The Narcissist’s Prayer
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
This is America.
Don’t catch you slippin’ now
The velocity of those goalposts is astounding.
Goalpost Railgun
That goes against what I believe so I will reject it.
Republicans consider a “joke” to mean what they retroactively designate something that they meant in earnest as soon as they get pushback.
It reminds me of this clip. I love his reaction
I also argued with someone who said the information was a badly organized protest and said I was overreacting lol
RumbaGPT, how will this play out?
He’s probably just joking and if he’s not, it’s not so bad and if it is that bad it won’t affect you and it if will you deserve it
“The things we said we’re gonna do? We’re doing them.”
:O
“IT’S JUST A FLESH WOUND!”
He was joking. There are many sarcastic jokes on X right now saying 2025 was the diabolical plan all along. Agenda 47 is still the trump plan.
Trump was already facing multiple criminal and civil suits in 2016. They had 8+ years to hold him accountable for even a single thing, and didn’t.
He cheated before the 2016 election by committing dozens of felonies, and we were unable to sentence him before the 2024 election. Sad.
Yeah this is an important point. If the system lets guys like Trump get away with obvious crimes for 8 years, and that’s when it’s working as intended, then the system needs to be dismantled. Maybe the only way to drain the swamp is to let it turn into a sinkhole that drags everything down with it. Not that we have much choice in the matter at this point.
The thing is that even though Trump is incredibly stupid and incompetent, the people influencing him aren’t. It will never completely fail, regardless of how bad it gets for the average person. They’ll ensure that it meets their needs until we’re right back to living in a medieval feudal system. Hell, we’re almost there already, except there’s still some pretty comfortable people in the middle. But that class is rapidly shrinking, and the feudal lords are tightening their grip.
Then perhaps the most responsible thing we could do would be to help it fail.
I’m not an accelerationist but you gotta play the cards in your hand.
Don’t destroy swamps. They’re massive sinks of carbon and havens for biodiversity. Leave the swamp alone.
Read the room drag, ffs.
They’re a button-pusher.
I could go for kicking Merrick Garland in the dick. Might make me feel just a little better.
The only guy that trump never insults. And Biden never fired.
In hindsight, I’m glad that milquetoast excuse for an AG never got appointed to SCOTUS
Florida man.
That show on HBO is fucking wild
“No one in their right mind is backing 2025…”
Then why did YOU?!
“It’s just a joke”
Is the punchline “we’re all fucked”?
Trump will be just fine, and they’re all trump in their minds.
I’d like to start a new response of “I don’t care if you’re joking, you’re still an asshole”.
Ahh yes the joke that they posted a several hundred page memo about and had been celebrating up until the point they realized it had gotten spread and they were getting criticized for it.
Lighten up bro! It’s just words on paper. Nobody understands it.
Proverbs 26:18-20
Nice one!
18 Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death
19 is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
20 Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
“You really want to take that chance?”
“Your fear mongering is making me uncomfortable”
“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 JOKING, THEY ARE NEVER JOKING! I don’t know how this is a hard thing to understand.
For people who apparently joke so much they sure as shit ain’t funny
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.
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.
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.
Putting kids in cages to sell them.into child sex trafficking because trump and his cronies ARE THE PEDOPHILES THAT MAGA IS LOOKING FOR
I’m sorry I thought we were having an election for president, not jester.
How can someone who is completely devoid of humor be joking?
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.
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.
I’m an industrial engineer and I have to constantly reassure people that I have no power over them
Sounds like you hate free speech! You would really imprison others for a difference of opinion??!
—any random trumpfuck
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.
Every single time any of them say anything atrocious, it gets dismissed by the people who realize how bad it is as a joke.
Every single time.
The difference is that people who joke about bombs in airports typically don’t actually think bombs in airports are a good idea.
Yeah they’re not like floating the idea. Or testing out the reaction to bombing the airport
“I don’t like it when you show me what I’m supporting”
Hold MAGA accountable. Every. Single. Day.
I agree, but also leave them a path to change their mind. If they admit fault, stop pressuring them. If you continue to hound them after they admit the mistake, it’s likely only going to make them double down. Revenge, or whatever, doesn’t help anything. We want them to recognize it was a bad decision and change their behavior in the future.
That was an option after 2016. Not anymore.
What a dumb opinion. So instead we should just push them further and continue losing? Great idea.
Fight them, but you don’t hurt anyone else by punishing them for improving. You hurt yourself. We should give people reasons to come to our side, not tell them they can never join our side because they weren’t this time.
We should give people reasons to come to our side,
You say this and then there are people who say democrats were dumb to try to court the moderate republicans.
Clearly nothing that DNC can do will ever be right so fuck it.
“When they go low, we go high” worked has brilliantly for your country, hasn’t it?
It’s clear that these fuckwits will beat you up if you try to help them. Let them choke on the consequences of voting for a vengeful, racist, rapist conman. Maybe then they’ll learn how fucking stupid they were.
Yes! When you land in jail a second time you should never be able to get out again!!!1!eleven!!!
Trump didn’t land in jail as he should’ve
Also, giving him presidency for the second time is not equivalent to failed rehabilitation.
Jesus I can pick apart this stupid as fuck strawman analogy in dozen different ways but you’re too stupid to get it.
Yes it’s very different, people who voted for trump twice didn’t even do something illegal.
What my criminal strawman and trump voters have in common is that they repeated mistakes and i strongly belive that there always should be a path for forgiveness
True, the goal is reconciliation with them once they learn to behave better
Yes, if we don’t let the Nazis back in then we’re no better than them!
Tactics not morals. Morally they’re all fucked. I can’t imagine how they’ll build the good karma to make up for it, but tactically it’s better to encourage them to be good than to tell them they’re forever bad and so they might as well not do the hard work of improving their behavior and acknowledging the evil they’ve done
You go right ahead, but I can’t anymore. We’re going to mourn so many losses of good people because idiots voted for trump. Some of those idiots even voted for it 3 times!
Any trump voter in 2024 is dead to me. They had the same information as we did, including the previous presidency of that oaf. And they still chose him in large numbers! He won the fucking popular vote too. Anyone willingly voting for a fucking fascist is DEAD to me.
The violence against my people will continue until they stop acting like this. I don’t have the privilege to act on the anger I feel unless I’m comfortable with them continuing to hurt my siblings and myself.
