The first and only good babylonbee article

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    Actually that was a JD Vance quote. Harris kept it more classy.

    Either way, he’s more of a Mussolini type. Less vision, more opportunism.

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    I hate Babylon Bee, but a broken clock & all that.

    Either this situation isn’t as bad as they said it would be during the campaign (which is what Babylon Bee is implying) or it IS as bad as they said it is, and they’re letting it happen anyways.

    Either way, they’re spineless fucking liars.

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      Theres two main reasons not to stop it from happening:

      1. It would make the DNC as bad as the GOP

      2. The people don’t really deserve more help, tbh.

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        For point 2: What about people who voted for Harris and who will definitely be persecuted under republican domestic policy? What about people in other countries who will suffer and die from republican foreign policy? What about everyone on the planet who will suffer even more from climate change due to republican environmental policy?

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          THE PEOPLE. All of them. THE MAJORITY OF EVERYONE. They chose as a country, as one whole. Imagine if that was you up there and they chose that old piece of dogshit over you, would you be in a generous mood to lay down your life for them?

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            Of the 261 million adults in the US, about 73.5 million of them voted for Trump. That’s about 28%. When factoring in non-adults, that number goes to just under 22%. That’s not anywhere close to a majority.

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              Not voting when you are able to was as bad as voting for Trump. The sample size of 73.5 Million, not even including abstainers, is enough to draw conclusions about the mentality of the larger population of the USA.

  • مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
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    The Babylon Bee is unfunny right wing trash, but the Democrats walked right into this one. You can’t tell us Trump is a threat to democracy and then peacefully transfer power to him.

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    So… they are criticizing her for not trying to overthrow democracy? Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here? What a worrying attitude

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      Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here

      Yes. What kind of party hands over power to people they know is fascist?

      A liberal one, yes. Which is the problem, and why liberalism eventually gives way to fascism when a capitalist state is in decline.

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        The real answer is the kind of party that a majority of voters chose a rapist felon over. I don’t even want to help them, anymore, I started learning German again just in case I feel like leaving.

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      Why is that a worrying attitude?

      They’re criticizing her for saying “he’s facist hitler” through the campaign as the sole message, and then when they lose, shrugging and treating it like any other loss. “Oh well, better luck next time!”

      Babylon Bee’s point is that the rhetoric doesn’t match the actions. If he was Hitler, then why are you handing him the reigns like this is just any other election? Their implication is that the campaign dramatized his impact and demonized him. They’re right about the criticism but wrong about the reason.

      He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path. Babylon Bee has managed to accidentally write their most non-partisan headline ever by accident, and a scathing indictment of spineless liberalism.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Why is that a worrying attitude?

        Because it seems to be pointed in the direction of a civil war and an end to the US republic

        He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path.

        What do you think should be done instead?

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          Be as petty as he was and do everything in their power to sabotage what they can and leave him a mess?

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            Isn’t it funny that a mere 4 years later, democrats forgot how to cheat and steal an election? /s

            God I want to punch everyone who voted for this moron. I really do.

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        Since when did we start believing trump ?

        Isn’t he commonly understood to be a pathological liar ?

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      If you were alive in 1930s Europe, would you have said the same thing about Hitler and Mussolini?

      Time really is a fucking circle.

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        I often wondered how I would have felt if I was alive in the 1920s to 1940s and seen the rise of this shit. I now am confident that I would never have been a fascist, because I sure as hell fucking hate these people right now.

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          The question future resistance members must ask themselves is whether they start organizing now, or wait until prospective members won’t fuck things up by not taking opsec seriously.

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    I wish this was the right community to post this. Unfortunately, it more properly belongs in nottheonion

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    From the article:

    “It’s my responsibility to make sure this tyrannical despot assumes power,” Harris told the crowd of supporters after officially conceding the race. “Though he will end freedom itself in this country, imprison anyone who disagrees with him, systematically murder all women, and go door to door kicking everyone’s dogs, I promise to make sure there is a peaceful transition of power.”

    The media hailed Harris’s brilliance and the leadership she displayed while conceding to a man who is literally Hitler.

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    Libs before the election: Trump is a fascist! He must be stopped! He’ll destroy our democracy!

    Libs after the election: Congrats to Trump! We’ll be meeting soon to discuss the peaceful exchange of powers and our broadly overlapping interests.

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    Biden is the one responsible for transferring power. Even right wing satire is full of ignorance. Not that there was ever any doubt.

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    It’s called leading through example, because the MAGA cult is so good at following the examples given to them.

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
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      A millennia old Arabic saying goes something like: “If you honor the generous, you will own him… but if you honor the ignoble, he will rebel.” We all know leading through example is wasted on people like Trump.

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    Good old right wing “humor” (punching down on everyone else because they consider everyone else beneath them). We’re all going to be seeing a lot of this type of “humor” (lynchings, book burning, singing about how wonderful being dictated to is) in the next 10 years or so.

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    First and only and it looks like Babylon staff didn’t even come up with the idea - at the bottom it suggests this was a reader submission.

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    Make sure Joe pardons the fuck out everybody on your way out. Also he should resign if only to fuck with their merch.

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        The genocide is only going to get worse. Though genocide don doesn’t have as much of a ring to it. Donny and Benny are best buds

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      I think the last few years have pretty much proven he doesn’t ‘need’ to do anything.

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        Sure, because he is a foreign asset meant to transfer wealth to Russia from the US and destroy the US from within. It only benefits him to harm our country.

        But yes a competent leader would want things like info from those agencies and intelligence briefings etc so they are prepared on Jan 20.

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      It was required to be created before the election. So it’s pretty obvious they don’t care.

      I’m fact I’ll go as far as to say its intentional. They will scream that Biden is resisting the transition, trying to stage a coup, etc etc. The antics won’t stop just because he got elected.

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        I assume everything Trump does at this point forward will be to benefit Russia and to start a civil war within the US.