N.F.T.
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2023 14:39 (four months ago) link
Chester Ape Arthur
fuck it, post
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 18 December 2023 14:53 (four months ago) link
How lovely to end 2023 with one of the most batshit columns the NYT has ever published:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/opinion/trump-election-2024.html#commentsContainer
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 15:10 (four months ago) link
But both sides consistently misread Mr. Trump’s success. He isn’t edging ahead of Mr. Biden in swing states because Americans are eager to submit to authoritarianism, and he isn’t attracting the backing of significant numbers of Black and Hispanic voters because they support white supremacy. His success is not a sign that America is prepared to embrace the ideas of the extreme right. Mr. Trump enjoys enduring support because he is perceived by many voters — often with good reason — as a pragmatic if unpredictable kind of moderate.
oh, nothing to worry about then
in other places that aren't the NYT opinion section, it seems like the rhetoric has shifted a bit - i've noticed more and more people just calling trump what a fascist (including the white house), making direction connections to christian nationalists and their willingness to hand power over to a dictator so that they can impose their hateful beliefs on unbelievers. don't know if this will change things but i have to admit that calling things what they clearly are helps a lot with the "fog of total bullshit" that has descended upon the united states
― z_tbd, Monday, 18 December 2023 15:44 (four months ago) link
"often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason""often with good reason"
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 15:48 (four months ago) link
your 11 least-favourite NYT opinion clauses of the moment, fuck.
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 15:49 (four months ago) link
in other places that aren't the NYT opinion section, it seems like the rhetoric has shifted a bit - i've noticed more and more people just calling trump what a fascist
Not that it matters but flipping channels this morning I spotted lickspittle Jonathan Karl of ABC openly calling Trump's rhetoric at the last couple rallies "fascist."
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 15:49 (four months ago) link
Now if we could just get someone to actually explain to an underinformed public what fascism is and why it's so bad and hated.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 December 2023 15:54 (four months ago) link
I think they know what it is and that's why they like it
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 December 2023 15:55 (four months ago) link
Rebrand fascism as communism if you want Americans to hate it
― the new drip king (DJP), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:00 (four months ago) link
or instead of "fascism" rebrand it as "COVID restrictions"
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:01 (four months ago) link
the guy who wrote that batshit column is of course an editor at a virulently anti-immigration, nationalist, TERF-y publication
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:06 (four months ago) link
Yeah this whole "ackshully, Trump is a moderate thing" is really baffling. I've heard it from both left and right. The guy is talking about how immigrants "poison the blood of the nation."
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:23 (four months ago) link
They're bending over backwards to make "Trump has no iota of interest in anything political, or really anything that isn't his own lionization" become "Trump is a moderate, politically speaking"
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:24 (four months ago) link
Thank goodness it's December 2015 and we don't know what he's like in office.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:30 (four months ago) link
I am still quite adamant his poll numbers will decline next year when the campaign gets started in earnest and he picks a real whackadoo that normal people instantly hate as his VP.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 December 2023 17:03 (four months ago) link
He isn’t edging ahead of Mr. Biden in swing states because Americans are eager to submit to authoritarianism
Then you're saying he'd be an authoritarian with poor approval ratings?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 18 December 2023 17:07 (four months ago) link
VP Gary Busey
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 December 2023 17:10 (four months ago) link
maybe to explain his numbers some analysis of the options being offered to the electorate might be in order
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 December 2023 17:14 (four months ago) link
Not to oversimplify things but I'm not sure the political appeal of Strong Man Who Will Solve Yr Problems and Smite Yr Enemies requires all that much analysis. Especially up against Weakish Old Man Who Made My Groceries Expensive.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:02 (four months ago) link
Might be worth remembering what, if anything, Biden was last time around if not "Weakish Old Man who is NOT Trump" ... which speaks to Boring Maryland's point a few upthread
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:08 (four months ago) link
Was gonna say Trump's supporters are visibly quite comfortable with his authoritarianism. It doesn't matter to them if he uses extra-legal means or effectively destroys large parts of the social contract, so long as they think he'll reward them and suppress everything they disapprove of. These are not exactly deep thinkers we're talking about.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:12 (four months ago) link
Independents, as always, will swing this thing, as will disgruntled Dems. Independents have begun swinging back Trump's way, but their support is always so much more tenuous than hard Ds and hard Rs.
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:14 (four months ago) link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, December 18, 2023 1:02 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
And the first one lost already.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:16 (four months ago) link
again it's pretty hard to take polls seriously before a single primary vote has even been cast, a lot of this is just vibes at this point and the vibes have not been particularly good lately. but like you've got some showing RFK getting as much as 20%, so I dunno how much stock to put in these. I wonder if polls taken this far out are actually predictive of anything. fwiw I do think any illusion that Trump is 'moderate' is gonna be shattered as soon as the campaign actually starts. like obviously he has a path to converting independents if he says and does the right things but we all know that Trump will not, in fact between now and then he's going to say a hundred things that would be disqualifying for anyone else. and I also suspect the media is gonna cover him differently than they did in prior years, like every non-right wing journalist is gonna try to hammer him on the insurrection and 2020 election stuff and I don't think he's gonna respond to that in a normal way.
― frogbs, Monday, 18 December 2023 18:28 (four months ago) link
that said it wouldn't hurt the Dems to actually find a way to trumpet Biden's accomplishments some, it's really infuriating how from 2016-2020 every stock market record and decent jobs report was credited directly to Trump (even by the so-called left wing media!) while Biden's economy by the numbers has actually been significantly better and you don't hear a peep about it. like just imagine if gas had gone down to $2.70 under Trump's watch. you'd never hear the end of it. but instead Biden somehow takes all the blame for high food prices. idk I just think the Democrats have the worst PR people on the planet
― frogbs, Monday, 18 December 2023 18:32 (four months ago) link
Well, yeah.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:34 (four months ago) link
Congressional Dems rejected the idea of trumpeting Biden's economy
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:35 (four months ago) link
Different games. Maybe it's because I just suffered through George Clooney's latest Greatest Generation rah-rah atrocity, but mainstream Dems are even still stymied by the lure of unity that by all appearances set sail decades ago. That is, suffice it to say, not the game its opposition is playing
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:36 (four months ago) link
idk I just think the Democrats the worst people on the planet
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:36 (four months ago) link
YEP
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:44 (four months ago) link
dunno, I can think of worse
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:45 (four months ago) link
I get the impulse, but I'm not sure I'd sign off on the idea that the milquetoast fascist-enablers are actually worse than the fascists themselves.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:52 (four months ago) link
I don't remember people universally thinking the economy was sunshine and roses under Trump.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/03/22/positive-views-of-economy-surge-driven-by-major-shifts-among-republicans/
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/04/07/evaluations-of-the-economy-and-the-state-of-the-nation/
These do have some points of reference, though - healthcare and food costs the biggest issues for household economics, a sharp decline in people who thought the economy was going to improve after a year of Trump (only 10% of Democrats). For people who already owned houses they were seeing the value increase in big chunks in 2018, in 2023 the value of your house has flatlined but people who don't own still can't afford to buy.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:52 (four months ago) link
I'll post a story about my recent adventures with a local politician running in 2o24 soon
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:57 (four months ago) link
xpost
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:58 (four months ago) link
It's funny, in Tennessee we actually have some pretty good Dems in office but I think a lot of it is because they're so powerless. It doesn't particularly cost them anything to argue for abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, gun restrictions, labor rights, climate action ... because they don't have to worry about trying to put together a majority that can actually get those things passed. They write aspirational bills that get shitcanned in committee and never have to go through the compromises that would accompany them if they had any chance of becoming law.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 18 December 2023 19:10 (four months ago) link
Posting this a week after candidate filing deadline in TX = masterclass pic.twitter.com/d3WPLHKI1F— David Weigel (@daveweigel) December 19, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 13:51 (four months ago) link
Chip Roy is a RINO? LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 13:53 (four months ago) link
Pissy baby is pissed because Roy didn't vote to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and because he's currently supporting DeSantis.
There needs to be a new acronym in this case. I propose CUNT: Conservative, Unfortunately Not Trumpy.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 18:49 (four months ago) link
At this point RINO is just an insult they throw around without regard to meaning. Sort of like how people get called TERFs when they are not feminists at all.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 19:02 (four months ago) link
It's code for "not one of us." You might as well call him a "Trotskyite."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 19:05 (four months ago) link
I believe it's spelled "troglodyte"
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 19:16 (four months ago) link
RINOSquishNeverTrumperNeoconDeep Stater
These all mean the same thing these days basically
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 19:20 (four months ago) link
all republicans have to do to avoid becoming a RINO is commit eternal fealty towards a 91 times indicted, convicted rapist with early stage dementia, what's their problem?
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 19:26 (four months ago) link
BREAKING: Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The move sets up a battle before the U.S. Supreme Court. https://t.co/dfnRnBU3wS— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) December 19, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:28 (four months ago) link
lmao
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:29 (four months ago) link
I said this would never happen, so excellent work by my home state!
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:30 (four months ago) link
Coloradon't
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:32 (four months ago) link
Ron has a shot then!
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:33 (four months ago) link