Anti-Trumpism Has Turned Liberals Into CIA-Cheerleading, Finger-Wagging Nerds

[dukkha]

I can count on one hand the true comedians who use their gift to punch up to real power while late night megastars like Bill Maher rake in millions of dollars advancing blatant war psyops.
Eminem raps about how much he loves the US military, how great Obama and John McCain are, and how badly Trump “tormented” and “slandered” Hillary Clinton during the election.

The spark has gone out from the eyes of the starry-eyed artists. The sincere impulse to apprehend the soul of the universe which drove them to create beauty has been snuffed out and replaced with stock portfolios and vapid award ceremonies. In the places where we used to look for truth and light we now find a bunch of stuffy millionaires cheerleading for the CIA and the new cold war. They are McCarthyists and conformists. They are amazingly uncool.

And so are the liberals who conform to the same worldview. Nobody with a hunger for truth and light will be drawn to the crowd that is wearing matching pussyhats and accusing people of treason through pursed-lips. Liberals are forcibly alienating that esthetic spark which gives rise to culture. And culture is upstream from politics.

This is not sustainable. The worldview being sold by the liberal Democratic establishment is inherently ugly and uninspiring. I’ve worked jobs as a graphic designer where I had to polish a turd for a paycheck, so I know what it’s like. You show up, you do your best, but if it doesn’t inspire the best you’ll wind up with is “I wish they’d Pokemon Go to the polls.” A whole team came up with that joke. A whole team of highly paid staffers.

During the Bernie campaign we saw the exact opposite of “Pokemon Go to the polls”. We saw hundreds of thousands of people acting from inspiration, creating memes, creating art, writing passionate essays, sharing powerful ideas. We saw the same thing happening on the other side, with the naughty boys on 4chan and The_Donald pouring out memes, songs and raw passion for their guy. It was fun. It pissed off their parents. It was cool.

Then “Pokemon Go to the polls” sabotaged Bernie, and the cartoon frog kids won the election.


Someone’s going to have to find an answer to the passion, enthusiasm and inspiration of the young conservatives, or they’re going to win the culture war.
I’ve voiced some criticisms of Bernie Sanders, but the passion and inspiration of those who uplifted him was undeniably real. That energy is sustainable. Right now it’s kind of stagnated, diffused between reluctant support of the Dem establishment and “fuck this” DemExiteering, swirling in eddies around anti-Trumpism, corporate protest marches, chaotic counter-protests, and various movements to topple the Democratic party’s hegemony. But it could be unified again, just as it was unified behind Sanders.

That’s what really scares the elites who are choking America to death. Not Sanders; they were never worried about him. What they were deathly afraid of was the unified surge of genuine inspiration and enthusiasm, which they cannot possibly hope to emulate even with all the “Pokemon Go to the polls” campaign writers in the world. That was what they really sabotaged. If the left can find a way to shake off the pussyhat-shaped brain box the establishment has it locked in today, that genuine movement will surge forth and take over.

And then maybe we’ll start seeing the spark return to the eyes of the artists we used to love.
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/a...s-999da68fcf17

[Getin the ring]

Liberals have no choice but to whine and kick and scream.
They have no direction, no leader and no way forward. Obstruction is all they have.

When the Supreme Court is 6-3, our work is done, after that what really matters anyway, so let them whine, it means we have them distracted
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[katzgar]

Given that the Democrats slaughtered the Republicans in the most recent elections all the Democrats need to do is sell Trump hate

[Micawber]

Whatever this child thinks she knows about the world and politics, Trump is far worse than that image.

[Darth Omar]

The CIA cheerleading bit from the left is particularly amusing lol.

Then there’s the McCarthyism. Russia-phobia 80’s style foreign policy—-all because they’ve been driven to madness by the election of President Donald J. Trump.

[Cancel 2020.1]

Trump is the worst President this union will ever have.

So, yeah - people are a bit more expressive than usual these days.

[dukkha]

In the places where we used to look for truth and light we now find a bunch of stuffy millionaires cheerleading for the CIA and the new cold war. They are McCarthyists and conformists. They are amazingly uncool

[dukkha]

The CIA cheerleading bit from the left is particularly amusing lol.

Then there’s the McCarthyism. Russia-phobia 80’s style foreign policy—-all because they’ve been driven to madness by the election of President Donald J. Trump.

I've never sees such abandonment from reality.
And it costs us with a Special Council ( a vile entity) , what should have been improving relatons with Russia -
but most of all any chance to work for any common good.

The OP is about more then that though -it's about the death of the American spirit-squashed by the elites
( and add in the establishment too) where destroying each other substitutes for a loyal opposition

[Cancel 2020.1]

I've never sees such abandonment from reality.
And it costs us with a Special Council ( a vile entity) , what should have been improving relatons with Russia -
but most of all any chance to work for any common good.

The OP is about more then that though -it's about the death of the American spirit-squashed by the elites
( and add in the establishment too) where destroying each other substitutes for a loyal opposition

You guys need to look in the mirror.

You talk about "reality" - it would be nice to see any one of you have just one moment of clarity on the kind of person Donald Trump is, and the deep flaws that he brings to the highest office in the land. This isn't your garden variety bad leader - this is a guy who is deluded and empty, and tries to fill that emptiness w/ a lifetime of pathological lying, insults and hypersensitivity.

I say often that you all seem under a spell, and it's no joke. That's exactly what it seems like. And I am 100% confident in my prediction that you will realize this when he is out of office, and talk about him in a much, much different way than you do now.

[Darth Omar]

You guys need to look in the mirror.

You talk about "reality" - it would be nice to see any one of you have just one moment of clarity on the kind of person Donald Trump is, and the deep flaws that he brings to the highest office in the land. This isn't your garden variety bad leader - this is a guy who is deluded and empty, and tries to fill that emptiness w/ a lifetime of pathological lying, insults and hypersensitivity.

I say often that you all seem under a spell, and it's no joke. That's exactly what it seems like. And I am 100% confident in my prediction that you will realize this when he is out of office, and talk about him in a much, much different way than you do now.

Since this post will get buried in memory hole at some point it’s worthy of a screen shot so it can be saved lol.

You’re exactly what I’m talking about. Trump is such a miserable ogre that overturning the election results is justified by any means, even if it means weaponizing the IC or risking war with Russia.

The whole lot of you have jumped the shark.

[dukkha]

Since this post will get buried in memory hole at some point it’s worthy of a screen shot so it can be saved lol.

You’re exactly what I’m talking about. Trump is such a miserable ogre that overturning the election results is justified by any means, even if it means weaponizing the IC or risking war with Russia.

The whole lot of you have jumped the shark.

bingo.. we are WAY PASSED any "obstructionism"- even before "da Russians" infected Congressional minds
there was "da resistance"which has it's ultimate goal of delegitimization and removal..

I mean this started election night!- Hillary can't accept it, lists hundreds of excuses and the pussy ears can't either.
So they talk about anything but governing because they really want not part of it. "Trump did it" instead

[Micawber]

You guys need to look in the mirror.

You talk about "reality" - it would be nice to see any one of you have just one moment of clarity on the kind of person Donald Trump is, and the deep flaws that he brings to the highest office in the land. This isn't your garden variety bad leader - this is a guy who is deluded and empty, and tries to fill that emptiness w/ a lifetime of pathological lying, insults and hypersensitivity.

I say often that you all seem under a spell, and it's no joke. That's exactly what it seems like. And I am 100% confident in my prediction that you will realize this when he is out of office, and talk about him in a much, much different way than you do now.

They know that he is the worst most incapable potus ever, including and surpassing the duncecap Bush Jr. and the corrupt Nixon or the unlucky and inept Carter and Drunkard UL Grant.

They just won't admit it to liberals. The hate is strong. Very strong. Due to this middle finger potus vote, this abiding festering hate they have for Democrats that makes them not see straight is finally returned a little bit.

In a way, thank God for this abject lesson in the incompetence of the Republican voter. It will guarantee they are not trusted again with the keys to the oval for at least a generation.or two. Hopefully we
will survive until he is removed.

[Cancel 2020.1]

Since this post will get buried in memory hole at some point it’s worthy of a screen shot so it can be saved lol.

You’re exactly what I’m talking about. Trump is such a miserable ogre that overturning the election results is justified by any means, even if it means weaponizing the IC or risking war with Russia.

The whole lot of you have jumped the shark.

You unreal hypocrites.

You elected the LEADER of the birther movement. And I doubt there was much talk of "by any means," or "jumping the shark," or even a peep from you about the birther movement during any of Obama's tenure.

Amazing lack of self-awareness. Incredible double-standard.

[Cancel 2020.1]

They know that he is the worst most incapable potus ever, including and surpassing the duncecap Bush Jr. and the corrupt Nixon or the unlucky and inept Carter and Drunkard UL Grant.

They just won't admit it to liberals. The hate is strong. Very strong. Due to this middle finger potus vote, this abiding festering hate they have for Democrats that makes them not see straight is finally returned a little bit.

In a way, thank God for this abject lesson in the incompetence of the Republican voter. It will guarantee they are not trusted again with the keys to the oval for at least a generation.or two. Hopefully we
will survive until he is removed.

The bolded is so true. It's also true that they do love anyone who can tick off liberals, regardless.

[archives]

What is it with conservatives who keep telling us everybody who doesn't agree or even like the President is attempting to "overturn the election results?"

Pointing out who got the most votes, that there was no mandate, that Russia played a role in the election, that the Electoral College should be reexamined, or that it wasn't a landslide is simply pointing out facts, obvious facts.

No one is saying Trump wasn't elected, rather, that it wasn't anything close to the "momentous" "historical" election he, his advocates, nor conservatives often portray it as, again, not trying to "overturn the election results," just the facts.

Have they found that missing million who we were told attended the Inaguration yet?