MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC | Republicans at CPAC 2024 are openly vowing to take down democracy.
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About the only way we're going to actually have a democracy is if they consistently lose elections. That's going to mean volunteering, donating, and actually turning out to vote
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"Rabid applause" lol what fucking BS. Anyone who watches that video can see what an absolute blatant lie that is.
FFS, it was a bad joke that mostly fell flat. Republicans pose real threats to our democracy and way of life, no reason to trump up some BS like this. All that does is open the door to for something Republicans can latch on to in order to dismiss actual valid concerns.
Keep in mind that this guy constantly downplays Jan 6th, and claims it was actually the feds. He believes it is a false flag, which is why this is obviously a joke.
I think I've figured out why Republicans are so dogshit at comedy. They think a "joke" is what you retroactively call something you meant in earnest as soon as you get pushback.
Are you saying the comedic stylings of Mein Kampf aren't hilarious?
I was thinking more along the lines of Rob Schneider or Jeff Dunham. But yeah, I'm sure "I totally hate this Hitler guy or whatever, but you have no appreciation for what was obviously a joke" isn't much of a stretch for most aficionados of right wing retroactive comedy.
This guy has spent a ton of time claiming that Jan 6th was a false flag and it was all a set up by the feds. He's a fucking total douche and I hate defending him, but this was obviously meant as a joke, poking fun at the people claiming they are trying to destroy democracy, rather than "saying the quiet part out loud."
And this is the thing about comedy: it's likely a test to see if you share the same values. You don't share the same values as Republicans, which is why you don't find their humor funny. . .and vice versa.
So don't.
Yeah the problem is that I like defending truth and being honest more than I dislike defending him.
But apparently that's unpopular. Lol
Giving a fascist unearned benefit of the doubt is not a prerequisite for truth.
This is not about giving the benefit of the doubt, it's about accepting the facts even though I don't like the guy.
His "joke" lines up exactly with things Republicans are openly planning. I'm not buying that this is a joke at all.
Well, if they are openly planning it, then I suggest focusing on the people actually openly planning it. By trying to pretend that this obvious joke is not actually a joke, you call your objectivity and rationality into question.
lol it's just a joke bro! Can't you take a joooooooooke? God, you must be crazy to think it's anything other than a joke, bro!
Crazy? No. Just blinded by your own partisanship and with a fragile ego that is unwilling to admit you're wrong. It's okay, I was young and cocksure in my own ignorance too at one point, luckily I've matured out of it.
Keep gaslighting in defense of fascists.
Holy shit this is hilarious.
His twitter and other accounts are filled with him claiming Jan 6th is a false flag and that they are all political prisoners. You need to pretend none of this happened in order to hold the position that this wasn't a joke. You're projecting your own attempts to gaslight. You just hate the facts when they don't line up with your world view. You are more like Posobiec than you are willing to admit.
No. They say the quiet part aloud and say this shit afterward every time. Stop. It's been a decade. They don't get an inch of grace or benefit of the doubt.
A few years ago, a gay choir put out a song We'll Convert Your Children.
Obviously it was tongue in a cheek, a joke poking fun at people who think gay people are trying to make straight children gay. But never-the-less, there was a bunch of conservative outrage saying that they were admitting to it ("saying the quiet part out loud").
Your criticism sounds equivalently intelligent, because it's effectively the same thing.
I understand your point. In fact there isn't a better parallel on my part, for which you could point this out. You're accurate and I don't disagree with you. Having said that, it's the track record. That choir trolled once. These Nazis troll 24/7 as their identity. So for me personally, that context is more important than the similarity of this one off anecdote. So they don't get chances. Nobody gets infinite chances at anything. Boy who cried wolf at a minimum.
It's maddening to see it to be honest... This is the exact same thing as "we're all domestic terrorists." They're "poking fun" at what everyone says about them. They are literally trolling us, these kinds of people sit back and rub their nipples in intense pleasure as they read the left freaking out about what they said. They live for that kind of shit. For those that play video games: these are griefers, they live to make your day worse and there's no easier way than to use cheap words to rustle your jimmies.
No matter how shitty our SCOUTS is right now, it's shitty on behalf of major corporations, they aren't going to just dismiss the constitution completely just because some morons say they want a theocracy so they can impose their will on others as if it's what God wanted... They're going to impose their will, but they can't just snap their fingers and make the constitution disappear.