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.
Yeah, that’s about the size of it.
Just ran out of unemployment. 12 months, 1200 applications, zero jobs.
And y’all wondering why Trump did so well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Dems have done fucked 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.
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.
Well, yes. But we’ll also probably have a huge war too. So there’s that.
It is pretty funny when you think about it that the MAGAts were prepping to do the coup but then won rather handily.
All of that election denial bullshit went right out the damn window after, huh? Clownish.
A good sign that most people are in fact clown-ass dipshits (whether on the right or the left) is that their opinion on the health of economy undergoes a 180 degree shift the minute someone of the opposite political party become president. And that is with no changes in the economy itself, of course.
Critical thinking altogether lacking. How do people live like that?
This is ok and all, but the reality is that Trump would’ve won no matter what. Harris was an ok candidate who ran a decent campaign.
An amazing candidate with a flawless campaign would’ve still lost. When there is widespread discontent combined with a huge sectoral shift in the voting public, no campaign can overcome that. The only difference would’ve been that some other notional candidate better than Harris would’ve lost by a lesser margin.
People are looking for all these complex explanations for a simple event: the electorate was fed up with those in control and being lied to about inflation, and with their extremely short memories1 they lashed out at who holds the reins of power.
And we’re gonna see how that turns out.
There is about a 60% chance democracy in America is over now, that we’re just in the waning phases. Democracy wasn’t always the last word on good, but it was good while it lasted.
What’s next is gonna be a ton of fun, I’m sure.