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Now do the greatest health care. And infrastructure week. And the dozens of other issues he was going to take care of that were going to keep him so busy he wouldn't have time for golf.

 

The Benefit of the Shout: How Constantly Being Loud Helps the Right and Especially Trump

 

Not today, Satan.

 

I think this is exactly right. Trump blew the right dog whistle, and did so confidently. That the wall isn't "finished" just means there's more "work" to be done.

 

I think you're closer than some might think. Dating back to George Floyd, I think there is a special kind of annoyingness to the clean-cut and totally ineffective white liberal. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey (and to a lesser extent governor Tim Walz) said so much about reforming the Minneapolis Police Department, only for the police union to tell them to go fuck themselves at every turn. The people with real skin in the game and people to his left were pissed at him because he wouldn't go far enough, and nobody to his right was willing to compromise an inch.

And I think there are several examples of what I have compared to the chess tactic known as a fork (one piece threatening two and the defending player can't protect both). The police respond to demands for reform by telling them to fuck off, and crime fills the vacuum faster than their non-problematic means of prevention. Social workers are great, but they're not very helpful to someone who is being mugged.

That's not an endorsement, but there is something to the belief that some people would rather vote for someone who is hostile to them then someone who says they're in their corner and can't deliver, even if it's not their fault.

 

The problem now is that anyone with a "D" next to their name is painted as a "liberal" and it is nonsense. Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, is a textbook moderate yet is painted by some of these lunatics as Karl Marx.

 

How about a momentary sense of ease that somebody who is batshit crazy and guided by the worst figures in American politics (fascists, Christian Nationalists, conspiracy theorists) is no longer in the White House?

 

Good ole Mississippi

 

If you haven't figured it out yet, I don't know what to tell you. Being President/running for President is the only thing keeping him out of prison. He'll pander to anyone he has to, resort to the lowest common denominator, appeal to the worst human beings in the country. He's a terrible human being and the second he dies the world becomes a better place.