#it makes sense for the like... narrative of the video

[mariacallous]

No longer content with his five adult children, President Donald Trump is now desperate to be America’s “daddy.”

Last week, the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, rather ickily invoked the word “daddy” while excusing Trump for using the f-word after Israel and Iran temporarily violated a ceasefire.

“Daddy has to sometimes use strong language,” Rutte said with a laugh, while Trump, who was visiting for a NATO summit and meeting with Rutte, smiled on.

Unfortunately for America, Team Trump latched onto the viral moment, posting a video on the White House’s official social media accounts that depicted Trump arriving and greeting world leaders at the summit. The clip was soundtracked to Usher’s “Daddy’s Home,” a song that’s as sexually suggestive as its title suggests. (“I ain’t gotta do a lot of flexing — uh-uh. Shorty, you already know what it is,” one lyric goes.)

Many found the clip unbecoming, not to mention weirdly sexual, coming from an official White House account. (Granted, posting unbecoming, trollish content is kind of the current White House social media team’s thing.)

“Nothing says presidential dignity like the official White House account cosplaying as a thirsty fan page,” one person replied to the post on X.

Fox News went all-in on the “Daddy Trump” rebrand, in spite ― or maybe because of ― the other definition of daddy: Those who have a “daddy kink” or engage in “daddy dom” sexual role play use it all the time.

“Soon, Africa will be calling him daddy, too,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said with a leer on Friday after showing a clip of Trump praising the looks of Hariana Veras, a Congolese journalist, during an Oval Office signing.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was an early promoter of the “daddy Trump” moniker. While speaking at a Trump rally last October, Carlson compared the then-presidential nominee to an angry dad returning home to discipline a “bad little girl” with a “vigorous spanking.” (We guess America is the naughty teen in the scenario, though we’d very much like to be excluded from this narrative.)

What’s going on here? Is America ― or at least MAGA America ― experiencing a mass psychosis? Is there such a thing as collective national daddy issues? Has any other politician ever kinkified themselves to this degree?

[carolrain]

Happy Canada Day, Schitt's Creek

Happy Birthday, Canada!

I gathered up some gifts for everyone to celebrate.

First, some fic to read (or reread) about Canada Day:

Canada Day by madesimplefic

It’s the annual Brewer Canada Day Weekend and David wakes up to find himself recovering from celebrating with so many Brewers.

David Rose vs Canada Day by houdini74 / @mostlyinthemorning

When Alexis organizes the Schitt’s Creek Canada Day festivities, David is forced to help, very much against his will. It’s shaping up to be one of the worst days of his life until a stranger makes it better.

Happy Canada Day, David Rose by houdini74 / @mostlyinthemorning

"He looked around the campfire, if it wasn’t for the fact that half of the guests were significantly overdressed, it could have been any backyard in the country."

Light Me Up by @blackandwhiteandrose

Two holidays. Two very different circumstances. David Rose just wants to kiss someone under fireworks.

Sparkling Colors Strewn Across the Sky by @schittposting

David and Patrick go to Schitt’s Creek’s Canada Day fireworks display.

If you can't get enough and need some more fic with a Canadian theme, the Farm Witches have a round-up.

This might get long, so go open all those tabs or add the fics to your marked-for-later list, and then come back to read under the cut

Enjoy Noah Reid singing "O Canada" (again):

I don't know how to embed that properly and am not going to learn it today, so here's another link to the tweet.

If you want to reblog a copy of the video, here it is on @mostlyinthemorning's tumblr.

Pretty photos of the occasion saved by @ramonaflow here. Go admire and reblog.

Here's quite a long list of Canadianisms in Schitt's Creek documented on Reddit by kitty_o_shea:

A nice list of filming locations:

What Dan Levy says about the location of Schitt's Creek:

"For us, it was always important to create a sense of isolation, and pinning the location down wasn’t ever part of the narrative of the show," Dan told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday. "So it does exist in this sort of isolated bubble." "[But] we are a Canadian show, so inherently it is a Canadian town," he said. "We’ve never spoken about it, so I don’t like to necessarily pinpoint it anywhere. But for the sake of the hard copy, I guess it’s set in Canada."

Full article here. (I don't mean to be critical, but I feel like he could've been a little more enthusiastic? Maybe there's a better quote out there.)

More about Schitt's Creek and its location:

All right, that should keep you busy. Let me know if I left out something obvious and need to do a second post.

Happy Canada Day!

[paddysol]

i wonder if parrot downplaying wifies death in comparison to dean or luigi (like lowkey straight up not acknowledging it in his videos even though he's in entire control of the narrative presented to the audience) is him playing meta with his character on the server in the idea that its uu! parrot, by the way of video editing, refusing to come to terms with the death of his friend

[daincrediblegg]

personally I think the best thing that the joker sequel did for me was expose the exact degree to which how much of internet/public criticism is not based on genuine analysis of the content using social and cultural resources to support an actual argument but is actually adult children whining because someone took their batman toys and put them up on a high shelf for once and they, as a consumer, feel like they're entitled to throw a tantrum about it

[cesarescabinet]

Old edit I made after Act 3 dropped that still stands. Examining what went wrong in this season feels like an autopsy at this point.

[beatriceeagle]

An ouch moment from the most recent NMTDaily email that I missed the first time around:

But also, HERO IS THE ONE WRITING THOSE TWEETS. This is why I fell so deep into these series. The fucking layers, man. The layers.

[slime-crafters]

Honestly love when video games use it/its for the player character

[druidshollow]

i can Not stop fucking watching this

[butchlifeguard]

im up painting and kind of heated about the 'not like other girls' stereotype. 'ohh i pretended to like soccer and playing cod because i wanted to be different from other girls it was such obvious internalized misogyny 💀💀' yes but. girls can like those things why are we pretending like theyre inherently not things women would ever organically do

[achingly-shy]

thinking about everyone hating on sabine for giving baylan the map and choosing ezra over the safety of the galaxy....like did we all just forget "EVERYTHING i did was for FAMILY for MANDALORE"

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

do you sometimes also think about the great fire of london and how there probably weren't just six people who died but hundreds maybe thousands of people whose deaths went unrecorded bc they lived in the poorest part of the city that was turned entirely to ash by a fire so hot it left no human remains and bc no officials cared about these people they're left out of the story to this day. bc i do all the time tbh

[tricoufamily]

my this is the fall headcanon which i can have as its creator is that after jacques's death and maybe even after the kids' deaths they'll make an award-bait mrs. villareal biopic that is genuinely well made but like 99% inaccurate and hugo would probably publicly denounce it

[infizero]

you guys dont understand how much splatoon means to me. you will never understand

[erythristicbones]

"im so normal about this villain OC. i can leave them evil" (lying through my teeth)

[thatwitchrevan]

The thing about armchair diagnosing cis people as trans is that if you accept that everyone's understanding of gender is deeply personal and that you shouldn't tell someone they're not trans or not trans in the right way, you should also accept that you can't tell someone they are trans or that they're not cis in the right way. Or that they have to either identify as trans or cis.

These are all just words and there's never any excuse to argue with someone over who they are.

I don't think most people are genuinely trying to overrule the 'cis in a gnc way' perspective but even being flippant about it is not helpful. Also I think cis people talking about gender in complex and fun ways is very cool.

[luv-again]

hmmmm feel like i shoulda been taking notes w this matariki video :/