Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler, the comedy duo known as The Good Liars, have made a name for themselves for the expert way of getting conservatives to tell on themselves and reveal the absurdity of their own beliefs.
But when it came to the topic of the recent wave of book bans in school systems across the United States, what the duo got the Trump-loving MAGA crowd to support was on a whole other level.
Using nothing more than descriptions of stories in the book itself, Selvig and Stiefler were able to trick several far-right conservatives into actually agreeing the Bibleshould be included in the school book bans.
See it for yourself below.
There\u2019s a lot of talk about banning books in schools, but we were surprised these republicans wanted to ban the Bible.pic.twitter.com/gq4b89x2PO— The Good Liars (@The Good Liars) 1643745964
When it came to getting the Trump-loving types to agree to such a thing, it took very little convincing.
Selvig told one couple, a woman and a man in a MAGA hat:
"There's a book that we've seen that's in libraries in lots of schools that features a story of two daughters having sex with their dad."
The couple are, of course, appalled.
When Selvig asks them if that book should be available in schools, they fervently agree it should not.
The man in the MAGA hat even asked:
"Why do kids need to read that?"
In another clip, Stiefler tells two older women a similar story before revealing the book in question is actually the Christian Bible—the book of Genesis, to be exact.
The duo's stunt was inspired by the wave of school systems banning books about the Holocaust and America's history of slavery that have left people all over the country disturbed.
The duo told Newsweek:
“We saw stories of books being banned in public schools as a result of cherry-picking certain passages that could be deemed offensive. The Bible has some pretty messed up stuff in it."
“We wondered what conservatives would say if they heard stories without the context of the rest of the book. Would they want the Bible banned from school libraries?”
It turns out, the answer is yes.
And on Twitter, people couldn't help but headdesk—even if they weren't exactly surprised to see the MAGA crowd not recognize the Bible they claim to love so much.
They will be outraged by the homeless man that goes around feeding the poor and healing the sick in that same book.— Toni (@Toni) 1643768882
I love how she just can't believe that that story is in the bible(if the context was correct). But if so, not shocking. Most of them have never read any of the Bible.— Pilot (@Pilot) 1643746129
Don\u2019t let them think about how there was Adam, Cain, Abel and Eve was the only female.— Ginger with sausage finger(s) (@Ginger with sausage finger(s)) 1643747851
Maybe if they actually read the Bible they would know what is in it instead of just believing what their pastor told them to believe.— justice would be if he still were alive (@justice would be if he still were alive) 1643760964
Just wait until they hear there\u2019s a book in their own home that praises infanticide! (Psalm 137:8-9)— (((The Taiji Reporter)))\ud83d\udc2c (@(((The Taiji Reporter)))\ud83d\udc2c) 1643746892
The refusal to believe this is the best part of the exchange\u2026 \u201cOh no, no, no, no\u201d\u2026— Accretive Exchange (@Accretive Exchange) 1643747878
And then they say no like they\u2019ve read the Bible. classic— Don Sconsin (@Don Sconsin) 1643749313
And that's mild compared to other stuff found in the bible.\n\nBut of course I can already hear the Christians loudly proclaiming "CONTEXT!"— \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08Terri\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f (@\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08Terri\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f) 1643791113
Hypocrisy is looking more and more like a conservative necessity.
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