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applegrove

(118,749 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 06:56 PM Apr 2023

Michael Che Just Solved Gun Violence With One Instagram Post

Michael Che Just Solved Gun Violence With One Instagram Post
‘HEAR ME OUT’

Matt Wilstein
Senior Editor

https://www.thedailybeast.com/snls-michael-che-just-solved-gun-violence-with-one-instagram-post?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=230411-Digest%20PM%20ADDED&utm_term=PM%20Digest%20-%20ADDED%20Audience

"SNIP.........

On Tuesday, the co-anchor of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” posted a message on Instagram that read, “ya kno... a lot of people are not drinking bud light, cause the company used a trans person in their ad.. and these mostly right wing bud light customers have tossed all their bud lights in the trash in a blind rage.. and it got me ta’thinkin.. just hear me out..”

On the next slide, Che concluded the thought with, “what if we got trans people.. hear me out.. to do ads for guns..?”

Over the past couple of days, after Bud Light partnered with trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney for an online promotion, conservatives have been publicly denouncing the beer company—and in the case of Kid Rock, firing a high-powered rifle at some cans on video. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) made a critical error when he tried to #boycottbudlight but ended up posting a video of his refrigerator that contained a beer also made by Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch.

Che’s post, meanwhile, received enthusiastic praise from celebrities like comedian Patton Oswalt and The Roots bandleader Questlove, as well as trans pop star Kim Petras.

“Did you just end gun crimes?” one follower wrote in response. “I think so.”

........SNIP"

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Michael Che Just Solved Gun Violence With One Instagram Post (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2023 OP
Ha ha ha, now that's a marvelous idea..... a kennedy Apr 2023 #1
One "Word" JETTBHEART Apr 2023 #2
Don't worry about Bud Light, one company owns the major U.S. beer brands anyway, (link below) ShazamIam Apr 2023 #3
all the shit industrial beer, lol, true pisswater Inc. Celerity Apr 2023 #27
Really not the point of the post JPPaverage Apr 2023 #32
The LGBTQ+ should co-opt the Yellow Gadsden Flag for every event & parade. Not a rainbow version. TheBlackAdder Apr 2023 #4
"Don't Tread On Me" - Perfect. nt TeamProg Apr 2023 #8
I do like this idea SledDriver Apr 2023 #11
The AR-15 pins needs a new meaning, too! nt Gore1FL Apr 2023 #31
I luvs me some Michael Che. Coventina Apr 2023 #5
Brilliant! anciano Apr 2023 #6
Whatever it takes to end this madness, I am all for it! Initech Apr 2023 #7
Who knows, this could work. We need to do something and soon. Joinfortmill Apr 2023 #9
I think this is a great idea JanLip Apr 2023 #10
Take a guess - Which one led to gun control legislation, which one won't? keithbvadu2 Apr 2023 #12
You beat me to it. Great work! usonian Apr 2023 #13
Not only that, but one of them SHOULD Abolishinist Apr 2023 #22
Careful. Don't insult Meal Team 6 like that Jerry2144 Apr 2023 #23
Meal Team 6, love it. Abolishinist Apr 2023 #28
They are also known as Jerry2144 Apr 2023 #29
When has Michael Che ever seen a commercial for a gun on TV? former9thward Apr 2023 #14
You could make it a meme on the internet. I'm not sure either if it is fully thought out. applegrove Apr 2023 #16
Time for some free Public Service multigraincracker Apr 2023 #18
Guns are so woke! Lonestarblue Apr 2023 #15
'Every black man should buy an AR-15.' keithbvadu2 Apr 2023 #17
Maj Toure Fla_Democrat Apr 2023 #20
Yes! Not exactly the one I partially remember but definitely part of it. keithbvadu2 Apr 2023 #21
Brilliant! Delmette2.0 Apr 2023 #19
Michael Che has never heard of Jeffree Starr, I take it? NickB79 Apr 2023 #24
OMG, that would definately get their undies in a twist...they can't support trans people and Ferrets are Cool Apr 2023 #25
Tatsuya Ishida is gonna go nuts... Well, even MORE nuts Grokenstein Apr 2023 #26
Advertise a Devine gun... icymist Apr 2023 #30

TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts)
4. The LGBTQ+ should co-opt the Yellow Gadsden Flag for every event & parade. Not a rainbow version.
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 07:23 PM
Apr 2023

.

They should use the Yellow Gadsden Flag for everything, then the MAGAts won't ever fly them again.

Fly the III percent flags too. Down South, make the Confederate Flag their symbol of tolerance.


Co-opt everything MAGA related.

.

Coventina

(27,161 posts)
5. I luvs me some Michael Che.
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 07:25 PM
Apr 2023

I don't always agree with him on everything, but, dang, that guy is funny!

For me funny = sexy!



on edit: dumb typo

JanLip

(845 posts)
10. I think this is a great idea
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 08:20 PM
Apr 2023

And I bet if they used those three guys dressed in drag that did the Bud light video it would ruffle some feathers. I think they would do it in a heartbeat.

Jan 🍺🍺

keithbvadu2

(36,876 posts)
12. Take a guess - Which one led to gun control legislation, which one won't?
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 08:47 PM
Apr 2023

Take a guess - Which one led to gun control legislation, which one won't?

usonian

(9,851 posts)
13. You beat me to it. Great work!
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 09:10 PM
Apr 2023

As long as only schoolkids are on the business end of guns, they don't give a shit.
Black Panthers, another matter.

CHICKEN SHIT POSERS.

Send them to Mexico to battle drug lords, every damn one of them.

former9thward

(32,065 posts)
14. When has Michael Che ever seen a commercial for a gun on TV?
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 09:11 PM
Apr 2023

His network, NBC, does not allow it. Other networks don't either. So how would his idea work?

applegrove

(118,749 posts)
16. You could make it a meme on the internet. I'm not sure either if it is fully thought out.
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 09:27 PM
Apr 2023

I think it is more of a joke to relieve our twin anxieties: lack of gun control and transhate.

keithbvadu2

(36,876 posts)
17. 'Every black man should buy an AR-15.'
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 09:31 PM
Apr 2023

'Every black man should buy an AR-15.'

I can't find the exact quote or who said it... from several years back.

Fla_Democrat

(2,547 posts)
20. Maj Toure
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 11:09 PM
Apr 2023

Founder of Black Guns Matter.

Ida B. Wells.
Well, she didn't exactly say AR-15, because they didn't exist in her time, though she did advocate getting a 'weapon of war' for protection.... https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2020/10/2/self-help-her-words-of-wisdom

Of the many inhuman outrages of this present year, the only case where the proposed lynching did not occur, was where the men armed themselves in Jacksonville, Fla., and Paducah, Ky, and prevented it. The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.


Josh Pray;



Oh, and me, but not Brandon Herrera.... he suggests AK's





keithbvadu2

(36,876 posts)
21. Yes! Not exactly the one I partially remember but definitely part of it.
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 11:37 PM
Apr 2023

Yes! Not exactly the one I partially remember but definitely part of it.

Delmette2.0

(4,168 posts)
19. Brilliant!
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 09:37 PM
Apr 2023

Then have a woman offer up to adopt a baby a christian woman can't keep, because she is not married.
Have her walk off holding a baby and meet her lesbian partner at the car. Safely put the baby in a proper car seat and they drive off into the sunset.

NickB79

(19,257 posts)
24. Michael Che has never heard of Jeffree Starr, I take it?
Wed Apr 12, 2023, 04:32 PM
Apr 2023
https://www.insider.com/jeffree-star-100-guns-shooting-wyoming-yak-ranch-2022-6

Controversial influencer Jeffree Star said he is "waiting for someone to trespass" onto his yak ranch in Wyoming, where he keeps 100 guns, adding that he has a "love" for shooting.

Star, who moved from California to Wyoming in August, spoke with YouTuber Logan Paul in an episode of Paul's "Impaulsive" podcast, posted June 14.

When Paul asked Star if he owned weapons, Star said he had "about 100" guns that he keeps on his property.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,109 posts)
25. OMG, that would definately get their undies in a twist...they can't support trans people and
Wed Apr 12, 2023, 04:34 PM
Apr 2023

they CAN'T get rid of their precious's. It would be a sight to behold.

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
26. Tatsuya Ishida is gonna go nuts... Well, even MORE nuts
Wed Apr 12, 2023, 05:26 PM
Apr 2023
https://www.reddit.com/r/sinfest/ (to avoid direct contact with Ishida's website)

Ishida, contrarian author of the webcomic Sinfest, has wandered the political map over the years, from sexist/racist edgelord to (phony) feminist to violence-advocating man-hater. These days he's a full-blown MAGAt, conspiracy nut, Kanye worshipper and Nazi defender whose favorite subject is the depiction of trans people as grotesque monsters out to harm children, subjugate society at large, and murder all who oppose them. The sick bastard is already portraying transitioning folk (or rather, ridiculous caricatures thereof) kicking down the doors of churches with assault rifles in hand.

Who knows how he's going to respond to this? It's sure to be the worst possible take.
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