And the Nation’s IQ rises a small but measurable amount just with this.
Joking, Bro
Exactly. Which is also why jokes about wypipo are not offensive – they’re not punching down.
(Well, I guess they are felt to be offensive to ignorant people who think wypipo are “the real victims these days.”)
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unfortunately there are A LOT of those folks. They are all over the Trump bandwagon for that exact reason…“We are the minority and we are the oppressed” bullshit.
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Yep. “Those people [black and brown people] stole our [conservative white people’s] America, and we [conservative white people] want to take back our country so we can make it great [mostly monochromatic] again!”
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That’s the gist of it…but I’d add to it “Those bleeding heart liberals won’t let me say what I wanna [all the racist bullshit that comes into mah head]…and they wanna give all the monies to the poor people who won’t get off their asses and get a JOB [even though those are primarily rural white people]…and they can’t even respect our flag and country and militarah [even though the kneeling had nothing to do with that and it was an actual Navy SEAL vet who proposed kneeling as a respectful gesture while still calling attention to …]”
Fuck it…you know exactly how these assholes think.
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https://twitter.com/umussbekidding/status/1001830419745079300?s=19
In vino veritas, as they say.
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Side note to the side note, the guy who accused George Takei of sexually assaulting him has walked back on his accusation after several holes turned up in his story. So that’s comforting.
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I’m late to the party - but did I miss the part where Ms.Barr said “I did it to piss of Joey!”?
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That would be ABC saying that. Joey probably thinks Barr didn’t go far enough.
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Thanks, I wish I’d seen this before last night! The guy is a thug.
The current right-wing noise is as follows (I Am Not Making This Up™): “Britain’s government, in their ongoing attempt to institute sharia law over all Britons, has arrested working class hero Tommy Robinson for livestreaming the trial of Muslim genital mutilators who are going to get a wrist-slap for cutting off little girls ladyparts because they are Muslim”.
I had to talk a co-worker off the crazy train on that one yesterday, and it was hard, even though the guy is educated and intelligent and not a fan of Trump. The anti-Muslim right is very effective at propaganda. 
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I, for one, look forward to never hearing from or about Barr ever again.
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Somehow I suspect Barr was repeating a meme she read somewhere else in the alt-right echo chamber, rather than creating an original “joke.” If anybody in the chain was talking specifically about Helena Bonham Carter in a Tim Burton movie, it wasn’t Barr. Barr just thinks it’s funny to be mean to blacks and Muslims and Democrats.
Anybody making excuses for Trump or Barr like they’re not really racists is jumping head-first into the shallow end of the pool. Trump and Barr didn’t decide they were Republicans UNTIL the Democrats nominated Obama for President. Then suddenly the Left was Satan to them. Racism is not just an item on the list — racism is ALL THEY CARE ABOUT.
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Considering this isn’t the first ape related insult she’s tweeted I highly doubt your take on it
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Without a job it looks like she has nothing else to do except Twitter.
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I think you and I agree she’s a racist repeating a racist joke.
My point is I doubt Barr was thinking specifically of Helena Bonham Carter.
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Agreed. When I heard that there was going to be a Rosanne reboot it was like hearing about ‘Jon and Kate Plus Eight’ all over again. Uggggggh.
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Don’t get too confident. Many of us assumed that would be the case for Donald Trump by the early 1990s.
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Yep. There’s a lot of $$$$ in notoriety.
I have no doubt she’ll find ways to cash in by playing up an Outsider status to the same kinds of rubes who think Trump is great because he “tells it like it is and doesn’t give a damn who he offends. The more ‘offensive’ libruls think Roseanne is the better!” etc.
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