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.
[ Post updated. ]
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.
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.