Bitter End Commissar

he/him, wannabe apparatchik

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

@Patrick_Wyman We are dying of nostalgia for a past that never was.

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

I'm not gonna try and go all prognosticator, but I think that if there's a Trump backlash resurgent progressive movement, the focus needs to be on building functional urban policy. Housing, transportation, etc.

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

I actually do think that's one of the few bright spots; I'm not sure anyone else can really replicate his appeal, and I think (?) that some of this massive swing is just backlash over COVID and inflation.

[Bitter End Commissar @DApparatchik6]

@MavwreckTweet @un_a_valeable @GoldwagNathan that’s a given, all we can do is play to pick up the pieces.

[dork @arachno_commie]

I don't think material politics are completely 100% dead in the sense that people obviously viewed the economy as very bad and that drove their vote. Problem is they treated moderate inflation equally bad as the Great Financial Crisis.

[Sean @demsocsean]

The idea Shapiro would have done anything in WI and MI is just cope

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

This is where I'm it. It's too early to even start to say where the politics go from here, but the cosmopolitan, multiracial liberal culture I love has ~30% of the country or so and we're not fucking going anywhere.

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

I feel physically ill in a way I don’t think I have after any previous election

The world has just lurched forward to a worse future that will make all our lives worse in terrible and unforeseeable ways (bc of how chaotic and widespread changes will be) than 24 hours ago

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

jill stein voters and loud-mouthed non-voters were barely a rounding error in the story of what happened this election. i fear this news will disappoint both the people who want to blame them and also the people themselves who wish they had the power to hold the election hostage.

[ostensibly @CentristMadness]

People think crime is way up and that we’re in a recession. A solid majority of people think these two things and care about them deeply.

[urban cowboy @xurbanxcowboyx]

idk how you see this and think "the answer is she didn't run left enough"

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

Jamelle Bouie hits the nail on the head

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

It’s gonna be very funny in the next 4 years to read 300 “why can’t leftist women date me?” stories from Trump-voting Zoomers published in places like The Free Press & The Atlantic

[Kharg Island Margaritaville @canderaid]

Here’s the problem for the left: the message here is that Biden was wrong to do fiscal stimulus, and that instead what voters want is an economic policy that keeps service worker wages as low as possible, at all costs, because voters will not tolerate higher prices

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I don't think we'll become an actual dictatorship in the commonly understand sense, but we do risk becoming an anocracy: a government that is technically a democracy but where the ruling party is structurally kept in power permanently.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

This year's election proved that when we work together, anything is possible.

by John Roberts, Rupert Murdoch, Aileen Cannon, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Robert Hur, Benjamin Netanyahu, Peter Thiel and Vladimir Putin

[The Fact of Other Minds Stan Acct @csilverandgold]

The demographic splits and finger pointing isn’t relevant this time like it was in 2016. He held on to his ideological support. He wasn’t scary enough to get people to run away from him because he’s already been President. Everybody else voted on the economy.

[The Fact of Other Minds Stan Acct @csilverandgold]

And frankly, the worse this ends up being, the more you should fight to maintain the understanding of the world you had before Trump ever showed up. There’s still more than a hundred million of us all across the country. Don’t let this change you.

[Bitter End Commissar @DApparatchik6]

well. even as everyone is going to fall over themselves casting blame, I think it was baked in—inflation + Trump’s cult of personality. the only thing that could’ve made a difference was prosecuting Trump earlier.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

we can still win this. it’s gonna be tight but we can still pull through