• @SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
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    159 months ago

    Do Republicans know the story about the king who had no clothes on? Do they understand what it is about and how it is a metaphor? Do they know the word metaphor? Who am I kidding…

    • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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      109 months ago

      Quite to the contrary, they know that he’s naked, that’s the whole point. They get off on people pointing out that the emperor has no clothes, because they’ve built a shared identity around defending the emperor and his very stable genius choice to be naked.

    • spaceghoti
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      89 months ago

      “Of course he’s naked! That’s why we love him, because he triggers the libs!”

    • @Axxi@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Time reported that disinfectant poisonings were up as much as 121% in April, 2020, right after their glorious leader mused about injecting disinfectants to cure COVID infection.

      Brightly-lit bulbs they are not.