Kamala Calls For Peaceful Transfer Of Power To Adolf Hitler
Kamala Calls For Peaceful Transfer Of Power To Adolf Hitler
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a stirring concession speech following last night's election loss, Kamala Harris announced she would work to ensure a peaceful transition of power to the man she called Adolf Hitler for the last year.
The first and only good babylonbee article
At first I was surprised this was coming from the Fascist friendly Bee, but then I read it and realized they're trying to sound sarcastic, but making the correct point perfectly. This is fucking meta.
200It’s like some kind of reverse Poe’s law, when the sarcasm of the outrageous minded is indistinguishable from a sane opinion.
Also Godwin’s law.
80This whole thing is cracking me up. I can imagine them writing all sorts of articles like "Democrats want ALL people to have access to basic needs like food, shelter, education, and health care." Then MAGAts reading that just laughing their heads off while the rest of us are just stuck wondering where the joke is.
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It's some real self-awarewolf shit.
28Reality got so bad that satire can only state fact.
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Actually that was a JD Vance quote. Harris kept it more classy.
Either way, he's more of a Mussolini type. Less vision, more opportunism.
67Let's hope he remains a Mussolini type to his dying day.
21Specifically on that one day. I hope he is bedridden until then
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I hate Babylon Bee, but a broken clock & all that.
Either this situation isn’t as bad as they said it would be during the campaign (which is what Babylon Bee is implying) or it IS as bad as they said it is, and they’re letting it happen anyways.
Either way, they’re spineless fucking liars.
47Theres two main reasons not to stop it from happening:
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It would make the DNC as bad as the GOP
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The people don't really deserve more help, tbh.
4For point 2: What about people who voted for Harris and who will definitely be persecuted under republican domestic policy? What about people in other countries who will suffer and die from republican foreign policy? What about everyone on the planet who will suffer even more from climate change due to republican environmental policy?
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That joke title is going to age like the Weimar Republic xD
44The Babylon Bee is unfunny right wing trash, but the Democrats walked right into this one. You can't tell us Trump is a threat to democracy and then peacefully transfer power to him.
38Refusing to peacefully transfer power would be the end of democracy.
25I think we might be past that already
14Tell me, what happened the last time Trump was told to peacefully transfer power?
11If you believe trump intends to end democracy, then democracy is already over regardless of if you peacefully transfer power or not.
The truth is liberals have always been the path to fascism. After the death of the US no liberal nor fascist should ever be allowed near power again.
7Instead, we're in the Coda of Democracy.
4The US is a capitalist dictatorship, not a democracy.
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From the article:
"It's my responsibility to make sure this tyrannical despot assumes power," Harris told the crowd of supporters after officially conceding the race. "Though he will end freedom itself in this country, imprison anyone who disagrees with him, systematically murder all women, and go door to door kicking everyone's dogs, I promise to make sure there is a peaceful transition of power."
The media hailed Harris's brilliance and the leadership she displayed while conceding to a man who is literally Hitler.
27I wish this was the right community to post this. Unfortunately, it more properly belongs in nottheonion
26So... they are criticizing her for not trying to overthrow democracy? Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here? What a worrying attitude
22Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here
Yes. What kind of party hands over power to people they know is fascist?
A liberal one, yes. Which is the problem, and why liberalism eventually gives way to fascism when a capitalist state is in decline.
25The real answer is the kind of party that a majority of voters chose a rapist felon over. I don't even want to help them, anymore, I started learning German again just in case I feel like leaving.
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Why is that a worrying attitude?
They’re criticizing her for saying “he’s facist hitler” through the campaign as the sole message, and then when they lose, shrugging and treating it like any other loss. “Oh well, better luck next time!”
Babylon Bee’s point is that the rhetoric doesn’t match the actions. If he was Hitler, then why are you handing him the reigns like this is just any other election? Their implication is that the campaign dramatized his impact and demonized him. They’re right about the criticism but wrong about the reason.
He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path. Babylon Bee has managed to accidentally write their most non-partisan headline ever by accident, and a scathing indictment of spineless liberalism.
22Why is that a worrying attitude?
Because it seems to be pointed in the direction of a civil war and an end to the US republic
He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path.
What do you think should be done instead?
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Only if you don't believe Donald Trump's own words.
14Since when did we start believing trump ?
Isn’t he commonly understood to be a pathological liar ?
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If you were alive in 1930s Europe, would you have said the same thing about Hitler and Mussolini?
Time really is a fucking circle.
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Libs before the election: Trump is a fascist! He must be stopped! He'll destroy our democracy!
Libs after the election: Congrats to Trump! We'll be meeting soon to discuss the peaceful exchange of powers and our broadly overlapping interests.
22Biden is the one responsible for transferring power. Even right wing satire is full of ignorance. Not that there was ever any doubt.
18It was her concession speech though.
15Someone already wrote that article: Biden vows 'peaceful and orderly transition;' says election system 'fair' and 'transparent'.
10She literally said this though.
"I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power."
10Yes, because Trump has missed numerous deadlines already regarding transfer of power
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No, Trump has to write and submit an ethics statement promising peaceful transition of power.
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First and only and it looks like Babylon staff didn't even come up with the idea - at the bottom it suggests this was a reader submission.
14It's called leading through example, because the MAGA cult is so good at following the examples given to them.
13A millennia old Arabic saying goes something like: "If you honor the generous, you will own him... but if you honor the ignoble, he will rebel." We all know leading through example is wasted on people like Trump.
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Good old right wing "humor" (punching down on everyone else because they consider everyone else beneath them). We're all going to be seeing a lot of this type of "humor" (lynchings, book burning, singing about how wonderful being dictated to is) in the next 10 years or so.
11The BabylonBee is terrible but it's not a lynching FFS.
4"Hang Mike Pence"
Did you forget?
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Make sure Joe pardons the fuck out everybody on your way out. Also he should resign if only to fuck with their merch.
3Pretty sure genocide joe has been eating ice cream cones for the past year or more.
0The genocide is only going to get worse. Though genocide don doesn't have as much of a ring to it. Donny and Benny are best buds
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It's this that's she's emphasizing:
He needs to put forth an ethics plan to start the transition process. Part of that ethics plan requires him to say he will transfer power peacefully.
2I think the last few years have pretty much proven he doesn't 'need' to do anything.
2Sure, because he is a foreign asset meant to transfer wealth to Russia from the US and destroy the US from within. It only benefits him to harm our country.
But yes a competent leader would want things like info from those agencies and intelligence briefings etc so they are prepared on Jan 20.
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It was required to be created before the election. So it's pretty obvious they don't care.
I'm fact I'll go as far as to say its intentional. They will scream that Biden is resisting the transition, trying to stage a coup, etc etc. The antics won't stop just because he got elected.
2I assume everything Trump does at this point forward will be to benefit Russia and to start a civil war within the US.
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Pathetic
1Ah, so when the other side wins lemmy is suddenly against peaceful transfer of power. Interesting.
-7I think it's more a criticism of the Dems. They spent four years saying Trump is the death of America and now they're just going to hand it to him. There's two implications of that:
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Trump isn't the enemy they made him out to be.
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Or, they just don't care about American democracy.
A long criticism of Dems has been their refusal to treat Trump as the threat he is. He tried to perform a coup and what has happened? Some guy was accused of using fake money and was extra-judicially executed in the street, but perform a coup and life goes on.
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