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Nice try, New York Times
You can’t pretend you all of a sudden realized that Trump is a threat to all of American democracy and relay it to us like it’s breaking news and hope we’ll be gaslit into thanking you for informing us because we were not aware, and forget about all the coverage up until yesterday where you were explicitly favoring him for some horrifying reason
It’s Paul Krugman. He’s been talking about how awful Trump is since at least 2016
… and before that he was talking about how awful Bernie Sanders is. Fuck him.
Not sure what that has to do with discussing the dangers of Trump. You can agree with someone about one thing and disagree about other things.
Sure, or I can disregard his opinions entirely.
I’ve found, throughout my life, there are many opinions that should be disregarded.
They’re jaded because America has largely rejected their social platforms and failed economically under their policies.
The GOP is unpopular, vilified, and hopelessly devoid of merit or integrity. They’ve decided that the only way to win America is to beat her into submission.
They’re sore losers; they’re losing at history, and at governance. This is their revenge.
I don’t think they have anything against America specifically. They just seem to want to cash in as much as possible, which is fairly standard for politicians in general.
Seems like the big difference is that they’re increasingly able to get away with stuff that would have otherwise ended their political career or straight up put them behind bars…
They want “America” to mean “cis white straight Christian males are at the top, and everyone else is either second class or dead.”
No, they want corporations to rule and line their pockets, even more than they already do.
Racism, religion, sexism, and all the other fear & hate, are just useful tools to rile up voters, and pull the wool over their eyes.They want both. There are many in power who are true believers of the religious stuff, as evidenced by the SCROTUS decision to ban abortion, which has no monetary benefit. There would, however, have been a benefit to keeping it legal, as outrage fuel for the base. Now that the dog’s caught the car, they’ve lost that benefit.
decision to ban abortion, which has no monetary benefit.
Unwanted children keep people poor, unable to relocate, and desperate for work and validation. Banning abortion has a direct monetary benefit to every red state and most religion, as poor people remain poor and desperate and remain underpaid and overworked and unable to make a change.
Make no mistake, there is very much a poor-to-pulpit pipeline and ensuring that accidental pregnancies are forced to term keeps that pipeline full.
I do believe there are some true believers that think an abortion is an Affront To God, but the rest of them are just riding those coattails as an excuse. But there’s always a profit motive. Always. These mfers wouldn’t wipe their own ass if they weren’t skimming tax money for it. It’s always a grift, every single time.
WWII.
They’re Russian assets. The GOP is the Russia’s most impressive achievement in the cold war.
Essentially. After WWII, the US imported some Nazis in exchange for their research. This was a mistake. They are like an infection. You do not let any of it survive. You eradicate it
As if there weren’t plenty of fascists in the US already. Like a certain Fred Trump, who was arrested in 1927 for taking part in a KuKluxKlan rally.
Or the Silver Shirts.
They hate America as it is, but they love America as it used to be, or, more accurately, they love the sanitized, propagandized version of how America used to be. They want to return America to its former supposed glory.
Frankly, I hate America as it is, also, but I don’t want to go back to some fantasy golden era, I just want the country to be better.
Sometimes I feel like I’m sitting in a dirty, cluttered, dilapidated house with two other people. I say to them, “this place is a mess, this is totally unacceptable, we need to clean this place and fix it up.” The person in the middle says, “What are you talking about? Everything’s fine.” The person on the right says, “If this place is a mess, it’s because you two strayed too far from this household’s traditional values, and if we’re going to return this home to its former glory, you two must embrace those values. If you don’t, I’m going to kill you.” It’s frustrating, depressing, and terrifying.
So, if I’m understanding your meaning with this comic, you would say that I, the person on the left, don’t recognize that the house is actually in fine order, and that I want change for the sake of change, or because I’m just a malcontent, and if I try to bring about the change I want, I will end up creating chaos and disorder?
Nah, I wasn’t saying anything about you, your metaphor of America as a house just reminded me of this comic, which was posted shortly after Trump won the election. If you want a connection, this happened before you arrived to see the house a mess.
Gotcha. I just wanted to make sure I knew what you meant.
This is why editorial cartoons often have stupid labels on everything. If that character had “GOP” on his chest, you would immediately know this is a critique of Trumpism.
And a version of this image will show up in a conservative forum with the chest caption “DEI”.
