I’ll say what I’ve been saying: even the people who think they want a Christian nationalist takeover of the country really, REALLY are not going to want it within six months of it happening, and they’ll be among the loudest whiners about it.

So what precisely is being done to educate the electorate on these gains?

He has no “point.” Anyone who’d slag Biden for doing what any other sitting POTUS absolutely would have done is a gasping fucking moron.

Yep. This narrative that Biden has “done nothing” has gone a long way, for me, to crystallize how fucking stupid vast swaths of the electorate are.

You’re aware that the Biden administration actually made significant domestic policy gains, right? Industry, infrastructure, loan forgiveness, etc.?

Oh, but it’ll totally work out better for us, cuz we’re American, we’re naturally great, and we have hot dogs n’ fireworks! Easy peasy!

You see this horseshit?

You’re right that Biden’s biggest selling point is “the alternative to absolute fucking armageddon” and... that’s not much.

The rest of the trip was in silence, while I was wondering exactly how f-ing stupid 50% of Americans are.

so a win for them becomes less about improving the future and more about making it worse for the people they hate.

Yep. When a society coasts on a nebulous definition of exceptionalism, and does not even *attempt* to understand or quantify how any of our “exceptionalism” happened, you get this.

Said it elsewhere, but this sort of thing is just par for the course now. As a country? We’re dumb as shit, have no widespread appreciation for or knowledge of actual history, have minimal intellectual curiosity, zero foresight, and we love our stories.

And yet, U.S. news media is tripping over itself to make the case that Trump’s performance was “more assured” or whatever bullshit.

WTF are we doing in a place where the polls are nearly tied??

I don’t think they needed to do anything in reality. All these FromSoft games come out and there’s no internet help for the first week or 2. Now, I’m scrolling through tiktok and I’m seeing some skills or weapons I haven’t tried and they are melting enemies I had to struggle with.

Same. I’m seeing people get stuck for hours on bosses that took me only a few tries, and I don’t think I’m some God-tier player, or anything.

I dug it.

Yep.

That’s all these festivals are anymore, by all appearances/accounts.

Ah. Lil’ guy responds with attempted provocation, and no actual reason for why he wants Trump to take control.