All right meow, I will concede that it is indeed a little bit funny.

Whoa, whoa whoa!

Jusat make it pussycat island. Worked for Tom Jones. 

What is reminiscent of 2016 is the Democrats running a deeply unpopular candidate, taking for granted the Democratic electorate as a god-given entitlement, and then reacting with surprise and shock when they lose. Their hubris, and disbelief, in losing to the current incarnation of the GOP will doom us all.

How about I…

Plus she still got millions more votes than Trump. I’m concerned about Biden too, but people are acting like Dems have done nothing but lose since 2016 when... it’s actually kind of the opposite? 

This is a controversial opinion (thank God there’s no downvote button here), and I’ll acknowledge that I’m heavily biased by the fact that it was the first season I watched new episodes as they premiered but…

Is it panic?  I’m feeling the resigned grimness.  I can’t bother with panic anymore at this point.

Democrats need to fucking get over 2016 and stop acting like every election from now until the end of time is some sort of repeat of it. 2016 happened because voters stayed home, assuming Hillary Clinton’s win was inevitable. And that was because no one, not even Donald Trump, though Donald Trump could be president.

I remember Election Night 2016 cracking jokes to my mom the whole way home late at night because I thought for sure it wouldn’t possibly be the case that Trump would actually end up winning.  I didn’t even wait up, but man was it a bummer when I got up the next morning.

The fact that the cast is not little people does not bug me to much as I think Gilliam only did it to emphasize the surreal dream like atmosphere of his movie. “Little people = surreal” can be seen as a problematic Hollywood trope anyways.

Star Trek: Enterprise comes to mind, finale aside.

I’d say the difference is that the Christian nationalists have gone full “masks off.” They feel confident enough to outright *tell* people what they absolutely plan to do, how they plan to do it, and that they’ll spill blood if we (anyone not subscribing to a bad, third-hand reading of the Bible) fight them.

“but there’s an air of panic and grimness”

Polls up until a week before the election had Clinton cruising to victory. Like, it was totally inconceivable that she’d lose Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And even if she did, she’d have to lose like 5 more swing states, how the fuck could THAT possibly happen?

Yeah in 2016 I told people Trump’s interview in June or July made him look a lot like Reagan, that Hillary was a horrible candidate and that it looked to me like Trump would win but they didn’t believe me. Why didn’t they believe me?

Yup. Even once he won, my feeling was, “Okay, relax, that was all campaign talk. He’s not actually dangerous and even if he is, that’s what the other branches of government are for.”

I agree about the “we’re so boned” feeling, but I felt that back in 2016 too. Though I have a skewed view since I live in the heart of the South so I basically never feel confident in a Democrat victory until it's evident it's a landslide on election night. 

Additionally, I never had the feeling in 2016 that if Trump lost his supporters would try a fucking armed coup.

stop making me look up that word

I just love that the argument against “America tends to fuck with the world for their own benefit” is “Nu uh.”