US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.

“Where we go one, we go all”

Don't any of these people realize this is the motto of lemmings?

As I've been saying the last few months, eventually the lemmings find their cliff-top

there needs to be a lemmings 2020 update where the lemmings look at you, the player of the game, and try to convince you to join them and that you're the victim of a hoax

The Model of Lemmings is my favorite Muriel Spark novel!

http://media.giphy.com/media/uRxRLxPbtKf28/giphy.gif

I'm here for the Muriel Spark lols

“Where we go one, we go all”

Rejected Robert Pollard lyric.

going to be a pedant here and ask: wtf does that even mean?

(the slogan that is; I get the Pollard ref!)

I don't get it either (just like Pollard lyrics). Maybe saying "Be willing to stand out, because there are multitudes that agree with you."

that's the kind of pedantry Pollard revels in

"The broken bullshit detector in me recognizes the broken bullshit detector in you"

xp was a teacher tbf

going to be a pedant here and ask: wtf does that even mean?

i think it's just supposed to make the Q acolytes think "there are many of us. we are a real movement and i am doing something important with my life by watching this youtube documentary about how king george was a lizard man"

(Lemmings don't actually run off cliffs btw)

Joe Biden might fall off one imo

going to be a pedant here and ask: wtf does that even mean?

sounds portentous, means nothing... perfect for a pack of conspiracists

love to see those assholes jump back and forth between Galtian individualism and the power of the mob

"I'm a rebel and an independent thinker, just like all my friends in the death cult!"

(Lemmings don't actually run off cliffs btw)

Nor do swans sing only once just before they die, and yet we still speak of 'swan songs' with that shared metaphorical understanding.

if we wanted to we could make the swans thing happen

Many will disagree, but @FoxNews is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd

This seems... anti-1st Amendment?

can't someone just like replace the propellers on Air Force One with wooden sticks

The QAnon universe is sprawling and deep, with layer upon layer of context, acronyms, characters, and shorthand to learn. The “castle” is the White House. “Crumbs” are clues. CBTS stands for “calm before the storm,” and WWG1WGA stands for “Where we go one, we go all,” which has become an expression of solidarity among Q followers. (Both of these phrases, oddly, are used in the trailer for the 1996 Ridley Scott film White Squall—watch it on YouTube, and you’ll see that the comments section is flooded with pro-Q sentiment.)

(via https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/)

watch it on YouTube

nah think I'm just gonna take your word on that one

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/trump-says-he-wont-close-the-country-if-second-wave-of-coronavirus-hits.html

Aw cute he thinks he has any control over this

the thing is he does though! I mean if he told these lapdog Gov's to commit seppuku on FOX tonight they would.

he still has the power to save tens of thousands of lives

I mean the legal power, not the "I put on a spell on u, and now ur miiiiiiiiiine" power

like obv his words have the power to make like hell or outright end it for tens to thousands of people, which is kinda why we're in this mess in the first place given the shithead he put in charge of the CDC or the limited role he has him playing.

just enjoy needling Trump when he makes pronouncements that 20+ governors are going to just ignore anyway

easiest way for him to save tens of thousands of lives is to die and have Pence die along w/ him

The Black Death could roll through and 3/4 of the country wouldn’t shut down again.

It does still exist technically

we are unfortunately governed by Magic Spell for the foreseeable future

3/4 of the country might not shut down again by order of their governors, but if it's bad enough, it will shut down anyway, because between the sick, the dead, and those who voluntarily isolate, it will ensure that most everything will function as badly as a car with water in the fuel line.

We have a plague zone right here in the US of A, don't even need a foreign plague.

the maddening thing abt WE HAVE TO SAVE THE ECONOMY is how this premature opening up is more likely to tank it for good

“Not closing down again” for a second wave = sorry no more help for you or yr business

what’s going to happen to the restaurant that limps along for three months with 10 diners in its 50 capacity space and then has to close down *again*?

what’s going to happen to the restaurant that limps along for three months with 10 diners in its 50 capacity space and then has to close down *again*?

A nation of Amazon Eats, modern automats serviced from a central kitchen with food prepared by robots

You'll be able to buy food with the credits you earn working the fields around Zuckerberg Manor.

Jesus will provide

"I tested very positively in a — in another sense. So this morning, yeah — I tested positively toward negative, right? So, no, I tested perfectly this morning. Meaning — meaning I tested negative. But that’s a way of saying it: Positively toward the negative."

"Positively toward negative, right?" for June thread title.

lol

Good morning!

Qanon is so goddamned stupid it actually fills me with rage. I'm embarrassed to be a human.

same. and now according to the QAnon Anonymous pod guys it’s apparently bleeding over into heretofore apolitical new agey soc media influencers. so that’s cool.

May they go full Heaven's Gate as soon as humanly possible.

When I was younger, like high school and early college, I was super into learning about conspiracy theories. Not believing them, mind you, just learning about them. Because back then they all seemed so fringe and laughably stupid that is was sorta fascinating to read about them as some sort of societal study or something. But watching brains melt in real time and how the goalposts for the QAn0n believers just keep constantly shifting to new lows, I realize how terrifying they actually are.

It's like this never-ending cycle of:

1) Ridiculous claim easily debunked
2) "Oh that's what they want you to think because..." another easily debunked batshit claim
3) "Well they had to cover up that because..." yet another easily debunked batshit claim
and on and on and on

Like is Hilary in prison? Already executed and replaced with a clone? But that clone was kidnapped by Trump's secret police so a second clone is actually making her public appearances?

Every once in a while in the 80s-90s you might find yourself next to a LaRoucher on an airplane or encounter someone with a card table on a street corner imploring the sheeple to WAKE UP.

The difference is now these things travel around the world in an instant, and are endorsed by a very weird, very dumb person who (through a perfect storm of demographic flukes) has blundered into immense power.