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She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge... Jacob Rees-Mogg has a message for the Common People
I had never actually heard his voice before. It is almost as punchable as his face.
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 2:35 PM on February 5, 2019 [8 favorites]
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 2:35 PM on February 5, 2019 [8 favorites]
Frankie Boyle on Rees-Mogg:
* PG Wodehouse’s flirtation with fascism given physical form.
* A composite figure drawn from the nightmares of 18th century millworkers.
* He maintains the general air of someone who has had a wank to the Book of Deuteronomy.
posted by talos at 2:43 PM on February 5, 2019 [26 favorites]
* PG Wodehouse’s flirtation with fascism given physical form.
* A composite figure drawn from the nightmares of 18th century millworkers.
* He maintains the general air of someone who has had a wank to the Book of Deuteronomy.
posted by talos at 2:43 PM on February 5, 2019 [26 favorites]
I was never a big fan, but I must admit that Sacha Baron Cohen really upped his game with this Rees-Mogg character.
posted by ckape at 2:49 PM on February 5, 2019 [15 favorites]
posted by ckape at 2:49 PM on February 5, 2019 [15 favorites]
Why!? WHY!? WHY DID I READ THE YOUTUBE COMMENTS!?!?!?!?!?
posted by Cosine at 3:07 PM on February 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Cosine at 3:07 PM on February 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
He's not a joke. He's not a joke. He can easily bear people laughing at him while he fucks the country up because he's literally planning to own them in the near future, and given that he's likely to have all the money while we have none, it's quite possible.
Alastair Campbell on his father's book The Sovereign Individual and what it tells us about him.
posted by Grangousier at 3:14 PM on February 5, 2019 [15 favorites]
Alastair Campbell on his father's book The Sovereign Individual and what it tells us about him.
posted by Grangousier at 3:14 PM on February 5, 2019 [15 favorites]
It’s disengenous, but it did make me laugh!
posted by Middlemarch at 4:06 PM on February 5, 2019
posted by Middlemarch at 4:06 PM on February 5, 2019
He was on Radio 4 Sunday lunchtime, World This Weekend. He went on and on about BBC bias and the interviewer, as pissed off as we all were, gritted his teeth and tried to change the subject with an 'Indeed...' At which point Rees-Mogg interjects 'Thank you very much for admitting that the BBC is biased, it's important you said that...' and each one of us listening up and down the country, in our cars or cooking in the kitchen or toddling about in a shed or stuck in a Sunday paper, each person tuned in to Radio 4 at that moment momentarily wondered how, just how, after all these months of horror and objection and fuck-uppity and privilege, how this creature had suddenly contrived to make us all hate him just that little bit more.
posted by humuhumu at 4:06 PM on February 5, 2019 [24 favorites]
posted by humuhumu at 4:06 PM on February 5, 2019 [24 favorites]
Is this the new Brexit thread? I like it. Nice and jazzy.
posted by sfenders at 5:08 PM on February 5, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by sfenders at 5:08 PM on February 5, 2019 [2 favorites]
wow, never thought i'd honestly say " Shatner did it better(SLYT)"
So who is these Rees Mogg *does some google*
Flames, flames out of the side,of my head.
posted by Anchorite_of_Palgrave at 6:19 PM on February 5, 2019 [5 favorites]
So who is these Rees Mogg *does some google*
Flames, flames out of the side,of my head.
posted by Anchorite_of_Palgrave at 6:19 PM on February 5, 2019 [5 favorites]
Why!? WHY!? WHY DID I READ THE YOUTUBE COMMENTS!?!?!?!?!?
A Polish friend of mine is absolutely certain Brexit will be avoided because it is obviously and self-evidently the worst-case scenario and no government is going to voluntarily risk becoming a failed state. She isn't stupid by any measure, but I'm pretty sure she's wrong and Brexit - No Deal Brexit - is going to happen. Reading the YouTube comments makes me certain of it.
posted by um at 9:06 PM on February 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
A Polish friend of mine is absolutely certain Brexit will be avoided because it is obviously and self-evidently the worst-case scenario and no government is going to voluntarily risk becoming a failed state. She isn't stupid by any measure, but I'm pretty sure she's wrong and Brexit - No Deal Brexit - is going to happen. Reading the YouTube comments makes me certain of it.
posted by um at 9:06 PM on February 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
Campbell's article about The Sovereign Individual is an important reminder of something I often struggle to keep in mind: just because a person's beliefs are evil to the point of farce doesn't also mean that they are comically stupid.
posted by entity447b at 10:50 PM on February 5, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by entity447b at 10:50 PM on February 5, 2019 [2 favorites]
Relevant other Jarvis Cocker song [NSFW].
posted by benzenedream at 2:06 AM on February 6, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by benzenedream at 2:06 AM on February 6, 2019 [1 favorite]
I read the part about how he had 5 kids and never changed a diaper. What I never saw was how many diapers Mrs. Rees Mogg changed. My guess is she never changed a diaper either. Or maybe she tried with the first one and changed diapers for around the first three days before she said "Aww fuck it."
On the other hand she may be like an alien being and she changed all of them.
Then again who gives a chip about these muckymucks?
posted by bukvich at 9:50 AM on February 6, 2019
On the other hand she may be like an alien being and she changed all of them.
Then again who gives a chip about these muckymucks?
posted by bukvich at 9:50 AM on February 6, 2019
Grangousier: "He's not a joke. He's not a joke. He can easily bear people laughing at him"
this bears repeating. he's not a joke, or even a punchline. he's really fucking serious and he needs to be taken seriously in order to be defeated. He, (like Boris Johnson) is like some horripilant D&D monster that looks ridiculous, spouts nonsense, and grows stronger and stronger as your little party of valiant warriors giggles at his shenanigans until he is so strong he wipes you out like snot off the end of his toffee nose.
posted by chavenet at 10:37 AM on February 6, 2019 [4 favorites]
this bears repeating. he's not a joke, or even a punchline. he's really fucking serious and he needs to be taken seriously in order to be defeated. He, (like Boris Johnson) is like some horripilant D&D monster that looks ridiculous, spouts nonsense, and grows stronger and stronger as your little party of valiant warriors giggles at his shenanigans until he is so strong he wipes you out like snot off the end of his toffee nose.
posted by chavenet at 10:37 AM on February 6, 2019 [4 favorites]
Grangousier: Alastair Campbell on his father's book The Sovereign Individual and what it tells us about him.
Thanks very much for that link. The "new Sovereign Individual" sounds to me a lot like the old warlord / independent nobleman. I'm reminded of Quarrel with the King: Private armies and armories, noblemen out of reach of the king's power, liveried retainers brawling.
He's having a dream of the independent aristocracy coming back, only this time - as the phrase in patent applications is said to go - the novelty is that this old thing is now "on the Internet".
posted by clawsoon at 2:35 PM on February 6, 2019
Thanks very much for that link. The "new Sovereign Individual" sounds to me a lot like the old warlord / independent nobleman. I'm reminded of Quarrel with the King: Private armies and armories, noblemen out of reach of the king's power, liveried retainers brawling.
He's having a dream of the independent aristocracy coming back, only this time - as the phrase in patent applications is said to go - the novelty is that this old thing is now "on the Internet".
posted by clawsoon at 2:35 PM on February 6, 2019
#GuillotineEmoji
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 5:40 PM on February 6, 2019
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 5:40 PM on February 6, 2019
I read the part about how he had 5 kids and never changed a diaper.
And then people got sad for him because some long time communist activist confronted him on his doorsteps and one of his kids got upset awww.
posted by MartinWisse at 1:37 AM on February 7, 2019
And then people got sad for him because some long time communist activist confronted him on his doorsteps and one of his kids got upset awww.
posted by MartinWisse at 1:37 AM on February 7, 2019
It's more than five kids, because he called the sixth one Sixtus.
No, really.
posted by Grangousier at 8:36 AM on February 8, 2019
No, really.
posted by Grangousier at 8:36 AM on February 8, 2019
Jacob Rees-Mogg says that "you've got to understand the history" before condemning the British concentration camps during the Boer War. Unfortunately, he doesn't. So here's a fact-check.posted by Grangousier at 3:11 AM on February 16, 2019
Rees-Mogg: "The death rates were exactly the same as in Glasgow"
Death rates in British concentration camps: "In all, about one in four (25 %) of the Boer inmates, mostly children, died."
Death rates in Glasgow via the Herald "Glasgow, in 1901, had a population of 762,000 and, according to the National Records of Scotland, 16,190 people died. That dropped slightly to 15,530 in 1902."
Taken over 3 years that amounts to a total death rate of 6 %
So Jacob RM is wrong by a factor of just over 400%
posted by Lanark at 4:55 AM on February 17, 2019 [1 favorite]
Death rates in British concentration camps: "In all, about one in four (25 %) of the Boer inmates, mostly children, died."
Death rates in Glasgow via the Herald "Glasgow, in 1901, had a population of 762,000 and, according to the National Records of Scotland, 16,190 people died. That dropped slightly to 15,530 in 1902."
Taken over 3 years that amounts to a total death rate of 6 %
So Jacob RM is wrong by a factor of just over 400%
posted by Lanark at 4:55 AM on February 17, 2019 [1 favorite]
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