I have lived my entire life in a media narrative that Republicans are simply not supposed to face any consequences for their actions and what we have been witnessing for the last 48 hours is the result of a media completely unequipped to handle exactly that happening
I think that’s why there’s such a cognitive dissonance between how punditry is reacting to this versus, well, basically the rest of the planet. Look at the backlash to that pathetic Twitter announcement. People are done. They are fucking done with this bullshit
The pieces are rapidly fitting together to the conclusion that the administration, their existing ignorance to all of this aside, likely went to the debate knowing they may be exposed, hid it, and then didn’t tell Biden.
I know I’m screaming at a brick wall when I say this, but how is there a partisan debate about something like that. That is criminal recklessness. That is at best incompetence and at worst actual insanity.
And because of the media narrative I have lived in my entire life, the reaction from our elite punditry is to bow our heads and offer well wishes to these violent, criminal lunatics we all know did this to themselves, and to us.
There is a lot I have been laughing about the last few days, none more so than a talking point about how “this may help Trump.” You fucking pathetic loser for even thinking that.
Our punditry is the only entity in this country that wants this to go on. That wants this to continue. That wants to pretend that somehow any of this is normal or acceptable. In the real world, people are done with this. Fucking. Done.
I really do think we may have reached, for lack of a better term here, peak bullshit. The bullshit river has overflown. The bullshit damn has been breached, and now the bullshit is just flooding into the city and the people are just done with the bullshit.
I nearly dropped my coffee cup, like at the end of usual suspects style, hearing someone on TV this morning calling this an “October surprise.” This is the October most expected and obvious thing ever.
I am one of 100 million Americans who has surrendered so much for the last six months to try to maintain the levees of the bullshit river, all while these guys were holding a fucking boat parade on it.
They have robbed us of our lives for six months. Of our jobs. Of our health. Of our families. Of our joy. And you are telling us not to laugh now? Are you kidding? I am vibrating so hard I cannot be detected by speed cameras.
Okay since folks asked for a linked version, here: someguywithawebsite.com/lol/

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with August J. Pollak

August J. Pollak Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @AugustJPollak

14 Dec
Pearson is a legally registered voter in the state of Alabama. The fact that “alternate slates” of electors chosen by the losing party don’t actually exist is the only reason he is not literally committing election fraud right now.
Again, this is not an actual political debate of differing opinions. You can look up state voter registrations. If anything Pearson was doing right now was real, he would be going to prison for it.
You can find so many examples of this but it is that unique combination of hilarious and infuriating. So much of what these performative grifters are doing and are pretending is real would actually be illegal if it wasn’t just total bullshit
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!