"Dear American leftist friends, please keep laughing"

[babylonsister]

Dear American leftist friends, please keep laughing
Friday, August 02, 2024 at 1:20:43a EDT
By HiFromIndia


Concerned about negative headlines bumping Trump up again? Not sure how best to handle him? Please borrow a few leaves from India—one of the many countries that routinely deal with such baboons. The answer is really this much simple: Keep laughing. Keep mocking him. NEVER be outraged.

He questioned Kamala's identity? "Lol that old confused demented fool doesn't even know or remember that she is black." He says something crazy about Mexicans? Mock him more. Ridicule him. Put his own words in his own voice all over TV adverts and overlay it with the laughing audio from just-for-laughs-gags.

And again, NEVER be outraged. Anything that outrages you benefits your opponent.

An effective way that a politician can succeed is by demonstrating how ridiculous and stupid their opponent is. I can attest to how successful this strategy is in Indian politics. I have seen Trevor Noah explain how successfully it was used by a former corrupt leader of South Africa too. You guys are taking Trump too seriously.

Trump already does the harder part himself by being a joke. Please complete the easier part. Just keep laughing at him.

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[comradebillyboy]

1. This just might work against Trump.

[LearnedHand]

2. It sort of already is

He's grasping for effective comebacks and ends up only providing more fodder for more laughter and mocking! It's absolutely delicious.

[Grins]

23. It does and has.

Google it! The New Yorker Sept. 2015, Adam Gopnik at the White House Correspondents Dinner!

“Trump and Obama; A Night to Remember.”

As Obama was skewering him, Snip:

What was really memorable about the event, though, was Trump’s response. Seated a few tables away from us magazine scribes, Trump’s humiliation was as absolute, and as visible, as any I have ever seen: his head set in place, like a man in a pillory, he barely moved or altered his expression as wave after wave of laughter struck him. There was not a trace of feigning good humor about him, not an ounce of the normal politician’s, or American regular guy’s “Hey, good one on me!” attitude—that thick-skinned cheerfulness that almost all American public people learn, however painfully, to cultivate. No head bobbing or hand-clapping or chin-shaking or sheepish grinning—he sat perfectly still, chin tight, in locked, unmovable rage. If he had not just embarked on so ugly an exercise in pure racism, one might almost have felt sorry for him.

“Unmovable rage.”
Yes!

[BlueWavePsych]

61. "Keep mocking him."

[birdographer]

3. Sounds good to me

He loves chaos and outrage. Remember the guy in the green shirt in that video where he was just laughing at some MAGA nonsense a woman was spouting? That got a lot of attention and the guy had the right idea.

[underpants]

5. 😆

?si=NTYRtyydnnDe2NMP

[ms liberty]

8. This is great.

[paleotn]

22. Exactly. Just laugh at the weirdos. They are funny as hell.

[underpants]

4. I've been posting here for months that most people aren't aware of what Trump has become

and that when the lights come on and the mic is hot in the heat of election time, they are going to be shocked. He’s become completely consumed by his own echo chamber of sycophants who dare not ever question him. Worse than before.

His rallies are his rallies. Me me me me me. Okay but away from there he like a kid at the school bus stop for the first time. Scared. Unaware that everything isn’t like back where he’s cherished and adored and can do no wrong. Hell, he gets a standing ovation when he goes to dinner.

He’s so used to having absolutely no feedback other than praise (while trying out new material) he looks like a fool.

As I also said years ago - he is only a few steps from Howard Hughes territory.

[birdographer]

21. Trump's driveway has not reached the main road for a long, long time. n/t

[Attilatheblond]

46. Howard Hughes referenc made me LOL

Picturing bone spur boy trying to keep his lifts in a couple of tissue boxes

[spanone]

6. K&R

[Bumbles]

7. It is said that laughter is the best medicine.

It's being proven to be true.

[Docreed2003]

9. I would pay good money

To see a journalist laugh in that orange buffoon's face during a nationally televised interview. I'd bet Trump wouldn't know what hit him.

[wnylib]

37. I can imagine Harris laughing at him during a debate

and Trump trying to counter it with his claim that she has a crazy laugh. She could respond with, "But Donald, you are so laughable."

[central scrutinizer]

10. My sig line

“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand” Mark Twain

[et tu]

11. i have never seen an image

of him laughing- to foreign for cf45
truly sad to be such a narcissist

[GiqueCee]

12. It's hard not to be outraged...

... the malevolent evil perpetrated by Republicans in general. But to single out their Dear Leader and humiliate him with his own words and actions certainly takes some of sting out of my simmering rage. And I love a good laugh.

[Clouds Passing]

13. George Conway is doing an excellent job of this strategy with Psychopac

[peggysue2]

14. Agent Orange admitted recently that . . .

He hates being laughed at. It gets inside his head. The MAGAts feed on the outrage; it pumps them up.

So yes, laughing, mockery, humiliation is the way to deflate the buffoon.

Joy and laughter. It's like throwing water on the Wicked Witch.

[ShazzieB]

45. Yes, keep bringing on the laughter!

Keep laughing at him - the more laughter, the better! He hates being laughed at more than anything, so let's use it!

On top of everything else, it's also hella more fun than outrage!

[Attilatheblond]

47. Remember when the Secret Service guys were checking to make sure nobody was smuggling rubber chickens in?

My mind suddenly began to figure how to make hats that look like an upside down bowl of mashed potatoes. Thinking some of that expanding spray foam insulation in a bowl, then carved so I can put it on my head.... a little white paint. Sure, I could do it.

Been trying to figure why I am suddenly sleeping better.... it's cuz America is up and fighting back against the fascists, and we are having a lot of fun, joy, creativity doing it!

[Hekate]

15. Interesting perspective

[PatSeg]

16. In the beginning of Trump's career, people DID laugh at him

He was a joke as a candidate and I think even he knew it. Once he won and started to do real damage, sane people were understandably outraged and afraid.

So though I agree with the advice, our kindred souls abroad need to realize that we did mock and laugh at him initially. No one expected tens of millions of voters to take him seriously.

[Elessar Zappa]

60. Yes but this is different.

It’s really getting under their skin, especially Trump’s. And it’s a much wider movement calling him out as weird and creepy than it was in 2015 and ‘16. We’ve tried to paint him as a fascist, authoritarian, misogynist, etc. and, while true, it didn’t really set in with much of the squishy middle. This time it is.

[PatSeg]

62. Oh yes, I'm all for the mockery

Anything that gets under his skin is a great way to undermine him.

[Kalifornia9]

17. It's forced at best from me.

Complex PTSD from a bullied youth from these MAGA ilk, family dividing racist shit from the "one drop" rule our branch violated and full on murdersome fascist crap from these simpleton shitheads? It's all depressive triggers for me. Only occasionally the stupidity is so profound Jordan Klepper does actually manage to tickle my funny bone: "Wait a minute, one man, one woman, I ran the numbers, they don't check out." to the thunderstruck look on MAGA preachers face. A neighbor near here has a bloody-ear yard sign of Trump with the caption "you can't kill freedom" from the ilk whose first agenda item is whose freedom to curtail. I want so badly to cover "freedom" on that sign with "fascism".

[LiberalBrooke]

18. Yes, I am so tired of the left reacting to faux outrage and talking points.

Just laugh at them and point out what policies effect real people.

[praxEs]

54. Take more naps

if you’re tired.

[praxEs]

55. Take more naps

if you’re tired.

[New Breed Leader]

19. The "weird" attack is definitely working against Trump and Vance

and the MAGAts hate it, so that means it's really working.

He's right, we should keep doing it.

[Bev54]

20. Laugh at the man himself and his sidekick but take seriously the 2025 project

and the projections he spews. While he is a ridiculous moron, he does reveal his plans almost always, those we have to take seriously and understand he is not kidding and others must be warned and informed so people can be prepared. Trump, in particular reacts to people laughing at him, he hates it and so keep it up.

[wnylib]

35. Very true. It's possible to laugh at a person or program

for being ridiculously out of the norm while also knowing that both are dangerous if they gain power.

[benfranklin1776]

24. The James T Kirk method!

It is quite effective against megalomaniacal thugs 😎

[GreenWave]

27. And as he evolved...

[benfranklin1776]

29. Nice 👏🏼👏🏼

😎

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

34. Isn't Shatner a RWer?

Read that more than once. I don't know why, but that surprised me.

[haele]

51. Shatner:s a 1950's Canadian at heart.

A bit of an old school curmudgeon. To him, results matter, which is often seen as right-wing.
But he's generally been a centrist, whenever he talks politics.

Haele

[Blue Owl]

25. A laugh track would be the perfect thing to overdub on of Dump's ridiculous rantings

[wnylib]

36. Or play the recorded laughter just outside the perimeter of Trump's outdoor rallies

and at public appearances as he gets into and out of cars, planes, etc. Haunt him with laughter.

[karin_sj]

26. Great advice!

It's definitely his kryptonite!

[ananda]

28. That is good advice!

Thanks

[niyad]

30. Hmmm, maybe people should bring bowls of mashed potatoes wherever he is.

Between that, and the laughter, he may truly lose it.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. I can't laugh at seditionists, convicted felons and rapists. Can't do it. LOCK HIM UP' then maybe I'll chuckle. n/t

[Ilsa]

38. If the conversation has anything to do with

DFT screwing with our votes or our democracy, I can't laugh.

[The Mouth]

32. Don't play their game.

“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
― John Lennon

And in a way, outrage is the same.
It's very hard to be as outraged as a typical Republican; it will take all your energy and is more likely to distract you and cause you to alienate the people you need to reach than do any fucking good whatsoever. Our opponents have been outraged by every change since Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, they are highly practiced. As the saying goes, a clitoris has 10,000 nerve endings and it's *still* not as sensitive as a male Republican.

[MagickMuffin]

33. I was just thinking about this also, laugh track his ass

He already exposed his weakness and it’s being laughed at. Once you publicly admit your weakness, then bam, hit them hard with it.


LAUGH AT HIM!

I’m already working on some ideas.

[Dem4life1970]

39. This is beautiful thank you....

Someone said that Hitler would've never succeeded today because he would be mocked, ridiculed, and laughed at. I think that is the right approach with Trump. Yes, take his threats seriously, but mocking him publicly is the way to deal with him. The Lincoln Project is very good at this. We need allies wherever we can find them to defeat him.

[kairos12]

40. Stay cool when you

ridi-cool the Orange Gasbag.

[SWBTATTReg]

41. As they say, laughter is the best medicine, and tRUMP has plenty to laugh at, he's a boob, he's a loser, he thinks

that he has this ultra-high ranking where people treat him as a leader. WRONG. He proves every day that he's stupid, ignorant, dumb, and worse. It's easy to laugh at him. It makes me feel good too, to finally laugh at the moron, he deserves so much, considering how many people in the past that's he mocked w/ the stupid nicknames, etc.

[soldierant]

42. Is it OK if

after he is defeated, we become outraged enough to get him prosecuted?

[samnsara]

43. my thoughts exactly..one thing he cant handle is people thinking hes less than

...they are.

[Saoirse9]

44. I love it n/t

[Emile]

48. We are laughing and calling him a weirdo.

[Emile]

49. We are laughing and calling him a weirdo.

[Farmer-Rick]

50. If you have to go on tv

And declare you and your VP pick are not weird, you shouldn't be running for president of the US.

We can thank the corrupted Supreme Court for keeping someone so creepy and weird on the ballot. Come to think of it, there are some very weird and creepy people on the Supremes.

[Beartracks]

52. The right wants to offend so much that they fantasize everything they do offends the left...

... even when it doesn't. The whole self-serving market for "If this flag/cross/word offends you" merch is kind of weird. They beg for outrage, they want to offend, and can't imagine that they aren't making libs cry. They will hallucinate "liberal tears" even when there are none being shed. Unless, perhaps, we want to oblige them with tears of liberal laughter -- then they can drink all they want.

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[MyOwnPeace]

53. Remember when the UN General Assembly laughed as his outrageous claim?

And then he LIED about it!!!!!!

&t=29s

Again, listen to the LIES in this............

[The Wizard]

56. I subscribe to the

Mel Brooks strategy for taking down a tyrant, ridicule. Point at them and laugh.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

57. Laughing at weirdo works.

[summer_in_TX]

58. Love it! Yes, we'd been forgetting to laugh at Trump way too often. And weird is working magic.

Not just in others, it's working on me. If I focus on his weirdness I'm not focusing on his being evil and dangerous, so I'm calmer and more rational. My anxiety has come down a few notches. Plus I'm sure it'll help me talk to my conservative family members without getting uptight and losing it.

It's such a good under-the-radar technique. Because it has a cool meaning as well as an uncool meaning, it doesn't bring out the automatic self-justification and rejection of that frame for the public, even MAGA. Not that they like it, but there's nothing to get hostile about. Yet the very uncool, creepy meaning is lurking there below the surface of their consciousness. I guarantee they're turning the word over in their minds, wondering about it and the many ways we're expanding on just how he and Vance are weird, abnormal.

It's my new favorite word.

One of my friends whose career was in radio management said that the deejays at his stations invariably thought their repetitive plugs were way too many and just sure the public was over-saturated with it were always off the mark. He found that there was really no too much, when it comes to John Q Public. Let's keep going, and laughing while we are at it.

[betsuni]

59. I don't think it makes much of a difference unless you're ahead with lots of momentum.as Harris is now,

and no ridiculous (non right-wing) criticism aimed at discouraging potential Democratic voters that Democrats are only the "I'm not Trump, vote for me" or "I'm a woman, vote for me" party as there was in 2016. That helps a lot.

G.W. Bush practically inspired a whole new comedy industry. Didn't affect anything. Democrats had no power.

Democrats are now dominant and people are attracted. Laughter works in that case.