The NYT analysis pointed, and probably not alone, the weirdness of the RNC message in that Trump is needed to save America from the current chaos considering it all happened under Trump’s watch. Yet somehow Trump is responsible for all the good, but none of the bad, and is needed to stop the bad that happened with him…

Yep. Just show up when I need you to clean some toilets and mow a lawn and bus my table but then please just vanish off to wherever I don’t have to think about you until I snap my fingers again.

His racism is getting really open

I am technically this woman although I’m Hispanic but white passing. I am legitimately grateful for the Section 8 housing in our neighborhood because 1. I grew up in Section 8 and want kids like me to have access to our great schools and 2. It makes our neighborhood a lot less boring. Neighborhood pot lucks, when they…

They’ll find it off-putting, but they’ll still vote from him. The might even clutch their pearls while they do it! And fan themselves! But don’t worry, it’s only the package they disagree with, not the sentiment.

I remember a few years ago, I went to a company luncheon on Mercer Island in Seattle. I rode with my boss at the time and we drove by all these giant houses, real mansions and not the fake prefab kind. They were lovely, but all we could think of was how isolating they were, and how much time they would take to…

The further we get from the statistical blip that was America right after WWII and the “nuclear family,” the more desperate these clowns are to pretend that everything was ALWAYS THAT WAY UNTIL THEM GODLESS LIBRULS CAME.

Not only are suburbs and suburban housewives not a thing anymore, but I question if a majority even want them to be a thing anymore. The people voting for this dumb idea are men who want women to know their place and boomers sick of babysitting their grandchildren or watching their kids spend money on daycare. Maybe a…

“They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long-running program where low-income housing would invade their neighborhood.”

Lots of them just move from belief to belief without an eyeblink, dropping whatever bores them or seems too old hat and grabbing the latest shiny plotline, like internet magpies. That’s what the net does--leave a trail of twinkling rhinestones that lead into the endless woods.

That’s what’s attractive, sadly. With a bad, lose the plot go nowhere theory, you can lure the people who think “that’s exactly the kind of thing I always thought was wrong but they all called me stupid!” You can’t get too clever or logical or you’ll scare off the base you want to attract.

The worst times are when these morons flourish, like worms on the sidewalk after rain. Because they’re a distraction from the real terrors that this government is wrapping us in, like a barbed wire anaconda. Same reason horror movies rise in popularity.

It really isn’t, sadly. I grew up in a blue state that actually sorta cares about that kind of thing and it was still horrifying to compare the amount of time spent teaching us how to think critically, draw reasonable conclusions, and build consensus, versus the amount of time spent teaching us how to construct a…

As much as discussion there has been about the internal conflict within the Democratic party, it feels a question of time before the Q thing fractures the Republican party. There’s already been a lot of signs of trouble for them as it has stiffened a certain far right element of it which is necessary to win primaries,…

Youtube and facebook suggesting links is part of the problem. Once you fall down the rabbit hole of believing one idiotic conspiracy, you start to get suggestions for others. There seems to be a lot of crossover between religious nuts/conspiracy nuts too but I’m not sure whether that’s for similar linking reasons,…

The guy who lost to her made the mistake of trying to call her a circus act. Since the 2016 Republican primary, we’ve seen that treating these racist nutbars as if they’re a joke is a failing strategy, as none of those candidates took Trump seriously.

Agreed. It’s scary how many people believe them too. Faced with very little information about covid I think people have been looking for a way to make sense of things. So seemingly normal people are turning to these conspiracies. I’ve noticed that some friends and family have started believing crap that they “heard”…

Seriously, I read through all the big conspiracy theories rolling out as a kid and they at least had the decorum to be plausible within certain realities and factually relatable.

I like that some republicans seemed to actually believe that her saying racist and anti-Semitic crap would hurt her. News flash idiots, the base you built LIKES that shit. It probably got her more votes! 

It’s actually a pretty successful way to run a cult. Creating completely bizarre beliefs is way that cult members can quickly distinguish between members of the in-group and out-group and reinforce their feelings of moral superiority (knowing the “truth”), thus reinforcing the cult reality tunnel. The cult leader(s)…