Socialist Democrat Denver Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca has endorsed public mass murder with a deadly virus as the best and most entertaining way to reeducate voters and elected officials who disagree with her politically.
Isn’t that the meaning of the word “solidarity,” her fist pump, and the “okay” hand signal?
The laughing emojis also signal that CdeBaca finds the sentiment of a biological terrorist attack on her fellow countrywomen and men to be hilariously funny.
But we’re being sarcastic, because that’s what we do on this page every day.
We snark for a living. We make fun of politicians when they say or do stupid stuff.
It’s our job.
Conversely, it’s CdeBaca’s job to be an adult councilwoman making sure Denver is prepared to handle a pandemic instead of playing with emojis on Twitter.
The councilwoman’s excuse that she was just being sarcastic is just as immature and irresponsible as the offending tweet.
And for the record, googly eyes or upside smiley face means you’re just being silly and sarcastic. Furthermore, it’s never a good idea to be silly or sarcastic about killing folks.
Twitter is twitter. Sarcasm is often the tone of tweets, especially political commentary because of the nature of the tool. It’s designed for 125 characters of sharp and simple commentary.
The 1,389 character statement to explain CdeBaca’s 25 character retweet of someone musings on spreading a deadly virus at an event attended by hundreds of innocent people is proof in itself she was not just being sarcastic.
(Read the whole mess below).
If she thinks that’s funny, she needs help.
Not surprisingly, Westword (also needs help) accepted her excuse without question, as did the Denver Post, which carried their bias into the headline and reported her excuse as fact.
Shockingly, it was the nation’s leading liberal rag, the Washington Post, which turned out to be the only adult in the room.
Not only did they objectively report CdeBaca’s tweet, but read how they characterized her tweet.
We’re not surprised CdeBaca is refusing to take responsibility for her childish behavior.
What we find unacceptable is that some in the local media would not only pretend like she did nothing wrong, but also cover for her.
Here are all of CdeBaca’s bizarre excuses, which she explains after reading the mind of the person who wrote the tweet, and how this post of hers translates to all that:
Twitter is twitter. Sarcasm is often the tone of tweets, especially political commentary because of the nature of the tool. It’s designed for 125 characters of sharp and simple commentary.
I made a sarcastic tweet on Twitter responding to a thread regarding the CDC briefing with Trump to call attention to the administration’s downplaying of the Coronavirus outbreak as a “hoax” no more dangerous than the common flu. What the conservatives are missing (in addition to the sarcasm) is the irony in their concern for human life is that is precisely what I was mocking the president for lacking. The original poster was sarcastically conveying that if the President believes it is a hoax, then why should there be worry if infected individuals are in their presence? She was sarcastically conveying that she would show up to their rallies in solidarity.
I simply amplified her sharp commentary and the inconsistency in their application of logic seems to have shown itself to us in the responses from conservative media.
I do not regret calling attention to the issue and inconsistency. Rather than conservative outlets making a four-day-old Tweet their focus on Super Tuesday, they should focus their energy on demanding a competent Federal response to this public health crisis instead. Yesterday’s briefing with the President showed us yet again he believes this virus is essentially a flu.
These people are sick. https://t.co/74mEIJDOpa
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 3, 2020