[fyrn_]

About as funny of a joke as Trump 'joking' about canceling the midterms. I think we should frame these kind of things more like "so and so said they would do x to gauge if they could get away with it or not". Calling either of these a joke doesn't make sense. Not funny.

[kelseyfrog]

You know how "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," contains a moral lesson? Don't lie because eventually people won't believe you.

We're about due for, "The Jester Who Meant It."

[watwut]

Maybe the boy who cried wolf is actually about a boy who successfully saved the flock multiple times in a row, by making noise and commotion. Then he fails one night and the wolf eats him. The villagers, instead of sayin "oh, so there was a wolf after all" insisted on blaming the boy, because otherwise they would have to admit they were wrong.

That would be 100% realistic.

And looking at past years, maybe the wolf even have eating a sheep every night, because the people who were accused of hysteria and false panic were 100% correct and right.

[y0eswddl]

Relevant short skit I ran across recently:

It appears Trump was never joking... | This Hour Has 22 Minutes https://youtu.be/j2gZGKzN3ho

[finkstein]

It's the gaslighting politics era.

Anyone who points this out is insulted because they are insecure and can't take a joke. Once the joke becomes real they will insult you for not getting with the program.

This is White House policy at this point, so you can't blame Marc Benioff for playing along.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

You can blame Marc for playing along. Marc made a conscious decision to be a fuckwad, and he should not get a pass for making that decision