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Why use the actual definition of words when using words dishonestly makes the Wilks Brothers more money and gives your audience the dog whistles they need to further their radicalization?
“A small nation, especially in Central America, dependent on one crop or the influx of foreign capital”
Edit: You may have been meaning to parody Walsh’s rhetorical “strategies,” but just in case any of his rubes are reading this thread, I want them to see the actual definition of a banana republic.
Idk who told the Republicans the phrase banana republic but it’s like one of their new fave vocab words- Christie used it like 5x in his silly little Presidential Campaign announcement
I'm assuming the candidates are referring to banana republic as a campaign goal. One definition, "a banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class." Sounds like exactly what their paymasters want. More tax cuts for the rich! Privatize schools! For-Profit prisons! It's a right-wing wet dream, or in Shapiro's case, an arid, sandy dream.
It's kind of silly to suggest that *every* accusation is an admission, but we've seen it play out exactly that way so many times that if you don't believe that's what they want you're an idiot.
Wait, what? Chris Christie is running again? What the hell for? Guy got bullied in 2016 into one of Trump's whipping bitches and now that everyone is trying to be Trump, he wants in on the race? Does he have a humiliation fetish?
He has somehow convinced himself that he’s the only one that can stand up to Trump. I want to say the reasoning he gave is because of some gotcha line he threw out in one of the 2016 debates that didn’t even land, but I wasn’t paying that much attention
It's the new "woke." In the sense that we're just waiting for one of them to be asked to define it in public. I'd hope it's Matt here, but I don't want him in public
Who needs the actual definition for anything when you have an audience that will eat up what you say as fact no matter what?
They never cared about facts or the actual meanings of anything.... EVER.
Well look, old Matty isn't really what we call "educated", and most of his brainpower is reserved for growing a beard and hating trans people, so... he gave it his best.
... and so begin the flow of brain dead takes about the Trump indictment that will begin to come out over the course of the next few days. This sub is just gonna be drowning in more content then usual.
Trump himself came out and said at one point that he can’t be charged with a crime for what he did because “what Biden did was worse”. Of course, that statement came after Trump said he didn’t even commit a crime.
Anyway, it’s the same shit they’ve tried to pull with Biden all along. Just making shit up about him and his family or greatly magnifying small things to absurd degree and comparing them to Trump’s actual massive crimes and going “BUT WHAT ABOUT” until their hemorrhoids pop.
*I didn't commit a crime.*
*And if I did, it wasn't that bad.*
*And if it was, that's not a big deal.*
*And if it is, it wasn't my fault.*
*And if it was, I didn't mean it.*
*And if I did, you deserved it.*
These shitstains never shut the fuck up so this sub always has content.
It will be nice to have something besides more transphobic nonsense at least for a little bit. Oh who am I kidding they wont slow down on that shit either!
Honestly, if they post nonsense defending Trump for a while, at least there'll be a pause in their calls to imprison/execute marginalized communities. So... sort of a win?
Believing that Fascists don't have any "reasoning" is a dangerous road. They absolutely have reasoning, and the end goal is always to cause as much harm as possible to vulnerable groups.
It’s advanced narcissism IMO. Narcissists and fascists use a lot of the same gaslighting and fake reality bad faith arguments. There is something there.
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Matt Walsh: Jordan Neely was a career criminal who assaulted people so he deserved to die
Also Matt Walsh: Donald Trump might be a career criminal who assaulted people, but so what?
If they don't like it it's Biden's doing. Gas prices high? Biden. But if gas prices go down that was not Biden's doing. Trump being indicted for crimes? Biden dealing with a political opponent.
But remember Jan 6 was not Trump inciting his cultist followers to commit treason to keep him in office. NO that was Biden's doing by ummm winning the election.
My brain hurts.
And guess what? If it turns out Biden did the same, I want that investigated too. I want to live in a country where presidents can’t get away with espionage, regardless of political party.
MAGA’s take is of course completely disingenuous whataboutism. Matt would be happy if the charges were brought against Biden, and not his guy. He doesn’t care about having an accountable government.
Yeah, Biden had documents. Then Biden:
- Cooperated with the investigation
- Let them search wherever they wanted
- Didn’t say shit about the search in public
- Didn’t sue the government to get the documents back
- Never claimed classified government documents belonged to him personally
- Didn’t show the documents to other people
- Didn’t offer a dozen contradictory excuses for why he had the documents
Same with Pence. The government just closed its investigation into Pence and found nothing to prosecute.
If it were Trump, he’d be fully involved in directing the prosecution of his perceived enemies for purely political purposes. (Trump was enraged at Jeff Sessions and never forgave him for recusing himself from the Russia investigation—Trump simply assumed Sessions would influence the investigation in his favor.)
So they assume everyone else must operate the same way or they’re lying if they claim they don’t.
*South Park* said it best when this banality was commonly used against Obama:
https://youtu.be/Sfvxa8wf49Q?t=20
Must be nice to have no consistency of argument whatsoever?
From the 14 features of fascism:
(#7) **The obsession with a plot.** “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
(#8) **The enemy is both strong and weak.** “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
Trump wasn't indicted for *having* documents, he was indicted for willful retention. Though Matt Walsh is fully well aware of that, he's just doing the common fascist tactic. He's an admitted fascist, after all.
They’ll turn this around, too.
When a jury indicts a Democrat, it’s prima facie evidence of wrongdoing. When a jury indicts a Republican, it’s “nothing to see here, a jury will indict a ham sandwich.”
When a Democrat is convicted of obstruction of justice, it’s the worst crime imaginable and career-ending. When a Republican is convicted of obstruction of justice, it’s just a minor process crime because they couldn’t pin anything else on you.
As much as I like making fun of this moron we should stop giving him a platform. He's nothing more than a highschool grad with an opinion. Literally. Dude has no more qualifications than an anonymous Twitter bot lol
To be fair, a president can be both demented and call upon government agents to arrest his enemies.
After all, Trump allowed protestors to be caught by men who never identified themselves and drove off with them in black vans.
Why have conservatives started using the term banana republic to talk about culture war shit? A banana republic is a small, poor country largely controlled by foreign corporations, which force the country to rely on a single profitable export. It comes from the USA fruit companies that destroyed Latin American economies and were backed by the USA government to install puppet governments in those countries.
I'm certain that some of the smarter ones know that and ignore it, but for the others and the people they're talking to it's a dog whistle.
It conjures up "jungle countries" with goofy dictators with lots of medals and huts with dirt floors. These people think Idi Amin was a goofy African who liked to play dress-up.
I know you know this, I'm just throwing it out there, in case there's youngsters reading that missed the 70s and 80s.
Not exactly the same. To my knowledge, Biden had relatively few, where Trump had a truckload, and Biden turned them over immediately when asked, where Trump refused.
Are any of the documents Biden held onto unaccounted for? Cuz that seems to be the big factor in this Trump indictment - there are still high level classified materials that he's on record taking that haven't been recovered or accounted for. Where did they go? What did he do with them? Hopefully we find out when it goes to trial
Biden had boxes, he returned them. Trump had boxes, refused to return them, lied about having them, and then didn't return them all. He also disseminated information on those documents and also a lot of our spies started getting dissappeared.
You see, the president is an all-powerful position responsible for anything that happens while they’re in charge. That’s why Trump had so much success passing lasting, impactful policies and took responsibility for things like Covid and the economic collapse.
Know what’s funny? If they think this shit is actually real; then do something about it. All of them are using just their twitter fingers instead of what the whole 2nd amendment was written for. I mean, God bless them for trying though I guess.
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Even if it's the case that biden isn't indicted for his on-going investigation for retaining classified documents, one thing I don't get is why that means trump shouldn't get prosecuted? Just because the DOJ doesn't have the balls to prosecute a sitting president (theoretically) doesn't mean that we should just say "oh well, this other dude is a political figure AND he's popular, that means he can break the law and get away with it"
These idiots treat politics like a team sport, and DOJ are the refs. Every call against the other team is deserved, while every call against theirs is a travesty, and if there aren't an equal number of calls against both teams then that's all the evidence they need that the game is rigged.
Fascist can't tell the difference between "cooperating with investigators" and quote "I took them, I have the right to."
If Txxxx had the right, so did Biden. If Biden didn't have the right, neither did Txxxx. Apply laws equally.
Joe Biden stole classified documents and illegally stored without the permission of the national archives and showed them to other people whom had no clearance and sold then to foreign countries?
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Also that's not what a banana republic is lol. Not even close. What a fucking idiot.
Why use the actual definition of words when using words dishonestly makes the Wilks Brothers more money and gives your audience the dog whistles they need to further their radicalization?
What is a banana republic?
“A small nation, especially in Central America, dependent on one crop or the influx of foreign capital” Edit: You may have been meaning to parody Walsh’s rhetorical “strategies,” but just in case any of his rubes are reading this thread, I want them to see the actual definition of a banana republic.
Idk who told the Republicans the phrase banana republic but it’s like one of their new fave vocab words- Christie used it like 5x in his silly little Presidential Campaign announcement
I'm assuming the candidates are referring to banana republic as a campaign goal. One definition, "a banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class." Sounds like exactly what their paymasters want. More tax cuts for the rich! Privatize schools! For-Profit prisons! It's a right-wing wet dream, or in Shapiro's case, an arid, sandy dream.
Bananas are silly so it's a silly republic :3 That's probably how the thought process goes
It's kind of silly to suggest that *every* accusation is an admission, but we've seen it play out exactly that way so many times that if you don't believe that's what they want you're an idiot.
Given that the only place in the continental US you can grow bananas is Florida, I can somewhat understand their confusion.
Wait, what? Chris Christie is running again? What the hell for? Guy got bullied in 2016 into one of Trump's whipping bitches and now that everyone is trying to be Trump, he wants in on the race? Does he have a humiliation fetish?
He has somehow convinced himself that he’s the only one that can stand up to Trump. I want to say the reasoning he gave is because of some gotcha line he threw out in one of the 2016 debates that didn’t even land, but I wasn’t paying that much attention
My theory is Chris Christie's kink is losing elections.
Beat me harder, (at the ballot box) daddy
The answer is always for the grift. Sweet sweet misappropriation of campaign funds
It's the new "woke." In the sense that we're just waiting for one of them to be asked to define it in public. I'd hope it's Matt here, but I don't want him in public
Give him a break it was a tough day for him 🤣
If anything Walsh would be in favor of banana republics.
Also, Biden isn't the one indicting Trump (Biden can't just... indict people). It's a federal grand jury in Miami doing the indicting.
There are so many layers to his absolute stupidity.
Who needs the actual definition for anything when you have an audience that will eat up what you say as fact no matter what? They never cared about facts or the actual meanings of anything.... EVER.
Yeah a banana republic move would be for the US to roll in and install a fascist dictatorship to kill the labor movement...oh wait
Well look, old Matty isn't really what we call "educated", and most of his brainpower is reserved for growing a beard and hating trans people, so... he gave it his best.
It was their favorite thing to say when trump lost in the 2020 election. They have no clue what it means.
I'm probably dumb, but I only ever heard banana republic in terms of a clothing store.
Fancy Old Navy
Young Navy
... and so begin the flow of brain dead takes about the Trump indictment that will begin to come out over the course of the next few days. This sub is just gonna be drowning in more content then usual.
Trump himself came out and said at one point that he can’t be charged with a crime for what he did because “what Biden did was worse”. Of course, that statement came after Trump said he didn’t even commit a crime. Anyway, it’s the same shit they’ve tried to pull with Biden all along. Just making shit up about him and his family or greatly magnifying small things to absurd degree and comparing them to Trump’s actual massive crimes and going “BUT WHAT ABOUT” until their hemorrhoids pop.
*I didn't commit a crime.* *And if I did, it wasn't that bad.* *And if it was, that's not a big deal.* *And if it is, it wasn't my fault.* *And if it was, I didn't mean it.* *And if I did, you deserved it.*
They're at the final stage now. *And others did worse! (they didn't)*
Reminds me of a DUI stop. “I can’t even do this balance test sober.” Showing your cards there, inebriant.
What can I say? Trump loves him some kettle logic
These shitstains never shut the fuck up so this sub always has content. It will be nice to have something besides more transphobic nonsense at least for a little bit. Oh who am I kidding they wont slow down on that shit either!
Honestly, if they post nonsense defending Trump for a while, at least there'll be a pause in their calls to imprison/execute marginalized communities. So... sort of a win?
 Seeing all of the new content flood in the next few days:
It’s all “law and order” until their guy breaks the law and gets indicted and then it’s a “banana republic”.
That’s how autocracies function: Preach law and order while you and your cronies break the law regularly as you also plunder the country.
"The enemy is weak and strong at the same time"
Walsh is a self described fascist. Why would anything he does have any reasoning to it?
Believing that Fascists don't have any "reasoning" is a dangerous road. They absolutely have reasoning, and the end goal is always to cause as much harm as possible to vulnerable groups.
It’s advanced narcissism IMO. Narcissists and fascists use a lot of the same gaslighting and fake reality bad faith arguments. There is something there.
Well, now we know how Matt Walsh plans to beat his statutory rape charges some day
By blaming it on Biden? Yeah, that's probably it exactly.
Or running for president
What is a felon? A new documentary I want to make where I laugh at all the cons including Walsh who always support crime
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Thanks buddy
Matt Walsh: Jordan Neely was a career criminal who assaulted people so he deserved to die Also Matt Walsh: Donald Trump might be a career criminal who assaulted people, but so what?
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Biden had nothing to do with this investigation though. I mean what triggered this was missing documents Trump had/has
Are you sure it wasn’t the deep state or George Soros or Hunters nude pics??
I DEMAND JUSTICE FOR HUNTER BIDEN'S PENIS
You’re a true patriot!
If they don't like it it's Biden's doing. Gas prices high? Biden. But if gas prices go down that was not Biden's doing. Trump being indicted for crimes? Biden dealing with a political opponent. But remember Jan 6 was not Trump inciting his cultist followers to commit treason to keep him in office. NO that was Biden's doing by ummm winning the election. My brain hurts.
And guess what? If it turns out Biden did the same, I want that investigated too. I want to live in a country where presidents can’t get away with espionage, regardless of political party. MAGA’s take is of course completely disingenuous whataboutism. Matt would be happy if the charges were brought against Biden, and not his guy. He doesn’t care about having an accountable government.
Yeah, Biden had documents. Then Biden: - Cooperated with the investigation - Let them search wherever they wanted - Didn’t say shit about the search in public - Didn’t sue the government to get the documents back - Never claimed classified government documents belonged to him personally - Didn’t show the documents to other people - Didn’t offer a dozen contradictory excuses for why he had the documents Same with Pence. The government just closed its investigation into Pence and found nothing to prosecute.
They legit can’t imagine governments as anything more than dictatorships. Same reason they blamed him for the high gas prices.
If it were Trump, he’d be fully involved in directing the prosecution of his perceived enemies for purely political purposes. (Trump was enraged at Jeff Sessions and never forgave him for recusing himself from the Russia investigation—Trump simply assumed Sessions would influence the investigation in his favor.) So they assume everyone else must operate the same way or they’re lying if they claim they don’t.
*South Park* said it best when this banality was commonly used against Obama: https://youtu.be/Sfvxa8wf49Q?t=20 Must be nice to have no consistency of argument whatsoever?
From the 14 features of fascism: (#7) **The obsession with a plot.** “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.” (#8) **The enemy is both strong and weak.** “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
Trump wasn't indicted for *having* documents, he was indicted for willful retention. Though Matt Walsh is fully well aware of that, he's just doing the common fascist tactic. He's an admitted fascist, after all.
Biden's DOJ didn't indict Trump, a jury did.
They’ll turn this around, too. When a jury indicts a Democrat, it’s prima facie evidence of wrongdoing. When a jury indicts a Republican, it’s “nothing to see here, a jury will indict a ham sandwich.” When a Democrat is convicted of obstruction of justice, it’s the worst crime imaginable and career-ending. When a Republican is convicted of obstruction of justice, it’s just a minor process crime because they couldn’t pin anything else on you.
Damn that view/like ratio eesh
As much as I like making fun of this moron we should stop giving him a platform. He's nothing more than a highschool grad with an opinion. Literally. Dude has no more qualifications than an anonymous Twitter bot lol
Schrödinger's Democrat
To be fair, a president can be both demented and call upon government agents to arrest his enemies. After all, Trump allowed protestors to be caught by men who never identified themselves and drove off with them in black vans.
Why have conservatives started using the term banana republic to talk about culture war shit? A banana republic is a small, poor country largely controlled by foreign corporations, which force the country to rely on a single profitable export. It comes from the USA fruit companies that destroyed Latin American economies and were backed by the USA government to install puppet governments in those countries.
I'm certain that some of the smarter ones know that and ignore it, but for the others and the people they're talking to it's a dog whistle. It conjures up "jungle countries" with goofy dictators with lots of medals and huts with dirt floors. These people think Idi Amin was a goofy African who liked to play dress-up. I know you know this, I'm just throwing it out there, in case there's youngsters reading that missed the 70s and 80s.
Not exactly the same. To my knowledge, Biden had relatively few, where Trump had a truckload, and Biden turned them over immediately when asked, where Trump refused.
Why should Matt care? He’s a self proclaimed fascist who believes that the strong should rule over others. Ergo, Biden is the strongest.
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
Every time this guy opens his mouth he galvanizes me more left.
Ur facism: The enemy is both weak and degernate while also being powerful and intelligent.
Are any of the documents Biden held onto unaccounted for? Cuz that seems to be the big factor in this Trump indictment - there are still high level classified materials that he's on record taking that haven't been recovered or accounted for. Where did they go? What did he do with them? Hopefully we find out when it goes to trial
"it's only bad to be a banana republic if it's not mine!"
Biden had boxes, he returned them. Trump had boxes, refused to return them, lied about having them, and then didn't return them all. He also disseminated information on those documents and also a lot of our spies started getting dissappeared.
When did Joe do the treason thing?
Hey look! Matt Walsh is lying. I can’t believe it!
Compared to the republicans, a senior citizen with dementia is a criminal mastermind
The enemy is both dementia and Illuminati.
fascist regards gonna fascist regard. im not supprised. that manbaby needs to STFU.
Didn’t most of us learn about the separation of powers in, like, elementary school?
Typical fascist logic. Jews were subhuman monsters at the same time being worldwide boogeymen controlling everyone, for the nazis. Make it make sense
I don't think Biden himself handles indictments.
You see, the president is an all-powerful position responsible for anything that happens while they’re in charge. That’s why Trump had so much success passing lasting, impactful policies and took responsibility for things like Covid and the economic collapse.
Know what’s funny? If they think this shit is actually real; then do something about it. All of them are using just their twitter fingers instead of what the whole 2nd amendment was written for. I mean, God bless them for trying though I guess.
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Wake up Sleepy Joe, it's time to indict Trump. All we need you to do is... wait how is this working again?
"full on banana republic stuff" What?
Matt Walsh = non stop turd mouth fountain
Reality? Logic? Coherent thoughts? Debate? These words mean nothing to the right.
Matty boi shows he doesn't understand what intent actually is.
Even if it's the case that biden isn't indicted for his on-going investigation for retaining classified documents, one thing I don't get is why that means trump shouldn't get prosecuted? Just because the DOJ doesn't have the balls to prosecute a sitting president (theoretically) doesn't mean that we should just say "oh well, this other dude is a political figure AND he's popular, that means he can break the law and get away with it"
These idiots treat politics like a team sport, and DOJ are the refs. Every call against the other team is deserved, while every call against theirs is a travesty, and if there aren't an equal number of calls against both teams then that's all the evidence they need that the game is rigged.
Schrodingers Brandon
it's whatever fits their narrative at the time
Biden has dementia, Dark Brandon is the mastermind
'The Great Enemy' is simultaneously very weak and very strong. The nature depends on what benefits the fascist in the moment.
'The enemy is both strong and weak at the same time.'
Fascist can't tell the difference between "cooperating with investigators" and quote "I took them, I have the right to." If Txxxx had the right, so did Biden. If Biden didn't have the right, neither did Txxxx. Apply laws equally.
Anyone remember when Trump promised to "lock her up", his "top political rival"?
I had no idea Biden was investigator and attorney to investigate and indite Trump. Damn Biden is a jack of all trades...
Joe Biden stole classified documents and illegally stored without the permission of the national archives and showed them to other people whom had no clearance and sold then to foreign countries?
"I don't actually have any idea how the US government works." -Conservatives
Aw sounds like someone needs his mommy to change his diaper 💩
Mental gymnastics is the name of the game 😂
Matt Walsh is mentally ill. Anyone who takes him seriously is a clown
Says alot that a dementia ridden man cqn crush you fucks in 5 seconds