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Why aren't liberals fun anymore?
The Hill ^ | 24 September 2018 | Stephen Moore

Posted on 09/24/2018 2:09:45 PM PDT by Magnatron

The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill

Several months ago, the very night the Stormy Daniels story broke, I appeared on Don Lemon’s show on CNN. The producer told the guests a few minutes before we went on air that Lemon wanted our reaction to the Daniels allegations. The first guest said something trite about how “she may be doing this to call attention to herself, but we have to treat these charges against Trump very seriously.” Next, Lemon turned to me for my reaction. I really had no opinion about this story, so I just blurted out the first thing that popped into my head: “Gee, Don, who would have ever thought a stripper would want to call attention to herself?”

Now, if you are a normal person, you probably at least laugh a little or smile about that line. But the video went viral on YouTube because the other three guests, all liberals, and Lemon sat stone faced when I said that. They didn’t crack even the slightest hint of a smile. There was just a long awkward silence until I finally said, “Hello, that’s a joke.”

The point of this story is that liberals just don’t have a sense of humor anymore.

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Liberals have always been mirthless, hateful, funless jerks. Even comedians have given up on trying to make them laugh.
1 posted on 09/24/2018 2:09:45 PM PDT by Magnatron
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because they are a-holes


2 posted on 09/24/2018 2:12:20 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Magnatron

Psych meds.

Libs used to be wacky funny. Then they got a taste of power.


3 posted on 09/24/2018 2:12:23 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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In my opinion, liberals themselves are jokes...


4 posted on 09/24/2018 2:12:24 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Magnatron

Liberals are fun like the KGB was fun. They appeared nightly at the famous Lubyanka.


5 posted on 09/24/2018 2:13:10 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
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To: Magnatron

When you view everything through the lens of systems of oppression, you see EVRYTHING as an Oppressor v. Oppressed dynamic. No room for fun in that.


6 posted on 09/24/2018 2:13:11 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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They still are - look at all the humor they put out.


7 posted on 09/24/2018 2:14:02 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Like the parties Kavanuagh supposedly attended. In the end, this righteous, indignant, puritanical behavior by the left is getting scary. Most parties at peoples’ homes have a lot of debauchery, sexual joking, and grab-assing. It’s a party for f’s sake.

So now, if you attended any crazy, fun party, you’re a molester, rapist, and misogynist — at least if you’re a man. If you are a woman at a party, you’re simply a victim.

What a bleak, mirthless world the Democrats are creating. And this is the life people want?


8 posted on 09/24/2018 2:16:00 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: LeoWindhorse

Were they ever?

Anymore?

Lost me there...


9 posted on 09/24/2018 2:16:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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Those Giant Poles up their backside must be no fun ,LOL


10 posted on 09/24/2018 2:18:06 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Mirthless, Baby-Murdering Ghouls.


11 posted on 09/24/2018 2:18:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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They’ve never been fun. But sometimes they’re extremely funNY. Rush says they’re funniest when they’re not in power. He said that a long time ago. Now they’ve gone from funny to evil.


12 posted on 09/24/2018 2:20:17 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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Because “liberals” are cynical about society - which rationalizes their naiveté towards government - and cynicism is an antonym for faith.

It means that “liberals” can’t be grateful - and anyone who is not grateful is not happy.


13 posted on 09/24/2018 2:21:07 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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It’s called “the awkward stage”.


14 posted on 09/24/2018 2:21:47 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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There’s so much that goes on during normal flirting, courtship and socialization that is very very consensual that could easily be recharacterized decades later by someone with an axe to grind.

Moving forward, it must be assumed in every case where the person has not expediently filed a police report and collected evidence that the claim is a defamatory one. Whatever benefit of the doubt was once extended as a courtesy can no longer be extended to the modern breed of “liberated” female.


15 posted on 09/24/2018 2:22:55 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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Ba-dum pishhh. “I’ll be here all week, try the tofurkey.”


16 posted on 09/24/2018 2:25:17 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Psych meds.

That is exactly correct. Psych meds of all sorts cause an emotional flatline in the user (except the programmed faux outrage we see when they are activated).

It's a chemical lobotomy for liberals. 80 Million people in the USA are using psychiatric drugs for mental illness. That is the whole Democrat Party, plus a few fringe users.

17 posted on 09/24/2018 2:27:13 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: TigerClaws

I think you’re right on about the psych meds. A lot of our current crop of libs were Ritalin kids (I remember the articles in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s which questioned what these kids would be like as adults after spending a childhood on mood-altering drugs. Maybe now we have some idea.)

And Libs DID used to be wacky funny. They were wild-partying “Animal House” jokesters until they decided to become some sort of weird cult of PC-obsessed atheist Quakers.


18 posted on 09/24/2018 2:27:50 PM PDT by JennysCool
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Yay! We're having FUN! Yes, we are!
19 posted on 09/24/2018 2:29:08 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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They are humorless and dreary and angry, which they would no doubt blame on Trump, because everything is Trump's fault.

But they were humorless and dreary and only slightly less angry during the Obama presidency.

It's just become the latest mandatory fashion trend. Being happy is for the unhip. Surliness is the new man-bun.

20 posted on 09/24/2018 2:29:09 PM PDT by dead
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