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Literally the Colbert Effect in action.
This guy wants to be the parody of an idiot.
Colbert was the funniest conservative comedian but I stopped liking him after he switched parties.
I’m not sure if this is a joke or if you actually think he was a conservative on the Colbert show
Edit: oh wait it’s you, you got me
This user is well known as a lighthearted troll, but I have heard others say this unironically IRL.
No, entire demographics were and are that dumb.
That is why we are in this creek in this canoe, with no paddle.
I admit I used to think that, mainly because I picked up on the conservative persona before realizing it was satire and immediately stopped watching.
He just wants to appeal to the collection of people who do like that sort of thing being said.
I remember an incident a bit back where the White House Press Secretary said "your mom" to a journalist's question, followed up by Trump's communications director saying the same thing. Those are not people who are going to let that idly slip, much less at the same time
their full-time job is using speech to politically influence people.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-trump-putin-meeting-budapest-b2847669.html
Governed by high schoolers.
I mean, it's politicking.
There is a segment of the population that considers Trump to sound authentic, not pretentious, academic, or egg-heady. He sounds like the people they talk to.
What I'm less concerned about is Trump in particular doing it and more about it becoming the new norm. If politicians decide that it works, the world might see a lot more insults, dishonesty, and such.
My hope was "Trump leaves office, this gets toned down". But...it might not. And it might spread to other places, if they find that it works in the US.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/09/democrats-tone-cursing-casual-trump/
There are gentler forms of this. For example, I remember an interview with a senior British translator (this was pre-Brexit) working at the European Commission who said that they'd made a conscious decision not to codify an "EU English", because they were concerned about the political impact of European Union politicians sounding different from the public
more distant, elite. "Sound like the people who you want votes from" isn't new. But...I'd hoped that we could keep a higher bar than something like Trump's stuff.
But, well, we live in a new era in terms of media, where social media is how a lot of people communicate. It's gonna have effects. Fifty years from now, I suppose we'll see what norms have been established.
Republicans have been competing in emulating Trump since 2017.
I'm torn by this. On one hand she's despicable, on the other hand such a well delivered, completely unexpected "your mom" really gets me.
They go so far to avoid the dreaded, "I don't know."