Recounting the unexpected difficulties the future president’s brief cameo brought to his film shoot, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York director Chris Columbus admitted Wednesday that he has hours of outtakes featuring Donald Trump uttering racial slurs. “We thought it would be a fun little 30-second cameo from a popular New York figure, but we got barely any usable footage because Trump kept yelling [the N-word] at everyone in the lobby of the Plaza,” said the director, who divulged that several takes had to cut early as Trump unleashed a 15-20-minute torrent of various racial slurs, once even wrestling the Talkboy voice-changing tape recorder from Macaulay Culkin’s hands and filling its 30-minute cassette with disparaging slurs for Mexicans.
reminding myself yet again to remove hands from keyboard in any situation where I am at risk of reading people’s Takes that they are In Their Feelings About, so that I do not in my exasperation actually say anything.
there is no situation that “oh my god you are making insanely bad faith arguments, get fucked” will ever help.
it will inevitably be taken as expressing targeted capital-H hate toward them/ their personal stakes/ identity/ etc, and not as exasperation after having read two hours of poorly made bad faith arguments with no resolution and increasingly bad faith escalation.
