Trump make beardy Paul Ryan sad :(
Really, can we have a moratorium on the phrase “this is not who we are“…? Dunno about you, but my knee-jerk goes, “don’t tell ME who I am!”
But I don’t want to talk about that. I want to talk about Paul Ryan’s beard.
I like it.
I’ve long been an advocate of facial hair in politics.
See here. And, um, here. But not so much here.
Exit question: better not hurt Muslim feelings or they’ll go radical, is an awful lot like better have dinner on the table at six or you’ll get a fat lip. Isn’t it?
Posted: December 8th, 2015 under personal, politics.
Comments: 9
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Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: December 8, 2015, 10:45 pm
Something I wrote at LEGAL INSURRECTION on a thread about Ryan coming out and saying, “this is not who we are”.
Gotta say it. I know I am going to get downvoted big time.
ONE of the markers watched for by counter-intel profilers when a Muslim undergoes an attack of Sudden Jihadi Syndrome is the sudden appearance of a beard. The Quran calls for males fighting Jihad to have beards. If you have seen the pictures of Syed Farook before he went to Saudi Arabia, and after he returned . . .
NOT repeat NOT saying that Ryan has turned Jihadi. But keep in mind that his political image has always been of a young, clean-cut, baby-faced politician.
For him to come out defending Islam and Islamic immigration after terror attacks by Muslims with the scruffy beard of a wanna-be Jihadi causes a certain amount of cognitive dissonance to anyone who is involved with or has studied the counter-Islamic Jihad war.
And it bespeaks a certain lack of situational awareness on behalf of the GOPe. [*shakes head ruefully*]
Let the downvoting begin.
Y’all may like beards, but timing is everything. 😉
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 8, 2015, 11:03 pm
He’ll never have a proper jihadi beard, which is a pubes-on-face affair. Genetics, I suppose.
I sadly suspect Ryan has converted to Beltway more than Islam.
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: December 8, 2015, 11:33 pm
It makes him look dirty, which is apt.
Comment from AliceH
Time: December 9, 2015, 3:27 am
It’s bow hunting season in Wisconsin through Jan 3. I expect he’ll be clean shaven again by January 4.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: December 9, 2015, 3:47 am
Many years ago, my grandmother told me,
“A man who doesn’t shave every day is a bum.”
Comment from mojo
Time: December 9, 2015, 10:52 am
The Beard: AAAUGH! NO!
See the Carlin bit. Karl Marx had a beard. Castro has a beard.
No, no, no.
Comment from Ric Fan
Time: December 9, 2015, 12:21 pm
Smart move taking citizenship. God help you if you hurt a muslim’s feelings and were banned from the country.
Comment from BJM
Time: December 9, 2015, 5:04 pm
Is it just me or does Hillary’s beard look more like Ewan McGregor’s than Jesus’?
Comment from mojo
Time: December 9, 2015, 9:49 pm
It’s the puppy-dog eyes, isn’t it?
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