These days it’s a double-barreled dog whistle. It invokes the paranoia about lazy Black Americans on welfare, and diabolical Chinese plotting to take over America. Of course, life in Trump’s America is more closely resembling the Soviet Union.
They use the word as a propagandistic scare tactic
The scare tactic itself they've been taught by the Russians
Most Americans don't really even know what it means
Iran has a 90% literacy rate
By contrast, the median American reads at or below a 6th grade level
So if that's that level of general understanding since Republicans have been hyperfocused on elimination & starvation of public education programs since Black people and other people of color got fuller access to it, you can understand why nobody has a clue to any other "isms" we might generally learn from a college-level study of political science
They don't even know what that means, considering they call us socialists and communists interchangeably. But, of course, they wouldn't be conservative if they actually had a single brain cell, so...
All I can figure is that the Republicans have given up any hope of attracting a significant number of new voters, so they're trying to gin up everyone old enough to remember with a last-ditch attempt at a Red Scare to get them to the polls.
Meanwhile, while they go OOGA BOOGA about Scary Communists Everywhere, their tangerine cult leader is cozying up to an ACTUAL Communist in North Korea.
But in reality, because the House and Senate, with their Republican majorities, do whatever Trump wants, and don't assert their authority over tariffs and war, we effectively don't have a Senate (or House) right now. The House in particular does absolutely nothing, and provides neither checks nor balances on the executive branch.. This of course will all change when Dems retake it, but that's another story.
Fuck off, Jesse Watters. The only reason you're mad at Mayor Mamdani is because you know that he is way smarter than you are, much handsomer than you are and a much more decent human being than you are or ever could be. I guarandamntee you that the Mayor is more beloved than you could ever hope to be. Seriously Watters, move to a cave somewhere and stop getting your stank all over this country.
jesse get a life
Trump can barely speak English
I would be shocked if the majority of fox viewers even knows what the Rosetta Stone is.I
Watters has the most punchable face in existence and is the result of someone not getting punched. I go into debt to fight that POS.
I find Americans' obsession with communism baffling.
These days it’s a double-barreled dog whistle. It invokes the paranoia about lazy Black Americans on welfare, and diabolical Chinese plotting to take over America. Of course, life in Trump’s America is more closely resembling the Soviet Union.
They use the word as a propagandistic scare tactic
The scare tactic itself they've been taught by the Russians
Most Americans don't really even know what it means
Iran has a 90% literacy rate
By contrast, the median American reads at or below a 6th grade level
So if that's that level of general understanding since Republicans have been hyperfocused on elimination & starvation of public education programs since Black people and other people of color got fuller access to it, you can understand why nobody has a clue to any other "isms" we might generally learn from a college-level study of political science
"Communism" is the right's new choice of words to say about Democrats. Will it work on anyone besides MAGAs? Hope not.
They don't even know what that means, considering they call us socialists and communists interchangeably. But, of course, they wouldn't be conservative if they actually had a single brain cell, so...
We're going to have to work hard at counter-programming to make sure it doesn't
https://www.wonkette.com/p/zohran-mamdani-spoke-mandarin-and/comment/318124859
He's assuming that his audience has an understanding of what the Rosetta Stone is, which is doubtful
All I can figure is that the Republicans have given up any hope of attracting a significant number of new voters, so they're trying to gin up everyone old enough to remember with a last-ditch attempt at a Red Scare to get them to the polls.
Well -- and that's why they're literally preparing to send armed goons to intimidate people away from the polls
Something Disturbing Is Coming to the Midterms - Democracy Docket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZjBec39uNg
despite the fact that sending armed troops to polls to intimidate voters is a felony offense
never mind the fact that Pam Bondi quietly eliminated all the consent decrees put in place specifically to prevent all that
Meanwhile, while they go OOGA BOOGA about Scary Communists Everywhere, their tangerine cult leader is cozying up to an ACTUAL Communist in North Korea.
“No Senate means no checks and balances!”
But in reality, because the House and Senate, with their Republican majorities, do whatever Trump wants, and don't assert their authority over tariffs and war, we effectively don't have a Senate (or House) right now. The House in particular does absolutely nothing, and provides neither checks nor balances on the executive branch.. This of course will all change when Dems retake it, but that's another story.
Mamdani is winning, and they're terrified of him.
Fuck off, Jesse Watters. The only reason you're mad at Mayor Mamdani is because you know that he is way smarter than you are, much handsomer than you are and a much more decent human being than you are or ever could be. I guarandamntee you that the Mayor is more beloved than you could ever hope to be. Seriously Watters, move to a cave somewhere and stop getting your stank all over this country.
Where do all these Fox people live and work?
Oh yeah. NYC.
"His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold!”
... those pagod things of sabre sway,
With fronts of brass
And feet of clay.
And Asses of Fire, which he, of course, stole from Terrence and Phillip.
My man is a polyglot. I am an unwashed monolingual. (I understand some spanish and speak a little but nothing conversational)
I respect him for it. I married well.
Leave it to these fucking losers to feel threatened by someone speaking a language they don't understand.
Look for Nancy Mace to start screaming about keeping polyglots out of the women's rest room.
Jesse Watters is a huge douchebag. Part 1,358.
when you're a fucking moron I can see why someone much smarter than you would be threatening so ya gotta try and bring them down