The first and only good babylonbee article
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.
Refusing to peacefully transfer power would be the end of democracy.
If you believe trump intends to end democracy, then democracy is already over regardless of if you peacefully transfer power or not.
The truth is liberals have always been the path to fascism. After the death of the US no liberal nor fascist should ever be allowed near power again.
The US is a capitalist dictatorship, not a democracy.
Tell me, what happened the last time Trump was told to peacefully transfer power?
I think we might be past that already
Instead, we’re in the Coda of Democracy.
It’s this that’s she’s emphasizing:
He needs to put forth an ethics plan to start the transition process. Part of that ethics plan requires him to say he will transfer power peacefully.
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.
I assume everything Trump does at this point forward will be to benefit Russia and to start a civil war within the US.
I think the last few years have pretty much proven he doesn’t ‘need’ to do anything.
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.
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.
The BabylonBee is terrible but it’s not a lynching FFS.
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.
Theres two main reasons not to stop it from happening:
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It would make the DNC as bad as the GOP
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The people don’t really deserve more help, tbh.
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?
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?
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.
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.
Not everyone voted for Orange Mussolini yk
Only the Majority of them.
How many millions does that leave again?
I’m not calling for the extermination of the USA. I’m calling for them to fix their own shit after rejecting the help they needed. The entire Biden admin don’t owe the people a single fucking thing.
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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.
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
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.
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.
If you were alive in 1930s Europe, would you have said the same thing about Hitler and Mussolini?
Time really is a fucking circle.
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.
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.
Only if you don’t believe Donald Trump’s own words.
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.
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?
Be as petty as he was and do everything in their power to sabotage what they can and leave him a mess?
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.
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.
Ah, so when the other side wins lemmy is suddenly against peaceful transfer of power. Interesting.
I think it’s more a criticism of the Dems. They spent four years saying Trump is the death of America and now they’re just going to hand it to him. There’s two implications of that:
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Trump isn’t the enemy they made him out to be.
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Or, they just don’t care about American democracy.
A long criticism of Dems has been their refusal to treat Trump as the threat he is. He tried to perform a coup and what has happened? Some guy was accused of using fake money and was extra-judicially executed in the street, but perform a coup and life goes on.
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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.
Pretty sure genocide joe has been eating ice cream cones for the past year or more.
At first I was surprised this was coming from the Fascist friendly Bee, but then I read it and realized they’re trying to sound sarcastic, but making the correct point perfectly. This is fucking meta.
It’s like some kind of reverse Poe’s law, when the sarcasm of the outrageous minded is indistinguishable from a sane opinion.
Also Godwin’s law.
This whole thing is cracking me up. I can imagine them writing all sorts of articles like “Democrats want ALL people to have access to basic needs like food, shelter, education, and health care.” Then MAGAts reading that just laughing their heads off while the rest of us are just stuck wondering where the joke is.
Unfortunately, democrats don’t really want that. What Bernie stated yesterday is correct, they have turned their backs to the working class
I loved that man, but he should have said that shit at the very beginning of the campaign and pressured Harris into bending a knee to the working class (99% of us peasants), and at the least suggest that she would stop fueling genocide.
Both teams get paid by, and play for the same “coaches” telling them what to do to enrich the Haves by plundering the Have Nots. It was never about winning the election. This was their collective design.
Clutch your purses, everybody, the fascists are (still) in power
again.
Reality got so bad that satire can only state fact.
There was a political realignment after the civil war where the democrat and the republican parties switched roles as liberals and conservatives.
Now there’s a factual realignment, where reality and satire switch which one is absurd and which one is correct when taken at face value
Fuck.
People using “literally” to mean “figuratively” really was only the beginning?
90s me would be sadly satisfied with how shit’s going right now. Like, everyone prefers to be right, but sometimes the Schadenfreude isn’t worth the squeeze.
It’s some real self-awarewolf shit. I guess the difference is that what they’re trying to say is that she said he’s a tyrannical despot, but apparently he’s not because she’s just fine with handing him power, but I read it as he is indeed a tyrannical despot, but she’s doing the Democrat thing of following the rules even though Republicans will do no such thing, ensuring the demise of freedom in the US.
This is mind blowing and I really hope it’s just funny later. I really really do.
He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice
We’re ALL fucked, and it won’t be nice.
We wanted it to “be funny later” during his first term.
It wasn’t.
That joke title is going to age like the Weimar Republic xD
Biden is the one responsible for transferring power. Even right wing satire is full of ignorance. Not that there was ever any doubt.
No, Trump has to write and submit an ethics statement promising peaceful transition of power.
She literally said this though.
“I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.”
Yes, because Trump has missed numerous deadlines already regarding transfer of power
It was her concession speech though.
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.
Let’s hope he remains a Mussolini type to his dying day.
Specifically on that one day. I hope he is bedridden until then
Fascism through ✨ V I B E S ✨
You joke, but vibes where and are an important part of how fascists took control. They understand that Aristotle was wrong, emotion and symbolism is simply a better form of rhetoric than logic.
Well, it depends what you mean by “better.”
Rhetoric is just Greek for the means of persuasion.
A more effective means of persuasion is better rhetoric by definition, because determining truth is not the goal, getting them to do what you want is.
But, yes, ideally rhetoric and epistemology would go hand in hand.
I’ve finally met someone more pedantic than I.
You asked, they answered.
Don’t think I didn’t appreciate it.
This is what it sounds like when doves cry.
