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Because it makes people look like pathetic muppets. If you mean "Fuck Joe Biden", say "Fuck Joe Biden", don't clutch your damn pearls about it.
by jen20 3y ago
Because it makes people look like pathetic muppets. If you mean "Fuck Joe Biden", say "Fuck Joe Biden", don't clutch your damn pearls about it.
- crackercrews 3y agoInteresting take. I understood conservatives to use it because it is also taking a shot at the so-called MSM, who dubiously created the phrase. I never knew people though conservatives were being muppets by using it.
- _djo_ 3y agoThe 'MSM' (what a dated phrase) didn't create it, it was just a single reporter at a NASCAR race who either misheard it or bowdlerised it for the live TV audience.
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- jonhohle 3y agoWhen the majority uses vulgarities, how does not using vulgarity make one a muppet? I’d also consider the Muppets rather avant-garde for their time, so maybe you mean it as a complement as in Gonzo, Fozzy, or Beaker (or any other pathetic Muppet).
- wilg 3y agonice try
- jen20 3y agoIf you think the _words_ are the vulgar part of modern right wing ideology, I don't even know what to tell you. That said, I am perhaps guilty of the same offence there - per the BBC America article "10 British Insults Americans Won't Understand" [1], a muppet is "someone who’s stupid, gullible and incapable of independent thought" - unfortunately the pearl clutching tends to extend to the typical four letter word I would use for such people. [1]: https://www.bbcamerica.com/blogs/10-british-insults-americans-wont-understand--1015188 https://www.bbcamerica.com/blogs/10-british-insults-american...
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThey did say that, but the media translated it to ‘let’s go Brandon’ as a self own, so it’s many levels deep :)
- Izkata 3y agoYep, it immediately turned into a meme. Memes aren't always logical, and probably mostly aren't logical.