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  1. I know more than just a few liberals who you could say are scared of muslims, who roll their eyes at non-white and/or female presidential candidates and are completely at odds with the general left sentiments for some or all things LGBTQ+. When the consultants trot out their failed strategies, I get it. There is a segment out there that hangs with Dems by a thread for wins, and sits out enough to be a major factor in many losses. Anyone who thinks they have a handle on what Dems should do going forward is probably wrong. Oue electorate is a fucking mess. It isn't just the morons on the right that don't understand the issues, hold strong prejudices against one or more out groups and are generally underinformed. There's quite a few left-leaning morons as well. The best play might just be to nominate a bunch of Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camachos up and down ballots.
  2. There are some people. Nowhere near a majority. That's a lot of why we're at this point. I've greatly reduced my news intake for my own sanity. I allow myself 3-5 minutes to be angry about this, but that's all. At my previous consumption levels I would be angry half the day.
  3. The DoI readings by trumpkins are akin to Fortunate Son and Born in the USA being played at Dotard rallies.
  4. An all-female statewide slate liberally running Sarah Stogner's offense would at least be entertaining.
  5. Is the primary election over? Did I miss the battle? "They?" He can run if he wants. Hopefully others get in there and send him home, not that I think anyone beats lazy eye.
  6. Yeah. I skipped over that part.
  7. That skeet is pointing out that Teslas are depreciating faster than (as least a couple) other EVs. It's taking a mildly interesting fact and making into a "Elon is destroyed" internet moment.
  8. New name: Bill to Remedy the Distress of People and the Realm.
  9. We all know 90 seconds with Susanna Hoffs would do it. He woudn't even have to throw in Sela Ward.
  10. That may be how the infection spread to older losers, and it may be how many of us recognize this part of the disease, but the youngs don't care about the NYT. They doomscroll and listen to podcasts. If Me Too is really the watershed moment, and it may be, I would see it akin to Reagan bringing the fundagelicals in from the political cold and giving them a permanent seat in the GOP boardroom. Millions of folks who were itching to make their backwards views a part of public life and discourse weren't radicalzied by Reagan, they were already there. Social media and bro-casters and others gave losers community, Me Too might just have shone a light on it and helped shitgibbon and co. bring them into the fold.
  11. Me too was a factor, I'm sure. But I think 2 other developments fueled the feminist backlash. First, young misogynists got their Rush Limbaugh figures in Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. Second, the ability of losers (what we used to call incels, and we really should insist on doing that again) to connect with each other in large groups and form a groupthink that led them to absurd conclusions. Corporate America was always going to be brake on feminist advances, but they couldn't put it in reverse without the help of masses of meatheads and gamers, not to mention the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies and dickheads.
  12. We focus on the racism bit, but young men (and some not so young) reacting to the attack on their god-given right to be superior to women is a major factor as well. Equality is triggering, in all its forms.
  13. If they disappear ZM and nothing significant happens to the administration, they will only be emboldened to start a wider purge of public officials pushing back. We're far too fat, happy and complacent to turn into the kind of mob y'all think is going to form. There might be marches, and maybe those marches get a little boisterous. Social Media will be replete with memes, selfies and 'OMG look at what the cops are doing' videos. That's about it.
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