Clowns

Inev Dec

Chill Clowns, Politics

This is ok and all, but the reality is that Trump would’ve won no matter what. Harris was an ok candidate who ran a decent campaign.

An amazing candidate with a flawless campaign would’ve still lost. When there is widespread discontent combined with a huge sectoral shift in the voting public, no campaign can overcome that. The only difference would’ve been that some other notional candidate better than Harris would’ve lost by a lesser margin.

People are looking for all these complex explanations for a simple event: the electorate was fed up with those in control and being lied to about inflation, and with their extremely short memories1 they lashed out at who holds the reins of power.

And we’re gonna see how that turns out.

  1. The average person basically recalls nothing at all that happened more than two years ago, and very little from six months ago.

Every Single

Chill Clowns, Prediction

Every single one of you motherfuckers was wrong about why Musk bought Twitter1 and I was right. You were clowning on him for “losing money” but I understood the game he was playing because I’d be doing the same thing myself if I had that much scratch. As a financial transaction, it never made sense; but it was never about the financials and was always a political project.

I’m terrible at forecasting political outcomes, but just about everything else I’m pretty damn good at it.

Get used to it because it’s gonna keep happening.

  1. Except a very few.

The Lash

Chill Clowns, Political Economy

Inflation pain helped secure Trump win but his policies mean higher prices.

The pain of inflation and Americans being lied to about it was 80% of the reason Trump won, if not more. Trump actually won’t do jack shit to help with this (quite the opposite), but the Dems largely caused this through their arrogance and inaction.

Trump’s initiatives will lead to higher prices and very likely a crashed economy, but the average voter is not very smart and not very analytical so they are just lashing out like an incel. And will do about as much good.

Economic Hinges

Chill Clowns, Political Economy, Politics

A large share of the responsibility for the Democrats losing the election is on the Dems themselves since they and their myrmidons spent more than three years gaslighting people about inflation. It was almost a religious quest for them. This certainly pissed me off and I barely give a fuck what anything costs. For someone where a price increase actually has consequences, this must’ve been actively infuriating.

“Don’t believe your lying eyes and your declining bank balance” is not a winning proposition. Now they and all of us are going to pay for that 3+ years of pettifogging and obliviousness.

And the sad thing is, it was all an unforced error. Clowns like Paul Krugman and all the others spent so many unnecessary hours writing a vast number of articles about how the rising cost of goods and services is all in your head and that no, those shelves aren’t empty — why, they are quite full in my Park Slope supermarket, how could they be empty anywhere?!?!? They could have just not done that. But no, they had to get those jabs in at the basket of deplorables who could no longer fill their baskets.

In large part, the Democrats did this to themselves. And they deserve much vitriol for that.

Coup Ground

Chill Clowns, Politics

Received 2 ballots? Here’s what to do.

I’ve seen some people claiming today that because they received two ballots by accident, that it is proof that the voting system is fraudulent.

Funny that, since in every state of the union, duplicate ballots are not counted.

These useful idiots are just laying the coup groundwork. Is a duplicate ballot never counted? Of course not. Mistakes happen. But it’s probably one out of 5 or 10 thousand that don’t get caught.

Too many clowns, not enough clown chipper-shredders.

Skills Social

Chill Clowns, Culture

And they tell me smartphones and social media are not generally harmful. It’s funny, I was criticized (rightly, in many cases) for how poor my social skills were until I improved them, but by comparison to younger millennials and Gen Z I was a social genius. Anyone under ~30 has just absolutely atrocious social capability. It’s shocking when you encounter it.

We’ve failed an entire generation and a half now.

Double Not

Chill Clowns, Rant

I think about this 2-3 times a day too. People will say things are “impossible” that they literally experienced themselves! It’s so fucking oddball. Like, gramps, you went to college for free in 1973 — don’t tell me it’s “impossible” that it could be done today. Other countries are still doing that! It’s double not impossible.

There’s also a passel of liberal doofshits who declare — and have been declaring for two decades — the gains we’ve been making for years in batteries and solar are “impossible.” And one day, they’ll be right. After both have improved a thousand times over and gotten 10,000 times cheaper.

The world is filled with goobers.