If Republicans Said the Quiet Parts Loud to Workers

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[@kwhp1507]

A working man that votes republican is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

[@phiksit]

Trees voting for axes.

[@karlzipp3706]

A cow working for the butcher.

[@domoariscotto7486]

Great analogy, haha

[@devilsephiroth9000]

Perfect

[@MikaelLewisify]

And yet, here we are.

[@neiladam2832]

Steve, The sad thing is that Trump, or possibly Gaetz or De Santis, could make a word for word speech like this and STILL get widespread backing.

[@interdimensionalsteve8172]

Rule #1 to being a good political consumer: NEVER EVER EVER emotionally attach to ANY political figure. Treat every election like it's lesser-of-two-evils and you'll always make the best decision.

[@GhostRydr1172]

I'd like to think that tho they'd openly cheer at their mutual admission of being racist, bigoted shits that hate everything non-white, and non "Christian", the speaker would not get away with calling their audience stupid assholes too many timesone. Pride IS still a thing even amongst scumbags.

[@grmpEqweer]

@@interdimensionalsteve8172Yup. They're applying for a job, not to be your parent.

[@Ralnon]

I fear your not wrong.....

[@bizarrebraincomics7819]

That's exactly what I was gonna say.

[@Daedalus1111]

As a former Republican, its scary how accurate this is

[@Giggl3puff]

Congrats on your recovery

[@willmcgonigle3107]

what are you now?

[@Mommyofmany9]

Same.

[@Real_Beaky]

It's never too late. I'm happy you woke up and I hope you can save some of your friends too :)

[@Real_Beaky]

​@@Mommyofmany9happy for you too. Welcome back to reality :)

[@SophiaAphrodite]

"This guy is a straight shooter. He tells it like it is. That speaks to me. Imma vote for him!" - Small town Republicans.

[@jordinagel1184]

- Republican voter after Trump literally shoots someone on 5th Avenue to prove a point

[@nochancewithoutpasta7637]

Maybe in the 50s. Now it's more like... "Lul, this guy is so based. Dat speaks to my barely functioning brain stem. Imma vote all red, at every level, and not look up a daym canadidate."

[@undrwatropium3724]

Small town Republicans: He hates the same people as me

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​@@undrwatropium3724accurate

[@Echo81Rumple83]

​@@undrwatropium3724and they never ask why.

[@coomtothebroom778]

Two anecdotes. 1.) I’ve been in many blue collar jobs where my coworkers said that the government should provide everyone with a livable wage and good healthcare. Same people mere minutes later also say that political correctness forces them to vote Republican. Grievance politics is totally real and the GOP knows it. 2.) In same blue collar jobs the employees all thought “right-to-work” meant they had protections from being fired and vehemently insisted they had job security because of right-to-work laws. Misinformation and mislabeling an idea works on a large portion of the population.

[@SuperMrHiggins]

True, cynically speaking - people are idiots, everyone, everywhere. Less cynically they don't have the time to figure out what they are actually supporting.

[@G11713]

Republican messaging/marketing is a result of intense research and development and made particularly effective by being unconstrained from policy or even logic. Soft weapons are weapons.

[@donsachse]

Serves to show how muddled their brains are... Lack of critical thinking skills paves the way for people like that to be exploited.

[@DaveCM]

That is what always gets me. "Right to work" does NOT mean a right to work. They labeled it all pretty but it is a bad thing

[@hitthegoat]

Imagine thinking not being able to say slurs is a bigger issue than… living wages

[@L33tSkE3t]

Every Conservative accusation is an admission.

[@grmpEqweer]

It certainly seems so. They project like an IMAX. The really crazy far rights are all like "you're sexual degenerates!" (Not gonna argue, but it's with consenting people in my age group.😉) So, then we have...Blowbert. And Cawthorn who mentioned Republican orgies and got flushed by the party.😂 Lindsay Graham, who at least has a history of engaging "rentboys." (Grown male escorts) IMO, Conservatives are freakier than more liberal people on the whole, it's the repression.

[@justsomeguy9555]

They're not creative enough to think of something new, so their only reference material is what they do.

[@Dead-Not-Sleeping]

It is literally the primary approach Mussolini used. Accuse them before they accuse you.

[@calebrobinson6406]

Going to hang on to this one!

[@gateauxq4604]

Always.

[@Mottleydude1]

I’m a former Republican and this is no BS. This exactly how we spoke about working people behind closed doors on strategy and messaging. I can remember as a young Republican discussing “The Southern Strategy” and implementing it in the rural section of my midwestern State. I made the naive comment “The people here couldn’t possibly be that stupid.”. Everyone in the room started laughing at me. Boy was I wrong.

[@disklamer]

“We control the pulpit and the papers.”

[@Sarah-re7cg]

I think bigotry causes brain rot tbh

[@jordan7dinodude]

Thank you for sharing the shift in your mindset, it's undervalued but is really important in providing any source of "stepping stones" in the occasional person's mindset! I implore the internal exploration of one's understanding of the world, and sharing the process along the way!!

[@francisdasta8646]

It all starts with the Republicans breaking down our public education system. When you're party is pushing for teaching creation science and whitewashed history this is what happens. Underfunding the schools and pushing for government to give people money to send them to private schools insures you can indoctrinate children and teach them what to think, not how to think. If you can get people to believe that the magic man in the sky spoke the universe into existence in six days, you can get them to swallow any amount of bulls*t. I started turning left after I took macro economics in college and realized everything the Republican Party tells you about the economy is wrong

[@jlessien3826]

This is going back to the time the monarchy was still being under the influence of the Roman Catholic church. "You keep them poor, we keep them uneducated".

[@gateauxq4604]

THANK YOU for mentioning the whole “democrats are leftists” crap. I am so sick of hearing that, it drives me crazy. Bring back education!

[@warlordofbritannia]

“Pffft…I wish” is the correct response

[@Valiguss]

Yeah democrats are cowards

[@TimEssDub]

No, give real education, not the factory education our schools are based on.

[@raulnavarrete963]

Democrats are centrists. Milquetoast. I WISH they were leftists.

[@jordanwhite352]

What people are basically trying to save? I can't articulate is that the Democrats for the most part are left of the republicans, which considering that the Republicans are now a right-wing extremist organization... Well...

[@darkhalf75]

The scary thing is Trump could make that exact speech and they would still chear

[@SquishyProductions]

He already did XD "I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any voters" - Donald Trump

[@falconeshield]

​@PolyreksAND THEY CLAPPED

[@darkhalf75]

@@robertsipe9748 before you lecture a dyslexic on spelling try using a dictionary that was spell-checked before publishing and saying aluminium right. your mother isn't crazy.

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@robertsipe9748 _chear_ is actually an archaic spelling for ... wait for it ... _cheer._

[@nancychandler3673]

@@robertsipe9748 Chear is slang for Cheer.

[@furrybear7853]

Trump " I love the uneducated " massively cuts aid to schools 😂😂😂

[@andyb1653]

That's because he doesn't "love the uneducated". Like most American aristocracy, he only loves THE FACT they're uneducated. And their desire is to keep them that way. Republican opposition to things like subsidized/free higher education, well-funded public schools, and student debt relief isn't really about the money. It's because the fewer people who actually learn how to spot the flaws in the system, the better it is for those Republicans. Their political success relies on that ignorance.

[@erinauter8939]

And they all tell themselves that he’s surely not talking about them

[@alterworlds1629]

Republicans: *wild cheering* As if that is a good thing for them and the future of this country.

[@DrPhilGoode]

⁠@@erinauter8939I respectfully disagree and conclude that actual reality is much worse. Most of them believe that education, critical thinking, and academia are the problems. A “fancy” degree just means someone was brainwashed to do the bidding of the deep state. They pride themselves in being uneducated.

[@radicalfishstickstm8563]

Well if he funds schools the next generation will no longer be uneducated. As someone who is deeply loved by the uneducated, he wouldn’t try such a self sabotaging act

[@lukemccann8930]

The saddest part to me as a labor activist is how many people are literally just "my team" voters. I couldn't tell you how many times I've had to talk to a union member about "but why don't you ever endorse REPUBLICAN politicians?" and explain to them that when I call or send a questionnaire saying "I represent Steel Workers and would like your stance on these labor issues" they hang up on me or return the survey unopened.

[@Thomas-fj8ol]

thanks fascist troll......gop offers two things,tax cuts for corp and billionaires and culture wars to achieve the 1st

[@skraf883]

I was a UAW member & shop steward for a Dana plant in Texas, before GM closed our customer factory in Shreveport to move production of Colorados offshore. I used to hear the same thing from our members... "Why don't we give money to Republicans?" My answer was always the same.. "Because Republicans do not represent us in government." My father was a Steelworkers member & shop steward for a furnace and air conditioning company in Ohio. He worked there for 35 years before they shut his factory down.. His pension fund was robbed by the company that bought them, and they stole his severance pay on his last day of work. He was literally one of the last 2 workers out the door when the factory closed after missing less than 10 days of work in that entire 35 years.. and they stole his pension and severance. He died of cancer because he couldn't afford the medications.. (his "insurance" required him to pay full price for the meds up front and he would be reimbursed 2/3 of that cost on a monthly basis.. his meds were $9000/month) This was allowed because Republicans back the for-profit health care industry because they give HUGE bucks to Republicans to keep the status quo. He would probably still be alive if we had a system like in Canada, Germany, the UK, and every other civilized nation.

[@warriorwaitress7690]

@@skraf883 What a heartbreaking story, I'm so sorry. Our systems in this country - health care and otherwise - are fucking barbaric and your dad deserved better. Big hugs.

[@nicklazzaro5055]

because youre being lied to and people above you will not do the right things. Very happy those union workers do the right thing after decades of you people trying to rob everybody blind no matter what and then play the cognitive dissonance game of "it wasnt me and i didnt know!"... yea well we do and thats why youre not spoken to at all.

[@MisterZimbabwe]

I wanna blame the poor state of public education for that level of stupid but I think you just have to have been born with bad, stupid brain genes to be that moronic and I have no idea how to fix it other than deleting every dipshit who acts and thinks like that from society.

[@TheDevian]

They are saying the quiet parts out loud now. More and more every day.

[@DawnDavidson]

😢

[@melvinjamerson1920]

Yup America 🇺🇲💯💙

[@damonjacobs9051]

They have normalized the quiet parts because they have let Trump take over their party. They are afraid of Trump. If more Republicans would stand up to Trump, they could take their party back.

[@oldben8261]

This is like verbatim the rally Trump just held at that non-union Auto-Parts place. He's there to make a speech about labor and the crowd's relatively tame until he mentions making gender transitioning for children illegal out of left field. That's when they really went wild. It's crazy watching fascism happen in real time.

[@joearnold6881]

That’s what he’s directly basing this on. You can tell because he says that exactly at the beginning.

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@joearnold6881Never forget (assuming you even know that - not many seem to) that Hitler got *a lot* of his ideas from the US (especially from Henry Ford). Ford is even mentioned in "Mein Kampf": "only a single great man, Ford, [who], to [the Jews'] fury, still maintains full independence ... [from] the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions." In 1938, Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, a medal given to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism. According to a captured Nazi document, the German subsidiary of Ford made a personal present to Hitler of 35,000 Reichsmarks in honor of his 50th birthday, in April 1939.

[@gateauxq4604]

He really threw the whole ‘transing the children’ crap into the middle of that dog and pony show?? Ugh.

[@wyrm2591]

i hate this country

[@healingsoul13]

You can always know what the republicans are up to by what they accuse Democrats of doing.

[@sprig5173]

"we live in a democracy, for the time being". Great work.

[@peterjuncker8488]

"akshually we live in a constitutional Republic"

[@falconeshield]

Project 2025. And those Evangelists openly planning to end the world. Death cult, all of them.

[@ericdoberstein8872]

@@peterjuncker8488 Democracy is a broad term and there are many types of democracies including a constitutional republic. Saying that a constitutional republic is not a democracy is like saying a square is not a rectangle.

[@fieryrebirth]

It's neither a true democracy or a republic when the government as a whole answers to their donors(bribes)and not for their voters -- and the many institutions functionally are no different from businesses(Justice System, Military Industrial Complex, etc.). The fact the government passes legislation that mainly serves the interest of their wealthy donors and are allowed to have insider trading means that the US is actually a plutocratic oligarchy, as the wealthy few controls the US government's functions to serve their interests(mainly of making more money, connections, and controlling the masses). This may be why the US government obsesses over ''the economy'', and not maintaining dignity, not for welfare of the many, not egalitarian values, not "the spirit of democracy", the US government works for money.

[@AgeofCraccadilliaassent]

Oligarchy empire

[@Bongwater33]

So on target! The brutal truth most Democrats are too nice to say out loud!

[@jondunmore4268]

Listen to Keith Olbermann.

[@EmilyTienne]

It’s time Dems start punching back…HARD! We have to retire our NPR voices and BE HEARD.

[@ThatGuy-bh9qh]

Not nice, complicit. Democrats have been in lockstep with Republicans for decades, they're little more than a center-right party for neoliberal economists.

[@Real_Beaky]

This is exactly right. There are very few Democratic firebrands. I think that is why Bernie was so appealing for many. The left is hungry for a fighter.

[@joedavenport5293]

I have a theory about that. If Dems called them out Republicans would just do what they do best. Gaslight and play the victim. Straight out of the narcissist playbook

[@kjamison5951]

If workers were better educated, they could translate actual GOP phrases in real time. Then they would understand how little their lives mean to the GOP - it’s all about the money from donors and giving massive tax breaks and more to the very wealthy and ultra-rich.

[@mayra3277]

As a German, I worry about the US.

[@falconeshield]

Worry about ADF first and Musk

[@beaugearing]

as a Canadian they scare us.

[@halinaqi2194]

Lmao their right wing political takes is starting to infect Canadian politics

[@evansnyamesah1755]

​@@falconeshieldI was about to say this. These people are taking fold across the world 😂😂😂

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Ugh...I wonder if the US, because of a larger population, has more Nazi supports than Germany did during WW2? What a grim thought... We worry about the US as well... 😕 Sadly, intelligent people are doing the opposite of Germany and removing controversial history from schools... *Nightmare when Europe invades the US to stop fascism* 😬

[@CarbideSix]

11:31 “Cults benefit the people who run them, not the people who join them.” THAT PART

[@flygirlfly]

"CULTS BENEFIT THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THEM -- NOT THE ONES WHO JOIN THEM"

[@MithralDragon]

He sounds much more intelligent then anything that the Repubs say.

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

I honestly think that most Republicans, and Trump in particular, could totally get away with this, though. He did it recently when he expressed confusion about the Right's baffling obsession with transgender teens at the expense of literally everything else. They cheered! He mocked them in their stupid faces and they cheered!

[@grmpEqweer]

IIRC, the Republicans spent 57 million on anti-trans ads during the run-up to the midterms. ...We transfolx (all of us, not just teens) make a great distraction from their real policy objectives. ...Making the oligarchs richer.

[@keirfarnum6811]

It’s not just that either. He keeps repeating that line about how he’s “being indicted for you” and then says “thanks for that.” But the way he says thanks makes it clear that he doesn’t really mean and it almost seems like he’s blaming his base. It’s just too sarcastically said.

[@BreakingGaia]

@@keirfarnum6811 He is blaming them for not fulfilling their duties on Jan 6. They were supposed to find and kill Mike Pence and crown him dictator. Now he's going down for their cowardice. They've basically laid it out in their project 2025 manifesto.

[@bryangary2270]

It's not baffling. Abortion as a campaign issue - their most successful wedge issue ever - id dead courtesy of one Donald Trump, master strategist. So they need a new cause to rile out the Fox crowd and get angry and to the polls. Gay marriage doesn't pack the punch it used to. Weed is basically legal. They've been flailing around looking for the next culture war and the focus groups seem to indicate that their best shot is trans antipathy. Yep. They've opted to vilify an already marginalized group more prone to depression, suicide and physical violence - and make their lives worse. All on the long shot that it will marginally improve their chances. I find that more than a little craven.

[@nicholasagnew2792]

@@keirfarnum6811 Yeah lol his whole criminal career was all for them, so selfless.

[@Asher8328]

Republicans aren't always so quiet, regular people need to take responsibility for not opening their ears about them too. But the media's purposeful ignorance in keeping people uneducated is pretty disgusting, yeah.

[@vxicepickxv]

The media is owned by billionaires, and the talking heads are multimillionaires that benefit from capitalism. Why would they fight against their class interests?

[@echoawoo7195]

It's not ignorance when it's a conspiracy.

[@qjtvaddict]

They prefer to be anti communist and suffer

[@noble61483]

I think you forget the top 1% owns the main stream media... they don't want to pay more taxes if they actually educate people they have to think of their shareholders

[@dragonwithagirltattoo598]

You are spot on Steve. As the wife of a UAW member, I got a kick out of this. Republicans don’t want us to organize. It would mean less money for them to buy their fifth mansion or tenth yacht.

[@thefamilydud2225]

Careful, you’ll be the next GOP nominee.

[@Dlstufguy2]

Every conservative needs to watch this.

[@hattielankford4775]

🤢 I'm afraid they might like it.

[@user-my9rh7tx1l]

wouldn't matter.

[@marcning918]

Every conservative under a certain level of income needs to see this. There are some who would see it and just be mad he was trying to tell the rest the truth.

[@NovaSaber]

Conservatives are infamously terrible at recognizing or understanding satire.

[@errantcoyote05]

They would vote him in

[@barbaratyler2183]

Too accurate…unfortunately the people who need to hear this won’t, or if they do, will continue to ignore reality.

[@barbarabalen7278]

Right on Steve, shame on the corporate press for normalizing cruelty.

[@Daniel-ne5ms]

You forgot to paint the destruction of worker's rights like healthcare, vacation, sick days, holidays, child labor laws as a "right to work".

[@Kastila]

The fact that, ever more and more, this is the direction the Conservative party in the UK is accelerating along is terrifying...

[@KatharineOsborne]

And Suella Braverman is like the worst of the bunch. Just nakedly does not care or have any empathy. The fact that she hasn’t been sacked indicates the rest of them think like her deep down but just have a bit more talent for disguising it.

[@M-CH_]

It's not just the UK...

[@20storiesunder]

Aye, cause it works.

[@kristin1533]

You have my sympathies.

[@tweda4]

It's pretty bloody shameful for all of us in the UK that the Tories are trying to go down that road, but I have no idea why they think this is even a good idea. Thankfully, the British public isn't anywhere near as partisan as the Americans, so the Tory's are getting kicked out left and right, so it's clearly not even working for them. It both makes me feel bad that the party in government is acting like this, but also just bloody mystified.

[@ApocryphalDude]

My republican family had a business for thirty years but kept voting for state republicans that tried to make their business illegal

[@nicklazzaro5055]

And if it ever happened theyd blame dems anyway. The cognitive dissonance it takes it to be a conservative is almost not even human.

[@noble61483]

​@@nicklazzaro5055it's called sheep brain

[@prrfrrpurochicas]

​@@nicklazzaro5055cowardism to admit that they might be the mark or could get hudwinked, so they double down until they find something to state ha back

[@justamaninTN]

You know how there’s this saying Republicans tell themselves that the older you get, the more it makes you want to vote Republican? Yeah, the exact opposite happened for me lol. I grew up Republican, but when you go into the world and see how the system actually works, the conclusion you come to is that voting Republican is just insanity lol. It really comes down to if you want the life of the poorest Americans to improve or to get worse. If you say no, you’re a Republican. If you’re not a POS, you’re a Democrat (and probably a socialist, honestly).

[@nicknguyen77]

I'm going to share this my friends and family- some are dems so are republicans. Pray for me...

[@Dysiode]

In More Perfect Union's video about Biden visiting the picket line they interviewed a union worker who literally said "It's nice he's on our side! I voted for Obama, then for Trump in 2016 and 2020 and in 2024 I'm going to vote Republican again" and I just. He's the exact person who would watch this and go "That sounds like the party I want representing me!" 10/10 for doing this in one take

[@forloveofthepage2361]

They aren't far off from saying this themselves. All they have to do is drop the right buzz words and their base will hate anyone.

[@doggodoggo3000]

some of them literally freaking do say stuff like this. "Vice signaling" is in vogue on the right. Thats part of how someone so openly crappy like trump can thrive. Thats why you have media figures on the right openly calling for stuff like saying some people shouldnt be allowed to vote. Or people like justpealrythings saying men are better than women etc etc. Having openly hateful and ignorant views and being upfront and unabashed about it is totally in style on the right.

[@jasonrollins8217]

In Cali on Friday trump told his magas that he will make that people who steal be shot dead before leaving the scene. They started changing his name... Not even realizing that on Wednesday trump was found guilty of stealing millions of tax dollars... Also the documents

[@Seattle-2017]

There was a Republican congressman a few days ago who proudly and excitedly promised to "lock kids in cages" (among other things like pardon all the January 6 convicted rioters) should Trump become President again.

[@YungEZ1]

When in doubt say how much you hate the woke and CRT. It get the people going 😅😅

[@rickfry6031]

I always had to laugh when the Republicans brought up the transfer of wealth. The transfer of wealth is obviously from labor upwards, and common people upwards. Regardless of government programs. The presenter nailed it.

[@Seattle-2017]

The "We have to lower taxes on the wealthy" as the answer to everything - SPOT ON for the GOP.

[@DrPepperZZZ]

Trickle up economics is very effective

[@onomatopoeia162003]

why they been doing the wedge issue's for a long time.. They figured that out in the late 60's.

[@graydanerasmussen4071]

Re: the trickle down crap. The economy does NOT work like water in air, but like air in water. Sooner or later all the wealth ends up at the top! That is how it got there in the first place. Give [a ton of dough] to the rich, and that money mostly stays at the top. Give [a ton of dough] to the poorest parts of society, and it will percolate to the top, making many, many people a little richer for a while.

[@jimgaines6437]

My favorite line Cults benefit the people who run them not the people who join them.

[@lukasmurch6976]

The people that need to see this, won't.

[@beautomasi1701]

The most honest depiction of the Republican party I've seen so far. I wish every MAGA voter would watch this. Although, they'd have to be duct taped to a chair because not a single one would watch the entire video.

[@Cyberlisk]

I think most of them would watch it and think it's actually pro-republican. Yes, they are THAT stupid.

[@ateamfan42]

"they'd have to be duct taped to a chair because not a single one would watch the entire video" If one of their MAGA heroes was giving this exact speech, they'd not only watch, but cheer.

[@Real_Beaky]

They aren't smart enough to understand the satire.

[@Barnabas45]

Sad thing is the audience would still be clapping if this was reality!

[@KatharineOsborne]

It’s because any given individual in the crowd thinks they are smart and the rest of the crowd are rubes so they would never take the insults personally. Only if this was said one-on-one they might have a clue that the politician was referring to them specifically.

[@happydaddy9826]

It is

[@Chet_Brinkley]

Duh ..... wake up _____, it IS reality !! VOTE 🔵 BLUE EVERYTIME !!

[@greenerseyes]

The most honest politician I've ever seen, and a Republican. Was ready for this

[@johndavid4831]

I can't bring myself to laugh...it's too spot on. It's been breaking my heart and spirit for most of my adult life.

[@melvinjamerson1920]

God's Blessings on You America 🇺🇲💯

[@dano8902]

These need to be broadcast once an hour on Fox News in perpetuity.

[@carolynndufft2327]

Agree 100%

[@user-fh6mc9du5n]

I WISH!

[@herbie1975]

The Fox viewers would vote for him😂 The average fox viewer wouldn't understand it😅

[@What_do_I_Think]

While the idea is not bad, I think that *Fox News should be closed for Fraud instead.*

[@graydanerasmussen4071]

Run on a loop from a (probably has to be armored) truck in the parking lot of any large republican event... :D Oh, and put the bit about the compliant media in an add and force them to air it!

[@kennethd.9436]

Truth: cults benefit the leader at the expense of its members. Bring me your money, your free time, your autonomy.

[@leoh2502]

This guy is so... HONEST! He has my vote! Drain the swamp!! Best regards, A no-matter-what Republican

[@GREATGAIWAIN]

Wow! As someone on the brink of homelessness, I really like your "tell it like it is" honesty! You got my vote!

[@Ralnon]

As a Englishman: I am stunned that a US comic has so perfectly captured ironic satire. Well done, very very well done. That was an epic burn. and horribly accurate and applies over here as well - so very very much.

[@SFS1009]

Indeed! Totally agreed!

[@lizardguyNA]

Uhh, is irony a different word in England? Irony would assume this is pro-Republican, this is just translating bullshit into reality.

[@DudeSoWin]

As a As a NPC.

[@FlanaFugue]

There has been all kinds of very ironic satire stateside throughout its history; you may just not be aware of it.

[@LincolnDWard]

@@lizardguyNA There's a difference between situational irony and verbal irony (satire and sarcasm are both types of verbal irony). Situational irony is usually unintentional, while verbal irony is usually intentional.

[@marthaknox6466]

I wish this wasn't true, but I fear it is. Once I visited relatives who live in a small, conservative, mid-Western town, and while my kid was getting a haircut, and we were making small talk in the salon, I mistakenly mentioned that I was visiting from Philly. The demeanor in the place changed. The women slowly started ignoring me, so I sat down and played on phone, as one of them began loudly saying things about their identities like, "I'm a farmer's daughter" out of the blue in a manner that was clearly for my benefit. It was bizarre, and made them seem super insecure. Which is weird, cause I'm a friggin' underpaid art teacher and probably live at the same level as them economically. But I live in the big city, so I guess they assume I look down on them. But I don't. I more often fear people like them, which is exactly why I left Ohio (where I grew up) and am raising my kids in Philly.

[@Demo5]

It's not that they have been trained to look down on you .

[@Sephiroth144]

As a Michigan native, I support anyone's choice to leave Ohio ;-)

[@karenstauffer1524]

I live in Philadelphia, and am shocked by finding a neighbor dense enough to vote Republican. But they are here.

[@jordanwhite352]

And that's why it's absolutely hilarious that the man that they vote for is a at best multi-millionaire city slicker that was born with both the silver spoon in his mouth and ass.

[@steve341]

a 'famers daughter' today means you raise cattle or dairy, and you are a psychopath for engaging in such horrid animal abuse they need to make laws to quiet whistle blowers, because it shows how crazy those losers are.

[@carolynndufft2327]

Steve, 100% I wish it wasn't true, you are spot on with every word! I will be sharing everywhere! Vote Blue 🎉 Save Democracy!

[@stevensammons4062]

Wow. First time watching this guy. Have to say spot on.

[@hattielankford4775]

I hope this gains the traction that it should.

[@melvinjamerson1920]

Me Too America 🇺🇲💯🤞

[@aaronb9630]

Your skits are so perfect, it's sad that they could be this honest at a rally and still get votes but at least I can laugh about it while it's still legal to have an opposing view.

[@mollywolfe7321]

Steve, you should run as a Republican and do this character non-ironicly, I bet you'd be second place in the polls

[@ShazbotDesign]

This is just too accurate.. most Republican's egos are too big too big to even watch 1 minute of this video and self-reflect on what you say. This is both hilarious and sad lol.

[@Lester295]

This should be mass emailed to everyone in Congress. 😂

[@karlaboerger3619]

Just do it!

[@Hipnip1son]

Everyone in Congress already knows this. EVERYONE.

[@IrocZIV]

If only they had that much self awareness to speak those truths so clearly.

[@marcning918]

Oh they do they aren't there by mistake. The show is solely to keep the levels of support from everyday people to busy or gullible to pay attention to the results of their actions.

[@czickgraf]

"I love the feeble-minded!" and the feeble-minded cheered.

[@Sdr4813]

Cults benefit the people who run them, not the ones who join them. One of the best lines I have ever heard!!!👏

[@anitalee9437]

Soon they'll replace those workers with 10 year olds. While failing to allow them to get any kind of education.

[@justamaninTN]

They’ll just reverse the 13th Amendment. Problems with those pesky workers will finally be solved!

[@1277martinez]

Your speach is word by word GOP discourse. Our future will be bad if we don't vote them out.

[@melvinjamerson1920]

Yup America 🇺🇲💯🤞💙

[@StaceNyourFace]

NO LIES DETECTED!!!! Absolutely brutal..and, I love it! You're hilarious, Steve! Thank you for the laughs! 😂

[@melvinjamerson1920]

Dang it, America, Open Your Eyes and Ears, Listen Up, God Bless You America 🇺🇲💯💙

[@spamuel98]

The clapping after every line is the most depressingly realistic part.

[@grmpEqweer]

@ Steve: I may be further to your left, but it's really good to have someone else see this bullcrap 100% clearly and skewer it.

[@rickfry6031]

Well written and well presented entertainment.

[@rickfry6031]

The only thing missing was the pointing into the audience pretending like he recognized someone.

[@sweetsugarjones]

@@rickfry6031Where’s my black?

[@AutismSocialcast]

And this is why they call America the wasteland.

[@verng8864]

This is an amazing video and couldn't describe the republiCON party any better. 🙌

[@dollardan]

I'm pretty sure Trump just gave this exact same speech last night.

[@RonaldGibson699]

"You're in a psy-op right now. Congratulations." LMAO!!

[@CrAck-MoNey]

Yep. Finally someone compiled it all. Thank you!

[@Minoltalphafan]

I would laugh if I weren't crying.

[@JoshKablack]

Not sure why this is labelled comedy instead of journalism. 😉

[@jp12x]

I thought Steve was done after the last video. "What more could he say?" But this video is no walk or fly ball. It's a truly unexpected Home Run Thank you!

[@FunAngelo2005]

The fact that they're still cheering despite how obvious he is making the fascism is verry accurate

[@Enfjscrolling]

You're brilliant, you do these so ironically well

[@OpinionsNoOneCaresAbout]

I literally almost said this needs to be on mainstream media. But it wouldn't really matter.

[@RobertFoley]

George Carlin would be so proud.

[@jasonwaltman3566]

Shouting into the void? Preaching to th choir? P***ing into the wind? Another perfectly articulated message that will be lost on the ones who need to hear it most because ya just can't cure stupid.

[@zengrath]

Yep exactly. that's the problem with America right now. Nothing one said says will ever be heard by other side, if other side hears it it'll be immediately assumed to be all lies. Our country has never been further apart. All the content from both sides does is continue to make their own side more radical.

[@shawnatkins5611]

Love it. This is the slap in the face last ditch attempt to wake people up. And I must say that this type of mentality has infected all political parties. Some obviously more than others. People need to demand more from their leadership and hold them accountable. We need to remember who they are working for.

[@jamesblaisdell3047]

All true. And even if they did come out and say this the fans would still clap and cheer and go by along with it.

[@laronk.jenkins9078]

Brilliant as always, Steve! Keep up the good work!

[@ericlondon2663]

REPUBLICAN TRUTH: "We don't want to pay you so we are going to expand internships for the first five years of employment." "We also want 6 year olds to do factory work (and Republicans would love to marry them at this age considering how often they try to get rid if minimum age restrictions for marriage)."

[@bianca-sg8zq]

First time hearing Steve. I'm in universal love! This is pure gold and needs to be blasted in communities in red states!🙏🏽

[@zacharycates5485]

Yeah... *deep, deflated sigh* yeah.....

[@rursus8354]

Thank you for the great inspiring cynical speech, it is heart-warming to hear, and my fat guts vibrates in sadistic joy and glee!

[@Desert_Man99]

Oh, it hurts how honest this is. Great job! 👏🏼

[@michaelcoe5628]

Wait, this was a skit? I thought it was an actual campaign ad! 🤭

[@krisowy79]

Great writing Steve! Anyone who pays attention to what's going on right now can read you loud and clear.

[@jan-rs6im]

i'm torn - so terrifying cause it is completely true - but you do such an excellent job so it is hysterical - thank you Steve!

[@Lifeskillsish]

This guy should actually run on the Republican ticket and say these things on campaign and at televised debates!

[@brianfox771]

I know right?!? I was thinking the exact, same thing.

[@donaldspaulding6973]

I still admire one thing: Dump convinced with people no money (some with families and living in trailers) to send him money after Fox news shows his private 757 taking off! 🤣

[@terihammond5932]

The most brutal and informative 8th grade social studies lesson I've ever seen. Every word is accurate, I admire your ability to make sense of the wide net of impact that simple stupidity or lack of intellectual curiosity has brought us. Inherent bigotry inherent other nests, and the lack of the knowledge that the human race is the only race that we should be worried about and in a limited ability to see future potential is an epidemic if not a pandemic in this world and I wish we were working on that bed scene a lot harder than we are. Thank you, thank you very much, although fuck you, too, cuz you made me cry 😢😘

[@melvinjamerson1920]

God's Blessings on You America 🇺🇲💯💙

[@UATU.]

Please consider styling the toupee like Matt Gaetz’. You’ll need a hairdryer, round brush and industrial grade styling glue for that ‘Right Wing Predator Used Cars’ look.

[@cfrack697]

This skit is brilliant! You're absolutely right and hilarious in the delivery.

[@leroirobinson-grant5885]

Beautifully done and factually correct.

[@m8rshall]

From the UK this is as funny as it is scary, as a country we are no angels - but it is worrying to think how true this is, and how real the possibility is that it might just work again : I

[@rgemail]

Sadly people are susceptible to emotional framing and allergic to research on political topics no matter where they are in the world. What shocks me is that there was never a second Brexit vote at any point after everyone woke up the morning after and Googled "what is the EU". Some Republicans are legitimately fine , if somewhat selfish, people who just know *nothing* about politics and shut their brains right off as soon as they hear something like "America FIRST!" That sounds cool, our country first, who would disagree with that?! And then of course as history shows us, a decade later submit that they knew nothing about concentration camps and that sounds like fake news.

[@Falconman1121]

I said this last time but... do they not?

[@DeathBYDesign666]

No they do, but they also backpedal away from it if even one person complains about it. They use distractions as a weapon to keep their minds occupied with irrelevant false information and it works too damn well for dumb people.

[@warren52nz]

Well said Steve. It's comedy for those of us who don't live there but pathetic for those who do! The funniest thing is hearing Americans waving a flag and shouting *_"WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!!"_* 🤣 *_MAG seems out of reach and MAGA is a joke!_*

[@drsunshineaod2023]

Yeah! This guy says it like it is! I feel like I could get a beer with this guy. He has my vote!!

[@alanlittlemoon8194]

Yep. It's damn near torches and pitchforks time. Eat. The . Rich.

[@user-yd9dm5kx8y]

Hit the nail on the head!

[@maikutsukino4743]

That's it. Steve, my friend, I'll give all 5 of my votes to you if you'd run for President. Why? Because your honest. And kill us all or not, you cannot beat honesty. STEVE 2024!!!!

[@Anatolij86]

At first I was like "14 minutes? This is a 3 minutes skit tops". But he pulled it off. Gripping and tragically hilarious. "Un-people"😂