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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He looks, and kinda sounds, like Gary from Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Suffering is better together.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nah, he's fat bizarro Bill Hader.

Though honestly my wish is that Martin Short plays him on SNL. Only because Steve Martin is the obvious choice for Waltz and I really think Short could capture the idea that JD doesn't even deserve a credible stand in, only off the wall mockery.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Repuglican projection is a known feature

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why are there quotation marks around only the word “wolves”? Is that the only word from the headline he actually said?

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe the rest is paraphrased for brevity, or maybe the author felt that this was the least believable part and opted to emphasise that he used that exact word.

Or maybe it's some weird rule about quoting a title assigned to someone or something? For example, the Wikipedia Article on Napoleon describes that he

crowned himself Emperor of the French

without quotes, but later mentions

what became known as the "Hundred Days"

with quotes. I'm neither a native speaker nor reveived particularly in-depth education on writing guidelines, so I have no idea. I just know that sometimes there are weird rules about quoting stuff.

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