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And if Dems churned out signs like:
Trump=Racism and Kamala=Diversity
Trump= Corruption and Kamala=Fairness
Trump= Cosplay Garbageman Kamala=Leader

They would be seen as unfair or reductive or they don't understand Trump's appeal!!!!

So f*cking sick of these mothetf*cking double standards

 

We had them in Pennsylvania too and I knew they'd resonate. I know we're not supposed to call them stupid but damn, does messaging to the lowest common denominator work.

 

anyone notice the coded sexism in calling Harris by her first name?

 

Just like with Clinton. Hillary, that is.

 

It's also not our jobs to make people want to be more informed and give a damn.

 

To be fair, many of her supporters do that, too.

 

I've been radicalized by the last three elections. Two losses and a victory completely robbed of joy by violence and psychotic lies about fraud.

I am forming my own radical group: Frente Unpopular.

 

I could cut a pass on Hillary because of the occasional need to specify to which Clinton you’re referring.

 

He ran on culture and to some degree won on it. I don't think the economy is good - I just sense that locally and regionally by what I see - but I don't think he'll do much for it.

The way I'd frame the culture discussion is this: With Trump, there's a unbound, almost "personal anarchic" vibe that you can have the opinions you want to have and state them aloud. The Democratic/progressive/liberal impulse is to respond: Yeah, all the racist and sexist opinions. That's accurate, but not a complete picture. The "red team" gets to say schools were closed too long, or young kids shouldn't have been masked, without getting shamed. The "red team" allows disgusting opinions on trans girls in sports, yes it does, but it also allows uncertainty or "asking questions," whereas the "blue team" offers a single, acceptable opinion of blanket approval, or silence. On abortion, the "red team" allows the strange bedfellow of voting for Trump and enshrining abortion into the constitution - both Kansas and Missouri did this - while Tim Walz struggled to say aloud any abortion that shouldn't be allowed.

More than money, most Americans love freedom. They love it too much, especially as it relates to gun ownership, and there are costs to living in a country that loves freedom so much. But there are pleasures to it, too, and Trump's whole manner - wholly unchristian in its lack of moderation and care, the basic opposite of Jesus - appeals to people who put freedom as their highest priority. It especially appeals to men.

The Democrats are now the establishment party. They're elitist, allergic to almost anything low culture, primed to be offended, monkish in their self-discipline, scolding. The political version of an autoimmune disease, overreacting to a toxin. I voted for Democrats mostly out of habit, the hope that, if Trump was finally vanquished, the virus finally put down, the immune system would be less inflamed, and we'd get back to an American culture I recognized.

Because I highly doubt that a loss to Trump will change much about the blue team. I guess we'll see.

 

The economy, yes, was a big factor in why people voted for Trump. but almost glossed over was the searing image of his Fight, Fight, Fight fist pump after he was shot.

Hokey? Staged? Maybe, but to an otherwise non-engaged populace it was an effective image and only redoubled the MAGAs faith.

In the minds of morons, "he took a bullet for us" was enough reason to overlook his other faults.

 

Here’s the difference between purgatory and hell:

You are forced to watch Fox News for all of eternity in both places. But in hell, they turn the sound on.

 

I told my wife that I'm not doing four solid years of rage watching the news like I did from 2017 to 2021. We already know what he's going to do. There's no need.