i think most discourse on 2012 forgets www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

>Our nemesis is in the White House >Our voters have gone insane, killing their incumbents left and right >My moderate governing record is thus kinda awkward >The base won’t love me but I look so presidential. They’ll pick me because I’m safe >Ignore the flip flops please Be Newsom. Pic unrelated

If you went back in time to 2014 and handed an accurate recap of Trump 2 to somebody, they would assume it’s some bad screenplay or alt history project made by a Maoist who loathes America and American society more than all the 9/11 hijackers combined.

the fantasy of an unmobilized group that can reverse your fortunes if you just say the right words, is convenient when you can’t work with your actual coalition

James Dolan and Donald Trump are both the ultimate epitome of the modern GOP, which is, above all else, the party of the boss' son.

Honestly I've decided to ignore the Generic Ballot for those midterms due to that undecided number. There's a whole lot of people in the US who hate Trump but don't like/trust the Dems, and how they vote is gonna be the difference between a thermostatic backlassh and a generational wipeout.

There's something distinctly medieval about the US aggression against Iran. It's aimless wandering the countryside (or in this case, the skies) and hitting things without any clear objective. It's more like a prolonged raiding campaign. A chevauchée.

I have never seen such a bunch of reactionaries in my life as the US media establishment. Someone with 0 followers & a sickle in the bio told you to go die so now all leftism is evil. some asshole on an ebike ran into your kid so now bike lanes must be destroyed. Its like watching children do meth

Broke: The GOP’s decay is top down with Trump at its source Woke: It’s bottom up with the problem being the electorate Bespoke: The decay is middle out. Its media and politico class made the GOP base a group amenable to a Trump. This middle has made the base and even Trump himself worse over time

Ive never once seen an article along the lines of “Why aren’t there more progressive car dealers?” Or “I feel alienated the only woke guy in the chamber of commerce/crypto discord server”.

there will always, always be the portion of the populace who distrusts and resents that girl who sat in the front of their class and got straight As, and will forever view the Democrats as her party, and will never be on board with that. we just need those people to drop out

The lockdowns aren’t really in the discourse much anymore. People don’t talk about the deaths. We clearly are processing the experience that had a bad impact on us. When Trump is done, I wonder how they’ll handle the reality that they got conned and didn’t make America great again.

The world is a zero sum competition between biologically distinct races. Millions of people believe we live in a Blizzard RTS, basically. White people are the humans.

People are more upset by wokeness/“the radical left” than any amount of racism and chuddery because it gives them an insecure conscience. It makes them feel like a bad person.

proletariat is dad, bourgeoise is mom

Increasingly feel like "communist-coded populist reactionary nostalgia" is basically the dominant ideology among my own generation and milieu. Not happy about it, to be honest, but I guess it could be worse.

Newsom is a meme. This guy is the real demon we have to keep from the nomination at all costs

I don’t think a lot of progs understand that the non-vibesession explanation is the worse option for them. It means Americans are much more sensitive to inflation than mass unemployment and wage stagnation, which is kind of a death knell for a real, sustainable workers politics in this country.

Like a shitty relationship or bad addiction, support for the GOP feeds of the cynicism and hopelessness it creates.

Platner’s scandals haven’t sunk him for the same reason Dems can’t convince anyone when they try to get tough on immigration. Woke is such a sticky brand that “sexist, white nationalist Dem” is a hard sell for white voters of any kind.

Yes he is. The GOP has always been bad but it’s gotten to the point where it’s rot has outpaced him

Dems will get a 50 seat senate at most. If they win the presidential election in 2028, we will get some green energy subsidies and the opportunity to shift some tax credits around. Then a Nick Fuentes - Pete Hegseth ticket will win at least 47% of the vote in 2032

renting an apartment or buying a car should be roughly the same process as getting a new phone but instead we are subjugated to an agonizing process of financial sparring by a local caste of feudal lords who feed on others' suffering

Just let out the biggest yawn of my life

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A key reason why Republicans, much less this admin, can’t/wont throw Jonathan Ross to the wolves as “untrained”, “not following protocol”, etc is that the GOP is polarized against expertise as such. It doesn’t even matter that it’s in the most chud coded field. It’s an illegitimate concept.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

I just saw an AI generated ad for Kalshi, where you can bet on anything. It interrupted my viewing of Star Trek: TNG. I put it to try and relax. It’s so funny how the future I once hoped for when I was young clash with what is actually coming. Cant even indulge in escapism without soul rape

realized i made this for no reason so i'm just posting this with zero context

Mental illness polarization. Anxiety disorders are a core democratic demo. God complexes are R+80

Biden presided over inflation. Worse yet, he presided over sharp interest rate hikes after years and years of ZIRP. Things got appreciably more expensive and money stopped being cheap, Why is that insufficient as an explanation?

The reactionary mind is incredibly neurotic about both being stolen from and being laughed at and that's part of why they're so consumed with anxieties about welfare cheats, fake refugees, fake disabled kids, etc. It's like an asexual version of their cucking anxiety.

the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy

Some of my favorite games are a little bittersweet because they were clearly rushed out the door or had other limitations. You can't ignore the missed potential. Meanwhile - Starfield was so poorly conceived from the beginning and got every day and dollar Todd wanted. Its maddening!

It must be so frustrating to be Jewish when everyone accuses your religion of being the international conspiracy religion while the front page of the news is like “Pope declares this Opus Dei thing freaks him out too.”

I know I am more utilitarian than most. And I am not one to engage in "oppression olympics", but the fact that the deathtoll from the end of the USAID has no salience is kinda breaking my brain. Its as if something doesnt let you own the libs, no one in the media sphere pays it any mind

Well most of California’s land use issues are down stream of policies adopted from when it was a Republican stronghold no?

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

it is insane to describe a local government official as neoliberal

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

State subreddits: Look at the signs me and the kiddos had at #NoKings! Remember, we have friends everywhere :) City subreddits: I wish there was an NC-17 cut of Death Wish I could jack off to

Jesus Christ we really are not going to make it if this calling Will Stancil, someone who is in the top 1% of top 1% of being annoying and combative online (I say this as someone who likes him), a little bitch is so beyond the pale.

Our respect means more though. Reactionaries know this. The admiration of millions of MAGA grandparents has not helped JD Vance with his self esteem issues. He'd much rather get recognition from Jamelle Bouie. Red tribe has no cultural capital and they know it. 2024 hasn't changed this one bit.

*frowning at the DHS videos with a moon man soundtrack* “Damn it I just wanted Tropic Thunder 2”

the legislative history is utterly forgotten. We got the aca because of a republican senator switching parties and an unexpected death that gave dems an extremely narrow super majority for liek 60 days in session. It passed on New Year’s Eve quite literally the very last moment it could have passed

they still effectively are locked out for a generation. We’ve only had 1 honest to god trifecta this century (50 seat senate with Manchin as 50 is not really a trifecta). We’re nearly maxed on swing state seats and Fetterman will probably flip eventually.