• ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    It’s been wild to watch the media for half a decade now completely fail to understand that Trump is the most popular Republican since Reagan

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      My favorite thing (so far) was early in his presidency. The media had such a horrible case of West Wing brain it entirely destroyed their critical thinking skills. They were waiting and waiting and waiting for him to become "presidential". They were 100% certain it was going to happen.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        then he launched cruise missiles at Syria and Brian Williams jerked off to it on live TV

      • FugaziArchivist [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I remember back during the Bush jr era when the equivalent was a chorus of annoying lib commentators who would say: "I don't agree with Bush, but I want him to succeed." Early iteration of the "they go low, we go high" line.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          Some libs will never be able to let go of the "There's gotta be some good republicans left" mindset. Here's a tweet from a few days ago by a lib with 1m followers on Twitter, Molly Jong-fast...

          Democrats just need five sane republicans for a discharge petition

          Tweet

          I don't know what a discharge petition petition is and it amused me that she didn't even bother to explain. But I don't need to know what is is because it's DOA. It's inside baseball shit that needs GOP help to work. I saw Jong-fast on MSNBC and I could be all wrong but I don't think her "good republicans" shtick is a lie. She actually believes it. She's 100% unwilling to accept that the (extreme) maga wing of the GOP is the republican party.