It’s hard to be a comedian these days, and it’s even harder to make people laugh on Twitter. With everything being deemed offensive for one reason or another, any joke, no matter how innocuous, can end up triggering someone – even if it’s not the person the joke is aimed at.
Such was the situation in which “occasionally funny” conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair found herself on Thursday. St. Clair lobbed a chuckle-bomb at Stacey Abrams, who has been in headlines recently for her mind-numbingly, factually incorrect statement on fetal heartbeats.
“FACT: An unborn baby has a healthier heart rate than Stacey Abrams after a buffet,” she ribbed, much to the displeasure of Twitter’s terminally-online sect of users.
FACT: An unborn baby has a healthier heart rate than Stacey Abrams after a buffet
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) September 22, 2022
Michael Marshal Smith, a blue check author, thought what St. Clair wrote wasn’t funny. In fact, he thought it was kinda mean, and decided to paint all conservatives who have ever told a joke or cracked wise with the same broad brush.
“Remember that kid who ran around the school yard pulling people’s hair? Or the bully that took your school work and threw it in the river and laughed? That’s the heart of conservative ‘comedy’. Attention-seeking + using cruelty to laboriously try to assert dominance,” he whined.
Remember that kid who ran around the school yard pulling people’s hair? Or the bully that took your school work and threw it in the river and laughed? That’s the heart of conservative “comedy”. Attention-seeking + using cruelty to laboriously try to assert dominance. https://t.co/cHPQT4539t
— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) September 22, 2022
A follow-up tweet further complained about how many people, specifically men for some reason, were disagreeing with him.
RIP my mentions. Ashley has a lot of guys caping for her brand of humor, huh.
— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) September 22, 2022
It didn’t take long for conservatives to turn their attention from Stacey Abrams to Smith:
There’s no laughing in communism.
— Gabriella 2 (@MataJari45) September 22, 2022
Anyone surprised the person complaining about a joke also remembers vividly having its hair pulled, and schoolwork thrown into the river?
— bkeyser (@b_keyser) September 23, 2022
“Look, Fat.”
Sincerely,
Joe Biden— AdamInHTownTX (Not a Biologist) (@AdamInHTownTX) September 23, 2022
I think she can survive a little joke. The other thing, i’m not so sure
— Quentin (@Quentin_117) September 22, 2022
Were you able to get your homework out of the river?
— timothy kearns (@Arizona_TK21) September 23, 2022
How soon they forget pic.twitter.com/gCSEymCQW7
— 🕊 Rollo 🇺🇸 (@OhRollo) September 23, 2022
Crying like a little girl do you any good as a kid?
— Mark Dahler (@MarkDahler) September 22, 2022
When liberals cry like this, you know you’re over the target. And in this case, the target is the size of a house.
Libs: “F the Supreme Court! Riot and burn the streets! MAGATS!”
Also Libs: “be nice, you’re hurting xir/xe/xim’s feelings 😭”
— Darin (@Darin_James_) September 22, 2022
Look, I’m not saying she’s fat, but when she hauls ass, she has to make two trips.
— theRoddick (@OriginalRoddick) September 23, 2022
Stacey Abrams shadow weighs 82 pounds. True story.
— Rorschach00 (@falconfan00) September 22, 2022
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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