# Republicans are ALWAYS the REAL victims! :rolleyes: **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506 "2018-10-25T17:26:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/81 "2018-11-02T13:42:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > TIL the word “[tankie](http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Tankie)”. Yep, they’re the left-wing analogue to the neo-nazis on the right. Except, y’know, the two aren’t really analogous at all, so… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/82 "2018-11-02T15:05:35Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > You’re right. I can’t imagine any place bad enough that I would want Shodan to show up. Though we’re not in the same club, I’ve always considered him a member. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/83 "2018-11-02T15:14:30Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Say what you will about leftbook’s disturbing tolerance for tankies, but their response when challenged is generally to debate, not just call you a cuck or a nazi. Eh, that’s a bit generous, especially when they’re outright denying the Holdomor or claiming the gulags never killed anyone or other crap. And, yes, they _do_ call people Nazis: One thing the tankies and the Republicans have in common is claiming “Liberals Are The Real Nazis” in so many words. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/84 "2018-11-02T17:02:58Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > Notwithstanding the weekly cross burnings, of course. The only question is whether Grand Master Shodan forces his adopted daughter to participate in the conflagration. Intellectual racists like Grand Master Shodan, David French, and even Laura Ingraham import and adopt children of color not to just to appear more cosmopolitan but to inoculate themselves against accusations of racism. It is offensive when white supremacists use children of color as props. Ingrowan has one Guatemalan girl, and two russian, white, caucasian boys. The righties love russia these days, culturally speaking. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/85 "2018-11-02T18:55:15Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I’ll hazard a guess that the ceremonial stuff was _all_ that Measure was expecting Trump to do, that he’d flit from event to meaningless event where he could be the center of attention, while the drudgery of government would be left to underlings. I remember when he was looking for a VP: Report: Trump camp offered to make Kasich ‘most powerful VP in history’ [https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/288471-report-trump-camp-offered-to-make-kasich-most-powerful-vp](https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/288471-report-trump-camp-offered-to-make-kasich-most-powerful-vp) > [@](#): > > Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a Kasich adviser after the Ohio governor ended his own Republican presidential campaign, promising that if he accepted the vice presidency, Kasich would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. I joked at the time "What is Trump going to be in charge of, then? Space? And just a few months ago Trump wanted to establish Space Force!!! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/86 "2019-07-28T21:41:54Z")
[Trump is being victimized by racist Elijah Cummings!](https://apnews.com/76da6dbad40e4209827abacc0b3d3ea7) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/87 "2019-09-18T01:08:14Z")
They are fucking shameless scumbags and Sean Spicer is no exception: [https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/politics/sean-spicer-dancing-with-the-stars/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/politics/sean-spicer-dancing-with-the-stars/index.html) > [@](#): > > Spicer danced a salsa while wearing a very lime green and very frilly shirt and a pair of white pants. The three-judge panel didn’t love the performance, giving him a 12 (out of a possible 30) score. “What were you doing there?” one of the judges asked Spicer, according to the Daily Beast. “It’s like you were being attacked by a swarm of wasps.” > > That’s not terribly surprising. After all, Spicer has zero background in dance. His professional partner on “DWTS” described him as starting at a “pre-pre-school level.” And being bad at dancing while on “DWTS” isn’t exactly a new thing. Master P, David Hasselhoff, Tom Delay and Steve Wozniak – and many more – were all laughably bad on the show. (Yes, I was an avid “DWTS” fan for many years.) > > What is surprising is that, within 24 hours of his first performance, Spicer himself is trying to cast his presence on the show as some sort of next front in the culture wars between coastal elites and the Make American Great Again crowd. > [@](#): > > It started Monday night with this tweet from former Arkansas governor and longtime culture warrior Mike Huckabee: > > “Wanna create an emotional meltdown in Hollyweird? Vote for @seanspicer to win ‘Dancing with the Stars’ tonight and every night he’s on. @seanspicer is a good guy and a brave sport to go on DWTS. Let’s show him some love!” > [@](#): > > But then on Tuesday morning, Spicer took it to a whole new universe. He retweeted Huckabee and added this: > > “Thank you @GovMikeHuckabee Clearly the judges aren’t going to be with me. Let’s send a message to #Hollywood that those of us who stand for #Christ won’t be discounted. May God bless you” :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > Wait, what? So the reason that the judges didn’t like Spicer’s performance was because he “stand[s] for Christ”? How, exactly, did he draw that conclusion? > > Following that logic, it’s safe to assume the judges are also racists because former NBA basketball player Lamar Odom, who is black, got the only score of the night lower than Spicer. Right? No? > > What if – and stick with me here because this is going to get very complicated – Spicer and Odom just aren’t good dancers? What if the reason Spicer got a low score had zero to do with Christ and everything to do with the fact that, as he himself has admitted, he has no formal training and isn’t a terribly good dancer? > > Wild, right? I told you it was pretty out there! > [@](#): > > What’s Spicer doing then? Taking a page out of the victim strategy employed to devastating success by Donald Trump in 2016. Spicer is the victim here – not of his poor dance moves but rather of an anti-religious conspiracy that shuns believers. The only way to beat back this march of secularism is to vote for him! > > The logical twists and turns this line of argument requires are really something – most notably that if “DWTS” was really so biased against people pf faith like Spicer, why would they invite him to be on the show in the first place? > > Don’t think too hard on it. Because there’s no “there” there. Spicer is pre-butting his possible removal from the show as a means to further his own commercial interests. > If his eventual elimination from the show means he is just not a very good dancer, that’s a loss for Spicer. But if his elimination is cast as the latest blow by the elites against MAGA country in an ongoing culture war, well then Spicer becomes a hero and a symbol to a certain segment of the public. And you can make a lot more money being a hero and a symbol than being just a bad dancer. Fuck him. Go back to hiding in the shrubbery, Mr. Spicer. I sincerely hope that SNL already has Melissa McCarthy rehearsing a sketch for the cold open this weekend; this deserves as much scorn and ridicule as can be heaped upon it. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/88 "2019-09-18T01:13:52Z")
Well damn! I was hoping Spicer would be “So bad he wins” while Spicer being clueless as to why he made it so far. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/89 "2019-09-18T04:00:40Z")
He may be able to stay on there for a while if the Faux News crowd gets their viewers involved and voting for him. Yuck. Sarah Palin’s insipid daughter Brilinta (or whatever) managed to keep going for a while but didn’t win. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/90 "2019-09-18T04:34:34Z")
That Sean Spicer thing, I’m not sure what’s aggravating about it. It’s certainly no different when a Muslim or Homosexual gets booted and they cry bigotry, to which the bootlickers come in and defend. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/91 "2019-09-18T04:35:24Z")
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! Thanks for helping prove the point of the thread! ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/92 "2019-09-18T05:18:32Z")
As said elsewhere, this is why you can’t invite republicans anywhere. They will scream and play the victim regardless. It’s like inviting a 2-year-old with a persecution complex to a game of Werewolf. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/93 "2019-09-18T05:29:22Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > That Sean Spicer thing, I’m not sure what’s aggravating about it. It’s certainly no different when a Muslim or Homosexual gets booted and they cry bigotry, to which the bootlickers come in and defend. Got a question for you, you lying sack of crap. When has a homosexual or a Muslim gotten booted from _Dancing With the Stars_ and “cried bigotry” for getting booted? I’ll make it simple for you. Fill in the form below. [ul][li]Dancer booted:[/li][li]Season:[/li][li]Episode in which booted:[/li][li]Indicate which applies to dancer (Homosexual, Muslim, both):[/li][li]When booted dancer “cried bigotry”:[/li][li]Venue in which booted dancer “cried bigotry”:[/li][\*]Which bootlicker or bootlickers defended the booted dancer for “crying bigotry”:[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/94 "2019-09-18T05:49:36Z")
It’s no good, **Monty** : facts don’t matter to people like him. The only thing that matters to them is what they _believe_. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/95 "2019-09-18T06:49:08Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > As said elsewhere, this is why you can’t invite republicans anywhere. They will scream and play the victim regardless. It’s like inviting a 2-year-old with a persecution complex to a game of Werewolf. Ho-lee fuck the irony of this post. You guys are red-assed about Spicer saying dumb shit, but have a party full of the most hyper offended victims known to humanity to which you defend like it’s your job no matter how retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/96 "2019-09-18T06:54:16Z")
You seriously just used the term _retarded_ as an insult? Wow. How edgy of you. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/97 "2019-09-18T07:32:39Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Ho-lee fuck the irony of this post. > > You guys are red-assed about Spicer saying dumb shit, but have a party full of the most hyper offended victims known to humanity to which you defend like it’s your job no matter how retarded. Ho-lee fuck the irony of this post. Spicer is the hyper offended victim here, did you somehow miss that? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/98 "2019-09-18T07:35:56Z")
Is it Miller time yet? I really hope it’s Miller time soon, I’m too sober for this. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/99 "2019-09-18T07:44:43Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Is it Miller time yet? > > I really hope it’s Miller time soon, I’m too sober for this. I thought you were talking about the baninator until you mentioned sobriety. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506/100 "2019-09-18T10:12:29Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You seriously just used the term _retarded_ as an insult? Wow. How edgy of you. It especially won’t work on Budget Player Cadet, he’ll get turned on by it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-always-the-real-victims-rolleyes/823506.md?page=6)