Progressive or Parody? ‘Citizens For Sanity’ Martha’s Vineyard Migrant Ad
It’s clear that some people are unsure if it’s, you know, Progressive or Parody.
Progressive or Parody? is a tag we use when something appears that makes it hard to tell if it’s progressive insanity, or a parody of progressive insanity.
Most of the time the Progressive or Parody? conundrum is unintentional. But a relatively new group called Citizens for Sanity intentionally is playing this game to great political effect, mocking woke policies on gender and immigration through billboards and advertisements:
Citizens for Sanity’s mission is to return common sense to America, to highlight the importance of logic and reason, and to defeat “wokeism” and anti-critical thinking ideologies that have permeated every sector of our country and threaten the very freedoms that are foundational to the American Dream.
Many are targeted at Democrat politicians:
New PSA for Arizona! ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/EfKT486em9
— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) September 22, 2022
NEW ⬇️
Thank you, @SenatorWarnock, for voting to keep violent predators out of jail. Unmasked toddlers are the real criminals. pic.twitter.com/pJvR1cJKaz
— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) September 21, 2022
— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) September 21, 2022
I don’t know what impact these will have, but mockery can be effective.
A reader sent me a photo of this ad that ran in The Providence Journal mocking liberal Martha’s Vineyard.
I tweeted it out to much reaction, but it’s clear that some people were unsure if it’s, you know, Progressive or Parody.
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Parody. And it’s dead-on parody.
“The people are revolting!”
“They certainly are!”
“You’re right. They stink on ice!”
The first time I saw this, it was “The peasants are revolting!” (King: “You can say that again.”) from “The Wizard of Id #3.”
This concept has been around a long time, it’s known commonly as Poe’s Law.
The tag line is, ‘satire has no chance against reality’.
F yes.
Just sent these warriors some FRNs.
This seems like something Scott Adams would be doing! hmmmmm
This is glorious!
The Philadelphia ad The warnock ad & the Kelly ad are excellent
Parody is wasted on the left. The left is unfunny and serious in their psychosis.
In 2008, I parodied “Cocaine” twice; one “Hussein” the other “McSame” – penned almost entirely from comments I’d read in a political forum on a music site. Lefties demanded to know why I’d called Obummer “Hussein”.
Me: “Um, because it’s his middle name and it rhymes with cocaine”?
Anger all the way around, which I could only take to mean they had hoped to keep his middle name, and middle-eastern roots, a secret. The righties reacted a lot better to McSame – but not without a few “don’t shoot at the guys you’re sharing a fox hole with” …
“Anger all the way around, which I could only take to mean they had hoped to keep his middle name, and middle-eastern roots, a secret.”
Or maybe everybody in their echo chamber carefully avoided mentioning what his middle name was, and you were the first one to break it to them..
Hussein is indeed his middle name, but he has no middle-eastern roots. Neither Kenya nor Kansas are in the middle east.
It was his muslim roots the poster was referring to … and I think you well knew that.
In 2004 when he did the big DNC keynote, I heard he had written a book. Toddled over to the public library pulled it off the shelf and read that he was born in Kenya. ‘ Well he can’t be president’ I thought. ‘Oh no,’ they said, ‘ that was just PR….’
So. He’s born in Kenya when he wants to sell books but born in the USA when he wants to be President. I watched in horror as the rest unfolded. Turns out there are consequences to hiring a glib lying America-hating Marxist. Who knew?
You’re lying. Nowhere in his book did you read that he was born in Kenya.
He said he did. Did you not notice?
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Or he could be misremembering, people do that, and it’s not nefarious at all.
no, you’re being contentious & vindictive. The publicity for the book stated that he was born in Kenya. I’ve seen it.
I don’t know about in his book, but Obama was advertised as being born in Kenya when book was promoted. Even leftist Snopes acknowledges that as true.
Obamas literary agent made the claim in a promotional hand out that stated he was born in Kenya.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/promotional-booklet/
Explanation of faulty memories. https://patch.com/california/temecula/book-pamphlet-says-obama-born-in-kenya-booklet-presid14f46e6e6c It was a pamphlet about a book that never got published.
CaptTee, about that pamphlet which claimed Barack Obama was born in Kenya, I love this part of the publisher’s claim it was a mix-up:
“The author of the pamphlet denounced the speculations, saying the slip-up was hers. “This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time. There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii,” she told Political Wire.”
What facts were there to be checked? They claim they didn’t get the author’s biographical details from the author. So where did they get that information from?
The dispute was primarily fueled by authors coming out of the woodwork noting they always personally provided their biographical details to their publishers.
The political ploy of “blame the intern” is so common it’s a free online game.
https://www.kongregate.com/games/vhalkar7/blame-the-intern
Obama lied and told them he was born in Kenya when his political ambitions went no higher than state level. In Illinois, particularly in Chicago, being a socialist Kenyan (it’s a well documented fact that Obama joined the radical, anti-capitalist, socialist “New Party” in 1996) would have been a definite plus. As it is in San Francisco and Seattle.
So he clearly lied and told his publisher he was born in Kenya. But when he learned he could take his act national he had to scrub those parts of his history. So they played “blame the intern.”
It was on the book jacket. You’re correct, it’s not in the book itself
I believe it was on the dust jacket “author” blurb.
Not so much middle-eastern roots as Indonesian.
And commie roots – where “authentic” names like that give you cachet.
Where does “middle-eastern” stop, and “east-eastern” and “west-eastern” begin?
Milhouse, I meant Obama is Muslim. In the same way I imagine you could say with absolute certainty “Obama is not a Jew” because he has no love for Israel as demonstrated by his confession and his actions. In the same way I can say with confidence Obama is not a Christian. This source claims Obama has confessed, with his own mouth, in a televised speech, that he is a Muslim. I don’t remember seeing it myself, but take the word for it from the authors who attributed the source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/obama-muslim-you-decide-steven-christmann
As to the birth issue which you assumed i was referring to, I don’t know where that asshole was born. There was the jacket/liner in his book, which I remember seeing, that said he was from Kenya – whether born – or spent time there – my memory is not that good. But I saw it and read it at the time. To defuse that lie, the left claimed it was written by the PR guy. Still it was a lie and I don’t recall Obama ever specifically addressing it himself, while at the same time benefitting from the ‘mystique’ it accorded to him. To that end, it didn’t help that his school records were sealed, and he had no birth certificate and the hospital admin wouldn’t release it. It made for some frustrating debate with the left, who like his names “Hussein”, and “Barry Soetoro”, were simply brushed off in service of their trojan-horse savior, Obama.
About the birth place, I well remember the Dem ‘factcheck’ site had a Snopes-like treatment of the birth issue, which claimed in print that Obama was born in Queen’s hospital. When after being sworn-in BO released a letter congratulating Kapiolani hospital on their anniversary as “the place of my birth” those honest fact-checking democrats, quickly and quietly scrubbed the article citation from Queens to Kapiolani. I know, because I read the article before and after. Good democrats don’t remember that.
Hiding his middle-eastern (Muslim) roots, while playing up his relationship with Jeremiah Wright of Chicago’s Trinity UCC fame, and meeting Michelle there, is what I remember from the time. The left tried to main-stream him, the right was convinced (and proven right) that he was a trojan horse candidate. I suppose they all are – he just took the cake on being of the obnoxious sort.
I’ve wanted to write a satire where Mr. Rodgers gets canceled because a Transgender kid doesn’t want to be loved “Just the way they are”.
Think these guys would help?
I don’t think it fits in well with their mission profile.
I’m still looking for a video student who would be willing to assemble a short montage of various headlines about the exposure/indictments/convictions of maybe a dozen hate-crime hoaxers, one after another, and set the whole thing to Dean Martin’s rendition of, “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter.”
This is definitely a real group, using humor to fight evil.
To me, most of these read as sarcasm. Humorous sarcasm to us, but unfunny sarcasm to lefties.
The small percentage of lefties that have working sarcasm detectors, that is. Most lefties have no sense of humor, or sarcasm detectors.
“Progressive or Parody”
We could turn this into a gameshow. We could call it, Who Wants to be a Woketard?
My choice would be, “Are you more rational than a fifth grader?”
I hope Wanda Sykes is a member of forsanity.org
obviously satire
Satire or Mockery?
I have a Dell with a white apple over the insignia. I call it a Mock.