Yes, we all remember President Obama with his incendiary and notoriously divisive rhetoric, particularly when it came to race rawstory.com/barack-obama-j…
For the record, I’m giving you all credit for recognizing the intrinsic absurdity of my premise without having to explain my sarcasm
Because if there’s one thing that never happens on Twitter, it’s deliberately absurd statements being taken 100% at face value
I’m thinking about writing a science-fiction screenplay where a cynical TV commentator who reliably repeats white-supremacist talking points is replaced with a bona fide white supremacist who believes every word he says and NOBODY NOTICES THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE IT DOES NOT MATTER
ALIEN 1: There is conservative commentator Tucker Carlson; let’s scramble his brains to make him a bona fide racist
ALIEN 2: Wasn’t he already—
ALIEN 1: No, it was just for ratings
(ZAP)
CARLSON: We have too many immigrants
FOX VIEWERS: Something seems...not at all different
We’re never gonna see a Republican like Bush, McCain, or Romney again. The GOP might as well replace their goddamned elephant with an actual poop-flinging monkey.
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOP RISING STARS, POST-TRUMP:
- Don’t know jack about shit
- Make headlines for boldly ignorant sloganeering and/or smug putdowns
- “How triggered are the liberals” is primary measure of success
- Defended by wave after wave of Whataboutism on Fox News et. al
BURR STANS: TRIGGERED!!! FEMINISTS CAN’T TAKE A JOKE!!!
It’s almost as if there were a subset of the population that took such pleasure in making liberals angry that their own wishful thinking rendered the actual reactions of liberals irrelevant
I can easily imagine a brand-new Turning Point USA podcast where the theme of the very first episode is “Look at How Much I Triggered the Liberals Last Time”.
Doesn’t matter if it’s true. “Triggerer of Liberals” is now the imagined status of all modern conservative commentators.