Crypto Hitlers, Everywhere!
Because I like to bring comfort to those in distress, How To Avoid Tears And Pretentious Agonising:
And at this terribly difficult time, for some, do spare a thought for this tightly-wound progressive gentleman, presumably now trembling at the prospect of some Trumpian Sturmabteilung. Oh, and this madam here, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones. The one rendered distraught by a flight attendant’s courtesy and its ominous implications for the future of the world.
Update, via the comments:
Writing in the Guardian, the left-leaning novelist Francine Prose is not, I fear, taking recent developments well:
Following the above, those unhinged leanings really kick into gear, with the inevitable mentions of Hitler, Stalin, dictatorship, people thrown from helicopters, and “the imprisonment and execution of those who disagree.” A feverish, dystopian drama in which, one assumes, Ms Prose anticipates a starring role.
Consider this a post-election open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Can’t wait to see which of the slebs who vowed to leave the US actually does!
Not entirely unrelated.
See also.
Someone’s not coping well at all… but the little woman is handing it a tad better.
According to MSNBC, the huddled masses of the world are “extraordinarily alarmed and terrified” by the election result.
I don’t think they get out much.
Oh, and Elon Musk’s X is “a white supremacist site.” According to those sober intellectuals at the Atlantic.
And the novelist Francine Prose tells us, via the pages of the Guardian:
Not sure whether to suggest upping the dose or lowering it.
But…but…she manifested blast it! How could the Bad Orange Man have won after the manifesting! Nothing makes sense anymore.
Will now retreat to the kitchen to bang my head off the cabinets.
Has Portland been burned to the ground yet?
Mark Hamill hardest hit.
It should be considered a promissory contract and I’d greatly enjoy someone with money to burn taking them to court in a class action for fulfilment of their obligation. It’d never get off the ground but it might cause a bit of puckering among the glitterati before someone expensively explains the law to them.
Pity.
Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom:
I am not voting for Donald Trump today, and here’s why
There must be / 50 ways to leave Big Brother
Bette Midler says “pikers!”
Should we visualize that as a young Luke Skywalking screaming “Noooo!” or an old Luke Skywalking drinking milk?
How will people like Robert De Niro cope when the fantasized hit from Donald Trump never occurs because . . . De Niro is just not that important?
This election has shown that the MSM and celibrities (with many in the former assuming they also are in the latter) have had their perception of relevancy shattered.
Has anyone checked in on Keith Olbermann?
The TikTok weeping begins.
He no longer calls himself an American.
Also, he’s never going to buy a Tesla.
NGL, as a mom, this made me smile.
Performative TikTok meltdown #3,029.
Question asked.
Spitting absolute truth: “this is the revenge of the working class American.”
Oh, I hope so, I hope so:
One of the many reasons to vote against liberals.
“Drums. Drums in the deep. They are coming.”
–liberals
He is coming.
Heh.
It looks like Trump Derangement Syndrome will have to be added to the DSM and/or the ICD soon.
Can anyone tell me what time/station The View is on in the Eastern Time Zone? It is on today, yes?
Election thoughts:
Harris as of 7:30 central time has issued no statement.
Republicans got poll watchers out with lawyers to stop mischief and they also emphasized getting out the vote.
Wayne post–the guy is great
Unions: one outcome of the dock workers strike was it came out that half of the union workers are not actually working but are kept on due to past clauses that automation would not reduce jobs. They automated in spite of having to keep paying these tossers. Lot of feathers in that feather bed.
The media: I don’t care that the media pick a side and beat that drum. What bothers me is the lying. Making shit up out of nothing. And of course burying the inconvenient stories. Hiding all evidence of Covid side-effects. Russia-Russia-Russia where they reported the most insane things but never mentioned that the key document was produced by Hilary’s minions and was entirely made up. Refusing to report that the gov was flying illegals in themselves. ad nauseum.
Please don’t hold your breath. You’ll just turn funny colours and fall over.
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She’s a professor, you know.
‘Trans daughters’. Plural.
Seems unlikely they can handle much of anything. Especially the word ‘no’.
Patience, weedhopper.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
The theatrical hysteria is quite bizarre. We’re going to need gift bags of Thorazine.
The thing that the Democrats and their flying monkey minions can’t seem to comprehend is that they are the ones who lost this election; Trump did not “win” it.
The Tea Party was the sane majority in the US saying “Hey, this is not what we want; we won’t tolerate this…”, followed promptly by the elites turning on them for having the temerity to have and express an opinion on how the country was being run.
Trump term I was a warning shot across the bow. In reaction, they triple-downed on the whole thing and cheated Obama term III into office in 2020. Yesterday was the retributive slap on the nose by the electorate.
Trump would not be in office, were it not for all of that. Most people voting for him are like me; merely voting against that which does not work, namely the Democratic Party and its ilk.
Frankly, if the Democrats had put up a “sane and competent” option, I’d have voted for it. They cannot, however… Madness is their brand, their means, their everything.
Watch what happens. I don’t think they realize how close we are to an actual civil war in this country. Trump is a symptom, more than anything else.
The rest of the world ought to be paying attention, because they’re not going to get a second chance. Trump was more right than wrong, about a lot of things: German subsidization of Russia led directly to Ukraine, yet who was it they laughed at when Trump pointed it all out? Merkel ignored him; Putin took all that grift and used it to kill. If they’d have listened to Trump, Ukraine would never have happened.
Lotta crap like that.The Euros need to wake the hell up, and recognize just how much their own politicians have done against them. Going back to them selling the wherewithal to Saddam Hussein and Khadafy; Oil for Food ring any bells?
And, again… Who was expected to unf*ck all that? Why, yes, yes it was the United States. Whose citizens remember the contempt shown for them in European capitals.
I’m telling you what… The day I ran across shipping crates for embargoed military goods that were shipped into Iraq through Jordan by our good European “Allies”, I began questioning a lot of the “conventional wisdom” of NATO. The alliance appears to consist of Europe conducting itself such that it makes money whenever and wherever it likes, then blithely expecting the US to clean up after the aftermath with blood and treasure. Europe has a 450 million population; why is the US the one doing all the dirty work? Is Europe acting to keep the Red Sea open? Why is that trade corridor something the US is apparently mostly responsible for?
Y’all are going to miss the alliance, once it’s over with. And, let me emphasize this: It isn’t ending because of Trump. It’s ending because the people who vote for the US government are done with playing the sucker for Europe as a whole. Europe is going to have to either accept being perpetually victimized on the world stage, or its going to have to start pulling its own irons out of the fire.
My guess? Europe breaks up, with the sane Scandinavian and Eastern European nations continuing to act sane, and the rest going down the road that Spain went, once the silver and gold ran out back in the 1600s.
Dollars to doughnuts he got just what he voted for. He just didn’t bother to look at what that vote entailed.
Surely there are sanctuary cities for the criminally insane?
Funniest deepfake satire i’ve seen. But the day is young. https://x.com/MidnightMitch/status/1854048817076634069
On evidence, they’re running them.
Has Portland been burned to the ground yet?
Fear not, the vaunted Bike Rozzer Flying Squad is out in force.
Seattle, OTOH, got an early start to Riot Season.
I think you intended a different link.
Was it HUMAN ERROR again?
See? Now you’re the problem. 😉 I thought we discussed this here and we were on the same page, somewhat. Voting for the man, not the principles is the Latin American, caudillo way. Though in extreme circumstances, perhaps with an authentic Hitler or such* I could see that. But Hitlers, etc. are leftist one-and-done democrats.
*Possibly, posssssibly vote D if the R is a ridiculously obvious RINO but that only works if you can get a loud, critical mass and a few well known and respected proper true conservatives or classical liberals working with you.
Was it HUMAN ERROR again?
No.
Global warming, disinformation, Russia, and GenZ code monkeys.
When my comments get screwed up, I blame the PST314 COMMENT-O-MATIC 9009, which has fat fingers and occasional CPU glitches.
[ Wipes bar with questionable cloth, whistles nonchalantly. ]
Election trauma results in ripped clothing, bare flesh.
A slight whiff of the performative about that scene.
Hoping you’ll post the correct link.
Everybody stare intently. That will help.
Eagerly waiting for someone more skilled than I am to put together a montage of the news readers melting down. Young Turks’ should be interesting.
Hoping you’ll post the correct link.
With the Link-O-Matic 9000™ who know, but this should be it.
I’m serious about The View thing. AIUI, it’s on at 11AM EST on ABC. It would be awesome to drive their ratings up for just one day.
@WTP, who said:
The thing here is that for the Democrats to put up a sane and competent option…? That would require so much change that the party doing it wouldn’t be the Democrats anymore.
I don’t know that I agree with your take on the “caudillo way”, though. You’re missing the real point with that; the “caudillo” sort of leader is one with a cult of personality, not a “cult of principles”. I don’t vote for the man, I vote for his record, so far as I can tease it out.
And, I’ll be the first to acknowledge: In both 2016 and 2020, I voted more against the Clinton/Obama machines than I did for Trump. I mean, I was pleasantly surprised by Trump’s performance in 2016, and wanted more of it, but to be quite honest? I was disappointed by his transition and the fact that he was so damn trusting of the arseholes in the Republican party with his his appointments. He had more people working against him in his administration than he had working for him, and if he doesn’t recognize that and correct that mistake in this one, he’s not going to have much of an historical legacy. Once? I’ll ascribe that to inexperience and trusting the wrong people. Twice? No, dude… You’re part of the problem.
Hopefully, that won’t happen this time around.
American politics is broken, right now. Trump is a symptom of that; were our “elites” halfway sane, he’d have never gotten near the office he just won. The fact that he’s won two (really, three…) elections is an indictment of our political class for their arrogance and incompetence.
The fact that he’s mostly managed to do a better job than them? Dear God, but is that a telling thing…
[ Hires bum to loiter outside and burn Farnsworth’s coat every day for a year. ]
In Wayne’s linked post: “This is why there’s such a push to weaken education, ban books, and outlaw the teaching of black history by the Republican party”
How about “This is why there’s such a push to enforce education standards and reduce indoctrination, ban sexually explicit books for children, and outlaw racist indoctrination by the Republican party”
[ Hires bum to loiter outside and burn Farnsworth’s coat every day for a year. ]
The Muldoon Institute and Plantations have devised a fabric made of asbestos, Nomex, and tungsten fibers from which all my coats are made, so good luck with that.
However, the Institute has also formulated a unique anti-scabies ointment which you will surely need after handling all those bums. For you there will be no charge.
That would be books of this kind. The ones extolling the thrills of “vagina slime,” fellatio and “strap-on hotness” – for eleven-year-olds. And masturbating while driving. Oh, and whoring as a valid and empowering lifestyle choice.
Again, for eleven-year-olds.
Readers with children aged eleven, or with nephews and nieces that age, may wish to keep them in mind when following those links.
Not unfair.
@ccscientist, who said:
The total unreality in what Wayne linked to is the real problem, here. The people spouting that crap actually believe it, and they’re so self-unaware that they can’t recognize what the hell they’ve been doing for decades.
I’ll give you a little hint about how far back this goes, and how deep it was, even then.
Have a little look around the internet for something called “Transactional Analysis”. There was a part of that whole program/movement that was termed “TA for Tots”, which was a huge part of the underlying educational zeitgeist of the early/mid-1970s.
I’m not going to interpret that crap for you; you should do so yourself with an open mind. Just look it up, read through it, and recognize this fact: It was created by groomers, for groomers, and meant to make it oh-so-easy for groomers to worm their way into a child’s trust. On the surface? All the normies missed it; it’s still out there, as an “old thing”, with few recognizing it for what it was. If you went through the indoctrination, you’ll remember it. Likely as a weird thing the adults were doing…
The key thing in it was how they framed things for the kids. If you were a good little person, you were supposed to be enamored of giving away “warm fuzzies”, good feelings, while avoiding giving anyone “cold pricklies”, that might hurt them. So, if an adult wanted to cuddle, and you did not? You were giving a “cold prickly”, and a bad person.
I think most of us can do the math on that one, as adults and being aware of how grooming works. The entire program was meant to inculcate the destruction of agency for children; they were bad for not giving away “warm fuzzies”, however the adult might define those. You gave anyone “cold pricklies”, an adult, a peer, a bully, an abuser…? You were in the wrong.
I thought the whole thing was sick and weird when I was a kid; today I still think that, and I believe it was all part of a program to deprive children of agency and make them ideal victims throughout their lives. I still encounter people who can’t seem to make themselves do anything other than please their abusers, and I think at least some of it started out with this crap back in grade school. The whole atmosphere was permeated with it, and I remember being alienated because of it. Something about it stunk, to my still-forming mind. Still does; I run into this mentality that “Transactional Analysis” inculcated to this day, and all the people with it are either victims or victimizers using it to manipulate the victims.
Weaponized passive-aggressiveness, basically. See the modern Democratic Party and its loyal adherents for myriad examples thereof…
To paraphrase slightly Kirk, all the dems had to do to win was not act crazy, and they could not help themselves. A leaky border they could have gotten away with, but they welded gates open and flew in people with FEMA $. The irony here is that hispanics voted 45% for Trump, so not as much a sure thing dem supporters as they assumed.
What does $88,000/year get you? Legos and coloring books.
@ccscientist,
I would like to propose that the real problem isn’t their inability not to “act crazy” (mostly because that’s precisely what they are, clinically insane…), but their inability to “act normal”. What we’ve seen over the last few generations is their true nature, which is dysfunctional and crazy.
Sweet babbling baby Jesus… Do you remember that Ted Kennedy was sending messages to Moscow about helping him effectively coup Reagan? All the intervening years of hypocrisy and deranged behavior by his party?
People are growing tired of it. Note the bar charts showing election stats from past presidential elections: Except for 2020, all the Democrat ones are flat; same number of hard-core crazies. It makes the steal in 2020 blatantly obvious, and I suspect that it’s going to be a massive problem for them going forward, because if they’d refrained in 2020, that would have given Trump a situation where he had the White House, but not the House or the Senate. They effectively gave him the keys to the kingdom, and have enabled him to build a long-term structure in place of the temporary victory they stole. Too stupid to live, really…
@Farnsworth M Muldoon, who said:
Any suck… Err… Student, yes, student… That fell for or falls for that scam is doomed to a lifetime of being defrauded.
The universities haven’t been a truly value-added proposition for most of my adult life. The tuition is abominable, and instead of graduating you with more and better thinking tools, they impose an indoctrination that leaves you utterly unable to function outside the straight-jacket they’ve equipped you with.
I honor scholarship and learning; two things the groves of academe have abandoned, along with the whole concept of “value for money”. It will be interesting to see what replaces them.
Let that sink it.
hahaha
a big big difference is that one party has a sense of humor and has fun. Oh, and does not burn thing down.
Democrats tomorrow: “How did we lose so many men?”
Spain is leading the way in blowing up dams in the EU, then blaming flooding on “climate change.”
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1853735470955413602
This. People forget that there are groups of Americans who wanted change. Closed borders (I remember that the “catch and release” policy operated under both D’s and R’s). No Obamacare (which recently admitted that it worsened health care for many citizens). Secure elections.
Obama sicced the IRS on the Tea Party and destroyed it.
I remember Pelosi and two Congresscritters walking through a Tea Party protest on Capitol grounds, trying to stir up a Reichstag fire. One of them even claimed that the black congressman received racial threats. Fortunately, video of their walk showed no such thing happened, and the story quickly died.
During Trump I, inflation was low, gas prices were low, and we weren’t sent into any new wars. When he had the temerity to ask why the hell we were in Afghanistan, the media laughed at him. What a rube.
(And when Shrub sent the troops into that benighted shithole all those years ago, I could see — having read the Flashman books — that it was a terrible decision. Sure, go in, blow shit up and leave. But no, two decades, billions in weapons and Americans killed is what we got. And Biden abandoning all the ordnance in the bug-out.)
It was about this time that I was listening to Hardcore History, and learning about the fall of the Roman Republic. Same script: a leader would arise (this time, over giving non-Romans citizenship for their help fighting the empire’s wars), only to be assassinated.
By the third time, they got Caesar and the end of the Roman Republic.
Well, they tried that with Trump, but God protects fools and America, and we bought ourselves some time.
The fact that Trump not only won in the Electoral College, but the popular vote, with a coalition of white racists, black racists, Hispanic racists, Jewish racists, and other racists, might dampen the fire a bit. In the meantime, they’ll be too busy in DC burning the documents and erasing the tapes.
You are forgetting that his cabinet had to be approved by a Senate that was not friendly to him. Especially not Mitch “The Turtle” majority “leader”. Also, 20/20 hindsight. Being a huge Yes, Minister fan I was afraid of him being a tad naive about the deep state. Yet even I was shocked by their insolence, obstructionism, and even downright treason. IMNSHO he did, and has continued to do, an amazing job. This political turn around has been incredible. I expect, hope, even pray that his team of Vivek, Elon, Tulsi, RFK, Jr., etc. will be far more effective and give him many more trustworthy eyes. None of what is ahead will be easy. The odds are incredibly long against him achieving even 20% of what he hopes to do.
While I do agree that Trump has significant cringe issues, by being something close to a real person he is significantly better than the vast majority of our nation’s political class, left or right. I cannot think of a single Republican since Reagan, and I even hold some reservations about Reagan, who hasn’t shown themselves to be a phony and/or a paper tiger. Vance, post-reconciliation with Trump has potential there. Ramaswamy has potential there. Tulsi Gabbard, not exactly a Republican Republican but certainly now more of a Republican than any past Republicans I can think of, has potential there. RFK, Jr. will always be a Democrat but at least he is somewhat sane. Not that I think he is all that sane.
Also the Beltway grifters who created fake Tea Party fundraising scams that siphoned money from citizens.
I forget who first wrote (I paraphrase):
Sounds kinda chafe-y.
I’m serious about The View thing.
Heh.
Farcebook certainly doesn’t.
A richly deserved comeuppance. Serious LOL.
Women asking why.
As if they, and their psychology, weren’t part of the equation.
Warren Smith parses some CNN commentary.
@pst314, who rightly observed:
Wrecking the Tea Party was most assuredly a bipartisan effort, and done with great malice aforethought. Who are these plebes to be telling us what to do?
I lay the destruction of it all mostly on the Republicans, which is why I feel that most of that party is unfit for governance. They acted with malice, deliberately setting up Tea Party-affiliated organizations for the IRS killshots. Using the same grifting creeps that drove many a reform-minded actual Republican candidate into bankruptcy and political loss.
Go back and look at how thoroughly the grifting creep “consultants” destroyed Sarah Palin, and with what deliberation. The Republican grifters in the Alaskan state political structure basically used the candidacy for Vice President to lure her out and into destruction, which they then enabled. All because she’d broken up their little fiddles and cartels across the state…
Had they left her in place to mature as a governor, I think she’d have been a definite force in later years, perhaps culminating in a real presidential candidacy. Which was why they took her out… Too much of a threat to the power structure.
The problem we have isn’t limited to the Democrats; it’s the entire shoddy edifice of national governance-by-the-elite. Which, it turns out, ain’t living up to the promise implied by “elite”.
Unless, of course, you mean “con artist and grifter” when you say “elite”.
Seriously? Whatever happened to “a half-pound of cocaine and a sixteen-year-old girl and a great big long limousine on a hot September night”?
Yesterday was a repudiation of all that has been going on since the Reagan years.
Even Reagan wasn’t what we like to remember of him; he was constrained by a vindictive and resistant Congress, as well as most of the “experts” in government.
They’ve had it very much “their way” ever since, and the people don’t like what they’re shoving down their collective throats. The results of this election speak for themselves, and I really hope that this is the start of the pendulum’s swing back towards the center. While I suspect it’s going to go too far, too fast the other direction, hopefully it will wind up closer to center again.
What people fail to recognize is that Trump and his policies? He’d have been well to the left of JFK… If he’d run in 1960, Kennedy would have been the conservative, and Trump the liberal.
Think about that, for a moment, and it will help you understand what has actually been going on all around you, these last few decades.
I should note that there were and are other such fundraising scams, urging conservatives to “fight the Democrats” by sending money–money which goes almost entirely to (1) fat salaries, (2) more mailing campaigns run for fat fees.
That.
It’s not just that we disagree about taxes or the usual stuff. It’s that the left lost its mind and started screwing around with kids.
And the left is increasingly open about their view that the State owns the kids. (Which is why parents should have no say in their education, etc.)
Only after the Republican party tossed them to the wolves.
@aelfheld, who observed, in reference to the Tea Party:
Yeah… See, the thing is, it was waaaaay more than that.
If you continue the metaphor, the Republican establishment invited the Tea Party types out to their dacha out in the country, offered them a sleigh ride, chummed the taiga for wolves after starving said wolves of their natural food sources, and then took them on that sleigh ride dressed in warm-weather street clothes… Only then did the sleigh-defenestrations commence.
It was their efforts that enabled Obama’s flying monkeys to do their thing, more than anything else. Only a few of the original Tea Party organizations survived the experience.
This is an excellent explainer for those who don’t understand how Trump won – and sort of a liberal Western anti-woke manifesto. Long but worth it, and excerptable:
https://jeffgoldstein.substack.com/p/i-am-not-voting-for-donald-trump
Those Brits are trolling us again.
Just in case I didn’t stress it enough, Establishment Republicans work with the dominant Democrats, creating a Uniparty to run the country and share the spoils.
Another incident I remember: the 2012 midterm elections (not a presidential election, but a vote for those senators (6 year terms), plus all of the House (2-year terms). Immigration was a big issue, and the GOP was running on the platform of “vote for us and we’ll stop illegal immigrants coming into the country.”
So we did. And a day or so afterwards, the chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Congress (which leans R) said, in essence, “you fucked up. You trusted us.” And the illegals continued to flow in.
That was so blatant a betrayal of a campaign promise that it caused a crack in the fabric of reality.
Yes, this election reflects an accumulation of myriad outrages and betrayals.
Why England, are you upset about something?
@Uma Thurman’s Feet
It only came as a surprise to those who ignored John McCain’s betrayal of his campaign promises…
The so-called “Republican” establishment is more establishment than Republican… And, not on the side of their voters; they’re on the other side, with the Uniparty.
We need, and I think we’re going to de-facto get, another party, one that is actually of the electorate, rather than of the parasite elites.
Eric S Raymond on what he personally wants from the election of Trump
Eric S. Raymond is another Musk-level autistic genius. I would never, ever put him in charge of anything political or military, but he’s brilliant within his arena. As is Musk.
That said, I think his essay there is absolutely spot-on. He expresses my take on Trump, as well; a flawed genius in his field, which is basically the same one that P.T. Barnum or Joan of Arc filled. His genius is basically “charisma”, “charm”, and “promotion”. Not to mention, from what underlying evidence I’ve been able to discover, he’s essentially a decent human being under all the bluster and self-promotion. There are too many incidents where he did something absolutely helpful for someone, and didn’t go publicizing it.
As such, I know what I’m getting in Trump… I think. I still have my doubts, but we’ll have to see. No matter what, he’s better than either of the Clintons or Kamala. That’s all he needs to be for my vote.
I do hope he does better on this round than the last. Hopefully, learning has occurred.
Classic David Burge over on X/Twitter:
I have to admit to being tempted, myself… I’ve been able to limit it to merely inserting an IV line and mainlining all the liberal tears.
Bette Midler says “pikers!”
Why does she have Drano in the refrigerator???
Seriously though – these leftie meltdowns are sweet music after what they put us through for the last 4 years. And after what they did to people who protested in the capitol on January 6.
After Britain’s election, I was worried we were about to get Starmered.
And even though the US is a Republic, and not a freakin democracy, it’s awesome he won the popular vote too.
I honestly think, at this point? We’re better off than if Trump had “won” in 2020. I think he did, but this election just made it so obvious that you can no longer deny it. Where the hell are those 20 million Democrat voters, this year? The numbers on their “victories” from 2008 forward are flat, until 2020; then they rocket up to 81 million. Which statistically ain’t ‘effing likely.
We had to go through Carter to get to Reagan; we had to go through Clinton to get Bush, and it appears we had to go through three effective terms of Obama to get to a second term of Trump, who had better have a come-to-Jesus meeting with capital-H history and actually do something effective with this victory he’s been handed by the electorate. If they manage to take him out? God help the incumbency in DC; they will have signed their effective death warrants.
To our UK brethren, take heart; you had to have Starmer to get to someone sane, because he’s going to make the dichotomy so clear that the next election will likely throw up a UK Trump or Thatcher. He’s a transitional character, just like Biden proved to be. Or, so I surmise.