The Facebook Thread

[Vrede too]

It's unfortunate that his untold wealth...

Is that a joke about not showing his tax returns?

[JTA]

[Vrede too]

Watch at least some of the video first.

Spoiler:

Love the captions! It took me a while to realize that he's singing in English.

[JTA]

Leyydiii biii, leydiiii biii.

Espikin wuoro Winston

Leydiiii bii....

[Vrede too]

ENEMA AUNSHTRANSHES
LE TONGUEEEEEE!!
MEDIN MERICANS TU MIIIIIII

I am so happy that Tongo did not LEYDI BIIIIII.

PIZ AN LOFFFF!!!!,
Vrede too

[JTA]

I'd wager it's the sorta-but-not-really hidden "fuck" on the shirt that was the problem.

[JTA]

Reply to the above


I cant tell if some of those comments are real or just parodying Facebook comments.

[Vrede too]

It's not like education was ever going to play a big role in that family.

[JTA]

People like being outraged at stuff. It's like a drug. I have found myself at times becoming an outrage junky, but weened myself off of it before it was too late.

It could be argued I post this Facebook gold because it gives me something to be outraged at, but it really just amuses me to no end. I find it hilarious and feel no outrage.

This dudes post is simply the greatest example of the manufacturing of outrage I've yet to find. Outrage sells. Outrage spreads like wild fire through social media. If you're selling a product, tap into people's outrage.

How to sell psuedo-patriotic crypto-fascist tacti-cool mall-warrior t-shirts and make bank:

Step 1: wake up Saturday morning, make your son wear your t shirt.
Step 2: take photo with him.
Step 3: immediately post pic to Facebook claiming son got suspended from school for wearing it, implying it was because of the American flag and Gadsden snake, and not the implied"fuck".
Step 4: $$$$$$$

[homerfobe]

Redneck trailer trash

[JTA]

Redneck trailer trash

For being so against those who are offended by everything, they sure are offended by everything.

[JTA]

Peak douchebaggery has been reached:

[JTA]

Outrage:

[Vrede too]

Looks like the whole t-shirt incident was a PR stunt misusing a school for the benefit of a redneck trailer trash YT channel and Facebook page. If it even happened, it'll be funny if we learn that the boy is really homeskuled.

[JTA]

Looks like the whole t-shirt incident was a PR stunt misusing a school for the benefit of a redneck trailer trash YT channel and Facebook page. If it even happened, it'll be funny if we learn that the boy is really homeskuled.

That man is a genius.

He's figured out a way to commoditize the "Patriotic American tough guy AR-15 liberal hater ant-safe space" meme and cash out.

[billy.pilgrim]

Peak douchebaggery has been reached:

he missed the 1st "it ain't me" edit

do all cons think anti-war songs are patriotic songs because when the word America is in the song?

They hated these songs when they were written - now they even use Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner

[Vrede too]

he missed the 1st "it ain't me" edit

Fortunate Son (lyrics)

do all cons think anti-war songs are patriotic songs because when the word America is in the song?

They hated these songs when they were written - now they even use Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner

Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U. S. A. (lyrics) is a good one for that.

This song probably wasn't misunderstood, but I thought of it since it, along with Born In The U. S. A., was featured in a play I was in called Tracers.


Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
Lyrics

It was played as the audience was settling in and I was dancing in the wings trying to get my head right for the show. I still get chills 30 years later. Half the cast were Vietnam vets, I was "Baby San" (not the actor at the link, that was the original production).

[rstrong]

Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U. S. A. (lyrics) is a good one for that.

"Born in the USA" was co-opted for the election campaigns of Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and then Pat Buchanan, each time until Springsteen objected. It seems obvious that none ever listened to the lyrics beyond "Born in the USA..."

Reagan's team tried to replace it with John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" (Ain't that America...) but was turned down.

[k9nanny]

Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U. S. A. (lyrics) is a good one for that.

"Born in the USA" was co-opted for the election campaigns of Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and then Pat Buchanan, each time until Springsteen objected. It seems obvious that none ever listened to the lyrics beyond "Born in the USA..."

Reagan's team tried to replace it with John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" (Ain't that America...) but was turned down.

They couldn't have listened to the "Pink Houses" lyrics, either. Good god, what a depressing song.

[billy.pilgrim]

It's as if the have no substance - it's all slogans, words and bumper stickers. Nothing goes deeper.

As in - how fucking stupid does a repug have to be to think Colbert is a right winger and then to hire him for lil bush's correspondences dinner

but, but he has an American flag