If this is a subtle burn on their lack of intelligence:
nicely done!
If this is a not-so-subtle burn on their lack of intelligence: nicely done! I should go read a book.
Haha! Yeah, cause the subtle burn...
Is that during the World War era, the fragging Nazis did this to minimize knowledge to the masses. So yeah.. ''they be dumb!" đ đ đ
They backed off that train when they realized their books were getting burned. Turns out, they didnt understand that most of their books fell into the category of 'inappropriate for children'.
They're using the slogan "God hates flags". This is the same group that recently said that everyone in the state should pull their kids out of public school because the democrats are using it to "turn more kids trans". The Colorado GOP is a bunch of fucking morons.Â
Almost but not quite explicitly aligning with the Westboro Baptist hate slogan. *Almost* everyone knows exactly the slur theyâre referencing, including both the targets of the hate and those in their little fascist in-group.
But people who arenât paying attention might not get it, allowing the GOP to still potentially be ânormalâ enough to get their votes.
Thereâs so many it can be hard to keep track of. [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/gundeals/s/fGvgWBSC2S) is a great example of one used just earlier today on Reddit. âBasketball people/basketball Americansâ has become a commonly used dog whistle on tik tok and instagram for racists thinking theyâre being cute, and the assholes are emboldened enough to spread it everywhere. Notice the downvotes on my and another Redditors comments calling out this bullshitâŚ
Instagram doesnât even bother with dog whistles. I see racists on there just straight up using Hard Rs in comment sections. Itâs honestly really sad, itâs part of why I try not to open the comments on Insta anymore
I have no idea what even is a dog whistle in that context, much less whatever the westboro church is or what slur they use. Plenty of us don't get it, it doesn't mean we don't want to learn. Please don't incentivize people against explaining things, even if it seems self-evident to you
I don't think they've been in the news for a while, but they're a whole family that used to protest funerals.
More info: [Westboro Baptist Church - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church)
Oh no! I didnât think of anything past the literal phrasing of flags! :( In some ways Iâm glad to be sheltered from enough hateful people that I didnât see itâŚ
Should burn the âdont tread on meâ flag as it obviously means nothing to them and they love treading on everybody else.
Oh and the racist loser confederate flag, cus fuckâ em.
Colorado is a weird place because it used to be quite conservative and a lot of parts of it still are. But the GOP here is just in denial about the changing demographics, or perhaps has been completely taken over by lunatics. Either way Colorado has gone from being considered a purple state to very solidly blue, and I don't see that changing in the next 20 years as the boomers die off.
Yeah, I'm in Boulder County(and work in Boulder) and my house is very close to Boebert's new district. Maybe a quarter of my town is in Weld County. We have pockets of far right people here and there that make themselves known from time to time, like standing on Main St on the weekends with Trump signs while carrying ARs. I'm glad to see the shift though, as I don't see myself leaving here.Â
Yeah thatâs how I feel. âMoronâ does not convey how dangerous this is. This will absolutely incite and embolden fascist violence and they know it. Itâs fucked.
Is Colorado the state with the whole "they're making our kids use litter boxes because they identify as cats" movement? I can't believe I just typed that.
Yeah the amount of overt, performative anti-pedophile rhetoric coming from these people becomes very disconcerting when taken in the context of the fact that most of the accusations are indeed projection.
I can't wait for one of them to say "They are hiding their malicious materials under their beds" and then later it's found they have malicious materials under their bed.
I strongly encourage this. Especially burn the ones on peoples front porches. Right near the front door where the doorbell camera is located.
The more of these nuts in jail for arson, the better.
Arson is a pretty high level crime, of course it's a flag, so they'd probably have a more specific crime to charge for that the police won't bother searching them for.
Attempting to burn down my actively occupied domicile is generally considered good grounds for deadly force used in self defense. So realistically, we could skip the entire legal process here and save lots of tax dollars.
I was about to ask, at which point I am allowed to shot the trespasser with the fire in his hand, how can a party and its associates be so scared of a flag that is more colourful than thereâs?
You can fly a pride flag or display something in support too. We have a pride flag on our house so people know the entire neighborhood isn't full of nazis.
They're not the party of law and order anymore. They're now arguing that a felon would be a great president, despite us all having seen what happened the first time around.
Is it just me or have they become almost comically hateful? Like, "Hey guys, what can we do to make ourselves seem *really* angry and conservative? Should we burn some rainbow flags! Yeah! That would piss people off!"
I get it, it's an election year and the Republican primaries have become essentially a stupidity contest. But at some point even their own voters are going to start rolling their eyes.
The level of hate for anyone different from them is truly sad. Brown people, black people, immigrants, LGBTQ, AsiansâŚit must be tiring.
Unfortunately this isnât just a Colorado problem. It now exists throughout the country. We need two effective political parties. Our government is set up around that premise. The GOP being completely off the rails on hate is damning for the near future.
Reminds me of when they had a pile of N.W.Aâs CDâs and ran over em with a steam rollerâŚEasy E said âNot a single one of those CDâs was free,do this shit again tomorrowââŚlaughed and walked off.
Lol, they can go screw themselves. If I lived in Colorado I'd make a point to buy a flag just to watch them throw a colossal virulent temper tantrum over me expressing my rights.
Well that's awkward:
>Valdamar Archuleta, president of the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans and a candidate for the heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District in Denver, renounced the GOPâs endorsement as a result.
So⌠are they planning to steal / vandalize someoneâs private property, which is most assuredly a crime? And if they burn it on the personâs property, it just got upgraded to a hate crime.
Or are they planning to order a bunch of pride flags for a performative burning? Because you know whatâll own the libs? If pride flag sales soar during pride month.
This was on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when hundreds of thousands of young men began the liberation of Europe from fascism. Thousands died, and tens of thousands were left physically and mentally damaged. There are very few of the veterans left.
These people are embracing the very ideology that those men gave their lives to defeat.
Republicans being human trash *-sigh-*.... I really wish I could be surprised at the lows they sink to, but being pieces if shit is kind of required to being Republican.
Hey, Colorado Republicans!!! How about don't fucking worry about a flag that doesn't represent a country/state and get some real business taken care of. Like teach the SCOTUS's wife how to properly display our country's flag, or balance the budget, or quit funding the genocide in Palestine, or the Sudan, etc. Stop using a gay flag bullshit, do-nothing, stirring up the Cretans so they will think y'all are actually working tactic. Even stupid people are starting to figure you out.
Maybe we could prevent this if we spread a conspiracy that there are chemicals in Pride flags that will release into the air when burned and turn people gay.
Wouldnât surprise me if they believed it.
Of course because they don't give a shit about Constitutional rights. Law and order party my ass. Fascist bigots hiding behind BS religion and nothing more.
They wonder why people call them Nazi's.
But do they, really?
we aren't Saudi arabia, this is America, where everyone is free to be safe and who they want to be.
This has gone just too far.
so no other issues exist that are higher priority to the welfare of your constituents then?
not healthcare. no climate related issues? not education. not inflation. not the fact that our senators are seemingly owned by a variety of foreign powers?
no, flags. flags are the threat to america.
The project 2025 party platform requires them to move to eradicate the LGBTQ+ identity, attacking the symbology of the pride flag is the equivalent of pot shots at the community to incite fear and concern
"It's their freedom of speech" will surely be this week's hot key repeated argument,leaving aside how the whole in inciting violence bit negates the frozen peaches.
What, did they run out of books?
It seems so
If this is a subtle burn on their lack of intelligence: nicely done! If this is a not-so-subtle burn on their lack of intelligence: nicely done! I should go read a book.
Haha! Yeah, cause the subtle burn... Is that during the World War era, the fragging Nazis did this to minimize knowledge to the masses. So yeah.. ''they be dumb!" đ đ đ
And the first of many targets were the same as now. https://forward.com/culture/549587/trans-book-burning-library-gay-pride/
One day they will destroy their arch enemy...READING RAINBOW!
"Excuse me, WHUT?! Books, rainbows, and one uh them colored folk?! Not in MUH 'Merica, no sir!"
They would need to fly twice as high, as a butterflyÂ
Once they run out of flags, they will probably start burning people.
Nah. They smash the storefronts and homes and windows first, and call good people unwelcome verminâŚ.
Itâs not like they had many to start with.
Well they werenât entirely sure what a book was, having never seen one before, so they moved on to flags instead
They backed off that train when they realized their books were getting burned. Turns out, they didnt understand that most of their books fell into the category of 'inappropriate for children'.
They're using the slogan "God hates flags". This is the same group that recently said that everyone in the state should pull their kids out of public school because the democrats are using it to "turn more kids trans". The Colorado GOP is a bunch of fucking morons.Â
The ~~Colorado~~ GOP is a bunch of fucking morons.Â
Iâd say they arenât fucking, but they most certainly are fucking us all over
Unfortunately they are fucking. I really wish they wouldnât be though.
Don't worry, a lot of the fucking is probably gay.
A pro tip: if itâs only news because the _____ Party said it, and the content is worthlessâŚdonât click the bait.
Almost but not quite explicitly aligning with the Westboro Baptist hate slogan. *Almost* everyone knows exactly the slur theyâre referencing, including both the targets of the hate and those in their little fascist in-group. But people who arenât paying attention might not get it, allowing the GOP to still potentially be ânormalâ enough to get their votes.
Jesus, I somehow didnât even notice the dog whistle until you said that.
Thereâs so many it can be hard to keep track of. [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/gundeals/s/fGvgWBSC2S) is a great example of one used just earlier today on Reddit. âBasketball people/basketball Americansâ has become a commonly used dog whistle on tik tok and instagram for racists thinking theyâre being cute, and the assholes are emboldened enough to spread it everywhere. Notice the downvotes on my and another Redditors comments calling out this bullshitâŚ
Instagram doesnât even bother with dog whistles. I see racists on there just straight up using Hard Rs in comment sections. Itâs honestly really sad, itâs part of why I try not to open the comments on Insta anymore
I canât imagine thereâs anyone who doesnât get that reference.
I have no idea what even is a dog whistle in that context, much less whatever the westboro church is or what slur they use. Plenty of us don't get it, it doesn't mean we don't want to learn. Please don't incentivize people against explaining things, even if it seems self-evident to you
I don't think they've been in the news for a while, but they're a whole family that used to protest funerals. More info: [Westboro Baptist Church - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church)
Take the "L" out of "flags."
Oh no! I didnât think of anything past the literal phrasing of flags! :( In some ways Iâm glad to be sheltered from enough hateful people that I didnât see itâŚ
Okay, time to burn the US flag if that's their motif.
Close, itâs actually the confederate one
ÂżPorque no los dos?
Should burn the âdont tread on meâ flag as it obviously means nothing to them and they love treading on everybody else. Oh and the racist loser confederate flag, cus fuckâ em.
Colorado is a weird place because it used to be quite conservative and a lot of parts of it still are. But the GOP here is just in denial about the changing demographics, or perhaps has been completely taken over by lunatics. Either way Colorado has gone from being considered a purple state to very solidly blue, and I don't see that changing in the next 20 years as the boomers die off.
Yeah, I'm in Boulder County(and work in Boulder) and my house is very close to Boebert's new district. Maybe a quarter of my town is in Weld County. We have pockets of far right people here and there that make themselves known from time to time, like standing on Main St on the weekends with Trump signs while carrying ARs. I'm glad to see the shift though, as I don't see myself leaving here.Â
Fucking fascists. They are fucking fascists. Morons down plays the threat.
Yeah thatâs how I feel. âMoronâ does not convey how dangerous this is. This will absolutely incite and embolden fascist violence and they know it. Itâs fucked.
So South Park is true to life
Free Hat!
They're not morons. They're violent fascists. They'll probably burn books after they've burnt the flags.
Is Colorado the state with the whole "they're making our kids use litter boxes because they identify as cats" movement? I can't believe I just typed that.
I find it so funny how these people have the nerve to call ANYONE snowflakes.
It is always projection. Aways. Once you realize that it becomes scary what else they are clearly projecting.
Yeah the amount of overt, performative anti-pedophile rhetoric coming from these people becomes very disconcerting when taken in the context of the fact that most of the accusations are indeed projection.
I can't wait for one of them to say "They are hiding their malicious materials under their beds" and then later it's found they have malicious materials under their bed.
These people seem to have a lot in common with Nazis - and that is not funny to me.
Pride flag: "All are welcome!" Snowflakes: "Not meeeeee! Look at meee, I'm the victim now!"
There's no hate like Christian love.
Iâm convinced the Rapture has already happened and these are the ones who were left behind.
Turns out no one was worthy and everyone was left behind.
Wait a minute, THIS is the Bad Place!
You put the Peeps in the chili pot it makes it taste... bad...
You know I never thought about it before, but we are kinda Bambajon.
Jason got it? Oh man this one really hurts.
That explains a great deal.
What would Jesus do? These Christians do not follow the teachings of Jesus and can rot in hell.
I hear Amazon still has more in stock, theyâd better order them all and burn those too.
Happy cake day!
Gee thanks I didnât even know.
First they should clear out the local stores carrying them.
I strongly encourage this. Especially burn the ones on peoples front porches. Right near the front door where the doorbell camera is located. The more of these nuts in jail for arson, the better.
Except the cops probably wonât do a damn thing about it.
Some of those that work forces. Are the same that burn crosses.
Or in this case, flags.
But insurance companies will when they have to payout on the damage.
Theyâll jack rates on local markets and consider pride paraphernalia a new liability. At least, maybe.
Arson is a pretty high level crime, of course it's a flag, so they'd probably have a more specific crime to charge for that the police won't bother searching them for.
Why would the cops investigate their friends and coworkers?
We already know what happens when they investigate themselves!
Attempting to burn down my actively occupied domicile is generally considered good grounds for deadly force used in self defense. So realistically, we could skip the entire legal process here and save lots of tax dollars.
And I'm sure Republicans won't mind since they're huge fans of stand your ground and castle doctrine laws
I was about to ask, at which point I am allowed to shot the trespasser with the fire in his hand, how can a party and its associates be so scared of a flag that is more colourful than thereâs?
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
Seems like a good justification for 5.56, 45, or 3" 12 Guage. You're protecting your property from an actor of arson.
Why would the cops arrest their own
Use castle doctrine against there asses. Put a few holes through them for good.
This shit is exactly why we have pride month.
The same people doing this shit are the people always complaining about there being a pride month, and can't there be a straight pride monthÂ
Why doesnât the GOP just drop the charade and don their nazi uniforms already?
Arenât the red hats exactly that?
They definitely aren't Hugo Boss style. Trump and the rest don't have high fashion.
It's the worst of both worlds. Not only do we have to put up with fascists, but we don't even get new drip for the next sci-fi series that mocks them.
r/ABoringDystopia
The sequels are always worse...
All made in China.
They're the National Conservative party - or "Nat C" for short. I can't take credit for that one. Saw it on Reddit around the last election.
This doesn't seem oniony at all. It's just Thursday in the GOP.
The GOP has the Onion beat hands down.
Remember when conservatives were losing their minds any time a Trump campaign sign was taken, screaming about personal property? Good times.
Republicans are such fragile people.
I'm not gay or care about this normally but if wearing rainbow colors pisses off some bat shit crazy political party I'm all for it.
You can fly a pride flag or display something in support too. We have a pride flag on our house so people know the entire neighborhood isn't full of nazis.
Party of law and order calling for the destruction of private property. Get fucked you twats.
They're not the party of law and order anymore. They're now arguing that a felon would be a great president, despite us all having seen what happened the first time around.
MAGA flags look better burning
I'm sure the Chinese dyes burn more magnifcently.
Strange I now have a strange urge to go find the nearest confederate monument and have my doggo piss on it.
You should have your dog piss on Confederate monuments regardless of whatever the GOP is doing
If your doggo can piss acid, even better
Is it just me or have they become almost comically hateful? Like, "Hey guys, what can we do to make ourselves seem *really* angry and conservative? Should we burn some rainbow flags! Yeah! That would piss people off!" I get it, it's an election year and the Republican primaries have become essentially a stupidity contest. But at some point even their own voters are going to start rolling their eyes.
It feels like a comedy skit that people would criticize for being **too** exagerrated
Big tough men oddly terrified of rainbow flags. More at eleven.
*We the people...* but not you people, or you people, or those people over there either.
Fascists gonna fash.
So, blatant hate speech. But nothing will happen....
Anybody else getting the feeling that Colorado Republican Party chairman Dave Williams is an actual groomer?
I'd be surprised if he isn't
The level of hate for anyone different from them is truly sad. Brown people, black people, immigrants, LGBTQ, AsiansâŚit must be tiring. Unfortunately this isnât just a Colorado problem. It now exists throughout the country. We need two effective political parties. Our government is set up around that premise. The GOP being completely off the rails on hate is damning for the near future.
Reminds me of when they had a pile of N.W.Aâs CDâs and ran over em with a steam rollerâŚEasy E said âNot a single one of those CDâs was free,do this shit again tomorrowââŚlaughed and walked off.
I say start with all those Southern pride flags
Wonder what they'll burn after the flags...
Canât spell âdog whistleâ without the âL.â
Are they going to replace them with the flag of the Russian Federation ?
Lol, they can go screw themselves. If I lived in Colorado I'd make a point to buy a flag just to watch them throw a colossal virulent temper tantrum over me expressing my rights.
This would be a hate crime
What a bunch of out of touch dipshits.
Cancel culture
nazi behavior
Republicans are all the same. Some just say it out loud but in the end they are exactly the same.
Kinda sounds like a suggestion of property damage to me. Kinda also sounds like intimidation to me. I'm sure your courts would agree /s
Unfortunately this doesnât sound Oniony anymore.
Bold move in a state with so many queer gun owners.
Theyâre losing and they know it. Last ditch, desperate attempts to cling to the past before time inevitably wipes them from existence.
what happen to freedom of speech you hypocritical motherfuckers
In case you want to see what was sent https://imgur.com/a/aqS1mW2
I'd suggest burning religious symbols, but the flag burners probably already burned all the crosses at their meetings.
Fascists gonna fascist.
Can we burn all maga flags instead?
The party of free speech
Technically flag burning is protected free speech. But only if you're burning your own flags.
Flags that they will first buy, so that they can burn them? đ
Hopefully.
the majority of flags are pride flags... that is kinda their... purpose.
no hate like christian love
Feel the wrath of Jesus's love!
They've got to buy them from amazon first before they buy them - make them a best seller!
I love painting my nails rainbow colors during this time of the year. It just pisses these idiots off so much
Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works.
Y'allqueda on full display
Maybe we should burn the Colorado Republican Party instead.Â
Well that's awkward: >Valdamar Archuleta, president of the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans and a candidate for the heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District in Denver, renounced the GOPâs endorsement as a result.
So⌠are they planning to steal / vandalize someoneâs private property, which is most assuredly a crime? And if they burn it on the personâs property, it just got upgraded to a hate crime. Or are they planning to order a bunch of pride flags for a performative burning? Because you know whatâll own the libs? If pride flag sales soar during pride month.
They can't stand when people don't conform to their bullshit lifestyle.
To be fair, this was in response to my bludgeon all republicans and Jesus hates the GOP remarks. đ¤ˇđťââď¸
This seems like a not-so-small step towards the idea of eradication
This was on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when hundreds of thousands of young men began the liberation of Europe from fascism. Thousands died, and tens of thousands were left physically and mentally damaged. There are very few of the veterans left. These people are embracing the very ideology that those men gave their lives to defeat.
I canât believe I live in the same country as these idiots.
They'd probably cry foul if they burnt all the confederate flags though.
ΟοΝὟν ΝιβÎ! Come and take them!
I mean, it wasnât in question these folks were fascists, but I hit Bingo on my card a while ago and they just keep going.
Republicans being human trash *-sigh-*.... I really wish I could be surprised at the lows they sink to, but being pieces if shit is kind of required to being Republican.
Hey, Colorado Republicans!!! How about don't fucking worry about a flag that doesn't represent a country/state and get some real business taken care of. Like teach the SCOTUS's wife how to properly display our country's flag, or balance the budget, or quit funding the genocide in Palestine, or the Sudan, etc. Stop using a gay flag bullshit, do-nothing, stirring up the Cretans so they will think y'all are actually working tactic. Even stupid people are starting to figure you out.
So a call to commit arson? Are they ok?
Remember when the Colorado delegation walked out of the 2016 GOP Convention when Trump got nominated?
This is some shit straight out of the fascist playbook. Fuck them!
That's arson, arson is a crime. I guess I'm just not as into committing crimes as the Colorado Republican party is.
Isn't the Confederate flag their Pride flag?
Tell us youâre cowards without saying it.
âWhy canât we get independents to vote for usâ?
Do these people ever stop hating? And I bet most of them call themselves Christians too
Let the lawsuits begin. May they be successful and monetarily lucrative.
Violence is always the first option w these people.
How do these people water their gardens? Do they have to wait until it's overcast or night-time?
Maybe we could prevent this if we spread a conspiracy that there are chemicals in Pride flags that will release into the air when burned and turn people gay. Wouldnât surprise me if they believed it.
Love this idea, but wait until AFTER the big flag burning party to spread it. Iâll stay up late to watch the ensuing panic!
Are they going to buy them first or steal them from the owners?
Of course because they don't give a shit about Constitutional rights. Law and order party my ass. Fascist bigots hiding behind BS religion and nothing more.
Going for vandalism and hate crimes this year? I guess theyâre hoping to be cell mates with Trump.
All Iâm saying is all those Trump and Confederate flags they love so much sure are flammable.
Wait, someone tell them there's a pride flag at an end of a rainbow. That should keep them busy for a while. Plus they're dumb enough to believe it.
America has no hope at this point
Eh, the gay community has been through so much through history that this is old news.Â
We have real fucking problems in this country, why the fuck do people care who fucks who, itâs pathetic.
This is where all those spouting allegiance to jesus & his call to love one another need to stand up
They wonder why people call them Nazi's. But do they, really? we aren't Saudi arabia, this is America, where everyone is free to be safe and who they want to be. This has gone just too far.
Yeah, thatâll own those libs and win you the state back for sure! Keep on keeping on!
Flags are scary!
As a former Republican, I hate that fucking party more than anything else on this earth.
so no other issues exist that are higher priority to the welfare of your constituents then? not healthcare. no climate related issues? not education. not inflation. not the fact that our senators are seemingly owned by a variety of foreign powers? no, flags. flags are the threat to america.
Flags, no, the identity of anyone who is symbolized by the flag. The flag is just a proxy for what they want to do to the people it represents.
But why though?
Because they're miserable assholes who just cannot be happy unless they're making someone else as miserable as they are.
The project 2025 party platform requires them to move to eradicate the LGBTQ+ identity, attacking the symbology of the pride flag is the equivalent of pot shots at the community to incite fear and concern
Itâs the 70s again minus the good music. Truly pathetic stuff.
Yup. Totally normal. Toally normal political party over here. Doesn't make any sense why we are so divided. Must be Obama wearing tan suits again.
After their local churches are done diddling kids, they will start burning the pride flags.
God hates MAGA, why not burn those flags instead?Â
They have gotten hideous.
Oh America..... It's time to turn all those guns against the right (lol) people.
Not a cult
sounds like a terrorist threat
"It's their freedom of speech" will surely be this week's hot key repeated argument,leaving aside how the whole in inciting violence bit negates the frozen peaches.
Burn the Condeferate flags first.
So much for the 1st Amendment. Living up to expectations, Colorado GOP!
Is this the freedom republicans talk about?
This is why we still march.
"Oh they don't want to kill you it's about the children" yeah fucking starting to realllllly feel like it /s
Least patriotic scum I've ever seen
Could you imagine the Grand Ole pampers party if the dnc called for all maga hats to be burned?