I mean, she was the first to do a Nazi salute at CPAC....
I mean, she was the first to do a Nazi salute at CPAC....
It will affect them. They just don't believe it will negatively affect them. And to be fair, they're already told what and how to think, having lost that ability like some vestigial organ.
Both were equally responsible for the consolidation of legacy media and the de-regulation of media.
People are not calling the bluff on these clowns enough.
Hardly. Fox News lies, repeatedly, every day...people choose to tune in because confirmation bias. TV doesn't tell people what to think, but it absolutely controls what they see and hear.
Then local stations will go silent because people will stop watching if its just RW propaganda. Hardly anyone but Boomers and some GenXers even watch network TV.
No. Just give people jobs, lower prices, and social programs. Legalize weed federally, provide UBI, and let people say what they want. This isn't like punishing the South. MAGA is everywhere.
Trump: My feefees are hurt! Waaaaahhhh!
Vance legally could serve the rest of Trump's term, but he's got no "rizz" and won't be able to whip all of the Right under him if he ran. Trump's best weapon is no one has ever called him on his bluff. The seller sells the buyer, not the salt. Trump sells himself, not his vision or policies.
Not even. MAGA is only about 20% of the total population. The remaining are Republicans who just wouldn't vote for a Democrat ever, but couldn't not vote either. His hardcore support is an absolute minority. The rest is courts, EC, and rural fear-mongering that keeps GOP in power at state levels.
Hate, fueled by religious fervor, hollows you out. It takes and takes, because it demands nothing less than absolute resignation of your will in its stead, creating a void from which there is no finality. An endless hunger to devour until, in the end, you consume even yourself.
Bingo. It all falls apart without him. His (unfortunate) charisma is what keep him popular with voters. No one else in that entire wing of the political sphere has it to the degree he does. Voters will see right through someone like Vance and reject him.
Why does he wear guy-liner?
The reason the Right will forever be a meme in the minds of the rational, and logically-minded, is this right here. Ni sense of humor. No imagination. There's no spark behind their eyes. No creativity or intuition. It's been conditioned out of them.
Objectively, this is false. All of it. The majority of recent political violence, actual and planned, has been committed by those claiming allegiance to the Right.
One of the few respectable things to come out of Iowa in about 20 years.
Yeah. Honestly, fuck all three of them. Russia needs another peasant rebellion to overthrow the government, and Bibi needs to rot in jail for war crimes. Tired of minorities ruling the majority.
What pisses me off is left-wing pundits don't fire back at right-wing pundits and make them answer, "How is this not weaponizing the government against your political opponents? How does this not punish Democratic voters? Millions of whom did not pull the trigger that killed Kirk, mind you."
Shooter was a Groyper, most likely. Utah Gov saying he was deffo "on the left" has no clue about Groypers. Kirk wasn't extreme enough for them, it sounds like. Not as racist or nationalist enough. Kirk, probably, was more moderate outwardly for financial reasons. He made more being more moderate.
Yup. It was the capitalists who broke the social contract. They told these young men to go to college, get a 4yr, you'll have a job waiting for you. But 4 yrs and $80k later, only min wage were waiting. Scott has stated this before. They are a huge part of the problem for young white men.
No. This is solely the work of online personalities. Rogan, Kirk, Fuentes, Shapiro. Dumping clips of their podcasts in quick, digestible doses to create a need, a fix. Older gen politicians don't even know how to use tik tok or have podcasts.
The internet has accelerated this. The connections are there, replacing the traditional ones. Online you can find more people like you than you've ever met in your own town or city. With that comes the echo chamber and constant confirmation bias.
It's incorrect to say they ARE disenfranchised, but its astute to say they see THEMSELVES as disenfranchised. Grifters like Kirk preyed on the perpetually online and became the only voice they heard telling them the government, society, parents, employers, everyone, failed them. Cultish in ways.
When the truth is inconvenient (just fix the algorithm of the AI I had built)
They need their asses beat by their dads. That's what they were missing as kids. The fear of authority.
And, politically/socially the Right has found it acceptable to treat the symptom and weaponize it rather than treat the cause and actually change these young men's lives. The Right is ultimately responsible for creating these monsters, not the Left.
She probably wasn't wrong. A lot of the influencer types, including Loomer, are all grifters. Just waiting for them all to realize they are living in a house of cards, and the movement is built on quicksand. The people will wake up realize they were lied to and the grifters sued or fled.
Kirk's death doesn't make me happy. I'd rather see him de-platformed, "run out of town", and forgotten. Still, he was an absolute Muppet who just parroted RW talking points, incendiary and volatile rhetoric, and generally unpopular views.
Yup, just another deeply disturbed white person who deserves our prayers and grace. Can't possibly villianize someone like them. Thus begins the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk.
White fragility. It's that thing where we throw a tantrum when being called to account for our actions and were still the biggest kid in the room.
Wasn't arguing that. But you're also not wrong, and that's kinda the point. We've let our govt get away with a lot of authoritarian shit over the past few decades in the name of "national security" because it easier to get voters to side with you when you turn their fears into inevitabilities.
If anything, our flags should have been flown at half-mast for the death of the American conscience. We let kids die every day to gun violence and do nothing. A political commentator dies by gun violence and elected officials and other grifters on both sides rush to venerate him.
A truly sinister cabal that would sacrifice one of their most prominent voices to potentially thrust more oppression on the nation.
"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. [...]" I feel no pleasure in Kirk's assassination. It is troubling, for sure. But he lived by the gun, and died by it. Poetic. Ironic. But he was still a shit human.
This guy. Every step forward is followed by two steps back.
If anything, all of the desensitizing to violence committed every day, has made a huge chunk of this country apathetic to what just happened to Kirk. Anyone pesrl clutching and call for retribution is doing so from a disingenuous place, looking to escalate govt crackdown on freedoms.
If the truth isn't what you want to hear, just make up a new truth. From thin air. Figments of their reality.
He's only sure about things that could harm him or make him look powerful. Its all he cares about.
The man speaks in heresay 100% of the time. Think about it. He avoids accountability because he never hears anything direct from the sources. It's all decisions made by hismiddle managementt. Like a corpo CEO in America who dodges accountability by letting the underlines take the fall. Corrupt AF.
See, Dems lack the balls to confront Reps in the moment. He should said "Trump doesn't have the balls to come to New York after being kicked out. He hides down in Florida in his little shack he calls the "Winter White House" and crows his insults to his base on social media and Fox News."
To the surprise of absolutely no one with a working brain cell. We all knew Adams was corrupt. Let's not pretend this is a new development. Let us also not abide the same media that covered for him the past two years.
That would be illegal, and overkill.
This Admin is a plethora of contradictions, signaling it has no idea what it is doing, being run by incompetent, resentment-driven under-acheivers whose sole purpose is to be vindictive in the wake of never being picked.
"Savings for me, but not for thee" - Healthcare corps to Americans
They never know because they never actually know. They spew fake stats to make their fear-mongering arguments more believable for their scared voter base. And when given factual stats from their own Admin, the GOP scoffs and says they don't believe it or it's wrong.
Russian probably
Bias confirmation.
So we'll move Space Command from a secure, interior location with few natural disasters to a coastal state, prone to hurricanes? Sounds brilliant.
The problem is the eroding trust in the federal govt. See how Trump has pushed the limit of power by the Executive (afforded by Congress over decades) and how Congress is finally getting hest for allowing certain things to happen. Voters don't trust the Gov't, and it has to apply to both parties.
Historically, even during the high-tax era of the 50s-60s, did the U.S. govt own partial stakes in any large publicly-held corporation?
Banning AIPAC from operating on U.S. soil or influencing our politics is #2.
But all he and MAGA Media have to do is distract. Voter attention spans are very short. Yes, they're paying more for groceries than under Biden. Yes, manufacturing hasn't returned, and more layoffs have already happened. None of that matter bc Trump will blame Dems and the hate for Dems is enough.
Their incompetence will be what preserves Democracy.
My dude, they were afraid during Obama's admin. They were afraid after 9/11. Frankly, I think Conservatives have been afraid all their lives. Or, as politicians, they fear-monger to get votes from vulnerable voters.
Yeah, but she apparently doesn't get a lot of the "amenities" a min sec prisoner does. Because she still did horrific shit to young girls. She's still in prison for trafficking girls....to SOMEONE(S).
Here's the thing. She knows, like Everglades else, that Epstein was silenced. Of course, she's gonna say there wasn't a list. She's playing dumb, on the record, because she knows she'd experience the same fate if she blew the whistle. She isn't covering for Trump. She's covering herself.
Boomer fear-mongering. Wow. Shocking. Getting fearful people out of politics will only improve the quality of life for all constituents.
Oh, look, the Paper Tiger brigade is out.
Commentators are the lowest common denominators of political opinion. Mostly because people on political news shows and podcasts don't know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to politics. Just spout their opinion as fact, toe the party line, and vocalize bias.
Mothers of murderers always say this, too.
Federalized troops occupying state territory? The GOP must be clutching pearls. Why do they go sweep through rural, Red state counties where homicide rates are higher, per capita, than most major cities. Oops, bc facts get in the way of ideology.
Respect is earned. And, like always, every GOP and Trump mouthpiece conflate respecting the person and respecting the office. Americans should respect the office over the person. Every time. The person is a civilian, just like the vast majority of us. They aren't special.
This was 100% predicted the second she went public about not getting 4th place in college swim meet, having tied with a Trans athlete, and scapegoating that athlete and creating a flash victimhood narrative only a white Karen could have.
They were always going to be. We havent had anti-govt militias for a while. Because that type of people only ever saw liberal govt as tyrannical because they were checked on their absolute worst behavior (racism, bigotry, christian nationalism, sexism). They don't see Trump as the govt.
The highest court in the land should not be allowed to render a ruling without providing the legal logic behind it, or, let a Justice admit they're allowing an unconstitutional ruling to stand. This alone should be considered a constitutional crisis. Our govt is incredibly flawed.
They're only doing this in D.C. because its not a state. Theyd get eviscerated if they did this to a state being the party of "States Rights" Then again, we all know they're hypocrites and would never do this in a Red state, even if crime were out of control
And no one will ask him what's good about it.
That would be true if they voted for Trump, but they didnt, they just didn't vote for Harris. They voted down ballot, so clearly the issue was with her. And I don't mean just Dem voters with the nose-face comment. I mean Dem leadership and organization nationwide.
Not entirely accurate. The majority didnt vote at all. More Republicans voted than Democrats. Dems just didn't vote for either candidate, either in protest or resentment. Dems will always cut off their nose to spite their face
Bingo. They create conditions (defending education or increasing police presence) then blast across media and ads that "x" isnt working or "x" is proof we need more spending for "y". They manufacture situations that justify their ideology to sway public opinion by gaslighting that same public.
Maybe they should try being a party that doesn't create and force the economic climate on a middle and lower class that has less and less room to maneuver financially and then gaslight them when they react, in completely understandable ways, by criminalizing them. Or stop lying about crime.
apnews.com/article/trum... If Independant, then why does a sitting POTUS get to appoint who runs it? Independent would mean it cant be influenced by either party or branch of govt. Either the AP doesn't know what Independant means or the agency is not truly independant.
Why are we protesting an orange clown when the real devils sit enshrined in the halls of the highest court, unelected, unqualified, unafraid of consequences.
Fraudcaster and big head does the most fraudcaster and big headed thing imaginable. Doubling down on the enterprise of corruption.
So much for having actual conversation...
I don't believe any of these fraudcasters. They either knew/believed he was full of shit and went along to get clicks/engagement or they were just plain ignorant, lack critical thinking and reasoning skill, which by default makes them inadequate purveyors of information, let alone truth.
Take your brain pills, or whatever fab diet/workout Dr. Drew is hawking this week. He and RFK will turn America into "Fat, Sick, And Nearly Dead" all while maintaining access to the best food and healthcare stolen taxpayer money gives them access to.
Context and clarity are sorely missing in today's discourse.
I respect your belief in Elmo.
Of course Elmo didn't. He's a muppet.
But, Elmo not wrong...
What a petty, petty bitch. And just so we're clear, I am talking about the shambling circus peanut what calls himself a great businessman.
He can hate me all he wants. His fat ass is still under oath to represent me, so I am obligated to hurl insults and defy him when he doesn't hold his oath.
"White Men can't have anything anymore!", says white man who enjoys life full of virtually everything.
These guys all wear leather like it makes them cool. Gen X will do or say anything so people pay attention to them.
Just ask yourselves: What has happened every single time Republicans have gotten a huge tax cut passed over the past 30 years. The middle class has gotten fucked, shrunk, and set back decades.
How does what I said comport with that assumption? The only thing you said that was true was that the rebels used guerilla tactics. Emperor wasn't assassinated. The rebels didn't weaken the Government to the point that Vader killed Palpatine. The Senate was ineffective back in the Prequel Era.
My point is that your premise is flawed, and thus, your argument is without merit.
Palpatine dissolved the Senate in 'A New Hope'. There was no government in 'RotJ'. And Vader didn't kill the Emperor because the Rebels had weakened the Empire so much. He killed him to save his son, Luke, from the Emperor.
This is the exact flawed logic behind one of the main defenses of the EC. That only Dems live in Blue states and only Reps live in Red states and that CA and NY will always determine who POTUS is because they are the most populous states.
Both sides blame the other for what's happened when the real enemy has been the bought media and Congressional lackeys of billionaires.
"Mission Accomplished!" Republican Presidents always blow their wad prematurely. Something I'm sure Trump has decades of experience with.
Waahhh. Sounds like you're over the idea and feel important enough to tell everyone.
You said it...
Cool, so Kennedy will be listed among the worst HHS Secs in American history. He should have been done when the news about the brain worm came out. Under any other presidential hopeful, the media would have done their job.
It's hilarious that these people will literally turn the villains into heroes by just flipping the roles and pretending the fascists are a tall freedom fighters and the rebels are actually terrorists.
No, what needs to be done is their reps and Senators need to do their jobs and work with industries to bring new jobs to parts of rural America. Not every small town can get a factory, but areas where manufacturing left or coal is dying need it. If only Dems did this 20 yrs ago or ran on it.
It doesn't excuse the terrible decision-making made collectively by these small towns/communities to just go with the "other guy" because the other guys havent helped us. In a way, these "refusing to adapt" communes are holding America hostage and killing themselves faster.
Yeah, rampant hyper-masculinity results in old men, past their prime, attempting to flex on younger men to intimidate them. The younger gen should not fear these clowns. Call their bluffs and call them out. They're all fucking cowards.
Riley Gaines, being the mouthpiece for this, is just too rich. A woman who is now known for advocating against trans athletes after she had 5th place stolen from her, still got a trophy and who was never a great swimmers, is never going to be remembered for her swimming, and never was.