Stupid Republican idea of the day

<Republican sign in rally> Keep your darn government hands off my Smithsonian!

IOW a nothingberder with fries.

The story links to a RW glossary that is kind helpful; make of it what you will,

Chad*
Meaning: Chad Thundercock—or just “chad”—is a derogatory name given to attractive men who are sexually successful with women.

Etymology: The origin of the meaning of “chad” is murky, but it was probably popularized on 4chan, the imageboard also home to the Anonymous hacker collective. It rose out of the depths of the internet around 2013 but only reached alt-right consciousness in the last year or so. (You might have seen the “virgin walk” memes floating around, for example.)

Today the place you’ll see “chad” most often is on the subreddit r/Incels, which is a depressing mix of self-loathing, self-pity, and misogyny. Chads are the ubiquitous successful object of envy for this community: attractive, smart, successful, and always lucky with women. The idea is used to reinforce the notion that celibacy is involuntary; incels think the only reason why women won’t sleep with them is because they don’t look like chads, as women are shallow and will always go for chads.*

gotta love 4chan

Representatives for the Smithsonian responded that they would have displayed Raven’s submission, but for the fact that “our refrigerator is in the shop right now.”

Brian Kilmeade isn’t impressed that Beto O’Rourke reads books.
‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: Who Cares That Beto O’Rourke Reads Books??

Ahhh. The triumph of the willfully ignorant.

Readin’ and book larnin’ is for LOSERS! Do YOU want Albert Einstein flyin’ YOUR plane? I didn’t think so.

And later on in the broadcast when he was asked to name pies for Pi Day, he stammers…then finally blurts out “Drakes Cakes”? Priceless!

He also couldn’t name a favorite pie . . . just when you think SNL parodies are over the top, real life comes through.

Even better.

How is this guy able to function in society?

“Hey there buddy - what’s your favourite pie”

“ummmm derp derp… CAKE!”

I mean, it does not sound like he’s qualified to bag groceries at the Piggly Wiggly.

In Chicago, people have been calling preppy handsome-but-dumb twenty-somethings, who attended college but picked up more girls than learning and now live in the trendy areas of the city, Chadsfor a few decades, long before there were any incels inside. :slight_smile: The women of the same sort are Trixies.

This is also the guy that drilled a toddler in the face with a basketball:

Since Bobby Moynihan—who played Kilmeade as a sub-moronic cretin barely able to figure out how to sit on a couch—left, they don’t do the Fox & Friends parodies anymore. It’s a shame, as the “lists of corrections” that used to take up most of the sketches always contained some laugh-out-loud gems.

The official GOP Twitter account posted a picture of Beto O’Rourke’s mug shot from his DUI arrest years ago, identifying him as Robert Francis O’Rourke (because they hate that his lifetime nickname is Beto), with a green Irish hat photoshopped (badly) on his head, to wish us a Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

The image plays on anti-Irish bigotry, according to many:

Jeet Heer offered an interesting discussion of that element of the white-supremacist right that considers some groups—including Irish-Americans—to fail the ‘whiteness test’:

So, the official GOP account is, at the very least, trafficking in stereotypes—if not outright offering aid and comfort to the whitest of white supremacists. Nice work.

Are the GOP sure they want to start trading pictures of people arrested for criminal behavior?

Sigh … Dubya. Cheney twice.

Not that it matters to them.

I first learned that ‘Beto’ was nickname and a gimmick to get latino votes, from Rafael Cruz.

Just a sitting member of Congress joking about having a civil war in the United States and predicting who would win (and not noticing that his state is on the losing side).