"He should have dressed up as a surfer who got attacked by a shark..."
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is the world’s highest ranking surfer. The stylish 51-year-old is not shy about his love for our “sport of kings.” He often takes to social media and showcases his svelte frame, wrapped in black neoprene, arms akimbo. Legs like tasty toothpicks. Trudeau appreciates the surfing life so much that he skipped his country’s very first Truth and Reconciliation Day to shred Tofino.
Very cool.
Though the Liberal Party leader is currently in very hot water. Halloween was, of course, just two days ago. The day allows children and adults alike to dress as favorite characters or goblins. I went with the one-time 11th best surfer in the world Luke Stedman. Trudeau’s son chose to go as a beheaded man.
“Hadrien seems to have misplaced something… but that’s not going to stop him from trick-or-treating,” the newly single PM penned to Instagram. “Happy Halloween, everyone – have fun out there!”
“Out” pronounced “oot”
While the costume appears to be lovingly crafted, critics immediately pounced on its “tone deafness.”
Beauty guru Saba Khan wrote, “Heart says this is the most tone deaf thing he can do at a time when children are getting their heads blown off in Palestine.”
Others pounced with “disgusting, insensitive and disrespectful.”
Surfers knew that poor Hadrien made the wrong choice and should have dressed as a surfer getting mauled by a shark.
A classic that never goes out of style.
He could have also picked former World Surf League CEO Erik Logan.
Or, better, former World Surf League CEO Erik Logan dressing in Filipe Toledo’s skin.
A costume within a costume like Inception.
Justin Trudeau, of course, has his own history with “problematic” costumes, donning blackface for his Aladdin get up back in 2001.
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For less than a month in the mid-1930s, such a note really was printed!
It bore the face of President Woodrow Wilson. In case you were curious,
the $500 bill featured President William McKinley, and the $1,000 bill
showed President Grover Cleveland.
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analogy or sarcasm?
War, as Clausewitz famously said, is often shrouded in fog. For
journalists, diplomats, experts and analysts, one tool to cut through
the fog of war is analogy. These references to things known can be
helpful in explaining what is unknown, obscure, distant or difficult to
comprehend. But analogies are tricky – circumstances are never identical
so analogies, especially without detailed caveats, can deceive more
than they explain.(Times of Israel)
On the other hand, we have sarcasm. which is much funnier than analogies. like. like. like: END WORLD WARS TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM CLIMATE CHANGE. like me here.
Is that supposed to be Jenna Jameson’s?
Would it be considered tone deaf to dress as a Trump with a dildo sticking out their ass?
Kelly Slater news, he has teased yet another product based on an animal. This time it’s a shark-inspired surfboard. Think he’ll gift one to Mick and/or Bethany? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
You should see what he wears for Lent.
What if I told you a surf website featured the Canadian PM in back to back posts? And what if I told you that Taylor Swift then immediately added new Canadian concert dates to her international tour itinerary? Coincidence?? Evidence of the cultural sway held by BG??
Naming your son after the emperor who renamed Judea as Palestine could also be considered tone deaf these days!
… although that would require some knowledge of history, so he’s probably safe.
Built a groovy wall though, so Palestinians and East Germans also might be somewhat triggered.
It’s tone deaf cuz it’s Clarence Thomas in white-face
Ginsberg’s take on Da War?