Conservative snowflakes have been predictably triggered by Christian Bale’s comments about having been inspired by “Satan” in his Golden Globe-winning portrayal of “charisma-free a**hole” Dick Cheney in the movie Vice.
I wanted to focus briefly on one tweet from the aforelinked Crooks & Liars piece, which epitomizes what I’ve been ranting about for years now:
Ugh. This bullsh** again.
At this point I don’t know which is more astoundingly stupid or more bugnuts insane: (1) the idea that “Trump won” because some random celebrity once said mean things about a conservative icon; or (2) that anyone actually believes (1) or thinks it makes any sense at all.
I’ve been over this time and time again and it still pisses me off every time I read or hear it. Forget about the popular vote for a second. This is the same crap that John Fund pulled (about Sarah Palin) on Bill Maher’s show more than ten years ago, and it’s been festering ever since the Jan Brady election supposedly provided proof of concept.
I can understand if you’re a fully-embedded pre-programmed inhabitant of the Republican Fan-Fiction Universe, believing something like this, and wanting other people to believe it too so that maybe those mean nasty libtards will be persuaded to stop making fun of your ridiculous cohort, the perfidious politicians and avaricious corporate interests whom you worship and serve so dutifully. But you can’t be a sentient human being of even moderately sound mind to believe that anyone else, who is not already embedded in there with you, who actually has questions or doubts going into each election as to which of our two major political parties he or she will vote to support, would choose your side because some celebrity on our side made fun of your beloved overlords.
“Gee; I like the idea of universal health care, of having a clean environment, and I think women and LGBT people should have equal rights and opportunities. I also think we should do something about gun violence, we should invest in public education, and that giant corporations ought to pay their fair share in taxes. But you know what, this actor once said mean things about Dick Cheney, so I’m going to vote against all of that.”
If this strikes you as a realistic or plausible scenario, please get off the planet now; we are trying to have a civilization here.
Seriously, how stupid, ignorant and deranged would a person have to be to do that? How stupid, ignorant and deranged would a person have to be to believe that anyone would do that, let alone enough people to swing a national election? How stupid, ignorant and deranged would a person have to be to approve of or enable such a profoundly irrational act by not recognizing it for what it is?
Personally, I don’t care if the Deplorables vote for the Grand Nagus or any other Republican because some libtard was mean to conservatives that one time, or if they think it somehow makes sense to do something so bone-crushingly dumb. Let them stay in the paracosm until they’re ready to come out and act rationally. Until then, two things have to happen: We have to keep calling BS on this BS, and we have to not be persuaded into “civility” by it, or by anyone stupid, ignorant or crazy enough to believe it.
End of rant.