Marky Marc and the Dudes He Fucks

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    Marcus Bachmann is probably gay. At the very least he's an extremely effeminate man. And that's okay. But the fact that he and Michelle are homophobic pieces of shit and he has associated gays with barbarians automatically opens him up for ridicule. Republicans don't seem to understand why this is different than mocking your run of the mill barbarian. This is in large part because conservatives aren't funny. The fine line between using irony to knock on bigotry and actual bigotry is lost on them (see Jeff Dunham.) Then again, many conservatives don't care and actually prefer bigoted jokes. The fact is, hypocrisy is entertaining. Even Republicans know this and thus many of them immediately claim there's a double standard. It's okay to mock gay people if you're liberal, but not if you're conservative. Actually they're right. Conservatives are far more likely to hate gay people than Liberals. I measure this  by support of the right to marry. In May 78% of liberals believed that gays should have the right to marry, while only 28% of conservatives agreed. Even moderates support was at 65%. Self-identified Republicans, Independents, and Democrats pretty much matched up with the ideological counterparts. 
      People will argue that just because they don't support gay marriage doesn't mean they don't like gay people. Fuck them; it does. People can't say they support some rights for a group of people but not all rights and not be bigoted.
     Support for registered relationships with otherwise equal rights is a big step in the right direction and I honestly think most of those people will come around. Also just because you support gay marriage doesn't necessarily mean you aren't a homophobe.  And the right to marry is not the most important issue for gays. Homelessness, suicide, and sexual abuse are all far more important than the right to marry. But, I still believe support for equal contracts is essential to equal rights.

***Comedy Is Fun***

      Comedy is probably the only arena where nothing is off limits. You can talk about fags, niggers, dikes, spics, honkies, polacks, and wops. That doesn't necessarily mean people will think you're funny and you have to be very careful when involving yourself in this type of humor, lest you fall into the Michael Richards trap. It's perfectly acceptable to point out the differences between rhetoric and action. That's why jokes about Gingrich's affairs are a lot funnier than Clinton's. Clinton jokes have alway been more popular, but still far less satisfying. Clinton never ran on a morality platform, he didn't put forth any contract with America. His affairs didn't make him a hypocrite, only a bit sleazy.

     Just making fun of someones mannerisms is pretty hack. Jokes about your ethnicity are pretty fucking boring, tend to make people uncomfortable, and are often unrelatable. Wow, you're Vietnamese grandmother was so crazy. Who gives a shit? But if you can make intelligent remarks about why people's ideas are invalid and irrational, you've got something. But these jokes can quickly become stale, and it's time to move onto the next person. With so much hypocrisy and cruelty in the GOP, it doesn't take long.