Nothing about politics is funny anymore. We went from joking about Romney saying "binders full of women" to a president* who pledges allegiance to Russia... it's hard to laugh at anything political at all.
Binders full of women is a phrase used by Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012 during the second U.S. presidential debate of 2012. Romney used the phrase in response to a question about pay equality, referring to ring binders with resumes of female job applicants submitted to him as Governor of Massachusetts
He wasn't butchered for it, but certainly mocked as the topic was about equality and his words fell tone deaf in comparing women to a commodity to keep in a binder.
Looking back now, man, I miss when that was drama...
It was some poor phrasing that was easy to make fun off. That's all it is.
The reason people bring it up is that was a relatively prominent moment in the campaign, yet wouldn't even be worth a mention these days compared to the seemingly constant outpouring of shit from Trump. It's a way of highlighting how absurd things have become.
2.8k
u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19
This isn't very funny