It's unexpected.
Steyn is talking about something dreadful. The natural manner is to describe Biden accurately to show how ridiculous he is as a candidate for president of United States, but instead Steyn makes up a heroic story with every single element, every detail, wildly distorted.
9-star general kills me.
As Steyn goes it's easy to imagine your own heroic story with every single element wildly exaggerated or distorted to describe a ridiculous picture. This verbal satire is more effective than a serious discussion because it's hilarious and engaging, while a serious discussion is alienating. Thereafter Biden cannot be listened to seriously. He cannot be heard without your mind inserting a million ridiculous possibilities for satire.
And this can be applied to anything. Instead of seriously attacking Warren or Beto or whomever, instead, consider this type of ridicule that gets everything wrong and projects it onto the subject.
This is what b3ta does very well in Photoshop form. Any serious discussion that follows is just such a drag. Best to answer it with similar parody.
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Mark called the other fellow "Taco".
He did. That was good though, a good chuckle.
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