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You are here: Home / Justice / Racial Justice / This Week In Blackness / Ironic Glasses Won’t Make You Win

Ironic Glasses Won’t Make You Win

by Elon James White|  March 18, 20145:05 pm| 20 Comments

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What do you do if you’re a hipster and you’re a Republican!? What if you want to take a stand against all the ridiculous things that are happening with our government but you feel like you’ll be shamed by your friends? Thank god the Republicans are doing outreach to make us feel safe to be GOP.

We give you, Scott Greenberg:

And no, he’s not an actor. He’s a real person. With facts. Just like those people with real health care stories in the Koch Brothers Obamacare ads.

On today’s TWiBPrime, we also discussed how the gun lobby is screwing up Obama’s surgeon general nomination, a South Dakotan lawmaker who wants to give businesses the right to deny service to Black people (because, freedom), and why we keep having those battles on Twitter.

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  1. 1.

    chopper

    March 18, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    what if you’re being a republican ironically?

  2. 2.

    Xantar

    March 18, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    That better not be an Audi because then he’s filling up with the wrong kind of gas.

  3. 3.

    raven

    March 18, 2014 at 6:40 pm

    Here’s our hipster mayoral candidate in Athens. He’s an Occupy dude so he’s ok!

  4. 4.

    the Conster

    March 18, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    That guy has a face that needs a fist in it.

  5. 5.

    DiannaBArnold

    March 18, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    He’s a little too earnest for a hipster.

  6. 6.

    shelly

    March 18, 2014 at 7:02 pm

    And of course, no details on what regulations are hurting his friends job chances.

  7. 7.

    Josie

    March 18, 2014 at 7:04 pm

    @the Conster: That was exactly my reaction when I looked at him. Great minds and all that….

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 18, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    @shelly: That would require knowledge and critical thinking skills.

    Two things that Rethuglicans abhor.

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    Mnemosyne

    March 18, 2014 at 7:07 pm

    That striped shirt makes him look French.
    /wingnut

  10. 10.

    shortstop

    March 18, 2014 at 7:14 pm

    Look at me. LOOK AT ME! OVER HERE! SNAP!

    Jesus, he’s as bad as Michelle Bachmann, and all because he’s too stupid to memorize a 30-second script.

  11. 11.

    danielx

    March 18, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    @the Conster:

    Uh-huh. Backpfeifengesicht.

    One would think that ‘Republican’ and ‘hipster’ are mutually exclusive terms. However…in set theory one could see an overlap of these two groups, with the intersecting ellipse of the two circles formally labelled ‘doucherocket’. Kind of like ‘Democrat’ and ‘Ralph Nader’.

  12. 12.

    jayjaybear

    March 18, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    He must be a hipster. I’m having my standard hipster reaction to seeing him…an overwhelming urge to push him off a subway platform as the next train is coming in…

  13. 13.

    Gozer

    March 18, 2014 at 7:51 pm

    The fucking cadence of his speech immediately made me think about this.

    And Mike Commodore’s playoff beard would eat that guy’s face for lunch.

  14. 14.

    MikeJ

    March 18, 2014 at 7:59 pm

    @shelly:

    And of course, no details on what regulations are hurting his friends job chances.

    They would be able to get jobs as waiters if the gubbmint didn’t demand the employer pay them $2.70 an hour.

  15. 15.

    Roger Moore

    March 18, 2014 at 8:49 pm

    @chopper:

    what if you’re being a republican ironically?

    Then you deserve to have your chops busted ironically.

  16. 16.

    Citizen_X

    March 18, 2014 at 9:41 pm

    I see this kid, I’m punching him and taking his leather. Nice Hitler ‘stache, dude!

  17. 17.

    Gus

    March 18, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    I call bullshit. That fuckstick has a job?

  18. 18.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    March 18, 2014 at 11:03 pm

    Hmmm…

    Watch his eyes carefully… he appears to be reading what he’s saying…

  19. 19.

    John Revolta

    March 18, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    what if you’re being a republican ironically?

    I actually know a guy who does exactly that. He’s also one of these guys who claim to like Shemp better than Curly.

  20. 20.

    Fred

    March 19, 2014 at 5:37 am

    @Gus: Sure. He’s an actor in GOP promos. Can’t get any work in pornos.

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