Them in 2016: “He’s not LITERALLY a fascist”
Them in 2024: “Okay he’s openly announcing his intent to be a dictator and get rid of the ‘others’ who are ‘poisoning our blood’, but unless it’s from the Bavarian area of Germany, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism. Besides, Biden is just as bad!”
The Bavarian area of Germany?
Hitler was Austrian and at least in Germany people use this saying with Italian Mussolini style fascism or even just German
I know it started in Munich but calling it Bavarian in origin is a bit unusual
It’s just a skooch of humor, not an academic treatise.
Oh, I see you’re in Germany. Well, that probably didn’t come across the same as it did here. Sorry - carry on.
This memory was made possible by donations from the DNC
But she was right about everything!
The part that really hurts is that it seems like the Democrats are setting themselves up to do it again.
I wouldn’t say she was right about anything other than calling trump supporters deplorables
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
She was right he was Putin’s puppet.
She was right he was going to give away tons of tax money to the ultra wealthy
She was right he didn’t know shit about foreign policy
She was right he’s a demented rapist
She was right about so much more than his idiot cult were deplorable.
But she was right about everything!
Except the bit about assuming she could easily beat trump.
Liberalism, by definition, is a set of values that maintains that all social and political problems can be addressed via existing power structures and systems.
The current democratic party is about as liberal as they come, with many bordering on neo-liberal, which is just a new way to say “old fashioned republican.”
They may look neutered and impotent and terrible at planning, but they’re right where they want to be. They maintain power but can also use the excuse of not being able to get past Republican obstructionism so that’s why they haven’t pushed major political reform.
The system is only broken for those it’s not benefitting directly.
(You don’t have to like them, but you need to vote for them right now because I rather have a grifters in charge than evil grifters who want to bring about the dark-ages all over again.)
My face is stuck in a permanent “YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER” meme because of these people.
People really enjoy discarding reality to make themselves feel better.
The latest dense motherfucker moment is all people right now who think Trump’s conviction means he will go to prison and they won’t have to worry about voting in November.
I’ve been called a nazi repeatedly for explaining that while the fantasy might make us all feel better, the reality is no judge on EARTH would condemn a geriatric, senile, ex-president to die in prison, to think nothing of the complications of things like Secret Service. “FuCk yOu FaSciSt!” they reply.
I’m not familiar with (I’m guessing) american politics can someone give me a short summary?
Me in 2016: “Weeeeelp I guess we’ll see if these checks and balances work”
Me in 2024: “Somehow I’m still not sure”
