Star Wars and Star Trek fan
5. Hates the Yankees
6. Rode a bike as a child
7. Played video games

[Mik]

So their problem is he has an interest in English literature of the postwar era and how it was shaped by that history.

Fucking hillbillies.

[Mik]

Hates the Yankees is enough to get my vote.

[Mik]

(Jolly hate the Yankees too, but that's different.)

[Doctor Phibes]

I know a bunch of people who are seriously into LOTR and to describe them as alt-right wouldn’t be strictly accurate. A couple of them are alt-something, admittedly or possibly just alt.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in JD Vance and LOTR:

(Jolly hate the Yankees too, but that's different.)

We refer to them as Damnyankees. It's just one word, you know...

[Doctor Phibes]

I have spent many a happy hour drunkenly assigning LOTR characters to people in the so-called real world, and I think such an exercise might be quite entertaining for both the RNC and DNC conventions.

For example, Joe Biden is clearly pre-woken Theoden-king. Skipping over the obvious for Trump (making Mordor great again), I'm pretty sure that Vivek is Wormtongue.

[Mik]

My daughter and her friends have been assigning roles from Animal Farm to co-workers and administrators for years. It's pretty funny. Easier to remember, too.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in JD Vance and LOTR:

For example, Joe Biden is clearly pre-woken Theoden-king.

You've been smoking too much of Old Toby. Biden's an empty shell of a head of state, plagued by mindrot and an unhealthy fixation on his son. He's so obviously Denethor.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in JD Vance and LOTR:

I know a bunch of people who are seriously into LOTR and to describe them as alt-right wouldn’t be strictly accurate.

In the course of my seasonal job, I've met scads of people who can recite for you any part of Tom Bombadil's songs you'd like. These people are:

• D&D fanatics
• Burned out English teachers who think America was lost the day Andy Griffith was taken off the air
• MFA students who, you can be sure, have their chosen pronouns on their license

Their only commonality is that none of them watch football.