Online liberals need to learn that only Democrats are subject to truth and reality. This is why things like "Haitians are eating the dogs and cats" and "Teachers can trans your little boy into a girl despite not having a medical license or operating theater, in one afternoon" can be ridden to electoral success. Conspiracies will only hurt the left especially as plenty of column inches will go to debunking those and providing an excuse for pundits to say, "look, both sides, the left is unhinged too." And there, the conservatives also get to win by playing the refs.
Recognize Murc's Law and adjust tactics accordingly. America's Pilonidal Cyst is a nexus of chaos but he can get away with being such because of the deference in the political and legal systems for the unreconstructed.
The problem is that we don't all share a reality anymore. There are no universal truths that we all accept. News sources are unreliable, everyone turns to the internet and believes what feels right to them. How to fix it? I haven't a clue.
I admit to initially thinking that the WHCD shooting was staged, but seeing that video of Miller grabbing his pregnant wife's breasts while using her a human shield, and one of RFK the Lesser running out, and leaving his wife to fend for herself, convinced me otherwise. No way those Alpha males (LOL) would let themselves look like the cowards they are in a staged shooting attempt. Also, someone at Wonkette pointed out that trump can't keep a secret, and would have blabbed about it by now.
It's not that trump is a liar, but that he's promoted conspiracy theories himself, if he thinks that they will help him. They have, but have also created this atmosphere that breeds conspiracy theories, and not all of them are to his benefit. The shooting conspiracy theories are a good example of that. It points to the fact that to a lot of people, if trump is involved, it's not real. He used conspiracy theories to get elected, but he's created a monster that he can't control.
I don’t think the WHCD attempt was staged but it’s very possible the shooter never got a shot off and the wounded SS agent was hit by friendly fire. A competent investigation should clear that up but Trump’s FBI has been gutted so who knows.
Maybe it's because Trump posts and talks about the smallest transgressions against him constantly. He can't shut up about any slight. And yet we hear crickets about the assassination attempts. There's the initial news coverage and then, nothing. Nada. It's like it didn't happen. Assassination attempts used to have wall-to-wall coverage for weeks. Now?
It’s possible to be amazed that Oswald (not a trained sniper, just an ordinary former Marine) could get to a vantage point unobserved where he got three shots off at JFK and two being head shots without also concluding that there was another gunman and Oswald was a patsy. Not to mention the bad luck of Ruby killing him before he could be interrogated and tried. Strange things often just happen and many Americans have a hard time processing that a lone nut could pull off taking out the most powerful man on Earth like that.
With Trump, it’s very odd that he came inches from death but never bothered to order his DOJ to investigate whether his attempted assassin was in cahoots with any of his political opponents, considering Trump has even ordered Comey to be prosecuted for a dumb “8647” post. It’s also weird that Trump doesn’t bring up his assassination attempt constantly the way he keeps going on about how unfairly he was treated in the Russia investigation almost ten years later. (It’s at least plausible his attempted shooter was connected with, or at least sympathetic to, his political opponents, and for Trump to just accept the Biden FBI’s assurances that he was a lone wolf is very out of character). It’s also weird for a coward like Trump who has a known fear of blood to pause for a photogenic fist pump, and for his SS detail to let him, while there was an active shooter. All very weird! However, if it was staged, Trump would have had to know it was staged (otherwise, no fist pump and much DOJ investigation for the next two years) and it’s hard to imagine Trump going along with a plot that could have killed him by mistake. Plus, he’s so demented he’d have given it away by now.
My theory is a lot of liberals believe the shooting was staged because it’s too upsetting to think America came THAT close to sprang so many lives Trump destroyed since then. And fuck Bill Maher fir saying that makes them bad people—he’s just a worthless asshole who deserves to hang with Fetterman.
Donald Trump has turned otherwise insightful, intelligent people into blithering paranoiacs. We have assassination conspiracies, election conspiracies, war conspiracies raining down on us daily, not from the right but from the left. Even those who don't buy into every crank theory have borrowed some aspects of it for their own purposes (were I in California I would not vote for Katie Porter in a primary solely due to her conspiratorial "stolen election" rants after Adam Schiff beat her in the Senate primary). It's tedious nonsense, an unwillingness to face things as they are, and keeps us from focusing on the bad things that actually *are* happening that we might be able to do something about.
It is unfortunate, but it’s pretty much what a serious statewide candidate has to do these days, and it doesn’t mean the election was rigged or stolen. Thanks Citizens United
I wouldn’t vote for her for a lot of reasons, but I am not a Californian so I don’t matter. But she certainly did say the primary election was rigged and dishonest. Which isn’t true, any more than it was when Trump said it. She just didn’t like the process. I can’t blame her, but that doesn’t mean there was anything rigged about it. It’s what we do post-Citizens United.
Online liberals need to learn that only Democrats are subject to truth and reality. This is why things like "Haitians are eating the dogs and cats" and "Teachers can trans your little boy into a girl despite not having a medical license or operating theater, in one afternoon" can be ridden to electoral success. Conspiracies will only hurt the left especially as plenty of column inches will go to debunking those and providing an excuse for pundits to say, "look, both sides, the left is unhinged too." And there, the conservatives also get to win by playing the refs.
Recognize Murc's Law and adjust tactics accordingly. America's Pilonidal Cyst is a nexus of chaos but he can get away with being such because of the deference in the political and legal systems for the unreconstructed.
The problem is that we don't all share a reality anymore. There are no universal truths that we all accept. News sources are unreliable, everyone turns to the internet and believes what feels right to them. How to fix it? I haven't a clue.
And this is all before AI infects everything.
I admit to initially thinking that the WHCD shooting was staged, but seeing that video of Miller grabbing his pregnant wife's breasts while using her a human shield, and one of RFK the Lesser running out, and leaving his wife to fend for herself, convinced me otherwise. No way those Alpha males (LOL) would let themselves look like the cowards they are in a staged shooting attempt. Also, someone at Wonkette pointed out that trump can't keep a secret, and would have blabbed about it by now.
It's not that trump is a liar, but that he's promoted conspiracy theories himself, if he thinks that they will help him. They have, but have also created this atmosphere that breeds conspiracy theories, and not all of them are to his benefit. The shooting conspiracy theories are a good example of that. It points to the fact that to a lot of people, if trump is involved, it's not real. He used conspiracy theories to get elected, but he's created a monster that he can't control.
I don’t think the WHCD attempt was staged but it’s very possible the shooter never got a shot off and the wounded SS agent was hit by friendly fire. A competent investigation should clear that up but Trump’s FBI has been gutted so who knows.
In Maladministration 2.0, competence is a liability.
Besides, their main business is chaos, and business is good!
Maybe it's because Trump posts and talks about the smallest transgressions against him constantly. He can't shut up about any slight. And yet we hear crickets about the assassination attempts. There's the initial news coverage and then, nothing. Nada. It's like it didn't happen. Assassination attempts used to have wall-to-wall coverage for weeks. Now?
Yep—these are very weird things.
It’s possible to be amazed that Oswald (not a trained sniper, just an ordinary former Marine) could get to a vantage point unobserved where he got three shots off at JFK and two being head shots without also concluding that there was another gunman and Oswald was a patsy. Not to mention the bad luck of Ruby killing him before he could be interrogated and tried. Strange things often just happen and many Americans have a hard time processing that a lone nut could pull off taking out the most powerful man on Earth like that.
With Trump, it’s very odd that he came inches from death but never bothered to order his DOJ to investigate whether his attempted assassin was in cahoots with any of his political opponents, considering Trump has even ordered Comey to be prosecuted for a dumb “8647” post. It’s also weird that Trump doesn’t bring up his assassination attempt constantly the way he keeps going on about how unfairly he was treated in the Russia investigation almost ten years later. (It’s at least plausible his attempted shooter was connected with, or at least sympathetic to, his political opponents, and for Trump to just accept the Biden FBI’s assurances that he was a lone wolf is very out of character). It’s also weird for a coward like Trump who has a known fear of blood to pause for a photogenic fist pump, and for his SS detail to let him, while there was an active shooter. All very weird! However, if it was staged, Trump would have had to know it was staged (otherwise, no fist pump and much DOJ investigation for the next two years) and it’s hard to imagine Trump going along with a plot that could have killed him by mistake. Plus, he’s so demented he’d have given it away by now.
My theory is a lot of liberals believe the shooting was staged because it’s too upsetting to think America came THAT close to sprang so many lives Trump destroyed since then. And fuck Bill Maher fir saying that makes them bad people—he’s just a worthless asshole who deserves to hang with Fetterman.
Donald Trump has turned otherwise insightful, intelligent people into blithering paranoiacs. We have assassination conspiracies, election conspiracies, war conspiracies raining down on us daily, not from the right but from the left. Even those who don't buy into every crank theory have borrowed some aspects of it for their own purposes (were I in California I would not vote for Katie Porter in a primary solely due to her conspiratorial "stolen election" rants after Adam Schiff beat her in the Senate primary). It's tedious nonsense, an unwillingness to face things as they are, and keeps us from focusing on the bad things that actually *are* happening that we might be able to do something about.
I am in California and Schiff absolutely teamed up with the tech bros to take her out. The commercials were relentless.
And? That’s garden variety politics, not stealing an election.
Yeah, reprehensible, but unfortunately, garden variety politics.
It is unfortunate, but it’s pretty much what a serious statewide candidate has to do these days, and it doesn’t mean the election was rigged or stolen. Thanks Citizens United
I have not heard her say it was stolen. But she did not take PAC money and he did. That alone makes me want to vote for her.
I wouldn’t vote for her for a lot of reasons, but I am not a Californian so I don’t matter. But she certainly did say the primary election was rigged and dishonest. Which isn’t true, any more than it was when Trump said it. She just didn’t like the process. I can’t blame her, but that doesn’t mean there was anything rigged about it. It’s what we do post-Citizens United.