There are two things you need to understand, so please take them to heart. The first is that you read two sentences of criticism about a Democrat and extrapolated an entire fictional person from them. All of the opinions you believe I have about Democrats, Republicans, “both sides,” and my standards aren’t mine, but a made up character’s, who you are arguing with inside your own head.

The second thing is, while you are welcome to go through my comment history, I really don’t need any apology from you. I sincerely could not give a fuck about what you think.

“orange man bad” is the response from someone who is literally defending what trump is doing because they don’t like–in this case–obama.

The fuck are you talking about? No one here is defending Trump. The only reason we’re even talking about him is because you brought him up in a cynical, transparent attempt to deflect criticism from Obama.

And no, I’m not going through my comment history to prove to you that I’m sufficiently anti-Trump, but you’re welcome to do it yourself if you want. I’m sure it won’t take you long to find example of me calling him or his administration fascist. See, when you grow up, you learn that not everything is a binary, and that criticism of Democrats isn’t support for Republicans.

Right. So, my point was that, while calling for unity between leftists and centrists within the party, Obama is actively promoting the centrists’ abundance platform, which makes that call for unity ring hollow. And your point is…“yeah, but orange man bad!”

Well, thank you for that contribution. It’s given me a lot to think about.

So…Socrates?

“There’s been, I gather, some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote-unquote abundance agenda. Listen, those things are not contradictory. You want to deliver for people and make their lives better? You got to figure out how to do it,” he said.

“I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY,” he said, referring to “not in my backyard” views. “I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.”

Claims that leftists and abundance Dems need to work together, then immediately starts promoting the abundance agenda. What a transparent shill.

Fucking love this polling. The only shot the establishment has is either Adams or Cuomo dropping out and endorsing the other. Cuomo won’t quit because he’s a sociopathic narcissist. Adams can’t quit because if he can’t do Trump’s bidding in NYC, Trump will probably prosecute him for corruption (and he is very guilty of corruption). Throw Silwa into the mix and the moderates will have to choose between two corrupt megalomaniacs and a weirdo in a beret, while anyone remotely progressive will gravitate towards Mamdani.

This complaint is such an admission. They can’t point to a single similarly between Israel and the bad guys in the movie except, “nation with technology advanced weaponry being deployed against unarmed civilians,” and they’re not even disputing that that’s an accurate depiction of what’s happening. It’s not like they’re saying, “this movie parallels Hamas propaganda.” They’re saying, “depicting colonial genocide negatively is anti-Israel.”

Shit, that’s a good one.

I think this is a miscalculation. 62% of Democrats want the leadership gone, the establishment Dems are splitting their vote between Adams and Cuomo, and nothing short of full-throated support of Israel will satisfy them anyway. There’s no point in appeasing an enemy that is weak, fractured, and belligerent. They pose no threat to him and he has little to gain from winning them over.

I think that’s true for some MAGAs, but the QAnons have invested deeply in the child-trafficking conspiracy. I think if he created a narrative of, “Yes, I’m on the client list, but it was a double agent for the deep state,” they would swallow it (most of them already believe some version of that), but telling them that their is no conspiracy and they need to move on will not go over well. (Of course, claiming to be an Epstien double-agent is gonna make him look crazy to anyone not Q-pilled, so he can’t do that).

I mean, here’s a poll published 2 months later stating that Democrats want the party to be more progressive. Couple that with the fact that the 62% of Democrats want to throw the centrist leadership out on its ass and I’m not sure, “people want moderates, actually,” is a reasonable conclusion anymore.

Oh, that’s the tip if the iceberg. There’s one comic where he smashes up the city’s slums because he finds out the government will replace them with nicer, rent-subsidized apartments. There’s another where he traps a mine owner and all of his rich friends in a cave-in because of unsafe working conditions. Then there was the time he decided to take on traffic safety by smashing cars until the mayor promised to start enforcing traffic violations. Old-school Superman was one of those violent, radical-leftists the conservatives are so scared of.

Superman as an immigrant’s story is one of the oldest and most obvious analyses of the character. It’s barely even subtext; it’s just text. Imagine how he’ll react when he finds out Superman was originally a New Deal socialist who went around smashing up corrupt capitalists’ businesses for safety violations.

I mean, he’s not pulling that out of his ass entirely. The prosecutor who gave Epstien a slap on the wrist in 2007 claimed he only let him off easy because he was told Epstien, “belonged to intelligence.” That may be entirely bullshit, or it may he that the intelligence got wind of his sex-trafficking and offered to keep him out of prison if he set up a few honeypots. I would guess that it’s at least partially true, since the authorities seem to he withholding a lot of information from the public, but in any case, there’s no way he was a CIA agent or, “Patriot.”

Trump really painted himself into a corner by promising the QAnons all of the dirt on Epstien, and I’m very curious to see if a narrative like this can dig him out. They’ll usually twist reality into knots to keep their narrative alive, but, “Epstien was a white hat,” might he a bridge too far, even for them.

That’s not true! He supported Medicare for all!*

^*who ^want ^it.

Yeah, I’m getting that impression. I think there was a lot of hope when he pardon all those Jan-sixers, but Dan Bongino going on TV and announcing Epstien didn’t kill himself seems to have been a turning point for a lot of them.

I don’t think that it’s facts that will wake them up, I think it’s that Trump is moving to end the delusion. You can explain how child abduction isn’t nearly as prevalent as they think it is, you can debunk their Wayfair child-trafficking conspiracy, you can prove that Comet Ping-Pong doesn’t have a basement, and they will ignore those facts. They’ll tell you it’s deep-state propaganda to stop Trump. But if Trump tells them there’s no deep-state and that they’ve wasted the last decade on a LARP? That’s not gonna go over well.

And again, this is for the true-believers; some of them are vile, some of them are misguided, a lot of them are somewhere in between, but in the end, they all believe in the deep-state, human-trafficking, satanic-panic bullshit. There are plenty of Trump supporters who are just cruel little goblins who want Trump to hurt people, and they’re not gonna give a shit about this.

This is probably the only thing that will wake the MAGA diehards up. There are a lot of vile people that will vote for anyone who promises to, “own the libs,” but the real Trump true believers have built an entire mythology around this Epstien/QAnon/Deep State bullshit. They’re not going to accept, “Oh, nm, it was a suicide and there are no tapes or lists, my bad,” as an answer. Couple this with the even sharper decline in their standard of living that’s coming soon and they might actually turn on him.

I would actually say that would he a great strategy in building working-class solidarity. Making poor whites realize that their declining standard of living isn’t caused by minorities accessing social programs but the ruling-class gutting the those programs is key to building a progressive coalition.