Trump Derangement Syndrome - Orange man bad. Read the OP! (ᴛʜɪs ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴅ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴋɪᴡɪ ғᴀʀᴍs ʀᴇᴠɪᴇᴡs ɴᴏᴡ) 🗿🗿🗿🗿

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

Citation needed please.

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God fucking dammit, and I thought I could trust the leader of the Liberty Caucus. Can they just replace him with Jim Jordan as leader of the Liberty Caucus?

 

[ProgKing of the North]

I was a registered Democrat before the 2016 elections.

would be interested to read what exactly the old lady said to you that affected you so much (you said you realized you'd been lied to, but didn't really elaborate). Neither party has, from my view, done a damn thing to deserve my loyalty, maybe the Pubs actually have and I've been misled?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Citation needed please.

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And he’s trending. Because of course.

 

[It's HK-47]

And then you shoved a railroad spike into your forehead and voted for Trump?

I learned to listen to the other side without assuming them to be monsters, without assuming that their stances had no merit and their ideas had no thought. No one is the villain of their own story, so by understanding their motivations for being the hero, you find a much deeper understanding of the person's morality and where their arguments originate. You can be the most off-the-wall, Bible-thumping lunatic in the 5th generation of noble inbreeders or a danger-haired psychotic who hacked off their own cock for the sake of diversity, but at the core the two people--and nearly everyone alive-- have one, intrinsic similarity: They're trying to make the world a better place.

Whether it's trying to strong-arm society into letting transgendered men dominate womens' sports or trying to arm-wrestle the world into adhering to the tenets of Christianity, they do it because they genuinely believe that the world will be improved by this action. When you fight back against that because you assume it will make the world worse, they assume you're opposing them for the same reason. You can't come to an agreement with someone or hope to find any middle ground if you believe that at their core they're a fundamentally flawed person bereft of morals and intelligence who's only looking to harm the world around them.

Between the two parties, at its core, the Democratic base is fueled by too much hatred and arrogance and dereliction of responsibility to ever hope to improve anything in its current state. They are disjointed, dysfunctional, and incapable of ordering themselves in any way that can benefit society, concerned more with oppressing the country and the individual through emotion and platitudes and misrepresentation than they are in forming a stable platform to build a better world. They make no efforts to reach across the aisles, no efforts to understand the humanity behind the actions of their "opponents", and obsess more over the colour of your skin than the content of your character.

The modern Democrats are broken.

They've become a party dominated by sycophants and malcontents who attempt to steer society in whatever direction helps them amass more money and more control, and through doing so have amassed a following that makes more of an effort to completely demonize the opposition before they so much as utter a word, because a weak idea cannot survive in the presence of a stronger argument. The people leading the party don't want argument, they want conformity. They don't want equality, they want control. The ones manning the helm abuse their position over the rank-and-file to keep them filled with outrage and brimming with mindless hatred, because to expose them to the legitimate fundamentals of the opposition would risk exposing them to a stronger argument.

The rank-and-file hang on their words and cling bitterly to their abject hatred because for all intents and purposes, due in no small part to the role the media plays in perpetuating the cycle, they believe there are demons on their doorsteps. They believe that every Republican is a wife-beating, Bible-reading, truck-driving redneck who want all women to be barefoot and pregnant from cradle-to-grave, that every Republican wants to blast the nearest negro with a 12-gauge and light burning crosses in white hoods, and with the media there to keep them swaddled in a blanket of rage and misinformation, it's only too easy to maintain the illusion.

My friend was someone who had unbeknownst to me been a Republican for the whole time I'd known them. No matter what outrage I was spouting and what anti-Republican nonsense I'd been parroting that week, they never once raised a fuss about it, never once raised their voice, and never told me to stop talking, they just listened to me. I sat down on November 8th, 2016, and I listened too.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

That's a good summary of what's bad about the Democrats. Now what's good about the Republicans?

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I learned to listen to the other side without assuming them to be monsters, without assuming that their stances had no merit and their ideas had no thought. No one is the villain of their own story, so by understanding their motivations for being the hero, you find a much deeper understanding of the person's morality and where their arguments originate. You can be the most off-the-wall, Bible-thumping lunatic in the 5th generation of noble inbreeders or a danger-haired psychotic who hacked off their own cock for the sake of diversity, but at the core the two people--and nearly everyone alive-- have one, intrinsic similarity: They're trying to make the world a better place.

Whether it's trying to strong-arm society into letting transgendered men dominate womens' sports or trying to arm-wrestle the world into adhering to the tenets of Christianity, they do it because they genuinely believe that the world will be improved by this action. When you fight back against that because you assume it will make the world worse, they assume you're opposing them for the same reason. You can't come to an agreement with someone or hope to find any middle ground if you believe that at their core they're a fundamentally flawed person bereft of morals and intelligence who's only looking to harm the world around them.

Between the two parties, at its core, the Democratic base is fueled by too much hatred and arrogance and dereliction of responsibility to ever hope to improve anything in its current state. They are disjointed, dysfunctional, and incapable of ordering themselves in any way that can benefit society, concerned more with oppressing the country and the individual through emotion and platitudes and misrepresentation than they are in forming a stable platform to build a better world. They make no efforts to reach across the aisles, no efforts to understand the humanity behind the actions of their "opponents", and obsess more over the colour of your skin than the content of your character.

The modern Democrats are broken.

They've become a party dominated by sycophants and malcontents who attempt to steer society in whatever direction helps them amass more money and more control, and through doing so have amassed a following that makes more of an effort to completely demonize the opposition before they so much as utter a word, because a weak idea cannot survive in the presence of a stronger argument. The people leading the party don't want argument, they want conformity. They don't want equality, they want control. The ones manning the helm abuse their position over the rank-and-file to keep them filled with outrage and brimming with mindless hatred, because to expose them to the legitimate fundamentals of the opposition would risk exposing them to a stronger argument.

The rank-and-file hang on their words and cling bitterly to their abject hatred because for all intents and purposes, due in no small part to the role the media plays in perpetuating the cycle, they believe there are demons on their doorsteps. They believe that every Republican is a wife-beating, Bible-reading, truck-driving redneck who want all women to be barefoot and pregnant from cradle-to-grave, that every Republican wants to blast the nearest negro with a 12-gauge and light burning crosses in white hoods, and with the media there to keep them swaddled in a blanket of rage and misinformation, it's only too easy to maintain the illusion.

My friend was someone who had unbeknownst to me been a Republican for the whole time I'd known them. No matter what outrage I was spouting and what anti-Republican nonsense I'd been parroting that week, they never once raised a fuss about it, never once raised their voice, and never told me to stop talking, they just listened to me. I sat down on November 8th, 2016, and I listened too.

We think they're wrong, they think we're evil.

 

[Vorhtbame]

That's a good summary of what's bad about the Democrats. Now what's good about the Republicans?

People inconvenient to their Anointed Ones don't tend to end up dead.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

And then you shoved a railroad spike into your forehead and voted for Trump?

What the hell are you so assmad about?

 

[MirrorNoir]

I'm curious as to how the Democrats will restructure themselves in the next decade.

I'm a former Democrat who voted for Obama and supported Bernie in 2016 and I even held my nose and reluctantly voted for Hillary later that year because I was legit concerned about Trump being too much of an incompetent loudmouth to effectively govern or that guys like Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, and Steve Bannon would turn Trump's presidency into "George W. Bush II: Electric Boogaloo" and it turns out Pence was your typical powerless VP and not another "man behind the throne" like Dick Cheney was.

Meanwhile Bannon and Sessions were seen as embarrassments by Trump once he got into office and both guys were shown the door by the time of the 2018 midterms.

However, now we're well into his first term and so far, it's been not that bad.

I still consider myself an independent and I do think Trump and the GOP has some issues of their own, but now the Republicans are not the Bush-era Evangelical boogeymen of my childhood anymore and haven't been for quite some time now.

Trump's successes in the 2016 election and his tenure in office are proof of that.

It's obvious that the Democrats have not learned a thing and are tripling down on the same mistakes that cost them the 2016 election. Unlike 2016, neither the DNC Establishment nor the "woke" SJW/Justice Democrat wing of their base have a strong candidate to back like they did in 2016.

Hillary Clinton may have been an unlikable lich queen, but she had the money and the legacy of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to endear her to the DNC, while Bernie was truly a left-wing outsider candidate in 2016 and he unexpectedly gained a lot of traction in the Democratic primaries before he was ultimately cucked by Hillary.

Now Bernie is one of many "socialist" candidates in the 2020 primaries and has the handicap of being a cis white male, making him nowhere near as viable as he was in 2016.

Also, the DNC is in the same position with the 2020 primaries that the Republicans were in the 2016 primaries.

The 2016 Republican Primary was a verified clown car full of candidates and the ones who were most likely to win the primaries were also the most likely to lose the general election in the most spectacular and embarassing way possible.

Much as how the Democrats are wracked with Trump Derangement Syndrome, there was an undercurrent of Obama Derangement Syndrome among the Right at the time and a lot of recent baggage from the Tea Party and the Religious Right. In retrospect, ODS was not as severe as TDS mainly because it was largely confined to Fox News and conservative talk radio.

The front runners for the Republicans in 2016 were initially Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz, both of whom were widely despised by the Democrats and by moderates and centrists on both sides.

Jeb was a centrist corporate Republican but his name was tainted by the failures of his brother's presidency and Ted Cruz was a Religious Right/Tea Party blowhard that was even secretly disliked by a good chunk of the Republicans.

If anyone could actually lose an election to Hillary Clinton, it would have been those two.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump was seen as a joke when he announced his candidacy and his initial meme following on 4chan was every bit as ironic as Andrew Yang's following is today.

But he was enough of a showman that he gained traction with the base and his ironic meme following became a serious one and as much as the RNC disliked him, they were pragmatic enough to listen to their base and avoid a repeat of Romney's run in 2012 and the divisive disaster that was brought on by the Tea Party in the early 2010's.

Trump gained more votes in the primaries, the RNC gave him the nomination and despite all odds against him up until the very end of the election cycle, he ultimately won the Presidency.

The Democrats are in an almost near identical crisis, but with the added handicap of going up against an incumbent during a time of economic stability.

Much as how the Republicans were weighed down by the Religious Right and the Tea Party, the Democrats have the SJW Left and the so-called "Justice Democrats" posing the exact same problem.

There's too many candidates in the primaries and the ones who are best at winning the primaries (Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren) are the worst picks at winning the election, while the candidates who could actually stand a chance against Trump (Joe Biden, Tulsi Gabbard, possibly Andrew Yang) are the ones who are despised the most by either the DNC, the SJW Left, or both at the same time.

Also, TDS is far more widespread and more people are likely burnt out on it than the previous bout of ODS

I doubt the DNC is at a point where they would run Biden, Yang, or Tulsi even if any of them did gain enough votes and support in the primaries.

With the possible exception of Biden, those candidates would likely get rejected and we'd still get someone like Harris or Warren on the ticket and that would guarantee a second term for Trump barring a really nasty October Surprise such as a major economic recession or World War III.

But it is still too early to tell at this point, and maybe the DNC will surprise us and back someone like Tulsi or Yang while Kamala Harris becomes the Democratic Party's very own Ted Cruz.

Highly unlikely at this point in time, but I guess you never know. Freakish things do happen...

My best guess is that a Trump victory in 2020 will be a wake-up call for the Democrats similar to how Walter Mondale's humiliating defeat in 1984 led to the more neoliberal corporate Democrat approach of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Barack Obama (albeit to a somewhat lesser extent) or how Romney's loss in 2012 and the divisive lunacy of the Tea Party in 2010-2014 ultimately torpedoed the last vestiges of the Religious Right (at least on a national level) and helped lead to the Republican Party's current populist approach under Trump.

It's going to be like this, quite frankly:

it's going to be a repeat of what happened with Democrats in the 80s, after their defeat in 1984. The Democrats will lazily retreat towards shoring up their feifdoms and actively refusing to do ANYTHING but the bare minimum and preserve the top guys spots and the spots of their chosen heir apparents. They will tacitly wash their hands of any responsibility, at least publicly by claiming Trump has a mandate if he wins in 2020 and that for the fate of the nation, Democrats have to STFU.

Privately, crow will be eaten in large quantity. Trump will be courted in a "you win, you bastard...." submission by Democrats behind closed doors. Problematic cunts like AOC, and the anti-semetic cunt squad will already be purged in 2020 or 2022 if they manage to avoid being primaried/challenged by GOPers. Impeachment will be permanently tabled. Comey and other FBIers involved in the plot to spy on Trump and company will be killed off or move overseas and never be heard from again, except to announce their "deaths". I would not be shocked if the deep state doesn't have Obama, Hillary, or Bill Clinton (to punish Hillary) killed, as a peace offering to Trump and ensure all investigations into the DNC plot to frame Trump stop dead in their tracks. Most likely, both Clintons will be murdered: Hillary "dies from Parkinsons" and records are doctored to confirm she was near death after all like people said during 2016. And then Bill Clinton will drop dead "from a grief induced heart attack" days later. Obama will skate on everything, but I would not be shocked if he ends up being blackballed ala Jimmy Carter, from all positions of power within the DNC. Meaning Obama will have to spend his days unofficially banned from politics of any kind.

The press will start 1984 memory holing all evidence of them being anti-Trump. Democrats who refuse to go along with this rewriting of history will be declared insane and for once, be punished and purged from polite society and wholesale deplatformed. The lunatic left will be treated like the violent hippie scum of the late 60s/early 70s. Some will survive the purge but most will be excised from the party.

What will follow will be Republican rule for the entire 2020s and most likely either in 2028 or 2032, the DNC running a center-right populist to counter the GOP with hopes that the lunacy of 2016-2020 being treated as an aberation, a "lost weekend" of sorts which is fitting given how the DNC wanted Trump be seen as the fluke, along with hopes that once Trump gets out of office, the GOP will revert back to pre-Trump status quo and the new generation that comes up in the late 2020s will be sick of them and can be courted by Democrats using the same shit Bill Clinton did in 1992 calling for Democrats to be allowed to call the shots.

 

[It's HK-47]

That's a good summary of what's bad about the Democrats. Now what's good about the Republicans?

I have no love for the Neo-Cons, and I can't bring myself to side with the Religious Right out of sheer adherence to faith because I don't share their religion. The Bill Kristols and Jeff Flakes and John McCains of the world brought frustration and misery to everyone around them because they were Hell-bent on projecting their insecurity and inherent need for control or approval onto the world around them, and in McCain's case he was so self-absorbed that he held onto his position in the government until it was pried out of his cold, dead hands.

The Neo-Cons are a moot point, though. Most of them could scarcely be considered Republican in the first place because when push came to shove, they voted against the interest of the constituents that helped elevate them into office in the first place. John McCain wasn't a Republican, he was a part of the Uniparty, the tacit agreement between the Democrats and the select crowd of 'Republicans' who wore flashing lights and drummed up explosive headlines to sow division and stoke anger, and then when the cameras shut off they all grabbed their golf bags and went putting for the weekend.

They're a dying breed, now. All of the candidates that groups like the Reagan Battalion were backing lost every one of their last elections. The public doesn't want another war in the Middle East, they don't want another show-boating prick who acts like he's on a playwright's stage during a vote, and they have no interest in these push-over "Republicans" who only run for office for the sake of lining their own pockets. Thus why the Neo-Cons became the Never-Trumpers at the turn of the 2016 election. The masks fell off because Trump signifies the last stop of the "gravy train" they were riding. They gave the public nothing but platitudes, Trump gave them results.

There's almost no sense at all in draping the Republicans in the mantle that the Neo-Cons wove because they're all but dead. You can't survive on that side of the aisle if you're not willing to work within the framework of Trump-Era Republicanism, hence why nearly every single Republican who expressly denounced Trump during the midterm elections failed to get elected, and nearly every candidate that Trump endorsed went on to hold office. The Republicans want more Trump-Era Republicans.

If for no other reason, I'm more adherent to the Republicans because they're the advocates for personal responsibility instead of blame-shifting, they're the advocates for self-defense rather than learned-helplessness and victim-hood politics. They don't want you to turn in your means of self-defense and live on the blind hope that a faceless, government entity will come to your defense when you need it most. (Which they won't.) They don't push for the complete destruction of womens' ability to compete in competitive sports by allowing transgendered athletes to in essence compete with legal, natural steroids, or for forcing women to share dressing-rooms and restrooms with any man willing to wear a skirt, and they aren't the party that's kicking off riots every other month and running around beating people in the head with bike locks and smashing private property for the sheer sake of anarchy.

I would never tell someone to "hold their nose" and blindly vote for the Republican candidates, but I would tell anyone that acting as though the Republican party today is anything like the Republican party 30 years ago is making a terrible mistake. The Republican Party has gone through a massive upheaval since 2016, and we're seeing the new wave begin to form with representatives like Dan Crenshaw, with the spine that Lindsay Graham found following McCain's death, and it's all being spear-headed by a man who refuses to bow to the mob, and refuses to put any other country before the needs of the country that elected him to power.

 

[School of Fish]

I have no love for the Neo-Cons, and I can't bring myself to side with the Religious Right out of sheer adherence to faith because I don't share their religion. The Bill Kristols and Jeff Flakes and John McCains of the world brought frustration and misery to everyone around them because they were Hell-bent on projecting their insecurity and inherent need for control or approval onto the world around them, and in McCain's case he was so self-absorbed that he held onto his position in the government until it was pried out of his cold, dead hands.

The Neo-Cons are a moot point, though. Most of them could scarcely be considered Republican in the first place because when push came to shove, they voted against the interest of the constituents that helped elevate them into office in the first place. John McCain wasn't a Republican, he was a part of the Uniparty, the tacit agreement between the Democrats and the select crowd of 'Republicans' who wore flashing lights and drummed up explosive headlines to sow division and stoke anger, and then when the cameras shut off they all grabbed their golf bags and went putting for the weekend.

They're a dying breed, now. All of the candidates that groups like the Reagan Battalion were backing lost every one of their last elections. The public doesn't want another war in the Middle East, they don't want another show-boating prick who acts like he's on a playwright's stage during a vote, and they have no interest in these push-over "Republicans" who only run for office for the sake of lining their own pockets. Thus why the Neo-Cons became the Never-Trumpers at the turn of the 2016 election. The masks fell off because Trump signifies the last stop of the "gravy train" they were riding. They gave the public nothing but platitudes, Trump gave them results.

There's almost no sense at all in draping the Republicans in the mantle that the Neo-Cons wove because they're all but dead. You can't survive on that side of the aisle if you're not willing to work within the framework of Trump-Era Republicanism, hence why nearly every single Republican who expressly denounced Trump during the midterm elections failed to get elected, and nearly every candidate that Trump endorsed went on to hold office. The Republicans want more Trump-Era Republicans.

If for no other reason, I'm more adherent to the Republicans because they're the advocates for personal responsibility instead of blame-shifting, they're the advocates for self-defense rather than learned-helplessness and victim-hood politics. They don't want you to turn in your means of self-defense and live on the blind hope that a faceless, government entity will come to your defense when you need it most. (Which they won't.) They don't push for the complete destruction of womens' ability to compete in competitive sports by allowing transgendered athletes to in essence compete with legal, natural steroids, or for forcing women to share dressing-rooms and restrooms with any man willing to wear a skirt, and they aren't the party that's kicking off riots every other month and running around beating people in the head with bike locks and smashing private property for the sheer sake of anarchy.

I would never tell someone to "hold their nose" and blindly vote for the Republican candidates, but I would tell anyone that acting as though the Republican party today is anything like the Republican party 30 years ago is making a terrible mistake. The Republican Party has gone through a massive upheaval since 2016, and we're seeing the new wave begin to form with representatives like Dan Crenshaw, with the spine that Lindsay Graham found following McCain's death, and it's all being spear-headed by a man who refuses to bow to the mob, and refuses to put any other country before the needs of the country that elected him to power.

Let's just hope that this trend continues.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

All I know that in 10-20 years a lot of things are changing, especially when Pelosi and all the other super fucking old people finally die off, and it's going to be a glorious change in everything.

 

[Vorhtbame]

All I know that in 10-20 years a lot of things are changing, especially when Pelosi and all the other super fucking old people finally die off, and it's going to be a glorious change in everything.

Think this, but don't convince yourself there's a Golden Age right around the corner, if only we could be free of those holding us back. It doesn't work like that.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Think this, but don't convince yourself there's a Golden Age right around the corner, if only we could be free of those holding us back. It doesn't work like that.

I don't think it will be a golden age, by any means, I just think the change will bring about more lols and more chaos as we descend deeper into a clown world.

Especially since Pelosi and her ilk seem to be the last "reasonable" part of the Democrats party in the sense that they're simply after power and not socialist revolutionaries wanting to put people into mass graves.

 

[Cosmug]

I don't think it will be a golden age, by any means, I just think the change will bring about more lols and more chaos as we descend deeper into a clown world.

Especially since Pelosi and her ilk seem to be the last "reasonable" part of the Democrats party in the sense that they're simply after power and not socialist revolutionaries wanting to put people into mass graves.

They are probably the faces between the DNC and donor groups, the more those people die off and get replaced by ideologues who don’t compromise for money, the less money the institutional DNC has to pull shit. Best case scenario, that leads to a real re-evaluation of their positions relative to the voters, instead of a fake one that’s just a gay flag McDonald’s commercial

 

[thismanlies]

 

[Godzilla@1989]

This cuck calls for unity yet bashes Trump.

By the way, I talked to some liberal people that agree with me that Biden will get the nomination but disagree with me that Biden will beat Trump by using the Obama nostalgia card.

 

[Diabolical diabetic]

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So sad to see that millions of twitter bots suddenly became jobless, what a tragedy

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I have no love for the Neo-Cons, and I can't bring myself to side with the Religious Right out of sheer adherence to faith because I don't share their religion. The Bill Kristols and Jeff Flakes and John McCains of the world brought frustration and misery to everyone around them because they were Hell-bent on projecting their insecurity and inherent need for control or approval onto the world around them, and in McCain's case he was so self-absorbed that he held onto his position in the government until it was pried out of his cold, dead hands.

The Neo-Cons are a moot point, though. Most of them could scarcely be considered Republican in the first place because when push came to shove, they voted against the interest of the constituents that helped elevate them into office in the first place. John McCain wasn't a Republican, he was a part of the Uniparty, the tacit agreement between the Democrats and the select crowd of 'Republicans' who wore flashing lights and drummed up explosive headlines to sow division and stoke anger, and then when the cameras shut off they all grabbed their golf bags and went putting for the weekend.

The decay of the social conservatives and Neocons is for the best. I broke with social conservatism save in the most extreme cases because if I stepped back and squinted, it looked an awful lot like lefty thoughtcrime and wrongthink regulation. And that shit just doesn't fly.

Not for nothing were conservatives referring to John McCain as 'the least repulsive Democrat' in the lead up to 2008. And then after he lost, McCain proceeded to throw Sarah Palin under the bus and blame her for it -- which was bullshit. Whatever shenanigans Palin's been up to now, she certainly didn't deserve to get hung with the blame then.

They're a dying breed, now. All of the candidates that groups like the Reagan Battalion were backing lost every one of their last elections. The public doesn't want another war in the Middle East, they don't want another show-boating prick who acts like he's on a playwright's stage during a vote, and they have no interest in these push-over "Republicans" who only run for office for the sake of lining their own pockets. Thus why the Neo-Cons became the Never-Trumpers at the turn of the 2016 election. The masks fell off because Trump signifies the last stop of the "gravy train" they were riding. They gave the public nothing but platitudes, Trump gave them results.

There's almost no sense at all in draping the Republicans in the mantle that the Neo-Cons wove because they're all but dead. You can't survive on that side of the aisle if you're not willing to work within the framework of Trump-Era Republicanism, hence why nearly every single Republican who expressly denounced Trump during the midterm elections failed to get elected, and nearly every candidate that Trump endorsed went on to hold office. The Republicans want more Trump-Era Republicans.

Precisely. We've come to the point where voters are not interested in what the candidates say, but what they do. And they want results. No more playing footsie with people that oppose us; we want to WIN.

If for no other reason, I'm more adherent to the Republicans because they're the advocates for personal responsibility instead of blame-shifting, they're the advocates for self-defense rather than learned-helplessness and victim-hood politics. They don't want you to turn in your means of self-defense and live on the blind hope that a faceless, government entity will come to your defense when you need it most. (Which they won't.) They don't push for the complete destruction of womens' ability to compete in competitive sports by allowing transgendered athletes to in essence compete with legal, natural steroids, or for forcing women to share dressing-rooms and restrooms with any man willing to wear a skirt, and they aren't the party that's kicking off riots every other month and running around beating people in the head with bike locks and smashing private property for the sheer sake of anarchy.

Heh, that link... between that, and various court cases -- Warren vs DC, Riss vs NY, Castle Rock vs Gonzalez -- anyone who says 'the government can protect you' should be chased down the street with said bike lock. Because they're fucking liars.

I don't give a damn if a man wears a skirt (in some places, that's called a 'kilt', lol), but it's been this imposition -- 'I demand that you cater to my delusion' -- that pisses people off so bad. A good comparison are conventions in major cities. Nobody minds having the 501st Legion in town for the weekend, but dealing with it all the time? Fuck no.

The shit with trans individuals in women's sports is going to explode spectacularly, though. Count on it.

I would never tell someone to "hold their nose" and blindly vote for the Republican candidates, but I would tell anyone that acting as though the Republican party today is anything like the Republican party 30 years ago is making a terrible mistake. The Republican Party has gone through a massive upheaval since 2016, and we're seeing the new wave begin to form with representatives like Dan Crenshaw, with the spine that Lindsay Graham found following McCain's death, and it's all being spear-headed by a man who refuses to bow to the mob, and refuses to put any other country before the needs of the country that elected him to power.

Amen.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

The decay of the social conservatives and Neocons is for the best. I broke with social conservatism save in the most extreme cases because if I stepped back and squinted, it looked an awful lot like lefty thoughtcrime and wrongthink regulation. And that shit just doesn't fly.

Which was always the issue with that movement of the Republicans... they were massively in favor of the government constantly interfering with everyone's lives, which was not at all a conservative position. Most of them have backed off of this and are actually making a show of being about smaller government and deregulation (though sadly in many cases it's still just a show), and as they have the Democrats have doubled down and want much much more interference, much bigger government, etc.

The Religious Right was really only perceived as right-wing because it was run by Republicans, and because the left has done a good spin-job of making prejudice and homophobia somehow a right-wing thing as opposed to not actually relevant to the political spectrum. In most ways it was extremely left-wing, because it was for bigger government, more interference, less independence, less responsibility, less choice, more control, and a collective identity.