US Sen. Sasse criticized for jokes in graduation speech

Via Yahoo ^ | 17 MAY 20 | Associated Pressholes

[central_va]

Sasse suggested that the graduates would remember their senior years at their future reunions as “that time when China started a big global pandemic that created the worst public health crisis in over a century and brought the economy to its knees and we had to stay home and everybody was hoarding toilet paper.”

[central_va]

I am starting to like Sasse.

[ClearCase_guy]

Nowadays, the only acceptable joke goes like this: “Republicans are stupid”.

Usually gets a lot of yuks at most colleges.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Karens of the world - Unite!

[immadashell]

There ‘s something wrong with that? (I didn’t read the entire article)

[Obadiah]

Sasse criticized for jokes in graduation speech

Correct. The corrupt MSM critisized Sasse.

In other news, feces still stinks.

[Salvey]

I’d say Sasse nailed it.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

And water is still wet, grass is still green, and having dirt on the Clintons is still hazardous to your health.

[CMailBag]

I bet the yahoos at Yahoo didn’t criticize Obama for his sick humor.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . the graduates would remember their senior years at their future reunions as “that time when China started a big global pandemic that created the worst public health crisis in over a century and brought the economy to its knees and we had to stay home and everybody was hoarding toilet paper.”

Sounds like a true statement to me - where's the joke? Is it now going to be considered a "conspiracy theory" or a "joke" to state the facts?

[KevinB]

I am starting to like Sasse.

Sasse sometimes gets it right, but he is a never-Trumper and cannot be trusted.

[9YearLurker]

And if you really believe China started this on their own...

[9YearLurker]

Exactly. To hear Sasse snicker with Jonah Goldberg about Trump and then Jonah to lament that Sasse pretends to be with Trump’s agenda to please his yokel voters back home is to despise Sasse. (Despising Goldberg at this point is a given.)

[central_va]

There are no real good Senators. They are all globalist, corpratist bastards.

[lee martell]

No matter what Ben said, there would have been a few complaints, just due to him being a republican.
The Dems don’t think anyone should be allowed to like anything a republican has to say.

[proust]

Graduation despite missing the last few months of the year and skipping the state tests? It’s even more of a joke than usual, and Sasse is doing meta commentary on it.

[Leaning Right]

Sasse’s only sin was that he mentioned China.

Now, this would have been acceptable: “that time when some country - but certainly not China, probably some European country - had started a big global pandemic... “

[treetopsandroofs]

“There are no real good Senators. They are all globalist, corpratist bastards.”

Thanks to the 17th Amendment, which I was surprised to find enjoys a lot of support here.

[Kickass Conservative]

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun” Obama, just another Rodney Dangerfield.

“All this for a damn Flag?” Moochelle Obama, just another Joan Rivers.

[hanamizu]

Sasse’s only sin was that he mentioned China.

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Didn’t Cuomo refer to it as the “European virus”?

[DLfromthedesert]

I like Josh Hawley.