Why NOT to vote Republican

[catherine]

Stephanie Miller maintains that Republican humor is meanness with no punchline. Matt Gaetz's recent rant is a perfect example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFO15cI-hls

Wow, Gaetz's rant is certainly mean and nasty.

I have observed that on Facebook, where I have both liberal and conservative friends that post, my conservative friends are much, much more likely to post inane, mean political memes.

for example

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[herbgeek]

Yes, calling women he disagreed with "feminazis" took a lot of talent.

[JaneV2.0]

I found Rush Limbaugh's characterization of 13-year old Chelsea Clinton as a dog pretty much typical of what passed for humor with him. I found him utterly repellant, and was appalled (but not surprised) that Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?” And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton is 13 years old. (Snopes)

[JaneV2.0]

Speaking of Gaetz, one of his targets made the most of the situation:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teen...k=tw&tsrc=twtr

[catherine]

Speaking of Gaetz, one of his targets made the most of the situation:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teen...k=tw&tsrc=twtr

Good for her!

[catherine]

I found Rush Limbaugh's characterization of 13-year old Chelsea Clinton as a dog pretty much typical of what passed for humor with him. I found him utterly repellant, and was appalled (but not surprised) that Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?” And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton is 13 years old. (Snopes)

The Andrew Dice Clays of political discourse are all over the place. (I originally was going to say the Chris Farleys of political discourse--meaning pundits like Limbaugh are only good for making fun of people in place of having real conversation about the issues), but that would have been way too harsh to compare good-hearted Chris Farley to the mean-spirited Rush Limbaugh. I think the crude, mysoginistic comparison to Andrew Dice Clay is a much better one.

[JaneV2.0]

A co-worker of mine related that her husband took her to an Andrew Dice Clay performance. I reserved judgment, but wasn't surprised when she later divorced him.

Insult humor is one thing, but meanness and punching down is tiresome and unfunny.

[catherine]

A co-worker of mine related that her husband took her to an Andrew Dice Clay performance. I reserved judgment, but wasn't surprised when she later divorced him.

Andrew Dice Clay's comedy album is literally the only record album I confiscated from my kids when my they were growing up.

[frugal-one]

I've seen bits and pieces of her show. I used to listen to her a lot on Air America but that didn't last long enough to become a proper parody of conservative talk radio, which is the only way it could possibly appeal to a mass audience since liberals apparently didn't like it either, at least not enough to support its existence.

To be honest, I've never really enjoyed TV or radio political pundits, they're all so absolutely partisan and have too much time to go on and on about whoever is the current enemy that they become tiresome quickly. I did like Rush Limbaugh, mostly because he was a master of satire, and I found it amusing that liberals couldn't grasp that.

You don't know the definition of parody. Stephen Colbert does parody... Maddow does not.

[frugal-one]

Rush had talent on loan from God. He did his show with half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair.

You are right. He did it with half a brain. That is all he had.