There’s a storm coming. We all know it. And yet Americans are pretending that everything is normal.
by poop_scallions
There’s a storm coming. We all know it. And yet Americans are pretending that everything is normal.
by poop_scallions
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> Jonathan Karl is a straight-news reporter. He talked with Bill Kristol this week about a Trump second term and Karl might as well have been Ian Bassin.
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> Why is Karl so alarmed that he sounds like a pro-democracy activist?
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> Because he’s spent the last year reporting on Trump. He’s interviewed Trump and loads of Republicans. He told Kristol that 95 percent of the sourcing for his book came from Republicans, many of whom worked for Trump. And the picture they painted for Karl was dystopian.
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> * Acting appointments from top to bottom.
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> * A cadre of thousands of political appointees, vetted for personal loyalty to Trump, replacing career civil servants.
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> * An understanding among Trump lieutenants that they are free to break the law because they will be pardoned.
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> * An overriding desire on the part of Trump to seek retribution against perceived enemies.
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> Again—and I cannot emphasize this enough—this is not a prediction from me and my weirdo, Never Trump friends. This is what the people who worked for Trump believe he will do.
Dumbass neocon rag…..
The neocon’s policy positions and actions literally created the anger fueling Trump’s rise.
So if such a ‘storm is coming’ then let the neocons be the first to face its wrath.
The Democratic Party will survive and move forward.
No, we’re not. But some of us are limited to voting on election days, which I will be doing and I have no issue stating I will be voting Dem across all tickets.
Yes, I **KNOW** that not all Dems are good, but the Republican party’s transparency of how terrible they are does not in any way entice me to vote for them, only against them.
I don’t think it is us “pretending things are normal”that is the problem. It is that the media in general has normalized Trump. Now we’re stuck with a complete and utter lack of shame being a normal, or even expected, quality in political leaders, even for the highest office. I don’t know how we unfuck this.
Still gotta get up for work in the morning. Still gotta fucking pay rent, right? Still gotta feed myself and my family every day. Even though I KNOW shit is actively crumbling to the ground, I still have a life, for now.
There’s no storm coming.
Here’s what’s going to happen: In the 2024 election, Biden will win by an even larger margin than in 2020. In a few places, the fascists and other slow-witted and sore loser types will raise some hell. It will last one to two days.
With Trump out of the picture, the fascists will begin to eat each other in their quest to be the new Trump. This will take long enough so that appreciable numbers of Boomers die and the cartoon peril will be no more.
Way too much doom and gloom. Trump was elected by the Boomers and Silent Generation. They have just spent the last four years dropping in numbers by a few million a year.
Plus, incumbents have it easy. Last time Biden beat Trump on hard mode. Only real risk comes from Trump losing in the Primary to a someone who is not a serial loser.
Here’s an idea: Let’s put him in jail now and have the storm come while we are firmly in control of the institutions of power.
I don’t really think people are pretending it’s normal, but wtf are people supposed to do besides vote? Especially when the majority of people are one financial mishap away from being homeless and losing everything.
No, we’re certainly aware. The problem is that the people who have the power and authority to stop this are not doing enough, and not doing it fast enough. The only avenues available to the rest of us are ones that we dare not say out loud or put in writing.
I think less a storm and more a strike of lightning.
It is up to us to work the land and remove the flammable material. With the right conditions, lightning will strike bare and wet ground, not dry brush.
no, the media is pretending everything is normal. Many people realize that we are heading towards a breakwater that could hold the flood or break the damn.
I’m not
The election is still a year away. For now we still have to live our normal lives. There’s nothing we can particularly at this stage to stop Trump. That’s in the hands of our justice system until the election comes.
That isn’t true, all my gay friends and I have camp code names we chat about, which is half coping mechanism, half “seriously tho”.
The fuck there is. This is Q shite propaganda and it always has been. The only storm coming is the one over the Rockies tonight. Fuck this minority of MAGAtts. They are all hot air and vacant threats. Bring it seditionists, and be prepared to find out about the true silent majority.
Sure, just like there was a “red wave” coming.
Can we not feed into the crackpot “the storm is coming” rhetoric that the alt-right and Qanon use? Just using their language is enough to embolden them because they’re too stupid to even consider greater context.
Personally, not “pretending everything is normal” i am “dealing with the stress and bullshit the only way I know how” aka, going about my life as best I can because voting is literally the only thing I can do. I can donate and go to rallies all I want. In the end, voting is all that matters. It is not in my ability to control, so why face a storm that’s or may not come BEFORE it is here? It is enough to make me break.
To be fair nothing has been normal since like 2014
Not impressed with Kagan’s analysis. Bunch of assertions with no data backup. Trump lost big in 2020, and he continues to lose the center and the youngest voters coming of age.
What else am I going to do? Panic? What’s that going to do for my family? I’m not pretending it’s normal, just living under the threat of potential fascism doesn’t matter fuck all when I’ve got a mortgage to pay. Is my family paying attention? Why yes sir, we are. But “continuing to function” does not equal “pretending its normal” and I definitely don’t like the tone the media is suddenly taking. Get a grip.
Smells like bait.
No one is pretending that everything is normal. It’s just that the majority long ago decided they weren’t ever going to vote for the incompetent crooked ignoramus Trump ever again.
So, all of this whining and fearmongering for clicks, over an imbecile and his corrupted party who are doing worse and worse in every election since he slithered into power on a technicality, seems like nothing but self-serving tabloid media for corporate profits…and nothing more.
Personally, I’m not pretending things are normal. I’m just tired. My nerves have been fried since the 2016 election. I’m going to vote. I’m going to tell everyone I know to vote. But I’m fucking tired.
No, it’s stupid articles like this getting people scared and thinking he’s inevitable. The loser already lost once, and I don’t think he’s made more friends since then.
GOP had a chance to get rid of Trump after the 2nd impeachment but they are too big of cowards to do it.