Earlier today I criticized Angel Eduardo for making a useful but un-original plea for comity between people of conflicting ideologies. (Try that with Jewish students and pro-Palestinian demonstrators!)
Apparently a false rumor started that J.D. Vance (whom he calls a “giant asshole”) was copulating with his couch, leading to Maher’s claim that we’re all willing to believe the worst things possible about our opponents. That leads to the conclusion that we shouldn’t characterize farmers as “hicks”, nor write off entire states as either “red” or “blue”. The conclusion: “America is a funny, mixed-up place now.” He then admits that while he used to hate country music, it’s become good and shouldn’t be dismissed as the music of racists and bumpkins.
So why do I beef about Angel Eduardo and show you Maher’s weekly comedy bit, both of which make the same point? Because Maher’s presentation is funny and entertaining, He concludes by saying, “Why don’t we just resist our worst impulses?”
The audience applauds, but then they’ll go home and demonize the other side!
It’s hard to like the Democrats right now. Their extremely violent (unhinged) rhetoric has directly led to two trump assassination attempts. Plus they are very anti-Semitic. A normal person does not root for terrorists who raped children in broad daylight. And, of course, their presidential nominee is somehow dumber and less qualified than Trump. And the bizarre crazy lies — Russia collusion, covid and bats, etc.
Is that supposed to be funny?
So unhinged rhetoric from the left led to Republicans trying to kill Trump? Alllllllrrrriiiighty then!
No Russian collusion? How quickly we forget!
Trump went on TV and asked for Russia’s help to steal Hillary’s e-mails. Days later, Russian hackers delivered them. Trump’s campaign had 192 contacts with Russian agents when, ethically, he should have had zero.
The Muller Report documented these abuses, and and recommended Obstruction of Justice charges, which Bill Barr corruptly quashed.
And yesterday, allegations of Trump’s advisors colluding with Russian disinformation specialists in the 2024 election surfaced.
I believe the current Dem candidate is a danger if Israel is important to you.
But Trump seems to like Putin which is not so good.
If copulating with a couch is the worst thing about a person, he can’t be that bad 🙂
It’s not rape. It’s not murder. If the worst thing Kaczynski did was do his sofa, things would have been fine 🙂
I’ve never run across anyone on the left who thinks J.D. Vance actually copulated with a couch. There are, however, endless satirical takes on it where if Vance is allowed to say Haitians are eating the pets, why not throw the sofa king story into the mix?
It reminds me of the Lyndon Johnson story:
US President Lyndon B Johnson famously told an aide to spread a story about a Congressional rival having a proclivity for pigs. When the aide protested that it wasn’t true, LBJ replied: “Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it ….”
That’s hilarious!
The subtitler for Maher’s clip (and it does seem too good to be from an automated transcribe system) though pretty good, did not catch how to spell Maw-Maw. 🙂