2015 has seen its fair share of political farce in the Republican candidate field, but this warped bit of meta-WTF takes the cake as the true epitome of how bizarre things really are.
A group of Arizona conservatives — emphasis on conservatives — have released a country music video parody titled “Make America Great Again” mocking Donald Trump and his supporters as the red neck, ignorant fools they are.
This in and of itself is remarkable when you think about it. The Right is essentially calling out its base as, for lack of a better word, being base.
But here’s where things get into the Twilight Zone, aka ‘Merica.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The video, which features comedian Brian Nissen and lampoons all of Trump’s horrific brutish qualities (you know, like making fun of a disabled reporter), is actually popular among Trump supporters.
Yes, the very people the video targets as problematic are the ones singing its praises.
“I’ve noticed that some of the Trump fans loved it,” said Tyler Montague, founder and president of PIA, the group that produced the video. “They’re like, ‘Yeah, this is everything Trump is about, this is dead on.’ We’re like, ‘You’re kidding us, right?’”
“I don’t want to overstate it, but [Trump’s] kind of a fascist,” Montague said. “It’s the closest thing to fascism that America’s had, at least in our lifetime.”
Watch below:
h/t RawStory
Kieran
Yeah, we don’t want any GOP front runner that actually has gay friends and who publicly acknowledges attending gay weddings like Trump. NO! We want somebody that really HATES gay people as the GOP candidate. A real homophobe like Cruz, Rubio or Carson. Because after all, we’re not very bright, we don’t like thinking for ourselves and we like to see ourselves as perpetual victims.
Captain Obvious
@Kieran: Yeah as long as white gays are ok under Trump, heil Hitler!
dwainlee
Really? Does he have to be “Dwain”? Not even Dwayne, or Duane, but the same unusual spelling as my name. I’m 55 years old, I’m educated, intelligent, northern, gay, progressive, and mainline Protestant clergy. My entire life, people have automatically thought I was this guy when they heard my name, before meeting me. Now this. Sigh.
Hun
@Captain Obvious: Hail Trump!
NoCagada
@Kieran: Guess you missed the part about how he feels about same sex marriage.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/28/donald-trump-gay-marriage_n_7681570.html
Ogre Magi
@dwainlee: If you are clergy what the heck are you doing here? Looking for fodder to screech about in your Sunday sermons?
Giancarlo85
@Kieran: Who cares who runs for the GOP? I certainly don’t! Why do you keep pestering us with this? And news flash, Donald Trump is staunchly against same sex marriage and any employment rights for our community.
By the way, I posted this massive 93,000+ superpoll (as I call it) before. It’s a huge analysis of the way people are trending and republicans are freaking out about it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-come-short-search-diverse-voters-2016-election-110815857.html
” – In 2012, Democrats made up 44.7 percent of party-affiliated likely voters, compared to 39.1 percent Republicans, a difference of about 6 percentage points, according to the analysis of 87,778 likely presidential voters polled leading up to the 2012 presidential election. The results have a credibility interval of plus or minus 0.3 percentage points.
– Three years later, that lead had grown to nine points, 45.9 percent to 36.9 percent, according to the analysis of 93,181 likely presidential voters polled in 2015. The results in 2015 have the same credibility interval as 2012.”
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Your party is f–ked royally. Your party regirstration is sharply downward. It’s looking incredibly disastrous. Democrat registration is nearing to 50% of the entire country. If this goes on, republicans will never be able to win another general election in a long time.
So ask me why I should give a shit about Donald Trump?
robho3
This video clip was great but I can see how the redneck trailor trash trump supporters would like it not even realizing he is making fun of them. Trump will be the death of the Republican Party as we know it- which is fine with me.
1EqualityUSA
I’ll be glad when this is all over and Trump spends the rest of his life trying to make excuses for the total ass he made of himself in the heat of battle. The man could benefit from self-reflection. (impossible) How nice for the GOP to have a scapegoat for all of their ills. Trump will be derided. Now the Republicans can go another election cycle having no clue as to why they continue fail so miserably. –works for me.
onthemark
@1EqualityUSA: Yes, that will be fun. And after every loss, they always “think” very hard about WHY they lost, and they always come up with the same answer: “Dammit, we didn’t run a REAL conservative! Next time we’ll win if we run a REAL conservative!” I hope they keep going like that for several decades.
1EqualityUSA
centuries.
Giancarlo85
@1EqualityUSA: They squawk a lot. They ignore the fact their registration drive has been absolutely embarrassing. In fact they angered people so much they registered to vote democrat. And that superpoll I posted is of LIKELY voters.
Republicans have lost young whites under 40, when they won that group in 2012 in the same poll. They lost other groups, including women and latinos, even further. This is a disaster for them, but they don’t see it.
The party affiliation numbers are looking more and more like California’s… And republicans can’t win anything here, except in Shasta county or some out of nowhere place.
1EqualityUSA
well, then…..they had better cheat some more.
dwainlee
@Ogre Magi: What am I doing here? Reading some of the latest news about the LGBTQ community – which, perhaps you missed, I’m proudly part of. There are an increasing number of religious traditions that are open, affirming, and welcoming to members of our community in the entire life of the church, including as ordained leaders like myself. I happen to be an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), arguably the most progressive and welcoming US Mainline Protestant denomination. The Christian Church has, across time, caused massive and irreparable harm to LGBTQ people, but that’s changing. And many in the church are committed to acts of repentance and reconciliation with the LGBTQ community. While you would have had no way of knowing it (beyond my mentioning in the first comment that I was both progressive and gay), I promise you my sermons are neither screechy nor condemning of my fellow LGTBQ brothers and sisters. in fact, you’re welcome to read and/or hear my sermons, and read other random thoughts, at my personal blog, http://www.enarcheblog.wordpress.com. I guarantee you, it is a screech-free, LGBTQ-welcoming, place.
1EqualityUSA
go by the name dwaino in order to differentiate. Cute, non-threatening, and, oh, never mind.
Transiteer
If you really can’t vote Democrat, and save the country, then don’t vote at all. It’s a better placed vote to keep it, than give it to the half-witted neanderthals that is all that is left of the Republican Party. Between the uneducated mor*ns and tea part religious nuts, the GOP is basically the political Gong Show. This should keep democrats going for years and years and years.
BlueDude
Re: The baseness of “‘Murica”; recently it has been discovered that “the Stupid are too stupid to know that they are stupid.” IMHO, that goes for the GOP prez candidates themselves, not merely the voter base. BTW, when is Jeb! going to drop out?
Giancarlo85
@Transiteer: Soon they won’t even be able to win off year elections. They are so screwed. After reading that major superpoll and it’s analysis, they lost an entire generation of voters. They want to get beaten to a pulp.
And it seems like they don’t even care. They try to compete over who is more comprehensive.
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: *conservative. Nothing comprehensive about their party… More like simple minded.
joeyty
@BlueDude: What’s “‘Murica” ?
BlueDude
@joeyty: That’s how lots of stupid folk in the GOP voter base pronounce “America”.
BlueDude
@Transiteer: What a succinct put-down! I love it, particularly the “political Gong Show” description of the GOP. Those voters whom you are addressing won’t understand any part of it.
1EqualityUSA
Here’s betting the armchair general (who got out of military duty) will not be able to contain himself, butting in, sending tweets, stirring up strife throughout the next presidency, all because he didn’t win. I wish he would just go quiet and take a vow of silence. Republicans are laughable.
joeyty
@1EqualityUSA: I don’t think making fun of peoples’ accents is the way to go. It’s making fun of ethnic backgrounds. And everybody in the world has an accent. (Remember when it was said all gay men lisp ?)
joeyty
@joeyty: I’m sorry, I meant that as a response to Blue.
BlueDude
@joeyty: Joey, it’s about low intelligence, not ethnic backgrounds. People in the former category hear what they want to hear, not what is said. Satire passes WAAAY over their heads.
martinbakman
Make America Gay again.
Curtispsf
The Democratic Party should run this video 24/7 in the week leading up to the election. It will fool the idiots who support Trump into believing that they have actually voted since they saw the video. THANK YOU “rhyming dick-shunary”.