Indeed. It articulated a lot of what I’ve seen since I graduated high school about 20 years ago, and it helps explain the hypnotic allure of toxic shitheads like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro. It also helped me understand a little more about Trumpism and why it’s so weirdly intoxicating to people like my father in law and uncles, who really are just sad, old, ugly, many-times-divorced white men with limited education and very little to offer to the rest of society. They’re fucking angry, and it was hard to figure out what they were so mad about until I started reading stuff like this. They’re completely unmoored and irrelevant, and they’re lashing out in what’s really a cry for help, even if it’s too deep within their subconscious to be actionable.

Anyone curious about this trend should read this:

Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.

Seems we did.

Touched a nerve, did we?

I’m sure you think you sound like you have integrity, but it sounds like privilege to me.

Thank you.

Public polling is showing that Harris would get a big boost in voter support if she and Biden went for a weapons embargo.

Source?

edit: It’s absolutely amazing to me what y’all will downvote.

But that’s why some people can’t pick, because the Democratic party has become significantly more “conservative” since 2012.

My god your penchant for historical revisionism is insufferable:

In an unexpected move Thursday night [August 5, 2010], Senate Democrats won approval of a $600 million bill that includes money for 1,500 new border personnel, a pair of unmanned drones and military-style bases along the border. The bill by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), which fulfills a request from President Barack Obama, heads to the House for a final vote as early as next week.

There was no single provision of the 1996 law [signed by Clinton] that was as dramatic as the 1986 “amnesty” law, signed by President Reagan, which is why he gets credit for the last major immigration reform. But the ‘96 law essentially invented immigration enforcement as we know it today — where deportation is a constant and plausible threat to millions of immigrants. It was a bundle of provisions with a single goal: to increase penalties on immigrants who had violated US law in some way (whether they were unauthorized immigrants who’d violated immigration law or legal immigrants who’d committed other crimes).

Also: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/694804917/democrats-used-to-talk-about-criminal-immigrants-so-what-changed-the-party

Also: https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/both-white-and-nonwhite-democrats-are-moving-left/

Also: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-democrats-have-shifted-left-over-the-last-30-years/

Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/28/democratic-party-has-moved-left-so-has-us-this-explains-how-why/

Coming from a state (NC) where Republicans regularly use asinine amendments any time they need to fluff a presidential candidate…

Yes it is. Suck on it, dickbag.

Don’t give that crooked fuck undue credit. He didn’t suddenly grow a moral compass:

“What I am going to be doing is supporting legislative candidates, supporting judicial candidates and supporting Trump,” Tillis continued. “I won’t be campaigning for Robinson, and how I vote is less relevant than what I am focused on. Trump needing to win, our legislatures needing to be strong, making it clear that North Carolina got turned around in 2011 because Republicans took control, and we need to maintain control of North Carolina once more.”

Part of me keeps hoping that there’s some kind of systemic right-wing bias of modern polling methodologies, and that as time goes on we can count on the gap between polling and election results to get larger in the leftward direction. Gods what I wouldn’t give for a systematic, nationwide trouncing of the GOP like the one Dems got from them in 2010. Instead it seems like we keep getting hope dangled in front of our faces and results are always middling, at best, with the rare exception of a Georgia runoff or an Alabama one-off.

I sure hope you’re right that Cruz is in trouble. For all our sakes.

What a bullshit, clickbait headline. The actual story is at the end:

Baris claimed that conservative polls showed that Trump was tied or had a “believable” edge against Harris.

“And when you look at the track records of the pollsters in those two courts, right in those two camps, really, you know the ones who are showing the tighter race with Trump with an advantage, have better track records,” he insisted.

He’s not saying her numbers are “unbelievable” as in, “holy shit that’s awesome!” He’s saying they’re literally unbelievable, as in, “I don’t believe that’s real.”

Current polling data has Cruz trailing by 1 point

You’re citing the only poll where Cruz is behind, so if we’re talking about polling more broadly that’s very much not true. His lead has been fairly consistent in the +3 to +5 range for months. Scott’s lead is the same or bigger, again with one polling exception.

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.

…you want to use State power to bar a US citizen from running for office because she appeared in a photo, but you’re accusing us of being arbitrary and authoritarian?

The Green party was represented at the Supreme Court by Jay Sekulow, a Trump ally who was part of the president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial.

Yeah sure, it’s the Democrats who are being dubious here…

He’s term limited.

The party doesn’t care about him, specifically. His polling has been under water for months, and anyone who’s not utterly delusional knows he’s about to get thumped by Stein. They’re now worried that if he stays in the race over the next month and a half, he will continue to be a lightning rod for Democratic attacks, especially on abortion, and that’ll continue to dampen Trump’s messaging. Still not convinced NC could go blue, but if it does, Robinson will be hugely responsible for it. He’s a fucking moron who makes Trump look sane and stable.

What does any of that have to do with the comment you replied to or the article?