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.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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Refusing to peacefully transfer power would be the end of democracy.
I think we might be past that already
Tell me, what happened the last time Trump was told to peacefully transfer power?
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.
Instead, we're in the Coda of Democracy.
The US is a capitalist dictatorship, not a democracy.
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.
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.
"Hang Mike Pence"
Did you forget?
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.
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.
The genocide is only going to get worse. Though genocide don doesn't have as much of a ring to it. Donny and Benny are best buds
Pathetic
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.
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.
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This is mind blowing and I really hope it's just funny later. I really really do.
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It's some real self-awarewolf shit.
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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.
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.
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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.
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That joke title is going to age like the Weimar Republic xD
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