“I don’t get it. It’s a supposed blue state so I had to be blue to get the rubes to vote for me. Now I’m in trouble anyway so maybe the red rubes can save me so I’m switching. I’m a politician, I don’t understand what the hubub is all about? It’s your fault for not knowing we’re all pieces of shit!”

The problem is that the new media is being bought by billionaires and their personal interests. There is no one who will fund the “tax people like me broadcast company” for the left. All major media, whether new or legacy, whether right or “left” are a cudgel to beat the working class in the class war. The left/right descriptor is applied in reference to their stances on social issues that don’t cost anything but nice cheap words, like whether transgender people should have rights.

This is asymmetrical warfare. The billionaire class have all the means to propagandize and we have to rely on having some really good individuals hopefully get popular enough to spread naturally.

While the issues of marginalized peoples are very important, as you can see from the exit polling most people of all stripes are concerned about economic issues (the class war) and no media will properly address that as it doesn’t suit their desires (fabulously wealthy newscasters) or their owners.

Apparently a big part of Elons attempts at voter outreach for Trump were to encourage “bullet ballot” votes (only voting for the president and leaving everything else blank), which is also what caused some scare about potential voter fraud when the very large increase of bullet ballots were noticed. He had teams of people reaching out to “low propensity voters” and trying to convince them to simply show up and vote for Trump, not to worry about knowing anything else. So that actually worked in Trump’s and Musks favor as far as simply getting them in, but there was little consideration for the state that would leave the party in.

(My personal bias would say neither Trump nor Musk give two shits about Republicans, or anyone but themselves, so Musk gets the position to further enrich himself and protection from investigation he wanted and Trump gets the same.)

There is also the issue of the media, when a fox news or the like paints Trump as dogmatic savior, only he can save you, then that leaves a lot of people feeling like only he matters so they don’t pay much attention to who else they should vote for.

Breaking news: yet another fox picked to lead one of many hen houses.

"and saw in this future “possibilities of such enormous human progress as to stagger the imagination.”

The next several decades would prove Luce right, as the United States emerged from World War II as one of two global superpowers and, arguably, the world’s preeminent cultural and economic force. Luce, who was a Republican, intended his broadside to serve as a template for conservative internationalism — in effect, a powerful response to the party’s isolationist, America First wing. But this concept — of America as a friendly goliath, the “Good Samaritan of the entire world,” promoting democracy, capitalism, trade and international order — guided the thinking of most policymakers and politicians across the political spectrum for the better part of a century.

Until now."

Barf…

“Until now.” Lol

"possibilities of such enormous human progress economic consolidation as to stagger the imagination.”

“this concept — of America as a friendly goliath, the “Good Samaritan mob enforcer of the entire world,” promoting democracy, capitalism, and trade and international order —”

There, fixed.

Unfortunately I just kinda wing it with everything I make so I couldn’t tell you measurements, but it’s basically garlic and onion powder, thyme, cayenne pepper, black pepper, and paprika. Other than that it’s just a matter of coating the burger with butter and the seasoning and cooking it on high heat then top it with the Bleu cheese and caramelized onions!

I used to be a Wendy’s guy 100% but after moving and being far from any fast food, they’re all kinda gross now unfortunately. I kinda miss liking Wendy’s lol

Now it’s my blackened burger with Bleu cheese and caramelized onions all the way! Goddamn it now I need to make one tomorrow…

Elon:

“un-American??”

“And buying an election, buying a position within government, buying a propaganda machine, is American? Ok, well maybe that actually is American.”

A spoiled rich kid. I want to have a life I’ll never know in this one, a life without real worry and to actually own a home. A life of stability and unlimited possibilities with all the time in the world to train for whatever I would want to do/become.

This life, living in someone else’s garage while still spending 1/2 of my income on rent and no hope for future advancement and knowing that the only financial stability possible would require marriage/a second income, and that it just isn’t in the cards is not a fun life.

“like arresting Attorney General Merrick Garland”

…Yeah… Not a bad idea honestly. I’m no lawyerologist but criminal negligence could be applicable to that feckless jerk.

My stepmother years ago while sitting in front of her child: “I don’t really care about climate change, I’ll be dead by then!”

Magoos: But weren’t we supposed to hate him unless we lived in Florida? I need to keep up with The Days of Our Trump’s. The show is moving too quickly!

“you would never nominate a respectable (lmao) moderate like Garland!”

“Ok, I nominate Garland.”

“YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO DO THAT! NO WE CAN’T ACCEPT HIM, IT’S TOO CLOSE TO AN ELECTION!”

Slightly dramatic recreation of actual events. Fuck the dishonest GOP bullshit.

(That was almost a full year before the 2016 election… RGB dies the month before the 2020 election and Mitch McDemonturtle pushes her replacement through.)

Funny enough the conspiracy theories were how I even got interested in politics to begin with! I always had a special hatred for Bush, but after being exposed to the 9/11 conspiracies I fell down a rabbit hole, crossed paths with Infowars for a bit, and finally dug myself back out to “reality” taking a brief tour of “maybe the Democrats actually give a shit about people.”

…yeah. We don’t actually have a party for the working people. Things are going to have to get rough for things to change :(

Maybe the media themselves shouldn’t have been running around talking about the absolutely massive and devastating defeat the Democrats suffered the day after the election… Maybe they should have waited for all the results?

Nahhh… Clicks clicks clicks! It’s all that matters! Money money money!

All corporate media:

Mmmm, Looks great!

I loveeeee making foccia! I made a sausage stuffed foccia bread and topped it with some rosemary and caramelized onions just this last weekend since the sausage was on sale lol

I think if anything the riots/strikes would be better than actual violence. Basically any direct sustained threat to their incomes will force some kind of change… anything short of that and these people will just continue to buy elections and buy the people who run. Threats to life might make things worse, but I think the “ownership class” need to be reminded that they can only fuck around so far until they “find out.” The only meaningful changes in society in relation to the owning classes came from violence.

The older I get and the more things I witness like Citizens United happen, the more economically rightward both parties become, the more ruthless the Republicans become to be rewarded by The Base, the more feckless the opposition becomes. The more we vote and Democrats do nothing, or just enough Republicans win to stop them. We vote and the people we vote for suddenly go “oops I was actually a consevative the whole time!” The more time passes the more I realize organized violence or riots are really are more than likely the only things that will actually change anything. The older I get though the more I realize that will never happen.

We’re all far too “civil” and hope voting for the oligarch lite will save us. We’re far too propagandized and are denied the only real changes we need to how we vote to stop this trend. We will have to be pushed until it’s really really really bad for anyone to actually organize a revolt. By then it will be far too late.

Apathy helps the oppressor, but engagement hasn’t shown to have much of a positive affect either. :/

Donate to us, we gave Oprah too much!

Too bad the Democrats official motto is “when they go low, we sit here and do absofucukinglutly nothing but cry about it and let them tread all over us.”