i understand why people think chuck schumer tweeting about tomato prices is lame, but do we all just forget that until yesterday the consensus left, right, and center was that harris lost because of inflation and that no one cared when dems said trump was an authoritarian - ThreadSky

zeitlin.bsky.social • 44 days ago

i understand why people think chuck schumer tweeting about tomato prices is lame, but do we all just forget that until yesterday the consensus left, right, and center was that harris lost because of inflation and that no one cared when dems said trump was an authoritarian

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shagnasty.bsky.social•44 days ago

I think there’s a difference between warning that Trump is an authoritarian when he’s a candidate and objecting to his unlawful usurpation of power as it is happening

euphman210.bsky.social•44 days ago

Maybe talk about both at the same time?

brendanamartin.bsky.social•44 days ago

It was the “consensus” among you and people just like you in the press circle jerking. It was certainly not the “consensus” among anti-fascists, of which you are evidently not one.

iyyiben.bsky.social•44 days ago

I don’t think the voters that decide elections are reading his posts.

meghanclare.bsky.social•44 days ago

fair, except we need people who can pivot a little more quickly when Elon Musk is staging a coup

bugstinker.bsky.social•44 days ago

i don't know if Elon is scandal proof like Trump though, seems like attacks are largely on him

georgiabluedevil.bsky.social•44 days ago

That "consensus" was manufactured by those who have a stake in it being right.

klausiedaimler.bsky.social•44 days ago

Good point. This is why good politicians plant a flag on what is right and the people will come to them when they realize it.

Churchill was sounding the alarm about Hitler during all of the 1930's when no one cared but they made him Prime Minister when appeasement failed catastrophically.

mmathog.bsky.social•44 days ago

Not Liberals.

chriroch.bsky.social•44 days ago

I kind of think the ability to take on new information and adapt to it is fairly important. Saying "Trump is an authoritarian (although many elite media types and oped boards think this is overblown)" is not the same as seeing entire federal agencies gutted and/or deeply compromised

valoisdubins.bsky.social•44 days ago

The problem is his framing.

It projects a “sit back and wait” strategy when people generally feel urgency is needed about a range of events.

gloriasin.bsky.social•44 days ago

I can shitpost about more expensive groceries but HE HAS WAY MORE POWER AND CAN DO MORE THAN THAT! An unelected foreign agent and his goons are taking over the Treasury NOW and he is talking about tomatoes instead? Which is the bigger problem?

catharsis23.bsky.social•44 days ago

Sure, but it's not election season right now. Being up in the polls doesn't get you anything 2 years out

timpranillo.bsky.social•44 days ago

Oh. Well then just ignore the fascist coup. Tomatoes it is.

benpiggot.bsky.social•44 days ago

That was then - the situation has changed in important ways since

monarchdiaries.bsky.social•44 days ago

A deranged drug addict has seized the US Treasury and will not give it back, but tomatoes.

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