The Twilight Of The Liberal Left

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In reply to Edited by Staff • 3:31p, 12/29/24
….and yet when Trump dumps Musk like a jealous mistress, Elon will launch hundreds of AI robots to Mar a Lago to exact revenge.



"The smug never inherit the Earth."
….but apparently billionaire tech oligarchs do….and they really appreciate this failed liberal-left resistance narrative and the fact that the former Bernie Bros, Matt Taibbis and Joe Rogans of the world got the proletariat to vote their useful idiot into office so he could open the trap door of the Trojan Horse for them.

America's Oligarchs Could Be Even More Powerful Than Russia's - The Moscow Times


https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/13/americas-oligarchs-could-be-even-more-powerful-than-russias-a87328

US billionaires now worth more than half the nation: How we got here


https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/07/19/us-billionaires-worth-6t/74453346007/



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In reply to Edited by Staff • 4:32p, 12/29/24
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What has grown apparent is that, with this Trump restoration, there will be no second Resistance. The social justice left, the so-called woke, is mostly somnolent. The marches are spare. The talk of anti-fascist uprisings is muted. There is no screaming in the streets, no days of mourning, no promises to decolonize any bookshelves. The women's march may or may not be on, Black Lives Matter is nowhere to be found, and ICE is not getting abolished. The liberal media has not minted any new star journalists, pundits, or talking heads. Few are railing against Jill Stein or the Russians. The CIA and FBI are not getting sanctified. The untethering of culture and politics, indeed, has begun.
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More importantly, though, they had no vision for what came next because anti-fascism, on its own, lacks any kind of affirmative argument for tomorrow. Americans believe in democracy enough that they are betting Trump won't smash it apart. They want easier lives: cheaper housing, cheaper food, and cheaper healthcare. Culture matters too, and the social justice left never understood that either. Cosmopolitan demands don't work outside of college campuses and corporate boardrooms.
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A meteor burns bright, and Obama was blinded by his own light. Only he knows why he foisted Clinton on America. Now, like the rest of us, he will be forced to drink in another Trump term. The fading reality TV star he once mocked at that Washington dinner will be, barring a health crisis, a two term American president. Whereas Obama, eight years on, has plainly left little to the Democratic Party, Trump has thoroughly immolated and rebuilt the Republicans in his image. He is as consequential as Reagan and Nixon, and he might loom in American life just as long. The Trump era began when he descended the golden escalator in the middle of 2015 and it might not end until 2028. The next Republican to run for president will not be able to do it without Trump's firm endorsement. His is a cult that is now far too large to be called one.
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The liberal-left resistance, meanwhile, will have to stagger into a future they failed, over and over again, to head off. No movement, perhaps, has accomplished less. No movement has done so little to reach what was supposed to be an existential goal. Trump, eight years into the resistance, is at his apogee. The editorial boards and NGO bosses and magazine writers and braying congressmen and MSNBC panelists must contend with this bare, inarguable fact. The electoral map ran blood-red. How? Why? It was the racism of an Arab majority city voting for Trump, the white supremacy of the Bronx, New York's poorest borough, deciding Trump needed more of its vote than ever before. Pundits prattle about misinformation, as if all the voters were toddlers who needed to be bolted down and told why Brat Summer was so vital for the future of the republic. There are calls now for a feminist Joe Rogan, as if the actual Rogan did not already endorse a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. The liberal-left reaps what it sows. It was not merely Trump that was chosen. It was the not-Democrat, the option that wasn't in power. A vote is a middle finger aimed to the sky. In the heat of all this, the liberal-left will have to recalibrate or dissolve. Radical chic is fading. The Hitler analogies are played out. So are the speech wars. They will have to, somehow, consider material conditions. This is never easy if you've never lived anything close to a precarious life. Harder, still, if you've allowed condescension and indignation to become the pillars of a worldview. The smug never inherit the Earth.



What liberals don't get is that Trump has his finger on the pulse of the country, he rightly sees it in decline while they haven't a clue

What Trumpians don't get is he doesn't give a **** and won't fix anything
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In reply to Anarchistbear • 5:26p, 12/29/24
And for some it's always been trash (putting it nicely)
Those at the bottom of the cast system have telling truth all along but we get ignored.
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In reply to Anarchistbear • 9:41p, 12/29/24
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What Trumpians don't get is he doesn't give a **** and won't fix anything

Not true, Trump ushered in the vaccine and saved all the Aaron Rodgers haters.
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In reply to Anarchistbear • 10:24p, 12/29/24
Anarchistbear said:
Edited by Staff said:

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What has grown apparent is that, with this Trump restoration, there will be no second Resistance. The social justice left, the so-called woke, is mostly somnolent. The marches are spare. The talk of anti-fascist uprisings is muted. There is no screaming in the streets, no days of mourning, no promises to decolonize any bookshelves. The women's march may or may not be on, Black Lives Matter is nowhere to be found, and ICE is not getting abolished. The liberal media has not minted any new star journalists, pundits, or talking heads. Few are railing against Jill Stein or the Russians. The CIA and FBI are not getting sanctified. The untethering of culture and politics, indeed, has begun.
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More importantly, though, they had no vision for what came next because anti-fascism, on its own, lacks any kind of affirmative argument for tomorrow. Americans believe in democracy enough that they are betting Trump won't smash it apart. They want easier lives: cheaper housing, cheaper food, and cheaper healthcare. Culture matters too, and the social justice left never understood that either. Cosmopolitan demands don't work outside of college campuses and corporate boardrooms.
Quote:
A meteor burns bright, and Obama was blinded by his own light. Only he knows why he foisted Clinton on America. Now, like the rest of us, he will be forced to drink in another Trump term. The fading reality TV star he once mocked at that Washington dinner will be, barring a health crisis, a two term American president. Whereas Obama, eight years on, has plainly left little to the Democratic Party, Trump has thoroughly immolated and rebuilt the Republicans in his image. He is as consequential as Reagan and Nixon, and he might loom in American life just as long. The Trump era began when he descended the golden escalator in the middle of 2015 and it might not end until 2028. The next Republican to run for president will not be able to do it without Trump's firm endorsement. His is a cult that is now far too large to be called one.
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The liberal-left resistance, meanwhile, will have to stagger into a future they failed, over and over again, to head off. No movement, perhaps, has accomplished less. No movement has done so little to reach what was supposed to be an existential goal. Trump, eight years into the resistance, is at his apogee. The editorial boards and NGO bosses and magazine writers and braying congressmen and MSNBC panelists must contend with this bare, inarguable fact. The electoral map ran blood-red. How? Why? It was the racism of an Arab majority city voting for Trump, the white supremacy of the Bronx, New York's poorest borough, deciding Trump needed more of its vote than ever before. Pundits prattle about misinformation, as if all the voters were toddlers who needed to be bolted down and told why Brat Summer was so vital for the future of the republic. There are calls now for a feminist Joe Rogan, as if the actual Rogan did not already endorse a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. The liberal-left reaps what it sows. It was not merely Trump that was chosen. It was the not-Democrat, the option that wasn't in power. A vote is a middle finger aimed to the sky. In the heat of all this, the liberal-left will have to recalibrate or dissolve. Radical chic is fading. The Hitler analogies are played out. So are the speech wars. They will have to, somehow, consider material conditions. This is never easy if you've never lived anything close to a precarious life. Harder, still, if you've allowed condescension and indignation to become the pillars of a worldview. The smug never inherit the Earth.



What liberals don't get is that Trump has his finger on the pulse of the country, he rightly sees it in decline while they haven't a clue

What Trumpians don't get is he doesn't give a **** and won't fix anything

Trump is contributing to the decline. America will start to become great again once he kicks the bucket.
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11:52p, 12/29/24


Trump is exempt, right guys???
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In reply to concordtom • 9:14a, 12/30/24
concordtom said:
Trump is exempt, right guys???
not. iirc Trump's middle name is Hate (spelled however)
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In reply to smh • 2:09p, 12/30/24
smh said:
concordtom said:
Trump is exempt, right guys???
not. iirc Trump's middle name is Hate (spelled however)

The message of the video is "let's stop with all the hating".
I just wanted to check, but we can continue on with hating trump, right?
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