If you think about it, Trump is really a sort of simple and easily understood person.
He has no firm foundation for his ego, but since he’s been pampered and coddled all his life, it’s never faced any significant challenges either. So he’s ended up with this grossly overinflated and terribly fragile ego, and it’s basically a full-time job just keeping it inflated and protecting it from harm.
It’s going to be up to future generations to deliver the full weight of the condemnation those fucking animals deserve, because unfortunately, the positions of power in the West today are held almost exclusively by psychopathic fuckwads and craven cowards who don’t have the integrity and/or courage to make a stand.
More than any other time in my life, I find myself wishing right now that Hell is a real place, because the entire IDF, virtually every Israeli politician, a terrifying percentage of Israeli citizens and damned near every western politician of any note deserves nothing more than to burn in it for all eternity. They are each and all unforgivably evil.
Yes.
The goal - and this was already obvious long before the election to anyone with a functioning brain and a speck of intellectual integrity - was and is to destroy the last vestiges of American representative democracy and institute a kleptocratic oligarchy.
Is NBC News actually just now catching on?
At every level.
And even just a cursory examination of the history of civilizations would reveal that that’s par for the course, and that the US is only really notable for the speed with which it’s reached this point.
The DNC and the rest of the Dem establishment would rather lose than adopt any meaningful progressivism or allow for a progressive candidate.
Their primary motivation, and quite possibly their only motivation, is collecting as much soft money as possible.
And that interest is actually well served by losing, and in fact, that appears to be their preference. If they lose, then they don’t need to run in the next election on any platform other than stopping the Republicans from causing even more harm, which saves them having to promise their supporters things that they’ll then have to arrange to somehow fail to deliver even if they have a majority. It’s easier just to lose, then to run merely on being “not Republicans.”
And the one thing that would upset that gravy train is ending up with an actual progressive in a powerful position. A progressive would not only promise things the establishment democrats would prefer to not even mention, but would mean it. And even worse yet, they’d then try to actually deliver on their promises. And that would alienate the big money, which pays for policies that favor themselves, and most assuredly NOT policies that favor the common people.
So yes - if the Democrats want to win, they self-evidently need to appeal to progressives. But that’s been the case since 2016, and it’s made zero difference and it’s going to continue to make zero difference, because they’d rather lose than adopt any meaningful progressivism.
We’re really speedrunning this whole autocracy thing, aren’t we?
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” - Frank Zappa
One would think they’d at least wait until the planned concentration camps are built.
This isn’t analysis - it’s craven blame-shifting.
Trump already has a blank check to issue pardons and already intends to abuse the power in ways never before seen, and it doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference what Biden or anyone else does or doesn’t do.
Why would you think ideology is even relevant?
Much though the world would be instantly improved if that vile, racist piece of shit Pauline Hanson was dead, she’s under no real threat of being murdered by her political opponents - that’s just not the way that Australians do things.
And she knows that.
Isn’t accusing Marcos of corruption sort of like accusing the Pope of being Catholic?
I mean - he’s a Marcos. Corruption is all he knows.
And really, specifically what she did was threatened to have those people killed if they had her killed.
That seems to me to be a reasonable precaution, all things considered.
Hmm…
I actually hadn’t thought about it that way - to the degree that I thought about it at all, I guess I pretty much assumed that opportunistic sycophancy was just his nature.
But yeah - now that I am thinking about it, it is quite likely that to the degree that it’s not his own nature, it’s a role he has to play at the behest of and on the behalf of his patrons.
And the only other thing I’ve really noticed about Graham is that pretty much no matter what he’s doing or saying, there’s this ongoing low level sense of sleaze that just sort of emanates from him. He just seems like the sort of “conservative” with a sex dungeon in his basement and a bunch of highly specialized escort services on speed-dial.
Which ties in neatly.
Sorry - I edited that because I could just see some tight-assed mod getting all twisted up over it, and I wanted the underlying message to not get deleted, and only saw your response after the fact.
But now that you mention it…
Lindsey Graham can always be counted on to suck up to whichever Republican is currently getting the most headlines.
We’re in a timeline now in which truth is entirely irrelevant.
Trump supporters are necessarily one of two things - deluded or dishonest. Either they’ve been manipulated into not seeing the plain fact that he’s a corrupt and self-serving autocrat and an existential threat to the US, or they know exactly what he is and just don’t admit it publicly.
In either case, truth and reality count for nothing.
That’s the deal.
Literally.
By “peace” what they actually mean is “submission.”
Russia’s already getting a return on their investment.
The next year or two is just going to be an orgy of face-eating leopards eating faces.
There was a time when I would’ve sympathized with and supported the Israelis.
But that was 40,000 murders ago.
While the decision to stop publishing the six books was made by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, right-wing outlets like Fox News mischaracterized it as a book ban.
Unsurprisingly, it has actually been Republican-backed laws like Tennessee’s that have resulted in the banning of Dr. Seuss books from schools.
And that’s the way it works pretty much without exception - private individuals and businesses and such make independent decisions and the Republicans scream that they’re being oppressed, then they pass laws in the name of freedom.
Even with as insane as the Republican agenda is, and as deluded as their supporters necessarily must be, that particular aspect of it really stands out to me. It’s just so perfectly Orwellian.
Even in an era in which Republicans have come to be defined by psychological projection and unintentional irony, Tommy Tuberville calling someone else an imbecile stands out.