The day after the election, I was traveling for a business meeting to Harrisburg, PA from my home in Chester County, PA. I stopped at a locally renowned grocery store in Lancaster County (80% white by the 2020 Census - keep that in mind) for some of their delicious store-made donuts.
I put my order in and was perusing items in one of the nearby aisles. I came upon two grocery store employees, one, a 50ish year old man and a 40ish year old woman. I was about 20 feet away from them, and in a clear voice, the man says, “Yeah, me and the other Trump voters believe the browns are replacing us in our jobs, so that’s why he won.”
I stopped in my tracks, astounded at what I had just heard, I turned around and walked away. The man called after me to ask me if I needed any help and I muttered, “fuck off,” and walked away to get my donuts.
I know we are in a bad spot politically and socially at this point and this disgusting experience just proves the point.
"It’ll be harder to rustle up wealthy backers for an ideology that explicitly wants them to have less money.
The lefty pods and streams already out there — shows in the Young Turks oeuvre — won’t cut it, because most of them despise normie Democrats."
That’s the crux of the matter. If we are going to expand the electoral map and win again, that has to change. The current Dem coalition is going to have to go through some things or be in the wilderness a long time. We don’t have a long time if we want to keep the hole from getting deeper.
Not likely. It will once again be the fault of the Dems – even though the Dems controlled NOTHING. Then the MAGAts will blame “the deep state” – and are incapable of explaining what “the deep state” is. And when the sick fuck finishes his gutting of the federal civil service, the self-same MAGAts will whine about how the government can’t do anything.
Uh, NO, that’s not how it works.
Why should a company be forced to advertise on a platform that doesn’t reflect the values of its customers? Let Hobby Lobby, Chick-Fil-A, and other MAGAt companies support that cesspool.
Almost certainly not. Maybe 5%
It begins:
In order: No, YES, no.
Suckerz!
(Oh, yeah, we’ll drop the 15% tax on Social Security, but to pay for it we’ll have to cut benefits 20%. But no tax!)
ETA link:
Yes, X is all about freedom of expression only when it’s beneficial to Musk. Either we have a free market or we don’t.
If it’s all about freedom of expression, just see how worked up The Dipshit gets when you insist on calling it “Twitter”.
Yes, it will be brutal as Elon and the Bros sort out their new world order. I’m not sure what the half-life of fascism is, but in the last century a regime was lucky to last two decades. There is just too much entropy in the looter-based spoils system. Oddly, Trump has to rely on SCOTUS retaining sufficient credibility to give their rulings about him some weight. Leonard Leo has real brand issues already. If we go to just straight repression and information vacuums like in Russia, he would have to count on a very passive populace or really strong crowd control.
I watched interviews with college students last night. Guy after guy saying they “never really heard any policy details from Kamala” and that TFG was “strong, could deal with world leaders and stopping wars.” Yes, a manly man!
And the female students? “He said he wouldn’t sign a national ban. And he said he wasn’t coming after birth control.”
And the kicker. “Look at Gaza. She had all that time and didn’t stop the genocide. She’s done nothing for Palestinians. He said he’ll stop the wars before he gets in office.”
In no case could they give any specific policy. Just that he had the experience and “he promised.”
I liked your post for sharing the content, but not the content itself. Marc Andreessen is the main cheerleader for the AI bubble. He can take a long walk off a short pier.
I very much doubt it. But it depends on when the hurt arrives
I realize Trump’s life expectancy is not infinite, but on the off chance he lives past this term, and somehow is prevailed upon to leave office, can these prosecutions be revived?
I keep reading people saying what a mistake it was to delay the J6 prosecution. If that is the case, then surely it is also a mistake not to articulate that DOJ still holds these were crimes he committed, but the clock is temporarily stopped for the duration of his term?
Everything is now Pitchbot territory: the head of the Republican Party is a convicted felon and rapist, but let’s have a protracted post mortem about what Democrats did wrong. Oh, and how they “lost” the working class.
Or to put it more disturbingly: “Young lady, what kind of messaging did your outfit send that night you were attacked?”
with Trump’s victory, discussions about non-citizens voting in this presidential election have completely disappeared.
Incriminating evidence of media failure. It should never have been reported, even as a lie.
He turned out to be an entirely different cup of tea from what was expected.
Right now trump is as innocent as new fallen snow. All goes away except his sentencing before judge Merchan on 11/26. I have no clue what the judge will do. It is a state case involving those pesky 34 fraud felonies.
Once in office the other cases go away. For good