AXIOS: An angry mob of Democrats has taken to the streets, furious that Biden is moving too quickly to address the pandemic & undo the damage wrought by the worst President in history
D: That sounds extremely counterintuitive
AXIOS: “It’s too much”, they cry. “Please, do less.”
AXIOS: Let’s speak with this angry mob of Democrats right now
LARRY SUMMERS: Hello
AXIOS: What is bothering you right now?
LS: We, the Democrats, are deeply concerned about future elections if Joe Biden tries to do too much
AXIOS: By which you mean?
LS: Anything at all
AXIOS: I thought Biden winning the primaries last year would have set your mind at ease about alienation of moderates
LS: To be honest, he’s still a bit “loony left” for my taste
AXIOS: I see. Thank you, angry mob of Democrats
LS: Bloomberg 2024!
AXIOS: Whatever
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If your perspective is “The democratic vote doesn’t count unless we win”, then that equates to “I oppose democracy.”
This is where the Overton Window is heading for the Republican Party.
Remember the Chauvin verdict? Trump supporters insist that Chauvin was only convicted because the jury was terrified of “rioters & looters” destroying their city.
This is their same explanation for why more than 60 courts refused to consider Trump’s arguments for election fraud.
Conservative media painted an entirely false narrative of the BLM protests last year, as if it were a nonstop nightmare of rioting & looting. This is now conservatives’ default premise for how our laws are applied, particularly when the results do not go their way.
Responses to the original post are not invited, by the way
The problem with these social media clickbait polls is that “Everyone has an opinion” does not always translate to “Other people care about your opinion”.
Also, “tryna” is cringeworthy exactly 100% of the time.
Once a talking point takes hold, no explanation is sufficient to un-clench it from the lexicon of Things the GOP Will Always Believe.
“If you’re explaining, you’re losing”, paved the way for a Party whose entire notion of virtue could be broken down into “winning” vs. “losing”.
The takeaway is that there is no real downside to the GOP strategy of ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK, because neither they nor their base are constrained by honesty or critical thinking.
Trump is gone (for) now, but there is no effort whatsoever from his Party to evolve beyond him.
Yes, we all remember President Obama with his incendiary and notoriously divisive rhetoric, particularly when it came to race rawstory.com/barack-obama-j…
For the record, I’m giving you all credit for recognizing the intrinsic absurdity of my premise without having to explain my sarcasm
Because if there’s one thing that never happens on Twitter, it’s deliberately absurd statements being taken 100% at face value
I’m thinking about writing a science-fiction screenplay where a cynical TV commentator who reliably repeats white-supremacist talking points is replaced with a bona fide white supremacist who believes every word he says and NOBODY NOTICES THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE IT DOES NOT MATTER
ALIEN 1: There is conservative commentator Tucker Carlson; let’s scramble his brains to make him a bona fide racist
ALIEN 2: Wasn’t he already—
ALIEN 1: No, it was just for ratings
(ZAP)
CARLSON: We have too many immigrants
FOX VIEWERS: Something seems...not at all different