at an OC protest watching resist lib moms get out of their porsche cayennes with “jail them” signs and i gotta say this does not feel like 2017. these people want blood
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Ukrainians are smart enough to know that the vast majority of Americans want to have their backs, and are fuming that their nation is betraying its allies.
This wasn’t sarcasm, I’ve worked enough customer service to know the Porsche Cayenne owning moms can be exceptionally vicious if they’re fired up about something.
They lost them years ago right?Republicans gave up on affluent educated suburban wine moms after Obama. They don’t think they need them to win and really don’t bother messaging to them anymore, unless that’s what Katie Britt’s disastrous SOTU response was supposed to be..
I genuinely think a lot of the partisan-ification of the AI hype in their direction (or by similarly disconnected Dems) is because they want to imagine that can replace ground game labor.
This is the demographic that stays at home while dad works but also has hired help for housekeeping, so they have oodles of hours and money to network...and they freaking use it, for better and for worse.
(But just so you know, since I see you’re also autistic - the quote is “to shreds, you say” …with “you say” being like a colloquialism such as “don’t you know” at the end of a sentence. I hope that makes sense?)
They're really fucking up everyone's medical school related stuff, medical school is insane and hair raising as it is without the executive branch fucking it up more
I think the federal grants stuff is hitting a lot of people hard and fast already
The medical schools are a great argument against pre-compliance. They were all politically afraid to link arms with the AMA and WHO to stand up against the weaponized, anti-science transphobia of this election, but that didn't protect them from the gutting of NIH funding and grants.
I know everything they're doing is dumb, chaotic and cruel but the US has a shortage of medical professionals and its difficult for my mind to process that they're doing *all this* during a shortage of medical professionals
it’s definitely a shortage of medical workers which is why the conditions in medicine are so bad. we produce like 2.6 doctors per 1000 people compared to like 4.0 in Spain and Italy, 4.3 in Sweden, 3.4 in France and 5.4 in austria
Both things can be true. Drs make a crazy amount of money (hey, medical school debt) and nurses make decent wages. They both can work insane hours. But the supporting positions? Like physical therapists? I don’t think medical providers even give them enough respect & they’re a legit need.
They want to break everything. Not even planning on privatizing it all. There will be costly consequences for our entire society. But it will hurt them, less.
We're also in a general state of disbelief that they're burning down a medical research apparatus that is the envy of the world *and* the driver of a very profitable pharmaceutical industry that seems to be doing nothing to push against the changes.
OC had an all-Dem Congressional contingent after 2018. The white trash with money are mostly dead, retired, or took their swollen equity and bought giant houses Inland or in AZ/UT/TX. East/SW/South Asians replaced them.
Huntington Beach is the last holdout of WTWM, which is precisely why it's so radically right-wing and also one of the most morally degenerate places on earth. (Ugly, too. Nothing but strip malls and crowded subdivisions behind block walls. Board flat and sunblasted.)
I want Elon Musk to spend the rest of his life in a jail cell. Every day that he’s out walking around is another day we’re pissing on George Washington’s grave
yeh same. Whether it's because I'm just trying harder (and living elsewhere) or there really is a shift, I'm finding Serious People now where I felt like last time was...I don't know. Less so.
Good, maybe they even spilled some liquid IV or local brew when they cornered too fast in a school zone.
Paint them any way you want! They’re pissed when humanity loses face and that’s the point. JD Vance will be under indictment before this is over. So will Musk.
Still kind of annoyed about guillotines getting turned into a generic eat the rich thing instead of the instrument through which the republic is purged of its reactionary enemies.
They voted for him after 1m americans died from covid, after he attempted a coup, after he stole and solid the nation’s most sensitive secrets, and after he was convicted of rape. There is no low enough that will make them change their minds, because they sold their souls a long time ago.
Saw this same "energy" during Bush's era. It doesn't mean a Liberals decorum fa*t. They were awarding him medals a few years later and coo-ing over his paintings.
We already know this society is accelerating from other less subtle signals, but still wild when you see that kind of determination from that type of person
he might as well have done a Press Conference, and said "I am directing DOJ to not investigate any Republican - especially donald trump - for any crimes they have done"
Yes. The oath to "defend the Constitution of the united states....according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." It reads:
The disconnect between leadership and grassroots is wild. I get that appealing to activists can be a trap, but it looks like shit will get worse much quicker for everyone and the first leader who can channel this anger effectively will have significant power
Imo the idea that appealing to activists is a trap is the real trap. The GOP has done incredibly well by appealing to activists on the one hand while trying to turn less engaged voters into activists on the other.
“Not appealing to activists” just gets you an angry base and people who don’t care.
The way democrats use it, the idea that “appealing to activists is a trap” is a simply a dishonest excuse to listen to your donors instead.
Exclusively listening to out of touch rich people because they pay your bills is a much more dangerous trap than listing to your most passionate voters.
There are real problems there, on occasion. The police are still broadly popular, and going against them hard really does lose support, for instance. So I understand the fear behind it among certain Dems, but the endless pivot to the center is so enervating
To me, the most interesting data point of the last election was that the people who most over-performed Harris were Tester and Osborne in the Senate, but AOC matched their numbers. I don't think it's just policy--you also need authenticity, and that's what gets consulted out of the party too often
My suspicion is police will be very unhappy as the economy goes majorly into the tank, and, for their kids' sake, as universities get way cut back, and govt jobs totally disappear. Plus a gazillion govt contracts gone.
And, nobody likes Putin. Or traitors. Kings too. (I hope!)
Hate to say it but it’s going to take a coalition of enough republicans to grow a pair and break ranks at a level where they can help the dems block legislation. All the very angry rural town halls etc are a great start there.
We're going to have to take back power from people who do not want to give it up, and we're going to have to put them in jail to stop this from happening again. We need a different type of leader clear-eyed about what we're really facing
this is especially urgent, because look at what the "opposition" establishment thinks is necessary to meet the moment. nothing in this list involves making people's material conditions better, its all propaganda for status quo capitalism that got us here
That isn't the party, that's a Republican-funded think tank. Which is not to say we don't have problems in that direction, but those fuckers are *not* official.
Yeah, it's not good but also they're going to go up against a sea of incandescent rage from the base that seems like it's going to spread pretty far as things progress
At first I thought the people you were referring to were the Democratic political consultant class, and I was like "they can squeeze into whatever space is left in the airlock after the J6ers take their seats."
This seems really evident from both most of human history and how quickly we desperately latch to the next thing (*ahem* protonmail looking not great rn, for instance)
Saw an avg looking, boomer aged, white, one man protest in a rich neighborhood in Fort Worth Texas with a “we elected a fascist” sign. It’s not 2017 for sure
I remember someone noting that Luigi had even gotten the wine moms nodding along to his manifesto. Definitely feels like a page has turned, but then I also felt that way during Occupy Wall Street and the George Floyd protests. Let's all push so the oligarchs can't stifle this movement!
I'm in one of the richest towns in America (my girlfriend's electrician dad bought cheap a long time ago), and the kids here idolize luigi and make assassination jokes all the time. I'd tell them to behave, but who has time when you have to work overtime to afford eggs?
Went to one of the Tesla protests yesterday and a whole lot of signs and chants had a "we need to [redacted] these despots and oligarchs" vibe from a crowd full of lib moms and retirees.
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Also couch fucking signs. So many couch fucking signs.
... someone had to protect that couch he was on 🤣
who knew after all these years those would come in handy as a condom
They’re vicious.
To shreds, you’ll say.
This is the demographic that stays at home while dad works but also has hired help for housekeeping, so they have oodles of hours and money to network...and they freaking use it, for better and for worse.
This is a better use.
(But just so you know, since I see you’re also autistic - the quote is “to shreds, you say” …with “you say” being like a colloquialism such as “don’t you know” at the end of a sentence. I hope that makes sense?)
I think the federal grants stuff is hitting a lot of people hard and fast already
Plus, a lot of people know federal workers
The federal govt is gonna pay for my degree in bureaucratic bullshit one way or another.
"Why yes, let's fuck over all the people with the degrees in dealing with us and organizing people. That will go well."
They want to break everything. Not even planning on privatizing it all. There will be costly consequences for our entire society. But it will hurt them, less.
And all of his baby mamas forced to watch
Paint them any way you want! They’re pissed when humanity loses face and that’s the point. JD Vance will be under indictment before this is over. So will Musk.
Any day he could have called up and said hey bro, you working on this right?
666 days from inauguration to Jack Smith SMDH
The Dem Electeds, the Biden Administration in particular, clearly had no interest in prosecuting J6, or enforcing the constitution
666 days from inauguration until the Jack Smith appointment
That alone is evidence that Biden had no interest in prosecuting
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/president-elect-biden-wary-trump-focused-investigations-sources-say-n1247959
You’re absolutely right.
We don’t want him jailed.
We want his head on a pike on the White House lawn
Absolutely.
To imagine her saying that is to imagine a completely different party than the one we have
Which is what we really need
A party that is aggressively opposed to the right, aggressively populist, aggressively inclusive
“Not appealing to activists” just gets you an angry base and people who don’t care.
Exclusively listening to out of touch rich people because they pay your bills is a much more dangerous trap than listing to your most passionate voters.
And, nobody likes Putin. Or traitors. Kings too. (I hope!)
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Not even close.
So much violence is coming. I’d be prepared, if I were you.