So, Russian meat waves in Poland in 2027-2028?
Meat waves in Berlin in 2030 or so.
Argh.
Month: November 2024
Flate
Laughing at all these explanations that Trump won because someone called Latinos “Latinx” or some shit like that. Or DEI. Or that we let a trans girl play field hockey or whatever.
No. It was inflation and the gaslighting around it. That’s it, that’s all.
And the US is fucked for a generation because of it, thanks to us electing Trump. And the world, too.
The Lash
Inflation pain helped secure Trump win but his policies mean higher prices.
The pain of inflation and Americans being lied to about it was 80% of the reason Trump won, if not more. Trump actually won’t do jack shit to help with this (quite the opposite), but the Dems largely caused this through their arrogance and inaction.
Trump’s initiatives will lead to higher prices and very likely a crashed economy, but the average voter is not very smart and not very analytical so they are just lashing out like an incel. And will do about as much good.
P Hat
Lord, if the Dems bring the pussy hats back I’m moving to fucking Pluto.
Please do not.
Bonnie Tyler
Yep. Europe (including Ukraine) is on its own now, as are Taiwan and the rest of our Asian allies. Hope they are ready for what’s next. Because we’re not.
Not That
Now that I can competently read books in the original French, some of the translations into English are…uhhh, rather creative. Like, that’s really not what the book said.
But I guess that’s true of all translations, though I can only read well enough in French and Spanish to really get the feel and make any determination. Working on German and Italian still. Subtitles are that way, too. I guess it’s the peril of translation.
Black Phillip
The second coming of Trump is going to be the biggest disaster America has experienced since the Civil War. In many ways, it’ll be even worse for our allies in Asia and Eastern Europe than it will for us here in the US. I doubt Germany, even, can defend itself against Russia.
This will be a very dark time indeed.
Signed Up For This
It’s too late to prevent that now. Russia will be in Poland within the next five years, with Ukrainian conscripts and volunteers. The meat waves against Warsaw will make the ones in Ukraine look paltry in comparison.
No Bound
The ‘tard knows no bounds. It is truly infinite.
Dogbear
Indeed. We were already at war with Russia. Now we’ll just be their lapdog.
Warch
Because of Trump, war with China around 2027 is extremely likely. We will get clobbered.
Soon it’ll be a good time to start buying whatever electronics or gadgets you want, as they will become unavailable or absurdly expensive in that timeframe and for quite a few years thereafter.
Economic Hinges
A large share of the responsibility for the Democrats losing the election is on the Dems themselves since they and their myrmidons spent more than three years gaslighting people about inflation. It was almost a religious quest for them. This certainly pissed me off and I barely give a fuck what anything costs. For someone where a price increase actually has consequences, this must’ve been actively infuriating.
“Don’t believe your lying eyes and your declining bank balance” is not a winning proposition. Now they and all of us are going to pay for that 3+ years of pettifogging and obliviousness.
And the sad thing is, it was all an unforced error. Clowns like Paul Krugman and all the others spent so many unnecessary hours writing a vast number of articles about how the rising cost of goods and services is all in your head and that no, those shelves aren’t empty — why, they are quite full in my Park Slope supermarket, how could they be empty anywhere?!?!? They could have just not done that. But no, they had to get those jabs in at the basket of deplorables who could no longer fill their baskets.
In large part, the Democrats did this to themselves. And they deserve much vitriol for that.
Ant Grief
Today is a day of despair for America. We are plunged into an anticipatory grief.
For once, I agree with Moira. Her take is basically how it will play out.
But 2024 is not 2016. It is worse. In his first term, Trump’s incompetence was often an impediment to the worst of his agenda; no longer. Institutions, both in the government and in civil society, worked to slow or resist his program; now, many of them seem all too willing to participate, with universities and NGOs eager to launder Trumpism into respectability and the billionaire-controlled media eager to cut deals, suppress unfavorable coverage and minimize his misdeeds. And if in his first term Trump’s impulses were sometimes mitigated by moderates and institutionalists in his administration, by now those people have all been purged. He is surrounded by incels, bigots, conspiracists and sadists, and they are much better prepared to use the organs of the state to pursue their hateful aims.
It is going to be a very, very bad four years. I expect a war with China and economic destruction, perhaps even collapse. And that might not even be the worst things that occur.
Stumped
Trump winning is a disaster for America, a catastrophe for our allies and a great boon for our enemies.
Ukraine should consider how to surrender with some sort of dignity. It is China’s and Russia’s world for a while now.
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