Since the Republican nomination hopeful (although not very hopeful) Jeb Bush tweeted a picture of his handgun he has been mocked around the world with images that comically replace that violent symbol with the gentler images that sum up less trigger-happy places – a cup of tea for the UK, a bike for the Netherlands, a curry for Bradford.
Christie argued that the Obama administration was being mocked around the world.
Despised and mocked around the world, and here at home, his history-making disapproval rating has impacted his legacy because his lack of command over the media leads to the tidal wave of speculation and pontification by talking heads and political "experts" who have been allowed to define his presidency to mean pretty much whatever they think it means.
In many ways, the black community has much more to learn about our history before we can get to a certain point of mocking or toying around with its heritage and lessons.
The other day a video emerged that seemed to show an Israeli soldier dancing in a mocking manner around a cowering Palestinian woman whom he appeared to have under his control.
Her talent for mocking those around her – from Candice's abusive boyfriend to Fat Lesha, a teen entrepreneur who sells condoms and bagels from a bin liner – gives the impression that Tracey thinks she can say and do anything she wants.
The picture shows a bearded, terrified man on his knees, draped in a prayer shawl, his arms up in supplication, as Nazi soldiers stand around with mocking expressions, truncheons and rifles at the ready.
Every now and then, Bullough offers up an indelible and vivid flash of Russia — the furious, swearing drunk, wriggling on the sidewalk "like a turtle on a jar" as policemen and teenagers stand around mocking him; the stone-faced official, "swelling like a thundercloud," who thaws instantly when Bullough mentions the name of a mutual acquaintance.
Stuck in Charleville while great things were happening in the world ("I'm dying, decomposing under the weight of platitude"), the once model schoolboy let his hair grow long, sat around mocking the passing bourgeoisie, and smoked his clay pipe a lot.
Me, I don't like writers who go around mocking everything.
Did you catch that poke at Republicans, who essentially themed their entire 2012 convention around mocking Obama for saying "you didn't build that"?
