Samantha Bee calls out Republicans for acting like victims

On Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee called out Republicans for trying to play the victim in recent weeks. It began during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing when women, many of them sexual assault survivors, protested his nomination in the halls, making it uncomfortable for senators, something conservative pundits and politicians alike took umbrage with. Leading up to the midterm elections, many GOP ads seem to make it as though they are under attack from the left, and Bee took umbrage with that.“Republicans control all three branches of government. How do you play the victim when you’ve won everything there is to win? Well, they found a way: Telling people that Democrats are going to eat them,” Bee said before showing some of these ads.During the confirmation hearing, Donald Trump even tried to make it sound as though Kavanaugh accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, and the protesters were the aggressors, and that Kavanaugh was the victim. “Stop making it sound like sexual assault survivors are this vastly powerful cabal,” Bee said of this ridiculous assertion. “They are not. You know how I know that? Because one of these people (Kavanaugh) became a Supreme Court Justice, and the other (Ford) can’t go back to her f**king home.” This, of course, is because Ford continued to receive threats even after Kavanaugh was confirmed.Bee also took issue with the GOP’s most recent talking point, the use of the word “mob” when speaking of the Left. Sure, there has been an unprecedented number of anti-Trump protests since he took office, but the vast majority have been peaceful.

“Just because people are protesting something doesn’t make them a mob. They’re just protesters. At this rate they’re gonna rebrand Mahatma Gandhi as Mahatma ‘The Killa’ Gandhi. It’s getting a little hard to take Republicans seriously on this,” Bee said.Bee also pointed out the hypocrisy of the GOP trying to portray themselves as the victims of dangerous left-wing mobs, when during the campaign, there were actual victims of violence at the hands of dangerous mobs. Those mobs being Trump supporters.“It Is tremendously ballsy for the slow-motion rage aneurysm that is the GOP to accuse the left of being a mob,” Bee said. “They elected a president the way someone keys a car. At this point their slogan should just be, ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’”