#kt nelson

[farewell-to-lorien]

Trump is at his core a TV clown, and he knows instinctively just what sort of clown show will keep the audience fully engaged with the performance. But while he’s out there dancing and singing and keeping everyone in hysterics, the rest of the GOP is under the bleachers stealing your wallet and setting the benches on fire.

KT Nelson, The "Annex Canada" Stuff Is A Test And You're Failing

[farewell-to-lorien]

In the end, it’s a fool’s errand to focus on Trump more than the GOP itself. Trump is an entertainer at heart, and America loves an entertainer. He is preternaturally talented at gauging the winds of public opinion and anger, and constantly shifting his own purported views to keep in line with those things. You will never be able to denounce him into being unfunny. You will never be able to pin him into a corner about something he said - because he will just claim he was joking, he was just throwing out some early ideas, or that you got your information from fake news. Trump is a singing, dancing distraction - keeping everyone’s attention trained on his hectically-improvised routine while the ghouls in the Republican party do the evil, unpopular things they have always endeavored to do. The next four years will be filled with tons of absurd Trump promises, from annexing Canada to invading Ireland on behalf of Israel to Seal Team 6 assassinating Greta Thunberg. They will also be filled with (trifecta-holding) GOP attempts to pass all the most evil conservative policies imaginable. I hope we are able to recognize which of these two are the more dangerous, and apportion our attention accordingly.

KT Nelson, The "Annex Canada" Stuff Is A Test And You're Failing

[thatstormygeek]

I have never pretended to be a big “poetry guy”, but I’m told that one of Maya Angelou’s most famous aphorisms is “when people show you who they are, believe them”. Actually, I was told this quote perhaps dozens of times by Democrat leaders. So when all these leaders, from Schumer to Jeffries to Booker to Pelosi, show us how prepared they are to deal with this new era, let’s believe them.

Throughout the last campaign season, we were told endlessly that Donald Trump represented an unprecedented fascist threat to our country. And as we have seen over the past two weeks, he certainly does! So I can imagine it’s pretty confusing to most left-of-center Americans to see the main response to this onslaught of reactionary and illegal shit to be “we need to keep our heads down and talk about inflation” or “we can work together to reduce government waste”. Are you fucking kidding me? I am long past expecting anything else from these people, but it’s somehow still a little but unbelievable to watch how truly ineffectual and cowed these guys are. You told us this dude is Hitler, and now you want to work together on his programs? You want to “avoid distractions”? Man, fuck you.

These Are Not The Guys

Democrat Leadership Are Hopelessly, Hilariously Unfit For This Moment. Get Em Outta Here.

There are so, so many tools that Democrats have at their disposal to fight against Trump’s insane agenda. They could be holding press conferences with the elderly people who are losing their meals on wheels. They could be flooding the feed with stories of soldiers who are losing their mental healthcare. They could be flying to Somalia to bring aid to the orphans who are about to lose access to federal support. They could be holding endless filibusters where they read the phonebook or every Tumblr poetry post since 2009 on the floor of the Senate to stop any more dumbshit Fox News freaks from being confirmed to the cabinet. They could be highlighting how the (actually pretty unpopular) richest man in the world is dragging his ketamine-shriveled nuts all over every institution in the country. They aren’t doing any of this though - and they won’t! Because if they could, they already would have. It’s not their way. The way you work your way up in the Democrat Party is simply by Not Rocking The Boat.

[worldsamess]

What I Learned Inside the Lonely, Sad World of QAnon Facebook Groups

The conspiracy theory seems to have created a lot of problems in the lives of its adherents.

The internet was a mistake.