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WASHINGTONImploring their colleagues across the aisle to be mindful of how the highly charged language might elevate national tensions, congressional Republicans urged Democrats Tuesday to tone down the rhetoric they used to quote President Donald Trump verbatim.
Temperatures are running high, and the last thing we need are hotheaded Democrats spewing hateful, inflammatory statements sourced directly from the presidents speeches, said Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), adding that there was already enough political violence in the country without stoking it further by taking words right out of the presidents mouth and repeating them in public.
Were sitting in the hallowed halls of the Capitol, a place with a requisite decorum, and who knows how many shooters might be inspired to commit heinous acts after hearing Rep. [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez read the presidents latest Truth Social post word for word? Its shockingand honestly quite shamefulthat my colleagues in the Democratic Party would stoop to such lows.
Johnson went on to slam Democrats for their reckless and divisive recitations of his own remarks on same-sex marriage.
https://theonion.com/gop-urges-democrats-to-tone-down-rhetoric-used-to-quote-president-verbatim/
Lovie777
(24,435 posts)love them.
riversedge
(82,181 posts)dalton99a
(96,198 posts)agingdem
(9,050 posts)when Trumps verbal sludge, and their verbal sludge, is thrown back in their faces .do they think their lies, once spoken, cease to exist?..do they not understand the internet is forever?..
Marthe48
(23,736 posts)To reply to loathesome comments and rarely respond to any replies. maga don't like it.
mwmisses4289
(5,139 posts)I couldn't tell if this was truth or satire!
PatSeg
(54,001 posts)My first post of the day and I almost fell for it.
malaise
(299,532 posts)😀
Cheezoholic
(4,098 posts)But thats another thing. These satire sites make for good fact checking practices. As Nicole Wallace said last week about the reflecting pool crap, "I can't believe I'm having to report on this type of bullshit because thats what it is, bullshit. Every hour it's just more BS. We're literally writing the show as it airs anymore because this regime (yes she used the word regime) is spewing so much corrupt BS by the minute you can't keep up..". I paraphrase but that was just about word for word. Her frustration was at a boiling point, as are all of ours.
ECL213
(469 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,487 posts)I actually got all the way through this and didn't realize it was The Onion until I saw the link. I nornally pick it up in the first couple of lines, but the Rethugs have gone so far off the path of reality, I could really see that asshole Johnson whining about this.
DeeDeeNY
(3,979 posts)The truth contains a well-known liberal bias!
SSJVegeta
(3,415 posts)BH liberal
(193 posts)are the Dems' best weapons heading into the midterms. Is it too much to ask to finally get an effective Democratic messaging campaign going this time, before it's too late?
niyad
(135,277 posts)Susan Calvin
(2,483 posts)Cheezoholic
(4,098 posts)Stargazer99
(3,605 posts)They started the rotten mouth stuff and have no intension to stop it but want the Dems to stop! Just how stupid can some people be!!
EnergizedLib
(3,208 posts)I believed it until I saw it was The Onion because dissent is treason in the eyes of the cult.
a kennedy
(36,739 posts)remarks. Just shut the hell up ya little weasel. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
a kennedy
(36,739 posts)Damn.
CaptainTruth
(8,299 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,825 posts)Martin Eden
(16,037 posts)After Charlie Kirk was killed, Republicans were enraged when direct quotes from Kirk were used.
SergeStorms
(21,040 posts)ReTrumplicans are telling Democrats to stop "spewing hateful, inflammatory statements."
Sit on it and rotate, you freaking hypocritical fatherfuckers!
On edit: OK, I learned my lesson. The Onion it is.
They got me again.
This is exactly something those pretentious asshats would say, though.
dave99
(530 posts)They should take responsibility.
The word they ALL run away from.
3catwoman3
(30,151 posts)...this tone-deaf.
This is the sentence that tipped me off - Temperatures are running high, and the last thing we need are hotheaded Democrats spewing hateful, inflammatory statements sourced directly from the presidents speeches."
Heaven forfend that any of TSF's vile utterances should be quoted accurately.
Historic NY
(40,199 posts)DFW
(60,764 posts)The Onion does it again!
usonian
(27,098 posts)So I looked up Der Fuhrer's own words.
These are the non-violent ones.
Too early in the morning to post his hate tweets.
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