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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Yeah, I guess when you combine the helpful Murc’s Law Media that is there to capture the vibey narrative for the low-info and the people that are paying the least bit of attention, along with the conspiracy theory/Epstein Class media that is there to capture the people on the far margins, I could see how these kinds of numbers happen.

    As a for instance, the thing about Biden smelling hair - I still see the right wing talking about that, even right now, as their AG is sitting there and covering up for the Epstein Class. That kind of thing, along with Hunter Biden’s hard drive, oops, I mean “laptop”, and nonsense narratives like Pizzagate/Qanon seemingly has completely captured approximately 30-35% of the country, also known as the Sarah Palin Floor of the population. That set of people has been trained to feel Biden and Obama (and Clinton) were the worst thing to ever happen to America.





  • The idea that the United States/the world should be run by businessmen is one of those ideas that is so pervasive and yet so very dangerous (and stupid). I’ve hated that notion every since I first ran across it.

    I cannot tell you how cloying it was to keep hearing the chattering classes praising W as the “CEO President”. Donvict likes the notion, too, which is completely unsurprising for a narcissist that wants to rain down revenge on anyone that criticizes him.

    The idea that the President, who should absolutely have to answer to us should be treated like a CEO only naturally has the implication that we all suddenly become at-will employees that report to him, and the country becomes patterned after a top-down corporate hierarchy(corporations are rightfully called private tyrannies).

    That is a terrible idea if you have any interest in freedom and autonomy. People should remember they have no freedom and no autonomy within a corporate structure.












  • Faux (started in 1996) and hate radio spent a good deal of the 90s trying to take down Clinton. He totally consumed the right wing. Hillary was not wrong when she talked about a vast right wing conspiracy.

    Oh, and it surely didn’t help them get any less crazy when people were referring to Clinton as the first black President.

    I think years of this hateful nonsense and conspiracy theories really came to a head when they watched W flame out to the point that they constructed a fake movement, originally called teabaggers, to pretend they weren’t Republicans. The economy cratered at the end of W’s reign, the Iraq War was shown to be the quagmire all the liberals told them it was going to be, and now a black man who they were told was a Kenyan usurper was here to clean up the mess.

    The fact that most normal Americans really rather liked him drove them all the crazier.