Republicans are ALWAYS the REAL victims! :rolleyes:

[Budget_Player_Cadet]

@Gyrate

TIL the word “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…

[VinylTurnip]

@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.

[Derleth]

@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.

[drad_dog]

@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.

[dasmoocher]

@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

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!!!

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Trump is being victimized by racist Elijah Cummings!

[Snowboarder_Bo]

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

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.

[Grrr]

Well damn! I was hoping Spicer would be “So bad he wins” while Spicer being clueless as to why he made it so far.

[Skypist]

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.

[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.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! Thanks for helping prove the point of the thread!

[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.

[Monty]

@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]

[Snowboarder_Bo]

It’s no good, Monty: facts don’t matter to people like him. The only thing that matters to them is what they believe.

[Annoyed]

@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.

[Monty]

You seriously just used the term retarded as an insult? Wow. How edgy of you.

[crowmanyclouds]

@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!

[Budget_Player_Cadet]

Is it Miller time yet?

I really hope it’s Miller time soon, I’m too sober for this.

[Monty]

@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.

[Steophan]

@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.