My weekly call with my mom (full MAGA, late 80's) is my weekly insight into what the perception of reality is deep within the red bubble. She says everything we're seeing on the TV is fake and that the economy is fine. She brought up 2008 which we recovered from (zero props for Obama) and expects the same thing to happen again. I tried to bring up the real-world implications it was having for me financially, as my clients are scaling back marketing spend (my way to earn income) as their customers are scaling back new projects. So I can count in actual dollars the impact Trump's policies are having on me personally, not to mention me having to wean off HRT for gender confirmation because I no longer feel safe from state persecution and abduction without due process. I firmly believe we're next -- the trans community -- from being "removed" from society. My doctor told me what he was legally allowed to tell me, that he has attended meetings about what they (my healthcare provider) will do should the government subpoena them for names/addresses of their trans patients. He could not tell me what they plan on doing, but meetings are happening. So yes, we think it's bad now, but it's only going to get worse. A military coup is our only hope -- because nobody else has the access or ability to stop Trump. Certainly not Congress or the courts. But most likely, the military will be used to stomp out dissent. That's how these things work.
Thanks for another reality gut punch. But All true, and one more reason why my anxiety is so profound it's making me crazed. He is positioning himself to be the MOB BOSS of the US and (he hopes) the World. All the expose articles aren't going to stop this madman.
I don’t care what Ivy League credential he has, the man is an idiot. “Nobody knew how bad it would be?”. Um, yeah we did. Many of us read Project 2025 and haven’t forgotten Trump 1.0.
There's not an ounce of humanity in anything Richard Hanania has said--here or anywhere else. It's all about what he personally can get from the choices he makes.
Takes real talent to get so many deviant shmucks under on roof at the same time. On the other hand if the greatest deviant shmuck of all time is doing the hiring it’s less of an achievement. Most of the assholes who voted for him are going to suffer the most and they deserve to. Unfortunately, there are many who didn’t who will suffer.
Thank you!! FFS, as Charlie Sykes says, is not enough bad words for these morons. And yes, everyone -- including my mother -- who voted for him owns this and the rest.
Kamala and the Dems were and are terrible. I’m happy I’m not American because I honestly wouldn’t have known who to vote for. May I also point out that Obama and Biden prepared the way for Trump? So yes Hanania was wrong, but that doesn’t mean that those who lied about Biden’s total cognitive decay, applauded the suppression of a primary and then gaslighted the rest of us with fables about Kamala’s supposed popularity have nothing to answer for. And let’s not even get into the woke nonsense. Hanania shows the way: cleaning up his own yard first.
Kamala (Vice President) Harris would have had a normal administration and the US economy would have continued its upward trend, without killing jobs by the thousands for no reason and without causing terror and global financial collapse -- also without telling parents to poison their own children rather than vaccinate for the measles outbreak, without killing off the public research in every area that does things like, well for instance, stop bird flu etc... You, my friend, are living in lala land.
The only Dem candidate worse than Kamala was Hillary. The awfulness of Trump does not change that. You can pretend she would have been great all you want - and that’s really what LaLaland looks like - the point is that voters did not believe that and she lost to someone as abysmally terrible as Trump. Hanania admits he was wrong: you still think you were right, in the face of basically everything. Case in point, the fact that you ignore that I agree that Trump is a catastrophe and prefer to pretend I am defending him. I hope that you at the very least understand now that identity politics structurally favour the far right, especially when you add intersectionality into the mix, which in practice boils down to telling 95% of the electorate that they are horrible oppressors for some bullshit reason.
I live in New Zealand. I’d sold my Tesla stock because Musk had become so toxic months before Hanania’s article saying he would vote Trump . And Hanania was at that time looking to Musk to moderate Trump?
I’d been reading Hanania’s articles in order to get some understanding of a contrarian view, but that article was so detached from reality I unsubscribed then.
I absolutely agree. And am still flummoxed. All I can ever say is that it has to be a cult. And that this is what it looks like when you decide that character is less important than ideology.
My weekly call with my mom (full MAGA, late 80's) is my weekly insight into what the perception of reality is deep within the red bubble. She says everything we're seeing on the TV is fake and that the economy is fine. She brought up 2008 which we recovered from (zero props for Obama) and expects the same thing to happen again. I tried to bring up the real-world implications it was having for me financially, as my clients are scaling back marketing spend (my way to earn income) as their customers are scaling back new projects. So I can count in actual dollars the impact Trump's policies are having on me personally, not to mention me having to wean off HRT for gender confirmation because I no longer feel safe from state persecution and abduction without due process. I firmly believe we're next -- the trans community -- from being "removed" from society. My doctor told me what he was legally allowed to tell me, that he has attended meetings about what they (my healthcare provider) will do should the government subpoena them for names/addresses of their trans patients. He could not tell me what they plan on doing, but meetings are happening. So yes, we think it's bad now, but it's only going to get worse. A military coup is our only hope -- because nobody else has the access or ability to stop Trump. Certainly not Congress or the courts. But most likely, the military will be used to stomp out dissent. That's how these things work.
Christ, sorry to hear this my friend. I know parents with trans kids who are moving abroad. It's pretty frightening.
Thanks for another reality gut punch. But All true, and one more reason why my anxiety is so profound it's making me crazed. He is positioning himself to be the MOB BOSS of the US and (he hopes) the World. All the expose articles aren't going to stop this madman.
I don’t care what Ivy League credential he has, the man is an idiot. “Nobody knew how bad it would be?”. Um, yeah we did. Many of us read Project 2025 and haven’t forgotten Trump 1.0.
So "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is right after all, eh? Dumbshits. 🙄
And he just doesn’t understand that Rule of Law is fundamental to capitalism, it literally doesn’t work without it
There's not an ounce of humanity in anything Richard Hanania has said--here or anywhere else. It's all about what he personally can get from the choices he makes.
He doesn't get it and he probably never will.
Takes real talent to get so many deviant shmucks under on roof at the same time. On the other hand if the greatest deviant shmuck of all time is doing the hiring it’s less of an achievement. Most of the assholes who voted for him are going to suffer the most and they deserve to. Unfortunately, there are many who didn’t who will suffer.
Thank you!! FFS, as Charlie Sykes says, is not enough bad words for these morons. And yes, everyone -- including my mother -- who voted for him owns this and the rest.
Kamala and the Dems were and are terrible. I’m happy I’m not American because I honestly wouldn’t have known who to vote for. May I also point out that Obama and Biden prepared the way for Trump? So yes Hanania was wrong, but that doesn’t mean that those who lied about Biden’s total cognitive decay, applauded the suppression of a primary and then gaslighted the rest of us with fables about Kamala’s supposed popularity have nothing to answer for. And let’s not even get into the woke nonsense. Hanania shows the way: cleaning up his own yard first.
Kamala (Vice President) Harris would have had a normal administration and the US economy would have continued its upward trend, without killing jobs by the thousands for no reason and without causing terror and global financial collapse -- also without telling parents to poison their own children rather than vaccinate for the measles outbreak, without killing off the public research in every area that does things like, well for instance, stop bird flu etc... You, my friend, are living in lala land.
The only Dem candidate worse than Kamala was Hillary. The awfulness of Trump does not change that. You can pretend she would have been great all you want - and that’s really what LaLaland looks like - the point is that voters did not believe that and she lost to someone as abysmally terrible as Trump. Hanania admits he was wrong: you still think you were right, in the face of basically everything. Case in point, the fact that you ignore that I agree that Trump is a catastrophe and prefer to pretend I am defending him. I hope that you at the very least understand now that identity politics structurally favour the far right, especially when you add intersectionality into the mix, which in practice boils down to telling 95% of the electorate that they are horrible oppressors for some bullshit reason.
“The most extreme clinical case of Trump Derangement Syndrome was closest to truth.”
THEN MAYBE WE WEREN’T THE ONES WITH THE SYNDROME YOU ABSOLUTE MORON.
“Nobody knew how bad”?
I live in New Zealand. I’d sold my Tesla stock because Musk had become so toxic months before Hanania’s article saying he would vote Trump . And Hanania was at that time looking to Musk to moderate Trump?
I’d been reading Hanania’s articles in order to get some understanding of a contrarian view, but that article was so detached from reality I unsubscribed then.
I absolutely agree. And am still flummoxed. All I can ever say is that it has to be a cult. And that this is what it looks like when you decide that character is less important than ideology.