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Not a quarter million. That’s a 1997 TV anchor salary.

 

Most of the stage fees I’ll collect will just go to pay off the sheriff’s office to look the other way on this.

It’ll be the Bada Bing! with palm trees.

My marketing guy advised against the sign I want out front. “We create ‘jobs’… for everyone”.

This is “my ‘Merica”.

 

Been trying to rationalize the last 36 hours as best I can. It’s easy to blame voters, but just like in 2016, Harris had much less votes than her predecessor.

Why?

We heard very loud and clear from the Left about the dystopian future under Trump, but what if the non-magats who lean right look around and see they already live in one.

— their paychecks don’t go nearly as far as they did four years ago. Blame billionaires all you want, but to the person who is paying more for everything they purchase on a salary that hasn’t kept up, it’s easy for them to look around and say, “well, if so many places didn't increase their minimum wage under pressure from the left, my prices wouldn’t have gone up.”
— we can say the economy is doing fantastic, but when they see the chain stores they grew up with going belly up and the malls they loved shopping at are obsolete, they look around and wonder what the hell.
— the simple comforts they used to find solace in are also vanishing. They can’t afford those season tickets any more. They can’t afford the vacations.
— they see no hope in sight. As much as they mock the younger generations, they also see their struggles. But how can they help when they are being maxed out as well.
— they don’t understand a lot of things. They wonder why there is a national outcry when a white cop kills a black man in handcuffs, but why is a story about a black person into a parade swept seemingly under a rug.
— they wonder why Beyoncé with her billions of dollars and awards says it’s racist she doesn’t win a Grammy, and the media agrees with her.

And it goes on and on.

And I’m not defending them.

And a lot of people on the left will say fuck them and their feelings.

But that’s the problem. The Left seemingly demands justice and equality, but the marginalized masses wonder why there never seems to be any for them. Or even more, why they are often attacked for it.

 

Spot on @cyclingwriter2. And while we’re at it, we need another word for “privileged.” Because a white person struggling to make ends meet doesn’t feel privileged. They don’t see the nuance of it.

 

I guarantee you that in the next poll on US economic conditions, about half the people who said they were poor on Tuesday will now say they're great, just because Trump won, so they feel better. Nothing to do with their economic situations at all. Which is good, I guess, since absolutely nothing in Trump's agenda is going to improve those economic situations. The Dodgers aren't gonna cut ticket prices for the greater glory of MAGA. Hopusing prices aren't gonna go down unless there's a recession, in which case they still won't be able to afford a new one.

As for the rest, anybody pissed off about Beyonce's standard show biz bitching is indeed probably pretty racist. The permanent air of grievance from some white people is distasteful.

 

If anybody voted for Trump because of economic anxiety when he's promising to deport millions of immigrants who are picking our crops, deboning our chickens and cleaning our hotel rooms and when he's campaigning on crippling tariffs that will drive up the prices of damn near everything, then they are stupid. I'm sorry, but they are.

 

Yeah, but those are the “Other” people. They don’t care about the “Other” people.

 

I think the problem is that they didn't campaign with Republicans enough....................

 

Conservatives have been screaming about how terrible the other side is for more than 30 years now. (I should know, I was in on it for the first half.) Nobody’s $47 “defend democracy” ActBlue donation is paying me to be an official messenger of any part of the Democratic Party.

So I’ll vent as I please in the other direction whether anyone likes it or not. It is now the American way.

 

Mama take this button off of me
I can't wear it anymore
They're getting dumb too dumb to see
Feels like I'm knockin' on Murdoch's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Murdoch's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Murdoch's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Murdoch's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Murdoch's door

Mama put my flags in the ground
I can't wave them anymore
That cold black cloud is comin' down
Feels like I'm knockin' on Murdoch's door

 

Clemson does not surprise me. Minnesota? That is disheartening.

 

Best analysis I've read is also the simplest - The Democrats original sin, never imagining Trump was electable. 2016, 2024. Doesn't matter. The guy is a unicorn. He probably doesn't even know why he can say or do anything and not lose support. People also forget that 2020 was razor close, even in the light of COVID and George Floyd. It wasn't like people were chomping at the bit to dump Trump even then.
Jimmy Kimmel was a good watch last night - the monologue was great (in a sad and tragic way - yet still funny). He had the Pod Save America guys on, one of them said he figured it might be a tough night when a county in Florida that has a heavy concentration of Puerto Ricans was plus 12 Trump from 2020. Guessing Anthony Hinchcliffe will be the entertainment at the next WHCD, should be a hoot.
Though in my alternate reality, adding Kennedy and Musk to his cadre will spark a heel turn and he'll become a super lefty, pro electric car, pro environment and anti gun after he was almost killed* by an AR-15.
Agree on the economic perspective. People don't feel the economy through the GDP, the unemployment rate or with a surging stock market, they feel it by whether they can make their credit card minimum payment and if they can afford to take the kid to McDonalds after a soccer game.

*supposedly.