Bdelygmia

Biblia abiblia

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@InternetHippo They did go through soul searching, as there were a few tense weeks/months in early 2021 where it wasn’t clear if they would try to move on from Trump. Lack of consequences for Jan 6 let the Trumpists reconsolidate power through inertia.

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@makercyandco @evamckend That’s always been the playbook. I feel like it ratcheted up in 08-10, but right-wing messaging about Democratic candidates’ policies have never been bound to the truth and are nonetheless very successful, as seen in other replies to this post

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@UndisputedCapo As always, Megumi Kudo

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@TentaclesOfYest @JeffSharlet ...but they don't understand it. They experienced the global pain of (post-)pandemic inflation & price gouging and punished the administration that tamed it better than any other country in the world. They elected people who promise to make the pain worse.

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@Beganovic2024 Anecdotally speaking, many people do not correctly assign policy positions to parties or politicians. It's real, real bad. The median voter truism continues to be "The problems are bad, but the causes...the causes are good."

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@MarkMarkdb @PaulaChertok @AshaRangappa_ Came here to remark on this. I go to nursing homes regularly for work and can't think of a time when Fox News isn't playing somewhere in each.

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@maklelan The ubiquity of Fox News in every nursing home and so many public spaces has me really having trouble finding hope that this could ever be reversed. So many voters are low information, and so many others are locked in these false narratives. I don't know how to fix it.

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@GhostBetsyRoss @JeffSharlet My self-proclaimed tiny social justice warrior daughter got bullied but Trumpist junior high students so hard at school yesterday she had to come home by noon. This was after asking if we were safe when I broke the news on the drive in.

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@kareem_carr I can't emphasize this enough to commentators -- the average person DOES NOT UNDERSTAND EXTREMELY BASIC POLICY, or even who's advocating what.

(thinking back to a friend who supported Rubio in 16 because she thought he was pro-choice)

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@biggB2024 @gtconway3d Leopards and the Shirley rule all the way down

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@MouinRabbani Conversely, it was also a winning strategy.

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@JeffSharlet Voting in my semi-rural precinct took 5 minutes. Driving around the nearest affluent town, I saw four different polling stations within about three square miles. Talking to folks in the city, it took ~ 90 minutes. Crazy the different worlds and resources

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@HMS_On_KBOO @ProfMMurray @erinoverbey Two things are true — there were several things that borked up Florida in 2000, any of which probably could have swung the election. Nader was one thing that borked up other states as well (NH)

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@nocontextmemes I was wondering why I had the spontaneous urge this morning to fire clouds of ticks from my nipples.

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@ReebX1 @NickKnudsenUS The crazy thing is how that frivolous, facile narrative was so dominant at the time, when you could just look at Bush’s record as TX governor and see that he would be a disaster for the country.

(I was a Texas high schooler at the time and the numbers were eye-opening)

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@NatsAndCats @NickKnudsenUS Additionally, the butterfly ballots were a stupendous unforced error, confusing voters into selecting the wrong candidates likely enough to swing the election.

I still blame Nader voters, as I did in October 2000 (though I don’t have contempt for them as I do Stein voters)

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@travis_view Oh no, Odin must be a narc!

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@SickosCommittee Goddamn, I knew PASSHE was messing up with things since my in-laws retired from one of the schools, but PennWest? Gross.

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@FactFinderAI @howserob @mehdirhasan Bad bot

[Bdelygmia @Pyroclastic_Joe]

@cantante_cerdo Are they doing trunk or treating and no trick or treating? Around us, trunk events are discrete sponsored by specific organizations, but then you still do the real thing for October 31