Has a person ever pretended to be a major Republican did a podcast interviews and everythinng else? While raking in a butt load of money? The turn around and be like HA MF's I am a liberal?

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• mienshao@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sasha Baron Cohen dressed up as a redneck and sang at a far right militia gathering once to troll them. Not sure if that counts lol

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Throw the Jew down the well?

    That. Was. Awesome.

    Everyone singing along, nobody understanding that he was taking the piss out of them

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Stephen Colbert?

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  • Bongles@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sort of, but he was always blatantly parody.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To us, yes. A large number of the people he was mocking do not understand irony, so they thought he was genuine.

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    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He got invited to the Bush Whitehouse dinner and they were surprised Colbert roasted Dubya

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think that people have tried, but the grifting is too easy and lucrative and that makes them a Republican.

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• Corelli_III@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah this is pretty common

  these guys did it in the 00s

  it doesn’t work, you will note that we’ve still descended into global corpo fascism despite lots of merry pranksters

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• kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  there was this black girl who pretended to be MAGA. She went on twitter saying how her family kicked her out because of it so she decided to “speak her truth”. She managed to get sympathy from trump supporters and got them to donate to her go fund me. Only got $200 out of it and she returned the donations after admitted she just made it up for fun lmao

  In an interview with New York magazine, Quran said she simply decided to “capitalize” off of all of the recent efforts by Republicans to shed the reputation that they’re “mostly racist.”

  “A lot of Republicans have this idea that everyone thinks Republicans are mostly racist and they’re really desperate to get that stigma off of them,” she said. “I just felt like capitalizing on that.”

  here’s a buzzfeed article on it buzzfeednews.com/…/college-student-faked-maga-tru…

  there’s also a high chance some MAGA influencers are just grifters anyway

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Only got $200 out of it and she returned the donations after admitted she just made it up for fun lmao

    Dude gotta respect the integrity in that woman. Took money from people who needed taking from, and still had the honesty to not take it. If i was hiring…

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    there’s also a high chance some MAGA influencers are just grifters anyway

    There are two types of MAGA, evil and stupid. Most of them are stupid, they don’t think about it, so it makes sense to them, but they can’t explain why. The ones who tell the stupid what to say, are the evil ones.

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well I mean there’s your problem right there you got to be white to pull it off I guess.

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• Imperor@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think that’d be a pretty dangerous proposition by now.

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