OUCH-Pete Buttigieg response to Donald Trump's slam that he is Alfred E Neuman

[kpete]

Ouch! Mayor
@Pete
Buttigieg responds to ⁦
@realDonaldTrump
⁩ slam that he is “Alfred E Neuman” —“I had to Google that..I guess it’s a generational thing.”

Link to tweet

[Cha]

1. Perfect!

[Sanity Claws]

2. Haha

That was such a kind subtle way of calling T-rump old and out of it.

[highplainsdem]

3. Wow! Perfect!!! Kudos to Mayor Pete!

[Iliyah]

4. Good response!

[greyl]

5. He killed.

Fatal blow with China comment.

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[True Dough]

7. Great tweet!

I'm 9 years older than Mayor Pete. I grew up with a pile of Mad magazines in a dresser drawer. Spy vs. Spy. Folding the inside cover to reveal a hidden joke image, endless parodies.

I'm pretty sure this is the first edition I owned:

[greyl]

11. Yeah, spot on.

Pretty sure my first Mad was No. 212, and its "Our Version of Alien" really sticks in my mind. Also had four Mad paperbacks, w Al Jaffee Mad Inventions and Don Martin. Those were stolen out of my 8th grade desk at Catholic school, and until a few minutes ago, I always suspected the CCD kids who used our classroom on Sundays.

Tonight, I think it was Sister Martha.

[Celerity]

25. this one is great too

[True Dough]

29. I rarely take notice of the more modern Mad mags

but that one is spectacular! It would make Trumpy MAD all right!

[Lucky Luciano]

39. I don't think vlad would be too happy about it either! LOL

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. Love it! Great artwork! 😆

[Docreed2003]

26. Lol...had that one as well!

[reACTIONary]

50. My First Issue...

... my mom didn't exactly like it.

[True Dough]

53. What?

People had sex back in the 60s???

[reACTIONary]

54. Are you kidding....

.... we INVENTED sex. Its a generational thing. ( )

[ginny skinny]

51. That is so perfect! Thanks.

[greyl]

6. Support from David Frum, what are things coming to?

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[customerserviceguy]

15. Too. Damned. Funny. n/t

[subterranean]

16. Not surprising. Frum is one of the most vocal Trump critics on the right.

[Lefta Dissenter]

8. I love everything about this entire thread. (N/t)

[handmade34]

9. ...

love it... but Mayor Pete, it is a generational thing, but I wouldn't have missed it for anything

[SCantiGOP]

10. Most enjoyable thread of the day

[Ligyron]

12. What me worry?

Oh you'd better worry you orange moron. Things are about to get real.

[DemoTex]

36. What??!! ME worry.

ME worry 24/7 as long as that orange shit-gibbon stalks this country.

[customerserviceguy]

13. Ahh, Pete!

Yes, but thanks for making me feel old! Maybe he should be told that Alfred E. Neuman was actually considered a Presidential candidate, much the way that Pat Paulsen was, too. I suppose that's also generational.

[AllaN01Bear]

14. you mean to tell me you dont know about mad magazines iconic mascot?

from a mad reader , i wonder if #he who shall not be named really knows what the ramifications of that means . i wonder if mad mag would feel insulted by the use of their in(famous) mascot in that manner demeaning someone . mad magazine for 27 years hating trump and his old man.

[defacto7]

17. That is hilarious...

I have a sneaking suspition that he didn't really have to look it up. He's just ready for anything.

[snort]

18. snort

[MontanaMama]

19. That's some professional trolling right there.

Way to go Mayor Pete!

[sop]

20. Clearly, bully-boy Trump's nicknaming schtick has jumped the shark

Keeping his moron hordes amused while the walls are closing in must be getting to him.

[Capt. America]

21. I love the fact that he had to remind Dear Leader to do his job and not act like a 12 year old.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. GREAT thread and GREAT response from Mayor Pete!

I'm still smiling......

[edbermac]

23. He never heard of Mad magazine?

Like saying he never heard of Curly.

[leftofcool]

32. of course he has

Sheesh!

[iluvtennis]

24. Love it, love it, love it.

[Skittles]

27. I bet he really did not have to google it

[WeekiWater]

28. .

[Tarc]

30. My 6th-grade teacher smacked me on the back of the head once,

got caught doing the ol' MAD-Magazine-Behind-the-Textbook thing. Different times...

[cwydro]

31. Rec.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

33. Danny Thomas started at our office years ago, Boss was teasing him about 'the' Danny Thomas..

Our new guy said,

"Who is that?" (Yeah, he was young).

A smack-down is a smack-down.. What? I'm not worrying about it!

[robbedvoter]

34. So, he puts down MAD?

Not funny to me. I guess I am a geezer too.

[leftofcool]

40. That was your take away?

[UniteFightBack]

44. No he's putting down old people. nt

[Honeycombe8]

47. I took it to mean he really didn't know who it was.

Alfred E Neuman was more popular back in the day.

I guess I'm a geezer, too, since I used to read MAD Magazine.

[The Genealogist]

55. Add me to the geezer cohort

I used to read MAD as a youngster, in the late 80s and early 90s. I kept them around for years, and read several of them to tatters. Still thought his response was funny, though.

[SKKY]

35. He has the best passive-aggressive burns I think I've ever seen.

Can you imagine him in a debate with Trump?

[DemoTex]

37. Alfred E. is for me!

Neuman/Worrell 2020! (Alfred E. Neuman and Ernest P. Worell)

[pdsimdars]

38. Never too much, never to little, always right on the mark.

[keithbvadu2]

42. From Mad Magazine 1992

From Mad Magazine 1992

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211767378

[Crowman2009]

45. I remember that issue!

Can't remember what I did with it, but I do recall seeing this comic.

[lambchopp59]

43. This man will capture the demographic most needed in 2020

Because I can name more young folks than I have fingers right now who are sickened by Trump, and they are coming of voting age now.

[Honeycombe8]

46. That's a great response.

Trump is struggling to get his juvenile name-calling tags right.

I think the Dems ought to call Trump names, if such a thing fits his/her personality.

Maher said Warren should start calling Trump "Broke-ahontas." It was pretty funny. But I don't think that's Warren's style.

[treestar]

48. I used to read those growing up

When they made fun of Nixon and Agnew

[spike jones]

49. Num Me Vexo?

From 1988
The source of a 13-year-old prank in stained glass at the University of Washington in Seattle, has been uncovered: The architect did it.
University spokesman Tom Griffin says architect David Wright is responsible for a portrait of George Washington at the school's Health Sciences cafeteria that bears the inscription, "Num Me Vexo?"For non-Latin scholars, that means, "What, Me Worry?" And, yes, it was inspired by Alfred E. Neuman, the grinning, big-eared symbol of Mad magazine. Wright was the designer of the south campus center where the stained glass portrait of Washington hangs.
Griffin's research answered questions raised by a weekly newspaper story that called "Num Me Vexo?" the strangest Latin inscription in Seattle. Griffin said the inscription came about because students wanted a picture of a revolutionary there. Washington was selected and "Num Me Vexo?" was Wright's contribution. Wright said he was pleased his joke was finally discovered.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

52. Thank you for this great bit of history, spike jones!

[LAS14]

56. k&r