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Nancy's avatar

“Triggering the left” = being called on my bullshit

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Andy's avatar

“Those who want a mask have to wear it.” -Oscar Wilde

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Chris Rey's avatar

Mr. Robinson,

Thank you for your clear explanations to help me understand how to treat new acquaintances who I hope will become good friends, with the proper elements of respect that they are due and expect.

The area in which I grew up was relatively disadvantaged from the sort of rich cultural understandings that you have shared so generously in this piece about Nancy Mace, who so conveniently volunteered for this didactic, to act as the bad example.

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M Gazelle's avatar

Nanny, or is it Nancy, you’re doing yourself no favors. When you look back at all this kabuki theater, you are going to be so embarrassed. I hope you don’t have children.

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DeeDee's avatar

What a despicable person

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Numpty Mace it is, weirdo (directed at Mace).

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Grammy K's avatar

Maybe we should all purposely mispronounce Nancy’s name.

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Nancy's avatar

As a Nancy myself, the sickest burn you could deliver is misspelling it. I suggest Nancie

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Manic Pixel Dream Girl's avatar

Nancy Mace is a professional Karen. She continuously pushes and pulls and prods to see what she can get away with, while offering nothing but fake outrage when even mildly called out. What is to be gained by deliberately mispronouncing the Vice President’s name? And what is to be gained by compounding the issue by calling two accomplished Black men, two men who were far far kinder than she deserved, “boys”. WTF Nancy? Congratulations, you’ve successfully identified yourself as a racist asshole whose current goal is apparently outdoing herself in undermining and insulting Black people for the egregious crime of ::checks notes:: being Black? What a smug, hateful [call her whatever you want here].

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DeeDee's avatar

I actually was proud of Abby for pushing back although I can’t watch them anymore. Never seen cnn push back for more then 15 sec at best.

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vorpal's avatar

Oh, so she's playing the put her toe over the line name game?

I always hear her name spoken as Nazi Mace.

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DeeDee's avatar

There ya go. Thats a new one ‘I’m not in a cult’….. yes you are says the black man whom is not a boy.

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Cakes We Like's avatar

Things should get a lot easier for Nancy in January, she can call Harris "Madame President" instead. Much easier to remember, although I imagine she'll probably choke on those words.

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CI Carlson's avatar

Mace is a racist. It’s easy to say: « race-ist. »

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Kay-El's avatar

And here’s to you Mr. Robinson, in all sincerity! As others have noted, Mace is a despicable person that knew damn well what she was saying was most insulting and bigoted. Instead of wearing that silly A on her shirt, someone should send her a B shirt for bigot or bitch (why not both).

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DeeDee's avatar

I hope her purple district takes her out.

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The Puppet Government's avatar

"This petty assault on her given name perhaps proves Dr. Angelou’s point — when people start disrespecting you, they won’t stop until you make them."

Really brought it home.

Wonderful piece, my good sir.

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Stephen Robinson's avatar

Thank you!

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AJ Milne's avatar

It’s a bizarre distortion of reality, the RW blowhards who have made culture war attacks on various demographics pretty much their entire brand and strategy that it’s the left that only wants to talk about ‘wokism’.

I mean, apart from you’re probably a douche if you use that word at all, hell, it’s near a perfect inversion of the reality. In that: I’m pretty sure the left would love not to have to worry at all about whichever minority is next in the crosshairs of the assholes, but that’s only going to happen if those on the right making political hay this way stop pulling that garbage, from the vicious to the just generally rude and shitty.

I mean, if you deliberately punch several people at random in the nose so they bleed, you really can’t complain that other people want to talk about that, that thing you did where you punched all those people in the nose. I mean, sure, they’d probably love to. And right after you stop punching people in the nose and say you’re sorry and maybe everyone is satisfied that you’ve really stopped and aren’t gonna do that again, maybe they’ll get to that. But note the order of those steps.

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DJ Teetop's avatar

In a body defined by delusions of grandeur, Nancy Mace might be the most deluded of all. Your Greens, Roys, Boeberts, even your Mike Johnsons know they are playing to their base only and will never cross over. Yet Mace persists in believing she has a future in national politics.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

As usual, you reach the heart of the matter... Rep. "National Nancy" Mace's journey will be interesting as the MAGA party implodes this cycle. DKos people call me nuts, but I think we will win "40 States and a District" and this won't be close. After that drubbing the cannibalism in MAGA will take down the "line steppers" as new conspiracy theories and 'Q' drops pit deplorable against deplorable.

Where does Mace land...? Only Fans?

Namaste, SER

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