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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas anyone ever seen a republican with even an ounce of humor?
Just a little bit?
I haven't. The only one who comes close is Lindsey Graham. He used to get a laugh out of me once in awhile, but not anymore. Fuck him.
Usually, when they try to make a joke, it's about putting Hillary in jail, or some other mean-spirited bullshit.
Even Charles Manson can be funny.
Charles Manson is funnier than republicans.
Wait...Ted Cruz made me laugh when he ate that booger on TV.
Republicans have no sense of humor unless they inadvertently eat their boogers.
Also, ever notice that Trump never ever laughs? I laugh probably 50 times a day on even my worst days.
What kind of person never laughs?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)"Sock it to me?"
LuckyCharms
(17,458 posts)Sock it to ME???? lol
FSogol
(45,526 posts)Republican's underlying selfishness and greed means they cannot do that.
It is also why most actors and artists are liberals too.
LuckyCharms
(17,458 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)"Larry The Cable Guy' who is a comedian (Dan Whitney) doing a character.
Now he was very funny in the Cars movies, for sure. But his stand-up relies on appealing to that lower level of humor that can be funny the first time you hear it but then you move on.
It is not an accident that someone as simple minded as John Wayne or Ronald Reagan are also conservatives, though Reagan started out as a liberal, his simple mind allowed him to be brainwashed by his new wife and her father (not good people, not good at all)
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It was soomething like this: "Humor means punching upwards. Republicans punch downwards."
LuckyCharms
(17,458 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)I read or heard that somewhere.
But, a little bit of experience and paying attention will tell you that.
hlthe2b
(102,360 posts)No, I'm not forgetting his ugly side.
LuckyCharms
(17,458 posts)Like when he gave that speech in Asia somewhere I think and he went to leave the stage and could not open the door.
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)The only time he could articulate himself was when he was talking about war.
Any other time he was a stuttering Stanley.
snort
(2,334 posts)The angry comics get the most laughs. You need empathy to sense the difference.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Repub from Kansas , Pat Roberts, has the best sense of humor in the Senate. Graham was second , I believe
a kennedy
(29,707 posts)The debate with Amy Klobuchar, Bernie, and the two, dare I say health care murderers, there were lot's of smirks from them.
matt819
(10,749 posts)There was an article on Salon (I think) the other day about conservatives whining that they are shut out of television, that only liberal comedians are allowed on TV. The article cited a joke or two by these buffoons. What a shock. Not funny.
There's nothing funny about cruelty and evil. There's nothing funny about the destruction of this country. How do you satirize the buffoon-in-chief or his cabinet secretaries or rw pundits? How do conservative "comedians" satirize Roy Moore. These people are contemptible. These people are cruel, mean-spirited, hateful, bigoted, etc. How do conservative "humorists" satirize white supremacy and fascism?
mia
(8,362 posts)inwiththenew
(972 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Those were the first two names that occurred to me -- one a comedian, one a top-notch comic actor.
Trump got more than 60 million votes. If you say "Not a single one of those people is _______," it's pretty hard to fill in the blank in a way that's true.
inwiththenew
(972 posts)Now not so much.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,458 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)O'Rourke is one of the conservatives who drew the line at Trump. Explaining his intention to vote for Hillary Clinton, he said: "She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters."
marybourg
(12,634 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Making fun of the oppressed, which Republicans mistake as humor, is just being a dick.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)OK, OK I'm sorry!
VOX
(22,976 posts)Republican's aren't exactly hard-wired to exhibit these qualities.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)edbermac
(15,947 posts)Once jumped into the Charles River to prove that the formerly polluted water was now clean.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)drray23
(7,637 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)Republican "humor" is mostly the comfortable making fun of the afflicted.
Conservatives think that liberal are "humorless" because we do not laugh at their racist, sexist, bigoted jokes. And have a fit when we ridicule the clueless, imbecile, spoiled brats that they elect.