It’s the conservative concept of Schrödinger’s joke: it’s both a joke and not a joke, until someone gets legitimately pissed off about it, and then it’s a joke. Unless it’s a thing they really want to do and think they can get away with forcing the issue, in which case it’s not a joke.
If January 6th had been stopped ahead of time conservatives would have loudly proclaimed with complete confidence that all the threats were just a joke.
The other part of it is that they keep telling the same “joke” over and over until people start thinking it sounds familiar and therefore may be reasonable.
It’s the conservative concept of Schrödinger’s joke: it’s both a joke and not a joke, until someone gets legitimately pissed off about it, and then it’s a joke. Unless it’s a thing they really want to do and think they can get away with forcing the issue, in which case it’s not a joke.
If January 6th had been stopped ahead of time conservatives would have loudly proclaimed with complete confidence that all the threats were just a joke.
Absolutely, without doubt
Pretty sure they did that anyway. They still are.
This is an amazingly good metaphor.
The other part of it is that they keep telling the same “joke” over and over until people start thinking it sounds familiar and therefore may be reasonable.