Freedom fries have entered the chat
If I remember correctly the freedom fries became a thing when the French criticized Bushes war in Iraq.
Indeed. That was over 20 years ago. But Republicans were already master hypocrites back then.
And don’t forget that the Dixie Chics got canceled hardcore for coming out against bush. I don’t think they ever recovered.
I remember all the radio stations in Texas refused to play their music. Bush was such huge asshole and he was my governor. He fucked Texas up so bad and yet they made him president also by a coup by the way. Al Gore won.
Yup, typical cpnaervatives doing literal canceling while calling any criticism of them as ‘cancel culture’. Bunch of projecting hypocrites.
Hard to say what the arc of their careers would have been. But it absolutely cut the band’s career short. They did go on to be moderately successful individually at least IIRC. I hate most country music of the last 30 to 40 years. They’re absolutely one of the few outside Johnny, Dolly, and Willie I respect.
People that think Trump turned the republicans party into the garbage pile that it is will be surprised to know it started much earlier than that. Trump just recognized he could use this garbage pile to gain power.
For fascists, demonstrating blatant hypocrisy is a way to flex their power. They’re not ashamed of it; on the contrary, they revel in rubbing it in our faces.
It’s so infuriating because those first 2 things technically are woke in the original sense of the phrase. It was never supposed to have a negative connotation, it just meant having your eyes open to the ways of the world and having a discussion about how to improve them for everyone. How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?
How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?
Not we, its the ruling class
Fair point. The next target is DEI, people already get defensive when things are called DEI as if its a new slur
And they did it because people started to point out that Jesus was a social justice warrior and there really wasn’t much they could say to counter that uncomfortable truth.
I had a couple Republicans at my work a year or two ago who were adamant that renaming a local small body of water from [Racial slur against Native Americans] Lake to [Native American term for a type of body of water] Lake was “re-writing history”. They alleged a vast conspiracy including the Aunt Jemima’s syrup and other rebrands. They really do just believe whatever their programming says their in-group is believing at any given moment.
Hypocrisy is a tool of the GQP
The Gulf of Mexico is too politically incorrect for all the snowflakes, apparently. It needs to sound whiter.
