Discussion: Roseanne Barr Is Our Duke Of The Week

Like Trump, absolutely nothing surprising in Barr’s behavior. ABC knew what they were getting with the reboot.

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I’m just glad Roseanne got so much exposure that almost everyone knows what a racist, bigoted nutbar she really is.

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It’s hard to believe ABC didn’t know about:

Perhaps ABC, rather than Roseanne, deserves that Duke award.

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Going way back in her career – alleging her parents molesting her as a diapered infant – I knew she was 3 tacos short of a picnic. Oh yes, it was a “recovered memory”.
BTW: I thought the Duke was for government corruption behavior.
Roseanne Barrs are a dime a dozen. She just happens to be a comedienne who played a red neck blue collar wife in a TV show for people like her.

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“When the going gets tough, the tough blame Ambien!”

“If you can’t stand the heat, Tweet a picture of yourself in the kitchen baking some ‘Jew Cookies’ and point the finger at Holocaust-survivor George Soros.”

“Due unto others as 4Chan would do unto that Kenyan Muslim Socialist Usurper Barack Obama.”

“When life gives you lemons, squeeze out some inexcusably racist remarks about a person whose political beliefs you disagree with.”

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Funny how they managed to miss all those comments by Roseanne over the years. Why, it’s almost as though ABC/Disney was more concerned with profit than doing the right thing! My, whoda thunk it? I wonder if they consulted the Cryogenically-Frozen Head of Anti-Semitic Walt when good ol’ joshin’ Rosie posted this timeless image:

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Her award should be a gift-wrapped dookie.

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Michelle Wolf tagged her Lady Hitler, on her Netflix show. heh.

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She’s the epitome of a conspiracy theorist. She has both an active imagination and no ability to discern reality from fiction. She also has an innate mistrust of both authority and any official explanation of an event. That means that any and all crazy ideas that fit into her general view of the world (anti-authority, contrasting the accepted narrative, etc) will be instantly believed by her (and people like her) without a second thought.

In short, she’s not actually racist. It’s just way too easy to get her to accept crazy ideas, racist or otherwise, as long as they fit her conspiratorial view of the world. She never takes a second to even think about such ideas, so it never occurs to her if such ideas might be racist as long as they’re anti-authority or contrarian.

I know lots of people like this. They’re not really racist to anyone in person, they just harbor a lot of racist ideas do to a complete inability to filter or otherwise analyze anything they believe in the abstract. It’s as though their world view in a giant trash can that any such idea can fall into and remain without a second thought, as long as it fits.

This distinguishes people like her from true racists who actually dislike and discriminate against people of other races in person whenever possible. There’s no evidence (that I know of) that Roseanne has ever behaved in this way.

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She is the female Alex Jones.

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Pretty much, but I don’t think she’s quite as far gone as Alex Jones. Not that that’s saying much. The Sandy Hook conspiracy theory was a bit beyond anything I would expect from even Roseanne.

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I think you’re naive as hell - I don’t know what she thinks about the 2d amendment, but she has embraced some conspiracies almost as bad and she has been on Alex’s show, if I’m not mistaken.

She has pushed the post-pizzagate theory that there was a world wide child abduction/prostitution ring, somehow Soros is involved (funding?) and all the original pizzagate folks - and Trump has single-handedly disrupted it and THOUSANDS of childrens’ of lives have been saved and we only Don’t Know about it because of the evil media that is plotting against trump.

Yes she is in deep the mass delusion.

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I’m not defending her. I’m just saying that the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory is probably the most malicious and horrible conspiracy theory yet. Also, Alex Jones makes his living by trafficking conspiracy theories. For people like Roseanne, such thinking appears to do her little good. It’s made her somewhat popular with Trump supporters for now, but even that will be short lived. All in all, her conspiratorial fantasies have been a liability to her more than anything. Hell, she’s unemployed now as a result of them.

Even if she does find work on fringe talk radio (or Fox News) I doubt it will pay as much as she she made from Roseanne. After all, she may be nuts, but she could never compete with Alex Jones for his audience, or even Rush Limbaugh. Not all crazy people can market their insanity. In fact, most can’t.

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She did a pretty good job of it the first time around. She’s gotten what she could out of her crazy.

And yes you are rather defending her at this point but to each his own.

Actually, no. Her first time around she wasn’t marketing conspiracy theories. Her show in the nineties was about a struggling blue collar family that included very little politics outside of a few jabs at the Republicans. That’s what made Roseanne Barr famous. Had she not had that show, her current reboot (now cancelled) would probably not have been possible-- and it was her crazy conspiracy theories that ultimately sunk her new show.

Now, it’s likely she might never have even gotten her reboot had it not been for her support of Trump, which sold largely on its novelty value. You can say that her conspiracy theories got her that but, even so, she achieved none of the ratings or notoriety she had in the nineties with this new show, and none of her original fame was the result of her embracing conspiracy theories.

That’s very different from someone like Alex Jones whose entire career has been based on marketing lunacy from the beginning.

In short, conspiratorial thinking appears to have gotten Roseanne a brief reprisal of fame, but nothing like what she had in the past (which wasn’t the result of her craziness) and it’s also what sunk her career in a rather short amount of time. As the marketing of insanity goes, this was rather a bomb. She’s got nothing on Alex Jones, or even Glen Beck on being able to sell craziness.

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Conspiracy theories is only one facet of the woman’s crazy or do you think she just got crazy later?

No, she’s always been crazy and she leveraged it into a career and was successful until she went out of control, married Tom Arnold and they both went full steam ahead to crazy town.

She’s a bore - loud, rude, ignorant and I don’t want to talk about her anymore. She’s what my mother in law always called a Fish Monger’s Wife.

I agree. Her first show was funny, imho, but before that her stand-up routines had me in stitches! I don’t know what happened to Roseanne but somewhere along the line she became totally unmoored. Hollywierd seems to have brought out her inner demons. I could be mistaken.

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