It’s so weird how the cons don’t seem to really care about trying to appeal to normal Americans with their plots and schemes to fuck everyone over, er, “platform”.

All they seem to focus on is ways to rig and to cheat at elections.

I used to hear some people call it the Faux Cinematic Universe. Which will continue long after donnie is gone.

Unless people finally find the spine to arrest them and break up that company…

Well, maybe not like their lives depend on it, but the window of time for them to do their smash-and-grab is not going to be infinite.

Either other cons will shut them out of it because they are jealous or this shitty admin will have to at least leave office, and his family may have to flee the country.

Well, the “crackdown” on factual history should be the crime, yes.

I’m just saying the usual connotation when the word “crackdown” is used is that they are cracking down on something that is criminal.

Yeah. It’s kind of annoying to know that there are real conspiracies out there. Proven ones.

And because they exist and many people know about the real cases, right wing crazies can declare things like “the difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact is about six months” and have others consider that true and profound. It’s absolutely maddening.

There is a world of difference between the people jerking off to Q and Pizzagate nonsense and what the Church Committee found, for example. A lot of lazy morons think that because Epstein exists - a man known for his crimes prior, by the way - that it somehow vindicates things like Q and Pizzagate.

Again, it very much WAS great. Virtually every metric pointing in the right direction. Especially after recovering from all the disruption due to a worldwide pandemic.

If people thought the Democrats were gaslighting them by highlighting the upside and instead went by the anecdotal while thinking the Democrats did not care that not everyone was doing well, and thought that sitting out or voting Republican was going to help them, then that’s their problem.

We are suffering the consequences because many chose to go by vibes instead of data.

If they update the language level requirements, that may help.

I thought they may not mail them out, either. If they mail them out, and the state has drop boxes, well, we still have (relatively) easy voting.

If they don’t even mail them to the voter, that’s even worse.

Wonder how long until IOKIYAR gets applied to Hunter on this one.

Since we are talking about voting again and mail-in voting and early voting etc…

I have to laugh that one of the things that made cons so GRRRRR mad about voting in 2020 (besides people having access to mail-in voting during, a, AHEM, pandemic) was early voting. Because by the time their little scheme came along to try to ratfuck the 2020 election over the hard drive, oops, I mean, “laptop”, in many areas, some people already had the opportunity to vote.

Republicans were (and still are) furious about this. They felt cheated that their stupid little October surprise fizzled because platforms took steps to not spread the disinformation. But also, because voters had already voted, and so it blunted their bullshit’s effects.

Republicans were mad that people don’t have to stand in line on the very day of the election. Let that sink in. Republicans want YOU to be miserable.

That has the perfect word, and it is sousveillance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Um, aren’t all these assholes supposed to be getting recorded anyway?

I still get so pissed that supposed relatives and friends could tag me on platforms like FB.

I’d even ask people to not fucking do it, and they’d do it anyway and act like it’s no big deal.

So cool that one guy can set so many rules for so many things, including how I vote in my state.

The right: BUT MAH KAWNSTUHTOOHSHUN!!!

Turns out that most conservatives never gave a flying fuck about any of it. Except for having a fucking arsenal that they could wave around to threaten any minorities that annoy them.

It sure is.

most polarizing internet personalities

Ugh. “Polarizing” is just as bad as “controversial”.

Let’s bothsiderist the sex traffickers! Is sex trafficking and raping bad? Well, it’s a polarizing question…

Ah, this is some nice news.

Also, when it comes to people’s vibes, I’m pretty sure the Biden administration did have people acknowledging their feelings and/or anecdotal situations, while also acknowledging the data about the economy.

If anything, I don’t think the Democrats brag enough about their accomplishments, but I know a common trope now is to act like the Biden administration was somehow gaslighting the American people in 2024, just for pointing at the data at the time.

An uptick, that is, to the tune of nearly 14%. Back in 2021, only about 5% of children lived in poverty — mostly because of a brief expansion in the child tax credit. Congress let it expire after one year.

Restoring that credit would have a profound impact, Hardy said.

Interesting. Did Biden control Congress?

^ I refuse to believe this is a plausible quote unless he mentions the “b” in dumb (because he just discovered the spelling, apparently).