cannot believe how many people argue "democrats lose elections because some strangers online hurt my feelings" and aren't immediately mocked out of public life - ThreadSky

wagatwe.com • 8 days ago

cannot believe how many people argue "democrats lose elections because some strangers online hurt my feelings" and aren't immediately mocked out of public life

Reposted from Joshua Erlich

god this is beautiful

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patientadvocacy.bsky.social•8 days ago

Fragile little guy

kingriptor.bsky.social•8 days ago

If your teen son openly wants to be a cop that says a lot about your Teen son and being racist is included in that Jake!

jientho.bsky.social•8 days ago

The ridicule is deserved. If you can’t/won’t grapple with inherent police racism, then maybe democracy and journalism aren’t for you. Move to Hungary or something.

seanlb.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes, all we need to do is make sure that every single person left of center stays perfectly aligned and never says anything mean. This is definitely a workable strategy.

myraccoonhands.com•8 days ago

Also, it’s funny how he states the “Democrats have no entry into his son’s life” as if he himself couldn’t… oh I don’t know… be a parent and help guide him!? Like, dude, come on.

princessjemmy.bsky.social•8 days ago

If only the nanny didn’t hate both of them…

razorsprinter.bsky.social•8 days ago

The repugs haven’t won any more elections than the Dems have.

joshhayes.bsky.social•8 days ago

Insert Matt Bors "guess I'll have to be a Nazi" cartoon.

zeblarson.bsky.social•8 days ago

We need a separate internet for pundits and Silicon Valley elites where they can just be fawned over, because receiving the tiniest bit of pushback has completely fractured their psyches.

tonyjoyce.bsky.social•8 days ago

So Truth Social isn’t very truthful, or even social?

sporkbender.bsky.social•8 days ago

Seems like Tapper’s getting mocked relentlessly. Fucker just won’t take a hint.

thesoundings.bsky.social•8 days ago

Plus, he’s talking about the party that will have lost the popular vote just twice in 40 years. That’s “losing” only in our absurd electoral system and its equally inane media.

thesullivan.bsky.social•8 days ago

We're discovering a bunch of public figures who have decided it is someone else's job to resist fascism. They believe they are rich enough to ride this out.

alexandraerin.com•8 days ago

Is he not like a cable talking head or something

friendatarms.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes, since 2001. Before that, he apparently wrote for *Salon* and served as the spokesman for Hooters. Not at the same time, though.

russbengtson.bsky.social•8 days ago

i feel like we keep trying to mock jake out of public life but the fucker won't leave

bogyankee.bsky.social•8 days ago

We've pretty much rid ourselves of Chuck Todd. Don't give up now.

nemescontent.bsky.social•8 days ago

If anything they'd win more election of more dem reps hurt feelings regularly and took stances without watering them down for centralists.

(Sorry for the double post I had to clarify)

reggierink.bsky.social•8 days ago

Mr. Trapper, please explain how Trump won after republicans mocked Walz's son.

agfd.bsky.social•8 days ago

It’s so disingenuous too because is the implication here that right-wingers are completely polite online? No, it’s just expected and accepted that they behave like unhinged assholes

drmichaelmancini.bsky.social•7 days ago

I believe this is actually the root cause of the global rise of fascism we are witnessing: the internet gave 'regular people' a chance to speak openly to the "elites" and that pushback drove them all completely mad.
I'm only half kidding

meh333.bsky.social•8 days ago

Wonder if this is the kid Tapper blamed for him being mean to Obama bc he had a newborn and wasn’t getting enough sleep?

meh333.bsky.social•8 days ago

Be funny if the kid causing grief for a black person from birth became a cop.

shookegg.bsky.social•8 days ago

The thing that really baffles me is that right-wing trolls and abusive comments are fucking everywhere on the internet, they flood every comment section, and yet somehow it's only a crisis when the left does it?

quondambifurcator.bsky.social•8 days ago

Murc's Law: only Democrats have agency and are therefore responsible.

vaelis.bsky.social•8 days ago

Exactly, and even then, I want him to prove to me that everyone replying to him is a liberal to begin with. It’s so strange that he wouldn’t take a random anonymous stranger’s claiming expertise as anything other than bullshit, but a random stranger talking shit - well that’s a spokesman of the left

oimoi.bsky.social•8 days ago

Logically that can mean only that the wingers can dish it out but can't take it. Which, fair.

jonreilly1313.bsky.social•8 days ago

"Have you seen my book"

donwood.bsky.social•8 days ago

Jake Tapper makes $7,000,000 a year as a public figure and there is nobody that visible who is not being “dragged in the comments” somewhere. I am sure it is unpleasant and often unfair but that’s what the money is for.

wagatwe.com•8 days ago

democrats would never lose an election again if everyone everywhere is completely nice to me

wagatwe.com•8 days ago

"how dare you say my son is racist. he just wants to join a violent, racist gang known for killing Black people with impunity"

bel7776.bsky.social•8 days ago

"he just wants to help people, which he intends to do by joining a violent racist gang. the left (which the democrats are totally part of) acknowledging said gang doesn't help anyone is why they lose elections"

jakei.bsky.social•8 days ago

you forgot the "please buy my book" part

graceharris85.bsky.social•8 days ago

If leftists had just pre-ordered Jake Tapper’s book, we would be living in the most free country on earth, obviously. It would be a veritable utopia.

rawrtigerlily.bsky.social•8 days ago

It kind of all boils down to some white guys and women feeling like their loss of previous privilege is "oppression." Welcome to everyone else's lived experience. Oh, you don't like it? Weird.

insortediaboli.bsky.social•8 days ago

“My mentions are a national emergency”

3fecta.bsky.social•8 days ago

Logical conclusion is Democrats made me mad, so I put the finger on the scale.

What kind of behavior does that remind me of? If you didn't make me mad, I wouldn't have to..

princessjemmy.bsky.social•8 days ago

We all know he has a shrine dedicated to El Chumpo next to his white robes in his closet. Duh.

johnnypunchclock.bsky.social•8 days ago

The lengths toxic men will go to, to avoid having their toxic sons talk to someone about their feelings

travisbear.bsky.social•8 days ago

Why? Because everything is tribal now. The “truth” exists in your information silo. If you’re white, 99 percent of all the white people you know will not mock you out of public life for this. Forty years ago it was possible, but not now.

marcdachamp.bsky.social•8 days ago

I just don’t see how anyone can take this man seriously right now. Between this and his comments about Hunter, it’s very clear he has an axe to grind, and wants this book to be a bludgeon used against the democrats in the midterms. He’s trying to shape a narrative.

thecenterleft.bsky.social•8 days ago

Your son was mocked in line because he is perceived as wanting to be Bruce Wayne.

rattmathkamp.bsky.social•8 days ago

Not sure how much of a failure I'd feel as a parent if my kid was like, "Dad, I want to be a cop."

henarcade.bsky.social•8 days ago

Obviously Republicans win because they’re so kind and civil to strangers online. No flaws in that theory at all.

rawrtigerlily.bsky.social•8 days ago

For Christ's sake, some of the most insulting shit anyone ever said to me came from my MOM and an uncle on Facebook. Like, how is Jake even for real right now.

aiddonvalentine.bsky.social•8 days ago

Well, we now have confirmation he's terminally online. He's definitely gone down some Youtube rabbit holes

septicshockingpink.bsky.social•8 days ago

if everyone doesn't think well of me RIGHT NOW I will be forced to write An Opinion Column.

jjarchitect.bsky.social•8 days ago

Cops are currently helping the Gestapo
And his son wants to be that.

sfbutler33.bsky.social•8 days ago

But grievance over hurt feewings is one of the standard ways to make money on the right wing mediasphere. It’s almost like the right turn ➡️ cash in was the whole plan

1stladydi.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't think this word has ever popped into my head immediately - and I know I've never put it in print - but Jake Tapper is a twat.

mfriedmannola.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm shocked (not shocked) that a "journalist" said this OUT LOUD. The fact that he can say thisand not be immediately fired from CNN tells you everything you need to know about the state of journalism in this country.

Tapper sold his soul (assuming he had one in the first place) to sell books.

javakev.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's pretty obvious Tapper made that story up. He's made over 200 million dollars from CNN and his son what's to be a cop? Also, not a single person in his orbit thinks all cops are racist. Hey Dad "you've made enough money for the next 4 generations I'm going to get a regular 9-5."

bippity.bsky.social•8 days ago

Exactly. His daughter is publishing children’s books at 16, but the Tapper’s are cool with their son becoming a beat cop 🙄

notthreebears.bsky.social•8 days ago

say what you will about tapper, but he has a point: there has never been a single example of the right being mean online

patrickdhardy.bsky.social•8 days ago

The political reactionary pipeline of "this hurt my feelings" to "this will bring calamities of biblical proportions upon our nation" is short one

tonyjoyce.bsky.social•8 days ago

About one book long?

pattycakes.bsky.social•8 days ago

Well it couldn’t possibly be them giving oxygen to the worst ideas from the worst people because it pushes engagement and ratings. It LeonThotski420 calling Jake limp dicked thats going to destroy democracy

themilfmag.net•8 days ago

graceharris85.bsky.social•8 days ago

And even if it were true, it would mean those people are terrible people, who deserve to be mocked, because they put their personal feeling above fighting fascism and authoritarianism. Like…get bent, then. 🤷‍♀️ Someone was mean to you, so now people have to get kidnapped off the streets? What?

netta.bsky.social•8 days ago

😂😂😂😂😂
There’s no shame & not enough shaming.

wagatwe.com•8 days ago

it's so embarrassing lol

rgfant.bsky.social•8 days ago

Also, can you imagine the outrage and accusations of bias if a msn reporter ever referred to republicans as “fuckers”?

tomsebald.bsky.social•8 days ago

It would hold more water as an argument if the people Democrats lose to were decent humans that did not do exactly the thing he complains about to his face....on his program...regularly.
He probably has a security detail just because of the right wing online threats he gets during election season.

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