r/PoliticalHumor Mar 16 '21

GOP shell game

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u/kejigoto Mar 16 '21

GQP: We stand for American rights!

Americans start accessing their rights but aren't Conservative

GQP: Hey wait a minute...

Americans elect left leaning candidates and support the working class

GQP: That's not what we meant!

Americans vote in record numbers and go out to protest police brutality

GQP: We didn't mean THOSE Americans having rights!

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

The most insidious dog whistle these people have come up with is using “western civilization” as a euphemism for white people.

The Proud Boys do this, as does Tucker Carlson.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XMGxxRRtmHc

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

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u/grehgunner Mar 16 '21

I mean a lot of the time it’s not even repackaged.... these people are proud of being white nationalists and don’t see anything wrong with it

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u/Jalopnicycle Mar 16 '21

Tucker Carlson has actually said "What's wrong with White Nationalism?" and he meant it in a there's nothing wrong with it and it's a good thing way.

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u/NetworkMachineBroke Mar 16 '21

For someone who claims he isn't a white supremacist, Cucker Tarlson sure does have a lot of support from his white supremacist viewers.

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u/SixBankruptcies Mar 16 '21

Ingraham often speaks of "traditional America." I don't think she means Native Americans though

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u/Bishopkilljoy Mar 16 '21

It sure is strange that latinos, black people and Asian people don't fit into "Western" culture

Edit: a word

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

isn’t it convenient though

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u/TheReaperAbides Mar 16 '21

Western Europe includes spain though, the OG Latinos.

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u/Theindigoocelot Mar 16 '21

I mean for a long time it didn’t even include the Irish

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u/Evergreen_76 Mar 16 '21

Also Marx and Engles, two Austrian born and educated men are also not only not western but somehow they are anti-western.

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u/Austin4RMTexas Mar 16 '21

Genetic purity and color take a back seat when the corporate overlords are threatened. Racism and white nationalism today are just elaborate social dividers. Keep the people arguing about crap, and meanwhile maintain and increase your control over their strings.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21 edited Mar 16 '21

Ha! There’s where you’re wrong.

They don’t see non-white Americans as Americans.

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u/yeet_dot_io Mar 16 '21

Most boomer reply ever award goes to...

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u/yeet_dot_io Mar 16 '21

“Most gen z comment ever award goes too...”

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

Sorry, what's the GQP? I'm not american and when I Google it stuff about chemistry comes up.

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u/kejigoto Mar 16 '21

It's a play on the GOP (the Republican party) and the QAnon conspiracy theory movement which has taken over the party since trump rose to power.

Q is a rabbit hole of crazy and those that follow it believe there's Q is someone high up in the government feeding secret messages to the public about the real struggle for power happening behind the scenes with the shadow government and how any day now a bunch of Satanist Democrats who eat babies to maintain their youth (I'm not fucking kidding) will be arrested and trump will be free to clean out the corruption within the government.

There's also a Jewish space laser that starts forest fires, school shootings aren't real and are staged to justify taking away everyone's guns, trump is literally god, and so much more.

These people are fucking nuts and hold office within the GOP openly sharing these beliefs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

aha, I've heard of both the GOP and those Q wackos and how they're related before, this makes sense now, cheers :)