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(48,968 posts) Fri Oct 12, 2012, 11:38 AM Oct 2012

ROFL! Hilarious, mocking read from Salon: Paul Ryan flaunts his political muscles

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/paul_ryan_flaunts_his_political_muscles/

But on Thursday, it was would-be vice-presidential candidate and P90X enthusiast Paul Ryan who took the game to a whole new level. When Time unleashed a “pumped up” pictorial of him doing what he does best — dumbbell curls — Ryan and his awesome guns somehow managed to upstage his imminent debate with Joe Biden. The photos, shot last December for Time’s Person of the Year issue, have “instant meme” written all over them. If you’ve somehow not seen them yet, go ahead and look but I warn you, you won’t be able to stop looking. SO MANY LAYERS.

In the utterly brilliant first three of the series, Ryan doesn’t look like a traditional statesman. He looks like that putz at your gym who YEAAAAAGGGGHs his way through a couple of reps and then doesn’t wipe down the equipment. In them, Ryan sits with a red baseball cap perched atop his head, buds in his ears as “You Shook Me All Night Long” surely blares inspirationally, and wears an expression that says, “I’m going to need more fiber.” As a friend observes, the only thing not pictured is a barbed-wire tattoo on his bicep. I swear to God I don’t know which I’m going to use this year as my Christmas card — the one where he’s hoisting a 40-pound weight and bulging his eyes or the one where he’s holding out his palm and pouting like he’s petulant because Ryan Lochte went to Vegas with Prince Harry instead of him. Jeah!

Just the pics at Time.com are unintentionally hilarious.

But the slideshow at the bottom of the Salon article is even better.