Quote by BobR:
This doesn't surprise me. This is just like them refusing the vaccine and masks to "own the libs".

It goes on and on and on, never ending. At any given moment you can tune in to Fox News or a Republican making an impassioned speech on the floor of the House or Senate and you would see the outrage pouring from every orifice.

But none of it is real. Not a single, solitary moment of it. It is completely fake and made up to the point where the actual words are the only real thing, but the underlying situation is a mere flight of fancy.

The right loves fakery and being performatively angry about fakery. In some instances, the leaders of the right — elected officials, media pundits and the like — are well aware that the scenarios they are fuming about are false. And in most cases I believe that the average conservative supporter is unaware they are being lied to and earnestly believes these are real issues to be mad about.

To this day conservative voters will tell you with a straight face that Bill Clinton hung x-rated Christmas ornaments at the White House (lie), that Barack Obama used the IRS to persecute conservatives (lie), that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for banning meat (lie), or that Hillary Clinton issued a “stand down order” in Benghazi (lie).