I’m sure Cohen and Showtime edit these videos to solidify their point, but it’s hard to imagine any context left on the cutting room floor that would make his subjects appear in any way sympathetic.

Smithers, release the clowns.

Exactly. My boss asked me what Cohen hopes to accomplish. “Is he trying to shame these people?” he asked me? I said no, he’s trying to showcase these people.

There’s more than a few differences at play here.

Jesus, the right sure hates being caught.

Megan “Let ‘Em Burn, I suppose” McArdle tried to push this on Twitter, and the simple, clear difference is that whatever the conceit of the prank Baron-Cohen might be playing at the time, the camera is always clearly visible to the subject, and it’s always a feature or interview situation, so the subject should expect…

Met with my family yesterday, and this show came up. Unsurprisingly, my right-leaning family defended this dude. They said the whole show is fake and that he was just going off the script they gave him. That the stuff people on the show said (Kinderguardians for example) aren’t real policies that Republicans are…

Well if you want to deal with Democrats you do need journalists - when you’re dealing with Republicans you gotta send in the clowns.

Florida should have been quarantined from the rest of the country years ago

The only hope is that black voters come out in overwhelming numbers

Fair, but a lot of states are setting the inheritance taxes exemption bar pretty high; unless you’re loaded like Scrooge McDuck. No income tax is offset by much higher property taxes in Tampa.

Yes but on the other hand to counter literally every single one of those points.... soul crushing humidity that makes you want to kill yourself in the 2.4 minutes it takes to walk from the store to your car.

I am getting frustrated with Dem supporters who castigate Bernie supporters for refusing to negotiate and work with mainstream/moderate Dems, but who then turn around and refuse to do the exact same thing with progressive or socialist Dems. It’s like they can’t even understand their own hypocrisy in this matter. 

Once that guy with an NRA hat for a facebook profile responded to my comment about about the need for expanded public transit in Atlanta with “TRUMP IS YOUR PRESIDENT!” followed by three snowflake emojis, I knew I’d been bested.

so much this.

Blah blah blah...this idiot DeSantis is what will have to be excised in order to move this country forward. Note that I chose the verb carefully — DeSantis and his ilk are a f*cking cancer on the republic, they must be removed (by force if necessary in my opinion) otherwise our democracy will wither and die.

who the fuck are you even talking about? who is “they?” this “bernie-bro” fucking fantasy you’ve conjured in your head? the only people talking about hillary more than deluded red-hats are you dipshit hillary fanatics who won’t let go the fact that the democratic candidate for president ran a terrible fucking…

The middle also supports sensible gun laws (not outright ban them), weaning everyone off government welfare, and lower taxes.

Yeah, they had a candidate who espoused a lot of the positions they’ve claimed they would support from a Democrat. They didn’t support her and openly sabatoged her in the hopes that when she won anyway, they’d be in better position to oppose her.

Uhh....pretty sure Hillary fucked herself.  Just because she’s better than Trump, that doesn’t make her a good candidate for President.  

Reality check: