I’ve seen a whole damn lot of that bizarre pretending. Also goes along with the “only white protestants can be colonialist and no one else” casuistry. Most people just fundamentally do not live in reality and care nothing for the actual facts.
Politics
Reconfirm
Yep. Many liberals are now completely lying about this, but it’s true. I saw Heather Cox Richardson just today completely making up false data and using utterly-transparent fabrications to justify why the win was all the fault of straight white men. The reality, though, is that only a few small demographics shifted away from Trump. Every other American group went Trump-ward — including black men, Native Americans and most of all, Latinos.
The liberal deniers of this sound just as clown-ass as the election-denying MAGA types. And will be even less effective. And I say this as someone who believes that Trump 2 will bring about the most disastrous era this country has seen since the Civil War. It’s just that I prefer to deal with the world as it is — uncomfortable facts and all — rather than whip up some absolute nonsense to reinforce my worldview.
You don’t win that way. And you aren’t right, which is even more important to me personally to be completely honest.
Not That High
The Covid pandemic is starting to get so far behind us now that I occasionally meet or see a non-political Gen Zer who was young enough when it began to view it as, “Something that adults used to ruin my high school life completely for no real reason.” There is a lot of very deep, raw anger and resentment there. A ton.
Agree with them or disagree with them1, which way do you think those people are more likely to vote when they do pick up some politics?
Now look at the results.
The rundown of which groups swung right & didn't looks like an intersectional layercake of oppression. 😂
Old, white, married, educated people hold steady, young, nonwhite, single, and non-college educated people zoom right. pic.twitter.com/MU1u0RPDEj
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) November 12, 2024
Agent C
Tulsi Gabbard is quite literally a Russian agent. This is not speculation. Even Russia says this.
Meanwhile on Russian state TV: Another translated clip of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard, introduced by state TV host Vladimir Soloviev as "Our girlfriend Tulsi."
After the clip plays, one panelist asks: "Is she some sort of a Russian agent?" The host quickly replies: "Yes." pic.twitter.com/VVNGmtjavU
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 31, 2022
This is incredibly bad. And people who thought Trump was going to help Ukraine: LOL.
Who Could’ve Ever Predicted
Oopsie!
(Steve Urkel voice) “Did I do that?”
To My US People
The next four years are gonna be some of the craziest shit most of y’all have ever seen. I’ve already lived in some places that are a bit unhinged so I’ve seen some things.
But you have no idea what’s about to hit. Just wait till it does and then think of me. The crazy train is leaving the station. Destination: Bedlam and Breakdown.
Fee Fie Foe Foe Foe
Yeah, that’s about the size of it.
Econgerie
Just ran out of unemployment. 12 months, 1200 applications, zero jobs.
And y’all wondering why Trump did so well.
Belie
I don’t know what you do about a country where millions of people believe things that are factually untrue. That aren’t even close to reality.
We’re not talking about opinions here. I mean things like: vaccines are safe and effective. This is a scientific fact beyond question — as much as anything can be. There are thousands of reliable studies of this. Millions and millions of observable outcomes. But that doesn’t matter to people’s feelings about it.
This phenomenon of not believing clearly-demonstrated facts is not unique to the right, of course. They have no monopoly, but certainly the majority of the worst of being fact-proof is now on that side.
There probably is no actual solution to this. Just me grousing. Getting rid of Fox News and similar would help, but even that would only put a small dent in the problem.
Four Score
How bad is it? This is very bad, and we are not nearly ready for what’s coming our way.
Agreed. Possibility of economic depression in the next few years. War also, and a large one at that.
This is going to be a very bad four years. Or more. Likely many more.
Wrath of Khan
One of the very worst parts of Trump being president will Lina Khan being ousted from the FTC. She’s been the best head of that org since the 1950s and has saved Americans billions while preventing some of the worst abuses that corporations want to commit. And now they will be able to.
This will be a such a huge loss. May she return one day with great wrath.
House Rules
Elon Musk as Speaker of the House?
Reminder: The Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House of Representatives.
Just trying to think of nightmare scenarios here. Since it’s more amusing than just stewing.
Board Meeting
The Dems have done fucked up.
Marked Up
I can’t believe because some motherfucker had the marksmanship skills of a donkey, we’ve got to put up with at least four more years of this shit.
Goddammit.
Vetoad
That’s right. Also, when Hillary was running if you were anything less than insanely supportive of her you were called a “BernieBro.” I voted for Hillary in 2016, by the way. I still got called a “BernieBro” numerous times because I said she was a widely-disliked candidate the Dems should’ve never run and that no one deserves to win. That they have to earn it. Hillary supporters went absolutely batshit about this.
Despite people’s poor memories, I believe all of this had at least some effect. And that men have certainly been demonized lately in many quarters in general. Too much of feminism has come around to believing that anything bad that happens to a woman, a man somehow caused it no matter the actual cause. Combine this with social media-caused mental illness that many women are burdened with, it’s no wonder there is a backlash to all of that.