Thursday Thread: Caption quest! (or give us your favorite meme!) 😂
Fifty Shades of Slay! Kamala-Face Bingo! Drinking Game Edition?
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Hello, Lovelies, How the hell are you?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve watched every Presidential debate for the past thirty years, and I can’t think of anything that scores higher in pure idiocy than Trump ranting in front of a global audience about immigrants chowing down on people’s pets and Democrats executing babies after birth. Not even Dan Quayle sank to that level of lunacy.
But Kamala… Kamala’s face was a glory to behold! The reactions to her mug in the moment, and the debate overall, were such artful japes, the ultimate Tweet being:
“Help! There’s a 78-year-old baby being murdered right now on TV.”
(Btw, I cannot take credit for this glorious find, but it was too funny not to mention.)
But back to Kamala’s face… In the beginning, she wobbled and I could smell the pleaser in her—because I know it in me. It’s the Tracy Flick in me who wants to nail it!
I used to have a boss and we would be together in meetings where he would make these insane, bombastic claims, and when I would invariably gasp, raise a brow, or stifle a guffaw, afterward… he would scold me.
“You need to learn to CONTROL YOUR FACE, Jones!”
And, of course, my face would involuntarily go all Larry David, “What?!?”
And I’d say, “Um, I’m pretty sure you can’t say that… like that or… at all?”
“Your face is INSUBORDINATE!” He’d insist.
“Um, ok. So, don’t you think that maybe when I’m having certain reactions to things you’re saying, it might be a nonverbal social cue for you to… um… pivot? Like, maybe I’m trying to help?”
“Fuck off, Jones.”
“Right!” Ever the Girl Scout. That’s me.
So, as I was watching Kamala’s midlife face practically do acrobatics as Trump walked into each trap, I could only cackle with joy!
She called him on all the things. But best of all, Harris’s plainspoken insistence that this is a dude who is having trouble “processing” the fact that he lost—worked. Here was the authenticity, sans drama, that you only get with a midlife woman who has been through it all, seen it all, and has no bossy, old, white assclown left to please. Huzzah!
But what about you? What was your favorite meme, response, or reaction to the debate? Or maybe it was something more concrete—like a poll number?
OK, now, it’s your turn! Tell us, clever, cunning reader, how would you caption Kamala’s melange of expressions? Noodle over it a bit! There’s no rush.
Yours in Smirks - xoxo - gotham girl
PS - I am a human typo. Amnesty appreciated.
The disbelief, the snickering, the smirk. She can't believe what she's seeing, like she's watching a dog trying to ride a bicycle.
My all time fave is the hand under chin observational pose.