What I got from this is that Trump is basically the Republican Bill Clinton (with WAY too much Hillary in there, sadly). I voted for Bill twice and Obama twice (with a couple "oh, why not" votes for Gore and Hillary in there.
Everything you say about him is true and yet, he's still LESS repugnant to decent people than the current Democrat regime. Think about how disgusting you have to be that hate-voting for Trump is a solution. I know many liberals who, fed up with the current state of the Democratic party, are going to pull a Get Your Fucking Shit Together, Democrats vote for Trump.
Again, everything you say is essentially correct and the "educated left" is clearly worse for Anerica and everybody knows it. Fuck.
Honestly I don't think it was the comedians making jokes as much as the pundits (comedian or otherwise) crying wolf about every Republican in the past 50 years being fashy. And now that we might have someone worthy of being called that, Trump's base don't care because they've tuned out everyone who kept crying about crypto-fascism.
Another part may be what they mentioned on NPR the other day, that fascism has gotten firmly associated with whiteness due to the identity politics craze, so Trump having support that crosses racial lines makes him look not fashy to people who think fascism is just Racism 2. (The main predictor of how people feel about Trump is credentialed education level, apparently.)
Run that educational analysis again, but consider the type of education. You'll find B.S. college educated people are much more likely to prefer Trump than those with a B.A.
In short people not living in a world of delusion find the results he produces acceptable despite his horrible personality in comparison to other options.
Your note on "the boy who cried wolf" is spot on. For the people that believe Trump is trying to set himself up as dictator for life... how many months past a second term could that reasonably be? Dictatorship is hard work and DJT is not interested in working hard for 15 years. Find one case of someone over 70 setting up a dictatorship in all of human history and I'll concede that a Trump dictatorship is a greater threat than a meteor strike.
I studied physics and I like the neutron star analogy. Trump is distorting perceptions, just like real massive objects do. The neutron star continued to draw mass during his presidency, with the occasional nova explosion outshining the rest of the news. But the effect on time is reversed: normally you would stay one year near the dense object and find ten years have passed on Earth, here we all aged by a decade or two even though his presidency lasted a mere four Earth years.
My theory is that the neutron star became so massive that it eventually collapsed into a black hole which is now drawing us inescapably towards an event horizon: it is impossible to know what happens behind it, and it's going to tear us to shreds once we cross it.
Thank you for bringing some awareness to the term "autogolpe". I'm tired of people arguing about whether or not January 6th was considered a coup in the strict sense of the word.
What I got from this is that Trump is basically the Republican Bill Clinton (with WAY too much Hillary in there, sadly). I voted for Bill twice and Obama twice (with a couple "oh, why not" votes for Gore and Hillary in there.
Everything you say about him is true and yet, he's still LESS repugnant to decent people than the current Democrat regime. Think about how disgusting you have to be that hate-voting for Trump is a solution. I know many liberals who, fed up with the current state of the Democratic party, are going to pull a Get Your Fucking Shit Together, Democrats vote for Trump.
Again, everything you say is essentially correct and the "educated left" is clearly worse for Anerica and everybody knows it. Fuck.
Honestly I don't think it was the comedians making jokes as much as the pundits (comedian or otherwise) crying wolf about every Republican in the past 50 years being fashy. And now that we might have someone worthy of being called that, Trump's base don't care because they've tuned out everyone who kept crying about crypto-fascism.
Another part may be what they mentioned on NPR the other day, that fascism has gotten firmly associated with whiteness due to the identity politics craze, so Trump having support that crosses racial lines makes him look not fashy to people who think fascism is just Racism 2. (The main predictor of how people feel about Trump is credentialed education level, apparently.)
Run that educational analysis again, but consider the type of education. You'll find B.S. college educated people are much more likely to prefer Trump than those with a B.A.
In short people not living in a world of delusion find the results he produces acceptable despite his horrible personality in comparison to other options.
Your note on "the boy who cried wolf" is spot on. For the people that believe Trump is trying to set himself up as dictator for life... how many months past a second term could that reasonably be? Dictatorship is hard work and DJT is not interested in working hard for 15 years. Find one case of someone over 70 setting up a dictatorship in all of human history and I'll concede that a Trump dictatorship is a greater threat than a meteor strike.
I studied physics and I like the neutron star analogy. Trump is distorting perceptions, just like real massive objects do. The neutron star continued to draw mass during his presidency, with the occasional nova explosion outshining the rest of the news. But the effect on time is reversed: normally you would stay one year near the dense object and find ten years have passed on Earth, here we all aged by a decade or two even though his presidency lasted a mere four Earth years.
My theory is that the neutron star became so massive that it eventually collapsed into a black hole which is now drawing us inescapably towards an event horizon: it is impossible to know what happens behind it, and it's going to tear us to shreds once we cross it.
Thank you for bringing some awareness to the term "autogolpe". I'm tired of people arguing about whether or not January 6th was considered a coup in the strict sense of the word.
Neutron star. Thank you for this, this morning!
Reminds me of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossesTheLineTwice and https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroicComedicSociopath. Though while Trump is the worst and most blatant, I think many Republicans are saying alarming crypto-fascist things these days.
Well, that's a better take than this comedian's take: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/opinion/donald-trump-joke-danger.html
Cripes.
Better never than late!