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.
Just heard the hardest slap-down of a woman, ever… She was complaining in the line at the store about how she’d just lost “her right to choose…”, and the guy behind her said something to the effect of “Does that mean I don’t have to ask you where we’re going to eat from now on…? ‘Cos, if I’d known that, I’d have voted for him…”
I don’t think he’s getting laid any time soon, from the look she gave him.
@Kirk
I put the query to Perplexity.ai as to how many votes are still outstanding and it said 16 million. What you state was bugging me as well. How odd that the 2024 total votes is approximately 155 million which matches (forgive if my sources and/or addition are off) the totals from 2020. I would expect a few million more this time around given that Total Hitler 100% was on the ticket with Total Hitler 150% as his VP. Surely the GOTV efforts would have flushed out more voters this time.
And to the contempt they showed for many more years than that–contempt for our rights, contempt for our dignity, and so on. I can’t count the number of “liberals” who were gratuitously rude to me and others, and who openly dismissed and mocked incidents of conservatives being deplatformed, demoted, fired, and debanked. Their contempt and their embrace of tyranny earns us the moral right to laugh at their anguish.
California misdemeanors now felonies…
Do not tell me I didn’t warn people… The normies are fed the f*ck up.
Look for some serious slam-back on Gov. Newsom’s refinery purge coming down, soon. With Trump and Vance in office at the Federal level, I think that the California environazi movement is in for some sad days ahead…
OMG…
Can you say “victory dance”?
Even the goddamn squirrels are tap-dancing on her political grave, now…
I first read “California misdemeanor” as “being a Californian”.
(from here.)
@pst314, who said:
Only in the evolutionary sense… If you still live there, you’re either very unlucky or you’re overdue for a visit from Mr. Consequence. My take on the whole thing is that they’re eventually going to run into some hard stops, and it’ll all come crashing down on them. What comes after? Up to them…
I do see the Feds intervening. Those refineries are a national strategic asset, just like the ports are. Commerce clause and all the rest…
We’re overdue for a legal principle that says you don’t get to make law or regulation that affects other states without their full consent. Californication should stop at California borders… I’d also like to see something done that says that if you drive your state into bankruptcy, then it loses state status, goes back to being a territory, and you have to reapply as a state once you unf*ck yourself. California could do with being broken up, as well… Too many disparate elements, too much space covered.
Many of the western states are quite similar; Eastern Oregon and Washington, for example? Precisely zero common interests or politics with the urban western counties making up the Seattle-Portland corridor. Break them up; split both states down the Cascades, and give each their own government. As it is, those of us in Eastern Washington have to put up with the major stupidities forced on us by just three urban counties: King, Pierce, and Snohomish. Outside the Puget Sound urban region, everyone is pretty conservative, but with the way they’re all run, we have to kowtow to their politics.
Nothing good will come out of this. I don’t think anyone seriously doubts that Trump deserved those criminal convictions.
On a political level, he represents a rejection of the sensible right-of-centre politics that have held sway for the better part of five decades – Reaganomics, the conviction that smaller government is better. He appeals to this only on a superficial level with his claim that he will fire bureaucrats. Really. We know how Trump operates. He fires people who disagree with him and installs yes-men. That is what he will do.
On a broader political level, he lied about the results of the 2020 election and corrupted the belief of so many in a fair and free electoral process that he may have done irreparable damage to the US democracy.
I realise this is a different view to that held by many on this page. That’s fine.
For those who didn’t notice, that’s a pastiche of a famous Frazetta painting:
@TimT…
I bet you done real good on all those tests they gave you, didn’t you?
Anyone who is serious knows the ‘criminal’ conviction is bollocks on stilts – Bragg found a compliant, complicit judge to magic paperwork misdemeanors into felonies by claiming they were, post-facto, federal campaign finance violations.
On a political level, he represents a rejection of the sensible right-of-centre politics that have held sway for the better part of five decades…
Ah, a visitor from Wolkenkuckucksheim.
@aelfheld, who rightly pointed out:
Not to mention the ex post facto bullshit required to make the E. Jean Carroll thing even possible. For a rape she said happened exactly as a Law and Order script laid it out, and wearing a dress that wasn’t produced until nearly a decade after the random time she said the rape happened…
Along with everything else they threw at him. While ignoring all the criminal activity of the Clintons and Bidens since for-freaking-ever. Haiti? Ukraine? Any of that ring any bells for you, Timmy? How about Burisma and Uranium One? The bullshit going on in Benghazi?
In order for anyone to believe Trump is a criminal while the rest of the crooks are innocent requires such ignorance and stupidity so as guarantee that the person mouthing it almost certainly graduated from one of our Ivy League indoctrination centers, probably Summa Cum Dumbass.
Yeah yeah, and the Schlaraffenland is calling for you, Herr Muldoon.
TimT delivered witty repartee…
In your case, Herr Tim, there’s a village out there missing its idiot. You ought to call them, let them know how you’re doing. They miss you, and your vacuous humor.
In order for anyone to believe Trump is a criminal while the rest of the crooks are innocent requires such ignorance and stupidity…
I am still marveling (having lived through the last five decades) at the notion that the EPA, DOE (both of them), Homeland Security, Amtrak, Obamacare, and all the similar stuff that has accreted over the last 50 years are apparently exemplars of center right small government.
Hey, I’m all for political figures to be prosecuted for crimes committed in office.
Except that nobody ever gets prosecuted. If the truth about most Beltway types were known, they’d all be in jail several times over.