Stupid fascist fucks.
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bullies always start out "joking"
That tweet actually came from a Matt Walsh satire twitter account.
But the real Matt Walsh definitely feels that way. Every self-identifying fascist is giddy with anticipation right now.
But this tweet
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1854164649433858119
Is made by this account
Which is linked on the contact page of this channel.
People will justify anything their politician does when they support the politician but not that action. This person did not care about project2025.
If anybody wants to look in the mirror, democrats do this stuff when saying Harris supports a ceasefire in Gaza.
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I used to have a boss who like to joke about firing people on his team. He was a nice guy and there was no ill intention behind the jokes, but we eventually had to sit him down and tell him that he couldn't joke about that stuff because it causes a great deal of stress to people given his position.
Another example is bomb jokes in airports. Aside from just being in poor taste, that's something that will get you arrested and probably put on a no-fly list for life because it's an extremely serious matter with no exceptions.
So, even if Trump and his people are just joking about these horrible things, it's completely unacceptable when it's entirely believable they would do this stuff and would be in a position to make it happen.
TLDR: There are just some things you don't fucking joke about.
I joke about firing people sometimes, but I am not a manager and never want to be managing anyone. I only say it to people who know that I have no power over them which is the only time this joke is OK.
I do IT at a semiconductor foundry, and only us and managers walk around with laptops. I don't even have to say anything, and people get in panic mode and scramble to look like they are working until I say don't worry, I'm just IT. I won't say a word.
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The difference is that people who joke about bombs in airports typically don't actually think bombs in airports are a good idea.
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I remember a story of a young manager joking about firing people. The older manager pulled him to the side and told him you can't do that because that can hit people.
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The majority of the electorate is mentally defective degenerates.
My parents contantly regurgitates propaganda from wechat about how democrats in NYC are letting homess people and migrants ruin everything.
We dont even live in NYC.
I told her to vote Harris and she did (she didn't even know how to fill out a ballot I had to tell her how to) but then later she said "maybe we shouldn't vote for democrats" because of the homeless shelters built near Chinese populations in NYC (which is a fair grivence, but I dont see how republicans are gonna solve it better). Abosolutely no independent thought and no critical thinking just parroting whatever the last person said.
She doesn't understand that the "homeless" or "migrants" are just dogwhistles referring to people like us who maga republicans deem inferior.
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I’m waiting for his followers to feel like he’s moving too fast or too slow on project 2025. Maybe they’ll question if he’s the puppet or puppet master
'Seems like there will be a lot of well-fed leopards in the near future.
I listened to many interviews with people convinced that Trump wouldn't do the things he said he would do. They definitely won't acknowledge the things he said he won't do.
"He lies about so many things! How the hell was I supposed to know he actually meant it this time?"
To be fair, I'm hoping Trump won't do a lot of the things that he said he'd do. I have some hope of that--not because his intentions are good, but on the chance he gets distracted with something less harmful that strokes his ego.
Trump is not the one to worry about now. His entire cabinet and the cavities within every institution who wrote and sponsored and want project 2025 are the ones to worry about. They will be carrying out their edict that they've successfully worked on for at least a decade now if not more. They have everything they could ever want to do it. And Trump will do random crazy things because he can now and that's who he is but he doesn't care about 2025, he just cares about celebrity, money and power. And every crazy thing he makes headlines for will be when the power grabs really happen and when the damage is done.
I'm going to hope that people learned from Putin how to manage Trump and more folks will be vying for influence in a competitive manner. There's at least a chance that being aclnowledged at the big boy table will leave him somewhat less receptive to folks specifically like Bannon.
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"He's probably just joking" is something I heard so much over the past few years about things the right has been spewing. THEY ARE NOT LYING, THEY ARE NEVER LYING! I don't know how this is a hard thing to understand.
Fuck, my neighbor says the same every time Trump says something awful. "Trump just talks a lot of shit, he's just joking."
Fuck you neighbor, you approved leadership from the guy who encouraged putting kids in cages.
I'm sorry I thought we were having an election for president, not jester.
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Trump says 'I don't kid' after aides argue he was joking about slowing coronavirus testing.
he was joking about that you too, of course
Also, why the fuck is it cool for a politician to joke about doing shit? Literally any joke is not cool.
They lie all the time.
we just don't get to know when it's happening. People that trust those guys go with a "this is too horrible, so they must be lying" heuristic, that has been proven not to work several times. The problem is that an heuristic is not supposed to be reliable, and it's hard to make them see beyond the noise.
Also, if they are lying about these things, why did they vote for a liar? A lot of people who called agenda 2025 fake or lies still voted for the party representing it.
The problem is that he was likely joking. It’s a shitty joke on our end but Walsh is deliberately using people’s panic to make fun of the media and the left in general.
The point of the joke was to trigger alarms and make people write dumb articles about it. Then he can point and laugh about how his joke triggered you and also turn accusations about Project 2025 into a hyperbole that the left uses. From then on the phrase will be easily ignored by moderates as an overreaction from the left. Because in this case it is an overreaction, he’s clearly trying to scare people.
Just keep in mind that this is a common tactic they employ to take the sting out of certain terms and to keep their base unaware of the BS. It’s why the left can’t rally around phrases like the right can.
I don’t disagree with your analysis of what he’s doing, but I don’t think he’s joking in the sense that he doesn’t mean it. He’s “joking” in the “haha just kidding… unless? 👀” sense.
“No one in their right mind is backing 2025…”
Then why did YOU?!
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They've lied so much and gaslit so much that people don't know what to believe anymore.
And with all the AI and Russian troll farm bullshit being posted on social media, it's just poisoning the truth. It's time to ditch Twitter, Facebook and company.
I keep telling my folks that and that they'll end up being influenced and manipulated but they refuse because of how convenient it is. And I almost have to keep it because that's the only way they communicate right now.
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Worried about making white people uncomfortable is how we got here in this first place.
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