Belie

I don’t know what you do about a country where millions of people believe things that are factually untrue. That aren’t even close to reality.

We’re not talking about opinions here. I mean things like: vaccines are safe and effective. This is a scientific fact beyond question — as much as anything can be. There are thousands of reliable studies of this. Millions and millions of observable outcomes. But that doesn’t matter to people’s feelings about it.

This phenomenon of not believing clearly-demonstrated facts is not unique to the right, of course. They have no monopoly, but certainly the majority of the worst of being fact-proof is now on that side.

There probably is no actual solution to this. Just me grousing. Getting rid of Fox News and similar would help, but even that would only put a small dent in the problem.

Vetoad

That’s right. Also, when Hillary was running if you were anything less than insanely supportive of her you were called a “BernieBro.” I voted for Hillary in 2016, by the way. I still got called a “BernieBro” numerous times because I said she was a widely-disliked candidate the Dems should’ve never run and that no one deserves to win. That they have to earn it. Hillary supporters went absolutely batshit about this.

Despite people’s poor memories, I believe all of this had at least some effect. And that men have certainly been demonized lately in many quarters in general. Too much of feminism has come around to believing that anything bad that happens to a woman, a man somehow caused it no matter the actual cause. Combine this with social media-caused mental illness that many women are burdened with, it’s no wonder there is a backlash to all of that.

Lacking Smacking

A good sign that most people are in fact clown-ass dipshits (whether on the right or the left) is that their opinion on the health of economy undergoes a 180 degree shift the minute someone of the opposite political party become president. And that is with no changes in the economy itself, of course.

Critical thinking altogether lacking. How do people live like that?

Inev Dec

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.

Dom

Whatever you think about Trump, he fucking trounced Harris. He dominated so hard he should go ahead and show up at his next public appearance in latex and with a whip. Damn.

‘Lectric

We are planning now what electronics and imported stuff we are going to buy in the next few weeks and months because those sorts of goods are going to get radically more expensive soon or just become unavailable altogether.

So get your gettin’ on from the gettin’ place, people. Soon all of that will be much more expensive or just not available at all, depending on the exact timing of tariffs and war.

Cline

California was a good strategic move for us. Here, we will be insulated from most of the worst of the decline Trump will force on our nation. Not all of it by any means. But in many ways, California is kind of its own country and that benefit of insularity and size is certainly a great thing now as we go into a long bleak time of diminution and corruption.

To re-tool something Mencken allegedly said, the electorate voted for this cataclysm and they are going to get it good and hard.

No one will be spared, but being a bit protected is better than nothing.