# Political Humor Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Political Topics\ **Created:** [December 15, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538 "2020-12-15T16:32:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 158
**Author:** ![Jasper07734](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/jasper07734/32/24056_2.png) [@Jasper07734](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Jasper07734)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3224 "2024-05-17T14:40:06Z")
She is opinionated about political views that I fundamentally disagree with. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø If it makes you feel any better, I hate MTG for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3225 "2024-05-17T14:43:55Z")
None of the above. Itā€™s because I disagree with her policies. Particularly the Green New Deal. Some of you seem to be unaware that itā€™s possible to disagree with a woman without being sexist. I mean you miraculously remember this when the woman in question is someone you **disagree** with (like Sarah Palin or Marjorie Taylor Green) but then you forget it when the woman in question is someone you **agree** with, like AOC. ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3226 "2024-05-17T14:45:22Z")
I respect AOC in that I feel that she actually prepares and studies things, and is actually intelligent. But I think that she gloms onto facts and theories that agree with her preconceptions, leading her to positions that I disagree with. I think that MTG neither prepares nor is intelligent, and donā€™t feel that a comparison is fair. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3227 "2024-05-17T14:46:27Z")
AOC is sane and educated though. MTG is clearly mentally unwell. I will give you Palin as a counterpoint as she is of sound mind just not very intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![Jasper07734](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/jasper07734/32/24056_2.png) [@Jasper07734](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Jasper07734)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3228 "2024-05-17T14:50:10Z")
> [@twig93](#): > > Some of you seem to be unaware that itā€™s possible to disagree with a woman without being sexist. :iatp: Yup. Iā€™m over the instant \_\_\_ism wagon circling every time something like that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/rastiln/32/77682_2.png) [@Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Rastiln)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3229 "2024-05-17T14:50:14Z")
> [@The\_Polymath](#): > > MTG is clearly mentally unwell. Not sure whether I agree or not. Sheā€™s not _normal_. She at least _acts as though unhinged_. The things she says are often impressively stupid. But there are numerous other politicians who I believe to be intelligent but put on the stupid, obsequious MAGA act because it brings power and wealth. Do I think MTG is in the ā€œsecretly intelligent campā€?.. Not truly. But itā€™s hard to say with some of that flavor of toady. I believe ā€œacross state linesā€ Gaetz isnā€™t particularly stupid, for example. Heā€™s just a definite sex pest and potential child rapist and didnā€™t expect to get pinned on those, particularly by other Republicans who are using his ethics investigation as a cudgel of control. ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3230 "2024-05-17T14:50:20Z")
I will grant you that AOC is a lot smarter than MTG. ---
**Author:** ![JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/jfg/32/8801_2.png) [@JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/u/JFG)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3231 "2024-05-17T14:51:53Z")
Presumably parody: ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/e/9e65ed040c6d358c4487d3f4e2be51d68046ba94.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/rastiln/32/77682_2.png) [@Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Rastiln)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3232 "2024-05-17T14:54:36Z")
100% parody, but I listened to a chunk of his speech until I felt unclean enough to turn it off. It was essentially promoting tradwife lifestyle. ---
**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3233 "2024-05-17T14:56:39Z")
as objectionable as I found it, I feel it may not have been an inappropriate message for the audience. ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3234 "2024-05-17T15:01:23Z")
The problem isnā€™t so much that he is promoting a certain lifestyle, but rather that he is belittling and demeaning those who donā€™t want to. And yes, it was inappropriate for the audience. > As a founding institution and sponsor of Benedictine College, the sisters of Mount St. Scholastica find it necessary to respond to the controversial remarks of Harrison Butker as commencement speaker. > > The Sisters of Mt. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison Butkerā€™s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested. > > Instead of promoting unity in our church, our nation and the world, his comments seem to have fostered division. One of our concerns was the assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. We sisters have dedicated our lives to God and Godā€™s people, including the many women whom we have taught and influenced during the past 160 years. These women have made a tremendous difference in the world in their roles as wives and mothers, and through their God-given talents in leadership, scholarship and their careers. > > Our community has taught young women and men not just how to be ā€˜homemakersā€™ in a limited sense, but rather how to make a Gospel-centered, compassionate home within themselves where they can welcome others as Christ, empowering them to be the best versions of themselves. > > We reject a narrow definition of what it means to be Catholic. We are faithful members of the Catholic Church who embrace and promote the values of the Gospel, St. Benedict, and Vatican II and the teachings of Pope Francis. > > We want to be known as an inclusive, welcoming community, embracing Benedictine values that have endured for more than 1500 years and have spread through every continent and nation. We believe those values are the core of Benedictine College. Read more at: [https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article288540845.html#storylink=cpy](https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article288540845.html#storylink=cpy) ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3235 "2024-05-17T15:06:02Z")
> [@The\_Polymath](#): > > She seems to be more in the former camp in terms of making societal improvements. The nut job! ā€œSocietal improvements are only for me and not for thee!!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![YankeeTripper](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/yankeetripper/32/946_2.png) [@YankeeTripper](https://community.goactuary.com/u/YankeeTripper)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3236 "2024-05-17T15:06:22Z")
Itā€™s fine to disagree with AOC on policy. Thatā€™s perfectly valid. But RDO started this line by calling AOC an idiot comparing her to an actual idiot in MTG and drug using pedophile in Matt Gaetz and saying there are on the same level. ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3237 "2024-05-17T15:08:54Z")
> [@twig93](#): > > None of the above. Itā€™s because I disagree with her policies. Particularly the Green New Deal. But thatā€™s not going anywhere. So, big effing no-deal. Save it for someone with actual power and the need to ruin other peopleā€™s lives because of the way they look. ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3238 "2024-05-17T15:12:14Z")
> [@twig93](#): > > I will grant you that AOC is a lot smarter than MTG. Do you agree with ā€œR\_D\_Oā€ that she is a ā€œnut jobā€? ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3239 "2024-05-17T15:14:34Z")
[quote="dr\_t\_non-fan, post:3238, topic:1538ā€] Do you agree with ā€œR\_D\_Oā€ that she is a ā€œnut jobā€? [/quote] I probably wouldnā€™t use the term ā€œnut jobā€. But I would say that her policies (at least some of them) are pretty darn nutty. Also ā€œa lot smarter than MTGā€ is a pretty low bar. When I think of smart people, I do not think of AOC. But she does have at least one strength, as I mentioned, and that requires some intelligence, so I certainly wouldnā€™t call her ā€œdumbā€. ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3240 "2024-05-17T15:52:57Z")
> [@now\_samantha](#): > > I respect AOC in that I feel that she actually prepares and studies things, and is actually intelligent. I donā€™t follow US politics as closely as most of the Americans on this thread but I donā€™t find AOC very radical by Canadian political standards. But this (gifted) New York Times article on her greatly influences my positive view of her. [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.sk0.2iqc.wZ3UrLuArzhM&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk0.2iqc.wZ3UrLuArzhM&smid=url-share) ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3241 "2024-05-17T15:58:03Z")
> [@Rastiln](#): > > I listened to a chunk of his speech until I felt unclean enough to turn it off. Humorous article on Butkerā€™s address: > **[The diabolical lie of Harrison Butkerā€™s speech is that football still cares...](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/de9040e3a73aa22e0b71cbf0d6bf1cdcf7d1c75eba6fc88b1bc97e3b5c51751f/BQKZ63EHEFEMVH6J6R5GFUU3Q4/)** > > The response (or lack thereof) to the Kansas City kickerā€™s commencement address at a religious college suggests the culture wars are coming to an end in sports ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3242 "2024-05-17T15:58:40Z")
> [@Cooke](#): > > But this (gifted) New York Times article on her greatly influences my positive view of her. Gonna read this, but Iā€™m looking through her wiki to find the nutjobby or even mildly disagreeable things she has said or done. Not finding them. There was this one time when went to Texas to help people who lost their power. How awful! Doesnā€™t she know that the only response to a loss of electricity in Texas is to go to Cancun? ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538/3243 "2024-05-17T16:10:39Z")
Thereā€™s a whole thread on the Green New Deal. And spare me the ā€œthatā€™s irrelevant because itā€™ll never get passedā€ argument. Itā€™s a nutty set of positions that she not just supported, but championed. You could say ā€œnever gonna happenā€ about 90% of Trumpā€™s nonsensical positions too. It doesnā€™t transform them into logical positions. I was asked what nutty positions AOC has, and thatā€™s a collection of nutty positions that I judge her negatively for championing even though I know they wonā€™t come to pass. I am also not worried about Guam tipping over, but I judged the guy who was worried that it would. [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538.md?page=157) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/political-humor-thread/1538.md?page=159)