promotor
10d ago
The result was a gender battle, but it was childless cat ladies ("gen Z boss and a mini") and blue-haired institutionalists (e.g. librarians and teachers) versus, well, everyone else. It wasn't necessarily that Americans wanted Trump to win, they wanted that coalition to lose.
I've watched this PSA from 1946 annually since 2014. I think it provides a pretty good rubric for what happened. Americans repudiated the increasingly slippery slope towards despotism.
promotor
20d ago
The head canon is that, being a Mottizen, he didn't want to directly attract the eye of Sauron. The article in question is also from July 2019, so unless Thiel-aligned people are dredging Scott's backlog, it's possible he read it at the time of publishing, prior to the injection of Trump and Thiel's connections, which suggests rat-adjacency.
promotor
3mo ago
Well, if Cthulhu swims left, then it's natural that the tools that the left uses will inevitably be employed unconsciously as they are by the blue tribes.
promotor
3mo ago
Can a president resign via letter on Twitter? Sure, they can announce their intention to resign, but there are formal constitutional requirements to actually resign that a dead Biden would be unable to fulfill.
And would the optics be as believable as a gradual acclimation to Harris and a later handoff? Biden being presented as succumbing to external pressure to withdraw, then dying days or weeks later with his life's work completed (or of anguish at Washington's betrayal) is much more palatable than "I resign and withdraw immediately" via Twitter without a public appearance or recorded statement with a public death announcement a few days or weeks later. The latter is just a transparently papered-over coup whereas the former at least provides plausible deniability and media massaging.
promotor
3mo ago
Given the lack of public presence and the, uh, unorthodox manner of announcing the withdrawal, what's the possibility that Biden has actually died and this is all a smokescreen to make sure there's not an open convention due to the DNC's rules around death of a presumptive nominee?
promotor
4mo ago
Hacker News is having every submission concerning the topic flagged and killed as well.
promotor
4mo ago
I screenshotted it as soon as I saw it.
promotor
4mo ago
I'm surprised no one has tried to oust him over his contributions to Uncyclopedia.
The clusterfuck that this entails is going to be legendary. The closest historical approximation is Papal Infalibility which to this day is misunderstood even by Catholics! And at the time of Vatican I, even those who supported papal infallibility as a matter of dogma thought it was utterly daft to formalize it. I didn't have secular Ultramontanism and Gallicianism becoming a culture war topic on my bingo card, yet here we are.
This, AOC and others testing the waters for dropping trans issues, and the sale of InfoWars to Jeff Lawson and Ben Collin's Global Tetrahedron makes me think James Carville is back in the seat and the 2026 DNC playbook has dropped.
The Onion is playing up the sabotage of a (sort of) right-wing cultural institution to pacify the base, but really what they're after is the subscriber database which is filled with the contact info for an ethnically diverse group of men without college degrees demonstrably susceptible to tenuously plausible messaging.
I expect once the sale is completed there will be a hardcore attempt to astroturf a whole new podcast market, probably sometime next year, likely officially divorced from any current media stakeholders. I honestly don't know what hay if any they'll be able to make from it unless Trump's term is tangibly a shitshow for men. I think about the centrist and right-wing dissident podcast circuit and I can't currently conceive how they could both appeal to working class men (specifically Latino and whites) and also lead them to vote blue in 2026. Neo-Bernie bro? Blue Mike Rowe? Pro-establishment Jimmy Dore? Maybe all they can do is try to spread FUD about Trump and try to keep them home in 2026.
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