Hear, hear. Some of the best comedy right now is being supplied by conservatives, because their complete inability to land a real punch on either Biden or his popular policies has them thrashing around in frustration trying to find a target, any target. Genderless plastic potatoes will make your kids want to transition, Major is a very bad dog and should be euthanized, the Marines let girls in so the Marines are a bunch of sissies. But to me the absolute funniest thing is conservatives’ knee-jerk anti-Biden contrarianism, where his most anodyne remarks and actions turn them into toddlers who have skipped their naps.
Biden: it’s Monday.
Conservatives: Oooh, look at this tyrant, he thinks he can dictate to patriots what day of the week it is! What about my freedom of speech to say it’s Tuesday, huh? What about the right of conservatives to print our OWN calendars without being canceled by elite libtards? Here’s MY calendar, and it says today is Tuesday! Come and take it, bitch!
Well, now, given that our armed forces are in fact breeding and train grounds for right wing extremists and heretical Xians -- oops, I mean evangelicals -- I full support the wing nuts essentially shitting on their own.
I mean, woke policing. Sure.
But you know, the fuckers are still unhinged and still living in their America fanfic. Any pandering will do for the GOP base (the part not supporting the GOP because they have an actual financial interest). And they'll follow their marching orders no matter how insane they appear to the less deluded, fantasizing, detached from reality...
It’s amazing the extent to which the GOP has become the He-Man Woman Haters Club. Not that misogyny hasn’t been part of the right’s appeal for a long time, but I’m fully expecting calls for the repeal of the 19th Amendment to be a mainstream Republican position in another election cycle or two.
I hadn’t heard about the Marines forced to apologize for kicking Tucker in his balls. Sounds like some Marine brass need to be relocated to brown snake removal on Guam.
As usual a fantastic piece, although I think I'd put it another way. To me it's not so much about psychological comfort as about maintaining power and relevance. In other words, I'd say the Right isn't thinking "they look down on me" as much as "holy crap less and less people are willing to buy my schtick." But because their minds and the minds of their followers are so narrow, they can only go one direction. As a result, anyone that poses a threat to them has to be labeled with the label of the day ("woke," "cancel culture").
That said, there's not much difference. If you're trying to maintain your power and relevance, you're also trying to comfort yourself into believing you still have power and relevance.
In the long multi-millennia history of radical movements led by the usual middle-to-upper-class twits, the "pick a random fight with the Empire's military" stage is usually at the tail end of the movement.
Either they win the whole pile and take over or the military ends up removing the second-in-command guy so many times no one wants to be in the movement anymore.
Over and over, it is the perceived loss of privilege driving them insane. As a white boomer, I watched the Grammys last night wondering what my parents would possibly make of it. I think they would have been more stunned than shocked, unable to process it at all. For me, it was a perfect display of every fear these people have, cancel culture writ large, on CBS of all networks.
Hear, hear. Some of the best comedy right now is being supplied by conservatives, because their complete inability to land a real punch on either Biden or his popular policies has them thrashing around in frustration trying to find a target, any target. Genderless plastic potatoes will make your kids want to transition, Major is a very bad dog and should be euthanized, the Marines let girls in so the Marines are a bunch of sissies. But to me the absolute funniest thing is conservatives’ knee-jerk anti-Biden contrarianism, where his most anodyne remarks and actions turn them into toddlers who have skipped their naps.
Biden: it’s Monday.
Conservatives: Oooh, look at this tyrant, he thinks he can dictate to patriots what day of the week it is! What about my freedom of speech to say it’s Tuesday, huh? What about the right of conservatives to print our OWN calendars without being canceled by elite libtards? Here’s MY calendar, and it says today is Tuesday! Come and take it, bitch!
Well, now, given that our armed forces are in fact breeding and train grounds for right wing extremists and heretical Xians -- oops, I mean evangelicals -- I full support the wing nuts essentially shitting on their own.
I mean, woke policing. Sure.
But you know, the fuckers are still unhinged and still living in their America fanfic. Any pandering will do for the GOP base (the part not supporting the GOP because they have an actual financial interest). And they'll follow their marching orders no matter how insane they appear to the less deluded, fantasizing, detached from reality...
It’s amazing the extent to which the GOP has become the He-Man Woman Haters Club. Not that misogyny hasn’t been part of the right’s appeal for a long time, but I’m fully expecting calls for the repeal of the 19th Amendment to be a mainstream Republican position in another election cycle or two.
I hadn’t heard about the Marines forced to apologize for kicking Tucker in his balls. Sounds like some Marine brass need to be relocated to brown snake removal on Guam.
(Sort of off topic but that Patrick Howley tweet is about the most anti-Semitic thing I've seen so far this year.)
Howley is half-right: the military just fights for financial oligarchs these days. I'm down for a boycott & defunding, of course.
I'm pretty sure these chumps are more angry that the top brass said they wouldn't support Trump's coup or plans for massacre.
Today's GOP: Angry they can't say the N-word *or* get a 10% military discount at Denny's.
As usual a fantastic piece, although I think I'd put it another way. To me it's not so much about psychological comfort as about maintaining power and relevance. In other words, I'd say the Right isn't thinking "they look down on me" as much as "holy crap less and less people are willing to buy my schtick." But because their minds and the minds of their followers are so narrow, they can only go one direction. As a result, anyone that poses a threat to them has to be labeled with the label of the day ("woke," "cancel culture").
That said, there's not much difference. If you're trying to maintain your power and relevance, you're also trying to comfort yourself into believing you still have power and relevance.
In the long multi-millennia history of radical movements led by the usual middle-to-upper-class twits, the "pick a random fight with the Empire's military" stage is usually at the tail end of the movement.
Either they win the whole pile and take over or the military ends up removing the second-in-command guy so many times no one wants to be in the movement anymore.
They’re not trying to convince you. They’re trying to comfort themselves.
They can't stand up to real women. Stick with the Fox News bimbos.
Awesome
What say you Lieutenant Colonel Joni Ernst? How about you, twice defeated former Senator Colonel Martha McSally?
'Eccch alia.'
heh
'They’re trying to comfort themselves.'
Must not give in to schadenfreude...must not....*claps hand over mouth, runs for door.....
I think it’s great the grand old party is latching onto TC. It only helps us ...!
Fuck you for service.
Over and over, it is the perceived loss of privilege driving them insane. As a white boomer, I watched the Grammys last night wondering what my parents would possibly make of it. I think they would have been more stunned than shocked, unable to process it at all. For me, it was a perfect display of every fear these people have, cancel culture writ large, on CBS of all networks.