My experience is that the Northeast has a ton of deplorables, just not in the urban centers. The urban/rural divide is shocking. We used to drive from Toronto to Connecticut every July to visit family and in 2016 we were kind of shocked how much of upstate NY, rural Mass, and rural Connecticut were just covered in Trump signs. Now I realize that when you visit all these small towns they’re decaying 99% white with a single industry that closed 37 years ago. Of course they go for Trumps MAGA/white grievance narrative.
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This should make Democrats nervous when half those mail ins don’t get counted.
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It doesn’t get said enough just how lolbad the name Proud Boys is as a way to express supposed strength and power. It’s like something a group of 11 year olds would pick for their kickball team.
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Their name started out as a joke taken from a song from Aladdin.
Lol really?
I mean boogaloo boys isn’t really an upgrade.
It’s the morning after and I’m going to stand by that post. Of course I wanted to see someone else, but instead I saw Joe. Our best case scenario right now is Joe getting elected, and what I saw last night decreased my optimism for a Biden presidency. He has obviously lost a step–I don’t see how stating the obvious means I’m buying into a narrative–and he clearly has no desire to throw the actual left a bone on anything. What am I supposed to be happy about, exactly? That Trump looked like an ass? We already knew that.
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It really sucks that Boogaloo became the name of a right wing extremists movement. Takes all the fun out of Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo jokes.
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If you thought Biden was going to magically turn into a hard left candidate you were setting yourself up for disappointment. He is center left. All the policies he supported were the ones we already knew he supported.
As for the left flank he supported antifa, supported protest, pushed his green plan, and acknowledged institutional racism.
Yea, maybe I’m the sweet summer child here because I did have some hope that he’d come off as more coherent and would actually do something to inspire disaffected lefties to vote for him. Ultimately he was who I expected him to be (certainly continued everything he was in the dem primaries), but part of me had some hope that he’d rise above that a bit (lol me, he’s been the same for 47 years or whatever).
Maybe a better way to summarize it is “I got my hopes up and the debate pulled me back to reality”
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I don’t know if you watched it but wringing your hands over Biden after watching that performance from Trump is just really weird.
It’s like worrying that the guy who tries to prevent a rapist from beating a woman to death is wearing socks and shoes that don’t match.
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Memeception.
Yes. You said it was what 11 year olds would pick for their kickball team, but it’s more like what an adult American male would pick for his fantasy football team.
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Cmon man, you and I both know that Trump is not the sole problem with America and that our problems don’t magically disappear once Trump gets voted out. I’m tired of analogies like this because they ignore the monumental task that will be laid at Biden’s feet once he’s elected.
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My pony is stuck in the meme.
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Trump isn’t the whole problem but he is a very big part of it.
At this point it just isn’t a “lesser of two evils” scenario. It’s “good (who we wish was better) vs pure unadulterated evil”.
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The Republican Party is the problem. Trump is just the apotheosis of what is wrong with the Republican Party.
I see Biden as a problem to worry about once we’re done with the raging inferno that is Trump. Until January 21 or whatever I think he’s perfect in every way.
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Just came to post along these lines but this is perfection.
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