It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but don’t tell that to triggered right-wingers. While you’d think they’d be filled with joy right now, what with it being their religion’s biggest holiday, getting big mad apparently doesn’t take a holiday. Instead, they just dress up their impotent rage in green and red and call it righteous.
Here are some of our favorite conservative freak-outs of the year, brought to you by people who should really log-off for the holidays…
Going nuts over a nutcracker
They took Christ out of Christmas and turned it gay pic.twitter.com/V98YelNfFm
— ELIJAH ???? (@ElijahSchaffer) November 29, 2021
Target seems to be quite good at unintentionally triggering the right. From their inclusive bathroom policy, to their Pride merch, to Christmas cookies that upset some moms last year who saw a hidden phallic object in what was actually Santa’s boot, the retailer seems to have them upset on the regular. 2021 is no exception.
Elijah Schaffer, a podcaster with conservative outlet The Blaze, decided he too wanted to make public his upset when he stumbled upon a display of nutcrackers, one of which was decidedly queer.
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“They took Christ out of Christmas and turned it gay,” Schaffer tweeted alongside a picture of the Rainbow-hatted, Pride flag waving decoration. “To be fair the nutcracker does enjoy nuts in the mouth. Sus. But never full blown homosexuality.”
There are few things gayer than having strong opinions about Christmas decorations.
Former acting national intelligence director gets stupid over a cookie
Stop voting for Democrats. pic.twitter.com/Z4whHcAo8g
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 16, 2021
Speaking of getting worked up over a Christmas cookie, Trump’s former acting national intelligence director, Richard Grenell, who also did a stint as the ambassador to Germany, decided to also make a spectacle of himself on Twitter recently.
The gay Republican/former Trump critic tweeted a picture of a gingerbread cookie with a label describing it as a “Gingerbread Person,” as opposed to the more common “Gingerbread Man”. He captioned it, “Stop voting for Democrats,” as if this was some sort of coordinated effort by the party to take the man out of gingerbread.
One Twitter user replied with a picture of a well-endowed Gingerbread Man cookie, which hopefully helped calm him down a bit.
We used to be a country. A proper country pic.twitter.com/X1lFAscQVX
— Professor Billy Ph.D in Posting (@Your_Pal_Billy) December 18, 2021
And here we thought conservatives were in favor of letting bakeries do whatever they wanted. Apparently denying all same-sex couples wedding cakes = good, and labeling a cookie in a way that they find personally distasteful = an attack on Christmas.
Piece on earth
Merry Christmas! ?
ps. Santa, please bring ammo. ? pic.twitter.com/NVawULhCNr— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 4, 2021
The Boeberts have your six, @RepThomasMassie!
(No spare ammo for you, though) pic.twitter.com/EnDYuXaHDF
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 8, 2021
There are gun owners and then there are gun nuts. These are the people who are always talking about how the government is trying to take away their guns, despite the fact that it never seems to happen and likely never will.
Rep. Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, is clearly a gun nut, as evidenced by his decision to tweet out a picture of himself and his family seated before their Christmas tree all armed to the teeth. Maybe they’re taking this whole “War on Christmas” thing a little too seriously? Not to be outdone, Rep. Lauren Boebert, of Colorado, tweeted a similar photo of herself and her loved ones, ensuring Massie that they had his back.
Apparently they thought nothing of the optics of sharing photos with children holding guns on the heels of a school shooting in Oxford, Michigan, perpetrated by a teenager. Not a good look, to say the least.
Jaquelope
Isn’t that gun Rep. Massie is holding only legal for military ownership? I guess as a member of Congress, they can get away with much more than the average citizen can.
Whichever pronoun one might us for a cookie is immaterial, but the listed price on that cookie is outrageous unless it is at least 1/8th the size of an actual person, imho.
nebskram
silly boi, if you don’t want to pay Bakery prices you can make them yourself
Jaquelope
@Nebraskam : I DO bake my own, thank you, if I want one, or I find one that is less expensive, thank you again.
Openminded
Don’t know about the gun, there are so many look-a-like knock offs for the radical gun nuts who think bigger is better. As for the cookie, afraid that is pretty much the going rate at many “specialty” cookie shops. Can’t sell you a $6 coffee and not expect you to also be raped on the price of a cookie. I paid $2.50 Each for Christie Cookies in large quantities for Christmas gifts for clients this year. Damn good cookies.
mattpj71
Wow, that is some heavy duty gun nut lunacy right there in those above pics!! And please forgive my ignorance, but are those lunatics holding those guns politicians and their families?? I am from Australia so I am not familiar with these people or what terms like rep mean..but jeez!!!! If any politician from Australia posted a pic like that there would be hell to pay..and rightly so!! We had one terrible gun massacre back in the mid 90s and then there was a gun amnesty and laws changed and then there has not been one like it since..why is the USA so obsessed with guns?? What do they think they are protecting themselves from, what do they think is going to happen? I am guessing they are protecting themselves from other gun nuts.. For a family to gather round a Christmas tree and idiotically smile at the camera while holding a weapon like they are is just complete insanity!!! I just do not understand it..can someone please explain why to me??
Jaquelope
Please don’t worry too much, if you can’t understand about the thoughts of Americans about guns, as many of us who live here don’t really fully understand the thought processes of all these gun nuts.
In idiomatic American, the term “rep” is short for “representative” in our Congress, and what would correspond to an MP in Parliament.
At the time our Constitution was written, regional militias were somewhat necessary, so gun ownership was encouraged, but even though they are no longer really necessary because we now have the National Guard. Having a gun for hunting is one thing, but the firepower that some are coming up with these days, even many of us wonder why they feel they need some of these high-powered guns. One thing that most of them don’t know is, IF the National Guard is called out within our borders, to put down a rebellion or insurrection, the military has even more powerful firearms, and they will lose and lose more than they gain.
Yes, those who made their Christmas cards showing them armed to the teeth, are politicians, who actually do very little for their constituents, or nothing at all.
Openminded
Yes, these are gov’t representatives, most of whom should have been in the US Capital during the Jan 6th uprising when these guns might would have kept more than a few from squealing for their lives. Unfortunately, it is “generally” a right wing Republican flex to display guns while the liberal left was considered those under attack in the Capital so even if the Republicans in attendance had brought their artillery, it would have likely only bolstered the insurgents force.
Although, I’m a conservative, I find it disturbing to see these photos with kids shouldering guns when they very possibly don’t even know how to handle a gun properly. As I stated earlier, this is mostly a huge flex just to p*ss off their political opponents. Truly sad that America has come to this.
Mister P
I certainly can’t explain it. It is insanity.
We are going backwards.
winemaker
Sadly, Christ was taken out of Christmas years ago and over time has really lost it’s true meaning to become ‘shop till you drop’ and go broke, drink and stuff yourselves ’till you burst etc. Retail businesses get ready for Christmas beginning in August trying to out do each other for the newest ‘must have thing’. We’re goaded and guilted into spending hard earned money on gifts for people who don’t mean much to us, we don’t get along with or care about and relatives or family we never see or don’t get along with just to make ourselves look good. That being said, every year we’re assaulted with subliminal messages beginning in September around Labor Day to shop early for the holidays and by Halloween it’s gotten more intense and by Thanksgiving, it’s a blitz to say the least. And by the middle of December it’s an all in all assault making many folks wanting it over. BTW: The right to keep and bear arms is the 2nd amendment of one of the greatest documents written, that being the United States Constitution. Ironic thing though, these liberal politicos who for the most part do ZIPPO for us carry guns for their protection but want to deny law abiding citizens the right to protect their persons and property. If you want gun bans go live in any of the socialist utopian paradises like chine, russia or for the real experience, north korea. Good riddance to anti American trash!
cliche guevara
Was that a game of ”tell me you have never read the second amendment without telling my you have never read the second amendment”?.
Chrisk
There’s nothing sad about it since the fictional character of Jesus was never born anywhere near Christmas.
“The holiday was celebrated as the Roman pagan solstice, or “birthday of the unconquered sun,” which began on December 17 and ended December 25.”
Mack
LOL. “Taking Christ out of Christmas” because they turned the Nutcracker gay??????? I didn’t know that the Nutcracker was part of Christ’s manger or that the Three Kings were armed with AR-15s.