#senile fascist says what?

[wilwheaton]

The words below were taken verbatim from a campaign speech former President Donald Trump delivered in Potterville, Michigan, Thursday when he was attempting, at least initially, to criticize Kamala Harris’ record in San Francisco, presumably referring to her tenure as district attorney there: "She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?

Questions surrounding Trump's mental acuity are a real 2024 story

Um. What?

[qqueenofhades]

https://www.tumblr.com/qqueenofhades/743255237060689920/the-thing-that-confuses-me-about-the-dont-vote

The “don’t vote” left’s point is basically that, if Biden gets a second term, it’ll basically signal that “They’ll vote for us as long as we’re not Republicans, why don’t we do some REAL fucked up shit, if we can get away with it?” It takes the power out of the people’s hands and places it firmly in the party’s.

I can’t completely disagree with that, my caveat is that there’s no real alternative system or party in place, because top-down change is ineffective; a third party president has to contend with a two party congress.

Except no. This whole "Biden just wants to do as much fucked up shit as possible while not being a Republican, and if you give him a second term he'll do more fucked up shit deliberately to spite you" mindset is only possible as an interpretation if you a) deliberately and comprehensively ignore everything he has done to date, and b) you approach the situation with the maximum bad faith possible. Not to mention, the ultimate outcome of this Big Important Teaching Biden A Lesson is that Trump gets back into power and makes everything orders of magnitude worse, because he does in fact want to deliberately do evil shit to everyone and says so at every opportunity. There is not some magical happy alternative that springs into existence by not voting. If you choose this as a year to Teach Biden A Lesson, you are enabling Trump. Trump will be much, much worse. If you don't care about that, I still do not care what your Great Ideology is. You are not helping anyone and you are directly and irreversibly hurting everyone.

I made a post a few days ago wherein I mentioned that I want to assess Biden fairly, taking into account both strengths and weaknesses, but the rampant bad-faith, lying, misreading, misrepresentation, and open sabotage of him (especially by the online left; the GOP sometimes only wishes they were as good at turning Biden's voter pool against him) makes it really difficult to do that. My frustration with those people makes me just want to go "BIDEN IS GREAT THE END." I know he is a flawed old man (though by literally every account of a career spent in public service, he really does care about making the world a better place and any remotely good faith reading of his accomplishments thus far can see that). It is also very likely that he goes MORE left in a second term because he won't have to face the electorate again, he has always gone more left when pushed before, and he's not actually the scheming genocidal mastermind that leftist social media paints him as. Shocking, I know.

I know there are things in the world we don't like and don't want and want to stop, and therefore we blame our own president for not making it stop. But I have zero, no, none, absolutely none whatsoever sympathy for this pseudo-populist "WE NEED TO TEACH BIDEN A LESSON BY ELECTING TRUMP AGAIN, I AM VERY MORAL MUCH ACTIVIST" mindset. There's this funny thing about America wherein it is still (for now) a democracy. If Biden wins a second term, he can't run again. I would take literally anything these people said more seriously if they focused on developing their dream progressive successor for 2028 (and also figured out how to get that person elected and in a place to make real change) rather than cynically sabotaging Biden in the most consequential election year, again, of our lifetimes. If you don't like him now, find a way to make his successor a better option. Throwing a toddler tantrum and handing the country back to a senile, deranged, fascist, revenge-riddled, theocratic Trump HELPS. NOBODY. I still don't know how many times I'm going to have to say that, but yeah.

[artbyblastweave]

There's a question which the west coast Fallout games are quietly litigating, which is that age-old gotcha about what you do with the remaining orcs once you've deposed Sauron. In the original Fallout, the Super Mutants are basically universally aligned against the quote-unquote "good guys," for whatever value of that term is applicable to the wasteland at large, but subsequent games make it clear that this was an ideological thing, and a product of the political moment of the mutants creation rather than an ontological quality that they have. The game is very aware that this is something that was done to them, and the tragedy of that; the first mutant you're likely to run into is dying scared and alone.

Fallout 2 presents super mutants who've broken in every direction ideologically in the aftermath of the Unity's collapse; the peacemakers under Marcus at Broken Hills, Gond as a member of the abolitionist NCR rangers, reactionary remnants of the original mutant army, genocidal self-hating fascists like Frank Horrigan. Fallout: New Vegas iterates on this beautifully. The mutants dovetail perfectly with the theme of how every faction in the wasteland is trying and oftentimes failing to reckon with the weight of history. Their utopian movement imploded outside of living memory, closer to the apocalypse than to the present day. The survivors- who can only dwindle in number due to their sterility- have been left to reckon with that in whatever way they can. And they have their backs to about a hundred and twenty years of that reckoning not going particularly well, of being the bugbear and boogeymen for bullies and ideologues whose grandparents weren't even alive to suffer from the Unity's actions. The lack of a collective future for mutantkind casts a pall over even the best ending for Jacobstown; humans are collectively resilient within this setting, but through violence, and accidents, dementia and senility, the day will inevitably come when there are no mutants left. And worse still will be the day before that, when there's only one mutant left. Finding some form of satisfaction or contentment within that dwindling window, with the world against you, is a task that falls to the individual mutant. (Take Mean Sonovabitch, for example. He seems to be doing alright for himself.)

Then we slide on over to the east coast games, where the mutants are.... morons. Cannibals. Marauders. And when you meet one who isn't, the game throws itself a ticker-tape parade for containing such an audacious twist. To go back to the orc thing, it's like if The Hobbit had contained a lengthy, empathetic subplot about the rich internality and fleshed-out-if-deeply-flawed ideology of the orcs, and then there was a pivot to treating them like a monolithic block of ontologically evil marauders in LOTR. While staring you straight in the eye the whole time, unblinking. Daring you to say something

[hero-israel]

I think there needs to be a reckoning about how so many white (passing) American secular/nonpracticing antiZionist Jews can say "Not in my name, Israel doesn't speak for us!" and then think they can speak for Israel. How so many of them can have a limited familial connection to Israel, have such a disdain for Israelis, Israeli culture and society, and Israel as a concept, and then have the gall to act like their opinions matter?

I see their attitudes be described as fear, but to me it strikes me as more than just fear. A lot of them, I suspect, have incorporated antiZionism as a fundamental part of their Jewish identity. It's not just a disagreement, they're not just saving face. Take away the Goyim and talk to them privately and they still believe what they believe, and express it in the same way. They hate Israeli Jews.

And Israel is only going to become less Ashkenazi (aka less "white") as time marches forward. The bad faith hysterical Israel bashing and condescension is only going to look more and more like Orientalism, and frankly, racism.

I think it's very possible that calling something antisemitic can't just be a catchall term when this chicken comes home to roost. I think if there aren't already, there will be distinct forms of antisemitism, some that only Diaspora Jews face and some that only Israeli Jews face. And if this is true or will end up being true, it's pretty important that we not speak over each other's experiences. To do that we have to recognize these experiences and respect them. Do some Israeli Jews disrespect the Diaspora experience? Yes, from what I've seen. Is it nearly as vitriolic and is it growing nearly as quickly as the disrespect for the Israeli experience among antiZionist American Jews? Not even close.

All this divisive language to say: sometimes when Israelis say "so and so is antisemitic!" in the context of antiZionism, they're talking about themselves, their experiences, the stakes for them, and not Americans. So maybe we should all learn to stay in our lanes sometimes.

A lot of Israeli Jews disrespect, or at least are unable to grasp, diaspora existence, particularly when it comes to Americans. I can't even count the number of times I read Israelis say "Why are you American Jews so upset about Trump? Don't you see how good he's been for Israel?" Which is the worst damn argument a person could possibly use - it feeds into both left-wing and right-wing antisemitism, while ignoring that American Jews live HERE and are at risk from Trump's fascist cult and general lawlessness. And it is bad FOR EVERYBODY to have "pro-Israel" become the position of stroke-babbling grotesque racist criminals, and also for America to be too focused on anarchic decomposition and Yugoslav-style street warfare to be able to support Israel like it traditionally has.

And because turds of a feather flush together, Netanyahu wants ALAN DERSHOWITZ to be Israel's advocate if the ICJ case proceeds. I knew Netanyahu was a senile failure undermining all the strengths he had ever built for the country and this is just the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae. Alan Dershowitz is the ultimate stereotype of a Boomer who was kind of useful in the 1980s-90s and became awful and embarrassing now, Trump is surrounded by them (i.e. Rudy Giuliani). Your grandma in Florida remembers Alan Dershowitz for writing "Chutzpah" and being tough and quick-witted, and everybody under 40 knows Dershowitz as a Trump cultist and Epstein fuckbuddy. Big "Vladek Spiegelman can only compare his artist son to Walt Disney" energy. There are surely thousands of lawyers better-suited for the role, just off the top of my head I'd prefer Eugene Kontorovich and so should anyone who is more aware of the world as it actually is than how it was in 1994.

I say all that to parallel your original point, not to contradict it. Yes, the American Jews who performatively loathe Israel are by and large just an Extremely Online phenomenon of the most college-town bubble-protected, least observant, least affiliated, and least aware of non-Ashkenazim. It is not so hard for American Ashkenazim to stay protected from antisemitism as long as they totally unplug from their Jewish identity and any public-facing aspects of it. Can't be killed in a synagogue or JCC or kosher store if you never go in, head tap.

[gwopijon]

Donald Trump has won the president four years after he sat for months on Covid being deadly and after he incited an insurection.

He's an abjudicated rapist. He stole classified documents. He's a traitor. He is personally corrupt but it meant nothing to voters.

He hid the fact that Covid was deadly for months. We had empty shells and long lines at food banks but it meant nothing to voters.

He had zero ground game. He’s a felon. He incited an insurrection less than four years ago. But he was running against a woman again, and if there’s one thing Americans hate, it’s women.

In 2016, I still had some sense of hope that whatever happened during a Trump presidency, we could find a way to survive and recover. I don’t have that hope this time. Not after everything that’s happened, not after the past nine years of this utter sh-tshow. This is the American electorate looking at this orange clown and saying “that’s my guy.” This man spewed the most despicable, hate filled rhetoric and someone who is clearly declining physically and mentally. They heard “mass deportations” and they said “anything to bring down housing costs.” They heard every single warning about Trump’s authoritarian fascism and they said “sounds amazing.” They heard the promise of authoritarianism and they said “sign me up.”

What’s especially crazy is that Trump doesn’t even want to be president again. He was just running to avoid prison. This senile, hateful, disgusting 78-year-old man was exhausted and phoning it in for most of the campaign. He kept disappearing for weeks at a time to golf and sundown in peace. When he went to vote in Florida yesterday, he sounded almost resigned to losing. Even he underestimated the stupidity of Americans. Even he can’t believe that people fell for it again.

Kamala Harris was a great Democratic Presidential Candidate. She still lost.

In 2016, in the hours after Hillary Clinton lost, I was partly in a fugue state, half-numb and half-enraged. Accusations flew across the political spectrum – what if Hillary had done more in the Rust Belt, what if she did this or that differently, why did she run given the “Clinton Fatigue,” why did James Comey f–k her over in the final weeks. There’s really none of that eight years later. We couldn’t have asked for a better candidate than Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris was disciplined, joyful, wonkish, fun and cool. She energized the base and she had widespread cross-party appeal. The only things “wrong” with Kamala Harris were: she’s a woman, she’s a Black woman, and she isn’t Donald Trump.

This isn’t even because of one particular demographic – white women, men of all races, Latino voters, suburbanites, they all swung wildly against Kamala Harris.

I hope Kamala knows that she did the best she could with the hand she was dealt. The numbers don’t reflect a failure on her part, in my opinion. The numbers reflect a failure of the American electorate. Good news for the American electorate: Donald Trump promised that this would be the last votes you would ever have to cast, that he will “fix” everything so no one has to vote anymore. Congrats on making it count.

I’m terrified as a woman. As a biracial woman. As someone with complex healthcare needs. As a gay woman. As the friend of many LGBTQ+ people. And I’m genuinely scared for the many Republicans who had the courage to speak out against Trump, particularly Liz Cheney, Fascists do not deal lightly with perceived disloyalty.

Bibi and Putin are celebrating today. Gaza will be nuked into oblivion and Ukraine will be handed to Russia just like Taiwan will be handed to China. YOU did that!

I am struggling with my faith with feeling anger and hatred towards those ingrates who came and found the table set from the blood, sweat, tears, whipping, lynching and jailing of my ancestors and threatened us with a Trump/Vance/Heritage Foundation/ Project 2025 has Harris not tap danced on Gaza knowing full well, she was doing her job as VP she could not supersede the sitting President of this country. Some of ya'll knew she was personally against arming Israel and has always been for a 2 state solution. For those voters: FUCK YOU!

FUCK you if you voted 3rd Party.

FUCK you if you didn't vote at all while you could and should have.

In order it went white men, white Latino men, and white women who overwhelmingly voted for Trump. We should stop with “economic uncertainty” again as a cover.

Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas will fucking retire and this motherfucker will nominate who Leonard Leo orders him to nominate and the fucking Supreme Court will unleash on our asses for the next 40 years. Roe vs Wade and the overturning of Affirmative Action will be nothing to what is next to come...

We black people have no fucking allies. Folks been piggybacking off black blood, sweat and tears for too fucking long. We're tired. We're fucking done. DON'T fucking expect us anymore

What hurts most is, this is apparently who we are as a country. Racist. Misogynistic. It doesn’t happen twice unless that’s just who the fuck we are. The rest of us will continue to fight against it, but it just got a lot harder. I think MVP and others will still help guide us but DON'T fucking expect black women to fight our battles and YOURS. FUCK that. We're done. We're gonna fight our battles nowadays .

I will not protest anything Trump wishes to do. DON'T expect us black women to play Mammy and clean shit after you anymore. We're done playing Captain Save a Hoe for you ingrates. I think he should have full reign to do whatever he plans and America should get it good and hard. It's what they asked for.

This country is not the Eutopia some of you are foolishly hoping for. IF you think a unqualified backbench like AOC or corrupt Nina Turner (the OPPO dossier on her is out there) or Katie Porter or Warren would have fared better or will ever become president; think again. It will NEVER happen. NEVER gonna fucking happen!

We black women as of last night have done what Pontius Pilate did and to wash our hands with America:

[solarbird]

First: Kamala Harris is doing an interview on Fox News today. That’s important. Every Republican not deep, deep, deep into the cult has given other Republicans permission to vote for her. Watch for how it goes. Early votes are skewing real hard Democratic; we can only hope this starts an avalanche.

Now, back to the shitgibbon:

This wtfery happened a few days ago. Repeatedly. They’re all here. Watch his markov chain generator malfunction.

This 39-minute-long what-is-even-happening happened Monday. He stopped his town hall and decided just to hang out on stage and listen to music for half an hour. (More video.) Most of the time he just stood there, then occasionally he’d dance a little.

Even the Russian propagandists made fun of it. They normally puff him up as serious and important and this was too much even for them. It felt very much like a “look at this clown we’ve put into power. Look at him. Isn’t it hilarious?” victory lap.

He didn’t do much better yesterday, cancelling an interview with CNBC before keeping his appointment with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago, where amidst his many lies he also said everyone in the world ever is and has been totally wrong about tariffs being bad for the economy (Smoot-Hartley turning the Panic of ’29 into the Great Depression be damned) and also that children could do the jobs of auto workers.

Get out on the assembly line, kids. Build some more gas cars. Maybe we’ll buy you an ice cream before the ocean floods the coastline some more.

Where, oh where, are the New York Times’s “too old” people now? Where is the drilldown? Where is the baited breath, watching for the stutterer to stutter a little again and declare him senile, broken down, and infirm? Ah, but they want him in office – so why would they do that?

People on TikTok were mostly “he is so high.” I think they might’ve messed up his dosage.

The argument that the real plan is to get him into office and then immediately trigger the 25th Amendment in favour of Couchfuker Vance still doesn’t quite hold up to me – they’ll Weekend-at-Bernie’s this motherfucker until he literally falls over dead, since he’s the God Emperor, and also since that gets Vance a de facto third term without changing or ignoring the Constitution. And he’s not continually breaking down, he’s okay enough a lot of the time. Not all of it, maybe. But enough.

But I have to admit, the Vance idea sounds less unreasonable every day.

The problem of course is that when he’s not having a McConnell-esque stall-out, he’s promising to us the armed forces against his political enemies and making it illegal to say things he doesn’t like, all while his fascist friend Mike Flynn keeps rhapsodising about executing anyone who opposes him.

That’s the hard, ugly reality. They don’t even need him to do that, or really, any of the work of Project 2025. He’s never given a single fuck about policy, just about power and hurting people, and they’ll deliver that for him in spades, all while they end secular government in the United States.

That is Vance’s agenda, after all. And that of his backers. All they need from Trump is the occasional scribbled signature.

He’s signed a lot of autographs. It’s all muscle memory at this point. He’ll do that just fine.

And that’s absolutely all they need.

So. I’ve already given you all the arguments I have to reach anyone who might be reachable. People on the fringes of the cult, people who “don’t like politics” and “think politics is boring” so refuse to pay attention. Trump here himself is destroying the idea that he’s the “vote for my wallet,” given what tariffs will do to prices and the economy, but here’s a bit from Rachael Maddow with more thoughts on that whole nonsense. Maybe you’ll find some good arguments in there.

We’re very much in the home stretch, team. Don’t hold anything back, because as I keep saying, this one is for all of the marbles. Bring everything you’ve got and leave it all out there on the field…

…’cause we’re gonna need it.

20 days remain.

[kineticpenguin]

You know, I do think I understand the liberal frustration with the way we tend to talk about Biden and Trump. They're both old as hell, and Biden may stumble over his words, but Trump also has some weird issues of his own.

I mean, Trump talks like a goddamn space alien. He says crazy shit all the time! "If I lose they'll have to change the name of Pennsylvania"? The fuck? Are you sure the lights are on up there? Why aren't we talking about him being senile or coming off like he just stumbled in from a home for nearly dead people?

I think the problem is just that Trump is loud and that can carry you in the current media landscape. And MSNBC has what I can only call a sick obsession with the dude: wall-to-wall coverage of Trump and every little thing going on in his various court cases no matter how boring, breathless discussion and speculation of his increasingly fascist rhetoric, blah blah blah. Even if Biden was a more energetic and clear speaker, how is he supposed to get in front of that?

And I don't really have a good answer besides "get loud and stop looking so weak." But unfortunately, this pattern of helplessness seems to be a tactic embraced by the administration. Mumble something about how you don't like what Netanyahu's doing while shipping him a new load of weapons every 36 hours, for example.

[scottguy]

Article: If Trump wins, blame the New York Times

If Trump wins, blame the New York Times

The NY Times explains its ostensibly high-minded principles allowing just one party to get away with incompetence, fascist ideation, hypocrisy, and constant blatant lies.

As they say, "The truth has a liberal bias." Thus, the NY Times goes out of the way to AVOID reporting the actual truth.

In fall of 2024 this editorial failure is so egregious it's actually unAmerican.

Avoiding damning realities is apparently a journalistic ideal to the NY Times, but only for Republicans. Calling out Republicans for damning behavior is, somehow, "bias."

Yet, if any Dems stick a toe out of line, the Times won't shut up about it for weeks.

How any editors can call their whitewashing of Republican malfeasance 'balanced or fair' is just magical thinking. It's like the now corrupt Supreme Court using fancy language to pretend there is any logical thought in their decisions instead of the truth, which is...

they just want their side to win, no matter what. So they just PRETEND their viewpoint makes sense with empty words.

"Those who are silent in the face of injustice condone it. "

The NY Times thus ENDORSES:

LIES, CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, INCOMPETENCE, SENILITY, TRAITOROUS BEHAVIOR, and OPEN FASCISM... but only for Republicans.

If the Democrats acted that way, the Times would put it right on their front page immediately, just they SHOULD for Republicans.

Cancel your NY Times subscription

The NY Times has failed American citizens in their hour of need with democracy in America on a knife edge and a 21st century Hitler eager to being Marshall law and the arbitrary jailing (and eventual murder) of "immigrants."

[soymikki]

God it feels everything is up in the air for November in the US.

The acting president is a living corpse thats about 3 steps away from fully being Weekend at Bernie's-ed. His opponent is a 80s capitalist fascist who attempted to stage a coup and was tried on 88 criminal charges. Which didn't even stop him because-

(AND THIS IS WHILE HIS OPPONENT, THE HALF DEAD MAN, THE GUY TRUMP COULD HAVE GOTTEN KILLED DURING THAT COUP, THAT GUY IS IN OFFICE RIGHT NOW-)

within the last month it was ruled that acting presidents have immunity when committing crimes as president.

The democratic party is still trying to prop up Biden as a capable opponent for Trump, even though his support numbers are Dire. This is especially bc he has not withdrawn support for Israel, or even made an Attempt to stop the genocide that is actively continuing in Palestine now even as I type. They're trying to bandaid the shit out of Biden's image with investment in clean energy and a promise to reinstate Roe v. Wade if he's re-elected but like! HES ALREADY PRESIDENT. HE COULD DO IT NOW. But the man is 5 steps from the light on a good day and even if he weren't I doubt it'd be much different.

It's The Simpsons two party system joke with the two aliens in disguise. It's the Homestuck double juggalo fascist presidents with evil Guy Fieri as the pope. It's two senile white men who cant even hold a coherent conversation during a debate together being toted as the Only Options. It is somehow so fucking funny and one of the worst periods of my life knowing this is happening. This feels like knowledge that would turn a normal person into the Joker.

I have no fucking clue what's going to happen. Biden literally made it legal for the president to kill his opponent and yet I would still be surprised if he actually did it. Happy, but surprised. Most people I know just want them to drop dead before the election and try again with someone new, and I can't say I disagree, but it ain't exactly a sure thing. Idk. We live in a strange world.

For any fellow Americans out there, just vote. Just go fucking vote. This isn't even about the president. I dont even know what im going to do there when the time comes. I mean vote on your local and state levels. Regardless of your pick of a candidate that isn't Trump, we want to at least Try to get people who are for basic human rights and against a decline into fascism and genocide. France and Britain have managed to prevent a decline into the far right, and I'd like to hold on to the hope that we can too.

Otherwise I fear the people suffering the most in the world now will only continue to suffer.

[auramgold]

it's wild how liberals will see someone posting about "biden is absolutely shooting himself in the foot electorally and seems to have no sense of strategy" and will immediately jump into their YOU'VE GOTTA VOTE NO MATTER WHAT I DON'T CARE IF HE'S 99% HITLER even when it's someone who is going to "vote strategically"

they can't conceive of someone who's willing to bite the genocide bullet and vote for biden that might even remotely want to criticize his strategy, to them anything less than unwavering support acting like a senile rapist is the second coming of christ is the exact same as a trump vote.

"biden is sabotaging himself electorally with all the groups that got him elected in the first place" is not inherently a statement saying that voting doesn't matter, but liberals can't conceive of criticism as anything but that, because they can't conceive of anything better than the democratic party in its worst possible self-sabotaging state.

liberals legitimately saw the 99% hitler joke and went "this should convince people to bother voting if i yell it loud enough everywhere" missing that admitting your candidate is hitler at all is a sign that everything is broken

build dual power. build parallel structures. build support networks for the oncoming fascist takeover of the united states, because the democrats seem to be doing everything in their power to sabotage themselves to make it happen faster.

(btw any biden bros on this post get blocked. if you yell at me about elections here, you're missing the point that you're bad at advertising)

[vintageseawitch]

anybody else remember V for Vendetta (lol)? do you recall this scene in particular? when Chancellor Adam Sutler sits back in his chair to relax in the evening with a warm glass of milk to watch the funny man Gordon Dietrich's sketch show reminiscent of Benny Hill but approved by fascists... only to find that the particular segment made the Chancellor look like a fool, & well, he took that shit personally.

okay. one of my favorite videos to come across while mindlessly scrolling are ones that make fun of jd vance, beyond any doubt. he just enters the room & any good vibes get sucked out. he's beyond weird, creepy, & off-putting. there's no doubt to these things & more. the problem is he's someone that is being underestimated. at first it sounded a little like he was being fed lines but it's really clear now that the evil batshit things he says are things that he believes & while i think an effective tactic to fight fascism is to laugh at fascists i also think that only seeing him as a joke downplays just what kind of evil he represents. i love good characters being underestimated only to come out on top when people least expect it. evil characters that are underestimated? they're the worst sort of evil by far. he has no political charm but that won't matter should trump win.

a content creator i enjoy is Josh Johnson. his style of comedy is a comical storyteller, where he talks about real events & offers thoughtful, engaging, & funny perspectives. i love his brand of humor. anyways so he pointed out in a recent stand-up talking about the debate between Harris & trump & reminded everyone that trump decided to run for president because Barack Obama joked about him. this walking joke who everyone thought was funny & ridiculous & not to be taken seriously then wildly made it into office. even he didn't seem to realize he made it (yet still complained he didn't win the popular vote). during the debate with Harris there seemed to be a moment where she was laughing at him (can't blame her for that) where she had an, "oh shit" moment. like deja vu or PTSD. there's more than one period in history that feels like is playing again it seems.

it doesn't matter that we already know what kind of person he is. everything he touches turns to shit & half the country believes we had it better when he was running even though he was riding on the coattails of the Obama administration. our legal system has been allowing someone who literally attempted a coup to run for president again & the polls remain consistently too close for comfort. even the vp pick jd vance hasn't deterred people that much even though a large portion of maga voters don't even like the guy but goddamn do they love their grifting, felon, allegedly rich conman of a candidate who previously treated the US government like his own piggy bank.

maga wants trump for president. they seem to think a man who is only a few years younger than "too old & senile" Joe Biden is more than perfect for the role & that he will "save us" from all the "woke" or some such garbage. they don't care about the hypocrisy they display when his slurring nonsensical word salad speeches make no sense & they don't bat an eye when he slips in alarmingly authoritarian rhetoric. he "tells it like it is" but when you literally quote him back to them he "didn't mean it like that." what are these fucking cult members going to do when he finally kicks the bucket?

it's clear now that trump is the useful stooge for the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, a bunch of billionaires, & other nazis. he's gotten them this massive fanbase of uneducated, brainwashed morons who hate people who are different from them so much they're more than happy to hurt themselves in the process in order for people they hate to also get hurt. so while yes, he's useful, & allows them to finally be loud with their racism, misogyny, homophobia, & xenophobia, & they won't face any real consequences, his usefulness is also running out. if they win, we get him as president: a 78 year old showing clear signs of dementia who loves dictators & thinks getting compliments means they love him & aren't using him (lol) & jd vance as vp, the evil creep with a breeding fetish & strong hatred of women.

vance is in his early 40s. he's in his first term ever as a senator & seemed to come out of nowhere but he's a calculated choice make no mistake: paid for by peter thiel, looks up to curtis yarvin, is friends with kevin roberts. jd vance has been publicly talking about not just making up dangerous stories in order to incite violence & hatred but also that the government should be brutal. you just need to dig a little & the evil is in plain sight. the issue now is he's also incredibly off-putting & socially awkward. by himself, while booksmart, he would be forgettable. just another hateful white asshole man with mommy issues & believes in shit you'd hear some creepy incel that lives in a basement would believe in (only now there's a chance he could implement said evil).

people are making fun of him relentlessly. he's given us plenty of material. most of the time he sounds like an alien or a robot who only recently learned how to pretend to be a human being. now i don't have an issue with being socially awkward; i'm pretty awkward myself & know there's plenty of people out there who are as well but it's just so bizarre that the Republican vp candidate has the charm & charisma of period cramps or a horde of mosquitos. it's almost brilliant really. i don't think his awkwardness is an act at all but it feels like they're using this to their advantage in a way: he's being underestimated.

people are talking about it more: that vance is really who the Heritage Foundation wants as president. trump will get them into the White House should they win & they can start the horror & chaos they've been dreaming about for decades. vance is pure evil & i've been quoting from Letterkenny about him ("stand for nothing or you'll fall for anything") & the Ferengi Rules of Acquistion (number 98: "every man has his price"). it sounded like vance was once a decently progressive man. a close friend of his was a trans woman when he was in college with her. his radicalization probably started when he was in the Silicon Valley. anyways he gives me the impression that he's full of rage & other issues that he should get help for but won't since he's a white man who thinks everything is owed to him by merely existing & at first he may have been saying certain things because that's what thiel & roberts like but now vance is completely on the bandwagon. at this point it's a full speed, on fire train. he believes it & will take orders like the good little nazi that he is.

so in his being underestimated while being a complete weirdo clown, people have naturally been creating videos & posts making fun of him. they're so fucking funny. but as the election draws nearer i can't enjoy them as much. if they win they'll make the US into their version of V for Vendetta & it won't be trump who is the Chancellor. no, our Chancellor will be a guy with serious anger issues who doesn't like to be made fun of so publicly. he will make it everyone's problem.

it's only a matter of time before some people may get the Gordon Dietrich ending. these are weird, scary, uncertain times. i hope it turns out well.

[girlcalledwhatsername]

Today on "ableism is all okay tho": someone commented on a post that was quoting the Joe Biden clip where he calls himself a "rabid dog", and they said you shouldn't call these people dogs or inhuman because that is fascist rhetoric... And then went on to say that actually they have "no empathy" and called Biden senile. When will you face the fact that some people will be malicious and want to cause harm for personal profit without it having to do with their "empathy" and mental states? There was a ton of other ableist shit there of course when isn't there? I've stopped bothering about most of it, leftists are way too comfortable with ableism. But this one really struck me because this person was nitpicking about wording and what the words we use might imply but don't care about it too much where ableist wording is concerned. Ok.

[qqueenofhades]

But…but…Biden has a great team of ethical, effective, smart, not evil people around him who are not 81. Also, if he gets elected and becomes senile or dies of old age or something, we have a procedure for that and then we end up with a president Harris who will probably be swell!

Cheeto Hitler (NOT THAT MUCH YOUNGER) is probably never going to die bc he’s like a cockroach, but if he got elected and did, we’d still have the axis of evil to contend with, who will be swiftly dismantling democracy as fast as their bloody, bejeweled hands can do it.

I mean... yes. This. You are not just voting for one person, you are voting for the entire team that you want to run the country. Biden is the manager and most prominent player on that team, but regardless of what SCOTUS says, he is not the only almighty god-king. When you vote for team blue, you are voting for the people who staff every federal agency, the cabinet picks, the judges who will be appointed (already the most diverse ever selected and a MAJOR issue due to the possibility of SCOTUS seats, which may be filled under Biden but WILL be filled under Trump when Thomas and Alito retire to make way for younger wingnuts), the ambassadors and diplomats, the people who make foreign and domestic policy. Etc. Etc. You are not only choosing one person, and as noted, if Biden God forbid DID bite the dust, there is a perfectly competent and indeed very historic replacement ready to take over. That is the Vice President's literal entire job and always has been.

When you vote for team blue, you are voting for a team of (for the most part) well-meaning, diverse, intelligent, qualified people who want to make life better for America/the world, and who genuinely believe in democracy as a concept. They are flawed, because they are human, but they are still by any reasonable metric the only choice at hand. That is because team fascist, uh, red, has literally descended to the depths of cartoonish and unimaginable evil and continues to make their intentions clear at every moment. Any argument to the contrary is thus delusional and wishful thinking. As such, I literally do not care if you think Biden is personally the antichrist. You are not exempted from the moral duty to do everything possible to stop the other guys from getting into power, and if that is voting for the team that Biden happens to currently manage, so be it. Anyone saying otherwise is either a Russian psyop, a tankie, a doomer, a bot, or an idiot, and none of those are your friend. Voting is the number one most repeatedly reliable tool at hand to fumigate fascists. I suggest we use it.

[godisarepublican]

How DANGEROUS and SENILE is Biden? The rest of the planet is so convinced they can see what Biden has planned that Poland announced that we can position nuclear weapons within their border

Here's a Newsweek article. Poland is saying that "NATO" can station nuclear weapons on their soil, along the border with the Ukraine. Because, you know, there isn't a nuclear war coming...

The Ukraine doesn't want peace. Google it: One of their conditions for peace, and this is the Ukraine I'm talking about, is that Putin and the rest of the Russian leadership has to all surrender for war crimes trials. The war can't end until that happens, according to Zelensky.

Does THAT sound like a reasonable, rational person who wants the war to end?

Then there's the terrorism. No, not just the recent Moscow terrorist attack where an "Iranian backed group" is infuriated with Russia for their excellent relations & trade partnership with Iran. Besides that. There have been terrorist bombings inside of Russia and even a fairly recent train derailment. And then there's the radiological bombs.

The Ukraine keeps trying to bust open nuclear reactors, spew their radiation everywhere, render vast treks of land uninhabitable while condemning all the contaminated people to a slow cancer death. There's been lots of such attempts, including attacks on one particular reactor THREE DAYS IN A ROW. When? Last week. But they weren't the only such attempts.

Biden insists that the United States is in a suicide pact with the Ukraine. And the Ukraine is doing everything it can to bring about that suicide.

End this. Stop it. If there's no other way then give all the aid to Russia, let them solve our problem for us.

The Ukraine crisis is very much like the situation in Gaza, where a genuine solution requires reasonable, rational people. Hamas isn't reasonable, isn't rational. If they were and honestly cared for the Palestinian people, they would have surrendered months ago, ending all the death & destruction. And the Ukraine isn't governed by reasonable, rational people. They're terrorists who are desperately trying to raise the stakes, provoke a nuclear war. They're also fascists who cancelled elections and persecute thought criminals, such as the Orthodox Church.

[wtf-tfw]

TOP 10 ACERBIC THWACKS DISHED OUT BY CROSBY IN GOMENS SEASON 2

an acerbic thwack is by definition, a sick roast or burn on another individual. crosby is in fact the master of acerbisms.

10. when he kissed Asmodeus on the checks and dropped him into the abyss taunting "SEE YOU NEXT MONTH, BEEEEYITCH"

9. When he retorted back after beign caught crying on the floor after hte Ball Scene with "At least I know how to button my pants properly"

8. "Don't tell the Bentley about my secret hobby you insolent peach"

7. When he told that Adam kid to "eat shit and die" and then punted the book of ineffable prophecies into the pond with the ducks

6. When he swallowed that rock after saying "And nobody can stop me from eating this rock, especially the likes of you"

5. when he told the undead fascist she "smelled like rotten pears"

4. When he told Azirple "You're older than the dinosaurs, you senile bitch"

3. "Flagrant misuse of the Hellish Doctrine. out of my SIGHT you little flea-bitten serf."

2. "You don't even know what it means to love someone. You're so caught up in what heaven is tellign you that you have thoroughly lost the plot, gay boy" (what a sass master)

When he swallowed another rock saying "Nobody can stop me from eating this rock either. even though it hurtes"

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

Marianne Williamson

(Madam President)

Stephen jay Morris

12/15/2023

©Scientific Morality.

All my life, I’ve been told that I exaggerate. Little did I know that this gave me the talent to work for the American news media! You should have seen the headlines of my local newspaper, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. For example, there was “The Biggest Rainfall Coming to L.A.! Many Will Drown!” And (my favorite): “Communists Rob a Grocery Store!” As it turned out, some Russian tourist had taken a red apple without paying for it. At the neighborhood food market, you could buy The National Enquirer. My favorite headline of theirs was, “I Had Gay Sex With John Wayne!” Of course, this was all designed to get you to buy the tabloid.

Well, nothing has changed since then. On cable T.V., they want you to watch their commercials, so they try to captivate you with sensationalism. “Oh! My! Bob!” or “Donald Trump wants to be dictator!” The fat fuck must have somebody tie his shoes for him, for Christ’s sake! Yeah! That’s right! Then there are the mouth pieces of the Right: Nick Fuentes, the Gilbert Gottfried of the gentile race! I am terrified of him. Matt Walsh, the Catholic mental case with a Fidel Castro beard. Dennis Prager, the covert narcissist who thinks God worships him. He would do anything for attention. If he was guaranteed survival after committing suicide, he’d do it. “Look at me everybody! I’m special!” Indeed, you are, Dennis; indeed you are!

Like the Navy versus the Army in football, the two-party system is going to last forever. Both parties are controlled by the 1%--the Conservative elites and the Liberal elites.

With all of these apocalyptic predictions and end-of-the-world scenarios, why even bother to vote? They want you to stay home.

Want to upset a conservative? Tell them that Trump is no different than Biden. Or tell a Liberal Democrat that Biden is like Trump! Watch the steam come out of their ears—like Herman Munster. They are both senile, old farts.

We’ve got the presidential primaries coming up, however, that’s all heading south. The Democratic Party’s Central Committee wants to cancel the primaries. The Democratic Party has already done so in Florida, but three other Democratic candidates are fighting the decision. Good luck on that score!

One candidate who’s caught my eye is Independent, Marianne Williamson. She is from the New Age Left. Though I despised the New Age movement in the 70’s, some new agers I’ve met are very Anti-Authoritarian Left. They and I are from the same generation of late Baby Boomers. We are both the romantic idealists of the counterculture. I can’t vote for Abbie Hoffman, he’s dead! So, I’ll vote for the Hippie candidate.  Williamson’s policies are like those of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR never survived to implement his “Economic Bill of Rights,” so maybe she can continue FDR’s reform of America.

She is not Christian. So, what! I don’t give a poop if she channels Elinore Roosevelt! If she can help put America back in order, my vote is for her.

And now, what’s this shit about Trump wanting to make America fascist? With what army? The orange puke can’t even navigate a ramp! To accomplish it, he’d need the support of the 1%, the U.S. Military, the CIA, FBI, Wall Street, mainstream Protestant denominations, and other establishment entities. Do you really think that Trump has the support of the CIA? Me neither.

With all the hysteria going on, I say, bring it on! Hail, Trump!

Just kidding.

Marianne Williamson for president! I’m not kidding.