GOP Urges Democrats To Tone Down Rhetoric Used To Quote President Verbatim

[Zorro]

WASHINGTON—Imploring 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 president’s 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 president’s mouth and repeating them in public.

“We’re 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 president’s latest Truth Social post word for word? It’s shocking—and honestly quite shameful—that 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]

1. theonion....................

love them.

[riversedge]

3. yes, but the onion does display Trump very Truthfully!!

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[agingdem]

4. I'm amused by the MAGA morons taking offense

when Trump’s 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]

24. On facebook, I reply with the puke emoji

To reply to loathesome comments and rarely respond to any replies. maga don't like it.

[mwmisses4289]

5. Okay, just like with the borowitz report in another thread,

I couldn't tell if this was truth or satire!

[PatSeg]

6. Same here

My first post of the day and I almost fell for it.

[rampartd]

32. and your 54,000th, pat, congrats.

[PatSeg]

37. Whoa, I missed it again!

Thanks!

[malaise]

8. Same here

😀

[Cheezoholic]

12. There was a Spurious News post the other day that, if not having it in the title, I would've fact checked lol

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]

18. It's sad that it took me so long to figure out it was a joke.

[MustLoveBeagles]

36. I was 2/3rds through it before I caught on

Satirists have it tough these days. Sometimes they're so on the nose I don't find it funny.

[ShazzieB]

38. Poe's law doesn't just apply to the internet anymore

Poe’s Law is a popular adage that says satirical expressions of extremism online are hard to distinguish from genuine ones without indicating intent. The world has gotten so wacky under Trump 2.0 that it's hard to distinguish parody from reality in real life.

Ever since January 20, 2025, we've been living in upside down and backwards world, where white is black, hot is cold, wet is dry, and nothing makes any sense. I don't think any of us need to apologize for getting taken in by this piece of very clever satire. We've all gotten so used believing 6 impossible things before breakfast every single day, that almost anything is believable, including most of that article!

[WinstonSmith4740]

7. This is a first.

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]

9. It had to be the Onion! But to quote Stephen Colbert from his old show -

The truth contains a well-known liberal bias!

[SSJVegeta]

10. Indecipherable from reality

[BH liberal]

11. Trump's own words...

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]

13. I had to check the link!

[Susan Calvin]

14. You almost had me there. nt

[Cheezoholic]

15. OMG, here's a post I read right after this one, thought it had to be the onion, but its REAL!! JFC we are in trouble....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221326616

[Stargazer99]

16. It is time for the Republicans to clean up their rotten mouths before they whine

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]

17. What's sad is

I believed it until I saw it was The Onion because dissent is treason in the eyes of the cult.

[a kennedy]

19. 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣. Like his fawking owner, tRump, hasn't spewed hateful, and inflammatory

remarks. Just shut the hell up ya little weasel. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[a kennedy]

21. OK, OK, YA GOT ME.......

Damn.

[CaptainTruth]

20. I actually thought that was real.

[Wounded Bear]

22. Me too. Aligns with how things have been going...

[Martin Eden]

23. I was somewhat surprised when I saw this is from The Onion

After Charlie Kirk was killed, Republicans were enraged when direct quotes from Kirk were used.

[SergeStorms]

25. Excuse me?

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]

26. FUCK THE REPUBLICANS !!!!

They should take responsibility.

The word they ALL run away from.

[3catwoman3]

27. It is certainly believable that they could say something...

...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 president’s speeches."

Heaven forfend that any of TSF's vile utterances should be quoted accurately.

[Historic NY]

28. Its believable

[DFW]

29. This is hilarious precisely because it is so close to being believable.

The Onion does it again!

[usonian]

30. I love the smell of onions in the morning.

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.

The Twitter Time Machine (TTTM) says:















WAIT! VANCE WANTS TO CHIME IN!!



just found this little sign.

[AllaN01Bear]

31. hem.

u first.

[MrChuck]

33. We've been conditioned...

...to accept that inane stories about this orange jagoff we're true and this one in particular seems entirely plausible.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered it's from The Onion.

[relogic]

34. You got me

Now I know we’ve woken in TWZ. Even we sane,, thinking, reality-based observers’ fortitude has been neutralized by the forces that lie, project and gaslight.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. I love the Onion

[Torchlight]

39. Quoting their boy Charlie Kirk was perceived as seditious

and hateful by the RW last year, more than a few losing their jobs from doing so. It took me reading down to the link to realize satire slapping me in the face.

To quote Pepe LePew, "le sigh"

[I_UndergroundPanther]

40. LOL lollol lmao

Umm.. fuck you snowflake Republican trash and fuck trump with a pineapple leafy top in first. Oh how I despise all things right wing.a billion suns and the heat of it comes to mind