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We Don't Want #ConservativeTears! We Want A Functioning Government!
Five Dollar Feminist at Wonkette puts it well:
Last week we were subjected to one million stories about poor Kevin Williamson having his vocal cords severed by a mob of crazed feminists bent on silencing a man who merely advocated hoisting a quarter of America’s women from the gallows. And the past two days gave us four stories about poor, oppressed conservatives and their sad lot in an America where you control the White House, both Houses of Congress, 31 state legislatures and 33 governorships. Truly, these are dark days for your kind!
John Hawkins, the founder of Right Wing News, told NPR that conservatives feel disrespected and under siege by the wider culture.
Republicans are led by Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Dana Loesch, and Rush Limbaugh, but it’s liberals who are being mean to you? The very people who spent decades demonizing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, people who call liberalism a mental disorder, who accuse us of treason, you all have hurt feelings because the cool kids don’t want to sit at your table?
Read more at https://wonkette.com/633162/we-dont-want-conservativetears-we-want-a-functioning-government#bZdtcswdphW4dJGz.99
John Hawkins, the founder of Right Wing News, told NPR that conservatives feel disrespected and under siege by the wider culture.
“He turns on a TV show where he’s insulted, and then he’s like, ‘well, maybe I’ll just unwind and watch an awards show’ — the Oscars or something — where he gets trashed all day long,” Hawkins said. “He goes to Twitter and he’s got some you know guy calling him an a-hole … this is sort of like a pervasive all-out attack if you’re a conservative. And it’s all the time sort of thing.”
Republicans are led by Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Dana Loesch, and Rush Limbaugh, but it’s liberals who are being mean to you? The very people who spent decades demonizing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, people who call liberalism a mental disorder, who accuse us of treason, you all have hurt feelings because the cool kids don’t want to sit at your table?
Read more at https://wonkette.com/633162/we-dont-want-conservativetears-we-want-a-functioning-government#bZdtcswdphW4dJGz.99
Conservatives never spend any time trying to work out how to be nice to liberals. Their abandonment of any reasonable policies, and their embrace, over the decades, of Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Dubya, Cheney, and now Trump, shows this is not some moment of madness on their part. They marched cheerfully into the embrace of the Worst Person in the USA, chose him as their candidate, and got the fucker elected somehow.
