in addition to standing and singing along with your hand over your heart, you're supposed to cry ecstatic tears of joy when you get to the line about how "the flag was still there". then at the big finish about "land of the freeeeeeeee and the home --- of the ---- brave" you should pull out your concealed handgun and shoot off several rounds into the air, or at any liberals who failed to show proper respect. at least that's how I was taught to do it in my elementary school.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 7 August 2023 02:09 (eight months ago) link
most important you have to yell play ball after
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 August 2023 02:13 (eight months ago) link
always good to sing as loud as you can for a couple minutes before an hour and a half of running
― symsymsym, Monday, 7 August 2023 02:15 (eight months ago) link
hilarious the right trying to blame the loss on "wokeness" as though they weren't woke when they won the World Cup twice
― frogbs, Monday, 7 August 2023 02:16 (eight months ago) link
Liberals are weak and get nothing done but also they are omniscient puppet masters.
Liberals are stupid but they also easily stole an election.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 August 2023 02:59 (eight months ago) link
Democrats go to college to get more knowledgeRepublicans go to Jupiter to get more stupider
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 August 2023 11:58 (eight months ago) link
how mean a thing to say!
― nashwan, Monday, 7 August 2023 12:04 (eight months ago) link
I am totally going to hell for that.
I came across this thread and found it a pretty compelling encapsulation of rightwing/reactionary rhetoric:
I'm stuck waiting on someone, so a quick 🧵I've been meaning to write, pulling together a few strands.In his book The School for Dictators, Ignazio Silone famously called fascism "a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place." There is much wisdom there.— David Roberts (@drvolts) August 1, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 August 2023 12:09 (eight months ago) link
Trump (like Musk and plenty of other ludicrously entitled rich dudes) just utterly refuses to accept that any rules ever apply to him. And he’s usually maddeningly right. But judges tend to be very much not amused by that kind of shit.
1000% OTM
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 7 August 2023 13:09 (eight months ago) link
Boris Johnson says hi.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:11 (eight months ago) link
Kind of funny how there's been and still is so much effort spent reporting and guessing when and where Trump will be indicted next, when each time he's been, like, "I will be indicted today at 5pm!"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:44 (eight months ago) link
This sure is a pretty unique defense strategy:
Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judge to postpone disbarment proceedings lodged against him, saying he’s increasingly concerned he’s about to be criminally charged by special counsel Jack Smith.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 August 2023 18:35 (eight months ago) link
such a freakazoid
“WOW, it’s finally happened! Liddle’ Mike Pence, a man who was about to be ousted as Governor Indiana until I came along and made him V.P., has gone to the Dark Side,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
“I never told a newly emboldened (not based on his 2% poll numbers!) Pence to put me above the Constitution, or that Mike was ‘too honest.’ He’s delusional, and now he wants to show he’s a tough guy,” Trump added, denying information that was contained in the indictment. “I once read a major magazine article on Mike. It said he was not a very good person. I was surprised, but the article was right. Sad!”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:04 (eight months ago) link
he can use "emboldened" in a sentence
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:06 (eight months ago) link
jeez Mike who could have possibly seen this coming for you huh
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:06 (eight months ago) link
glad he's back to 'Sad!'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:09 (eight months ago) link
I once read a major magazine article on Mike/It said he was not a very good person/I was surprised/But the article was right.
Sad! by King Missile
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:18 (eight months ago) link
Didn't he already use "liddle" for Rubio? Or was that "widdle?" (And even by his standards, those are pretty lame putdown words, something you might expect in an Our Gang episode.)
― henry s, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:22 (eight months ago) link
Donald "Spanky" Trump
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:44 (eight months ago) link
MAGAlfalfa
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:55 (eight months ago) link
"I'ma He-Man Woke-Hater"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:26 (eight months ago) link
it might choke artie but it aint gonna choke donnie etc
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 04:04 (eight months ago) link
I once read a major magazine article on Mike
Now his lies have gone too far.
― serving bundt (sic), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 04:05 (eight months ago) link
I want to point out that it wasn't just "liddle," it was "liddle'" with an apostrophe after the e.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/trump-liddle-tweet/599032/
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 05:33 (eight months ago) link
have lurking suspicion the linked article is not really worth the time, I just dug it up for reference, but I will never know for sure
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 05:34 (eight months ago) link
I hate how it's Trump Trump Trump in the media again, every day. "what's the election going to be abouTRUMPTRUMPTRUMP" - there's that creeping inevitability again, isn't there? Who else is going to win in 2024? Nobody, let's face it.
― StanM, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 06:15 (eight months ago) link
+ all Putin needs to do in Ukraine is keep going until then and all the NATO help is going to dry up.
― StanM, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 06:17 (eight months ago) link
Stop
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 06:39 (eight months ago) link
That Atlantic article was interesting... I didn't realize just how dishonest CNN was until Trump pointed out that they had deliberately misspelled "Liddle" by taking out the "hyphen" just to make him look dumb: To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word wrong."
― BrianB, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 12:37 (eight months ago) link
LOL
The stable genious strikes again.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 12:38 (eight months ago) link
http://www.steeleryanracing.com.au/images/uploads/Stables12.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 13:33 (eight months ago) link
stable genius needs to be put out to pasture
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:17 (eight months ago) link
you left out the hyphen 'cause the hyphen ain't in you
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:25 (eight months ago) link
To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word wrong.
Maybe the dumbest utterance in the history of human utterances.
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:30 (eight months ago) link
weird guy, seems like he’s losing it🐦[lmao this is so deranged pic.twitter.com/Sg5BO8YTrL🕸— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 6, 2023🕸]🐦
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:41 (eight months ago) link
What an Iddiot'
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:44 (eight months ago) link
Because I got hyphen
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:45 (eight months ago) link
What a moron, doesn't know a hyphen from an ampersand.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:47 (eight months ago) link
Given his diet, maybe he should be a bit more concerned with the colon.
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:51 (eight months ago) link
Tip your waitress.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
Trump is soooooo dumbHow dumb is he?He's so dumb he thinks putting air quotes around things makes them inadmissibleHe thinks Question Mark means his chief of staff has to testify before Congress
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:11 (eight months ago) link
It's almost impossible for me to comprehend the minutiae and the endless petty grievances that must circle his head 24/7, like turds flushing in a gold-plated toilet bowl.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:31 (eight months ago) link
have you hung out on right wing social media? That's all your neighbors and relatives do.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:35 (eight months ago) link
― tobo73, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:46 (eight months ago) link
Even amongst his followers, I wonder what percentage see that tweet and think, "Yeah, Fuck CNN for leaving out that hyphen."
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:47 (eight months ago) link
guarantee you it's happening
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:49 (eight months ago) link
have you hung out on right wing social media?
I used to check out Freerepublic occasionally to see what they were on about, but quit long ago. I try to stay away from the comments section of the media I consume as I don't care what garbage people think, but sometimes I feel the need to correct utter lies/bullshit.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 16:04 (eight months ago) link
I haven't thought about Freerepublic since we liberals were all lying about how great the Iraq War was going
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 16:12 (eight months ago) link
There's one blogger I read who still reposts Free Republic comments as if that proves anything other than that nursing homes shouldn't have internet access.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
I found out a friend has a Truth social account to see what kind of stupid crap is going on. What entertained me is that all of the Trump posts max out at around 800 likes. Not a high engagement platform!
― mh, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 17:45 (eight months ago) link