It’s the conservative concept of Schrödinger’s joke: it’s both a joke and not a joke, until someone gets legitimately pissed off about it, and then it’s a joke. Unless it’s a thing they really want to do and think they can get away with forcing the issue, in which case it’s not a joke.
If January 6th had been stopped ahead of time conservatives would have loudly proclaimed with complete confidence that all the threats were just a joke.
Absolutely, without doubt
Pretty sure they did that anyway. They still are.
The other part of it is that they keep telling the same "joke" over and over until people start thinking it sounds familiar and therefore may be reasonable.
the conservative concept of Schrödinger’s joke
This is an amazingly good metaphor.
"I apologize it was taken that way, I was with a group of friends and there was nothing serious about it," Long told the news site
"I'm sorry you felt that way"
He's unapologetic.
A PR apology.
Designed by an incompetent PR firm.
In the good old days ambassadors who were this incompetent were sent back home in separated parcels.
I think we should return to the good old days just for American ambassadors.
I got banned from Reddit for suggesting that while it would be tragic if he had an unfortunate accident with an active volcano, I'm sure most of the world would understand.
Make Ambassadors Great Again
This is how ambassadors get sent home.
Why is this ambassador not sent home with a homework assignment?
This is how ambassadors get sent home.
Canada already has a petition to kick the US ambassador out. It's close to 300K signatures last time I checked.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531
I believe that is the petition in question ♡
Yes it is, thank you.
Not that it will actually trigger his expulsion, I would still encourage any Canadian to sign it and help send the message.
I have mixed feelings about it. Hoekstra is indeed a piece of shit, but he does accurately represent what the US is right now.
I think I'd rather there be a shitty US shitty ambassador than one that was skilled at smoothing things over.
he does accurately represent what the US is right now.
That is the sad reality.
As I mentioned, I doubt Carney will actually kick Hoekstra out - that would just trigger Trump to escalate.
But I do think this petition gives the government a strong indication of the public mood, and may also help give pause to Canadian groups that would have otherwise given Hoekstra a public platform.
He has previously been invited to speak at chambers of commerce and on various news programs. If those opportunities to spread his message are reduced or cease completely, the petition will have had a positive impact.
I think it does more damage to the reputation of the US to have Hoekstra doing interviews and doing speaking events than him not doing those things.
It's hard for people to pretend that "maybe the US isn't that bad" after hearing Hoekstra speak.
Because he was sent to Iceland with a homework assignment. An unbelievably stupid one, but an assignment none the less.
When they say shit like this, it isn’t a joke.
Billy Fucking Long. Another politician cut from the play doh fun factory loaded with human feces known as Missouri politics.
The most dangerous phrase of the last 10 years has been "Trump Always Chickens Out".
He is too much of a coward to do that, which is precisely what makes the phrase so dangerous.
Yeah and Trump responds to what the stock market does, but if the stock market doesn't react to his antics because of TACO trading, then Trump won't actually chicken out.
It's a weird sort of TACO brinkmanship happening between Trump and stock market now, each iteration edges closer to economic calamity.
Pete Hoekstra's butt buddy.
You know when you're drunk at a bar, and your DnD buddies start bullshitting about future alternative histories? That's literally the oval office
If it is a joke, it is funny. Is the joke that they are going to be invaded and liberated?
My mistake.
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