The Borowitz Report - How to Gaslight Your Trump-voting Relatives This Thanksgiving

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Last edited Fri Nov 29, 2024, 09:50 AM - Edit history (1)

Link to tweet

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-to-gaslight-your-trump-voting

Stuck with MAGA relatives around the table today? Gaslight them by pretending you’re a convert to their movement! Just slip these surefire talking points into the conversation:

Matt Gaetz would have been a great Attorney General. No one cares more about America’s children.

I can’t wait for Trump’s tariffs. I’m sick of paying so little for everything.

American education is a mess, and that’s because we’ve never had someone in charge of it with professional wrestling experience.

The fact that a worm ate half of RFK Jr’s brain means he won’t have as many thoughts distracting him from his job.

If you ask me, Kristi Noem’s dog was asking for it.

Thank God Trump is kicking out all those undocumented workers! If I want fruit and vegetables I’ll just pick them myself.

[kimbutgar]

1. I'm bookmarking your post for when I have Christmas with my husband maga relatives in Arizona

I’m memorizing and going to use them.

Thanks for posting.

[634-5789]

2. You can get the Borowitz report for free daily in your email! ( I get it, and Tiedrich;s too)

[raising2moredems]

20. Why not just stay home?

Magats are really not worth my time and energy (and travel costs).

[kimbutgar]

21. I adore my Mother in law who is 93 I like spending time with her !

And is with many families this year one must make sacrifices for important people in your life.

[NJCher]

3. Here's mine:

"I'm so glad trump is back, restoring dignity to the White House!"

[Callie1979]

12. Um, a MAGA relative will AGREE with you; not getting the JOKE!

[bluesbassman]

15. Sad thing is most of them won't get any of the jokes.

The non MAGAts will though! 😊

[barbtries]

4. i got this in my email

and loved it.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[highplainsdem]

6. The account posting that on Twitter has been removed. I found that Borowitz report tweeted by only one other

Twitter account.

And Borowitz has had to make his own tweets protected there, presumably to keep RWNJs away.


Borowitz on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/borowitzreport.bsky.social

[mwooldri]

8. He's on Threads too.

But it's certainly a sad case that Andy Borowitz - a satirist - has to basically be censored like heck on X. X being a free speech zone? Hardly.

Post by @borowitzreport

View on Threads

?xmt=AQGzSFWbDRmcI0p7VIznFQzRWY3YQi9PJfxXJ8IbV3tiOw

[Lunabell]

10. Yep.

Free speech for nazis only.

[PAMod]

9. Twitter removed it?

So much for free speech…

[highplainsdem]

14. Apparently, since it says the account no longer exists. I can't be positive it was this tweet about

Borowitz, though I'm guessing it was. It was removed - the tweet and the account - so fast it wasn't even picked up by Google, though his older tweets show up in Google results if I search for his tweets by googling

@bergeronruss site:x.com

Clicking on any of those older Google results, though, like this one

Link to tweet

just get the same response: This Post is from an account that no longer exists.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. I updated post

Link to tweet

[Journeyman]

7. Thanks. Always enjoyable, and today's is useful

[kevinore]

11. Alternative Gaetz comment

No one is more interested in America’s children.

[Callie1979]

13. PERFECT!!

[usonian]

16. The Usonian Report. Use these FAFO flags at each table setting.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219770873

[soldierant]

17. Yes, that gave me a chuckle. And his other Thanksgiving post

is also worthy of attention. He makes it very funny - I didn't choke up until the very end.

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/why-im-thankful

[pansypoo53219]

18. politics free t day.

[Wonder Why]

19. and those sexual predators can pick on your wife too!

[azureblue]

23. mine

Who are Trumpers and claim to be oh so Christian:

Memorize Matthew 25: 41- 46 (actually 31- 46), where Jesus says those who do not help the sick, the elderly, the newcomer (immigrant), will go to hell. Also the verse where Jesus tells the rich to give their money to help the less fortunate. If they go off about gays, trans, etc.

Remind them that Leviticus forbids eating pork and shellfish, going to church if you wear glasses, having tattoos. Then ask them if they are qualified to decide which "sin" is worse.

Also the commandments that say, "Do not lie" And do not commit adultery", and ask them why they voted for a liar and adulterer.

And be prepared for some sandbagging and parsing..

[DiamondShark]

24. Needs shorter soundbites.

They won't hear you past the first 5 words. Try it, the first 5 words agree with MAGA and then they tune you out.

I know this is an unfavorable opinion, but being long winded hurts us more than it helps us.

[BobTheSubgenius]

25. Andy, as always, both funny and trenchant. Love the guy!

I saw a both-points-of-view panel show the other day, and I could only stand so much, so I didn't get a sense of the spectrum on the show. The part that made me want to take off my shoe and throw it at the Repuke on the screen was his (ostensible) inability to grasp the idea that having people pick fruits and veg in-country, and importing a lot of the same crops from Mexico was not mutually exclusive.

He described this concept as "liberals always wanting to have it both ways." Such wilful ignorance is infuriating to me.