You have to be a special kind of dumbass to think Republicans are who you vote for to handle the economy well…

Yeah, the Russian trolls pretending to be “liberals” and constantly attacking only the Democrats for some weird reason are all over the place. And then there are the people stupid enough to fall for this nonsense, too…I know a few IRL, and man, they are so very tiresome.

Usually they have all kinds of excuses and absurd purity tests that no politician that is actually running would pass, and then they proudly do shit like stay home or throw their vote away on Jill Stein or whatever. They act like they won something by doing this, too.

But when it comes to the trolls and useful idiots, I’ve seen some places that seem to have been overrun with them. The comments on Boing Boing, once upon a time, used to be a pretty fun place. Some years go by and I come back later and try to engage in reasonable conversation and the little clique of self-reinforcing posters/ moderators that took over that place were having none of it. It was all maximalist identity politics and Oppression Olympics to the point of cartoonish levels, and constant ripping on the Democratic Party and “shitlibs”. Any deviation, most especially if you made one of the anointed look bad? Deleted, almost immediately. Didn’t matter how thoughtful.

Anyway, the comment section there seemed to be designed to create reactionaries. Anyone on the fence that happens to wander into some spectacle like that is bound to come away with some impressions about what liberals are like, and it’s not going to look good.

They have since taken their comments behind a paywall, go figure. I hope that little clique is happy with policing any all minute deviations from what they believe is the One True Way to think. I doubt anyone is going to pay for that kind of treatment for long, so… shrug?

And that was from his first term.

Whole lotta people suddenly surprised that Project 2025 wasn’t just some “conspiracy theory”, too…

LOL? Betrayed?

This is the fucking party, chuckleheads. They want you gone. Doesn’t matter if you were born here.

Stop voting for these motherfuckers. Not one Republican should ever be allowed into office.

That was a woman we are talking about. And a Democrat. Also, she was being trashed for decades up until that point by the orchestrated Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

So that’s different. IOKIYAR.

Might be good for the next person in that role, since it would not be at all surprising to see him chucked soon.

I know you are joking, but it’s the real DEI.

This is what happens when an idiotic washed-up game show host selects his cabinet from watching (actual) fake news outlets and thinking their hosts would be so totally awesome in their given roles…

If anyone deserves to be sent to a gulag, it’s douchebags like this one.

Yeah, no shit. The “liberal media” could have done a much better job of telling everyone about that BEFORE the election.

Yeah, lost cause bullshit. Not quite 250 years old, but pretty darned old.

^ Found the “twitter files” fan. lol

Many of the supposed “leaders” are spouting Russian disinfo - Hegseth the other day was crying about the media talking about the “Russian hoax”, meaning, reporting on donvict’s sus ties to Putin and Russia in his first term.

I remember that sentiment from just so many of these fucking assholes. At least this guy is way up in years; many of these jerks were very young people - teens and twenties and thirties and being total fucking Karens because they were being inconvenienced by things like - checks notes - masks and, later, vaccinations, and why can’t fat and old people just go die somewhere, this isn’t about us, we want to just live our lives as if nothing is happening…

Others were more worried about “line needs to go up” because they were being gigantic babies about donvict’s chances of re-election being put in jeopardy from people “overreacting” to Covid and having negative impacts on “his” stock market. And by “overreacting” they meant reasonable precautions.

Let’s face it - many of them WANT to be lied to and many pride themselves on being and staying ignorant.

Also, some liberals and POC and mouthy women might suffer some, too. That will buck up their spirits.

So? Didn’t these people vote for this? Don’t they WANT to live in a shithole country?

Or was it the assumption that only brown and black people and trans and the liberals and uppity women that were going to be harmed by them pulling the lever for the felon in chief?

And just plain nastiness. People actually vote with the goal of harming other people. Imagine that mindset.