I have seen comments to the effect, "don't make fun of the madman, we are fighting evil. " No, no, laugh!
"It turns out high spirits and humor are essential to combating autocracy. Adam Gallagher and Anthony Navone wrote that humor “disrupts dominant discourses and challenges power ‘by disrupting the language and symbols used by those in power to represent reality in a particular way and providing alternative interpretations of that reality." - Wapo
Moreover, “Authoritarian leaders and regimes rely on projections of unshakable power; using fear to maintain control,” the authors wrote. “No wonder they hate jokes.” (Not coincidentally, Trump has said he hates being laughed at.) - Wapo
@gemswinc That's good, because I have to laugh, or I would cry
@gemswinc . But they are a joke
@TR_forester6291 A bad one, not a dad one
@gemswinc Authoritarians are insecure, weak, gutless, spineless, and cowardly. Dictating is easy and lazy. Governing and leading is hard. The weak and insecure always take the easy way out.
@gemswinc
💯 Our laughter shrinks maga’s bluster, deflates their hope.
Candidate Harris has yet to flinch, she’s just not reacting the way they hope.
@Anouk And it rhymes too! Also, when she told Michelle and Barack, "we'll have fun too". She's gonna enjoy this!
yes‼️
ridicule to a tyrant is like water to the WWoftheWest.
it melts their facade and they are helpless naked "emperors".
@BrentSullivan Sure, but he's still a big dick 😉 @holon42
i'm calling him the fool's gold chode.😎
@gemswinc spike Jones knew.
@gemswinc So, Sometimes the most powerful protest is a good laugh...
@gemswinc anyone remember Laugh-In? it proved laughing at the current social paradigms breaks them down.
Smothers Brothers as well. push that envelope with laughter. make fun of social bullshit, but don't be mean about it (look at right wing memes. they aren't funny, they're mean)
Cannot think of the Smothers Brothers without thinking of Pat Paulsen.
He wasn't taken seriously by the Right because he was an actor *cough, Reagan* who played a character on a television show *cough, Trump* ...
@redenigma @gemswinc Both of those shows were never-miss! 💙
@redenigma @gemswinc I just wanted to be able to dance like GOLDIE HAWN!
Loved Laugh-In 💙💙💙💙💙
@redenigma @gemswinc
You bet your bippy!
@grayman @redenigma @gemswinc
Sock it to me!
@BrentSullivan sir, I believe you meant to say “sweet bippy”. 🤣 @redenigma @gemswinc
@CanisPundit @redenigma @gemswinc
*That's* it
@InvaderGzim @CanisPundit @redenigma @gemswinc
Now show him in the raincoat falling over on the tricycle
@InvaderGzim @BrentSullivan @CanisPundit @redenigma But not funny 😁
@redenigma That is the difference, poke fun, but don't be mean.
@gemswinc if I had a dark money PAC I would target ads Trump’s conspiracy constituents noting Trump as a long time financial supporter of Democrats and that he did the bidding of THE DEEP STATE by not releasing the remaining JFK assassination documents as mandated by legislation. Was it Trump being weak by capitulating to then CIA director Pompeo or is Donald J. Trump a DEEP STATE Manchurian candidate?
Let some of his fans stew on that. 🤣😂😃
One thing the madman & Rs lack, is humor.